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Artwork for Madhouse starring Vincent Price

Review: Vincent Price & Peter Cushing Enter The MADHOUSE

Madhouse brings together two of the most well known Masters of the Macabre. Not only do you get the mighty Vincent Price in the lead role, but you also get able support from the great Peter Cushing. It might not be either of the pair’s finest [...]

June 18, 2026

Notebook Reviews: THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE

Tobe Hooper – 1974. Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a low budget and quite horrific horror pic that set the template for a plethora of other fright films. The set-up is a slow burn, but once things kick-0ff, it becomes [...]

November 3, 2024

Horror Movies To Watch This Halloween

  October is when the nights get darker and more mysterious. It’s the month when people like to delve deep into the horror genre and watch a variety of scary movies as Halloween approaches.  Movies In Focus has put together a list of [...]

October 2, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Tobe Hooper’s EATEN ALIVE

Tobe Hooper has had an inconsistent career as a horror director. When he scores big he delivers classics like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist. When he fails he delivers uneven efforts like The Texas Chainsaw 2 – and this 1977 [...]

February 10, 2021

Uncovering Curiosities: Stuart W. Bedford’s GOOD TIDINGS

Good Tidings is a down and dirty low budget horror from director Stuart W. Bedford. This British has high aspirations, taking elements of classic horror movies like Halloween and Texas Chainsaw Massacre, John Carpenter’s classic siege movie [...]

November 23, 2020

Uncovering Curiosities: Jerzy Skolimowski’s THE SHOUT

This 1978 British film directed by Jerzy Skolimowski stars the wonderful Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York and Tim Curry. The film sounds like an episode of The Twilight Zone (but it’s so much more); on a summers afternoon a group of villagers [...]

October 22, 2020

The Madness Returns: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE Poster

In August David Blue Garcia was hired to replace Andy and Ryan Tohill in the directing seat of Texas Chainsaw Massacre after one week of filming because of creative differences. The production then went quiet but now the first poster has arrived. [...]

October 20, 2020

Gimmfest 2020 Review: TEN MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT

If you have any expectations going into director Erik Bloomquist‘s Ten Minutes To Midnight, then I suggest that you leave them at the door. On the surface, Bloomquist’s film is a vampire horror picture, but it’s really so much [...]

October 12, 2020

25 Great Horror Movies To Watch This October

October is the month where people like to delve deep into the horror genre and watch a variety of scary movies in the lead-up to Halloween. Movies In Focus has put together a list of 25 great horror movies. Some of them are classics films and others [...]

October 4, 2020

True Terror: Tobe Hooper’s THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE

Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre came out of nowhere in 1974, terrifying audiences with its deranged characters and iconic villain Leatherface. Kim Henkel and Tobe Hooper’s film was loosely inspired by Ed Gein, the real-life killer [...]

April 26, 2020

Review: 30 MILES FROM NOWHERE Is Full Of Surprises

When you see enough movies you get into the rhythm of certain genres and it’s often easy to guess what’s going to happen next. I can honestly say that director Caitlin Koller’s 30 Miles From Nowhere was a total surprise. You think you know [...]

February 24, 2019

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