Remembering Rick Sullivan and GORE GAZETTE
About Rick Sullivan (June 9, 1955 – December 18, 2017), a pivotal figure in the horror world
PURGATORY
1998 was the year of SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, a war movie that allegedly broke new ground in its depiction of the ugliness of combat. Few seem to know about the ’98 Russian movie PURGATORY, which far outdid Spielberg’s film in grit, gore and sheer unpleasantness
LITTLE HEAVEN
Here Nick Cutter, of the well-received horror thrillers THE TROOP and THE DEEP, tries his hand at a genre epic of the type popularized by Stephen King and Robert McCammon, with mixed results
Cult Films In Search of A Cult
Having written about the subject for the past 20 years, I can discern what marks out cult films, and the following, I believe, are all prime candidates
THE AMAZING HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS
THE AMAZING HERSCHELL GORDON LEWIS by Daniel Krogh, is the first book devoted to H. G. Lewis, widely hailed as the Godfather of Gore. His flicks include such 1960s and 70s-era anti-classics as BLOOD FEAST, TWO THOUSAND MANIACS!…
HALLOWEEN II
This is the original HALLOWEEN II, not the inexcusable Rob Zombie one—even though this one’s pretty rotten, as its co-writer/producer John Carpenter admits.
HALLOWEEN
One of the most iconic horror films of all time, and the most famous ever made by John Carpenter.
THE WALKING DEAD, Censorship and the State of Horror Media
Let’s face it: horror media has lost its mojo… The genre can no longer be said to retain the subversive edge that I’d argue is vital to its survival. This past week, however, offered a ray of hope.
COLOR ME BLOOD RED
When perusing COLOR ME BLOOD RED, the last of H.G. Lewis’ novelizations of his fabled early 1960s gore flicks, there are a few things to keep in mind: 1). The film it novelizes is, as Lewis himself has conceded, not one of his better efforts, 2). It was not among the Lewis novelizations Fantaco reprinted in 1988 (and clearly there’s a reason for that), and 3). Lewis has subsequently admitted he “spent less attention” on this adaptation than he did the others. Yet even allowing for those things, COLOR ME BLOOD RED is worthwhile reading for horror buffs in a forgiving mood.
Analyzing HATCHET II’s (Non)Release
The big news on the horror circuit right now is last week’s severely truncated release of HATCHET II.