THE LAUGHING DEAD
The filmmaking debut of novelist S.P. Somtow, and further proof, after Stephen King’s MAXIMUM OVEDRIVE, that horror novelists are better off behind the typewriter
THREE
An Asian three-parter with segments directed by Korea’s Kim Jee-Woon, Thailand’s Nonzee Nimibutr and Hong Kong’s Peter Ho-Sun Chan
THEY CAME BACK
THEY CAME BACK, the directorial debut of Robin Campillo, eschews the flesh eating and intestine pulling of traditional living dead flicks in favor of a more surreal, even satirical approach
TALES FROM THE QUADEAD ZONE
A 3-part anthology flick from crap movie auteur Chester N. Turner, which given his pedigree is every bit as astoundingly horrible as you might expect
PSYCHEDELIC SEX VAMPIRES: JEAN ROLLIN CINEMA
In the absence of a comprehensive English language book (as of 2012, at least) on the French filmmaker Jean Rollin, this lavishly illustrated trifle will have to do
DEATHDREAM
A young soldier returns home from Vietnam as a zombie with an insatiable addiction to blood in DEATHDREAM, a bonafide seventies cult classic
THE DEAD PIT
I got a mild kick out of this film, an insane asylum-set zombie fest from the eighties
THE DEAD NEXT DOOR
This no-budget eighties zombie epic isn’t much from a technical standpoint but has a real low-rent charm, and enough creative bloodletting to fill a dozen mainstream gorefests
DAY OF THE DEAD
To many horror fans DAY OF THE DEAD, the third in George Romero’s “Dead” saga, is a genre masterpiece. Not me!
DARK SOULS
This 2010 Norwegian chiller looks and often feels like a run-of-the-mill slasher, but branches out in some weird and provocative directions