LUNCHMEAT Issue 8 (Independent Publication) Editor: Josh Schafer Crank up your VCR, slip in your favourite VHS tape as background and kick back with the long-awaited 8th issue of LUNCHMEAT, the brilliant magazine from the Lunchmeat VHS website. A zine which leaves most major publications in the dust, it’s a labour of love for Josh and the gang and also …

SYNOPSIS: A group of three disenfranchised young men, Lung (Lung Tin Sang), Ko (Che Bin Law) and Paul (Albert Au) set off a bomb in a movie theatre. Fleeing from the scene of the crime, they run into the beautiful but dangerous Wan-chu (Lin Chen Chi), who spends her days torturing animals and arguing with her neighbours. Wan-chu threatens to …

Steven Spielberg’s Duel is a film that was made by Universal Pictures as a “movie of the week”. Shot on a shoestring, Duel premiered on Saturday, November 13, 1971 on ABC-TV.  The film garnered sterling notices from the get-go and had far more admirers than detractors.  It was instrumental in putting Mr. Spielberg on the path to a career in …

Micro Bay Features is pleased to present the AFM 2014 sales art for their Charles Manson biographical feature film, House Of Manson. The film just had it’s world premiere at 5th Annual academy-qualifying Twin Cities Film Festival. The highly anticipated premiere received an encore screening and became the first movie in the festivals history to host two completely sold out theaters. “With a …

From director Eric Michael Kochmer, producers Jonathan Haloosim and James Anthony Cotton, associate producer Maria Olsen, co-produced by the We Make Movies collective and MOnsterworks66 comes Way Down in Chinatown, featuring Lisa Loring, “Wednesday” from the original “Addams Family” TV show. “The team who put this film together certainly succeeded in their mission if it was to leave the viewer disturbed.” – …

Horror convention documentary Fantasm will be released on DVD on November 11th. It’s currently available for pre-order at a discounted price via fantasm.storenvy.com. In addition to the feature-length documentary, this limited edition DVD includes the original student film, extended interviews, bloopers, “Dinner at the Kuchta’s,” trailers and the Kickstarter video. Fantasm is on sale for $13 until the November 11th …

I had the great pleasure of interviewing Scott Ian last week where we discussed, among other subjects, his new dvd “Speaking Words in Glasgow”. As a follow up, I was kindly provided with a copy of the dvd for review. I really wish I had been able to watch it before the interview, as I have a whole list of …

A Film by Bill Condon and Executive Produced by Clive Barker CANDYMAN: FAREWELL TO THE FLESH Starring Tony Todd, Kelly Rowan   HIGHLY ANTICIPATED BLU-RAY™ EDITION WITH NEW EXTRAS RRIVES ON HOME ENTERTAINMENT SHELVES EVERYWHERE JANUARY 6, 2015

To celebrate Halloween, on October 31st London Repertory Company will release the second published title in their exclusive collectible set of Michael Armstrong’s Complete Screen Plays. Ghost Town is unique in being one of his several un-filmed screen plays.  Existing only in its original 1969 handwritten form and thought to be a lost work, it was only discovered by chance …

SYNOPSIS: Janey is sent to a silent meditation retreat, in the woods, for rehabilitation, only to realize that the men who run it are brainwashing women, and if she breaks the rules, she’ll discover what lurks beyond the trees. REVIEW: Canadian horror Silent Retreat doesn’t want you to idly sit back whilst it plays out in front of you, your …

Sunday October 26, 2014 Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada Campark Resorts Haunt Manor Why horror? Who in their right mind would dish out hard earned money to have the holy hell scared out of them? These are merely two of the pressing questions horror enthusiasts are faced with on a regular basis from the others. Just as with any complex, abstract …

TomCat Films would like to present it’s last minute pick up of FIELD FREAK! Charles a former best selling writer, is desperately trying to pen his next book and needs a place free of distractions. Little does he know, his entire family is being watched. Strange bumps in the night escalate into a nerve wrecking encounter with the creature by Charles’s …

One of the scariest films I have ever seen is the 1989 British TV movie The Woman in Black which starred Adrian Rawlins and Bernard Hepton. Based upon the 1983 novel of the same name by author Susan Hill, it has also been made into a British stage play a 2012 theatrical feature with Danielle Radcliffe. Now a sequel is …

Check out some of the latest stills from the upcoming Necrostorm film “Judy“. Bad things happen to bad people. That’s what Ursula, the ring leader of a deranged group of street performers called “The Crows”, always says. For no apparent reason, the gang starts to torment Mary and Judy: a young car driver and her dog. Her only crime was …

SYNOPSIS: A group of people hide out in a house and try to survive the night against an ever-growing army of zombies. A reimagining of George Romero’s classic horror film. REVIEW: I was a little torn when I heard that this movie was being made. On the one hand I’m not a fan of remakes/reimaginings and think that the biggest …

If you are in New York City today, the Anthology Film Archives has a treat in store for you.  From the press release: An event so huge it needed a name you couldn’t say in one breath! In conjunction with Outcast Cinema, we’ll be presenting a noon-to-midnight marathon of SEVEN rarely-screened, bona-fide horror classics ranging from the 1950s Golden Age …