Vote for Cinema Crazed in the 2025 Rondo Awards

Posted on March 19, 2026 by Phil Hall

The 2025 edition of the Rondo Awards is upon us, and movie lovers are being invited to vote for their favorites. After being passed over from the Best Website category for too long, Cinema Crazed is a nominee for the award.

The Rondo Awards winners are determined by popular vote. This is how you can help: To vote, send an email to Taraco@aol.com and write: “Category 19: Best Website – Cinema Crazed.”

Also, we would love to see Cinema Crazed’s founder, the late Felix Vasquez Jr., inducted into the Rondo Awards’ Monster Kid Hall of Fame. To achieve that goal, use your email to Taraco@aol.com and write: “Category 30: Monster Kid Hall of Fame – Felix Vasquez Jr., founder and publisher of Cinema Crazed.”

The deadline for voting is May 1.

If you enjoy reading Cinema Crazed, please take a minute and vote for us! Thank you!!!

Vote for Cinema Crazed in the Rondo Awards

Posted on March 4, 2025 by Phil Hall

The 2024 edition of the Rondo Awards is upon us, and movie lovers are being invited to vote for their favorites. After being passed over from the Best Website category for too long, Cinema Crazed is finally a nominee for the award.

The Rondo Awards winners are determined by popular vote. This is how you can help: To vote, send an email to Taraco@aol.com and write: “Category 18: Best Website – Cinema Crazed.”

If you enjoy reading Cinema Crazed, please take a minute and vote for us! Thank you!!!

Felix Vasquez Jr. (1983-2024)

Posted on September 16, 2024 by Phil Hall

Felix Vasquez Jr., the film critic and publisher of the Cinema Crazed website, passed away today at Lincoln Hospital in the Bronx, New York, at the age of 41 after a brief illness.
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Happy Halloween from Cinema Crazed

Posted on October 31, 2023 by Cinema Crazed

It’s our favorite day of the year, and as always we’d like to kick off the last day of “Halloween Horror Month” with a partaking in our favorite music video of all time: 1983’s Thriller!

Rick Baker, Jon Landis, Vincent Price, Micheal Jackson, Ola Ray, Werewolves, Zombies, Dancing Zombies, Break Dancing Zombies, Dream Sequences, what more can you ask for?

Have a safe, happy, sinister Samhaim.

Facets and House of Movie Monsters Brings You the SUPER-HORROR-RAMA! Film Series – October 13th-15th

Posted on August 31, 2023 by Cinema Crazed

This October on Friday the 13^th Weekend, don’t miss the grassroots horror event of the year as Barry Kaufman of House of Monsters and John McDevitt of FACETS present SUPER-HORROR-RAMA!, three days of movie madness recalling the halcyon days of drive-in horror marathons!

Screenings will be held at FACETS, located at 1517 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614. Full series description and ticketing can be found on Eventbrite here. Single Tickets are $12, Triple Feature tickets are $20, and Series Passes (which include all 8 films) are $40.

This October on Friday the 13^th Weekend, experience three nights of supershockers with a focus on meta-horror, witch flicks, and video nasties!

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Thank You, Paul Reubens (1952-2023)

Posted on July 31, 2023 by Felix Vasquez

I was born in 1983, so I was at that point in time where the eighties was just on its way out as I was growing in to adolescence, but I very fondly remember a lot of the decade. I remember how much I loved the comedy of the decade mainly because I grew up around a dad who exclusively lived on a diet of comedy. So I watched Weird Al, and Ernest, and Elvira, and Alf, and Robin Williams. Most of all I watched Pee Wee Herman. Pee Wee Herman played a huge role in my life as a comedy fan and a fan of just entertainment in general. There was a period in the eighties and early nineties where Herman was just an massive icon. I didn’t really catch his stand up material.

But I was there for “Pee Wee’s Playhouse.”

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In Anticipation of “TMNT,” American Tortoise Rescue Asks Parents to Buy Toys Not Turtles

Posted on July 20, 2023 by Cinema Crazed

American Tortoise Rescue, the first national turtle and tortoise rescue, is sending a plea to parents – buy toys, not turtles. Seth Rogen, a producer on the film “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem,” saw the first Ninja Turtles movie as a youngster in 1990, the same year ATR was founded, and is expected to draw more crowds than in the past. History shows that after the release of a series of these successful Ninja Turtles movies, turtles lose their lives through the pet trade. Most of the turtles have been scooped out of the wild to be sold in pet stores or over the internet.

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