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BUFFALO DREAMS FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES SPECIAL FILMMAKER AWARDS Buffalo, New York – Buffalo Dreams Fantastic Film Festival has announced the Special Award winners for its 2017 event.  The awards honor filmmakers who have distinguished themselves in areas of genre filmmaking, and will be presented along with the competition awards at the Dreamer Awards, to be held for the first …

Halloween Horror Nights 27 – Universal Studios, Orlando, Florida In 1991, Universal Studios, Orlando, began celebrating Halloween with a three-night event called Fright Nights. Back then, there was just one haunted house – The Dungeon of Terror – and tickets were less than $13 a night. Fast forward to 2017 – the annual event has transformed into the Halloween event …

Directed by Joachim Trier Written By Joachim Trier and Eskil Vogt Starring Eili Harboe, Kaya Wilkins, Ellen Dorrit Petersen, and Henrik Rafaelsen THELMA, is award-winning writer/director Joachim Trier’s (REPRISE, OSLO, AUGUST 31st, LOUDER THAN BOMBS) most daring film to date. Co-written with longtime collaborator Eskil Vogt, Trier follows Thelma, a young woman (Eili Harboe) who leaves her strict family and …

The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival is thrilled to announce our 2017 award winners following the close of another successful year bringing the best in horror to NYC’s coolest borough. The second edition of the festival closed with a sold-out screening of Elizabeth E. Schuch’s THE BOOK OF BIRDIE at the Wythe Hotel Cinema in Greenpoint. “The rate of expansion for …

TEXAS BORN AND BRED SCI-FI ADVENTURE “TIME TRAP” HAS TEXAS PREMIERE AT AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL OCT. 28 AND NOV. 1 DIRECTOR, SELECT CAST AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWSAdvance Screeners Available to Texas Media“…a terrific sci-fi fantasy film…a mind bending shift in the space-time continuum”—Ain’t It Cool News

Blood Runs Thick staring Tom Sizemore Red Carpet Premiere on Halloween For Immediate Release WHAT: Beverly Hills Fine Arts Theater will host the Official World Premiere of Romane Simon’s Blood Runs Thick. The entire cast will be in attendance for the RED CARPET event on Halloween night, October 31st at 6:00pm PT.

Debut year of genre festival to award director Larry Cohen and actor Antonio Fargas,  opens with SWEET VIRGINIA, closes with BEYOND SKYLINE! The Music Box Theatre is proud to announce their full wave of programming and guests for the debut year of CINEPOCALYPSE (an evolution to the program design of Bruce Campbell’s Horror Film Festival), which will take place November …

 It sounds like something out of Indiana Jones…or maybe an old Italian horror movie…there’s an old, out of business movie theater in Italy. A careful exploration of the building reveals a forgotten storage room. And in that storage room, something unbelievable is found. A priceless treasure. Thankfully, the Chicago Cinema Society knows this doesn’t belong in a museum; no, they’ve …

SPOOKY EMPIRE ROLLS OUT THE RED CARPET FOR HOLLYWOOD ICONS THIS OCTOBER “The Dark Side of Comic Con” celebrates the 30th anniversary of The Lost Boys with guest appearances from Billy Wirth, Jamison Newlander and G Tom Mac  Additionally, the convention will celebrate the Hollywood classic, Sixteen Candles, with the reunion of Molly Ringwald, John & Joan Cusack and Anthony …

We’ve got a lot coming at you in the next few weeks. Keep your eye out for these announcements and learn everything there is to know about this year’s 40th Denver Film Festival. Tuesday, October 3rd – Red Carpet Presentations Announced Tuesday, October 10th – Tickets on Sale For Members Thursday, October 12th – Tickets on Sale To Public Tuesday, …

JOIN THE CULT OF CHUCKY AS ACTOR BRAD DOURIF RECEIVES ACHIEVEMENT IN ACTING AWARD AT 15TH NEW YORK CITY HORROR FILM FESTIVAL! At this year’s 15th edition of the New York City Horror Film Festival, broad-ranged character actor Brad Dourif, beloved to fright fans as the voice of killer doll Chucky, will receive the event’s Lifetime Achievement Award on Saturday, …

Cabaret performer Monica Salvi and filmmaker Samantha Oči have partnered up to create an eccentric promotional video for the upcoming stage show “Mad Women in my Attic! A Cabaret of Musical Lunacy” – which is due to be performed in London and New York in October 2017. Shot in London’s Murder Mile Studio (a renowned alternative venue and S&M Dungeon) …

Shriekfest Film Festival has unveiled the official selection of short films headed to the 17th edition of the festival.   Thirty Five short films make up the 2017 line up!  The films come from countries including Australia and the United Kingdom, states including CA, NC, NY, WA, TX, MA, FL, OH, PA, AZ, and MN.  Festival Director Denise Gossett says “I …

Nan Desu Kan 2017 is located in the downtown area of festive Denver, CO with its convention held every year. If you happened to be visiting Denver at the time, you were privy to streets filled with costumes, characters and Anime fans of all walks of life. It was warm sunny weekend providing the perfect setting for fans to enjoy …

I had the pleasure of attending this year’s annual Comicon located in Colorado Springs, CO. The event was held by “Altered Reality Entertainment” who have hosted similar conventions all over the country. HNN (horrornews.net) was on-site to gather some photos and review the event itself. Most impressive was the stellar # of celebrities featured at this event. A number of …