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Day 4 of my 13 Horrifically Silly Days of Halloween…David J. Fernandes, director and producer

Welcome, welcome to my first filmmaker guest for the 2022 13 Days, David Fernandes. He’s a Hamilton filmmaker at that! Check out our interview in the video below: https://youtu.be/oGmG4qTu5lw The Space Zombies: 13 Months of Brain-Spinning Mayhem! DVD includes the hilarious horror-comedy short The Scary Bitch Project as one of it’s MANY special features (or download it on its own

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Day 3 of my 13 Horrifically Silly Days of Halloween…horror and genre author Marcus Hawke

Welcome back…and let’s welcome horror author Marcus Hawke…mwa-ha-ha-ha… Tell me about The Miracle Sin—what’s it all about and what inspired this story? Where can readers find the book? I can answer that question by asking another: Have you ever wondered if there’s more to life? If we are destined for something great, part of a divine plan rather than just subjects

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Day 2 of my 13 Horrifically Silly Days of Halloween…children’s author Sue Schmitt, illustrator Luke Flowers, and a special “monster” guest

A BIG welcome to my guests today, who collaborated on the children’s picture book That Monster on the Block. Check out the video below… https://youtu.be/7di2SJwvPVo WIN a SIGNED COPY of “That Monster on the Block”! … We are giving away 3 copies to celebrate the spooky season with all our monster friends! Enter to win a copy by sharing/retweeting the

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Doing Day 1 of my 13 Horrifically Silly Days of Halloween early so you have all you need to know about the Toronto After Dark Film Festival Line-up (opening October 19th!)

TORONTO AFTER DARK 2022 LINEUP ANNOUNCED! Scary supernatural tale PREY FOR THE DEVIL, killer doll story LIVING WITH CHUCKY, Neil Marshall’s latest Sci-Fi Horror THE LAIR and lots MORE! Toronto After Dark Film Festival is thrilled to officially unveil its lineup of exciting new horror, sci-fi and action films that will screen this Oct 19-23, 2022 at the city’s Scotiabank

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Toronto After Dark Film Festival Line-up for 2022 announced!

(From the TADFF site:) Toronto After Dark Film Festival is thrilled to officially unveil its lineup of exciting new horror, sci-fi and action films that will screen this Oct 19-23,2022 at the city’s Scotiabank Theatre! Included in our 16th Annual Showcase of new thrills and chills from around the world are 10 Incredible Feature Films plus 26 Amazing Shorts! Features

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C.H.U.D., 1984

C.H.U.D., 1984 (directed by Douglas Cheek, produced by Andrew Bonime)—very spoilery, btw. Ah, the 80s. The decade of the deep divide between the haves and have-nots.  When the film opens, a woman, Flora Bosch (Laure Mattos, real-life wife of co-star Daniel Stern), walks her Westie down a gritty New York street. As she passes a manhole, a creature drags her and the

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The Creeping Terror, 1964

From Metropolitan International…Starring “Vic Savage” and Shannon O’Neil…Produced and Directed by A.J. Nelson (aka Vic Savage, which is also not a real name)…for today’s B-movie feature, I bring you “The Creeping Terror”, released in 1964! The film opens at night, POV through the windshield of a driving car, and we can hardly see anything except whatever the headlights hit. Then, like

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Monster A-Go Go, 1965

Okay, so I have to say, right off the top, A LOT about this film—the kinds of filmmaking errors made, the convoluted plot, and especially the scriptwriting—totally remind me of the collected works of Edward D. Wood Jr. Directors Bill Rebane and later Hershell Gordon Lewis (uncredited—he’s the guy who pieced the footage Rebane got before running out of money

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Dave Battams review of “The Scary Bitch Project”

DAVE BATTAMS HAS REVIEWED SPACE ZOMBIES! DVD EXTRA, SHORT FILM THE SCARY BITCH PROJECT Ye Olde Scribe here. You might remember me from my rave review of the super fantabulous SPACE ZOMBIES: 13 MONTHS OF BRAIN SPINNING MAYHEM! DVD. Today, I come to you with my tail between my legs, head hung with shame over the realisation that my review

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REPTILICUS, 1961

Reptilicus, 1961 Danish/American film (directed by Poul Bang, Denmark version, released in 1961, Sidney W. Pink in the US for American International Pictures, of course, released in the States in 1962 after being extensively reworked). Highly recommended for fans of old monster movies with giant anythings in them, lovers of the cheesiest of cheesy special FX (as one critic put it:

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