Mocata's Den of Horror

The Halloween season is starting to kick in again and one of the things I generally like to do during the Halloween season is read plenty of horror, specifically novelizations of horror movies.  Novelizations are pretty much the whipping boys of books.  Granted, they are geared towards cashing in on a movie for the most part, but the people who write these books are still actual writers (obviously, some are better writers than others), who will take on the thankless task of penning a novelization because it is a paying gig, when writing is frequently not a very high-paying endeavor.  Sure, you have Stephen King, Tom Clancy, and plenty of other writers who make a good living from the books they write, but many other authors still have to work regular jobs in addition to writing.  Even King himself had to do this in the earlier days of his career, until he started getting the checks for paperback royalties, then he was free to churn out numerous classic works at a dizz...

Many companies have come and gone, leaving a mark on the home video market for horror, exploitation, and general-all-around grindhouse cinema over the years, all the way back to the days of VHS, with companies like Vestron, Paragon, and Wizard through to more recent years with DVD and Blu Ray releases by companies such as Dark Sky, Shriek Show, and Severin.  One of the most revered, if least productive, to ever rear its ugly head would have to be Grindhouse Releasing.  The name says it all-- the company is focused on the glorious years of the grindhouse era, namely the '70s and '80s part. Since the company's beginning in the '90s, it has obviously worked with a "quality, not quantity" method, usually having years between releases.  In more recent years, however, the output has picked up a good bit.  This has been mainly since Grindhouse Releasing got into the Blu Ray movement.  The main reason for the increased output is likely the fact that most of these mo...