The horror film SPLINTER is set to get under your skin and snap crackle pop it’s way out. Things start out simple enough; a couple, Polly (Jill Wagner) and Seth (Paulo Costanzo) attempt to go camping but have some bad luck and head for a hotel. On the way they get caught up with a [...]

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The Silent Movie Theatre is screening three Lucio Fulci movies tonight! The gore begins with Zombie, Gates of Hell, and The Beyond.

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Everyone and their mother knows about George Romero and his “Zombie trilogy”. OK, I’m being facetious, but any self-respecting horror fan has seen one, or all of the original films. These films set the standard for modern zombie films (let’s face it, zombie films have been around since the early days of film, he didn’t [...]

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There are Women in Prison films, and then there are women in prison films. Chained Heat may be THE women in prison film. Not only does the audience get all of the parts of a WIP film that they expect (random nudity, abuse from the guards, corruption, etc), but also, a treat. A real story! [...]

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Mountain of the Cannibal God is one of the many films churned out in the cannibal sub-genre during the 70’s and 80’s. I don’t know if I’d put the film in the top tier with Cannibal Holocaust or Doctor Butcher M.D., but it would definitely fall in the higher end of the middle of the [...]

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Two bickering brothers are in desperate need for cash. In order to solve this problem, they develop a scheme to kidnap the step-daughter of a shady strip club owner with possible mob connections. The plan is for them to take the girl to a remote cottage in the country and trade her for ransom. [...]

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When I hear the words “Exploitation Film” the first thing that pops into my head is Humanoids from the Deep.  This film had pretty much every convention of an exploitation film including: nudity, gore, horrible acting, destruction, death, cheesy dialogue, a generic story, and terrible effects.  Humanoids from the Deep fails on so many levels [...]

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According to Kill Bill, revenge is a dish best served cold. According to The Machine Girl, revenge is a dish best served with a prosthetic arm that’s a machine gun. Directed by soon-to-be cult hero Noboru Iguchi, The Machine Girl is a riotous, ridiculously entertaining homage to Grindhouse cinema that is sure to make [...]

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Over the weeks and months to come, any readers here that don’t already know me will surely soon realize I have a real enthusiasm for Japanese cinema. This was probably instilled in me before I even realized it was happening, with everything from Nintendo and Sega, animation like Robotech, Voltron, and The Adventures of [...]

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Much like the J-horror boom a few years back, it seems like France is the new hotspot for kick-ass horror films. Films such as Haute Tension, Them, and Inside take extreme, harrowing horror to a whole new level, and I personally loved all of them (Them to a lesser extent than the other two [...]

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