While its shockingly gleaming cover sporting a demonic Linda Blair screams out of the shelves with an almost haunting curiosity, it’s the contents that make this edition a rich little friend to accompany you on outings. Another from the “Barron’s” 101 Movies collection, this tiny fat boy edition offers some great suggestive reading and influential recommendations to fill your evening …

“Some films won’t stay dead” is the tagline for Drive-In HorrorShow. It’s fitting, because the movie has taken on a life of its own. The independent film originally premiered in 2009 and hit DVD in 2011. The filmmakers also released the original soundtrack on both LP and CD as well as a DVD featuring music videos for the tracks. The …

Blood Bound Books 2011, 235 pages, 28 stories Synopsis: Just when you thought it was safe to crawl back into bed … we’ve got a new set of terrors! If Night Terrors made you pray for dawn, Volume II will send you into total madness. Step inside the secret chambers of the Vatican and experience the dark side of the …

Yeah, I’ve been a little luke warm on this whole Prometheus thing. What they had showed us so far while pretty, didn’t really look at that different than what we had seen in the ALIEN films. OK, that’s all changed. This new trailer, which is the “international trailer” really does the trick, I am officially stoked for this one. It’s …

It is October and for those of us who like to read Horror Fiction this is a time of year we look forward to. Why, you ask? Not only is this our favorite time of the year but this is also when Paul Miller of Earthling Publications gets ready to release his latest book in his critically acclaimed and much …

BLACK BUTTERFLIES Written by Kurt Newton Published by Sideshow Press Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black & White – 60 pages Price: $12.00 I’ll admit this before I get going … I’m a bit of a Kurt Newton fan boy. I published his truly gut-wrenching mind-altering short story “Butter Red and Diamond Eyes” in my (now defunkt) online venue Horror Quarterly …

Kincaid-A Paranormal Casebook Synopsis A collection of three stories chronicling the adventures of David Kindcaid, a paranormal investigator who is very similar to Carl Kolchak from the old television series “Kolchak: The Night Stalker.” The book follows Kincaid as he investigates cases that have supernatural and horror related elements, and he finds himself up against some truly odd things during …

SYNOPSIS: A story of a female serial killer with a Fight Club type twist. REVIEW: What is worse than a woman scorned you asked? From the looks of it, this latest film short by Dustin Lavelley and directed by Jayson D. Densman. The tale told is very simple and too the point. A jaded girl who happens to pick up …

SYNOPSIS: “There is a serial killer on the loose, Karen White is the only reporter he communicates with. After a near fatal encounter with him at an adult video store, she is ordered to take a vacation. Eddie was killed by Police, but Karen doesn’t want to let it go and discovers that he came from a tiny community in …

Written by Scott Nicholson Published by: Ghostwriter Publications/Haunted Computer Books Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black / White – 328 pages Price: $14.95 If you like your reading material dark with atmosphere as thick as Appalachian forests and with as many twists and tilts as Appalachian mountain roads then I recommend the Skull Ring by Scott Nicholson. The Skull Ring is …

SYNOPSIS: Two survivors, who appear unwilling to answer questions, are the only links authorities have to a spate of attacks that have hit rural South Africa REVIEW: Imagine waking up chained to a slab of cement with no answers in site. As you escape or “think” you are escaping, you are assaulted by a man wearing an aperatus gas mask. …

SYNOPSIS: “While driving through the desert, a teenage girl is frightened by a seven-foot giant which appears in her path. After escaping, she returns to the site with her boyfriend and her father in an attempt to find the giant. They do, and it proceeds to terrorize them and the rest of Palm Springs, California.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: Pleasant greetings …

SYNOPSIS: “A mysterious magnetic spool found during a construction project is discovered to have originated from Venus. A rocket expedition to Venus is launched to discover the origin of the spool and the race that created it.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: This week I’m discussing a film that not even I have seen yet, found in the dank dark recesses of …

SYNOPSIS: “Astronomers investigate a mysterious meteorite shower in a rural English farm field – exceptional because the space rocks all fell in a ‘V’ formation. Doctor Richard Arden, preeminent in the field of extraterrestrial study, is not permitted to accompany his colleagues, including his girlfriend Lee Mason, because he is still recovering from the effects of a recent motor accident. …

Jason Stephenson.  NFTS Productions (which stands for “Not for the Squeamish”).  Ever hear of them?  Chances are you probably haven’t … yet.  Stephenson has directed five movies since 2004 and with each movie you can see his confidence and skills grow.  Stephenson lives and makes genre films in Minnesota with, no doubt, a close circle of friends and family who …

SYNOPSIS: On the run after attempting to rob a bank, a group of vicious (and incredibly annoying) brothers decide to lay low at their mother’s house for a while. Unfortunately the mother lost the house and a young couple mourning the loss of their son currently lives there. The group of brothers (one of which has been shot) invade the …