Before being kicked out of 2011’s Cannes Film Festival, writer/director Lars Von Trier was no stranger to controversy. He has received as much acclaim for his art house films as he has criticism. Perhaps his most violent work to date is 2009’s Antichrist. By Von Trier’s own admission, Antichrist was supposed to be a horror…

During the final days of August, I attended Fan Expo Canada in the city of Toronto. This large convention caters to Horror, Sci-Fi, Comics and Gaming – this year it was a 4 day event. The Guest of Honor was Robert Englund and what caught me by surprise was how popular Mr. Englund is. Most…

I have been contemplating this lately… most film critics (and even many fans) find little artistic value in slasher films, which are generally considered thoughtless, shocking and morbid for mere entertainment’s sake. For me they always had a little more value. I posed a few thoughts and observations to Victor Miller, the creator of Jason…

Here is something that has bothered me for many, many years. In Halloween 1978 there seems to be a major continuity problem and it all revolves around the theft of Michael’s Mask. I laid out the events of October 31st in a practical time line and here is what I came up with: Oct 30th …