horror

So, you get into a fight with your boyfriend/girlfriend and then storm out of the house. You are involved in a horrible car crash and wake up on an examination table. You feel a little confused, your head hurts, and you’re not sure where you are. A man walks in and tells you that you are not in a hospital, but rather in a funeral home – which means, you guessed it, you’re dead. However, you’re able to carry on a conversation with this guy – so ARE you dead, or is he just playing some sick, mind-control game with you? That’s the fundamental question that After.Life explores.

I just had the opportunity to watch the latest horror-thriller DVD from Vinvedi Entertainment and RHI Entertainment titled BITTEN. It stars Jason Mewes who plays Jack, a good-hearted, hard-working and let us not leave out FOUL-MOUTHED EMT. I firmly believe Mewes was being paid a bonus per f-bombs that he dropped during this film. Now I'm not a prude and profanity has it's place but this was excessive. Now back to the review. Jack finds a young woman on the street named Danika who is dying and refuses to be taken to the hospital. Jack takes her home and nurses her back to health. Girl gets better, changed into a vampire and Jack gets the hots for her. Every time Danika and Jack get all hot and heavy, Danika wants to eat him - literally. Jack starts bringing her snacks in the form of the neighborhood drug dealing trash but her appetite seems to be insatiable.

Early last year, we were delighted to have the opportunity to review "Tales From The Darkside - Season One" on DVD. Imagine our excitement when the BBT (big brown truck) pulled up to the mansion and delivered a copy of "TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE THIRD SEASON" On DVD. We couldn't wait to settle in for a long weekend of Darkside goodness.

We had the exclusive privilege to review Jim O’Rear’s new book while visiting the Full Moon Tattoo and Horror Festival in Nashville. This was incredibly unexpected as he has kept this project very quiet. Being his first novel, we jumped at the chance. Only intending to skim through a few pages to see what I could be expecting, I read the entire book in about two hours.

I received the movie Rise of the Gargoyles half a week before it came out on September 8th. You may wonder why I'm only now reviewing it. The answer? The main character of this film isn't the only one who has to balance academia by day and gargoyle hunting by night (cue dramatic hero music)!

This movie is the 15th installment of the Maneater series from Syfy (you may recall my previous review of Wyvern). Now, as a Syfy original movie there are some things I have come to expect: good ensemble cast, but kind of cliché story setups and some outrageously awesome monsters. Rise of the Gargoyles had... some of this.

"Harper's Island" was a CBS mini-series that told the story of Abby Mills (Elaine Cassidy), who left Harper's Island seven years ago after a killing spree by psycho John Wakefield took the life of her mother and many other island inhabitants. Abby is now returning to the island because her long-time friend Henry (Christopher Gorham) is getting married on Harper's Island. Henry is the poor kid who fell in love with rich girl Trish (Katie Cassidy).

It doesn't take long for the action to start as the wedding party is killed off one by one. A festive wedding weekend turns into a nightmarish struggle for survival. By the end of the 13th episode, the killer will be revealed and all loose ends are tied up.

On the Shelves Tuesday August 4th from Magnolia Home Entertainment is Mutant Chronicles.

Mutants, Gore, War and Mystic Religions- This movie has them all. Set in the future while looking like it's the past is this movie. Four corporations own the world and are fighting each other for the remaining resources of Earth. During the fighting something is disturbed that should have been left alone and mutants rise from their ages old prison to conquer the world and eradicate the humans. A group of hardened warriors and a pair of monks must destroy the machine and end the mutant plague.

This book, Funeral Diseases of the Mind by Anthony Beal, is subtitled Fifteen tales of dark erotica. The fifteen short stories are broken up amongst 135 pages and read fairly quickly. If you have just a few minutes of time then you can knock back a couple of these stories. The author of this book has definite talent.

When I first heard about "The Grudge 3" I thought - Great, just what we need. Another "Grudge" movie. Then I discovered it was being directed by the same guy who brought us "Splinter" - Toby Wilkins. My next thought was - Splinter was a pretty good film so maybe this sequel won't be ALL bad.

"Splinter" is the story of a body-snatching porcupine-like parasite, with one thing on it's mind - find a warm blooded host to use for replication. One thing "Splinter" has going for it is it's location. Set in an old, undisturbed and unexplored forest area in Oklahoma, it makes the creature's origin just that much more believable.

When the film gets started, we meet the super nerd Seth and his way-out-of-his-league girlfriend, Polly. The two are off for a weekend of camping and anniversary sex under the stars. Except for our boy Seth can't seem to get it up