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Film Review: Dreamaniac (1986)

SYNOPSIS: In the sleep-stirring tradition of Phantasm and A Nightmare on Elm Street, Dreamaniac introduces Lily, a deadly leading lady who makes Freddy look like a bargain basement boogeyman! Adam is a heavy metal rocker and part-time Satanist. When Lily enters his dreams, he uses black magic to summon her into reality. Too late, Adam learns that Lily is a …

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Sex, Mystery and Horror Combine in “My Brother’s Reaper”

Principal photography has wrapped on “My Brother’s Reaper,” the latest episode of the cult hit TV series, “Lee Martin’s The Midnight Hour.” The dark, supernatural-themed tale concerns hunky Mark Wayburn (Scott Sell), whose lovely bedroom paramours (Harper Hoffman, Megan Mockensturm) mysteriously begin coughing up blood laced with sharp pins shortly after he leaves them. Meanwhile, the generation gap widens as …

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Book Review: The Creeping Kelp – Author William Meikle

The Creeping Kelp by William Meikle (Dark Regions Press) Some seaweed, a jellyfish and some material brought back from the Peabodie expedition to Antarctica. An innoccuous enough blend you might think. But when a storm in the North Atlantic frees a sample that has been dormant inside an old wreck, the new creature finds that it is hungry. Our plastics-oriented …

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Game Review: Alan Wake

Alan Wake tells the tale about a famous author by the same name. On the surface, things don’t look too bad for Alan; he has a nice marriage to a woman named Alice, and he’s best friends with his agent, Benny Wheeler. However, Alan is suffering from writer’s block, which is obviously not good for a professional writer. Alan and …

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Film Review: Hipster Holocaust (2011)

SYNOPSIS: When two strange men are thrown out of a mansion party, they take revenge on the socialites with a roll of duct tape and a switchblade. REVIEW: As the locals of an L.A scene go about their business partying, dating, hanging out and carrying on about the problems with the society, it’s the draw of a weekend party that …

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Film Review: Intruder (1989)

SYNOPSIS: The night crew of a local grocery store goes about their jobs just like normal. Never mind the cashier’s weird ex boyfriend who seems to want to fight everyone; you see the employees are turning up dead. Well pieces of them anyway, scattered throughout the entire store. REVIEW: Directed by: Scott Spiegel Starring: Elizabeth Cox, Dan Hicks, David Byrnes, …

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The FX Shop: Robert Kurtzman (P13 Studios)

Hello Boils and Crazy back stabbing fiends today i bring you an FX legend who’s done amazing work on some of our favorite horror movies from the early 1980’s to present and his name is non other then Robert Kurtzman and he owns/operates Precinct 13 Productions. He’s made Fx make-up/prosthetic work for such classics as Tremors, From Beyond, A Nightmare …

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Film Review: Beware (2010)

SYNOPSIS: The town of Shady Grove holds many dark secrets. Amongst those secrets is the sadistic tale of “Shane”, a boy who was tortured and chained to a tree as a youngster. Legend has it that for years he survived in the woods all alone until one day he managed to escape. Now, damaged and broken, he wanders those woods …

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Film Review: South of Heaven (2008)

SYNOPSIS: Roy Coop, Navy midshipman, returns home to his brother’s apartment full of optimism and good cheer. That is until he his mistaken for his brother Dale, who seems to have gotten himself mixed up with the wrong kind of people. People like Mad Dog who kidnap the daughters of extremely powerful, extremely vengeful men. And his day is only …

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‘Monsterpalooza’ 2012 Scheduled For April 13th-15th!

West Coast monster fans…get ready for another horrific year for the infamous MONSTERPALOOZA 2012 when it raids Burbank, California at the Marriott Burbank Convention Center next year on April 13th through the 15th. The celebrity guest list is ginormous and includes the following so far: Tom Holland (director of Childs Play, the original Fright Night, The Langoliers as well as …

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Horrors of Humanity: Dead Gorgeous Edition

What is horrible about the world of course is a subjective and individual interpretation depending upon many psychological and sociological factors. If you ask me I say it’s all horrible and everyone and everything sucks, and you should all die. By the way, I am a hit at parties and especially Bar Mitzvah’s because I wear my swastika and carry …

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Interview: Sierra Holmes (Scream Queen Campfire, Scream Queens)

The title “Scream Queen” became popular in the late 70’s & is still popular today. But in actuality they’ve been around since the fifties, they just weren’t given the title of “Scream Queen”. Beverly Garland (The Alligator People), Mara Corday (Tarantula) & Yvette Vickers (Attack Of The Killer Leeches) are perfect examples of actresses who became very familiar to moviegoers …

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Pins & Needles: The Art of the Voodoo Doll

My world isn’t just all disjointed doll heads and dried out human body parts, occasionally it also includes voodoo. And of course quite a few dolls holding on to pins and needles for various reasons, I can imagine you are not surprised by this so let me give you a little lesson about the ins and outs of voodoo dolling. …

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Magazine Review: The Darkside Magazine – Issue 144

THE DARK SIDE – ISSUE 144 Ghoulish Publishing Editor- Allan Bryce Being able to pick up new issues of The Dark Side is still an exciting prospect for me. The magazine’s return to publication and return to mainstream outlets has pleased me greatly, and thus it pleases me even more that the standard of the magazine continues to improve and …

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Book Review: Tainted Blood – Author Nina Hobson

It’s nice to finally read something… original. Most things I get are glittering homoerotic vampires knocking up EMO girls. I also get a bunch of zombies that are very atypical. Blah. In any case there is no mistaking its originality as Tainted Blood is about demons! This scourge comes through their world to our own to feed on us. To …

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