The Land of Cerpts and Honey

  DEATH LIVES HERE.  One of that bunch of Fangoria Frightfest films they were making about a decade back, DARK HOUSE is fun and entertaining...

  Maxine Peake's HAMLET was praised to the statosphere when it stormed the box office for the stage performance.  Such hyperbole can be ...

A GRIMM'S FAIRY TALE SET AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY.  This Hungarian/German (actually West German at the time) co-production has s...

Tonight we lost our sweet, loving cat Gypsy.  She had stopped eating and drinking and was suffering from liver failure, kidney failure and a...

  "THEY REMADE MY FILM!"   That's what director René Manzor gasped when he first saw HOME ALONE.  And it's true that, once...

  IT'S THANKSGIVING DAY . . . .AND WHAT BETTER WAY TO CELEBRATE THAN BY WATCHING A HALLOWEEN SCOOBY-DOO MOVIE!  Yeah, that's how I d...

  I DIDN'T HATE THIS.  One of the most lambasted of all Dario Argento's films and (as of this writing) his last film (unless you...

  I had waaaaaaaaaay too much fun with this one!  The sainted Fred Olen Ray gave us an 80's ALIEN rip-off where the alien has not only a...

  One of my favourite Frank Zappa live albums is "THE BEST BAND YOU NEVER HEARD IN YOUR LIFE" and this concert in Barcelona consis...

  NEW VINYL OF AN OLD FAVOURITE!  I've probably told this story before (in fact, I did -- right here on my companion blog) but I got in...

  THE HISTORY CHANNEL REVIVAL OF THE CLASSIC SERIES.  One of the great joys of my youth was watching the original IN SEARCH OF... series wi...

 

  "BOIL ME!  BOIL ME!"   I don't know how Vinegar Syndrome does it?  I mean, they find absolutely stunning, pristene prints o...

GRITTY.  GRIMY.  SLEAZY.  SLIMY.     The most low-down film version of Poe I've ever seen.  The leading man and leading lady never made ...

  MICHELE SOAVI ROCKS MY SOCKS!!!  The director of probably my favourite horror film of the 1990's (or at least in my top three) CEMETE...