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Uncovering Curiosities: Chelsea Stardust’s SATANIC PANIC

Director Chelsea Stardust’s 2019 release, Satanic Panic is a film which knows exactly what it wants to be. There’s no pretence or aspiration – Satanic Panic wants to be a fun horror-comedy which doesn’t skimp on gore or laughs. Grady [...]

April 13, 2021

Review: Joe Begos’ VFW Is A Bad-Ass, Bone-Crunching Beat E’m Up

Over the last 10 or 15 years, much has been said and done about the Grindhouse aesthetic. Since Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez unleashed their double-bill feature of Death Proof and Planet Terror 2007, many directors have tried and (mostly) [...]

February 15, 2020

Review: SATANIC PANIC Is After Hours Meets Suspiria For The Trump Era

Director Chelsea Stardust’s Satanic Panic is a film which knows exactly what it wants to be. There’s no pretence or aspiration – Satanic Panic wants to be a fun horror-comedy which doesn’t skimp on gore or laughs. Grady Hendrix’s [...]

September 22, 2019

Interview: Producer Dallas Sonnier Talks Pushing Boundaries & Making Great Movies Away From Hollywood

Dallas Sonnier is one of the bravest and most exciting film producers working today. Through his company Cinestate, Sonnier he has delivered a roster of punchy movies including the Kurt Russell western Bone Tomahawk, Vince Vaughn crime-thriler Brawl [...]

July 17, 2019

Interview: Actress Barbara Crampton Discusses PUPPET MASTER: THE LITTLEST REICH, Horror & Writing For Fangoria

Actress Barbara Crampton is a horror icon, She made her movie debut in Brian DePalma’s 1984 thriller Body Double before segueing into horror, going on to star in many of the genre’s most beloved films over the last thirty-five years. [...]

July 15, 2019

Grizzled Tough Guys Kick Mutant Butt In Fangoria’s V.F.W

Want to see a bunch of grizzled genre stars kick mutant butt? You do? That’s good, because genre stalwarts Stephen Lang, William Sadler, Fred Williamson, Martin Kove, David Patrick Kelly and George Wendt are starring in V.F.W, a new [...]

March 31, 2019