Tag: roddypiper

During this time companies are stepping up to make content available to those of us who have committed to staying home to flatten the curve and lessen the demand on our local health services during this time of the pandemic. ...

Jack would like to read his book in peace. The trouble is, he is the superintendent of a low-rent building with inhabitants that require too much of his time. Toilets get clogged. Bulbs burn out. Toasters no longer toast. Then...

The Great Old One is being summoned into the basement of a disused apartment building and the only man who can stop Cthulhu's arrival is wrestling great Rowdy Roddy Piper. That's the basic hook on Portal To Hell!!! (yes, the...

Production has begun on Vivieno Cladinelli and Matt Watts' short film Portal to Hell with Roddy Piper as a building manager who faces off against the legendary Cthulhu. It is the battle of the century as a wrestling legend and...

Well. That escalated quickly. This Canadian genre short film project just got a huge boost today. The fine lads at Raven Banner Entertainment have become so smitten with the Portal To Hell Indiegogo campaign that they have come on board to...

It's not quite done yet - so a big thanks to artist Ghoulish Gary Pullin for allowing us to share - but take yourself a gander at wrestling icon Rowdy Roddy Piper in the first poster art for upcoming horror...

What's this? Wrestling icon and star of John Carpenter's They Live, Rowdy Roddy Piper set to do battle with The Great Old One himself? Yes, that's right, Piper will face off with Cthulhu in the upcoming short film Portal To...

Politics in genre cinema is nothing new. Long before John Carpenter took on Reagan with They Live, or Don Siegel took on the communists (or the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC, depending on how you interepret the film) with...

"I have come here to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of bubble gum."John Carpenter's They Live is probably my favorite of his post-Escape From New York, late '80s- early '90s filmography. A very obvious anti-Reagan...

Proving that just about the entire library of John Carpenter directed films is up for being remade in this decade (The Thing is coming, albeit Escape from New York has been in development hell for years,) Universal has tapped Let...