SYNOPSIS: What if the Doomsday Preppers were right all along? Hacking into urban infrastructures isn’t science fiction anymore – it’s in the news every day. A 90-minute docu-drama, “American Blackout” reveals in gritty detail the impact of what happens when a cyber attack on the United States takes down the power grid. The question is: when the lights go out, …

With the beginning of a new year, the cold weather, icy roads and crappy theatrical offerings signal the annual ritual of examining what is coming in the next 12 months for the horror movie fan. That’s right: The Most Anticipated Horror Movies of 2105. Unlike 2014, the sheer variety and breadth of offerings promise an eventful and, dare we say …

Hellagood cinematic apocalypse made in Germany The mysterious disappearance of God and Satan, Jesus throwing orgiastic parties in Heaven while a broken radiator in Hell has its inhabitants shiver from the cold, a bunch of clueless angels and demons and an Earth that must face its end – that’s “Damned on Earth”, the latest feature horror comedy from Germany. The …

Back in 2012, Kim Fowley (record producing prodigy of “The Runaways”), and a massive fan of Girls and Corpses Magazine, who had attended and hosted dozens of events for the newsstand magazine, decided what he wanted to do after he died. He wished to, “Have his freshly dead body photographed for the cover of Girls and Corpses Magazine with a …

SYNOPSIS: A trio criminals on the run from the law, go about frightening the local townsfolk of a small community, before descending on an inaccessible farm which is home to a young girl named Lisa and her paralyzed grandfather. After being sexually assaulted by two of the gangsters, she retaliates using an axe and a razor blade. REVIEW: You can …

Director Chris Staviski is set to release the indie, horror feature Pain is Beautiful. The release will take place exclusively through the film’s official website. The film deals with a bodily disorder, called CIPA. This disorder prevents William from feeling any sensations, at all. He tries to understand pain and pleasure through tortuous experiments. And, Pain is Beautiful stars Ivet …

    Witness the aftermath of a demonic ritual when the spine-tingling thriller, Altar, terrifies on DVD and Digital HD February 17 from Cinedigm (NASDAQ: CIDM) and Great Point Media.  From Nick Willing, the mastermind writer who brought audiences “Tin Man” and “Neverland,” comes the creepy, satanic tale full of ghostly torture and sorcery, headlined by Matthew Modine (Full Metal …

David Robert Mitchell’s acclaimed It Follows will be released in the UK and Ireland on 27 February 2015 and we are delighted to bring you the first full UK trailer for this strikingly original and terrifying film. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/embed/zoNa1WH3GR8[/youtube] IT FOLLOWS will be released in the UK and Ireland on 27 February 2015

Freestyle Digital Media (FDM) announced today that their Brazilian-set action thriller “Falcon Rising” will be available on DVD starting January 27th, 2015. The film, which stars Michael Jai White (THE DARK KNIGHT, SPAWN), Laila Ali (“American Gladiators,” “Daddy’s Girl”) and Neal McDonough (“Justified,” MINORITY REPORT), was produced by Etchie Stroh and Shahar Stroh, and directed by Ernie Barbarash. John “Falcon” …

Jacob Cheung’s (Twin Dragons) elaborate wuxia-fantasy WHITE HAIRED WITCH debuts on Blu-ray™, DVD and digital March 10 from Well Go USA Entertainment. The martial arts extravaganza is loosely adapted from Liang Yusheng’s novel Baifa Monü Zhuan and stars Fan Bingbing (Iron Man 3, X-Men: Days of Future Past) and Huang Xiaoming (Eastern Bandits, Ip Man 2) as a pair of …

SYNOPSIS: It’s ‘every man for himself’ in this post apocalyptic world, where a biological mistake has turned most of the population into animalistic eating machines.

A music project, a cinema night and a radio show all at the same time, Straight to Video offers a haven for those who get it, and those people are film nerds with a love for old horror movies, genre films, comedies, VHS tapes and the whole aesthetic of a particular era which is now long gone and much missed. …

SYNOPSIS: A surrealistic revision of Alice in Wonderland. REVIEW: “You must…close your eyes…otherwise…you won’t see anything.” Czech filmmaker, Jan Svankmajer, has led an illustrious career with his surrealist films, many of which are told from the perspective of a child. He has influenced filmmakers young and old, from Terry Gilliam to the Brothers Quay with a celebrated catalog of feature …

SYNOPSIS: A group of western pioneers wander into uncharted territory and set up camp for the night, unaware of the ghastly secrets that live in the trees. There’s a mysterious little girl whom knows the sinister world of the forest and horrible fate that settlers receive if they venture into the woods alone. But she if from another time. Closer …

The Dark Side Issue 163 Editor: Allan Bryce Ghoulish Publishing With this issue, The Dark Side hits its 25th year, which is pretty good going for a magazine which was once on the scrapheap and eventually rose like a chilling phoenix fashioned from the bones and entrails of the fallen issues in order to become something very special again. It …

SYNOPSIS: The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world.