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Snow has started to fall in some states around the country and department stores have begun their annual Christmas sales. But wait, isn’t there another holiday between now and Christmas? Something about Pilgrims and Indians? Thanksgiving is slowly becoming the forgotten holiday, but not to worry, because I have compiled a list of the best Thanksgiving themed horror films to …

Top Ten Horror Films For the Holidays 2022 from HNN Presents & Bayview Entertainment   A Young Man with High Potential

HalloweenCostumes.com has once again teamed with Horrornews.net to bring you a preview of Exclusive costumes for the the 2022 Halloween season. Wake The Dead You’ve heard the phrase, “waking up the dead,” right? Normally it’s the kind of thing that old folks say about parties that are too loud. But on Dia de Los Muertos, you want to throw a …

Let’s explore horror’s iconic game players and where they rank in this top ten list. Who would you want to play a game with?  This list is brought to you by our friends at Solitaire.org Isaac (Children of the Corn)

Tombs of the Blind Dead (1972) stands alongside Night of Walpurgis (1970) and The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue (1974) as one of Spain’s most iconic horror films. The depiction of creepy, sightless walking corpses who must find their victims through sound evokes the excellent A Quiet Place (2018), another film relying on visionless creatures to build tension. The optic …

While some of you are getting ready to watch the latest horror on your favorite streaming service, there are others that rather absorb their horror through a different means. For those horror readers out there, we bring to you a list of books and other publications that will make your summer horror experience just as fun and maybe even scarier. …

The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) sometimes appears in horror movie resource books, despite being a “fantasy” film. Maybe including the film is appropriate. Fantasy often serves a mix-and-match genre, with horror creatures finding their way into a sword-and-magic tale. The marketing and distribution team that cut the epic theatrical and TV trailers stressed frightening horror elements – witches, deformed …

Long-time fans of horror films likely can’t shake the shock from seeing “cannibal zombie entertainment” find mainstream acceptance. Decades ago, George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead pulled in well over $5 million during its original 1968 theatrical run, yet few production companies took a change releasing an equally violent copycat. It wasn’t until 1974 that a creepy film …

Top News Stories from Marketing Macabre | March 2022 “Blood Moon Over the Chesapeake” from Occult Horror Author, Eve Lestrange Now Available on Amazon Nora McCully had disappeared from South Baltimore, but long before she disappeared, pieces of Nora’s personality began to fade and what sprouted from a single seed of curiosity became a bewitching bloom full of beauty, but …

The opening sequence of Alligator (1980) brings audiences to Florida to watch a man lose a wrestling match – and almost his foot – to an alligator. The spectacle prompts an announcer to say, ”Sometimes the alligators win.” Hardboiled and burned-out police officer David Madison could substitute many words for “alligator” in that statement, and the sentiment wouldn’t change much. …

Welcome back for part 2 of our expedition into that emerald green hell known as the rainforest. This leg of our journey is equal parts arthouse and grindhouse. Each of these films in some part helped shape my novel Primeval Waters. We’ll kick it off with an overlooked nail biter from the director of The Exorcist. Missed Part 1? Click …

Scholars say there are four primary conflicts in literature—man vs. nature, man vs. man, man vs. self and man vs. God. Well, no backdrop better combines all these elements than the Amazon Rainforest—an untamed jungle populated with hostile tribes where all of God’s creatures are out to devour you, if your own fear and ignorance doesn’t kill you first. That’s …

Cinephile loner Eric Binford is not Cody Jarrett, the iconic cinematic gangster James Cagney portrayed in White Heat (1949), but Binford thinks he’s Jarrett. Binford’s love interest Marilyn O’Connor is not Marilyn Monroe, although she becomes the late star in Binford’s mind. Real-life is not a movie, yet Binford can’t tell the difference. Tragedies result when Binford’s warped fantasies disrupt …

Strategic 13 Step Press Release Initiative For Filmmakers Today we are going to explore the journey that your press releases should take from beginning to end. The unfortunate truth is that a lot of filmmakers think that issuing a press release is a one and done effort, but it’s lazy marketing. In order to maximize your outreach, you need to …