These are typically combination reviews, where I cover a franchise, a topic or some other selection of films which have a common theme. There are also interviews and general film articles to be found here. The reviews will also appear, on their own, in the appropriate place on the review indices.
Major projects
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Interviews
- Aaron B. Koontz delivers the whole Scare Package
- Aaron Mull and The Dolly Madison Murders
- Anthony C. Ferrante on ten years of ‘Sharknado’
- Bari Kang: “Close to the world, but not of the world”
- “Leech on the Beach!” – the making of Mind Leech
- Mark Stirton: More Highland than Hollywood
- Ryan Hendrick and Mercy Falls
- The Universe of Lars Henriks, Part 1: The Cthulhu Trilogy
- The Universe of Lars Henriks, Part 2: From Bearkittens to COVID, and beyond
Phoenix FearCon
- Phoenix Fear Film Festival 2006
- Phoenix FearCon 2008
- Phoenix FearCon 2012
- Phoenix FearCon 2012: The nearly picked
- Phoenix FearCon 2014
- Phoenix FearCon 2016
- Phoenix FearCon 2020
- Phoenix FearCon 2021
- Phoenix FearCon 2022
Annual Top 10’s
- Top 10 Films: 1999-2022 lists
- Top 10 Films: 2016
- Top 10 Films: 2017
- Top 10 Films: 2018
- Top 10 Films: 2019
- Top 10 Films: 2020
- Top 10 Films: 2021
- Top 10 Films: 2022
Sharks
- Shark Week 2016: Tales of the SyFy seas
- Shark and Awe: Shark Week 2017 on the SyFy Channel
- Shark Absorbers: Shark Week 2018 on the SyFy Channel
- Shark Week 2022: Chum Assembly Required
- The Sharknado franchise
Franchise reviews
- The Angel Guts series
- The Barn + The Barn Part II
- Blade-s of Gory: When vampires were cool
- Dogfight: Top Gun vs. Top Gun: Maverick
- The Enola Holmes films
- The Evil Dead trilogy
- The Friday the 13th franchise
- The Guinea Pig series (1985)
- Harry Potter
- The Hellraiser franchise
- The Hobbit trilogy
- The John Wick films
- Keep On, Carrying On
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy
- The Matrix universe
- Midnight Diner
- The Mission Impossible franchise
- The Mr. Vampire series
- The Prophecy franchise
- Romero’s Dead Trilogy
- The Sharknado franchise
- Takashi Miike’s Black Society Trilogy
- Trainspotting vs. T2 Trainspotting
- The Witchcraft series
- Yippie-ki-yay: Looking back at the Die Hard franchise
Box sets
- Brains That Wouldn’t Die collection
- Cult Classics, Collection 2
- Drive-In Cult Classics
- Drive-In Cult Classics, Volume 2
- Drive-In Cult Classics, Volume 3
- Horror Classics, Vol. 5
- Horror Classics, Vol. 7
- Horror Classics, Vol. 10
- Hostile Hauntings box-set
- Mental Maniacs box-set
- Midnight Horror Collection: Bloody Slashers
- Serial Psychos box-set
Other specials
- An alternative Top 20 Most Rewatched Action Scenes Ever
- Anthony Wong mini-festival
- Battle of the Bruces
- Bill Zebub and his films
- Censor vs. Censor
- Charles Band triple-bill
- The Color Purple vs. Tess
- Conspiracy Theories
- Dario Argento four-pack
- Donnie Yen double-bill
- Drive-In Dinner Double-Bill: I Drink Your Blood + I Eat Your Skin
- A Farewell to Tartan Video
- Film Blitz goes ape…
- The Films of Lone Gunslinger Pictures
- Firestarter (1984) vs. Firestarter (2022)
- Ghostbusters (1984) vs. Ghostbusters (2016)
- Grindhouse: On its 10th anniversary
- Halloween (1978) vs. Halloween (2007)
- Lucy Lawless vs. Lawless animals
- The Mothra Chronicles
- No, Jennifer’s Body STILL sucks…
- The One Pound Fiftieth Element
- Pacific Rim vs. Atlantic Rim
- Phoenix Philm Phight!
- Apocalypse Soon: Left Behind and The Omega Code
- Return of War of the War of the Worlds
- The Shining vs. Doctor Sleep
- Starship Troopers and 300: Fascism in action?
- Three by Besson
- Three ‘Disturbing Outsider’ films
- A tribute to Rutger Hauer: 1944-2019
- Uwe for Boll-ywood: The Competent (and other) Films of Uwe Boll
- War of the War of the Worlds
- Wasteland (2013) and Eradication (2022)
- The Weird Hype Cult of Everything Everywhere All at Once
- “You c—!” The Ten Best Cinematic Uses Of The Ultimate Taboo Word