Last night, I watched a zombie movie. Tonight, I’m watching a zombie movie. Tomorrow night, and for the next 28 nights, I will be watching a zombie movie. This is not normal. Not for me. Not for anybody. But it’s what I’ve done every year for the past five years,…
Veteran character actor Ken Foree has deep roots in Denver. He graduated from a small Catholic high school here, where he was an all-city, all-state basketball player for two years — “arguably the best player in the state of Colorado,” he says — and his appearance at this year’s Mile…
Just because nearly every classic film of note is available on disc or via streaming doesn’t mean that’s the best way to see it. There’s something electrifying about sitting in a darkened room with a few dozen appreciative fans while the action unfolds on a seventy-foot-wide screen. Denver film aficionados…
Halloween is still weeks away, but this weekend’s Mile High Horror Film Festival has enough cannibals, zombies and demons to keep you good and terrified until it’s time to bust out that slutty pumpkin costume and beg for candy. With a full slate of new, independent horror films complemented by…
When Jim Mickle took on the task of remaking Jorge Michael Grau’s We Are What We Are for American audiences, the last thing he wanted to do was film a strict remake. So his version of the cannibal-family drama ditches the urban setting and most of the plot points for…
Is there a more geek-friendly month than October? With Halloween anchoring things at the end, we get a full slate of horror goodies all month, and even the mundanes get in the spirit. Horror not your thing? It’s still an excuse to dress up as your favorite robot, hobbit or…
Zombies here. Zombies there. Zombies frigging everywhere. October in Denver means the zombies are taking over. Over the course of the month, you can expect to see more undead than you can shake a stick at, much less shoot in the head. Zombie walks. Zombie runs. Zombie pageants and zombie…
This weekend, Breaking Bad comes to an end. No more Walter White. No more Heisenberg. No more Jesse, Saul or Todd. No more of television’s best drama. That’s going to leave a gaping hole in fans’ hearts, but one lucky — and wealthy — superfan has the opportunity to own…
Fanboys (and girls!), start your engines — Joss Whedon is back on TV, and this time he brought the Marvel Universe with him. Hot off the massive success of The Avengers, Whedon has taken the helm of its spinoff series, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. The show launches him once more into…
Drone attacks. Assassination. Torture. In America’s War on Terror, these are the tools, and anyone can be designated an enemy with the stroke of a pen. The horrific scope of this endless conflict is documented in Dirty Wars, a film that digs deep into the actions of the Joint Special…
When your city is invaded by a host of demons, you’re going to need the skills of a top-notch exorcist to set things straight. Maybe even a couple. Lucky, then, that twin brothers Rin and Yukio of Blue Exorcist: The Movie are especially skilled exorcists, even if Rin is the…
Demons are bad news. They’re powerful, usually immortal — or damn close — and almost invariably pure, undiluted evil. When you’ve got demon problems, you’ve got serious problems. And when that happens, who are you going to call? Not the Ghostbusters. Yeah, they did best a demon or two, but…
Things that go bump in the night are some of my very favorite things. My movie collection contains dozens, maybe scores of horror films. A disproportionate percentage of my reading for pleasure is horror fiction, or nonfiction about horror movies or related topics. If you look back at my writing…
If you’re looking for an undead-killing experience that’s a little more visceral than shooting zombies in video games, a trip to Anderson Farms for a Zombie Paintball Hunt may be in order. You’ll jump on a wagon with a handful of other would-be ghoul slayers, grab one of the mounted…
For a kids’ movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory sure is full of weird shit. Oompa Loompas. psychedelic interludes. A seemingly psychotic Gene Wilder. And, of course, the candy — the crazy, colorful candy. “That film, at least for me, created such wild ideas about fantasy and candy,” says…
A decade of continuity for the Denver Film Society ended with the departure of programming manager Keith Garcia last month. Denver film fans who came to trust Garcia’s vision needn’t worry, though — the show will go on, and the newest addition to the DFS family is already on the…
The X-Files turned twenty this week. Despite its somewhat advanced age, the groundbreaking series has never felt more relevant. The show’s paranoid vision of government conspiracies seems positively prescient in light of revelations about NSA spying in defiance of U.S. law and custom. Its embrace of science fiction and the…
Set aside those Independence Day fantasies. When the aliens invade, our technological achievements will look primitive and pitiful next to their superior technology. Resistance will be futile: When they come for you, you’re going to have to run or die. Train for our eventual race against extinction in the Area…
Longtime Westword readers will recognize the name Jason Heller. For years, Heller was one of the paper’s premier music writers, covering the local and national music scene with insight, wit and sharp writing. These days, he’s expanded his portfolio to include national outlets such as The A.V. Club and Pitchfork…
Geekdom has a dickwolf problem. Now, most of you — even perhaps some of the geekiest among you — are asking, “What the fuck is a dickwolf, and what kind of problem is it having?” The dickwolf got its start as a throwaway line in a comic strip from the…
Before Equinox Theatre Company could bring Evil Dead: The Musical to Denver, there were a few technical problems to be solved. “The technical challenge of the show was a little bit daunting,” explains director Deb Flomberg. “You need a singing giant moose head. You need trees that rape people. You…
Theresa Mercado’s Cruel Season series — Cruel Summer, Cruel Autumn and Cruel Winter — is a labor of love. The horror movie fiend launched the series last year and has slowly grown it via word of mouth, as fans tell their friends about her killer film selections and handmade souvenirs…
