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By following the most successful horror films in history, Hollywood remakes ultimately have a thankless task. Some manage to re-enact the spirit of the original with new special effects and creative plot twists, while others fall alarmingly short, providing tiresome makeovers without any real thought. Here are three that worked, just in time for Halloween: Dawn of the Dead Remaking …

There is a wonderful website dedicated to Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980).  It is owned and run by film director Lee Unkrich who is best known for Toy Story 3 (2010).  The site has a lot of photos taken on the set of the film that have never been seen before.  It also showcases original artwork created by fans of …

Tuesday, April 14th marks the 11-year anniversary of the passing of one of rock’s most unique and charismatic frontmen. But, unless follow the metal or goth scenes, you might not even realize it. I’m speaking of the late, great Peter Steele: the mordant, towering, self-deprecating frontman of Type O Negative- one of heavy metal’s most ingenious and underrated bands. Emerging …

40 Years of Werewolves Happy Anniversary to The Howling April 10, 2021 This is the impact THE HOWLING has had. There have been plenty of werewolf related films over the years. The Wolfman, Ginger Snaps, Wolf Cop, Dog Soldiers (2002), Cursed, Blood & Chocolate, Late Phases, Bad Moon, Silver Bullet, Teen Wolf, An American Werewolf in London, WolfCop II, Monster …

Top Ten Horror Watch List from Midnight Releasing Midnight Releasing is known for a wide collection of horror genre treasures, so HNN recently compiled a TOP TEN of movies that you just might want to put on your watch list.   10. Without a Body SYNOPSIS: After moving to a run-down farmhouse with his two daughters, a skeptical author seeks …

Koji Shiraishi is name undoubtedly known to most fans of Japanese horror. Over the past two decades he has dabbled in numerous forms of the genre, from ghosts to zombies and from urban legends to gore-porn, all with varying rate of success. However, the sub-genre that Shiraishi has truly mastered in a way that is hard to find comparison for, …

Top Ten Horror Picks from Bayview Entertainment Bayview Entertainment is a place to consume your film fetishes and a better place to explore the horror of cinema. Here is a list for you list – enthusiasts out there, that has been compiled and features some of the finest horror flicks that has recently been released by scary dudes at Bayview. …

Horrornews.net launched it’s distribution label, “HNN Presents” last year through Bayview Entertainment and we have compiled a list of our TOP TEN films. 10. HNN Presents: Buddy Bebop Vs The Living Dead It’s 1956 and on the knife’s edge of town the dead have begun to rise, re-animated and un-living, a terrible side-effect of dangerous experimentation. Soon all hell will …

Undoubtedly, Bruce Wayne/Batman has undergone the most drastic change throughout his illustrious and brooding history of perhaps any other major comic book character. Created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger for the March, 1939 issue of Detective Comics, Batman was all but destined for fame as a morose, gothic, morally-ambiguous figure- an image that wouldn’t be fully realized until the …

Join your hosts Doc Rotten and Podcasting Rock Star & International Cosplay Queen, Vanessa Thompson for the GRUESOME GUIDE TO HORROR MOVIES FOR FEBRUARY 2021. DOc and Vanessa will take a look at the TOP 8 entries for the month, sharing film details and their excitement for these new theatrical releases and streaming delights.

You guys know that I am a slasher flick fanatic and that I take pride in the fact that I have seen just about every one of them, especially the ones that were made in the 80s. While I dig the big ones like Halloween, Friday the 13th, and Nightmare on Elm Street I also love some of the lesser …

We know zombies once walked the earth as humans, but what of humans who walk among us lacking humanity? Is an inhumane human indeed a human being? Of course, regardless of cruel disposition, a human being is not a supernatural or otherworldly being. Heartless and brutal actions may create perceptions about a human being becoming a monster or a devil, …

Since its inception as a veritable facet of culture, horror has left its macabre imprint on just about every conceivable art form, from painting to sculpture to literature to film. Even classical composers like J.S. Bach, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Giuseppe Verdi, Béla Bartók, and Richard Wagner used horror as a basis for their work: images of Hell and damnation, Armageddon, …

My novel Scorpius Rex is an homage to all those spectacular films that successfully combined classic science fiction concepts with slam bang action adventure. Being a genre aficionado, I wanted to share a list of my favorites. These are NOT presented in order of merit. Trust me, you’re guaranteed a great evening with any of these adrenaline-fueled classics.

2020 was its own horror movie. The coronavirus shut the world down. It wasn’t one single city or one single place. It’s a “global pandemic.” Although, we are still not sure some people would do okay in an apocalypse. People went out and bought all the toilet paper. Stocking up and being prepared is great but, toilet paper? But I …