EASTER BLOODY EASTER *** USA 2024 Dir: Diane Foster. 104 mins ‘The beast rises within as you shuffle towards the counter. Your tortured orbs seek those happy, glistening nodules of chocolate pleasure you know you put them wrapped up in foil paper. You can’t resist the hunger, ripping open the wrapping, handful of fun is pushed down your throat. You have found relief in a moment’s respite until the awful unholy drive grips you again in the afternoon sun.’ Not an ‘Easter Egg’ moment from Diane Foster’s Easter Bloody Easter (2024) film but a moment of confection addiction that some…
Author: Terry Sherwood
Terry Sherwood
Terry Sherwood Born in Ottawa Ontario, Canada; Terry is a "Monster kid ', film fan and popular culture person. Once worked in television as a commercial writer/ Director. Writer of the SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET site covering aspects of the Horror Genre from Books, Comics, to Film old and new. He has previously written for WE BELONG DEAD and MONSTERMANIA magazines, The Spooky Isle UK website, Horror hound and Turner Classic Movies. Published Book of own writings titled SCREEN AND SCREEN AGAIN: ESSAYS ON THE HORROR FILM on amazon world wide plus contributed to other genre books. Chaired numerous convention panel discussions on Horror and Comics Terry is member of The Horror Writers Association and Dracula Society in U.K.
THE TERROR **** USA 1963 Dir: Roger Corman. 81 mins Was Roger Corman a Genuis or an Exploiter of talent and people? That depends on what side of the fence you sit on regarding his body of work and his influence on filmmaking that many are not aware of. The Terror (1963) is but one example of Roger Corman’s work, bordering on style such as the Poe Cycle films mostly with Vincent Price or a hack that did anything for a buck. Today we praise independent filmmakers thinking that they put the middle finger up at Hollywood and the lifestyle…
SPINE TINGLER! THE WILLIAM CASTLE STORY **** USA 2007 Dir: Jeffery Schwarz. 82 mins Everyone has fun at a William Castle film experience. I remember being scared as a very young version of me staring at the photo from The Tingler (1959) in Monster World magazine of the hand rising from the bathtub. So why would a documentary on the man behind the gimmicks be a rollicking trip? Well in fact it is with moments of pathos included. Castle was orphaned at a young age, so he had to grow up and make his way in the world, which he…
THE KARLOFF COMPENDIUM by Stephen Jacobs You could say I am somewhat of a student of the horror genre, not The Student Of Prague (1913). I have read extensively on Dear Boris including Mr. Jacobs’s first volume Boris Karloff: More Than A Monster and like those sequels, I wondered what else one mine from the life of one William Pratt. I was pleasantly surprised by The Karloff Compendium, a three hundred-plus page coffee table-sized book that you can pick up anytime, open a page and learn something new on the one and only Boris Karloff. Chapters are filled with anecdotes…
PUNCH *** UK 2023 Dir: Andy Edwards. 80 mins A few years ago, I made it to Brighton for a brief vacation. Being a combination of a Rocker because I do enjoy rockabilly music and a Mod for scooters, and clothes and being a huge fan of The Who made me sort of an odd person. Not as odd as throughout the lovely hospitality, and trips to the locals no mention of the legend of Punch, a man who dispatches wayward teenage girls with a huge club. Andy Edwards’s film Punch (2023) takes that simple idea, tosses in some elements…