Horror Shorts – A New Column
We here at The Blood Sprayer love horror, it’s kinda our thing. But even more so than that, we love good movies. Movies are what we turn to when we need an escape from the realities of everyday life....
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Horror Shorts Featured Director – Mac Eldridge
CHEMICAL 12-D has garnered plenty of accolades, as the Audience Choice from 2009′s Chicago Citywide Film Maker’s Film Festival, to most recently the distinction of Best Short at this year’s Hudson...
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Toronto After Dark 2010: Day 1 Recap
So, as many of you who read The Blood Sprayer already know, yesterday was the inaugural night of the 5th Annual Toronto After Dark Film Festival. If you couldn’t tell from the festival preview that I...
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Toronto After Dark 2010: Day 2 Recap – Zombies, Zombies, Everywhere!
Hello fright fans! It’s time for another check-in from the Toronto After Dark Film Festival. The Blood Sprayer is here all week, and as promised, we are bringing you the scoop on everything After...
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Toronto After Dark 2010: Day 3 Recap – Space Thrillers, RoboGeishas, and...
The Front of the Line Welcome back, my fellow cine-maniacs! The third day of Toronto After Dark is now behind us, and what a day it was! The day’s programming really accentuated the unique mix of films...
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Toronto After Dark: Day 4 Recap – Eli Roth Gives Toronto Its Last Exorcism,...
The Crowd Outside The Bloor Howdy everyone! Jeff here to check in for our continuous coverage of Toronto After Dark 2010 here on The Blood Sprayer. Now, while every day has been a blast so far, last...
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Toronto After Dark 2010: Day 5 Recap – A Frightening Asian Phobia Teaches Us...
A Much Quieter Start to the Evening Welcome back to The Blood Sprayer‘s continuing coverage of Toronto After Dark 2010. It’s hard to believe that yesterday was Day 5, and we only have 3 more nights of...
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Toronto After Dark 2010: Day 6 Recap – It’s a British Invasion!
The Lineup Outside Centurion Welcome back to The Blood Sprayer‘s continuing coverage of Toronto After Dark 2010! Yesterday was Day 6 of the festival, and both films came to us from some prolific...
View ArticleToronto After Dark 2010: “5 Years Young” Bumper Finally Online!
Howdy everyone! Just wanted to check in really quick to let you all know that the TAD 2010 bumper film, apparently entitled 5 Years Young, that I mentioned in my Day 1 Recap, is now online for viewing!...
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Toronto After Dark 2010: Day 7 Recap – Medieval Witchcraft and Brutal Remakes!
The Line for I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE So, Day 7 at Toronto After Dark 2010 is now over, which means there is only one more day of films ahead of us… To be honest, it feels like just yesterday that I was...
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Toronto After Dark 2010: Day 8 Recap – Killer Tires and Human Centipedes...
One Last Night of Lines Outside the Bloor Welcome back, fright fans! This past Friday was the final night of to the Toronto After Dark 2010 Film Festival, which means that, sadly, this is my final...
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Horror Shorts Featured Director – Keitj T. Alin
Cleveland, Ohio based filmmaker Keitj T. Alin has a bright and blood-filled future in front of himself. Working the wide open film territory of Lake Erie, he has begun to amass a strong resume of short...
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Horror Shorts Featured Director – Dan Riesser
Irrational Films and director Dan Riesser deliver one helluva a face-stomping good time with NIGHT OF THE PUNKS. It’s already garnered well deserved attention from Horror Film Festivals like Scream...
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Steel City Styling: An Interview with Keitj T. Alin
In the rusted metropolis of Cleveland, the heart of Rock ‘N Roll may still be beating, but there’s very few avenues for pursuing independent film making. There are a few that are hoping to change that,...
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Biting A Chunk Out Of Punk: An Interview with Dan Riesser
Dan Riesser is hitting the festival circuit with his new short film, NIGHT OF THE PUNKS, a gritty, tongue-in-cheek battle between Punk Rockers and Satan’s Minions. Seasoned with plenty of horror,...
View ArticleBUFFALO SCREAMS Festival Schedule Announced!
Depending on whether things change or not, this is likely my last “lead-up” article on the Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival prior to my actual coverage. I hope you’ll forgive these past few posts...
View ArticleBuffalo Screams: Day 1
Great Caesar’s Ghost, I don’t even know where to begin with my coverage of BUFFALO SCREAMS. I suppose at the beginning is as good a place as any. Upon arriving at the Screaming (Screening) Room, which...
View ArticleBuffalo Screams: Day 3
Greetings, readers, Bill here with continuing coverage of the First Annual Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival, with today being “Monster Saturday.” Being the devotee of old school monster flicks that...
View ArticleBuffalo Screams: Day 4: Part 1: The Films
Greetings, readers, Bill here with some coverage of the final day of the Inaugural Buffalo Screams Horror Film Festival. I say some, because (since I have to be up at an ungodly hour to go to work...
View ArticleBuffalo Screams: Day 4: Part 2: The Awards Ceremony
What, you think just because the festival is over, I’m gonna stop talking about it? Uh-uh. I still have the awards ceremony that closed the event to talk about! Dinner was catered by My Tomato Pie, a...
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It Came From the Tubes: Internet Horror – New Short Film Series “FRACTURES”
A new group of movers and shakers, takers and filmmakers is on the prowl. Fractures is an ambitious group effort of new horror influenced short films pulled together into into one corner of the...
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Horror Shorts Featured Director – Richard Powell
In the world of horror there are few things scarier or more disturbing than the scenarios that come too close to home. Fatal Pictures and writer/director Richard Powell deliver a new short entitled...
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On the Hook: An Interview with Richard Powell & Zach Green
Writer/Director Richard Powell and Executive Producer Zach Green are making the rounds with their dark and twisted short film Worm. They were gracious enough to discuss the project and their future...
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Fateful Sunshine: Interview with screenwriter Jacob Sullivan
Many of us have reached that point in our lives: the moment where we are so fed up with not doing what we want, that we have to break free and make things happen for ourselves. In the film industry,...
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2nd Annual BUFFALO SCREAMS Line-Up Announced!
Greetings, readers. You may remember my exhaustive coverage of last year’s first annual BUFFALO SCREAMS HORROR FILM FESTIVAL. Well, the Festival is back, and Buffalo is ready to scream longer and...
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Dr. Shock, Or: How I Learned to Love Independent Movies
“Hey couch potatoes it’s me, Dr. Shock, your Midnight Mental Maniac, your Marauder of Mayhem, your Lieutenant of Lunacy, your Prince of Puns!” So began many a Saturday nights on WUPW Fox 36 in Toledo,...
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Scarlet Fry’s Junkfood Horrorfest (2007) Review
Scarlet Fry’s Junkfood Horrorfest is a collection of insanely short films (most clocking in under 10 minutes apiece) that is being released on the 18th by Chemical Burn. The movie features Calico...
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Indie Spotlight: Fatal Picture’s Familiar
The team at Fatal Pictures consisting of writer/director Richard Powell, producer Zach Green, and actor Robert Nolan came to us with a previous endeavor of theirs’ known as Worm. Worm got to me. I...
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Horror Shorts Featured Director – Mac Eldridge
BLOOD ON THE PLAIN has the aesthetics of No Country for Old Men, the art design of My Bloody Valentine, and the left-over creature design of Neon Maniacs with enough gore to sell it correctly. Mac...
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Running Down a Dream: An Interview with Mac Eldridge
Mac Eldridge is a rising talent to keep an eye on in the world of Horror. Carving a few more short film notches into his belt, you can bet even money that his designs for a feature film are well in...
View ArticleI’m not the sheep, you are: A review of Beauty Sleep
The short film Beauty Sleep describes itself as a “subversive portrait of contemporary identity loss,” and proceeds to make its point in a strange, artsy, yet effective way that is eerily interesting....
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