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ZOMBIES! We hope you are all ready for year 10 because it’s going to be the biggest and best yet! We have new sponsors for 2016 including Not Your Father’s Root Beer as well as  Inked Magazine and Steadfast Brand who will be presenting awards and prizes for the best tattooed zombies! We’ll be shooting photos and videos for the …

Steven Spielberg’s JAWS, arguably the greatest summer movie ever made, will be screened July 2nd through 4th, 2016 at Brooklyn’s Nitehawk Cinema.  Here are the times and showtimes (if you’re planning on going, get tickets now as this sells out quickly):

Genre-defining albums have sprinkled metal’s history with those few releases that transcend what’s been done before. Metallica’s Kill ‘Em All taught us metal could be heavy and still be rock and roll, Quiot Riot’s Metal Health ushered in a decade of hair bands, and Nirvana’s Nevermind killed that decade with a single song. More recently, Amorphis gave us Skyforger and …

BIO: has created arresting designs for a wide variety of projects, including print, film, CDs and DVDs. Born in Germany, he studied art in Switzerland during the late seventies, and improved his unique, disturbing talent at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria. He still lives in Vienna as a renowned multimedia designer. His work’s been celebrated with several …

BIO: Lilith Astaroth is a metal singer, model, performer, and actress.Taking the reins and fronting heavy metal bands since age 15, she is primarily known for her death metal vocals for the band SORROWSEED. (Currently, Nemesis Engine) Her style of singing combines low guttural growling and high-pitched shrieking; as such, she is often compared to vocalists Dani Filth and Angela …

Here’s some thrilling news from up north… Celebrated Montreal Festival Announces Thrilling First Wave of Titles. Montreal, June 2, 2016 – The Fantasia International Film Festival will be celebrating its 20th Anniversary in Montreal this summer, taking place from July 14-August 2, with its Frontiéres international co-production market and Industry Rendez-Vous weekend being held July 21-24. The full lineup of …

We are very proud to announce that we are taking a long history with Wizard World to the next level this year.   Horrornews.net will have an booth at the Wizard World Comic Con in Philadelphia this June 2,3,4,5, 2016.    We are excited about bringing a element of HORROR to Wizard World that hasn’t been seen up until now.   Join us …

Wizard World and Crypt TV Launch Eight-City Horror Series Hair-Raising Video Series Debuts Exclusively at Wizard World Philadelphia June 2 – 6 LOS ANGELES, May 24, 2016 – Wizard World, Inc. (OTCBB:WIZD), producer of the largest comic and pop culture convention events, and Crypt TV, the digital brand behind the most terrifying content on the web, have announced a new …

Could Michael Myers, a zombie and Samara from The Ring be in the same room? Inquiring minds want to know. Swedish film festival ”Elmsta 3000 Horror Fest” brings you an answer:

Attention all young filmmakers (grades K-12)! Do you want your film to appear on the big screen in a movie theatre in front of a live film festival audience? This Fall, on our Sixth Anniversary, The 2016 Gold Coast International Film Festival Young Filmmakers Program will give you that chance! We will showcase the best in youth filmmaking, and there …

Horrornews.net is teaming up with Wizard World Comic Con once again this year to bring you an awesome giveaway opportunity. Win FREE tickets to Wizard World Philadelphia the weekend of June 2-3-4-5, 2016 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center.  Join Horrornews.net there along with special guests,  Michael J. Fox, John Cena, Chris Evans, Chris Hemsworth, and David Duchovny, among many others. …

The Vicious Circle launches it’s indiegogo page to help finish shooting the movie. Today Thousand Yard Films has launched it’s indiegogo for the film to finish the other 65% of production. Producer Zachary Friedman has set out to raise $30,000 on Indiegogo to help finish the film in its entirety. Writer/Director Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr. (Kenny’s Coming Home for Christmas, …

Joshua Hoffine is a world renowned Horror photographer whose work has been featured in countless magazines, anthologies, and news outlets around the globe.  Dark Regions Press is excited to announce the first collection of his work as a beautiful hardcover book, now available to preorder via a Kickstarter campaign at:  http://kck.st/1pt5mnQ Spanning 13 years of work, this comprehensive volume includes …

The International Horror Hotel has announced its official awards list and film selections for the 5th edition of the festival, which will be taking place June 9th through 12th. Horror Hotel is a yearly film festival and convention celebrating some of the best independent horror and science fiction films from around the world, uniting film fans, filmmakers and industry professionals who share …

Welcome to your monthly dose of genre, horror, sci-fi, animation news from Kickstarter’s Film team! We are thrilled to announce that George has been selected to be an official mentor at Shudder Lab’s inaugural horror directing, writing, screenwriting and special makeup FX program taking place this upstate NY in June. Check out what’s cool, obscure, strange, scary and on our …