Abruptio screens at Panic Fest 2023 “Everyone hears voices, right, in your head?” asks Lester Hackel (James Marsters) near the beginning of writer/director/editor/cinematographer Evan Marlowe’s animated film Abruptio. “When you fall down the voices laugh at you. When you succeed they tell you what a hero you are, or more likely that you just got…
Spider Baby first published by VODzilla.co “Are you a horror fan, Miss Morris?”, asks happy-go-lucky playboy Peter Howe (Quinn Redeker) of his fellow dining guest Ann Morris (Mary Mitchel), in a central scene from Jack Hill’s Spider Baby, or The Maddest Story Ever Told. Ann’s enthusiastic response leads both of them to list all their favourites:…
The Devil’s Rejects first published by Movie Gazette From the renegade cowboy to the teen rebel, from the bankrobber to the gangsta, the outlaw has been a fixture of American cinema since its very beginnings – but the decade when such onscreen anti-heroes really came into their own was without question the 1970s, when they gave…
Review first published in Little White Lies. As The Lords Of Salem opens, we first see protagonist Heidi (Sheri Moon Zombie) nodding off in a car; and then the 17th-century Puritan Jonathan Hawthorne (Andrew Prine) scribbling in his diary about the witch Margaret Morgan (Meg Foster) and her ‘blasphemous music’ (“driving me to the point of…