SYNOPSIS: Based on the Ed Gein case, a deranged rural farmer becomes a grave robber and murderer after the death of his possessive mother whom he keeps her corpse, among others, as his companions in his decaying farmhouse REVIEW:

SYNOPSIS: It’s been 20 years since the bloodbath in the woods took away many lives. Now the demons are back in the woods and six young friends will face them as they have to spend a night in the woods when their car has broken down. REVIEW: Blutnacht 2 – Die Ruckkehr Des Damon (Blood Night 2 – Return of …

SYNOPSIS: One man’s courage and will to break loose from the system, and the ability of one individual to bring down the kingdom. REVIEW: There are some movies that I find myself at a loss for words to describe, and Bread And Circus is one of them. To say it is simply a Norwegian horror movie would be selling it …

Gutmouth – by Gabino Iglesias Eraserhead Press – 2012 Published in 2012 as part of the New Bizarro Author Series by Eraserhead Press, Gutmouth is author Gabino Iglesias’ first book. The New Bizarro Author Series has become known for birthing a number of sick and twisted new voices into the world, including Steve Lowe (Muscle Memory), Kirsten Alene (Love in …

The Girlfriend Game – by Nick Antosca Word Riot Inc – 2013 (Publication Date: June 30, 2013) Nick Antosca has been all over the place lately. He was the writer of the 2012 horror film The Cottage, starring David Arquette and Kristen Dalton. His name can be found among the writing credits of ABC’s Last Resort as well as MTV’s …

I first encountered the writing of D. Harlan Wilson in the pages of The Bizarro Starter Kit –Orange (Bizarro Books, 2006), which opens up with a handful of his short stories. In those pages, I visited the worlds of home-invading bodybuilders, mysterious characters battling for the rights to a piece of used chewing gum, and an entrepreneur who starts his …

SYNOPSIS: During World War II, the tyrannical Judge Murayama uses his military power to imprison and torture innocent people. Suspected of helping an anti-government movement, the lovely Namiji Kikushima is captured, along with a local kabuki actor. Helpless and unable to escape, the two are subjected to a grueling series of tortures including rope bondage and physical assault. As the …

SYNOPSIS: A fanatic medical student has developed a serum that causes extremely realistic visions. When a young woman who is a subject of his, begins taking the serum, she has terrifying visions of her own death. REVIEW: A girl wakes up in what looks like one of Dexter’s kill rooms. The walls and floor are wrapped in plastic, she is …

SYNOPSIS: Crazed Vietnam vet hunts down and kills women. REVIEW: The tagline for Shaun Costello’s 1973 film Forced Entry reads as follows: “He was trained to kill…and kill…and kill…and kill…” There are two things that immediately come to mind when reading this. The tagline actually holds more (implied) action than the movie itself, in which only three people are killed. …

SYNOPSIS: Residents of peaceful Pebbles Court, Homesville, are being used unknowingly as test experiments for a new ‘Body Drug’ that causes rapid body decomposition (melting skin etc.) and painful death. REVIEW: If you were to mix the face melting scene from the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the poisonous revelations of Super Size Me, and a couple drops …

SYNOPSIS: A group of campers are stalked by a deranged redneck with a pig mask. REVIEW: Have you ever seen that horror movie where a bunch of college-aged kids pile into a van and take a trip together, and then they end up either getting lost or changing plans and going to an unchartered area, and then one by one …

SYNOPSIS: Set in the Tokugawa (or Edo) period, the first in Teruo Ishii’s Joys of Torture series opens with a montage portraying a succession of women being decapitated, burnt alive at the stake and torn in two by oxen. The film then adopts a portmanteau approach of three short stories which all culminate in lengthy torture sessions REVIEW: Director Teruo …

Having published over 65 stories in the past five years, in addition to a novel (Transubstantiate, Otherworld Publications) and a short story collection (Herniated Roots, Snubnose Press), Richard Thomas is a workhorse who is no stranger to dark fiction. But with his newest anthology of short fiction, Staring Into the Abyss (Kraken Press), Thomas cranks the intensity up a notch …

SYNOPSIS: Cannibal is a 2006 German direct-to-video horror film written, directed and produced by Marian Dora. REVIEW: In 2001, German citizen Armin Meiwes posted an ad on a website called The Cannibal Café looking for a young man who wanted to be murdered and eaten. After multiple failed matches, Bernd Jurgen Brandes replied to his ad. Video camera recording, the …

Stephen Graham Jones is the author of 10 novels, 2 short story collections, and so many short stories even he has lost count. He was kind enough to talk to us about his work, both present and future, as well as the state of horror movies and why he doesn’t play video games. 2012 started with Zombie Bake-Off, pushed ahead …