Consistency and reliability should be regarded as the highest of virtues, especially in an environment and culture as notably conservative, preservationist, and enthralled by its own mythology as the death metal scene writ large. The prominence and relevance of regional scenes is only as strong as its most vital representatives,
Plot: dance the night away at Disco Transylvania in Transylvania. At the peak of disco in the late seventies Michael Jackson, Donna Summer, Sister Sledge, the Bee Gees, and ABBA all had chart-topping albums. Saturday Night Fever (1977) brought disco culture to the masses, and Van Nuys Blvd. (1979)
Plot: who or what is prowling and killing in the Amsterdam canals? How do you follow up your most successful movie? How do you even approach such a venture after nigh on 40 years? Do you do a sequel or a remake now that people only vaguely remember the name?
Plot: hell hath no fury like a woman trapped, cornered, and scorned. Have you also secretly pined for that Die Hard (1988) spin-off wherein a nubile Lucy McClane fights bad guys in her apartment? Everly answered the call and can charitably be summarized as, “Salma Hayek fights bad guys
Within the larger scope of the nascent Tampa, Florida death metal explosion of the early 1990s Fort Lauderdale’s Monstrosity has sturdily remained hidden despite pooling talent and sharing membership with its more popular brethren. Whereas Cannibal Corpse, Cynic, Death, Deicide, Malevolent Creation, Morbid Angel, and Obituary all went on
Plot: the souls of sinners are tortured in Hell for eternity. After the international success of Suzzanna: Buried Alive (2018) Anggy Umbara hasn’t exactly been resting on his laurels. In between the horrors that he’s famous for he has dabbled in comedy, drama, and romance. Siksa Neraka (or
Plot: dying aristocrat infects sleepy Méxican village with a terrible malediction. Ibulong mo sa hangin (or Whisper it in the wind, released across of the English-speaking world as either Blood Of the Vampires or Curse Of The Vampires) stands forever enshrined as the greatest Pinoy gothic horror ever produced.
What an absolute mindfuck it must be to be a member of Morbid Angel these days. The band has a legendary trio of early albums and the stint with its second, more respectable frontman has been fragmented and beset by problems (both external and internal) from just about every angle,
Plot: sleepy rice-farming village is haunted by a carnivorous ghost. บ้านผีปอบ (or Ghost House, Haunted House, or The House Of Pop in some international translations, all of which roughly convey the same) is the first part in Thailand’s longest running horror franchise and truly humble in
Plot: forty-something umbrella salesman has a midlife crisis. Hilarity ensues! It speaks to the infinite wisdom and incredible foresight of Joël Séria as a filmmaker that he never so much as attempted to top his subversive Don’t Deliver Us From Evil (1971). Such a thing was simply not
Plot: novice nun has a brush with supernatural horrors… and lives! Hermana Muerte (or Sister Death) is the long-awaited (but something we honestly quietly forgotten about) prequel to Spanish surprise horror hit Verónica (2017) and apparently an attempt to turn it into a universe of sorts. To its credit
Plot: what horrible fate befell the late Dr. Jeronimus Hauff? 5 tombe per un medium (or Five Graves For A Medium, released in North American grindhouses and drive-ins as the pulptastic Terror-Creatures From the Grave) is not so much a minor entry as a more routinely uninspired one