Ohio producer/director J.R. Bookwalter has launched an Indiegogo pre-ordering campaign for an upcoming "25th Anniversary Ultimate E...

I try to spread the regional horror gospel wherever I can, and earlier this month Country Living magazine (which is published by a local ...

Straight out of Wadsworth, Ohio, The Wednesday Children languished in obscurity after a few screenings in 1973 until it was rescued by ...

Here's the 2007 trailer for Heartland of Darkness , a lost Ohio horror film originally titled Blood Church/Fallen Angels .

While interviewing Beyond Dream's Door director Jay Woelfel a few weeks ago, I learned about yet another "lost" Ohio horror...

I recently completed a feature for Country Living magazine on Ohio-based horror films, including details on this odd black comedy from Ci...

I'll be interviewing director Jay Woelfel for an upcoming article on Ohio horror films (scheduled to appear in the October issue o...

Filmed in New Jersey but set in Ohio, this goofy but entertaining slasher film was made by two well-known Buckeye State attorneys, and fea...

Just a reminder that the Cinema Wasteland event is this weekend in Cleveland, and this fall's show features a number of important re...

 As part of our ongoing coverage of Blood Feast 's 50th anniversary, here's an item from the summer of 1964. From The Toledo B...

By far, the most popular post I've ever written for this blog was the Creeping Unknowns list of rare and lost regional horror films. ...

Way back in 2010, we first wrote about The Wednesday Children , an Ohio-made religious horror film that, as it turned out, was directe...

If you ever wondered where I got the title for this blog, this is it: J.R. Bookwalter's lavish Super 8 zombie opus.

Here's another one from Ohio producer J.R. Bookwalter. This 16mm production was directed by Jon Kilough, and features director/scr...

If you wondered where this blog picked up its catchy title, you can thank this shot-in-Akron film (and the Billy Idol song, too, I guess....

While digging through some files a while back, I stumbled across a lengthy feature story about Ohio-based director/producer J.R. Bookwalt...

Here's a kind of funny video: a local news report about Mogadore, Ohio-based filmmaker J.R. Bookwalter from 1990. J.R. posted it on his...

Have we mentioned lately that Code Red is rapidly becoming one of our favorite DVD labels? In addition to unleashing Slithis last month, th...

The tax shelter laws that existed in the U.S. prior to 1986 encouraged a lot of professionals to invest in low-budget film projects, in hope...

I present to you actress and Lima, Ohio, native Lucy Grant (nee Winegardner), intrepid co-star of both Invasion of the Blood Farmers (1972)...