Re-Animator, 1985. Directed by Stuart Gordon. Starring Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbot, Barbara Crampton, David Gale and Robert Sampson. SYNOPSIS: Herbert West, an eccentric but brilliant medical student, arrives at a new campus to embark upon a groundbreaking experiment; to re-animate the dead. HP Lovecraft, while never managing to achieve much success during his lifetime, is […]
Re-Animator and From Beyond: Stuart Gordon does Lovecraft
Tom Jolliffe double bills Re-Animator and From Beyond in honour of the late great Stuart Gordon… With sad news that another legend of film has departed this mortal coil, it seems apt to pay tribute to a horror icon. Stuart Gordon was known for a number of classic horror and sci-fi films. Fans have long […]
Movie Review – Holiday Hell (2019)
Holiday Hell. 2019. Directed by Jeremy Berg, David Burns, Jeff Ferrell, and Jeff Vigil. Starring Jeffrey Combs, Joel Murray, Jeff Bryan Davis, Amber Stonebraker, Lisa Coronado, and Ailsa Marshall. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious shopkeeper narrates four horror tales, each set during a different holiday. I’ve (somehow) watched enough “Christmas Horror” anthologies over my career to confirm, […]
Movie Review – Holiday Hell (2019)
Holiday Hell, 2019. Directed by Jeremy Berg, David Burns, Jeff Ferrell, and Jeff Vigil. Starring Jeffrey Combs, Joel Murray, Jeff Bryan Davis, Lisa Coronado, and Meagan Karimi-Nase. SYNOPSIS: On Christmas Eve, a woman enters a shop looking for a last-minute gift. She meets a mysterious shopkeeper (Combs) who tells her the horrific stories behind four […]
Exclusive Interview – Jeffrey Combs discusses his Edgar Allan Poe play Nevermore
Jason Souza chats with Jeffrey Combs about Nevermore… Jeffrey Combs’ one-man tribute to macabre literary ground breaker Edgar Allan Poe will be at the Sleepy Hollow International Film Festival in Tarrytown New York this October. The play is called Nevermore, and at its heart is the humanity of a writer whose genius has doomed him […]
Blu-ray Review – Bride of Re-Animator (1989)
Bride of Re-Animator, 1989. Directed by Brian Yuzna. Starring Jeffrey Combs, Bruce Abbott, David Gale, Claude Earl Jones, Fabiana Udenio, Kathleen Kinmont, Mel Stewart. SYNOPSIS: Herbert West and his assistant Dan Cain discover how to re-animate dead tissue from individual body parts and set about creating their own ‘perfect’ woman. Right then, now we’re talking. […]
