One of the most successful and prolific British production companies, Hammer Films has become synonymous with horror – most notably the unforgettable series of Dracula and Frankenstein films which were instrumental in launching the careers of my dear old friends Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Elevating the horror film in much the same fashion as the illustrious Ealing Studios did …

SYNOPSIS: “In 16th-century Prague, a Jewish rabbi creates a giant creature from clay, called the Golem, and using sorcery, brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: The Gothic tradition had always been stronger in Germany than anywhere else, ever since the Romantic Movement at the beginning of the Nineteenth …

Horror cinema is almost as old as cinema itself, for the very good reason that fantasy is implicit in the very nature of film. Action can be slowed down or speeded up, people can be made to appear or disappear, scale can be altered so that people can become giants or mannequins, double-exposure allows one actor to play two roles …

With the Chiller Theatre Expo celebrating its 20th anniversary this October 29-31 at the Hilton Parsippany in New Jersey, another historic milestone will take place at the event, namely a 30th anniversary cast reunion of Lucio Fulci’s masterpiece CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (aka THE GATES OF HELL). An unprecedented seven participants from this 1980 Italian shocker will be part …

The All-Star Cast Includes Academy Award® Winners Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker, Plus Clifton Collins Jr, Cam Gigandet, and Maggie Grace Experience It on Blu-ray Disc™ and DVD September 21 CULVER CITY, CALIF. (July 12, 2010) – Academy Award® winners Adrien Brody (star of the upcoming Predators; Winner of Best Actor, The Pianist, 2002) and Forest Whitaker (Best Actor, The …

Gharial Productions, a San Diego based production company, has just announced that they have just purchased rights for “The Kult” and will begin filming. The screenplay is based on the novel The Kult by UK author Shaun Jeffrey. Gharial Productions went into negotiations with Leucrota Press in late November and emerged with a solid contract offer and now acceptance. The …

In Asylum’s style of bringing us big movie monsters popularized with the mega films, we get to witness the rebirthing of a legendary creature coming to us soon in 2010 A modern adaptation of the classic novel of the captain of a high tech submarine and his obsessive quest to destroy the prehistoric whale that maimed him

Joel David Moore (Avatar), Mercedes McNab (“Buffy The Vampire Slayer”), Richard Riehle (Office Space), and horror cinema legends Robert “Freddy Krueger” Englund, Tony “Candyman” Todd, with Kane “Jason Voorhees” Hodder as Victor Crowley, HATCHET is a gory throwback to the classic 1980s slasher/creature horror films. HATCHET on Blu-ray™ features an all new 1080p high-definition transfer of the unrated “Director’s Cut” …

[dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xefdfh_the-victim-bts_shortfilms[/dailymotion] Yesterday B-D was on set of new psychological horror-thriller The Victim, directed by newcomer Brock Morse and starring genre faves Michael Biehn (“Aliens”, “Grindhouse”) and Danielle Harris (Rob Zombie’s “Halloween”, “Hatchet 2”), and we’ve now been given exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of a scene in which Biehn struggles with a crooked cop, played by Ryan Honey, during which Biehn the …

Nightbeasts has been selected to screen at the Arpa International film Festival at the historic Hollywood Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood California Sept 21-26. 2010. This will be the LA premiere of the film which stars Zach Galligan of {Gremlins) fame. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJWI4mTBbDE[/youtube]

SAVE THE SPACE FOR GRINDHOUSE RIP-ROARING, ADRENALINE-PUMPING DOUBLE FEATURE TWICE AS SATISFYING – GRINDHOUSE Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof and Robert Rodriguez’ Planet Terror Debut On 2-Disc Blu-Ray And Back-to-Back In Original Theatrical Format From The Weinstein Company And Vivendi Entertainment

On Sunday August 22nd at 2:00p.m. Dark Delicacies will host a signing for two authors of monster and zombies tales. Don Borchert will be signing his new zombie mash-up novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead. Joining Don will be Screenwriter/Novelist S. S. Wilson singing his first novel Tucker’s Monster. Mr. Wilson is probably best known for penning …

The American Cinematheque Presents Brave New World: An In Person Tribute to Ken Russell Aero & Egyptian Theatres Co-presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts /Los Angeles Director Ken Russell has long been one of England’s most iconoclastic, provocative and visually (and aurally) stunning directors. He first made a name for himself at the BBC, where he …

SYNOPSIS: “A carnival barker displays a sideshow freak called the Feathered Hen and tells her story. Cleopatra, a trapeze artist with the carnival, is adored by a midget named Hans. Frieda, Hans’ fiancée (also a midget), warns Hans that Cleopatra is only interested in him so that he will give her money. Cleopatra has an affair with Hercules, and when …

SYNOPSIS: “Near an isolated beach on California’s coast, a sinister plan is underway in a laboratory of horror. Three renegade scientists have resurrected the Frankenstein Monster and they have also created a genetically engineered half-man half fish abomination, to use as secret weapons in the fight against terrorists worldwide. However, disaster strikes when the terrifying monsters chemical brainwashing fails and …

Although she passed away in December 1986, Virginia Andrews‘ name lives on as one of the world’s biggest selling novelists, with over seventy million copies of her books and stories in print. Often described inaccurately as horror novels, her tales reveal the dark side of human nature, mixing Dickensian motivations with Gothic melodrama to create a hybrid fiction that has …