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Horror

Birth of the Living Dead

Edited, Written, Produced & Directed  by Rob Kuhns Released by First Run Features USA. 76 Minutes, Not rated Feat George Romero, Elvis Mitchell & Larry Fessenden The first thing you must know before you see this documentary about the cultural impact of 1968’s Night of the Living Dead is that it’s not necessary in the […]

The Visitor (1979)

Directed by Giulio Paradisio Written by Paradisi, Luciano Comici, Robert Mundi & Ovidio Assonitis Produced by Assonitis Released by Drafthouse Films With Paige Conner, Joanne Nail, Lance Henricksen, Mel Ferrer, John Huston, Shelley Winters, Glenn Ford & Sam Peckinpah Distributor Drafthouse Films is out to find the weird, the bizarre, the off-kilter (to say the […]

We Are What We Are

Directed by Jim Mickle Written by Mickle & Nick Damici, based on the film We Are What We Are, directed by Jorge Michel Grau Produced by Andrew Corkin, Nicholas Shumaker, Jack Turner & Rodrigo Bellott Released by Entertainment One USA. 104 min. Rated R With Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner, Wyatt Russell, Kassie DePaiva, […]

Cockneys vs. Zombies

Directed by Matthias Hoene Written by James Moran & Lucas Roche Produced by James Harris Released by Shout Factory UK. 88 min. Not rated With Harry Treadaway, Michelle Ryan, Alan Ford, Ashley Thomas, Honor Blackman, Rasmus Hardiker & Georgia King From years back, you might remember a little movie called Shaun of the Dead, where […]

Byzantium

Directed by Neil Jordan Written by Moira Buffini, based on her play A Vampire Story Produced by Stephen Woolley, Alan Moloney, Elizabeth Karlsen, William D. Johnson & Samuel Englebardt Released by IFC Films UK/USA/Ireland. 118 min. Rated R With Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley, Jonny Lee Miller, Daniel Mays & Caleb Landry Jones Eleanor […]

Aftershock

Directed by Nicolás López Produced by Eli Roth, Brian Oliver & Miguel Asensio Llamas Written by Eli Roth, Nicolás López & Guillermo Amoedo Released by Radius-TWC English & Spanish with English subtitles USA/Chile. 90 min. Rated R With Lorenza Izzo, Nicolás Martinéz, Eli Roth, Natasha Yarovenko, Ariel Levy & Andrea Osvárt In Aftershock, Hostel mastermind […]

The Tribeca Grindhouse

This year at the Tribeca film festival, now in its 12th year, films from all over the world included some by major names (Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight and David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche) and newcomers trying to make their mark, not to mention the countless documentaries and short films. But not to be overlooked amid […]

Kiss of the Damned

Written & Directed by Xan Cassavetes Produced by Jen Gatien &  Alex Orlovsky Released by Magnet Releasing USA. 97 min. Rated R With Joséphine de la Baume, Milo Ventimiglia, Roxane Mesquida, Anna Mouglalis,  Michael Rapaport, Riley Keough, Ching Valdes-Aran & Jay Brannan Can you remember back when vampires were simple, bloodsucking creatures? Before they counted […]

My Amityville Horror

Edited, Written, & Directed by Eric Walter Produced by Andrea Adams, John R. Blythe & Walter Released by IFC Midnight USA. 98 min. Not rated At its heart, My Amityville Horror is about what happens to a normal person put through extraordinary, horrifying, and traumatic experiences, and how he comes out on the other side. […]