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Be Quiet or You're Dead! That's the basic synopsis of Netflix’s The Silence (2019). Directed by John Leonetti who is no slouch to horror, having been the director for Annabelle (2014) and the cinematographer for The Conjuring (2013) and Insidious 2 (2013), the film is often compared to A Quiet Place which was released to … Continue reading Monster of the Week: Vesp (Netflix’s The Silence)
Giant roaches that want to eat your face off. If that sounds like the making of a good film, then Guillermo del Toro's 1997 Mimic is something you definitely want to check out. A full-length creature feature about a bio-engineered race of 'roaches', Mimic follows the evolution of these spliced vermin as they climb up … Continue reading Monster of the Week: Judas Breed (Mimic)
(Featured Image uses art from original Motion Picture The Relic) They brought it back. Bursting onto the nineties horror movie scene as a full-length creature-feature, the film adaptation of writers Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child's The Relic premiered at a time when horror was slinking along in the distant wake of '80s slasher franchises. Part … Continue reading Monster of the Week: Kothoga (The Relic)
(Featured Image Uses art from: Art the Clown found over at TerrorThreads) If you're a fan of gore and well... GORE, then you must have heard of ART THE CLOWN. The now infamous jester who debuted in Director Damien Leone's 2013 All Hallows Eve, a collection of horror shorts. Art left an impression in his low-budget … Continue reading Monster of the Week: Art the Clown
What if Superman was a bad guy? That was the basic concept to this year's superhero horror flick, Brightburn (2019), produced by Kenneth Huang and James Gunn (Guardian's of the Galaxy). An origin story to a teenage alien who turns out to have nearly god-like powers, Brightburn tells the tale of Brandon Breyer, a surrogate for … Continue reading Monster of the Week: Brightburn
