HOTWIRE: REQUIEM FOR THE DEAD #1 (COMIC) Written by Steve Pugh and Warren Ellis Art by Steve Pugh Published by Radical Publishing Publication Date: 2009 Format: Color – 28 pages Price: $2.99 Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead has a very cool premise. It is like if Ghostbusters was a serious science-fiction film. Alice Hotwire is a detective for the Necromancy …

HAGAR THE HORRIBLE: THE EPIC CHRONICLES: THE DAILIES 1973-1974 (HARDCOVER) Written by Dik Browne Published by Titan Books Publication Date: 2009 Format: B&W – 320 pages (Hardcover) Price: $19.95 Long before the Sammy Hagar and the Van Halen clan, came the Viking norseman cartoon strip that caught on almost overnight by one frustrated cartoonist. That cartoonist was Dik Browne. A …

HORROR HOUND (MAGAZINE) – PRINT ISSUE #20 ( 2009) Published by HorrorHound Ltd. Publication Date: 2009 Format: Color – 62 Pages Price: $6.99 If you’ve been following my reviews on the Horror Hound releases, you know by now that every issue is an exciting time for me. Add to that they have reached there 20th issue anniversary of what is …

HEINOUS Written by Jonathan Moon Published by Xlibris Corporation Publication Date: 2009 Format: B&W – 134 Pages Price: $19.95 Are you tired of going to your local bookstore to find a great horror novel only to return home empty handed? Looking for a book that features excellent writing, graphic violence, and realistic characters that you actually care about? Want to …

THE HAUNTED CAVES Based on a Screenplay By: Michael Stevens Adapted By: Sammy Montana Published by Devils Due Publishing Publication Date: 2008 Format: color – 48 pages Price: $5.95 Take a trip through the real Haunted Caves… I just got my monthly comic order in and within the batch of comics that I had ordered was the graphic novel, The …

SYNOPSIS: With appearances by the likes of Stephen King, Wes Craven and Stan Winston, this collection features Stanley Wiater — author and host of television’s “Dark Dreamers” — interviewing horror’s greatest writers, filmmakers and special effects artists. Chills and thrills abound with genre masters Clive Barker, Forrest J. Ackerman, Richard Matheson, Sean S. Cunningham, Julie Strain, John Landis, John Saxon, …

This week sees the DVD/BluRay debut of “The Last Exorcism” from Lionsgate films. To celebrate the launch of the film The Black Saint got to speak to one of the film’s stars (& Independent Spirit Award nominee for Beat Supporting Actress), Miss Ashley Bell. If you haven’t seen the film yet now is your chance to see a truly terrifying …

SYNOPSIS: “Doctor Meacham is chosen along with others by the inhabitants of the planet Metaluna to do research that will help save their dying planet. However, an evil scheme is uncovered by the suspecting Meacham when he discovers the Metalunan’s plan to take over Earth. Meacham then escapes an exploding Metalunan-built Earth lab along with Doctor Adams only to be …

If you haven’t heard of ‘Dear God No!’ yet, you are not alone. DGN is quite possibly the best kept genre secret out there right now. It is a retro biker-rape-revenge film… With a dash of Bigfoot. Helmed by “Dumpster Baby” director, James Bickert, DGN is throwback to everything that makes movies cool. A high-concept, practical effects driven (read: little …

SYNOPSIS: Alice, 32, a writer recovering from a psychological breakdown retreats to a remote Victorian house to convalesce and focus on finishing her screenplay in time for a fast approaching deadline. Shortly after her arrival, mysterious noises and strange happenings cause her imagination to run wild, sending her on a twisting and terrifying pursuit to find out what is behind …

The writer, director, and producer of THE AMATEUR MONSTER MOVIE, Kyle Richards describes his film as a no-budget, amateur comedy monster flick. Richards also stars in the film alongside Chris Ouchie, Dobie Maxwell, Kyle Richards, and Shawn Monaghan. The movie was shot in the Milwaukee area by King’s Tower Productions, and made its premiere in the city of its birth …

THQ and Volition announced a new project titled inSANE at Spike TV Video Game Awards in December. inSANE is the first in a trilogy of horror themed games for the XBOX 360, PC, and PS3 platforms. inSANE also marks THQ and Volition’s first collaboration with director Guillermo del Toro (The Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Labyrinth) in a multimedia project. According to …

After Dark Films have unveiled the poster for their upcoming film SCREAM OF THE BANSHEE. Starring Lauren Holly as Professor Isla Whelan and Lance Henriksen as Broderick Duncan, SCREAM OF THE BANSHEE is a new look at the Banshee mythos and will be released sometime in 2011. Official Synopsis: “An archeology professor unearths a dangerous artifact, unwittingly releasing a creature …

Starring Aaron Hursh, Jeff Rogstad, Wade Stover and Ryan Lalonde, Zombie! is a mock-reality TV show documenting the daily routine of young zombie Jim Turner (Hursh) who seeks to dispel zombie stereotypes. Director Paul Kell credits waking from a dream two weeks before shooting started and jotting down his concept about a zombie who was a normal guy for the …

The new poster for Kevin Smith’s RED STATE is titled Sarah, and it comes courtesy of Ma’s Meatloaf http://masmeatloaf.com/ who earned the right to premiere the poster after donating $1,000 to THARCE-Gulu http://tharce-gulu.org/. Including Sarah, there are now six posters for the film: The Father, The Sons, The Holy Ghost, The Virgin, and Caleb. The term Red State is used …

A strange little half-trailer popped up on youtube for John Carpenter’s THE WARD. In the trailer, that only runs for a little under a minute, a girl named Kristen sets fire to a house and then collapses. When she awakens she is in what appears to be a hospital, and there is something real bad wrong in the showers. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDp-GPQZdPY[/youtube] …