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In Edgar Wright’s classic sitcom Spaced, there was an episode (Art) where Tim (Simon Pegg) was obsessed with playing Resident Evil 2. He gets so engrossed in it that he cannot tell reality from fiction (the dose of amphetamines probably didn’t help either), and subsequently batters some arty types in his hallucinatory panic. It’s the strongest showing of Wright’s love for a particular zombie movie...[Read More]

Horror fans have long known to avoid the woods of rural Maryland, the home of the Blair Witch, and entire state of Texas, the site of an infamous chainsaw massacre. But if the scary movies set in Philadelphia are any indication, they should also steer clear of Broad Street.Philadelphia has gotten plenty of play in horror thanks to M. Night Shyamalan, the Penn Valley native who consistently films i...[Read More]

Regal Cinemas is bringing Dawn of the Dead back to theaters for one night only on October 27th in celebration of the horror classic’s 45th anniversary.George A. Romero’s 1978 film — a sequel of sorts to his 1968 project Night of the Living Dead — stars David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott Reiniger, and Gaylen Ross as survivors of a zombie outbreak who take refuge in a suburban shopping mall while mass hys...[Read More]

For horror fans, Claudio Simonetti is a household name. First a founding member of rock group Goblin, whose work is synonymous with filmmaker Dario Argento’s genre standard-bearers “Deep Red” and “Suspiria,” a producer and pop artist in his native Italy, and later a lead composer on Argento’s “Tenebre,” Lamberto Bava’s “Demons” and more, Simonetti and his collaborators turned iconoclastic takes on...[Read More]

It's hard to gain the approval of the master, especially when said master defined an entire genre of filmmaking.Take Zack Snyder's 2004 remake of Dawn of the Dead (currently streaming on Peacock), for example. While many fans consider the James Gunn-written project to be an exemplary take on the 1978 original and Snyder's best movie by far, zombie godfather George A. Romero was only impressed by t...[Read More]

Waxwork Records is bringing the soundtrack to George A. Romero’s classic Dawn of the Dead to vinyl with a 3 LP set [embedded content] 2023 marks the 45th anniversary of the release of the George A. Romero classic Dawn of the Dead (get it HERE) – and Waxwork Records is celebrating the anniversary by giving the film’s soundtrack an expansive three LP release! This is the soundtrack’s first time r...[Read More]

In Dangerous Game, a hacker and his friends break into a department store and are stalked by one of the former security guards who lost his job due to their antics. This Australian slasher film was directed by Stephen Hopkins and nominated for Australian Oscars. It stars Miles Buchanan, Marcus Graham, Steven Grives, and Kathryn Walker. Hopkins would go on to direct A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The...[Read More]