Bluebeard

Movie Review

Bluebeard (1972) – One Man, Seven Wives, and Way Too Much Fur

Richard Burton is Bluebeard — and honestly, he doesn't seem too upset that every woman he marries ends up... let’s say, unavailable. Then again, when you’ve got a mustache this perfect and a wife collection that ranges from a sadomasochistic nun to a trapeze artist, the real crime is not turning it into a reality show.

The film is a kind of gothic horror disguised as a 1970s fashion parade: lace, velvet, dramatic music, and more flashbacks than an entire season of Lost. The plot? He marries them, they ask questions, he gets annoyed... next!

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The Shrine

Movie Review

The Shrine is the type of film that comes complete with lots of familiar horror tropes an avid genre lover will recognize. You’ve got the mysterious disappearance of a traveler under mysterious circumstances, as well as a team of people seeking answers as to the details of those circumstances. You’ve got a remote village in a foreign land populated by strange people who raise an eyebrow or two thanks to their mysterious beliefs and practices. Scares, jumps, and mysteries abound as the protagonists attempt to make sense of it all.

Given those facts, the plotline of... Read More

Ouija

Movie Review

As kids, best friends Debbie and Laine used to play with Laine's Ouija board. It was merely a creepy little diversion since neither of them really believed the game was connecting them to "other side." So it was just the eerie idea that some ghostly figure had its invisible hand on the planchette with theirs—moving the plastic pointer from letter to letter on the board—that kept them going at it, giggling all the while. 

The rules they played by? (Laine had picked them up somewhere and said they should never be broken.) You never played alone. You never played in a graveyard. You always said goodbye at... Read More

Interview with David Black from Darkness Visible Band

Interview

David Black started his acting career by doing a role as a cult guard on horror feature movie, Cult Girls. It certainly was an experience too. David Black lived in St Kilda, Melbourne, from age 13 where he saw the early days of local Punk at the Crystal Ballroom, later known as the Seaview Ballroom. Although he was too young to be able to go into the venue, David was always loved horror related things, He had produced many Horror songs and shows and Narrated some creepypastas and also been a Cartoonist once. Darkness Visible is a breaking point to make him famous and He is currently the member of Darkness Visible Horror Band.