With films there are surprises, and then there are surprises. With some films you get exactly what you think you’re going to get. In fact, after watching a trailer or two, one can usually gauge how much they’ll like a film pretty closely. Every once and a while, the gauging system fails and you either [...]

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Webs is quite an anomaly. I received the screener in the mail and the first thing I noticed was the massive “SciFi Essentials” plastered across the top of the DVD case. Anyone that watches the SciFi channel knows that they usually put out dull, lifeless films that are chalk full of horrible CGI and acting [...]

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Stop me if I’m going out on a limb here but odds are many of you helped Iron Man reach that $315 million box office plateau its sitting on right about now. Since I’m making that assumption, I’m gonna take a shot in the dark and say that most of you are planning on buying [...]

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I’d love to know what director, Roger Vadim, was thinking when he directed the 1968 cult-classic, Barbarella.  Were there drugs involved?  Was it made as a vehicle for his ‘then-lover’ Jane Fonda?  Were the comic books just as cheesy?  I watched Barbarella with no expectations, and lucky for me, every last one of them was [...]

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Prior to their Cult superstardom with Shaun of the Dead, director Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright were using their talents on the mini-series Spaced (co-starring Jessica Hynes). Dread Central recently caught up with the trio whom appeared at Comic Con and recorded this interview about their experience with Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz [...]

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The Ghost Galleon is the third film in the Blind Dead series written and directed by Amando de Ossorio, and is different from the first two films in just about every way except the Blind Dead’s importance and some beautiful cinematography. Where Tombs of the Blind Dead was an exercise in tension and Return [...]

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The Lair of the White Worm is an incredibly hard film to classify. It covers just about every genre as it slithers to an incredibly tongue-in-cheek climax. I would place The Lair of the White Worm into the horror genre, because that seems to be the overlying theme, but that doesn’t mean there’s not [...]

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Tombs of the Blind Dead is one of the most solid, terrifying films ever made.  It gets under your skin and does not let go until the final frame.  That being said, Amando de Ossorio’s sequel, Return of the Evil Dead is like Tombs of the Blind Dead, on steroids.  Everything in the sequel is [...]

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Well, as much as they tried, the sequel to Joel Schumacher’s 1987 hit, The Lost Boys, did not make it into theaters but ended up going direct to DVD. Not a big shocker to anyone, I’m sure, but I finally got a chance to watch the film. Check out the trailer and then after [...]

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Sergio Martino has directed many, many giallo films, (Case of the Scorpion’s Tale, All the Colors of Dark, and Torso – which I love, to name a few)  but, everyone has to start somewhere, and one of his first films was The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh.  If you think the name’s strange well, the [...]

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