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Film Review: Mary Loss of Soul (2014)

SYNOPSIS: After disappearing one night while vacationing at her family’s lake house, fifteen year old Mary seems far from quite the same. Sullen, filled with angst and melancholy, at first glance she appears to be just like any other teenaged girl. Yet even her family can’t quite seem to connect with her. After closer investigation its evident Mary’s soul has …

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Entertainment Earth – Alien Action Figure Giveaway

Horrornews.net is once again teaming with Entertainment Earth for an out of this world giveaway opportunity!  With Alien: Convenant being released theatrically this week,  we thought it would be the perfect time to giveaway some cool Alien swag!   To enter a chance to win the Aliens Reaction 3 Pack, please email HNN at joyhorror@msn.com and put “Alien Giveaway” in the …

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Film Review: The Objective (2008)

SYNOPSIS: Two months after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, CIA agent Ben Keynes (Jonas Ball) journeys to Afghanistan to lead an elite special forces team across the barren desert sands in search of a mysterious man named Mohammed Aban. But as the crew slowly divines the real purpose of the mission, they are drawn into a stranger, darker and …

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Film Review: Pickman’s Muse (2009)

SYNOPSIS: Robert Pickman is an artist who has seemed to have lost his passion. Robert sees a doctor who makes sure that Robert is constantly in supply of pills to make him feel better, even Roberts landlady wants to help by introducing him to her pretty niece. Robert however doesn’t need love or emotion he just needs an inspiration and …

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Book Review: Company of Shadows – Author Paul Gerrard

It’s only once in great while that an illustration-art book comes along with enough “meat” and chaos brooding inside to grab my full attention. Perhaps it is my fascination with all things Hellraiser or “Hellraiser-like” (for that matter) that makes me a little more bias towards materials rooting themselves in this particular universe. However with that said, this is indeed …

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My Top 10 Favorite Troma Flicks

Welcome to Tromaville… This is Lloyd Kaufman’s home away from home. President of Troma he’s done a ton of his own films as well as has released many upon many of other people’s films. And I am going to give you my top 10. Now understand my top 10 may not be anywhere near your favorite but I will explain …

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Book Review: Hacked – Author Tim Miller

Tim Miller continues to push the boundaries with his extreme horror novel Hacked. Hacked is the classic tale of online predator gone extreme. When reading the book, the story immediately captures the late seventies early eighties gritty feel. The writing style is crisp, the characters are believable and actually care for except for some I would rather not give away. …

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Film Review: Rupture (2016) – Review 2

SYNOPSIS: A single mother is abducted by a group of mysterious people who subject her to a series of terrifying experiments. REVIEW: I saw the trailer for Rupture several weeks ago and didn’t think that it looked like it was anything special. To me it appeared to be just another forgettable torture p*rn flick with very little going for it. …

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Film Review: Death Doll (1989)

SYNOPSIS: Trish, a young pregnant widow’s life becomes a nightmare when she starts getting threatening phone calls from a mysterious stranger. But things only get worse when the phantom caller graduates to stalking her. He also leaves ceramic dolls lying around to terrify Trish and justify the film’s title. REVIEW: The horror genre loves creepy dolls. Whether they’re the antique …

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Top 13 Horror Villians That Would Kill You

Now we all know horror movies are just that, movies, and the characters on screen could never actually come into our bedrooms and kill us…or could they? Now I’m not talking about the terrors from Aliens or The Descent or even Poltergeist. I am talking about real flesh and blood people that could actually come into your bedroom and drive …

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Film Review: Eloise (2017)

SYNOPSIS: Four friends break into an abandoned insane asylum in search of a death certificate which will grant one of them a large inheritance. However, finding it soon becomes the least of their worries in a place haunted by dark memories. REVIEW: Robert Legato, who directed Eloise, received Academy Awards as part of the teams on Hugo (2011) and The …

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Film Review: Teenage Ghost Punk (2014)

SYNOPSIS: Newly-divorced Carol moves with her kids, Amanda (16) and Adam (12), from rural Michigan to a Victorian house near Chicago. As the three begin to adjust to their new surroundings, strange things start happening. Creepy noises. Unexplained messes. Old punk rock albums missing. Suspecting the house is haunted, Adam and Amanda hire a wacky medium and a team of …

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Film Review: The Place (short film) (2017)

SYNOPSIS: A short film featuring the artwork of Luke Layal and the music of Bong Torrez REVIEW: More short films, kiddies! Today we have a Prank Monkey Moving Picture (UK) called THE PLACE, written by Nick Foster and Luke Layal. Not so much animated as it is a “motion comic”, the film tells a classic gothic horror-type story through a …

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Film Review: Cathy’s Curse (1977)

SYNOPSIS: Eight-year-old Cathy and her family return to their ancestral family home where she falls under the spell of a vengeful ghost. Once possessed by the evil spirit, Cathy starts cursing like a David Mamet play and killing anyone who challenges her power. REVIEW: CATHY’S CURSE is one of the legions of low budget films that rode the coat tails …

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Interview: Sung Rae Cho (The Transfiguration)

Sung Rae Cho (Shoichi) or Sho as he goes by, was born in Kyoto Japan and currently resides in New York City. He is the Director of Photography for The Transfiguration and has worked on numerous films.  The Transfiguration first premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section.  Sho captured the film’s moody images and …

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