Audiences were left wanting more at the end of The Old Year and when Thomas Crudup’s brain-twisting followup The New Year was released six months later, they finally had all […]

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After What Are You Thankful For? was a success, writer/director Thomas Crudup began work on his passion projects, The Old Year and The New Year. If there was any doubt regarding […]

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Director Clark Bernstein’s and writing partner Jerry Skwiski’s The Twelve Slays of Christmas opened to mediocre reviews and a tepid box office, and the duo had stopped speaking to each other […]

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After the moderate success of Clark Bernstein’s Dreidel of Dread — the first film in his and writing partner Jerry Skwiski’s “Holiday Horrors” trilogy — the duo set to work on […]

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Despite the market’s lack of acceptance of Hanukkah-themed horror (both Menorah of Blood and Eight Deadly Nights failed to burn up the box office) Liberty Pictures took a chance on […]

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When asked about his directorial debut What Are You Thankful For?, Thomas Crudup told a reporter, “The only time I feel confident in my writing is when I’m writing something […]

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Director Jarvis Duncan erupted on the scene with his stylish 1979 thriller Veterans Day. In an expertly filmed opening flashback, we meet our protagonist Captain Troy Richards (played with intensity […]

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Whenever one is asked to name things that represent Halloween, a jack-o-lantern is almost guaranteed to be near the top of the list. Scowling, grimacing jack-o-lanterns are synonymous with Halloween, […]

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Columbus: The Revenge opens in typical 1980s slasher movie fashion: a killer’s POV of two teens kissing on one of the town’s Columbus Day floats. Very quickly, they’re undressed and having […]

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Several years before his first mainstream film — and the controversy surrounding it — Trigger & Sledge director Russell Kandar made his name with low-budget pornographic movies. Kandar prided himself […]

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