In my recent two-part post featuring an interview with James Gunn (scroll down to read it), he spoke a fair bit about the much-loved/lamented Dawn of the Dead remake that he penned, specifically those pesky running zombies. (Personally, I think that if you can suspend your disbelief towards the undead existing in the first place, […]

I love the trailer for the upcoming Day of the Dead remake. Not because it’s remotely promising, but because it pretty much sums up in a couple of minutes everything that’s wrong in the genre, from the asinine one-liners, to the pointless sex scenes, to miscast pretty faces, to the cheese-ball action scenes to the… […]

Four the third year in a row, Rue Morgue is up for some nods in the Rondo Awards best of 2006 list. Nominated in four categories this year for best magazine, best article (Issue 57 - Apocolyspe ‘76 by John W. Bowen, Tom Murray, Jovanka Vuckovic and Rodrigo Gudiño from our Omen retrospective), best horror […]

Now back to our irregularly scheduled James Gunn interview, with more hot Q&A action taken from an unused portion of a chat I had with him prior to the release of Slither last year (scroll down for the first half). I divided the interview here because it flows much better and quickly segues into non-Slither […]

As you probably know, both Rue Morgue staff and Rue Morgue readers (via a message board poll) chose Slither as the best horror film of 2006. The Descent was a close second – for both groups – but the staff felt Slither was just bit more special for demonstrating so much ambition in bringing back […]

I hate the Academy Awards. I almost never agree with thier bullshit decisions about what’s best in cinema. Witness the following examples that illustrate my point:
Exhibit A: Stanley Kubrick never won an Oscar in his entire career.
Exhibit B: Neither has Ridley Scott (for Best Director). You know, the director of Alien, Blade Runner, Legend, Thelma […]

Well, it’s a rare thing to see horror represented at the Oscars – not that we should care, given the amount of lame like Crash, Titanic, Forrest Gump and A Beautiful Mind that’s won Best Picture – but at least we can count on a strong showing for the bizarro Oscars, the Razzies. Nominations were […]

My last post was an obituary notice, so since I seem to be on an unfortunate roll with that, I figured I would write a little about the recent passing of my Uncle Larry “Sam” Huston. Sam succumbed to his battle with a stomach tumor Thursday morning on January 18th. I knew he was ill […]

In my ongoing quest to procrastinate, I decided to work up a post about Slither, so I checked out Slither writer/director James Gunn’s MySpace page. The dude is hilarious, and I recommend reading his blog entries, especially if you’re a fan of his work, as there are all kinds of pics and bits of info […]

Back when I lived in Edmonton, I was a member of FAVA (Film And Video Arts — Alberta), the film collective that allowed me to learn about filmmaking and shoot a bunch of shorts. I’m still a member, actually, and so they asked me to contribute to the annual Favascope magazine (which I edited two […]