Author Archives: Dave Gammon

Book Review: Off the Rails and Other Tales – Author Jason L. Liquori

Posted on 05/21/2012 by Dave Gammon

OFF THE RAILS AND OTHER TALES
By Jason L. Liquori

A collection of delightfully depraved bone chilling terror is summarized by title as follows:

BANKER’S HOURS: A band of retired bank robbers plot one last heist and tend not to lichen they get more than what they’d bargained for.

NIGHT CRAWL: Walter, Harry and Rachel roam the dense brush in search of refugee in a remote cabin from the unearthly creepy crawly beetle like creatures… More

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Interview: Marilyn Burns (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

Posted on 05/14/2012 by Dave Gammon

TRAIL BLAZING WITH A TEXAS LEGEND An Interview with Marilyn Burns

DAVE GAMMON: I’d first like to extend a very warm welcome to scream queen and legend Ms. Marilyn Burns to Horrornews.net. For oblivious fans of the terror genre of course you’d played the dashing lead in the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Sally. No stranger to Tobe Hooper productions compare and contrast in playing the lead role of Sally and the 1977’s Eaten Alive character… More

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Interview: Justin McConnell (The Collapsed, The Eternal)

Posted on 05/09/2012 by Dave Gammon

HORRORNEWS: Welcome my very special guest Mr. Justin McConnell to Horrornews.net. It’s been well documented your trials and tribulations while making The Collapsed. What gives an independent producer and director the intestinal fortitude to persevere when arguably many others would have simply given up?

JUSTIN McCONNELL: Ah, ‘Intestinal Fortitude’. That also happens to be a good song by Nuclear Rabbit. In all honesty, I just think I’ve always had an attitude in which… More

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Interview: Teri Mcminn (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)

Posted on 05/07/2012 by Dave Gammon

HOOKED ON AN ICON AN INTERVIEW WITH TERI MCMINN

DAVE GAMMON: I just wanted to extend a very warm welcome in a much anticipated interview Ms. Teri McMinn with Horrornews.net. Director Tobe Hooper had first discovered you in Austin, Texas in 1973 after seeing a local news paper article. Reflecting back on that fateful evening then flash forward to a precarious predicament of in the clutches of one Leatherface, did you have any idea at… More

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Book Review: Pazuzu’s Girl – Author Rachel Coles

Posted on 05/07/2012 by Dave Gammon

Pazuzu’s Girl
By Rachel Coles

Pazuzu and Lugal are human incarnates of Mesopotamia with unearthly powers. An ancient tablet of destiny is stolen from the goddess Lamashtu. As a result the two are exiled to exist among humans as their infinite sentencing.

Gradually indication the two with supernatural powers can no longer keep up with their cleaver contemporary disguise. As nosey neighbours, meddlesome community members and the school system notice that something is dreadfully… More

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Book Review: Woman Scorned – Author Angela Alsaleem

Posted on 05/05/2012 by Dave Gammon

Woman Scorned – Angela Alsaleem

Camilla is raped and brutally murdered at the hands of a corrupt police officer. She wakes up dead, oblivious to the fact she’s crossed over into another realm of existence. As she collects herself, consumed in despair and distraught she begins to walk along the road side, hauntingly closer to her ultimate fate.

Libitina is an aspiring mortician in training and steals Camilla’s body from a nearby hospital morgue. Her… More

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Interview: John Russo (Night of the Living Dead)

Posted on 05/02/2012 by Dave Gammon

MACABRECON RENANIMATED AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN RUSSO

Generations of fright fiends have been struck with terror at the hands of conceptual genius John Russo. Co-Creator and collaborator of Night of The Living Dead, where our current zombie phenomenon had all began; Mr. Russo sheds some light on a dark genre that chills us to the bone yet captivates us, glued to our seats. I caught up with Mr. Russo recently while taking a break in… More

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When Worlds Collide 2012 – ‘Niagara Falls Comic Can/MacabreCon’

Posted on 05/01/2012 by Dave Gammon

WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE 2012 NIAGARAFALLS COMIC CON/MACABRECON COMES TO NIAGARA FALLS, ONTARIO CANADA

Reflecting back on my humble upbringing, it isn’t any mystery how my interests of today evolved. Life wasn’t easy growing up in the small rural town of Seagrave, Ontario. Our closest neighbour was over a kilometre away. With three older sisters, few friends and a bit of an eccentric misfit in school I was constantly in search of an escape.… More

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Film Review: The Unleashed (2011)

Posted on 04/20/2012 by Dave Gammon

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When Madison Kennard (Trisha Echeverria) returns to her home town after an eight year hiatus, a certain sense of harrowing anxiety is in the air. Estranged from her family, her mother’s passing prompts the reluctant visit in order to sell the house and get her affairs in order. Memories of an unsettling upbringing are overwhelming making the appearance a challenge to cope. Lindsay, (Jessica Salgueiro) her childhood friend soon arrives on the scene offering… More

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Book Review: Loose Ends – Author WD Jackson

Posted on 04/19/2012 by Dave Gammon

Loose Ends
By WD Jackson

When perpetual under achiever Jake Harper purchases a computer for a new office job it appears as though life is finally turning around. Encountering his next obstacle, he grapples with assembling and installing the PC so landlady/best friend Anna intervenes giving him a crash course in computer use 101. Getting online seemed to be the mandate of the hour as she sets him up with an email account to… More

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Book Review: The Nursing Home – Author James J Murphy III

Posted on 04/15/2012 by Dave Gammon

THE NURSING HOME
By James J Murphy III

Any fan or critic of commercial, conventional or literary horror can attest to reading through a wide variety of different themes, genres and styles. Each can be as unique as the author itself. Few writers in the horror business can disagree that the ultimate achievement will be to craft a tale that terrifies a universal audience.

Fears can vary on a wide spectrum both rational and irrational.… More

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Film Review: Below Zero (2012)

Posted on 04/11/2012 by Dave Gammon

SYNOPSIS:

Jack, (Furlong) is a screen writer pressured from his agent to produce his next big hit for the anxiously awaiting studios. After numerous extensions and delays his representation makes arrangements to have him locked up in a meat locker within the confines of a remote, abandoned slaughterhouse. He’s picked up in a rustic pickup truck in rural, anywhere USA by Penny (Booth) a mutual contact of his agent who drops not so subtle hints… More

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Book Review: Haftmann’s Rules – Author Robert White

Posted on 04/10/2012 by Dave Gammon

HAFTMANN’S RULES
By Robert White
Grand Mal Press

“Blood is like a rainbow, like red violet when it first flows, black in the moon light.”

Every now and again a volume of literature is so gritty, so enthralling, so psychologically spell binding we tend to forget what particular genre it slides most neatly into. Robert White’s story of private dick Thomas Haftmann and his obsession with solving an increasingly complex case is if… More

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Festival Storms Great White North with Chilling Fury

Posted on 04/09/2012 by Dave Gammon

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

As an avid cinematic aficionado since early childhood I’d embraced the opportunity of attending the annual Canadian Film Fest with bedazzled awe. With mixed feelings of neurotic nervousness and preconceived notions the event would serve copious quantities of artsy, pretentious content that would require an interpreter for later translation I walked into the gala ready for anything and everything. My initial impressions could not be further from the truth.

Kicking off the… More

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Interview: Manuel H. Da Silva (The Unleashed, Cycle of Fear )

Posted on 04/08/2012 by Dave Gammon

UNLEASHING MANUEL H DASILVA
Perhaps this year’s most anticipated screening at the annual Canadian Film Fest was Dark House Film’s The Unleashed Mere hours before the festivities commenced I spoke with Manuel Da Silva from his studio on a myriad of topics ranging from the origins of the Ouija board, the future of independent genre films and what makes a truly spine tingling movie experience.

DAVE GAMMON: A warm welcome Mr. Da Silva to Horrornews.net. I… More

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