It’s no secret that heavy music and horror are quite fond of
one another. While both are fueled by intense creative passions, they are also
continually combated by critical scrutiny. But for those who are able to
surpass their grimy and gritty exteriors can find a creative playground where
nearly anything is possible. This is a place where your darkest nightmares are
made tangible. This is a place where aesthetic qualities know no bounds. This is
a place where director Mitch Massie and proto-punks Child Bite feel right at
home. Both exemplify the nature of truly unfettered expression and their recent
collaboration is sure to have genre fans clamoring and the general public
cowering.
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Lance Henriksen’s been a lot of things; an actor, a writer, alien
slayer, sometimes a cowboy, other times a psychic, one time an astronaut, but
mostly, a badass. Thanks to Dark Horse, he’s now a comic creator.
One of the kings of the Asian action scene, actor Donnie Yen
(HERO, 14 BLADES, the IP MAN
films) again proves himself a master of flying fists and feet in the Weinstein
Company/Radius release DRAGON (a.k.a. WU XIA), which opens in theaters this
Friday and is currently available On Demand and iTunes.
One knows that a director has truly made history when one of
the best actors of our generation is cast to play him. Or is it the other way
around? Anthony Hopkins, whose Hannibal Lecter in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS stands
as one of the greatest cinematic villains of all time, slays the role of the
eponymous auteur in breakout director Sacha Gervasi’s HITCHCOCK. 
Things continue to get buggy for Dustin Warburton. While the
East Coast—based writer has been busy juggling horror fiction (TASTE, STRANGE
THINGS and MORTICIANS FOOD), young adult novels and children’s books (including
THE LITTLE MONSTERS GUIDE ON HOW TO SCARE CHILDREN), as well as co-authoring
books with major sports figures like Dennis Rodman (!), he now makes his
motion-picture debut this year with the big bug flick SPIDERS 3D, produced by
that nature amok/Syfy-friendly Nu Image company. Warburton whipped up the story
for recent festival-fave SPIDERS 3D with veteran frightmaster Tibor Takacs (THE
GATE, ICE SPIDERS, I, MADMAN, etc.), who then handed final screenwriting chores
to Joseph Farrugia.
Life's hard when you’re a big, ugly mug of man who looks
like he can take a hit to the head. It's even harder when the thugs who want to
beat you up are zombies, robots, and man-eating hobos. Welcome to the life of THE
GOON, where every day you need watch your back or you'll be getting a knife to
the eye. It's a world of monsters, men, and booze, where horror and hilarity
clash like titans.
Author-turned-filmmaker—in addition to editor, actor,
musician and screenwriter—John Skipp (pictured) has a history of being entrenched in the
horror genre, and this remains true now more than ever.
Most home invasions have to do with taking people’s
property, but the villains of IN THEIR SKIN are after something more. The film,
originally titled REPLICAS (see review 