tales from the crypt

Fantasia Festival Review: BIG BREAK Delivers Laughs, Thrills & Kills

There’s plenty of fun to be had with Big Break, the new comedy-horror which has its debut at the Fantasia International Film Festival. This is a loose and relaxed genre effort from New York based comedy troupe, Simple Town and it sees a group of [...]

July 21, 2026

Joan Collins in Empire of The Ants artwork

Review: It’s Joan Collins Vs Giant Insects In EMPIRE OF THE ANTS

Look, I don’t know if you can call Empire Of The Ants a good film in the traditional sense. Well, actually – scratch that – I’m positively certain that you wouldn’t call it a good film in the traditional sense. However, I’m also [...]

June 19, 2026

Blu-ray Review: CREEPSHOW Season 1 To 4

Based on the 1982 anthology film directed by the late George A. Romero and written by Stephen King (and its 1987 sequel), Shudder’s Creepshow updates the horror anthology series for a new generation by turning it into a TV/streaming series. A [...]

January 3, 2024

Podcast – Episode 31: A L Katz Talks The How NOT To Make A Movie Podcast & Tales From The Crypt

Running on HBO for seven seasons and 93 episodes from 1989 to 1996, Tales From The Crypt was a wonderfully ghoulish show that was based on Bill Gaines’ EC Comics imprint of the same name. Executive produced by Joel Silver, Richard Donner, Robert [...]

March 15, 2023

Podcast – Episode 22: Legendary Screenwriter Steven E. de Souza On His Hollywood Career & Films Such As Die Hard, 48 Hours, Hudson Hawk & More!

Steven E. de Souza, the acclaimed screenwriter and director joins Niall Browne for this episode of the Movies In Focus podcast. Mega hits and cult classics such as 48 Hours, Commando, Die Hard, The Running Man, Die Hard 2, Hudson Hawk, [...]

October 17, 2022

Uncovering Curiosities: M. Night Shyamalan’s THE VISIT

M.Night Shyamalan’s The Visit was a film which saw the director beginning to refind his groove. It doesn’t deliver on the mastery he showed with The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs and The Village. That was a fantastic run of features and [...]

July 23, 2021

Review: THE MORTUARY COLLECTION Is A Delightfully Devilish Take On Tales From The Crypt

The Mortuary Collection is an entertaining and darkly comic horror film from writer/director Ryan Spindell. A variation on the Tales From The Crypt type anthology, the film stars Clancy Brown as Montgomery Dark, the ghoulish Mortician in the New [...]

May 6, 2021

Fantasia Festival Review: THE MORTUARY COLLECTION Is Ghoulishly Macabre

August 29, 2020

Review: Horror Anthology TERROR TALES

Horror anthology movies are often tiny surprises, collections of morality tales wrapped up as genre vignettes. I take great pleasure in watching these movies and always look forward to them when I get the opportunity to view one. I was therefore [...]

December 13, 2018