On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 6 pm, The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY will be hosting a focus-group screening of Troma Entertainment’s most recent work-in-progress movie, Return to Return to Nuke ‘Em High AKA Volume 2″, it was announced today by the Film and Video Department of The Pratt Institute. The screening will be open to the public and …

Scream Factory Presents Murders in the Rue Morgue & The Dunwich Horror On Blu-ray March 29, 2016  A pair of horror’s most famous authors – Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft – provide the inspiration for a most diabolical double feature. Scream Factory presents two terrifying tales from literary legends with the release of Murders in the Rue Morgue & …

Australia’s premier festival of cult, horror and the fantastic, Monster Fest is thrilled to announce the appointment of its new Festival Director, renowned Canadian film programmer and author Kier-La Janisse. Returning to Melbourne’s Lido Cinemas for its sixth edition, Monster Fest 2016 has been scheduled for to take place November 24-27. Monster Fest has also announced that submissions for Features, …

SYNOPSIS: Three film students travel to Maryland to make a student film about a local urban legend… The Blair Witch. The three went into the woods on a two day hike to find the Blair Witch, and never came back. One year later, the students film and video was found in the woods. The footage was compiled and made into …

Harvest Moon Motion Pictures & Television announces their new contest “Share The Scare” to tie-in with their hit series, “Tales of Horror.” The contest began on February 4th and will allow fans and viewers to use social media to enter the contest as well as spread the word about the VOD series hosted by actress Jessica Felice as the mysterious …

Epic Pictures Group today announced that it has added two acclaimed films to its slate for the European Film Market:  the award winning comedy UNCLE KENT 2 and the sci-fi thriller HALF LIFE.  The announcement was made today by Epic’s CEO Patrick Ewald and Co-Founder Shaked Berenson. “UNCLE KENT 2 and HALF LIFE epitomize the breadth of films that fit …

SYNOPSIS: A beautiful French female gets her face ruined by some crazy broad who throws acid on her face. Her determined brother is a doctor and promises to restore her beauty and make her look like an attractive girl again. He begins to kidnap young and beautiful females and bringing them to his clinic with the help of his nurse …

Megan Freels Johnston’s new psychological horror, The Ice Cream Truck is set to shoot in Spring of 2016. The screenplay for the film is already gaining traction as a semi-finalist in the Circus Road Screenplay Competition. Hilary Barraford and Johnston will serve as producers of the film while many of Johnston’s creative team from Rebound are already in place. Mary’s husband …

Extreme Cinema is not entirely a new classification (hence the fairly in-adequate wiki listing) but one that was attached to a genre of horror that challenges the limits of what we have been exposed to over the years. With television, cable, and pay TV taking things “much further” in recent years, that gray line has become awful thin. Certainly fans …

RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE) brings you UNCAGED.  Directed by Daniel Robbins (The Friend Zone), the film stars Ben Getz (Grotto), Kyle Kirkpatrick (Stealing Suburbia), Zachary Weiner (The Convenient Job), Garrett Hendricks (The Paragon Cortex), Paulina Singer (The Intern) and Gene Jones (No Country for Old Men). UNCAGED is available on Digital Video and on DVD on Feb. 2, 2016 for an SRP of $27.97. Available on DVD and Digital Video February …

Ahead of the UK premiere screening of BASKIN at the Glasgow Film Festival, FrightFest ask the director Can Evrenol a few pertinent questions… Q: What were the challenges of elongating the BASKIN short film ideas into a full feature? A brief history of Turkish genre cinema and the must-see movies virgins should see? Please refer to the awesome award winning …

Actress Bailey Noble (“True Blood” “Glee”) stars in “Martyrs” directed by Kevin Goetz and Michael Goetz. How did you prepare to play your character in “Martyrs?” Bailey- It’s kind of all in the script. The material is so emotional, rich and physically demanding that I didn’t have to do anything demanding to prepare for it really. What was it like …

YOU’RE KILLING ME, an intriguing and unusual mix of horror and romantic comedy, will be released through Wolfe Video on DVD and VOD on March 8, 2016. George (Jeffery Self), a narcissistic wannabe internet star, starts dating Joe (Matthew McKelligon), a monotone serial killer. While all of George’s friends agree that Joe seems a bit strange, George claims his new …

Releasing immerses fans into a first-person apocalypse when Giulio De Santi’s Hotel Inferno makes its North American debut this June. Follow a contract killer on the job as the hunter becomes the hunted of demonic monsters in new key art and stills. Hitman Frank Zimosa is hired for a lucrative mission by a rich client. The objective: kill two people …

The quandary of meeting the supply and demand for printed products that need review has long been a quandary for Horrornews.net. We have had long history of book reviewers who have come and gone who simply could not keep up with the smattering of review requests they receive. We of course “understand and sympathize” (reviewing novels, comics and literature is …