Sam Raimi
Why ‘Evil Dead II’ is Not a Remake of the First
Evil Dead II is a very similar movie to the first in terms of its setting and plot. It opens with a bit of backstory on the Book of the Dead—which would not be referred to as the Necronomicon until Ar...
Famous Movies Turned down by Legendary Horror Directors
A directing career is a volatile thing. Plum directing gigs are hard to come by. Yet there are always movies that get turned down, for whatever reason. Movies that turn out great on the screen donR...
Five Horror Directors That Made the Jump to Superhero Movies
We horror fans love our directors. Perhaps more than fans of any other genre, we view them as larger than life superstars, and we follow their careers intently. We look back at their past work with wi...
Who the Heck is Hail to the Deadites For? [Fantasia Review]
Over the past few years, there’s been an unfortunate influx in fan documentaries. By this, I don’t mean fan made films, but rather films about fans. It’s unfortunate because there’s little to be gaine...
Director Randy Ser Talks the Making of Cruiser and Looks Back on Darkman [Exclusive]
What do Sam Raimi’s Darkman and Gravitas Ventures’ newly-released horror flick, Cruiser have in common? Randy Ser. Randy served as the production designer on Darkman when Raimi’s career was first star...
Evil Dead II Strikes the Perfect Balance Between Horror and Comedy
In Evil Dead II, Ash and his girlfriend Linda drive to a cabin in the woods for a weekend getaway. They are essentially squatting, as they don’t know the owners and haven’t been invited. After their a...
Bruce Campbell is Producing a New Evil Dead Movie with Sam Raimi
It’s been a while since any Evil Dead-related news has surfaced; the last we heard was series originator Sam Raimi was totally up for more bloody mayhem if the situation presented itself, partic...
Crawl [Frightfest 2019 Spotlight]
The countdown to Frightfest 2019 is ON, with less than a month to go until the UK’s biggest and best horror festival takes over Leicester Square. In the weeks leading up to the festival, our int...
Stag Night is a Tepid Subterranean Terror Flick [Retrospective]
Stag Night finds four friends out on the town for a bachelor party. When the guys, along with a pair of exotic dancers, get off the subway at an abandoned station, they encounter a group of hungry can...
