Saturday September 13, 2014 Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada They’ve been referred to as Rotters, Hungerers, Reanimated, The Walking Dead or most commonly zombies. Call them what you will; a ghoulish horde ran ravenously amok in the grounds of the famous war of 1812 hell bent for life lines. The life lines are a symbol of the aspiring survivors’ intestines, brains …

SYNOPSIS: A news crew is taken hostage on an airplane set to take off from the Seychelles. REVIEW: Default is a film played out as a collaboration of recordings from a crew of five journalists, four Somali pirates and the news coverage surrounding the events of those pirates hijacking the crew’s flight home from the Seychelles. Between the slow piecing …

SYNOPSIS: Three friends take a trip to the abandoned remains of Preston Castle, a former correctional institution for boys that is supposedly haunted. Too bad the rumors are true and none of them may ever leave. Based on a true story. REVIEW: I went into A Haunting at Preston Castle with some pretty low expectations since I’ve seen a ton …

SYNOPSIS: A young woman is facing her destructive multiple personalities using an experimental new procedure known as “The Siamese Burn.” REVIEW: In most cases where a graphic novel is translated into a film, you end up with something unique. Especially for those of us who have never read the graphic novel. I get the same feeling when I’m viewing those …

2014 HORRORFEST First Line-Up Announcement With Halloween and the 10th annual South African HorrorFest just a month away, we’re announcing the first round of feature film selections!� (Short films will follow later plus more feature film reveals) The first batch of selections include :

Miskatonic University has a West Coast campus, and it is the center of an attempt to awaken the primordial god Dagon from the vast unknown depths of the Pacific Ocean in “Miskatonic West,” a new webseries set in H.P. Lovecraft’s literary universe. Professor Sousaku Kaos, head of the Biology department, and his intrepid students pull back the curtain on a …

SYNOPSIS: 2AM, closing time: A c**ky bar manager with a shady past and a young handsome bartender discover a beautiful woman bloodied and unconscious in the bathroom of a late night lounge. When she awakens, Tony, Matt and the mysterious Rose are plunged into a stirring evening of dangerous role playing in an ever-escalating game of cat and mouse that …

SYNOPSIS: A young mother must come to terms with letting go the thing she loves the most, her only son. She must do the deed herself for he is subject zero.

Thanks to all who pledged their hard-earned greenbacks, Gregory Hatanaka’s Samurai Cop 2 has been funded through its Kickstarter page. Looking forward to seeing the further adventures of the former mullet-wearing saver-of-the-day. Click here to see the results of the pledges.  

SYNOPSIS: The Machine, is a gothic ghost story that follows two hard-pressed vagrants who break into an old farmhouse one night. The film will be directed by Zack Gross (The Blame Game, Bagmen, Harborview), Produced by Zach Griffin (Macabre, The Zach and Zack Podcast) and written by Henry Leeker (Macabre).

SYNOPSIS: Jenny wants a baby and she will go to any lengths to get one. REVIEW: This one comes from the twisted minds of Australian brothers Robert and Chris Smellin, who wrote, produced and directed it. It tells the thrilling story of a crazy woman who is determined to have a baby and will go to any means necessary to …

SYNOPSIS: When Sid’s friend goes missing, he and new girl Sarah investigate disappearances in their tower block. Uncovering the secret of a vengeful ghost possessing a horde of zombies, they must fight for their lives – and their souls. REVIEW: Devil’s Tower is an odd film to review. I use the word ‘odd’ not to indicate that it’s a ‘bad’ …

SYNOPSIS: After CIA agents capture a dangerous terrorist they decide to turn her into an even more dangerous cyborg so she can hunt down and kill her fellow terrorist. Unfortunately something goes wrong and she starts killing off the people responsible for turning her into a cyborg (as well as anyone else who gets in her way).

For a very, very short amount of time, back in the mid-1990’s, just after Headbanger’s Ball was cancelled, there was a show on MTV called SuperRock (bear with me here, this will make sense shortly). Rather than only playing heavy metal videos, SuperRock covered a wider variety. On a normal night, you might catch a Bad Religion video, then a …

FILM NEWS (UK): FILM4 FRIGHTFEST ANNOUNCES LINE-UP FOR HALLOWEEN ALL-NIGHTER The FrightFest All-Nighter 14 returns to its spiritual home, The Prince Charles Cinema, on Saturday October 25, with five killer titles, including the world premiere of Anthony DiBlasi’s LAST SHIFT. We kick off with a special preview of The Vicious Brothers EXTRATERRESTRIAL, a fine blend of ‘Close Encounters’ and ‘Communion’ …

EVERYTHING IS TERRIFYING! Monday, October 27 @ 7pm Strand Bookstore (828 Broadway, corner of Broadway and 12th Street) Admission: Free (all you need to do is buy a book) Just in time for Halloween, the biggest names in horror fiction appear live to talk about the things that scare them. Expect parasites! Terrible jobs! And probably sharks! Laird Barron – …