SYNOPSIS: In a poverty-stricken Ozark Mountain community, young 17-year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) is forced to fend for her entire family – two young siblings and a mentally disabled mother – entirely on her own when her father goes missing. When the police inform her that her father was arrested for running a meth lab and has jumped …

Issue number 13 (our favorite number!) of Necrotic Tissue features a story from long time HorrorNews contributor and book reviewer, Anton Cancre. The story in question, “The Song That Crawls” is a meandering little ditty that merges the ethos of Lovecraft with the lyricality and drug induced dementia of the music of Dax Riggs. In addition to that fine tail, …

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO7KGYOn2M0[/youtube] Can the creators of Paranormal Activity and SAW form a new movie that lives up to what is sure to be outrageous expectations? Maybe and we will see how expectations stand up with the movie Insidious due April 1st. The trailer is now available and does look very interesting. On the surface it would appear that you have the …

SYNOPSIS: A lonely (and odd) mortician goes about his daily routine of preparing bodies for burial and avoiding other people at all possible until he finds himself helping a little boy escape from a brutal gang leader who murdered the boy’s mother. As the mortician learns about the boy’s ordeal he realizes that he suffered a similar loss when he …

ESCAPE FROM HELL Written by Larry Niven / Jerry Pournelle Published by: Tor Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black / White – 368 pages Price: $7.99 What if the nether-world popularly known as the Hell, as imagined by Dante Alighieri in his DIVINE COMEDY, actually existed? That was the premised presented by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in their 1976 sci-fi …

EMPIRE: A ZOMBIE NOVEL Written by David Dunwoody Published by Permuted Press Publication Date: 2008 Format: B&W – 296 pages Price: $14.95 For as long as humans have been living we have been dying. If prostitution is called the “original sin” then I make the argument that the undead (in all it’s terrifying forms, from stumbling biting zombies to elegant …

[dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgk3r7_gut-trailer_shortfilms[/dailymotion] The movie GUT was written and directed by Elias and is his first outing into the world of filmmaking. Starring Jason Vail, Nicholas Wilder, Sarah Schoofs, Angie Bullaro, and Kirstianna & Kaitlyn Mueller. With Maria Victoria, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte, Karl Pfeiffer Synopsis: “Something is missing in Tom’s life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and …

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voUw2Hh1K0A[/youtube] A new poster is out for the epic movie about a tire titled RUBBER. RUBBER is a french film that was written and directed by musician Mr. Oizo (Quentin Dupieux) and stars Stephen Spinella, Wings Hauser, Jack Plotnick, and David Bowe. RUBBER is an interesting flick, and I first heard about it when I was handed a handful of …

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7NMMUZAecw[/youtube]  A new trailer for Darren Lynn Bousman’s flick MOTHER’S DAY was recently leaked to the web. The film stars Deborah Ann Woll, Jaime King, and Lisa Marcos and is slated for an April 1st, 2011 release in the US and UK. Read more about it at the official website. http://www.mothersdaythemovie.com/ Synopsis: “After a bank-robbery gone wrong, three brothers head …

GUNBREED: GHOST TOWN RESSURECTED #1 (COMIC) Writer: Angel Fuentes Artist: AC Osorio Letters: Carlos M. Mangual Publisher:Razor Blade Apple Studios Publisher: Arcana Studio Publication Date: 2009 Format: Full Color – 24 pages Price: $3.99 “A grudge is a terrible thing to die for, but a hell of a reason to come back from the dead. Gunbreed is a supernatural western …

GRAVE TALES – ISSUE #5 (COMIC) Writers: Richard Layman, Kealan Patrick Burke, William F. Nolan, Elizabeth Massie Artists: Earl Grier, Glenn Chadbourne, William Renfro Cover Artist: Joe Vigil Publisher: Cemetery Dance Publications Publication Date: 2008 Format: Full Color – 48 pages Price: $3.95 “A brand new horror anthology comic book presented by the World Fantasy Award-winning magazine Cemetery Dance, each …

GORGOYLES – ISSUE#1 (COMIC) Written by: Tom Mandrake, Alexandre Michaud Pencils: Tom Mandrake, Luis Guaragna, Sherman McLain Cover: Tom Mandrake Inks: Tom Mandrake, Luis Guaragna, Sherman McLain Publisher: 13 Publications Publication Date: 2009 Format: Full Color – 32 pages Price: $2.99 Artwork: 4 out of 5 The first story, Bloody Ground, stood out to me as the best drawn. Very …

GIRLS AND CORPSES (MAGAZINE) – PRINT ISSUE #7 (VOL 2 – Winter) by Robert Steven Rhine Published by G&C Magazine Publication Date: 2008 Format: Color – 78 pages Price: $8.95 Well this wraps up the last of the batch of Girls and Corpses reads I have on hand. Though I still look forward to many more new issues to dive …

GIRLS AND CORPSES (MAGAZINE) – PRINT ISSUE #6 (VOL 2 – Fall) by Robert Steven Rhine Published by G&C Magazine Publication Date: 2008 Format: Color – 78 pages Price: $8.95 Rhine really knows how to win the hearts of the genre. Hot chicks combined with dead people. I guess it brings out the necrophilia in all of us, though I’m …

GIRLS AND CORPSES (MAGAZINE) – PRINT ISSUE #10 (VOL 2 – Spring) by Robert Steven Rhine Published by G&C Magazine Publication Date: 2010 Format: Color – 78 pages Price: $8.95 Is that a dead Romero on the cover? Yep you betcha….must mean Girls & Corpses have arrived in the mail. Though I’m gonna turn your attention real quick to page …

FLOWERS FROM HELL: THE MODERN JAPANESE HORROR FILM (PAPERBACK) by Jim Harper Published by Noir Publishing Publication Date: 2009 Format: Black /White with mid section color pages – 192 pages Price: $24.95 “Flowers from Hell” is a great overview of Asian horror films! Jim Harper has set out to really engage his readers by not only simply giving us a …