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09/23/2026

09/23/2026

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of filming my Sci-Fi/Horror film PLAGUERS, I'm making a 25-tape limited run of PLAGUERS "Japanese Style" VHS for Video Store Day. They are $35 shipped.

There will also be "Out of this World" Bundles available with original cast and crew T-shirts, Blu-rays, DVD, original vintage stock mini-posters (foreign and domestic) and more.

The tapes will ship immediately after Video Store Day on Oct. 17 but I am taking preorders now. PM if interested, thanks!

09/16/2026

Pleased to announce our next festival date for TRANSYLVANIA TAPES.

The movie will play on October 16 as an Official Selection at the Second Annual Red Fern Reaper Film Festival in Tahlequah, OK. This is a very cool - and very indie friendly - fest with a lot of great filmmakers involved.

Thanks to Darrell Strickland of 𝔖𝔱𝔯𝔦𝔠𝔨𝔫𝔶𝔫𝔢 𝔉𝔦𝔩𝔪𝔰 - Official Group 💀🩸🎬 for selecting our movie. Very excited about this one!

09/10/2026

On October 10, I'll be back at The Autry hosting my "Weird Western" film series. This time, we're screening Clint Eastwood's PALE RIDER, one of the few Eastwood films to touch on the supernatural. The "Weird Western" series is done in conjunction with my book TERROR IN THE DESERT: DARK CINEMA OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST and there will be copies of the book available for purchase in the Autry bookstore after the screening (and possibly some NEON NIGHTMARES too).

Hope to see some of my L.A. friends there!

Ticket purchasing and other info can be found below:

Venture into the shadowy side of the West with Pale Rider (1985). Blending the grandeur of the classic Western with the eerie atmosphere of a ghost story, Clint Eastwood's haunting tale of a mysterious preacher is the perfect way to usher in the Halloween season—where justice arrives like an appar...

09/04/2026

Big PLAGUERS news coming soon!

08/27/2026

TBT: July 2018, release event for my first book, TERROR IN THE DESERT: DARK CINEMA OF THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST, at West Hollywood's famous Book Soup on the Sunset Strip. It was a scorching hot that day (kind of like it is now!). Launching TERROR IN THE DESERT at Book Soup was meaningful to me, as my first time in the store was in 1996, when it was used as a location for KISS THE GIRLS. They kept the store open during the shoot and I bought a few books that night.

08/18/2026

Had a great screening of TRANSYLVANIA TAPES this past Sunday at Festivalul de Film Lună Plină! Thanks again to everyone who came out and to the festival for showing our movie.

08/14/2026

English language Interview with TRANSYLVANIA TAPES Producer Josephina Sykes about our upcoming Romanian premiere at Festivalul de Film Lună Plină!

Transylvania Tapes, a mix of the found footage and Eurohorror genres directed by filmmaker Brad Sykes, will have its Romanian premiere at the Lună Plină/ Full Moon Horror and Fantasy Film Festival in Biertan on August 16. The film, shot entirely in Bucharest and Sighisoara, follows Mara Enescu,...

08/13/2026

TRANSYLVANIA TAPES will be playing at Festivalul de Film Lună Plină (The Full Moon Film Festival) at the CINEMA KARLOFF theater this Sunday, August 16 at 6 PM.

08/06/2026

TBT: 29 summers ago, I got the chance to work on a Full Moon movie in Romania directed by Jeff Burr. It was my first time out of the US and I knew it would be a unique experience. What I didn't know is that I would meet my future wife, Josephina, on the set (a Western town built in the middle of a forest). She was in her third year of film school and I was a recent film school grad, and we had plenty in common.

It's always been a dream of ours to make a movie in Romania, and after lots of false starts, we finally made TRANSYLVANIA TAPES last year. And in less than week, on August 16, the movie will be playing at the FULL MOON FILM FEST in Transylvania. Definitely feels like a full circle...or full moon...moment.