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About Author: RichardABecker
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Bugbaby, Bugbaby, Give Me Your Claw: Horror-Comedy Short Gives You Something to Remember
Posted on January 19, 2012 | No Comments“Bugbaby” is a 2010 short film produced by the folks behind Visceral Productions and it’s a horrifying hoot — the freaky little flick tells the tale of a young couple,... -
Dead of Night: Stephen King Done Right
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 4 CommentsIn a world where everyone loves Stephen King… It’s hard to be one of the critics. King himself admits he’s a sausage-maker, and I think he’s a damn... -
Queen Mary Dark Harbor 2011: Better Just Got Better
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 2 CommentsAs regular readers might recall, last year’s launch of the new Queen Mary haunt event, Dark Harbor, was a quantum leap upward in quality from the venerable attraction’s old... -
I Saw What You Did Last Friday At Shriekfest, or I Watch Horror Movies Where Nobody Knows My Name
Posted on October 4, 2011 | 1 CommentA review of “The Feed” at the 2011 Shriekfest Horror Film Festival. Halloween season 2011 has started out very strangely for this correspondent, having managed to miss critiquing a horror... -
SoCal Para-Con: Ghosts and Demons at the Biltmore
Posted on September 11, 2011 | 3 CommentsWe all know the Biltmore Hotel (now the Biltmore Millennium Hotel) in Downtown Los Angeles is one of the locations where the beloved “Ghostbusters” was shot back in the ‘80s,... -
Walk In Closet: The Horrors of Closet Land
Posted on June 27, 2011 | No CommentsThe Visceral Company is a horror theater production company, and even though their current show — playwright Radha Bharadwaj’s CLOSET LAND — is not about zombies (as their previous play,... -
More Frightening Than Witches: Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible”
Posted on April 21, 2011 | 1 CommentThere are horrors in this world that aren’t supernatural or science fictional, but a lot scarier than we’d wish. Arthur Miller’s THE CRUCIBLE (playing through May 15 at Theatre Banshee,... -
“Re-Animator: The Musical” A Gore-Spurting Good Time
Posted on March 16, 2011 | No CommentsNow playing in a limited engagement at the Steve Allen Theatre in Hollywood. -
The Revenants: An Intimate Evening with Drama and Death
Posted on March 16, 2011 | 2 CommentsYes, it’s a play with zombies… with zombies, but not about zombies. THE REVENANTS (playing through March 19 at the Whitmore-Lindley Theatre Center in North Hollywood, www.thevisceralcompany.com) is a mature... -
Nothing Is Very Bad: Get Ready for “Spider Baby” Live On Stage
Posted on October 7, 2010 | No CommentsCalled “the maddest story ever told,” the freakish and black-humored 1968 film SPIDER BABY is a cult classic that launched Sid Haig into B-movie stardom and was one of the... -
Shriekfest 2010 Provokes Thoughts and Shock
Posted on October 6, 2010 | 1 Comment(Full disclosure: This correspondent didn’t get to Shriekfest 2010, held at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood, until the closing evening — Sunday, October 3. So this is only a quick snapshot... -
Rating the Mazes at Knott’s Halloween Haunt 2010
Posted on October 6, 2010 | 2 CommentsBy now, you’ve already gone to Knott’s Halloween Haunt (aka Knott’s Scary Farm) for 2010. Right? Right?! Well, if you haven’t, get creeping now for the world’s biggest Halloween party. ... -
The best park you’ve never seen: The Frights and Chills of the Queen Mary at Dark Harbor
Posted on October 5, 2010 | 2 CommentsThink you’ve been to the Queen Mary Halloween event in Long Beach? Think again! pening night was sparsely populated for the 2010 Queen Mary Dark Harbor event, but the people... -
Your turn to vote in the “Halloween Horror Nights – Rob Zombie Film Competition!
Posted on September 3, 2010 | No CommentsOnline voting has opened to the public in the Universal Halloween Horror Nights Rob Zombie Film Competition. A panel of industry judges led by Rob Zombie himself has narrowed the... -
Creepy Questions for Felicia Day and the cast of “The Guild”
Posted on October 29, 2009 | 5 CommentsWe took a little time out from the hectic horrors of Halloween week to visit with the cast and crew of the hit web series, THE GUILD, and interview some of the stars -- Felicia Day (Codex), Sandeep Parikh (Zaboo), Vincent Caso (Bladezz) -- and ace director Greg Benson. With the debut of their own epic GUILD HALLOWEEN SPECIAL this month, what are their thoughts about the darkest holiday of the year?
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