UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2025: Undertone (2025)
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year, they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which works to save the lives of cats and dogs across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes. Today’s theme: 21st Century Horror Something inherently sacred and terrifying […]
Sizzlin’ Summer of Subterranean Psychotronica 2026: Mickey 17 (2025)
Week 13 (Sept 13 – 19) – Cult Movies: Oh, you thought I meant the other kind of cult movies? Sacrifices to the gods of entertainment must be made, so hop up on the altar! What do you get when you hand a visionary South Korean master filmmaker an interstellar sci-fi novel about a guy whose whole […]
Peter Asher: Everywhere Man (2025)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Perry writes for the film websites Gruesome Magazine, The Scariest Things, Horror Fuel, The Good, the Bad and the Verdict and Diabolique Magazine; for the film magazines Phantom of the Movies’ VideoScope and Drive-In Asylum; and for the pop culture websites When It Was Cool and Uphill Both Ways. He is also one of the hosts of When It Was Cool’s exclusive Uphill Both […]
GENRE BLAST X Shorts Blast #2: Where the Buses Don’t Run
Severed (2025): Megan Duffy directed, co-wrote — with Danielle Bauman — and stars in this short as Abigail, a woman who keeps finding fingers in the streets of her town. There’s been an epidemic of missing digits, whether that’s through accident, a finger cutter or a strange disease. Her partner Mark (Ben Giroux) doesn’t even […]
NEON 4K UHD and BLU-RAY RELEASE: EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025)
Following up on his 2022 biographical film, director Baz Luhrmann delivers something entirely unique in the Elvis canon with EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert. Rather than a traditional documentary or standard concert film, this project functions as a staggering archival resurrection. The production is built upon a monumental discovery: 68 lost boxes of 35mm and […]
MAGENTA LIGHT BLU-RAY RELEASE: Protector (2025)
Set in a scorched, broken future in the year 2042, where the United States has collapsed beneath the weight of water wars, famine, and a devastating plague known as “the Rot,” Protector is a high-energy post-apocalyptic action ride. With widespread infertility making children an extreme rarity, humanity’s future hangs by a thread. The story zeroes […]
GENRE BLAST X Shorts Blast #1: Tripping the Sci-Fantastic
Here’s the first lineup of shorts I watched at Genre Blast. Wooly Bully (2025): What a rough watch. I don’t mean that in a bad way. I mean that in an “I have lived this movie” way. My dad’s descent into dementia was not easy to navigate, and as always, avoidance and denial were probably […]
GENRE BLAST X: Heat Score (2025)
Heat Score, the gritty crime-comedy-thriller from co-directors Devin and Robert Burkosky, wears its greasy heart right there on its sleeve. Set deep within the gritty underworld of Edmonton, this takes place in the 1990s, a place where Vince Valcone, once the toast of the local adult entertainment scene, has fallen on hard times. He’s running […]
GENRE BLAST X: Debone (2025)
Director Lee Dae-han’s feature debut Debone, shot on a $ 23,000-or-less budget, is a punishing, pitch-black entry into South Korea’s rich tradition of uncompromising crime-thriller horror. The film is the tale of Gyutark (Lee Gyu-tark), a young man whose life is derailed by an initial act of primal self-preservation: killing his abusive father to protect […]
GENRE BLAST X: The Cramps: A Period Piece (2025)
Agnes Applewhite (Lauren Kitchen) is a blossoming young woman trapped in a claustrophobic home with her sanctimonious mother (Brooklyn Woods) and tightly wound sister, Liberty (Harlie Madison). Defying her family’s strict expectations, Agnes takes a job as a shampoo girl at the lively Hairbrain Beauty Salon. Surrounded by a colorful, welcoming crew of misfits—including a […]
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