Articles by Gabe Powers

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Per request (I know, right, Gabe gets requests?) I’ve been asked my opinion on the must sees of the Italian horror/thriller/fantasty genres. I shall be keeping this in mostly list form, without wasting any of your time with long winded reasoning, and lists will be divided first by director, then by sub-genre. I’m also attempting … Continue reading →

Per request (I know, right, Gabe gets requests?) I’ve been asked my opinion on the must sees of the Italian horror/thriller/fantasty genres. I shall be keeping this in mostly list form, without wasting any of your time with long winded reasoning, and lists will be divided first by director, then by sub-genre. I’m also attempting … Continue reading →

Quick and dirty people, I’ve got things to do, reviews to catch up on, and poisonous drugs to cram into my veins. Here’s my list of vampire movies to seek out and enjoy instead of drowning your sorrows in Twilight Saga: Eclipse this weekend, in alphabetical order.   Aswang I’ve written about this one in … Continue reading →

I love movies, and I love books, which means I love books about movies most of all. And the only thing better than a book about a movie is a movie about a movie. I don’t often purchase documentaries, but my sizably stupid video collection does feature a number of film specific documentaries, which I … Continue reading →

When Sam Raimi was officially announced as the director of Spider-Man I just about died with delight. It was especially nice coming off the news of Peter Jackson being put on The Lord of the Rings. I naively kind of thought that all my favorite horror directors were going to find their way into the … Continue reading →

And we come to the end of another decade, this time the first of a millennium. 2000 to 2009 was a splotchy era for film, following one of the strongest years of the previous decade, and probably all time – 1999. Film writers of the professional and blogging varieties have been wrapping up the best … Continue reading →

I tried very, very, very hard to come up with a horror movie, comic book or Star Wars themed joke, because they’re more my scene, but this year has ended up being personally defined by Star Trek anyway (new movie, Blu-ray releases, and new friends). Sorry it isn’t funnier, I hope the thought is enough, … Continue reading →

To assist my fellow Chewers in preparing their upcoming Halloween festivities I’m listing some particularly interesting horror films that have been overlooked by even hardened horror fans may have missed, or not even known existed in the first place.   6 Films to Keep You Awake: The Christmas Tale (aka: Cuento de navidad): A group … Continue reading →

My continuing spiral of boredom has recently moved away from revisiting childhood animated favorite to remembering the video box art of the classic ’80s VHS and Beta era. In attempting to remember a specific film I came to the CHUD message boards with nothing but a description of the box art, and I was not … Continue reading →

This is pretty much the opposite of what I promised to be working on – a series of in-depth discussions about my favorite Slasher films – but perhaps a little digression is just what I need to get back into the swing (it’s kind of exhausting getting all those screen caps).   I’d like to … Continue reading →

One of the more terrifying aspects of joblessness is late night television. These days cable stations have realized there’s enough sad people up in the middle of the night watching crap, so the actual quality of the programming is miles better than it used to be, but the ads remain atrocious. I mean, all ads … Continue reading →

Introduction: Some film genres are obvious. If you’re watching a film that takes place in the American West, is staring an international cast (likely all dubbed), and was filmed in Spain by a largely Italian crew, odds are that you can stack that film neatly into the Spaghetti Western (or Euro Western, for you PC … Continue reading →

Introduction: Some film genres are obvious. If you’re watching a film that takes place in the American West, is staring an international cast (likely all dubbed), and was filmed in Spain by a largely Italian crew, odds are that you can stack that film neatly into the Spaghetti Western (or Euro Western, for you PC … Continue reading →

Congratulations American, we’ve elected a president that isn’t a total monster. Politically speaking we should be in for a whole lot of healing over the next four years, though I’m a glass half empty guy when it comes to this kind of stuff. Still, I honestly have hope for my country’s future. It can’t possibly … Continue reading →