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A still from Planet of the Dinosaurs shows two people not wearing nearly enough protective gear trying to fend of a tyrannosaurus rex with a tiny little knife.

Spacemen & Dinosaurs

By David Busboom • August 24th, 2023

Interplanetary explorers have been encountering dinosaurs or dinosaur-like creatures in fiction for more than a century.

Screenshot from the trailer for Swamp Thing, where a swamp is covered in dry ice fog as the titular Swamp Thing carries a scantily-clad Barbeau through the moist forest

A Plant for the 21st Century: Swamp Thing (1982) on 4K from MVD

By Orrin Grey • August 18th, 2023

Swamp Thing takes a lot more swings at being “crowd-pleasing” than anything Wes Craven had worked on in the past.

Here's the Thing
A scene from Aliens shows Ripley shining an electric torch across a field of unhatched xenomorph eggs.

Enough With The “Alien” Comparisons

By Rob Rich • August 16th, 2023

Most modern sci-fi horror movies that involve a monster (or monsters) wind up being compared to Alien, which Rob thinks is a load of bull.

Screenshot from Talk to Me, featuring the mummified medium's hand gracefully reaching out as if to be shaken with a lone candle in the background

I Don’t Get Nightmares: Scaring Yourself with Talk to Me (2023)

By Orrin Grey • July 31st, 2023

Talk to Me may be the most credible supernatural teen horror movie ever made, simply by dint of the way that the kids in the film turn the medium-istic hand into a party game, heedless of the larger questions it raises, or the possible consequences of their actions.

a screenshot from The Primevals with a towering Yeti covered in fur in the mid shot, a tiny gaggle of humans behind, and three lizard people with medieval weapons at the front

Science and Sensation: A Blast from the Past Courtesy of The Primevals (2023)

By Orrin Grey • July 26th, 2023

The Primevals is pure pulp, hearkening back to the golden age of adventure stories.

close crop of the cover of the Arrow Video boxed set featuring a comic illustration of many characters from the movies, including adorable couple in matching robes, undead orc and his precious dolls, mullet wizard, and a whole bunch more in a video store in the background

Building Empire: Arrow Video’s Enter the Video Store – Empire of Screams Collection

By Orrin Grey • July 13th, 2023

In their latest boxed set, Arrow Video pays tribute to these days of amazing trash at your local video store, with a collection of five films spanning nearly the entirety of Empire’s short tenure.

Always Autumn
Wakanda Forever's Prince Namor wearing a regal feathered serpent headdress in his underwater domain.

A Golden Halo That Could Be the Sun Part II: The Ones Who Stay and Fight

By Autumn Wright • July 13th, 2023

What does it mean to be born of the dead?

Run It Back
A close-up of Winston Duke in Nine Days, wearing silver-rimmed spectacles and a look of concern on his face.

You’ve Gotta Stop Living Like You’re Already Dead

By Oluwatayo Adewole • June 29th, 2023

What use is it to name the knife that slides between your ribs if you can’t let yourself be helped?

a crop of the box cover for Mexico Macabre, mostly featuring the title text but you can see a little bit of what looks like a hairy mutant turkey's legs and a monstrous human's forehead

Entering the Kingdom of the Supernatural: The Mexico Macabre Collection from Indicator

By Orrin Grey • June 22nd, 2023

Mexican horror films from the ’60s feel like someone attempting to remake the classic horror films of the ‘30s and ‘40s from memory. Which, given that we were still decades ahead of the advent of home video, was probably almost literally the case.

Crop of the Japanese poster for Shin Kamen Rider 2023, featuring an illustration of the titular rider with his grasshopper helmet, high collar jacket, streaming scarf, and brooding energy

Happiness and Pain: Going Cold into Shin Kamen Rider (2023)

By Orrin Grey • June 2nd, 2023

There’s more visual punch in any 15 minutes of Shin Kamen Rider than a dozen other blockbusters.

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