My first encounter with the writing of Jessica McHugh showed me an inventive horror short story called Food For Thought. Turns out, that’s just a tiny part of the McHughniverse. There’s also Pins, a suspenseful dark thriller involving strip clubs and bowling alleys. There’s the young adult mystery/thriller, Rabbits in the Garden. There’s her trip into the world of steampunk, …

This past weekend was Wonder Con and one of the most highly anticipated events as this years con was the GODZILLA panel. The biggest buzz to come out of the panel was the six minutes of footage that they showed. It has popped up online a half dozen times or so through out today and each and every time Warner …

I love HORROR DECOR. These folks just keep coming up with these kick ass ideas for decorating you home in all things blood and guts. Their latest idea is a line of stuffed horror icons that they are calling HORROR BUDDIES. I love this stuff:

SYNOPSIS: David Williams wants nothing more than to give his wife Alice the perfect life. Working as a film archivist, the young, pregnant couple finally save enough to buy their first home. Residing on the picturesque, Irish Canal it seems as though their prayers have finally been answered. An eerie coincidence unfolds at David’s office one day to threaten it …

SYNOPSIS: When a small town is overcome with a blood lust, the local Witch Doctor is thought to be the source. What they don’t know is that he has a different agenda. REVIEW: The recent resurgence of zombies in film is more prevalent today then it ever was in the 70’s and 80’s following the grand daddy of them all, …

SYNOPSIS: Before the West entered World War II, a Japanese death cult called the Temple of Hades is ordered to aid in the spiritual destruction of China. Their method: abduct their enemies’ children and train them as killers for the Emperor. Young Vajra was especially gifted, but swears a secret oath of revenge when his brother dies. Now the greatest …

SYNOPSIS: Metalhead film director Bill Zebub toils, trying to maintain his integrity, in the world of no-budget, subversive, genre film making. REVIEW: Any review of INDIE DIRECTOR would be misguided–incomplete–without an introduction to its notorious creator, Bill Zebub. Maybe you’ve heard of him. Maybe you haven’t. In any case, he’s brash, manic, politically incorrect, obsessed with heavy metal music–and nudity–and, …

One show that I am looking particularly forward to seeing is the new Showtime series PENNY DREADFUL which as of today is only about 3 weeks away from seeing the light of day. May 11th is premiere day and this show appears to be a really interesting hybrid of old school classic horror and sexy soap opera. Here’s the new …

So this is it, it all comes down to this. The final season of TRUE BLOOD is fast approaching and it would appear as if they are going to go out with guns blazing. I kind of lost track of this series a few seasons back but friends have kept me “in the loop” if you will but I have …

SYNOPSIS: In World War II, Stalin created a top secret nerve gas, which went missing shortly after the Battle of Stalingrad. Over seventy years later, the horrific biochemical weapon resurfaces in modern day Bulgaria, turning the local inhabitants into frenzied mutants and causing the dead to rise from the grave. Amidst the chaos, US Special Forces Captain John McGahey (Paul …

  How many thrusts are you worth? This is a question that we find the answer to on this episode of The Corpse Cast! We’re talking some Swedish Melodic Death Metal with Arch Enemy and then we go into classic slasher territory with Happy Birthday To Me from 1981.

SYNOPSIS: The Green Elephant is a 1999 Russian art-house and slasher gore film directed by Svetlana Baskova. REVIEW: If you are looking for a movie that will leave you disturbed and confused, and may just haunt your dreams for a few days, let me tell you about The Green Elephant. Here we have a shot on video, bizarro classic that …

SYNOPSIS: In a distant galaxy three escaped female convicts crash land on a primitive world inhabited by a race of warlike apes. They fight for survival as the humanoid apes fight for their possession, body and soul. A daring escape is their only way out. Hot on their heels are the blood lusting gorillas and a prison warden bent on …

SYNOPSIS: The son of a fundamentalist pastor becomes addicted to an irresistible witch. If he gives in to his temptation, he will be doomed to eternal life on the dark side. REVIEW: Read the blurb on this film – “The son of a fundamentalist pastor becomes addicted to an irresistible witch. If he gives in to his temptation, he will …

SYNOPSIS: A killer goes on a killing spree at a small college in North Carolina during finals week. By the time he is done hacking and slashing his way across campus will there be any students left alive to actually take their final exams? REVIEW: I know a lot of people who don’t like Final Exam, and I just think …

Leave it to SCREAM FACTORY to start gearing up for the Halloween season already! They announced today that they will be bringing both PUMPKINHEAD and PUMPKINHEAD II to Blu-ray this September. No cover art or anything yet, just this following paragraph: “Stan Winston’s 1988 monster film PUMPKINHEAD (one of our most highly-requested titles) will be coming to the ‘factory’ on …