The Pittsburgh Horror Film Festival intends to provide a stage for all film makers to display their work. With four separate screening rooms running simultaneously for 48 hours, the festival will show a minimum of one hundred films over the course of the weekend of June 3-5th 2011 at the Monroeville Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA. This allows us to …

Author Scott Nicholson and Amazon are giving away two Kindles as part of his fall book blog tour from September through November. A Kindle DX will be given away through the participating blogs, and a Kindle 3 will be given away through the tour newsletter. A Pandora’s Box of free ebooks will be given away through Nicholson’s “hauntedcomputer” Twitter account. …

IN CELEBRATION OF VEGETARIAN AWARENESS MONTH, PREPARE TO BE DEVOURED BY THE CAMPY HORROR FLICK TROLL 2 MGM Home Entertainment celebrates 20 years of the “Best Worst Movie” with this highly anticipated Blu-ray debut, arriving October 5th LOS ANGELES, CA (August 23, 2010) – “Oooooooh my gaaaaaaaawd…” Troll 2 is arriving on Blu-ray for the first time on October 5th …

During the Seventies and early Eighties, around the same time every evil child or expectant mother was becoming possessed by the Devil and slashers of every type were coming out of the woodwork to slaughter teens and campers on every given holiday, real estate was having a rough time dealing with ghosts and evil entities. While many of these features …

SYNOPSIS: “Five friends go to a cabin in the woods for a vacation. They discover The Book of the Dead and a tape recorder belonging to a professor, who also owns the cabin. One of them plays back what is recorded on the tape– which just happens to be Candarian resurrection passages translated from the Necronomicon (Book of the Dead) …

SYNOPSIS: “Count Orlok moves to Wisburg bringing the plague, which reveals his connection to the realtor Thomas Hutter, and the Count’s obsession with Hutter’s wife, Ellen – the only one with the power to end the evil.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: Back in the twenties, German director F.W. Murnau was so impressed with Bram Stoker‘s novel Dracula, he made Nosferatu: A …

SYNOPSIS: “The dead come back to life and eat the living in this low budget, black and white film. Several people barricade themselves inside a rural house in an attempt to survive the night. Outside are hordes of relentless, shambling zombies who can only be killed by a blow to the head.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: I am privileged, nay, honoured …

ToeTag Pictures.  Ever hear of it?  They are the film company behind the August Underground trilogy, The Redsin Tower, Maskhead, and Murder Collection V.1.  If you only watch mainstream horror releases then chances are you haven’t heard of them.  Formed by Fred Vogel and Jerami Cruise on April 1, 2004 ToeTag Pictures and Vogel are, I believe, the most important …

SYNOPSIS: A pair of bumbling wannabe jujitsu masters fight to survive a zombie infestation in Tokyo. REVIEW: Director: Sakichi Sato Cast: Tadanobu Asano, Show Aikawa, Kauzo Umezu, Erika Okuda, Shatoshi Hashimoto, Hina Matsuoka The Examination: Frequently funny zombie romp filled with zen, over-the-top slapstick and of course, nods to Romero. Zombies have never been as popular as they are these days and not …

SYNOPSIS: After the entire army under his command is slaughtered, General Pang Qingyun (Jet Li) finds himself to be the only remaining survivor (thanks to the fact that he played dead). He wanders about until he is taken in by a woman who feeds him and nurses him back to health. He soon meets up with two other men and …

Variety reports that Johnny Pacar, Toby Hemingway, Brooke Smith, Alessandra Torresani, Jonathan Keltz, Ambyr Childers, Daryl Mitchell and Jennifer Missoni have all been cast in the new demon run amok flick Playback. Michael A. Nickles is directing from his own script, centered on high school students digging into their town’s infamous past and unwittingly unlocking a demon that preys upon …

Even if you have never been to the site you are aware of Chatroulette as it’s reputation precedes itself. It’s typically a site where horny young men try to get woman to act out sexually for them or where men trick people into looking at their genitalia. We know this. However in an absolutely brilliant marketing campaign for the Last …

Get ready for another vampire film only this time it takes place in a post apocalyptic world. Stake Land is another bleak future vision of America where a boy named Martin watches the country collapse around him due to economic and political disasters. In the aftermath of the collapse somehow vampires rise up creating an epidemic sweeping what’s left of …

New Children of the Corn film in development Joel Soisson is writing and directing a new COTC film for Dimension Films. This one is called Children of the Corn: The Dweller. What we know so far is this “ Tim and Allie are heading out of LA and into the very warm California desert to see Tim’s father. The car …

The Hellraiser franchise has seen it’s share of ups and downs. The first two were phenomenal and the third was a big disappointment to say the least. Let’s not even talk about the fourth one in this series. Through it all there has been one constant however. It’s that Doug Bradley has been Pinhead. He plays the character well (as …

There seem to be some problems emerging with SCREAM 4/SCRE4M which are setting alarm bells  ringing with fans around the world. With creator Kevin Williamson either on or off the project  (depending what you read) and rewrites of the script having taken place, it’s easy to lose track  of what’s actually happening. The film is now shooting., and there seems …