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Ho! Ho! Horror! So Christmas just may be the real season of horror. With a strange old man crawling down your chimney, eating your food… watching your every action and putting you on a list?! And your kids sitting in his lap in shopping malls, giving him a list of merch for his sweat shop to crank out? That’s creepier …

Whether you are naughty or nice, the celebrated Horrible Imaginings Film Festival closes out a frightfully successful year with their final gift to you. More than just an assembly of horror short films from around the world, the Campfire Tales series has become a snapshot of the diverse and infamous shorts that are submitted to the southern California based horror …

It’s Christmas Eve and Santa is out and about spreading joy… with a hatchet and some BBQ skewers.  Cannibal Claus is the modern tale of a mall Santa Claus who is down on his luck at Christmas time. Instead of staying in on Christmas Eve, he decides to go out and punish the naughty in this blood drenched, meat filled …

GRUESOME ZOMBIE HORROR FEATURE PREMIERES ON DIGITAL AND ON-DEMAND JANUARY 18, 2022 DVD AND BLU-RAY™ ARRIVE ON HOME ENTERTAINMENT SHELVES FEBRUARY 8, 2022 Brace yourself for one of the most unflinchingly tense post-apocalyptic terrors when the new zombie horror feature LIVE OR LET DIE, written and directed by Manuel Urbaneck, unleashes on VOD and digital on January 18, 2022 and …

ALLIGATOR (COLLECTOR’S EDITION) SLITHERS OUT ON FEBRUARY 22, 2022 IN A 4K UHD™ + BLU-RAY™ COMBO PACK FROM SCREAM FACTORY It lives 50 feet beneath the city. It’s 36 feet long. It weighs 2,000 pounds… and it’s about to break out! Alligator (Collector’s Edition) comes snapping on February 22, 2022 in a 4K UHD™ + Blu-ray™ combo pack from Scream …

If a ghost shows herself to you in the mirror and asks: “Do you want to stay pretty?” What would your answer be? From Tokyo Bay Films, and filmmaker Wilco C.Rullens, comes the terrifying STAY PRETTY, NO PITY – available exclusively and free on YouTube this holiday season. Starring Maria Ozawa, the 11-minute fright-fest is based on the Japanese folklore of …

Cinedigm, the leading independent streaming company super-serving enthusiast fan bases, announced today that Into Schrödinger’s Box, the psychological thriller from directors Amir Ganjavie and Nasim Naghavi, is coming exclusively to the Company’s independent streaming service, Fandor, starting December 1. Filmed throughout the early, panic-stricken period of the COVID-19 pandemic, Into Schrödinger’s Box delivers a mindful exploration of the dread and fear associated with quarantine and self-isolation, while providing ambiguous …

Award-winning comic publisher Storm King Comics has announced their yearly holiday bundles as well as two panels they will be participating in at Emerald City Comic-Con. Their horror holiday season ends strong closer to home at Comic Con Revolution Ontario. Storm King booths at conventions and direct online sales are the only ways for fans to purchase signed John Carpenter …

SITE 13, the indie horror film from Nathan Faudree, co-writer of Travis Stevens’ A WOUNDED FAWN, has set it’s WORLD PREMIERE as an official selection of the New York City Horror Film Festival on December 4th at 9.

Vortex: The Dawn of Sovereignty wins 5 awards at Cannes World Film Festival – Best Mystic/Spiritual Movie – Best Sci Fi Movie – Best Realtor of the Future – Best Director of a First Long Film – Best Sound Band. Now available from Bayview Entertainment. Synopsis: It’s 2047. Every human being is identified and traced by large surveillance and censorship …

The Night Weaver by Author, Monique Snyman Shadow Grove isn’t a typical town. Bad things happen here. Children disappear, one after the other, and nobody is doing anything about it. Parents don’t grieve, missing posters don’t line the streets, and the sheriff seems unconcerned. Seventeen-year-old Rachel Cleary lives on the outskirts of Shadow Grove, next to the creepy forest everyone …

A new series of short videos for horror fans titled FRIGHTENING FUN FACTS. They’re five minute long, safe for work funny pieces. EPISODE ONE Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpW_bVUOngo&t=125s DESCRIPTION: Hungry for some intriguing, funny and occasionally creepy facts? Check out the first episode of FRIGHTENING FUN FACTS! Was Plan 9 From Outer Space director Ed Wood a government agent? What famous actress …

Travel Channel and discovery+ have greenlit second seasons of two freshman horror anthology series, THE HAUNTED MUSEUM and ELI ROTH PRESENTS: A GHOST RUINED MY LIFE. Both series debuted to much success on discovery+ this past October during the streamer’s big “Ghostober” programming event. THE HAUNTED MUSEUM, a scripted series produced by renowned filmmaker Eli Roth and in conjunction with …

Er… Giving? Happy Thankskilling my Victims! As for giving… I hope to give you thrills, chills, and mayhem with my new Special: Thankskilling: the Guest! Starring, Created, Directed, Written, and Edited by Jennifer Nangle.