Month: April 2013

  • Crash Reports: Chiller Theatre Spring 2013 (Part Two)

    Due to my own personal financial crunch, whenever I visit Chiller Theatre, I choose a but a few horror, science fiction and cult personalities to secure an autograph from, so breaking down the guests list isn’t easy. This year, I had no doubt who I would run to:   Jeffrey Combs    A horror favorite,…

  • Crash Reports: Chiller Theatre Spring 2013 (Part One)

    I had visited Chiller Theatre almost twice a year since 1995, but today was different. Most         Saturdays for the April venue called upon dark skies, wind, rain, and the kind of cold that seemed to herald in pneumonia. But today, I traveled in shorts, my “Breakfast at Zombies” shirt from www.threadless.com…

  • Crash Reports: Soundtracks to Scream By

    We all know the power of music. How it fills our souls with joy, pumps us up, or tears us   down. For the horror genre, nothing works quite like a robust soundtrack to enhance the suspense and mayhem on screen. Many can quickly recall the theme from PSYCHO (1960), JAWS (1975), HALLOWEEN (1978), and…

  • Crash Analysis Support Team: EVIL DEAD (2013) – Guest Post from Jonny Numb

    [91 minutes. R. Director: Fede Alvarez]     It’s time to declare a moratorium on movies that feature a cabin, a woodsy setting, and supernatural goings-on. When Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard unleashed THE CABIN IN THE WOODS in early 2012, they made the EVIL DEAD remake obsolete a year in advance. Talk about prophetic!…

  • Crash Analysis: POISON FOR THE FAIRIES (Mexico, 1984)

    Unexpected horror surprise for the humans One of Mexico’s best in the genre Oftentimes, when I put a movie into my Netflix queue, I know very little as to why it   suddenly showed up on my recommendation page at a particular moment, and never beforehand. Therefore, somehow, someway, the unanticipated treasure, POISON FOR THE…