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Examining the Basket Case trilogy

November 26, 2012
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I’ve always had time for writer-director Frank Henenlotter. Anyone who mentions ‘Jess Franco’s House of Pain’ in the end title acknowledgements to one of his films (in that case Brain Damage) is all right by me. His most recent cinematic offering, Bad Biology (2008) was a glorious riot of sexual and genitalia-orientated bad taste that …

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Interview: Tim Cowles

November 23, 2012
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Tim Cowles has spent the last seven years shooting short films for the games industry and directing live TV broadcasts. Backslasher is his first directed horror feature. Read more…

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Review: Basket Case Trilogy

November 21, 2012
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away (the 1980s), films like Frank Henenlotter’s Basket Case were the staple diet of pale-faced video shop junkies looking for their next fix of weird horror mayhem. But times have changed and instead of ultra-low-budget, lovingly crafted, intelligently written midnight movies, we now get bland, mass-produced …

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Interview: Sean Haitz and Chris Potter

November 20, 2012
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Sean Haitz (producer and director) and Chris Potter (director of photography) are set to release their horror thriller, Big Top Evil, through their company, Faced Productions, late this year. They shot the entire film in famous circus town, Sarasota with volunteer actors on a budget of $20,000. Read more…