The Grue-Crew review DARK NATURE (2023, EPIC) on Gruesome Magazine episode 441. Jeff Mohr from Decades of Horror: The Classic Era, Crystal Cleveland, the Livin6Dead6irl from Decades of Horror: 1980s, award-winning filmmaker Christopher G. Moore, lead news writer Dave Dreher, and Doc Rotten share their thoughts about this week’s frightening addition to streaming horror films. Warning: possible spoilers after the initial impressions! DARK NATURE (2023, Epic) Dark Nature tells the story of a therapy group that is forced to confront the monsters of their past when an isolated weekend retreat test ..read more

The Grue-Crew review INFLUENCER (2023, SHUDDER) on Gruesome Magazine episode 440. Jeff Mohr from Decades of Horror: The Classic Era, Crystal Cleveland, the Livin6Dead6irl from Decades of Horror: 1980s, award-winning filmmaker Christopher G. Moore, lead news writer Dave Dreher, and Doc Rotten share their thoughts about this week’s frightening addition to streaming horror films. Warning: possible spoilers after the initial impressions! INFLUENCER (2023, SHUDDER) While struggling on a solo backpacking trip in Thailand, social media influencer Madison meets CW, who travels with ease and shows her ..read more

“I … I should never have come with you. We’re going to be killed. We’re going to be killed. I hear the demons of the red moon like the other time. I know they’re here. We’re going to die. AAYYIIIEEE!” Yup. In hindsight, bad decision. Join your faithful Grue Crew – Doc Rotten, Chad Hunt, Bill Mulligan, and Jeff Mohr – as they make their first trip to the Himalayan Mountains (just kidding, it’s really Spain) to catch Paul Naschy taking another turn as Waldemar Daninsky in The Werewolf and the Yeti(1975). Decades of Horror 1970s Episode 189 – The Werewolf and the Yeti (1975) Join the Crew on the ..read more

Sci-Fi London Film Festival, which opens May 31st, is loaded with speculative cinema and otherworldly occurrences. Following is the official press announcement. Today the SCI-FI-LONDON FILM FESTIVAL 2023 launches its cosmic 23rd annual programme, which will run from Wednesday 31st May until Tuesday 6th June with seven days of fantastic film. It will showcase a fabulous line-up with 2 World Premieres, 10 UK Premieres, 6 World Short Premieres and 13 UK Short Premieres. Alongside the festival is also doing a classic screening of Peter Watkins’ THE WAR GAME with a live score! Opening this year’s f ..read more

The Grue-Crew review THE WRATH OF BECKY (2023, Quiver) on Gruesome Magazine episode 439. Jeff Mohr from Decades of Horror: The Classic Era, Crystal Cleveland, the Livin6Dead6irl from Decades of Horror: 1980s, award-winning filmmaker Christopher G. Moore, lead news writer Dave Dreher, and Doc Rotten share their thoughts about this week’s frightening addition to streaming horror films. Warning: possible spoilers after the initial impressions! THE WRATH OF BECKY (2023, Quiver) Two years after she escaped a violent attack on her family, Becky attempts to rebuild her life in the care of an older w ..read more

The Grue-Crew review CREEPYPASTA (2023, Screambox) on Gruesome Magazine episode 438. Jeff Mohr from Decades of Horror: The Classic Era, Crystal Cleveland, the Livin6Dead6irl from Decades of Horror: 1980s, award-winning filmmaker Christopher G. Moore, lead news writer Dave Dreher, and Doc Rotten share their thoughts about this week’s frightening addition to streaming horror films. Warning: possible spoilers after the initial impressions! CREEPYPASTA (2023, Screambox) Trapped in an abandoned house, a nameless man desperately searches for clues to how he got there. The answer is hidden within a ..read more

There are no dinosaurs, Universal monsters or time travelers in “Fast X,” but all of those elements would feel plausible now in this franchise. The sequel opens with a flashback to the events in “Fast Five” when Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel) and team pulled off the notoriously daring daytime vault heist against Brazilian kingpin Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida). The endeavor resulted in the death of Reyes and millions of dollars being stolen and split among Toretto’s “family.” A bit of cinematic reworking introduces Reyes’ scowling son Dante (Jason Momoa) who was present that day and now seeks ..read more

The plot summary on the website for the Canadian thriller Peppergrass is pretty straightforward: “During a pandemic, a pregnant restaurateur tries to rob a priceless truffle from a reclusive veteran.” Watching the film, though, the story is a bit less forthright. There are elements of all the major plot points – pandemic, truffles, reclusive veteran – but they never tie together cohesively enough to give the story the gut punch it’s aiming for. Directed by Steven Garbas and Chantelle Han (who also plays the lead), Peppergrass opens with the offsetting image of a man wearing a Mexican Lucha wre ..read more

It’s been said in the past – and I’m sure many of you reading this have heard it before but it bears repeating as we prepare to dive into this review– if history’s great classical composers were alive today, they would likely be writing and performing metal music. Bach, Beethoven, and the like were the rock stars of their time – and their music was considered radical and over the top. In more modern times many metal bands have embraced that train of thought and released recordings of themselves performing with a full orchestra behind them – the first time I personally remember seeing and heari ..read more

“Herbs from beyond 10 fells, besides 10 streams, some graveyard soil, … the balls of 10 bull moose, the strength of 10 bull moose. Tsalkku-Nilla the Wizard can bring back lost reindeer. Tsalkku-Nilla the Great Wizard can raise the dead!” You never can tell when you’ll need to bring back a lost reindeer or raise the dead. Join this episode’s Grue-Crew – Chad Hunt, Daphne Monary-Ernsdorff, Doc Rotten, and Jeff Mohr – as they take a trip north of the Arctic Circle in search of The White Reindeer (1952). Decades of Horror: The Classic Era Episode 151 – The White Reindeer (1952) Join the Crew on t ..read more