“They’re baaaaaaack…” From its debut in February of 2022 , the bi-annual fright-fest known as “CreepIECon” (the IE capitalized for the Inland Empire region of SoCal), returns every February and September (as “CreepIECon Aftermath”) for SoCal residents (and a few out-of-staters) to partake in their shared love of horror and the supernatural. It’s Halloween in February, or…
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“Re-Animator” (1985) is still kicking and screaming after 35 years…
Forbidden Treat for Halloween. In the fall of 1985, I remember watching famed TV movie critics Roger Ebert & Gene Siskel reviewing a new horror movie called “Re-Animator” (based very loosely on H.P. Lovecraft’s 1922 serialized story, “Herbert West, Re-Animator”) which was apparently so grisly they could only show a couple of very short, innocuous…