Robert Freese
@robfreese.bsky.social
Writer for The Phantom of the Movies’ Videoscope and It Came From Hollywood. I also write novels, movie tie-ins and screenplays.
My interview with Ron Bonk is available now at rue-morgue.com.
Recollections from a Rotting Brain: An Exclusive Interview with SRS Cinema’s Ron Bonk - Rue Morgue
RUE MORGUE columnist Rob Freese compiles the ultimate guide to the literary work of a horror movie legend.
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Fawesome Horror categorizes Spandexorcist as “Campy Goofy, Bizarre.” Accurate. Come for the Camp, stay for the Bizarre!
Spandexorcist is out on Blu-ray, DVD and streaming today! 6.9.2026
My new blog about writer John A. Russo is up now on Rue Morgue online.
Recollections from a Rotting Brain: John Russo in Print – The Ultimate Bibliography - Rue Morgue
RUE MORGUE columnist Rob Freese compiles the ultimate guide to the literary work of a horror movie legend.
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Spandexorcist, featuring Michelle Bauer, Cindy Hinds, Ellen Mildred, Trevor Payer and Abbey Flockton is streaming now on Full Moon Features! Directed by Brett Kelly! Written by yours truly! Let’s get sweaty!!!
What an absolute blast it was to watch Spandexorcist with a crowd. I had such a great night. I also wonder if the iguanas were fed…
My chat with author Nick Cato about his new book Dark Dreams: An ObsessiveLook at Romano Scavolini’s Nightmare is available now on Rue Morgue.
Recollections From A Rotting Brain: Author Nick Cato Talks "DARK DREAMS: AN OBSESSIVE LOOK AT ROMANO SCAVOLINI'S 'NIGHTMARE'" - Rue Morgue
Experience the 1981 cult favorite slasher through the eyes of its most dedicated fan in the new book from Headpress.
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I watched Spandexorcist and had the best time with it. (I knew all the jokes and I still laughed.) It is quite the experience seeing the words you wrote brought to life for the first time. Kudos to all the folks who helped put this picture together. (The cast was amazing!) weird girls rule!
My copies of Spandexorcist arrived today! I wrote a movie…and Michelle Bauer is in it! I’m pretty excited!
The new issue of Medusa Fanzine just arrived from France! It includes a combination of my two interviews with filmmaker J.D. Feigelson (Dark Night of the Scarecrow) and covers his entire career. The layout is amazing! 20 oversized pages bursting with color. Thank you, Didier!
My first post of 2026 is up on rue-morgue.com now- my friend, the late, great Sam Sherman. rue-morgue.com/recollection...
Recollections From A Rotting Brain: Remembering Drive-In Great Sam Sherman - Rue Morgue
The legendary producer, writer and distributor behind Al Adamson's off-kilter horror classics was a true maverick of independent cinema and a devoted movie fan.
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The “Coward’s Corner” is ready for tonight’s screening of John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982). No matter what the storm brings this weekend, it’ll be a cake walk compared to what the boys at Outpost 31 had to deal with back in the winter of ‘82.
I knew I watched a lot of Carry On last year, but I’m surprised my most watched actor wasn’t Kenneth Williams or Sid James.
New Review: DR GIGGLES (1992) "An escapee from a lunatic asylum, convinced he's a doctor, returns to his hometown and begins killing teenagers. It isn’t hard to see why this potential franchise was given a do-not-resuscitate order." www.hysteria-lives.co.uk/Dr-Giggles.h...
I hope everyone enjoys Christmas as much as Vincent enjoys getting into the tree! Happy Holidays!
THE SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT CONTROVERSY! "Protesting Elves, a killer Santa, & the shadowy potential role of a soft drink giant in the downfall of the most controversial holiday horror film ever made. A sometimes surreal true-life tale of festive fear ..." www.hysteria-lives.co.uk/silent_night...
That time Vincent said he wanted to be in one of my videos. (He was a good sport!)
The All-Night Video Guide: Slashers 70’s & 80’s is now $11.95 for a limited time!
The All-Night Video Guide: Slashers 70's & 80's
examines how the slasher film searched for its identity in the 1970s, until maturing into what we consider a "slasher movie" today in the 1980s. After countless hours consuming knife-kill flicks, Rob ...
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A new review for the slasher book. Thank you!
Multi-Genre Music, Sound & Film Webzine
<p><em>The All-Night Video Guide: Slashers 70’s & 80’s</em> is a glorious dive back into the golden age of slash ‘n’ stalk films. Instead of an in-depth/ definitive guide to the genre/ period, this is...
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All the It Came From Hollywood books are 40% off this weekend at Makeflix! Includes the Salute to Slashers (Book 2), our giant Arch Hall Jr. book (Book 5) and our look at the year 1984 (Book 6). All the novelizations and Colossals are also in the sale and signed copies of my slasher book!
More Black Friday Weekend Deals
Sale prices valid 12AM EST 11/28/25 thru 12AM EST 12/02/25. Quantities limited.
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My new blog for Rue Morgue- looking at film fandom past and present in Italy with cinema scholars, Fabio and Luna Chimenti!!!
Recollections from a Rotting Brain: International Fandom with Fabio and Luna Chimenti - Rue Morgue
The husband-and-wife film journalists from Italy's "NOCTURNO" reveal the state of the genre in the country that gave us Argento, Bava and Fulci.
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My interview with the Scholars of Slash at The Hysteria Continues (Justin, Erik, Joseph and Nathan) is available now on Rue Morgue. rue-morgue.com/slasher-flic...
Recollections from a Rotting Brain: Talking Slasher Flicks with "The Hysteria Continues!" Podcast - Rue Morgue
Rob Freese sits down with the popular podcasters to look back at the masked killers and maniacs who painted the 1980s red!
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From the producers of the original Silent Night, Deadly Night and Anthony Masi, the producer of my novelization, here comes an all new movie this December. youtu.be/wIi7YOvQe7s?...
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT 🎅🏼🪓🩸 | Official Trailer | In Theaters December 12
YouTube video by Bloody Disgusting Horror
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My new blog is up on Rue Morgue. I finally caught up with the author of the Halloween novelization, Richard Curtis! (Did you know a fully illustrated version of the novel was rereleased a couple years ago? I didn’t either!)
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: The Curious Case Of The "HALLOWEEN" Novelization – A Conversation With Author Richard Curtis - Rue Morgue
Published months after the release of John Carpenter's groundbreaking film, the 1979 novelization expanded Michael Myers' backstory with Celtic folklore.
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I was on this episode! I had so much fun! Thank you, Hysterical Continues!!!
The Hysteria Continues@thc-podcast.bsky.social · 10mo agoVideocast 008: Drive-In Massacre (1976) Patreon: patreon.com/posts/videocast-008-in-140113940 YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=ExtbWgHpip0 Audio-only version available on all good/bad podcatchers! Thank you to one and all for your continued support! The Hysteria Continues Team
Film producer Sam Sherman passed away on Monday. Sam was great. He called me out of the blue one day, “Rob Freese? This is Sam Sherman, president of I-IP.” I always loved talking to him. I was on the editorial team who helped put his book, “When Dracula Met Frankenstein” together. Rest now, sir.
“Rob, what exactly do you do at the library?” Well, I show awesome movies and remind people how much fun you can have going to movies. I also concoct cheap gimmicks for the movies I show. Tomorrow is Dana Cannon’s Moving Violations scratch off game. 27% accurate- if you drive a puppet stage.
The trailer for Spandexorcist is available!!! I wrote this!!! youtu.be/4kS7aqvS798
Spandexorcist trailer
YouTube video by Gelatin Skelatin and Gray Chance Films
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Two months from today, Santa will arrive before Halloween. Silent Night, Deadly Night: The Official Novelization of the Original Movie is coming to paperback from Titan Books on October 21, and preorders are now open from your favorite book retailers. This year, Naughty season starts early.
