Written and Produced by Larry Cohen If you are attacked, fear for your safety, or witness a crime, who do you call? The answer, of course, is the police. Unless you’re a criminal engaged in illegal activity, any rational person would see a policeman as someone who will help, someone who is safe, and someone […]
I am taking part in The Chicago Creepout’s Twelve Days of Axe-mas holiday viewing event. This is my day three. Rather than write up a review of Gremlins (What would be the point?) or mock it in fiction (which it most definitely does not deserve), I just want to take a few paragraphs to talk […]
I am taking part in The Chicago Creepout’s Twelve Days of Axe-mas holiday viewing event. This is my day two. Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 is such a stunningly horrible movie; I can only believe its existence can be blamed on a bet or a dare. More likely, it simply sprang from the brain […]
I am taking part in The Chicago Creepout’s Twelve Days of Axe-mas holiday viewing event. This is my day one. Note: The version of Silent Night, Deadly Night that I watched contained some footage not shown in the theatrical version. As much as I hate to admit it, I’m old enough to remember the uproar […]
Written and Directed by Larry Cohen The Ambulance is a snapshot of an industry in transition. Released in 1990, it’s the type of low-budget independent thriller that would soon start going straight to video, but still managed to make its way into theaters…barely. If not for an eclectic cast of solid character actors and a […]
Terror in the Aisles 13 took place at Chicago’s Portage Theater on November 30 with an impressive lineup and indie genre film veteran Brian Yuzna as the special guest. That Yuzna’s appearance was coordinated with a showing of Society, his directorial debut, was the main draw of the evening. While seeing that film for the […]
Written by Larry Cohen As the direct-to-DVD market proliferated in the ‘90s and into this century, it was only a matter of time before a Larry Cohen script was given the slapdash, bare bones treatment and dropped into the nearest bargain bin (of course, I am ignoring films like Uncle Sam that Cohen had a […]
My short story Blissful Ignorance has been published in Issue 8 of Midnight Echo Magazine. You can purchase a digital copy of the magazine here for $2.99 Australian. If you want an actual copy of the magazine that you can hold in your hands and feel the death of countless trees, I will update this […]
A promotional Q&A I did with Midnight Echo Magazine is now available on their website. In addition to my slightly pretentious tone when talking about my favorite short stories and what inspired my story, there is an excerpt from my short story Blissful Ignorance. You can find my self-important ramblings here. Read all the extraneous crap […]
For the fifth year in a row, I attended The Massacre. In past years it has been held at the Music Box Theatre, but this year, for the first time, it was held at the Portage Theater. I attribute this change in venue to helping me stick around for the entire 24 hours. Unlike the […]
Obsessive Movie Nerd 