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Campaign to help fund “SHALLOW WATER” – now live on Kickstarter, seeks to “break the glass ceiling” for crowd funding genre films, and calls out Hollywood for its excessive sequels and remakes of genre films Sandy Collora is a longtime special effects artist who helped create some of the more renowned and revered creatures in modern cinema. He also produced …

The 2015 Mile High Horror Film Festival will be taking place at the Alamo Drafthouse Littleton from October 1-4th 2015.  Voted as one of the “Top 5 Coolest Horror/Sci-Fi Film Festivals In The World” by MovieMaker Magazine in 2013″, this year’s Mile High Horror Film Festival promises to be bigger and better with highlights including:

SHRIEKFEST INTERNATIONAL HORROR/SCIFI FILM FESTIVAL is thrilled to announce its second surge of films for the FIFTEENTH annual festival!  Shriekfest brings you the BEST in independent horror and scifi!  “We are so excited for our 15th year and this slate of films!” says festival director Denise Gossett.  Shriekfest is Oct 1-4.  www.shriekfest.com CLINGER: Directed by Michael Steves.   When her possessive …

September 3rd, 2015 The first wave of films is now live for the 2015 Telluride Horror Show, October 16-18 in picturesque Telluride, Colorado (elevation 8,750 ft.).

We’d like to share the new poster and additional stills for Can Evrenol’s BASKIN, which will have its world premiere on September 11th at the Toronto International Film Festival.  The Turkish horror film is part of the Midnight Madness program and sure to be one of the most terrifying premieres at the festival.  In the film, a squad of unsuspecting …

Night Terrors Film Festival is a new genre festival opening up in Denmark and celebrating its first event in February 2016 – it is for short films; horror, thriller, supernatural, absurd – anything you can think of! Yes, comedies and dramas are welcome too, as long as it can somehow be justified to fit into the theme. Films selected will …

Arena Cinema, one of Los Angeles’ premiere art house haunts, is proud to announce the launch of “Campfire Fridays,” a brand new monthly event hosted and curated by indie horror filmmaker James Cullen Bressack. The series will kick off on Friday, October 9th, with a midnight screening Bressack is currently keeping under wraps. On the last Friday of every month, “Campfire Fridays” will host exclusive late-night screenings of horror cinema’s …

SHRIEKFEST INTERNATIONAL HORROR/SCIFI FILM FESTIVAL is thrilled to announce its first surge of films for the FIFTEENTH annual festival!  Shriekfest brings you the BEST in independent horror and scifi!  “We are so excited for our 15th year and this slate of films!” says festival director Denise Gossett. GRANNY OF THE DEAD: Directed by Tudley James.  In a small town unknowing …

The Pickings An Action-Packed Revenge Thriller Launching Indiegogo Campaign With New Trailer Usher Morgan, writer/director of award-winning short “Prego,” together with film producer Macarena Carrizosa and cinematographer Louis Obioha, are currently in pre-production for a feature revenge thriller film entitled “Pickings.” When a short-tempered mobster and his gang of thugs try to shake down a neighborhood bar, they’re soon confronted …

Carol and Robert Postupak of Bethlehem, Pa are married and they are two of the most talented artists around. Their art is on display around the Lehigh Valley and several of their pieces are Horror-inspired. Their work in intriguing. When you first glance at one of their paintings, there is something that draws you to the painting. They work not …

SPIRIT HALLOWEEN TO BE MANAGED BY HORRORNEWS OPERATIONS MANAGER, MICHAEL JOY On Monday, August 24th, 2015 the Spirit Halloween store in Voorhees, New Jersey is set to open and officially kickstart the Halloween season.  The store is located on the corner of Route 73 and Cooper Road, across from the Kohl’s shopping center.  WE urge all of our local New …

Get ready for Halloween in Atlantic City! Bizarre AC part III is AC’s premier horror convention, and this year they’ve taken full control over the legendary (and some say haunted) Chelsea Hotel on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein (The Misfits) will perform LIVE on October 16th, and will be available for photo opps and autographs.  This is …

The culmination of a seven-year filmmaking journey, Ross Lipman’s cinema documentary Notfilm is a meditative and mesmerizing exploration of one of the strangest ventures in cinema history—a collaboration between Irish playwright (and future Nobel Prize winner) Samuel Beckett and comic genius Buster Keaton. Notfilm is in the final stages of completion and producers Amy Heller and Dennis Doros of Milestone …

BIO: Based in the foggy, gothic, cobblestoned back streets of the United Kingdom, been a professional Illustrator and Animation Director for a good few years. Having co-founded and run one of the UK largest CGI Animation Studios, I also paint concept and create production artwork for Film & TV, video games and comic books including projects for folks such as …

Mark Anderson, a self-absorbed hermit, spends all of his time browsing Echo (a social network). His friends all post beautiful pictures of themselves, constantly reminding Mark of his inferiority to them. Meanwhile, the otherworldly employees of Echo are creating replicants of users based on their profile information and sending them out to “replace” them.