HOLLYWOOD DREAMS & NIGHTMARES: THE ROBERT ENGLUND STORY **** UK 2022 Dir: Christopher Griffiths & Gary Smart. 134 mins Here’s an engaging, insightful tour through the career of one of the few bonafide “horror stars” of the modern era in which, not surprisingly, the always witty and articulate Englund has…
Browsing: Tobe Hooper
‘The most purely horrifying horror movie ever made. Genuinely disturbing, even now’ Empire ‘Chainsaw-wielding Leatherface remains one of the most disturbing characters in horror’’ The Independent ‘A one-of-a-kind flick; a lightning-in-a-bottle moment of movie madness… nightmarish assault on the senses infused with a palpable sense of dread’ Home…
Dark Sky Films have released the long-awaited UHD release of the 1974 horror classic THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, the groundbreaking thriller that has often been imitated but never equaled. The films 4K restored version is complemented by a frightening array of bonus materials. Violent, confrontational, and shockingly realistic, director Tobe…
RONDO AND BOB **** USA 2020 Dir: Joe O’Connell. 100 mins Writer-director Joe O’Connell follows up DANGER GOD (a celebration of death-defying B-movie stuntman Gary Kent) with this compassionate study of two distinct horror film personalities from different eras: actor Rondo Hatton and art director / production designer Robert A.…
The pandemic has made many think of the treatment of the aged. Many are not in a good situation for various factors sometimes beyond their control. The Horror genre has perpetuated many images of the old in making them those that are acted upon or do and control activities and…