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Interview With Max Brooks

  It was at the 2013 Emerald City Comic Convention that I first heard about the Max Brooks project for Avatar Press Extinction Parade. This tale combines the concept of zombies, vampires, and war.  A couple of weeks ago I…

DVD Review: The Collection

The previous movie told the tale of Arkin, a petty thief who agreed to break in to one more house in order to help his ex-wife out of a financial scrape. The problem is that he isn’t the first intruder. The serial killer known simply as The Collector has booby trapped the house in order to have his way with the homes inhabitants. He’s called The Collector because he keeps one person from each invasion in a trunk. Guess how Arkin makes it to the sequel?

Comic Book Review: Dead Space Liberation

by Mike Favila, Reporter Dead Space Liberation is the third comic series in the Dead Space universe.  Its the first title to come out on Titan Books, and you can tell they’re really proud of their release. While they’ve rereleased…

Comic Book Review: Dead Space Salvage

by Mike Favila, Reporter Set between the first Dead Space game and the animated film Dead Space: Aftermath, Dead Space Salvage is the 2nd salvo in the Dead Space comic universe.  This is a reissue from Titan, reprinting the series…

Blu-ray Review: War of the Dead

In 1939, along the Russian border with Finland, Nazi Germany begins secret underground “Anti-Death” experiments on captured Russian soldiers. Two years later they abandon the experiments. All records are destroyed overnight by direct order of Adolph Hitler. The test subjects…

Comic Book Review: Thicker Than Water

By Jayden Leggett, Assistant Editor A fairytale strictly aimed at mature readers, Thicker Than Water is definitely not a fable suitable for children. For fans of B-grade slasher films however, this book should be right up their alley… Written and…

Shock Value: Let You Entertain Me

First things first, since no one had a better name for this I’m keeping Shock Value as the title for this venture into opiniondom. I’d also like to say hi to everyone that read my first article (I’ll call this…

DVD Review: Truth or Die

by Chris Learned Kane, Reporter Ever been on a roller coaster that had a particularly long lift hill?  One that just ratchets away for what seems like an inordinate amount of time, pulling you at a glacial pace to the…

Blu-ray review: Werewolf: The Beast Among Us

by Chris Learned Kane,  Reporter It could be that one of the first movies to ever really scare me was a werewolf movie (An American Werewolf In London) or it could be that weary contrarian motif in my life, but…

Movie Review: Prometheus

When filmmaker Ridley Scott returns to the evolution of sci-fi suspense, Prometheus is the natural selection to show us the creation of horror and the horror of creation. by Matt Sernaker and Kevin Gaussoin, Editors The official synopsis says “Ridley…

Movie Review: The Cabin in the Woods

Hey guys, the cellar door just flew open loudly. Let’s check it out!

by Aliki Taylor, Reviewer

Sure, we all love Joss Whedon and we’re already salivating over his upcoming blockbuster The Avengers, but Dollhouse has been off the air for a while, so what’s he been doing? It turns out he spoiled us years ago.

At the 2007 San Diego Comic-Con, Joss Whedon (Buffy, Angel, Firefly, Dollhouse) announced on stage that he and Drew Goddard (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cloverfield) were co-writing something, describing, “It is a film called Cabin in the Woods, and it is the horror film to end all horror films. Literally. And more about that, I will not say.” Nearly five years later, we now know what he meant.

(Spoiler-free review ahead!)