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- Film Review: Get the Gringo (2012)
- Horror Fans Wanted for Hollywood Screening Test – Children of Sorrow
- Gotham City Impostors invades Arkham Asylum
- Mass Hysteria Unfolds in ‘The Secret Village’
- 80′s Horror Film Reviewers – HorrorNews.net Seeking!
- ‘Quiet Ones’ Update – Sam Claflin attached to star opposite Jared Harris
- ‘The Ghost is a Lie’ But These sure Aren’t
- ‘Spirit Stalkers’ Haunts New Audiences
- ‘Mr.Hush’ has something to say about Horizon Acquisition
- Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead Tops 1 Million Episode Sales
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- Film Review: Mysterious Island (2010)
- Film Review: Get the Gringo (2012)
- Film Review: Birdemic – Shock and Terror (2010)
- Film Review: Dolemite (1975)
- Film Review: Identity (2003)
- Film Review: Madison County (2011)
- Film Review: The Ghost Dance (1980)
- Film Review: John Carter (2012)
- Film Review: God Bless America (2011)
- Film Review: The Great American Serial Killer (2011)
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- Book Review: Off the Rails and Other Tales – Author Jason L. Liquori
- Book Review: Pavlov’s Dog’s – Authors D.L. Snell | Thomas Brannan
- Book Review: Zombie Apocalypse Preparation – Authors David Houchins | Scot Thomas
- Book Review: Sherlock Holmes on Screen – Author Alan Barnes
- Book Review: Switchblade Goddess – Author Lucy Snyder
- Book Review: Detritus – Editors S.S. Michaels | Kate Jonez
- Book Review: The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim – Author Scott Alan Roberts
- Book Review: Pazuzu’s Girl – Author Rachel Coles
- Book Review: Plague Town – Author Dana Fredsti
- Book Review: Woman Scorned – Author Angela Alsaleem
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- Interview: Marilyn Burns (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
- Interview: Timothy Woodward Jr. (Blackout)
- Interview: Justin McConnell (The Collapsed, The Eternal)
- Interview: Teri Mcminn (Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
- Interview: Lia Scott Price
- Interview: Author Hugh C. Howey
- Interview: Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp)
- Interview: John Russo (Night of the Living Dead)
- Interview: Director Xavier Gens (The Divide)
- Interview: Frank DeFelitta (Dark Night of the Scarecrow, The Entity)
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- The Pact (2012)
- Hotel Transylvania (2012)
- Pacific Rim (2013)
- Sector 7 (2011)
- R.I.P.D. (2013)
- Paranormal Activity 4 (2012)
- No One Lives (2012)
- Looper (2012)
- The Strangers 2
- The Quiet Ones (2013)
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- Trailer: Chronicles of the Dead (2012) Web Series Trailer
- Trailer: Bait (2012) 3D Red Band
- Trailer: Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) TV Trailer
- Trailer: 666 Park Avenue (2012)
- Trailer: Last Kind Words (2012)
- Trailer: The Addicted – Red Band Trailer
- Trailer: The Following (2012) TV Series Trailer
- Trailer: The Possession (2012)
- Trailer: The Collapsed (2011) Family Dinner Clip
- Trailer: Prometheus (2012) – Viral Clip – Quiet Eye
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Author Archives: Phil Hickes
Book Review: Summer Of Night – Author Dan Simmons
I appreciate that many Horror News aficionados will already have this book assigned to their ‘favourites’ list, but for anyone who hasn’t enjoyed this yet, I reckon this book pretty much has it all. Set in 1960s small-town America, it tells of a group of young friends who experience a summer of terror.
The author deftly sets the scene, layering rich character and location detail so that it quickly becomes a credible and three-dimensional (albeit… More
Book Review: Gaslight Grotesque – Editers J.R. Campbell, Charles Prepolec
Hands up who likes Sherlock Holmes? If your hand is raised then you’re in for a real treat with this fantastic tribute anthology. It’s a series of tales featuring our favourite cocaine addict and his faithful sidekick, but with an added layer of grotesque Gothicy goodness.
In these stories we meet Wendigos and zombies, werewolves and ghouls. Aleister Crowley skulks in the shadows, along with those sinister stalwarts of Victoriana: spiritualists, freemasons, mediums, occultists, street… More
Book Review: Attic Clowns – Author Jeremy C.Shipp
When Peter Straub and Jack Ketchum recommend an author you sit up and take notice. Such is the case with Jeremy Shipp. I’ve been thinking how to communicate his unique brand of fiction, commonly labelled ‘bizarro’. And so I’ve decided to use a drug metaphor.
Let’s pretend you’re on your way to the fun-fair and to spice things up, your and your buddies decide to drop a tab of acid. It doesn’t work,… More
Book Review: Swan Song – Author Robert R.McCammon
A blast from the past this week, with this classic Bram Stoker winning horror tome from the late 80s. I read this on the trusty Kindle. I dread to think how thick the print version is. You could probably hollow it out and live in it. Still, if you’re going to write about the end of the world then you need to do it justice.
The author certainly does that. It’s an epic tale of… More
Book Review: City of Hell Chronicles Vol.1 – Editor Colin F.Barnes
The Ant-Headed Old One ‘The Great Maurr’ has risen and brought hell to earth. The land is scorched and the human race decimated, eaten or tortured. Only three cities remain, a crumbled, dying version of their former selves: London, Moscow and Hong Kong. The Great Maurr’s own City of Hell dominates most of North America. Its diabolical influence has turned ordinary citizens into torturers, debased slaves, lunatics and zealots.
This… More
Book Review: Aberrations – Editor Jeremy C.Shipp
If you take an interest in horror books (which it’s probably safe to assume you do, as you’re reading a horror book review), then chances are you’ll have read, or have heard of, Jeremy Shipp. If you haven’t, then seek him out. Maybe start here. This is an anthology of creepy shorts that he’s edited and contributed to, all themed loosely with a monstrous subject matter. Here’s your non-spoiler guide to the tales on… More
Interview: Paul Campion – Director (The Devil’s Rock)
Paul Campion is the New Zealand based director of new Kiwi horror film, Devil’s Rock. You can read a review of the film “The Devils Rock.
So…you’re a horror film director – best job in the world?
PC: Absolutely! Horror films have always been a huge part of cinema, and its great to be working in the film industry now trying to make horror films to entertain and scare people.
There are lot… More
Book Review: Long Lankin – Author Lindsey Barraclough
Said my lord to my lady, as he mounted his horse:
‘Beware of Long Lankin that lives in the moss.’
Said my lord to my lady, as he rode away”
‘Beware of Long Lankin that lives in the hay.’
‘Let all the doors be bolted and the windows all pinned,
And leave not a hole for a mouse to creep in.’
If this sounds like something Fairport Convention might sing, that’s because it’s the start… More
Book Review: One Buck Horror Volume 3 – Editors Chris and Kris Hawkins
Another batch of pulp horror from the One Buck team. Another excellent collection of short stories to get your teeth into. If you’re wondering what to expect, it’s like an old horror comic without the pictures. It won’t take you long to get through, but as you’ve only paid a buck, you don’t begrudge its brevity. Non-spoiling taster to follow.
Helpers by David Steffen – Love this dark fairytale of a child-snatcher with a large… More
Book Review: One Buck Horror (Volume 2) – Editors Chris and Kris Hawkins
The best horror often lurks unseen. Shying away from the bright lights, and the big budgets, and the household names, it sits quietly in the shadows, waiting to spring out and wrap its greasy tentacles around your windpipe. You may not have heard of One Buck Horror. And it’s not hard to guess how much this short anthology will set you back. But what a bargain it represents. Five lovingly crafted tales that all fans… More
Film Review: The Innkeepers (2011)
SYNOPSIS:
A horror-thriller centered on the last two employees at a haunted hotel that’s going out of business.
REVIEW:
This was showing as part of the Incredibly Strange film festival (incrediblystrange.co.nz), which is an offshoot of the main New Zealand Film Festival. I noticed it was scheduled for a 10.45pm showing, in one of the smaller, quieter and artier cinemas. A perfect setting in which to get back to basics… More
Book Review: Possessed: Spine Tingling Tales from Ten Masters of Horror – Editor Nate Kenyon
POSSESSED: SPINE TINGLING TALES
The great advantage of the short story is that you can do one in a single sitting. A little shot of pure horror, down in one. None of this laboriously wading through another chapter every night only to discover that the monster was killed and good prevailed. And if you don’t like one author, then like a good bus service, another one will be along in a minute. This… More
Book Review: Wondrous Strange – Author Robin Spriggs
WONDROUS STRANGE
I’m ashamed to admit that I wasn’t aware of this author until perusing this year’s Bram Stoker nominations. It was an Alice in Wonderland moment. I say this because a short while later, I found myself immersed in the wondrously strange land of Robin Sprigg’s writing. And I’m kicking myself for not having discovered him sooner.
As a conjuror of uncanny tales, he’s a suitably enigmatic character. Yet it’s possible to… More
Interview: Filmmaker Robert Morgan (Bobby Yeah)
“One of the most visionary filmmakers working today. Imagine a fusion between the sensibilities of Salvador Dali, David Cronenberg, Ingmar Bergman, Tim Burton and the Quay Brothers, and you’ll have a partial idea of the sheer brilliance of this man’s work.”
Mitch Davis, Rue Morgue Magazine.
As the above quote suggests, Robert Morgan is one of those rare filmmakers that you know are destined for greatness. Though his groaning awards cabinet would suggest that… More
Book Review: Asylum Lake – Author R A Evans
I could be wrong (it’s usually the case), but I believe this is the author’s debut novel. It certainly bodes well for the future. Asylum Lake is a good old-fashioned horror novel – accessible, creepy and eminently readable. It tells of a writer, Brady Tanner, returning to his home-town of Bedlam Falls. (Bedlam, in case you don’t know, was a notorious Victorian asylum in England, wherein the mentally ill were abused and put… More
