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Happy Halloween Indeed! TRICK ‘R TREAT 2 Announced!

Last night was that huge TRICK ‘R TREAT event I told you about a few times last week and as it turns it out it became quite the media event. During the Q & A section of the show director Michael Doughtery dropped the bomb that TRICK ‘R TREAT 2 is heading our way!! LEGENDARY PICTURES is backing the project …

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The Doctor Who Project: The Weeping Angels

It’s October, and in the spirit of Halloween, this month’s column focuses on the monster widely regarded as the most frightening in Doctor Who history: the Weeping Angels. This alien race made its first appearance in Series 3, in the Hugo Award-winning episode “Blink”. Their creator, Steven Moffat, was inspired in part by the children’s game “Statues”, in which someone …

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Horror News Retro: John Carpenter’s HALLOWEEN TV Debut

When I was young, the only way for me to see a horror film was by watching it on network television, edited, commercials and all. Although I didn’t see it until Halloween night in 1982, John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978) debuted on NBC-TV on Friday, October 30, 1981, the same day that Rick Rosenthal’s Halloween II was released theatrically. I always …

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Top 10 Likely Halloween Horror Costumes for 2013

Ok, as the store shelves quickly empty in the last minute costume frenzy for 2013, we had to quickly throw out some Halloween horror ideas that fit nicely within this year’s trends. Freddy, Pinhead, Michael Myers and Jason may be a bit old school with all their remakes a thing of the past, but fear not as horror is still …

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New Trailer For WER Transforms Right In Front Of Your Eyes

It’s time for the werewolf film to go a little “found footage” on your ass and who better to bring the goods then those fine folks who brought us some of the Paranormal Activity craziness! The film is titled WER and as the trailer shows tells the tale of a defense attorney looking to defend her client accused or murdering …

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Film Review: The German Chainsaw Massacre (1990)

SYNOPSIS: Das Deutsche Kettensagen Massaker — We meet a butcher family. They recognize cheap meat in the East Germans passing over the old border into the West and begin turning them into sausage REVIEW: There are two ways to look at German director Christoph Schlingensief’s movie Das Deutsche Kettensagen Massaker (The German Chainsaw Massacre, or as it’s called with its …

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Trailer For CONTRACTED Will Have You Washing Your Hands For A Week

Yeah, if you’ve got a thing about germs, you’re probably going to want to look away or better yet don’t and just let me watch you watch it. Some pretty wild shit going down in this new trailer for Eric England’s CONTRACTED. It tells the tale of a beautiful young woman who give into her urges and has a random …

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Kick Ass Artwork For A Kick Ass Event

You should recall that last week I told you about TRICK ‘R TREAT getting its first theatrical viewing out in LA and how we’ll all be able to join in on the fun via a live stream. You remember, right? As you would guess an event like that has to be promoted and ultimately commemorated via some kick ass new …

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Film Review: Tales From Mutantville (2012)

SYNOPSIS: Muticia the Movie Goddess welcomes viewers to her Movie Morgue for a special screening of the horror anthology Tales From Mutantville comprised of Indigo Child, Family Fiend and Scarecrow At Midnight. REVIEW: Horror anthology films have been something of a mixed bag throughout the decades. For every Dead Of Night (1945) & Tales From The Crypt (1973) there’s a …

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Film Review: Wolf Creek (2005)

SYNOPSIS: Based on a true story, three friends set out on a road trip to Broome, Australia. During a planned stop to the Wolf Creek Meteorite Crater, their entire trip takes a turn for the worst when they meet a local man who offers to help the group when they find their car broken down with no rest stop in …

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HELLRAISER Remake May Bring Originals Back Together

Been talking about remakes a lot these last few days and lets face it, that’s just the way it’s going to be for genre followers for the foreseeable future. Today’s news is a little more solid then most as it comes directly from the creator of the franchise. Clive Barker has taken to Facebook to announce his plans to take …

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Podcast: American Horror Story Fan Podcast – Coven – Eps 03 – The Replacements

Welcome to The American Horror Story Fan Podcast: Coven. This week, co-hosts Doc Rotten and Thomas Mariani provide a spoiler filled review of American Horror Story: Coven episode 3 starring Jessica Lange, Taissa Farmiga, Kathy Bates, Sarah Paulson, Lily Rabe, Evan Peters, Denis O’Hare and Emma Roberts. The third episode of Coven is titled “The Replacements” and it may very well be the …

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HISTORY presents Frankenstein: The Real Story

HISTORY® presents all the raw details and facts on the most famous science fiction character of all time in Frankenstein: The Real Story arriving on DVD January 14th from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. The story has both haunted and entertained the world for close to two centuries. Timed to the highly anticipated release of I, Frankenstein, this fascinating collection tells of …

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Lisa Morton’s Halloween Treat

Author Lisa Morton has a career that most of us horror fans would love to have.  She is an award-winning writer who is rightly considered to be one of the world’s leading authorities on the yearly holiday of Halloween. Her books include 2003’s The Halloween Encyclopedia and 2008’s A Halloween Anthology: Literary and Historical Writings Over the Centuries which received …

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