Independent filmmaker P.J. Starks (who directed on co-wrote Hallows Eve: Slaughter on Second Street) presents the third annual Unscripted Indie Film Festival on January 4, 2014. On this date 2 teams will compete to make short films that will then be voted on by audience members on February 22. Horrornews.net’s very own Todd Martin was one of the two winners …

Paramount Pictures’ highly lucrative Paranormal Activity series continues this Friday, January 3, 2014 with the release of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones. This is the fifth installment of the film series and the first one to possess a title minus the requisite sequel number as part of it. The film maintains the style of the “found footage” look that has …

All us fans of Norma and Norman can breath. We have a date when we will once again be able to hang with our favorite dysfunctional family and that date is March 3rd. Yeah! Only a short 8 weeks (or so) away!! Of course on the A&E network the series takes us behind the scenes of the pre Alfred Hitchcock …

SYNOPSIS: A London detective tracking a serial killer finds the killers “truth or die” methods take him to New York to solve the case. REVIEW: Serial killer films are a dime a dozen. You can’t just make a film like that and expect people to flock to it. The planets have to align if anyone is to give a damn …

During this weeks HNR broadcast show co-host and all around awesome human Doc Rotten brought up the fact that he had seen some footage from a new show on ABC called RESURRECTION. None of us knew what the hell he was talking about but look what the New Year has brought us, not one but two little teases from the …

SYNOPSIS: Bela Kiss was one of the the most brutal serial killers, who killed 23 young women during the beginning of the first World War. The blood-drained bodies were found in metal barrels, conserved in alcohol. REVIEW: The story of serial killer Bela Kiss is an intriguing one. If you’re at all like me, I went through a phase where …

SYNOPSIS: A cute little kitty with a killer mutant living inside of it hitches a ride on a private yacht and goes about killing anyone who pisses it off. REVIEW: I have always loved cats (my wife and I have two) and when I first heard of this movie back in the late 80’s I knew that I had to …

SYNOPSIS: The world has been devastated by a virus that has decimated the adult population leaving small children and teenagers to roam the scarred landscape attempting to form some kind of society with dramatic and violent results REVIEW: Artful horror is rarely ever uplifting material.  Jim Mickle’s “We Are What We Are” and Jeremy Gardner’s “The Battery” were the two …

As any of you who read my postings know, I am a huge mark for Bigfoot. Love the films, love the shows, love the Squatch so any news that shows itself about the new film EXISTS, that’s the one from BLAIR WITCH director Eduardo Sanchez we talked about a month or so back, immediately goes to the head of the …

Tommy Wirkola is already to bring his Nazi zombies back to the big screen and it all goes down next month when DEAD SNOW 2 makes it much anticipated debut at the SUNDANCE festival. To kick up interest in the event a special “festival trailer” has been put together is it is one fun view. Blood, mayhem, zombies, what the …

STRANGERS By Michaelbrent Collings 372 Pages An eerie silence has enveloped the Hughes family home. Grieving on the one year anniversary of their eldest boy’s tragic death, father, mother, sister and brother struggle to cope. While his absence affects each in their own way, they drift apart emotionally and physically growing further estranged with each passing day. Retiring that evening, …

SYNOPSIS: Down on his luck Aiden (who has never quite gotten over witnessing a traumatizing event when he was a child) heads to Haiti with a film crew to document the happenings at a mental hospital and to find his missing brother. Once there he stumbles across the terrifying secret of the hospital and its inhabitants. Will he be able …

It’s been such a long year for this old saint. I can honestly say I’ve seen more films this year than ever before and while that might sound awesome to most of you, in actuality it can be something of a chore. Think about it for a hot minute or so, you get to watch nearly every movie released this …

Been a bit since we’ve talked about that new addition to THE AMITYVILLE HORROR franchise. Slated to heading our way from “found footage” guru Jason Blum and titled THE AMITYVILLE HORROR: THE LOST TAPES it was hoped that things would move quickly but of course, things have been silent…until today. DIMENSION FILMS has announced a release date for Mr. Blum’s …

Promotion has been heavy for that new off shoot of the PARANORMAL ACTIVITY franchise. Subtitled THE MARKED ONES, we’ve talked about it quite a bit here at HNN and that trend is going to continue as this morning I have two more new clips to toss at your head As tends to be the case, these clips are short and …

We’ve got about two weeks till SYFY Channel premieres its new series HELIX. They are really promoting the hell out of debut and to drive that point home I have for you this morning four brand new trailers/teasers pimping the debut. [youtube]http://youtu.be/Qw4ECxaabiE[/youtube] [youtube]http://youtu.be/voj2zT0NV2Q[/youtube]