SYNOPSIS: A woman on the run from her abusive husband encounters a mysterious hitch-hiker. REVIEW: As with most isolated places, there are typically local spirits and superstitions that abound throughout the locals, having been either witnessed themselves or passed down over generations. Many of these types of spirit tales, at least according to the western folklore, are usually good beings …
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Film Review: Cthulhu Mansion (1992)
SYNOPSIS: An aging magician harboring a terrible occult secret and his daughter are taken hostage in their isolated mansion by teenage scumbags need- ing a place to hide out. When the captors refuse to listen to the magician’s dire warning to release him unharmed, the mansion slowly releases its nightmare of horrors on the unsuspecting invaders. REVIEW: “Cthulhu Mansion” is …
Read More »Film Review: The Brown Bunny (2003)
SYNOPSIS: Professional motorcycle racer Bud Clay heads from New Hampshire to California to race again. Along the way he meets various needy women who provide him with the cure to his own loneliness, but only a certain woman from his past will truly satisfy him. REVIEW: Technically and narratively “The Brown Bunny” is somewhat of an extremely poor film. Though …
Read More »Book Review: The Flesh of Fallen Angels – Authors Roy C. Booth | R. Thomas Riley
I remember, back in the idealized olden days of yore long forgotten (hence the idealization) by aging brain cells, when you new exactly what you were getting when you picked up a western. Men being men while hunting down the other men who done took their wife or town hostage. Outlaws. Gun slinging sheriffs. Whore houses in trouble. It was …
Read More »Film Review: Gothic (1986)
SYNOPSIS: Story of the night that Mary Shelley gave birth to the horror classic “Frankenstein.” Disturbed drug induced games are played and ghost stories are told one rainy night at the mad Lord Byron’s country estate. Personal horrors are revealed and the madness of the evening runs from sexual fantasy to fiercest nightmare. Mary finds herself drawn into the sick …
Read More »Film Review: Time Bandits (1981)
SYNOPSIS: “A young boy’s wardrobe contains a time hole. Through this hole an assortment of short people (i.e. dwarfs) come while escaping from their master, the supreme being. They take Kevin with them on their adventures through time from Napoleonic times to the Middle Ages to the early 1900s, to the time of Legends and the Fortress of Ultimate Darkness …
Read More »Film Review: They Live (1988)
SYNOPSIS: A drifter discovers a pair of sunglasses that allow him to wake up to the fact that aliens have taken over the Earth. REVIEW: “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum. “Brother, life’s a bitch… and she’s back in heat.” They Live”, is a title that almost demands attention with …
Read More »Acetone Enema – A Morbid Collection of Short Stories Poetry Announced
A collection of extreme adult horror stories and morbid poetry to give you fantastic nightmares. Four of these stories were published in The House of Pain ezine 2003-2005. Two stories were published in the Chimeraworld anthologies. There are two never before published stories: one written in collaboration with U.K. surrealist author Mike Philbin. The collection is now available in print …
Read More »HorrorNews.net is Seeking PDF Book Reviewers!
If you love horror, don’t mind reviewing electronic books and want free product emailed to you, then we’d love to add you to our roster of book reviewers! We ask that you email us a sample or link to a review you’ve done, so we can see the quality of your writing. If you don’t have one, you are welcome …
Read More »Film Review: Wishmaster (1997)
SYNOPSIS: A demonic djinn attempts to grant its owner three wishes, which will allow him to summon his brethren to earth. REVIEW: 1997 was a pretty good year for horror films. There were quite a few titles that I really latched onto, “The Wishmaster” being one of them. Horror was ready for a new franchise characters, and with that came …
Read More »‘Zombie Dawn’ Movie Comic Preview Released – Theater Locations Announced
ZOMBIE DAWN Movie Comic Preview Released; Additional Theater Locations Announced. April 19, 2012. Eagle One Media and iFN today have released several preview pages of the ZOMBIE DAWN: Safehouse comic book that will be given away to ticket buyers attending the theatrical showings of the action horror ZOMBIE DAWN motion picture which opens April 20th. In addition, several new theater …
Read More »Book Review: Loose Ends – Author WD Jackson
Loose Ends By WD Jackson When perpetual under achiever Jake Harper purchases a computer for a new office job it appears as though life is finally turning around. Encountering his next obstacle, he grapples with assembling and installing the PC so landlady/best friend Anna intervenes giving him a crash course in computer use 101. Getting online seemed to be the …
Read More »Interview: Anthony DP Mann (Terror of Dracula)
Exclusive Horrornews.net Interview w/ Anthony DP Mann (writer/ filmmaker) Movie: Terror of Dracula How close is your story to Bram Stoker’s classic? Hi, Horrornews.net! As a Dracula fan-boy myself, I hold the source material in such reverence! The film is very much faithful in spirit to Stoker’s original novel. In fact, I’d suggest it’s one of the more faithful adaptations …
Read More »RIP Jonathan Frid – A Horror Icon Passes
I literally could not believe this when I read it on Facebook this morning. Actor Jonathan Frid who claimed horror icon status with his portrayal of Barnabas Collins on “Dark Shadows” passed away on Saturday in Hamilton, Ontario. He was 87 years old. Some of the fondest memories of my young horror fandom as sitting in front of the TV …
Read More »Win a FREE DVD F*ckenstein Autographed by Adult Film Star – Joanna Angel
Horrornews.net and BurningAngel.com want to give you Fuckenstein! All you need to do is email me who directed Fuckenstein to be entered in our big Fuckenstein contest! Please email me at joyhorror@horrornews.net and put Fuckenstein in the subject line. In the body of the email, please put your full name and mailing address with the answer. ** MUST BE 18 …
Read More »Film Review: Thou Shalt Not Kill… Except (1985)
SYNOPSIS: Jack Stryker took two bullets in the leg in Vietnam and was carried back by one of his men. When he returns he tries to live a peaceful life in his cabin and resume dating his girlfriend, Sally. Meanwhile, a vicious cult let by Sam Raimi, who believes he is Jesus Christ, has been slaughtering people and doing blood …
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