Exclusive interview with Joseph Zaso
I discovered Joseph Zaso through two movies he did when he was still a teenager, Screambook and Screambook 2. Watching them, I felt like he was a kindred spirit and wanted to learn how he made the film, about his career and how movies like those two and It’s Only a Movie! got made. I’m […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Countdown to Esmeralda Bay (1990)
If anyone else made this movie, one would say it looked cheap. But man, this is a slick looking Jess Franco movie and I say that with love. He even had star power that he hadn’t had since the early 70s, if you consider Robert Forster — and Robert Foster, I mean Antonio Mayans — […]
HELL AWAITS ON THE DIA DOUBLE FEATURE!
Get ready to create some Satanic Panic in the comfort of your home when you join Bill, Sam and guest Joseph Zaso for two films that will make the First of the Fallen smile. This tiptoe down the left hand path starts at 8 PM on the Groovy Doom Facebook and YouTube channel. The first blasphemous blast of insanity is […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: The House That Screamed (1969)
Spain’s first major horror film production, The House that Screamed—AKA La Residencia and The Boarding School—was based on a story by Juan Tébar. Because the cast included both English and Spanish actors, the film was shot in both languages and then dubbed into English in post-production. Directed and written by Narciso Ibáñez Serrador (Who Can Kill a […]
The Gods 2: The Dark Side (2023)
I’ve never seen The Gods — it’s on Tubi — but this sequel has Mikey James (director and writer Mykel Shannon Jenkins) returning after the loss of the love of his life Sofia and their unborn child. Her brother and his rival Anthony Fasano (Kevin Interdonato) wants Mikey to pay for her death, which means that […]
Wolf Garden (2023)
William (Wayne David, the writer, director and star of this movie) lives alone in the British countryside, thought to be missing — along with his girlfriend Chantelle (Sian Altman) — but probably the truth is closer to hiding. In fact, she might be there. Or she might be a hallucination. She could be a memory. See, […]
ReBroken (2023)
Will (Scott Hamm Duenas) is drinking himself into the grave when he isn’t attending court-ordered grief counseling run by Bella (Alison Haislip). But then he meets a stranger named Von (Tobin Bell) who gives him some records that, when played, contain messages from his dead daughter Shelly. In fact, they just might give him a clue […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Yuka (The Lustful Amazons) (1974)
Pygar (Robert Woods) recounts the story of his journey to Antigua — and The Lustful Amazons of the title — to Karzan (Wal Davis; if you’re watching the French version, he’s Maciste). He also tells the young adventurer that there’s a fortune in gold for the taking, but it’s all a ruse, as Pygar and the […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Girls In the Night Traffic (1976)
Erwin C. Dietrich is listed as the director and writer of this, but it’s also Jess Franco pitching in to direct. There’s a story behind that. According to Kyle Faulkner on Letterboxd, at the end of 1975, Franco got the job of making a more pornographic ripoff of Mandingo, which would seem to be right up […]
Beyond the Gates of Hell (2022)
Starting with grindhouse-style trailers for Zombie Blast Fighter and Don’t Eat My Flesh (and how great of a title is that?) and then following that with a murder straight out of Lucio Fulci, this movie presents a forty-plus-minute tribute to the godfather of gore’s three bloodiest films The Beyond, Gates of Hell and The House By the Cemetery all […]
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