Samantha Somer-Wilson, co-star to Brooke Palsson in the Canadian Short Screenplay Competition short film has won the Best Actress in a Short Film category at the 2011 Tulsa International Film Festival this week. Read review of Rusted Pyre Tulsa, OK— The Canadian Short Screenplay Competition’s 2008 3rd place winning script ‘Rusted Pyre’ written by Daniel Audet and directed by Laurence …
Read More »‘The Woman’ a bucket of new stills are in!
Alrighty, their is alot of interest on this one. We got more stills, and of course you can head on over to our early review of “The Woman” – Opens theatrically beginning October 14th, 2011. Make sure to add it to your list of recommended viewings. Synopsis: Directed by Lucky McKee, based on the bestselling novel by Jack Ketchum, written Ketchum and …
Read More »Feminism in the Hills of Wes Craven
More and more I’m forgetting the past… Webb Pierce’s lyrics open the remake to Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes, and upon watching the remakes that have littered the wasteland of the horror landscape over the past decade, few songs seem more befitting to a remake of one of Craven’s most feminist works. It’s not that I entirely dislike Alexandre …
Read More »Film Review: Episode 50 (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Focuses on two television crews of paranormal experts: one team of skeptics looking to de-bunk myths about ghosts and another consisting of believers looking to prove their existence. Teaming up for the first time for a special episode, the crews get more then they bargained for when they actually make contact with a spirit of tremendous power and must …
Read More »First Look at ‘The Avengers’!!
It may have taken a slew of introduction films to get the heroes up to speed, but get ready for the team we’ve been all hearing about. Now Stills of course are coming from EW, of which you can check out a few more. Though take a gander below at the new face of next years blockbuster. Per the cover …
Read More »‘The Orphan Killer’ on a worldwide festival premiere tour – AND we got new STILLS
A bloody star is born. The first horror franchise of the 21st century spawned in social media. The latest sensation in the slasher genre. Fans have gone crazy over “The Orphan Killer movie”. They are already asking for sequels, masks, action figures, and video games, before the independent horror film has yet to be fully released. Critics and Major …
Read More »Horror Art: Jerrod Brown
BIO: A “real” horror artist, that creates paintings in the middle of paint tubes, brushes and palettes, THAT describes Jerrod Brown. A strong advocate of conventional/traditional art that is “truly” painted by hand. So many artists have profited from the advantages of digital illustration – quick and cheap production, low budget solutions, variable use of single motives and the possibility …
Read More »The Year After Infection
New word on the feature THE YEAR AFTER INFECTION which is towing the tagline of “If The World Ended Tomorrow Would You Still Want To Survive?” We’ve got some preliminary poster art for ya to check out and a quick synopsis. The film arrives per way of Vertice Films and is written and directed by film maker Tony Greco. Four …
Read More »Synapse Films scores 3 by Adrián García Bogliano
Synapse Films has snared rights to three terrifying feature films by celebrated Fantastic Fest and SXSW filmmaker Adrián García Bogliano, the Argentine director of festivl favorite COLD SWEAT and the upcoming PENUMBRA, grabbed by IFC Midnight on the eve of the film’s Fantastic Fest world premiere. In ROOMS FOR TOURISTS a busload of girls fall prey to a town of …
Read More »Magazine Review: Rue Morgue Magazine – Issue 115
Welcome to another quick overview on new mag releases. We are back again with Rue Morgue who have furnished a firm helping of news and articles of interest. My first attention actually goes to the commentary which talks about the horror site movements and the problems with borrowed content. It has some great points made and something we’d had to …
Read More »Teen Wolf’s Tyler Posey and Dylan O’Brien to Star at London Comic Con
28-30 OCTOBER – EXCEL LONDON – ROYAL VICTORIA DOCK TEEN WOLF fans, keep an eye out for an American werewolf in London next month – Tyler Posey and Dylan O’Brien, stars of the smash hit supernatural drama, will both be special guests at October’s MCM Expo London Comic Con! Tyler, who plays TEEN WOLF’s lead character Scott McCall, and Dylan, …
Read More »Toronto After Dark Film Fest announces Lineup
Lots of cool films on the horizon, you can look to this as your 2011-2012 selections just around the corner, a few of these you can find early reviews on HorrorNews.net Vs – Four Super Heroes find themselves abducted by their Arch Nemesis and are forced to compete in a series of challenges in order to save an abandoned town full of …
Read More »‘Tape 407’ terror strikes high with camcorder
More Found Footage Films you say? Well we’ve got another one for ya here called “Tape 407“. This year has been shaping up with some of the best horror in found footage materials, so we’re hoping that a few more join the clan. We’ve also got a best of cinema verite list coming, though we still have a few new …
Read More »Hotel of Horrors – not a movie!
This may not be a horror movie trailer, but better yet its the promo to the hotyel of horror! We thought these pics and trailer were too cool to pass up. Wish I lived closer to PA. Yuo can check out the site Hotel of Horror
Read More »Tortured Over Being Misunderstood
Saw has ultimately become the most popular of the so-called “torture p*rn” franchises in existence. This subgenre of the horror industry has become a hotly contested subject. Is torture p*rn right? Should we support it as fans? Perhaps a better question to ask is, “Does torture p*rn even really exist?” In the Freshman Rhetoric and Composition course I teach, we call the release of …
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