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Yuletide Oddities
by Chuck Francisco, Columnist and Critic
(December 06, 2012)
Once you've survived Killer Kringles (read the article here), it's time to face a string of Yuletide Oddities which are so strange that a Peter Fonda led LSD trip wouldn't help you make sense of them. No, I'm not talking about Christmas dinner with your fa
The Geek Life: Hobbit Time
by Robert T. Trate, Columnist and Critic
(December 05, 2012)
The Geek Life is a weekly look at what is going on in the Geek Culture. Movies, Comics, Books, Video Games, and TV Shows encompass more than just release dates and reviews. This week the Geek Life gets ready for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
Mania Box Office Report: Twilight Wins Again
by Robert T. Trate, News Editor
(December 02, 2012)
Did anyone actually see Killing Them Softly? Chime in below if you had. I read a few reviews and it seems that it might have just had poor marketing. That trailer, after all, was terrible. It did make 7 million dollars, half of its budget, and was up again
From the Vault: The Vampire Bat
by Tim Janson, Columnist and Critic
(December 02, 2012)
Universal Films virtually created the horror film in the 1930s with films like Dracula, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, and The Mummy. Soon the popularity of their films spawned numerous copycat productions. This week in from the Vault we take a look ba
Shock-O-Rama: Pet Sematary
by Chuck Francisco, Columnist and Critic
(December 01, 2012)
If there's a better form of birth control than Gage Creed, the murderous reanimated toddler from Pet Sematary, I'm having trouble thinking of it. If you aren't freaked out when Gage wickedly coos "Now I want to play wiff yew", then your heart's made of sto
Killer Kringles
by Chuck Francisco, Columnist and Critic
(November 29, 2012)
Ah, Christmas season! A chill wind sweeps by, rosing your cheeks raw, and driving passers by further into the bundled layers of scarf equipped warmth. The traditional trappings are abound: logs tossed onto fires, eggs mixed with nog, and snow kissed evergr
Shock-O-Rama: Dawn of the Deal
by Chuck Francisco, Columnist and Critic
(November 24, 2012)
If there's anything more fitting than watching George A. Romero's 1978 skewering of our twisted consumerist culture, on Black Friday, it would have to be doing so on VHS. The first major vessel from which we could quench our "own it all" conditioning, VHS
Mania Box Office Report: End of the Vampires
by Robert T. Trate, News Editor
(November 19, 2012)
The Twilight movies are over. Despite a few weeks where they will remain at the box office, the story of Edward and Bella has wrapped up. However, it wasn’t all blood roses for the franchise. Box Office Mojo is reporting that the final installment did no
Mania Box Office Report: The Skies the Limit
by Robert T. Trate, News Editor
(November 11, 2012)
It was a foregone conclusion that Skyfall was going to take the box office this weekend. Ian Fleming’s creation certainly earned its following with 50 years of movies. Let us say that again, 50 years of movies! Here is the official numbers from Box Offic
From the Vault: Monsters and Aliens of Harryhausen
by Tim Janson, Columnist and Critic
(November 11, 2012)
It’s a testament to Ray Harryhausen’s incredible talent and creativity that he has become such a Hollywood icon with a relatively small body of work. He worked on less than 20 films in terms of providing the visual effects yet those films have become
Shock-O-Rama: Wicked, Wicked
by Chuck Francisco, Columnist and Insomniac
(November 10, 2012)
Many movies, especially of the horror and exploitation persuasion, lived and died along a central gimmick. The film catalogue of William Castle typifies this, with shock buzzers attached to seats for The Tingler, a skeleton on a wire for House on Haunted H
Mania Box Office Report: Wrecking It
by Robert T. Trate , News Editor
(November 04, 2012)
If you ventured to out to the movies this weekend, more than likely you saw the new Disney pic, Wreck-It Ralph. Perhaps we all we needed to laugh a little bit after Hurricane Sandy and Disney’s video game movie delivered in spades. Wreck-It Ralph dominat
From the Vault: Giant Spiders
by Tim Janson, Columnist and Critic
(November 04, 2012)
I confess that I hate spiders. They give me the creeps. But at the same time they fascinate me. Outside of the office where I work we have a bush where a spider had built an elaborate web. This was the largest spider I had ever seen outside of on TV or
Shock-O-Rama: Exhumed Films Horror-Thon Recap
by Chuck Francisco, Columnist and Critic
(November 03, 2012)
It takes a special kind of lunatic to commit to twenty-four straight hours in a theater among 350 like minded mad men (and mad ladies). The celluloid lineup assails your eyeballs unrelentingly, with a perfect boxer's combo of sub genres, mixed and matched
Top 5 Conan Stories for King Conan
by Tim Janson, Columnist and Critic
(November 02, 2012)
When it was announced recently that Arnold Schwarzeneggar would be returning to play Conan the Barbarian, the role that made him a star thirty years ago, it was met with a fair amount of derision and outrage from film fans. “He’s too old to play Cona
10 Ways Disney Could Save Star Wars
by Kimberly McCall, Freelance writer
(October 31, 2012)
George Lucas has finally sold Lucasfilm to Disney for the modest sum of $4 billion and Star Wars Episode Vll is a go. As a lifelong Star Wars fan, this is a piece of news that strikes a personal cord for me.
Tuesday Terrors: We Review Chernobyl Diaries and Greystone Park
by Tim Janson, Columnist and Critic
(October 30, 2012)
Welcome to this week’s Tuesday Terrors, the final column before Halloween. And I’ve got plenty of horror treats for you this week including reviews of three new films on DVD, and Lisa Morton’s outstanding Trick or Treat: A History of Halloween. We
Fall of 82: It Came from Hollywood
by Rob Vaux, Mania Critic
(October 29, 2012)
In the dark days before Mystery Science Theater, you had to look long and hard for a good piece of meta-snarking. The occasional TV host would do it, notably Elvira and her predecessor Vampira, who added corny jokes to the beat of cheesy old horror flicks.
From the Vault: Classic Horror Comedies
by Tim Janson, Columnist and Critic
(October 28, 2012)
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is perhaps the seminal classic horror comedy of all-time. Take the most popular comedy team of the era, and pair them with Universal’s top monsters and you end up with a sure-fire hit. The film is important for s
From the Vault: The Edgar Allan Poe Trilogy
by Tim Janson, Columnist and Critic
(October 21, 2012)
Just a few weeks back, Universal released its Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection, an incredible set featuring 8 of Universal’s most iconic horror films. No one can argue with the films that were included but If I had my way, the set wo
Shock-O-Rama: A Different Set of Jaws
by Chuck Francisco, Columnist and Critic
(October 20, 2012)
It's your first time. A ball of nervous energy rolls in your stomach, like two angry battling dragons. You adjust the cheap, Internet purchased costume, conscious of all the surrounding eyes; watching tauntingly. It's laughable to be concerned with your co
The Vision Vin Diesel Rumor
by Robert T. Trate, News Editor
(October 17, 2012)
There is a strange internet rumor that Vin Diesel, of all people, is going to play the Vision in the Marvel Movie Universe. According to sites such as Movie Hole, IMBD, and Geek Tyrant Vin Diesel is notorious for teasing his fan on his Facebook page with h
Tuesday Terrors: Mockingbird Lane Lives!
by Tim Janson, Columnist and Critic
(October 16, 2012)
Mockingbird Lane lives after all! After earlier rumors that NBC had shelved the Munsters re-imaging, it looks like Herman, Lilly, and Grandpa will arrive after all. As Halloween nears, NBC turns Friday, October 26 into Fright Night when it premieres the
From the Vault: The Lugosi Vampires
by Tim Janson, Columnist and Critic
(October 14, 2012)
Bela Lugosi is best known as playing Dracula and creating the vampire template we are most familiar with today. But the fact is that Lugosi only played the role twice…first in the classic Dracula (1931) and then in the comedy spoof Abbott and Costello M
Shock-O-Rama: Monsters Run Amok!
by Chuck Francisco , Columnist and Critic
(October 13, 2012)
The sinews of the Internet are ablaze with Universal's Monsters. Rightly so, as the essential Blu-Ray set offers visuals so crisp that we can make out Boris Karloff's individual bandages. This is the perfect time of year to revisit those old friends, who
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