Cap'n Howdy's Blogorium

 You know, I had planned on using 80s Slasher Day to prove something of a point - that for the most part, the slasher formula was interchang...

 What you're probably going to notice here is a similarity to the review of The Dead ; we came into the Guillermo Del Toro produced (and...

Doctor Tom here to ramble for a little bit about Attack the Block . This lovely little Edgar-Wright-produced quasi- Bildungsroman delivers a...

 In the wake of last year's ThanksKilling discovery, the Cap'n tries to find some homespun horror made for a very low budget. Young...

 The undead have risen in Africa, and as the privileged try to escape in planes, the African army is trying to contain the outbreak (and fai...

 Alexandre Aja promised boobs and gore early on when discussing his remake of Piranha , and he delivered. There's a certain pleasure der...

 Dr. Black and Mr.Hyde deserves a longer write up than I'm going to be able to give it, so suffice to say that it's much better tha...

 I offered two choices for the first film of Horror Fest 6 : a classy Criterion Collection release of The Island of Lost Souls from earlier...

 In a fairytale retelling of the first Ginger Snaps , Brigitte and Ginger are alone in the woods, bleeding. They press their hands together,...

 That's right, boils and ghouls - Horror Fest 6 begins tomorrow night! Your Cap'n has been working to put together a great line-up a...

 Ghost helps Brigitte escape from the treatment center / psych-ward, only to trap the fully transformed Brigitte in her basement. Ghost crea...

 Ginger goes full on werewolf, and Brigitte has the option to save her or kill her. She decides to kill Ginger, but mixes her sister's b...

 Jason is killed by a woodchipper, but not in the way you'd hope. A chain around his neck strangles him instead of chipping him, so What...

 We close out of Retro Review s of Classic Horror Fest and Summer Fest reviews with the only movie from Horror Fest V I can legitimately c...

There will be a Horror Fest at the end of Shocktober this week. But not just any Horror Fest:  HORROR FEST 666  Coming Friday, Satur...