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Hillsborough, NC – Darker In The Sun: Stories Of Daytime Horror features 12 blazing and fantastic tales of horrific fiction that will have you begging for the cool respite of darkness. The book is written and illustrated by Max Dowdle, and published by Artagem Graphic Library. Says Dowdle, “Ever since I was a kid, playing on the set of The …

    Tickets for Insomniac’s 8th annual two-day Halloween Festival and Freak Show go on sale on Friday, July 13 at 12 p.m. PT on EscapeHalloween.com  Insomniac has announced the return of the West Coast’s largest and most frightening two-day dance music festival as the 8th annual Escape: Psycho Circus transforms the NOS Events Center for two monstrous nights of …

HEY HORROR-RAMA FANS! A NAKED AMERICAN MAN IS ABOUT TO STEAL YOUR BALLOONS… Get ready to bark at the moon, Toronto! HORROR-RAMA – Toronto’s ONLY straight-up HORROR and CULT MOVIE culture convention – is coming back with a VENGEANCE for its FIFTH and FREAKIEST year! And hey…the AMERICAN WEREWOLF himself is joining us! DAVID NAUGHTON, who – among many other credits – …

Hey there horror & comic fans! HNN (Horrornews.net) was on location this year to attend 2018’s Denver Comic Con. As last year and the years before, it was an exciting jam packed event. One that was loaded with sights, sounds and entertainment! Note: Being a media person made things a bit easier by avoiding lines and getting inside “before” they …

Event Review: Wizard World Philadelphia (May 17, 18, 19, 20, 2018) On Saturday May 19, 2018 my friend Christa and I went to Wizard World (Thank you Wizard World for the Press Pass) the day started off with lots of rain. It started to clear up once we arrived in Philadelphia, PA. The Wizard World staff was helpful with many …

  LARA JEAN BIO: Lara Jean (Actor/Producer/Choreographer) – Graduated Summa Cum Laude, with a BFA in Theatre Arts & Dance from SUNY Purchase Conservatory. Lara is originally from San Francisco, CA where she trained with the San Francisco Ballet, and the American Conservatory Theatre. She has performed works by Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, …

Albert Pyun, Cult Film Director, Forms “Go Fund Me” Campaign to Finance His New Film “Bad Ass Angels and Demons” Donations Will Be Used to Fund the Equipment and Special Effects Needed for the SciFi/Action/Adventure Film

To celebrate this year’s 40th anniversary of George A. Romero’s horror classic DAWN OF THE DEAD, the Living Dead Museum is hosting the Living Dead Weekend to be held in the Monroeville Mall, the primary filming location of the film. This 3 day horror film convention scheduled for June 8-10th, 2018 features a huge reunion of 40 original cast and …

For Immediate Release: Horrornews.net (HNN) has officially launched the inaugural HorrorNewsNet Film Festival (HNNFF) and we are placing a call for entries for both feature and short films in the horror genre.   HNN has teamed with the popular festival portal, FilmFreeway to take all submissions.  Are you a filmmaker and think you have the next Halloween, Friday the 13th, or …

Welcome to Shriekshow – the scariest show on earth! Fuzzy Monkey Films has launched a crowd funding campaign for their upcoming film Shriekshow, a horror anthology set on Halloween that follows four friends as they break into a supposedly haunted abandoned amusement park for a night of partying. Once inside they stumble upon a sinister ringmaster setting up a carnival …

The 13th annual Buried Alive Film Festival is taking submissions now. We want your goriest, weirdest, most fun, most bizarre, darkest, and wildest indie horror and genre films. If you think your film is too gross or too scary or just too weird, we’re the festival for you! Hell, you may even win a coveted Splitizie award, like Finnish artist …

The Derby Film Festival will again be running at the city’s QUAD venue from the 4th to the 13th May, and the event will be kicking off with a brand new weekend full of films and genres from outside the mainstream called ‘Paracinema’. Offering a range of horror, fantasy, science-fiction, independent and cult movies, Paracinema brings together a fascinating blend …

Phil Stevens is in the process of writing a new chapter in horror with his darkly artistic, bloody and upsetting films, telling his nihilistic stories of death and destruction with strong visuals and a distinct lack of dialogue. With Flowers (2015), we have the unique tale of a serial killer as told by his deceased victims. In 2016, Lung II …

Angry Mule Productions hopes to raise $35,000 to produce Killer Piñata 2: More of Them, a sequel to the cult hit horror-comedy, Killer Piñata.  On April 23rd, Killer Piñata 2: More of Them launched on crowdfunding site Kickstarter. Killer Piñata 2 is the sequel to the cult hit 2016 horror-comedy, Killer Piñata. In addition to more laughs and gore, the production is joined by Ron Jeremy and Danny Hassel …

In 2 weeks from today the doors will open for the 13th annual Texas Frightmare Weekend. This will be my 3rd time going and my first time going as a reporter for Horror News. Before I go in to the amazing guests this particular year they will have I was thinking of sharing my first experience of the convention in …