The Insomniac journeyed to Toronto for the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear. The convention is part of Fan Expo Canada which contains horror, gaming, anime, Sci Fi and comic book sections. It is not uncommon to see Jason Voorhees face down a troop of stormtroopers. The horror people seem to be strangely the least crazy and the more let’s just …

SYNOPSIS: For 20 years a man named Luther Baxter posed as Gurdy The Clown, better known to the public as the Teardrop Killer. Two news reporters, looking for a front page article to write, go into investigating the Teardrop Killer, only to find themselves face to face with the killer himself. REVIEW: So as we start we role credits over …

SYNOPSIS: After killing her abusive cop husband, Mike (Michael Paré), Marnie (Famke Janssen) returns to New York to serve the remainder of her manslaughter sentence under house arrest. But Mike’s vengeful ghost isn’t done taunting her in this gripping supernatural thriller. Meanwhile, Mike’s ex-partner (Bobby Cannavale) keeps close tabs on Marnie, who must wear an ankle bracelet that doesn’t allow …

Written by Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc Published by KameraBooks Publication Date: 2007 Format: Color & Black /White – 192 pages Price: $16.95 Much is the wonder of the works of enigmatic director/ artist David Lynch. So much that even for hard pressed fans, it sometimes takes news ideas, and opinions to get the essence of his movies into …

BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF ZOMBIE CINEMA (PAPERBACK) Written by Jamie Russell Published by FAB Press Publication Date: 2005 Format: Black /White & color – 352 pages Price: $29.95 A scant five years ago, I would have beaten you upside the head for considering the idea of allowing the possibility to start to think about crossing your …

Written by Diane Law Published by Ulysses Press Publication Date: 2009 Format: B/W- 336 pages Price: $14.95 Far removed from the cinema and its fictitious tales of axe wielding, chainsaw hacking and iconic slasher fare are the true horrors of present day realities. Author Diane Law knows too well that monsters do exist and can be as close as next …

Writer: Rick Copp Artist: Mikhail Drujic Colors: Jacinto Guerrero Letters: David Hedgec**k Cover Artist: Sanford Greene Publisher: Ape Entertainment Publication Date: 2010 Format: Full Color – 96 pages Price: $12.95 “The clueless young celebrities that rule Hollywood have a new adversary in town—ravenous cannibal zombies!!! Can our self-absorbed, dumbass celebutants dig down deep enough to emerge as heroes or will …

Someone asked me recently why I liked horror movies. They asked me that because they do not. While I can appreciate one’s personal preferences, the question struck me, as I have always liked horror. While I may not have been on this Earth as long as the undead, I have seen many a horror flick in my short time here. …

Author and filmmaker Gregory Lamberson is pressing full steam ahead with his horror novel series “The Jake Helman Files,” which began with his first literary effort, Personal Demons. Medallion Press publishes the second book, Desperate Souls, as a trade paperback October 1st, with two more volumes, Cosmic Forces and Tortured Spirits, completed for 2011 and 21012, respectively. In addition, occult …

“If you find your nightmares a bit undernourished or your day trips a bit too sunny, The New England Grimpendium is the guide for you.” Countryman Press (a division of W.W. Norton & Co., New York) is pleased to announce the September 2010 release of the new book, The New England Grimpendium by J.W. Ocker. The New England Grimpendium catalogs hundreds …

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8m3dgjsF3E&feature=related[/youtube] The video for The Birthday Massacre’s new single IN THE DARK from their upcoming Pins And Needles album is now live! The video, which they co-directed with founding band member Mike Falcore, is an homage to the horror movies of the 1980s with nods to Legend, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Hellraiser and others. In other Rue Morgue Cinema …

SYNOPSIS: “Mystery hangs over the Rill Ski Resort in Colorado after a young skier is found killed by an animal. But no ordinary animal. The Town Sheriff and Naturalists believe it could be a Yeti – the creature that was seen for years in the Colorado Rockies and North Western America. After many other skiers are found dead, Tony Rill …

Possibly the most interesting science fiction film of 1957 was Jack Arnold‘s The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). After passing through a radioactive cloud while on a motor boat, combined with later exposure to dangerous pesticides, the man begins to decrease in size, slowly at first, and then much faster. By the time he’s a mere three feet tall it’s become …

SYNOPSIS: “In the future, natural disasters (earthquakes, floods) have ravaged the Earth, leaving the Earth as a world where pockets of communities live within canyons whilst a violent wind known as the Slipstream rules the Earth and the only means of transport are airplanes. Matt Owens is a daredevil adventurer who kidnaps Byron, a fugitive wanted for murder, who is …

SYNOPSIS: “Freeman Lowell looks after plants in giant space greenhouses. Back on earth, all the trees have long vanished, so Lowell puts a lot of heart into his work. When orders from earth are received to destroy the greenhouses, Lowell can’t go through with it, and cannot persuade his three colleagues to help him save the plants, so he makes …

Way back in the sixties, way before Elvira, a favourite amongst Australian students was Deadly Earnest, the television schlock horror host on the 0-10 Network. Late on Friday nights, the atrocious old science fiction and horror films became compulsory viewing, solely because of the Gothic Master of Ceremonies. Actors portraying Deadly Earnest were: Ian Bannerman (TEN-10 Sydney); Ralph Baker (ATV-0 …