Free Online Horror Film Festival

I just got an email about this! It sounds awesome. Now through Halloween, visit the free Diabolical Horror Film Festival. There's no charge to watch anything on their site! They have some full short films plus trailers for new features and shorts currently making the festival rounds. Only for a limited time though so get over there quick! More full films will be up soon. The direct link to their Screening Room is right here. The full shorts will be taken down after October 31st so catch them while you can!

Review: House II: The Second Story (1987)

I was a bit disappointed with this since it didn't seem like a sequel at all. It's not really related to the first one in the slightest except it's yet another house hooked into an alternate dimension or something but this feels much more like an adventure movie. I guess it's not bad really but you get less monsters. The story focuses on a glowing crystal skull (please don't remind me of Indiana Jones 4: Don't Repeat Its Full Name) that again has nothing to do with the original movie. Instead of more cool monsters, you get a caveman bodybuilder type and some Aztec natives or something. That is a little weak in my opinion. There are a couple dinosaurs but sadly no T-Rex and then there's a large mutant rat (I think that's what it was). Bill Maher shows up (he's an actor?). The kid spends the whole movie with his decaying zombie grandpa who is pretty funny and they befriends some kind of giant caterpillar dog. A little weird there then the big bad is another decaying old dude who wants the skull for himself. Eh it was alright. I prefer the first film. Very little horror in this one.