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Film Review: Needle (2010)

SYNOPSIS: A killer uses an 18th century machine with supernatural powers to terrorize students at Saint Mary’s REVIEW: Don’t you love a movie about curiosities that should be better left alone. In this case, a box…(though it’s not square or presided over by a demon from the Cenobium tribe). However it’s rather mystic in its own right. What happens when …

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Film Review: Fear Island (aka Deep Cove) (2009)

SYNOPSIS: After a blowout party at a secluded island cabin, five friends make a shocking discovery: a dead body and the only boat off the island gone. Trapped and unable to call for help, they become prey to a mysterious killer seeking revenge. Together, they must decipher the murderer’s chilling series of clues to reveal the island’s secret past … …

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Jason Dark: Ghost Hunter – economic 99 Cents offer

LOS ANGELES, CA – Thunder Peak Publishing, a division of international content developer G3 Studios, today announced the price reduction of the digital version of “Demons Night,” the first volume in the Jason Dark: Ghost Hunter series of dime novels. Since its launch earlier this year, the series has steadily built a catalog of stories, exploring a wide variety of …

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Still ‘Psycho’ after all these Years – a movie overview

WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS NUMEROUS DESCRIPTIONS OF THE PLOT Peripherally based on the real life character of Ed Gein, who killed two people in the 1950s and kept their body parts, the Alfred Hitchcock film Psycho still resonates as one of the greatest horror films of all time, even 50 years after its 1960 release. Published shortly after the discovery …

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Vampire Circus: rolls its caravan onto Bluray 12.14.10

DO YOU PREFER YOUR VAMPIRES VIOLENT, BLOODTHIRSTY, AND MEAN? SYNAPSE FILMS LETS THE ANIMAL FUR FLY WITH VAMPIRE CIRCUS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER IN HIGH-DEFINITION AND BLU-RAY! A little girl is brutally slain by a vampire in a tiny 19th century Austrian village. Seeking revenge, the townspeople invade the foreboding castle of Count Mitterhaus and kill him for the …

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Signed Copies of RAIJU

Author Karen Koehler, whose book Raiju I reviewed for Famous Monsters of Filmland has stated on her blog that her mother has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She has to undergo a double mastectomy. For those who know someone stricken with any type of cancer, you know what a toll it can take physically, emotionally and financially. Karen is offering …

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Book Review: Dead Future – Issue 2

DEAD FUTURE #2 (COMIC) Writers: Sebastian Piccione, Candy Hart, Daniel Palmer Artists: Martinho Abreu, Julio Falkenhagen, Juha Veltti Letters: Martin Brandt II, Juha Veltti Publisher: Grim Crew Publication Date: 2009 Format: 40 pages Price: $3.99 ” The stories of undeath continue in anthology two. These tales of the undead, arisen to devour the living, leaving nothing but a wasteland behind …

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Book Review: Dark Delicacies – Issue 1

DARK DELICACIES ISSUE #1 (COMIC) written by F. Paul Wilson, Steve Niles, Joe R. Lansdale and Neal Barrett Jr., Published by IDW Publication Date: 2009 Format: Color Price: $3.99 Dark Delicacies is the first edition from the IDW line of comics to come our way. Set up like “Tales from he Crypt” each edition is designed to feature 2 horror …

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Film Review: Prey (1978)

SYNOPSIS: Barry Stokes, Sally Faulkner and Glory Annan star in this horror film about an alien with a yen for human flesh. After landing his spacecraft on Earth in a remote part of Britain, an alien kills a young man, assumes his identity and shows up at the home of Jessica and her jealous lover, Josephine. Unaware that the strange …

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Horror Talk: 11.10.10

Greetings, boys and ghouls! Welcome back to Horror Talk, hosted once again by your friendly neighborhood gorehound and indie filmmaker extraordinaire, Travis Legge. I have not gotten the ax as of yet, so apparently I must be doing something right! Let me begin by giving a big thank you to the readers who shared and reposted the link to last …

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Book Review: Dead of Night (featuring Manthing) – Issues 1-4

DEAD OF NIGHT #1-4 (Comics) Writer: Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa Artist: ‘Kano’ #1, Brian Denham #2, Javier Saltares #3 From Max Comics (Marvel Comics adult line) Publication Date: 2008 Format: Full Color, 22 pages Price: $3.99 Ted Sallis lives in Citrusville Florida. Or at least he lived there when he was human. Ted is a renown Biologist/Chemist working to create something called …

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