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Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 14 April 2024

The A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise is as personality-driven as its contemporaries are not. A reasonably competent stuntman stand in passes muster for most masked maniacs. But not so the Springwood Slasher, who’s as quick with a crack as he is with a scratch of a knifed glove.

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 13 April 2024

My co-producer, Cameron Tremblay, and I graduated in the same film school class. He went to work in the locations department on big fancy American productions like Fringe, while I went to work in the sound department, taking whatever jobs I could get—usually unpaid, but sometimes they gave me fifty bucks and bought me a case of beer. And that was fine—you can’t expect to get decent paid work in the sound department straight out of school.

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 10 April 2024

As part of LATIN HORROR‘s tenth anniversary in 2018, we introduced you to a fulfilled item from our bucket list: the companion website MiedoBase TV, a relational database whose focus is on horror, science fiction, and genre films. Why? Why not?

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 08 April 2024

Steel and Lace isn’t a movie I’d heard too much about before watching. In fact, while I had known of the movie in a vague sense, I think it’d be fair to say that I couldn’t have said a single thing if asked what it was about. All of this is to say that I went into this one pretty blind, and I have to admit that while I liked some of the ideas here, along with the effects, I’m not sure the execution was to my liking.

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 07 April 2024

The viewer takes the perspective of Frankenstein's monster, waking up in a lab and moving through an alienating series of rooms, towards an unknown goal.

Details: Written by: Gary Johnston; Category: Movies; Published: 06 April 2024

Electrocuting an Elephant (also known as Electrocution of an Elephant) is a 1903 American, short, black-and-white, silent documentary film of the killing of the elephant Topsy by electrocution at a Coney Island amusement park. It was produced by the Edison film company (part of the Edison Manufacturing Company) and is believed to have been shot by Edwin S. Porter or Jacob Blair Smith.