Independent filmmaker P.J. Starks (who directed on co-wrote Hallows Eve: Slaughter on Second Street) presents the third annual Unscripted Indie Film Festival on January 4, 2014. On this date 2 teams will compete to make short films that will then be voted on by audience members on February 22. Horrornews.net’s very own Todd Martin was one of the two winners …
Read More »Film Review: Uninvited (1988)
SYNOPSIS: A cute little kitty with a killer mutant living inside of it hitches a ride on a private yacht and goes about killing anyone who pisses it off. REVIEW: I have always loved cats (my wife and I have two) and when I first heard of this movie back in the late 80’s I knew that I had to …
Read More »Film Review: Voodoo Possession (2014)
SYNOPSIS: Down on his luck Aiden (who has never quite gotten over witnessing a traumatizing event when he was a child) heads to Haiti with a film crew to document the happenings at a mental hospital and to find his missing brother. Once there he stumbles across the terrifying secret of the hospital and its inhabitants. Will he be able …
Read More »10 Horror Movie Rumors that Never Took Place
10 Horror Movie Rumors that Never Took Place (and by the Grace of God Never Will) People just generally enjoy spreading rumors, especially in the horror movie business. I’ve heard a ton of horror flick rumors during my day and while some of them sound like they had the potential to be true there are others that are just so …
Read More »Film Review: Killer Shorts 2 (2010)
SYNOPSIS: A collection of three horror shorts that focus on a group of friends hanging out at an old abandoned house in the woods, a man and his unfaithful wife, and a guy’s battle with a kidney stone. REVIEW: I love horror anthologies (Creepshow and the original Tales from the Crypt being my favorites and I love low budget horror …
Read More »Film Review: Unnoticed (2013)
SYNOPSIS: A mysterious killer is going around knocking off high school students in a small town. REVIEW: By now most of you out there know that I enjoy low budget horror flicks and actually prefer them over their major Hollywood counterparts. Unnoticed was shot on what looks to be a very low budget and while it wasn’t the best movie …
Read More »TV Review: The Secret of Crickley Hall (Mini Series) (2012)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: After the disappearance of their son a married couple and their two daughters move to Crickley Hall, unaware that some horrible events took place there back in the 1940’s when it was an orphanage and that the place is possibly haunted. REVIEW: I am sort of on the fence when it comes to this series (which …
Read More »TV Review: In the Flesh (Season 1) (2013)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: Several years after a zombie outbreak occurs a cure is discovered that reverts the living dead back to their former selves (sort of). The former zombies are slowly reintroduced into society and go about attempting to lead a normal life despite the fact that they are feared and hated by the general public. This television series (brought …
Read More »Film Review: Curse of Chucky (2013)
SYNOPSIS: Everyone’s favorite foul-mouthed killer doll is back, and this time he is busy slicing and dicing his way through a group of people gathered together at an old mansion to mourn the loss of a family member. REVIEW: I have loved Chucky ever since I first saw Child’s Play at the theater when I was in high school way …
Read More »Film Review: Shiver (2012)
SYNOPSIS: After surviving an attack at the hands of a vicious serial killer known as “The Gryphon” Wendy thinks that her ordeal is over. In reality her problems are only beginning as her attacker soon begins stalking her, determined to stop at nothing to finish what he started and killing anyone who gets in his way. Can Wendy stay one …
Read More »Film Review: Aberration (2013)
SYNOPSIS: Christy seems like your somewhat average high school student with the exception of the fact that she has the ability to see ghosts. When someone starts killing off her classmates she tries to figure out who is responsible for the murders with the help of the spirit of a mysterious little boy who is somehow connected to the deaths.
Read More »Film Review: Profile of a Killer (2012)
SYNOPSIS: While looking into a series of grisly murders a retired FBI profiler is kidnapped by the killer and forced to profile him. REVIEW: I didn’t really care for Profile of a Killer, but then again I am not exactly what you would call its target audience. As most of you know I am more into slasher flicks and hard …
Read More »Film Review: Boardinghouse (1982)
SYNOPSIS: A group of young women rent a boarding house from an oddball named Jim who has telekinetic powers. It turns out that a number of brutal slayings took place in the house over the years, and it isn’t long before its current occupants start turning up dead as well. Is the house haunted by an evil spirit or is …
Read More »Film Review: A Night to Dismember (1983)
SYNOPSIS: After being released from a mental hospital where she was committed for killing a couple of people Vicki returns to home to her family. It isn’t long after her return that the bodies start piling up, but is Vicki responsible for the murders or is someone else behind them?
Read More »Film Review: The Carpenter (1988)
SYNOPSIS: A charming (and slightly psychotic) carpenter working on a house starts killing off anyone who messes with the unhappily married woman (who is recovering from a nervous breakdown) who lives there that he has become smitten with. REVIEW: At first sight this movie would appear to be a slasher flick about a crazy carpenter dispatching his victims in a …
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