
ART EXHIBITION: GUILLERMO DEL TORO – AT HOME WITH MONSTERS
I had the privilege of being invited to preview the traveling exhibition of art and memorabilia that usually reside in “The Bleak House“. Owned by visionary director Guillermo del Toro, the house is legendary due to it being less of a house and more of a love letter to monsters,

Short Film Review: GET YOURSELF TOGETHER , MIKEY (Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival)
*GET YOURSELF TOGETHER , MIKEY will play at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, September 30* For Tickets: https://filmfreeway.com/festival/PhiladelphiaUnnamedFilmFestival/tickets Mikey’s (played by the fantastic Tom Hagi) situation is one part therapy and one part THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY. After a shocking (to him) breakup Mikey goes to the store to do what most

66 HORROR FLIX PRESENTS: Horror U with SPECIAL GUESTS!
Oh man is today’s lesson at Horror University an AWESOME one! Today our host Jim Towns takes us on a field trip to the SON OF MONSTERPALOOZA convention in Burbank California to talk about monsters. As an added bonus, he has brought along some very special guest speakers to chime

Short Film Review: DEATH METAL (Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival)
*DEATH METAL will play before TERRIFIER at 9:30 p.m. on Thurs, September 28* To buy tickets: https://filmfreeway.com/festival/PhiladelphiaUnnamedFilmFestival/tickets Let me start by saying that I am a fan of death metal as a musical genre. In fact, I find it oddly soothing at times. The “music” played by our musician

66 HORROR FLIX PRESENTS: TRICK OR TREAT
Today’s 66 HORROR FLIX examines the “Satanic Panic” era heavy metal horror, TRICK OR TREAT. The film stars Marc Price as Eddie Weinbauer, a high school outcast and heavy metal loving teen. His world collapses when his favorite singer Sammi Curr (played by Tony Fields) mysteriously dies. But like so

66 HORROR FLIX PRESENTS: DRACULA (1979)
Even though 66 HORROR FLIX host and film director Jim Towns has been hard at work on his latest horror vehicle STATE OF DESOLATION, that didn’t stop him from revisiting a film he hated on first viewing. That would be the Frank Langella starring 1979 horror-romance, DRACULA. Before we get

Film Review: IT
Before I go into this review, lets address some key misnomers that were so frequently thrown around while this film was in development and seem to still have some traction left. This film is at it’s very base, an adaptation of Stephen Kings 1986 novel IT. This is NOT a

Philadelphia Unnamed Film Festival (PUFF) Adds Lost Film, Acclaimed Haunt Doc to 2017 Line-Up
As things become more and more uncertain in the realm of theatrical film distribution, there is one thing that has become decidedly clear: the lack of original voices at the multiplex have brought pockets of individual film communities together around the world. As a result, there are more film festivals

IT-On Set Interviews Part 2: Finn Wolfhard, Jaeden Lieberher, Sophia Lillis, Jack Dylan Grazer and Wyatt Oleff
On set interviews with : Finn Wolfhard , Jaeden Lieberher , Sophia Lillis, Jack Dylan Grazer, Wyatt Oleff Last June I was fortunate enough to visit the set of IT. I did a multitude of interviews with the cast and crew. I wanted to share the best of what I

IT – On Set Interviews Part 1: Logan Thompson, Chosen Jacobs, Nicholas Hamilton and Jake Sim
On set interview with Nicholas Hamilton, Jake Sim, Logan Thompson and Chosen Jacobs Last June I was invited to spend some time on the set of IT, the highly anticipated Andy Muschietti directed adaptation of the infamous Stephen King novel. With the exception of Owen Teague who was not shooting