Featuring the films and career of director Sam Raimi. Welcome to the Monster Movie Podcast. This week Doc Rotten and Thomas Mariani cover the films of Sam Raimi, one of the most kinetic and frenzied cinematic directors of the modern era. With a career spanning decades from his debut film, The Evil Dead (1981), to his most recent blockbuster, Oz …

International actor DJ Perry had his humble start in the Great Lake state of Michigan. His early films “In the Woods,” “From Venus,” “Knight Chills” (All shot in Michigan) were low budget horror fare that occasionally brought some mixed reviews but at the same time critics seemed to embrace him as a leading man despite budget flaws in the productions …

SYNOPSIS: After Chris learns his girlfriend Tina leads a sheltered life, he vows to take her on a road trip across the UK country side in an RV. Their vacation soon takes a dramatic twist as they see a monumental side of one another they hadn’t expected. REVIEW: Directed By: Ben Wheatley Starring: Alice Lowe, Steve Oram, Eileen Davies Sightseers …

Remember a couple of years back when the mega-documentary on the SCREAM franchise came out? It was part of that whole HIS NAME IS JASON and NEVER SLEEP AGAIN craze that swept through the genre. They were all great retrospectives on their respective franchises but STILL SCREAMING was apparently cut quite a bit as there was a literal ton of …

We’ve already established that this upcoming season will be the last for DEXTER as we know it. Rumors of a spinoff continue to swirl and only time will tell what is truth and what is bullshit but in between it all should be one kick ass season and I can’t wait! SHOWTIME let fly with another new tease on the …

Hard to believe that we are all ready six episodes deep into BATES MOTEL but we are and with each passing week the show seems to grow stronger and stronger. Episode six, which will air Monday night at 10 PM on A&E and the short synopsis is as such: “Norma warns Emma that some things are best kept to themselves, …

SYNOPSIS: A young man wants to seek revenge on his sister because she has been stealing from him, but his mother’s boyfriend tells him off, which is just the beginning of a downfall for our young man.

Got the goods on a new horror/thriller starring the incredibly prolific Bill Oberst Jr. titled BLACKOUT. It seems this dude has been in like two dozen flicks in the last few months. We just talked about Bill recently on our Official Horror News.net Podcast and now today we’re going to talk about him again. BLACKOUT, a phenomenal psychological horror/thriller film …

With the confirmation that this coming season of DEXTER will be the last the rumors are already starting to spin as to how it will all end and even a notion of a possible DEB related spin off. All very cool things. I’m saddened by the fact that Dexter will cease to be after the the upcoming episodes but it …

Origin Releasing is proud to announce their upcoming release, “The Underneath” along with the first stills from the production. The subterranean thriller stars Holt Boggs (The Prodigy, Sinners and Saints), Natalie Wilemon (Biohazard: Patient Zero), and Larry Jack Dotson (Humans Versus Zombies, Bernie) and is directed by Brian T. Jaynes (Biohazard: Patient Zero, Boggy Creek). “The film follows a young …

Coming Soon! Horror films that delve into unexplained, paranormal activities and superstitions are an enduring obsession in our culture. Perhaps the most terrifying movie of all time, The Exorcist, exploited a primitive fear and apprehension of evil and death by exposing filmgoers to demonic possession and the mysterious power of the Church. Ever since, filmgoers and the general public have …

Land of Shadow and Substance – Third From The Sun – (1/8/60) There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and …

It is really hard for me to believe that I’ve been talking about, reporting on and watching SAW films for the last 7 years. The series as a whole has gone through many changes since the ground breaking original chapter. Some would argue that at the very least it is the grand daddy of the “torture p*rn” craze of the …

North American rights to Ruthless Pictures’ MISCHIEF NIGHT, a home invasion thriller based on a pitch by Jesse Baget (Breathless, Cellmates) and Eric D. Wilkinson (The Man From Earth, Paranormal Movie), has been picked up by Image Entertainment, a subsidiary of RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE).  The film, which just entered into production, is being directed by Richard Schenkman (Abraham Lincoln …

Midnight Releasing’s next big horror film release Hayride will be hitting shelves on May 7th, 2013. Hayride will also be available for rental at Redbox and is currently able to be saved in Netflix user’s queue. Hayride is the birth of a new horror icon named Pitchfork who comes to terrorize the residents of a Southern Alabama town during their …

Only a few more episodes to go in season one of THE FOLLOWING and as you would expect, things are coming to a head. Tonight I’ve got a couple looks at next weeks episode aptly titled THE END IS NEAR. Things seem to be falling apart for Joe and his little gang of creeps but they aren’t going to go …