Issue: ’68 #1 Writer: Mark Kidwell Artist: Nat Jones, Tim Vigil Colors: Jay Fotos Letters: Jason Arthur Publisher: Image Release Date: April 2010 Pages: 36 Price: $3.99 “On February 13, 1968, during the darkest days of the Vietnam conflict, the gates of hell opened wide, unleashing new, hungry life into the countless war torn dead. The horrors of war take …

Cascading Intestinal Chunks with Lucifer Valentine “Slow Torture Puke Chamber”  Note: This interview contains some really sick images, turn back now if easily offended Modern horror no longer evokes fright from the dark recesses of the collective psyche. The screams of horror no longer are a cacophony of a primal atavistic nightmare unleashed upon both innocent and iniquitous prey. In …

Stephen Graham Jones is the author of 10 novels, 2 short story collections, and so many short stories even he has lost count. He was kind enough to talk to us about his work, both present and future, as well as the state of horror movies and why he doesn’t play video games. 2012 started with Zombie Bake-Off, pushed ahead …

Published by MARRS MEDIA INC. Publication Date: 2009 Format: Color – 70 pages Price: $9.95 I think the horror magazine cover of the year just arrived. Yes you got it, the latest Rue Morgue magazine features a striking illustration of David Naughton, as he dreams of becoming one of the undead. Hats off to Gary Pullin for the fine piece! …

Alfred Hitchcock’s Blackmail marked the first time, in British cinematic history, that sound was used for an entire feature film. The infamous American musical The Jazz Singer (1927) has been cited as the first film to use dialogue; however, Al Jolson’s notorious film barely passes as a “talkie” as it incorporated only a “few” lines of dialogue. When considering the inability to …

Growing up as a horror fan living in New Jersey meant that I was inundated by Lloyd Kaufman’s Troma films, a ridiculous amount of zombie films and, of course, Jersey Devil films. Since I had long ago adopted the typical horror fan’s code of skepticism (that is, many of us have a tendency to reject mainstream thinking and authority figures – …

SYNOPSIS: A young journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape which seems to cause the death of anyone in a week of viewing it. REVIEW: To review a film as groundbreaking as “The Ring”, is to note its contribution to not only the genre, but to the Asian horror market as a whole. The year was 2002, the Asian market was …

Rate This Movie  SYNOPSIS: Censored in several countries for its gratuitous violence, this controversial faux documentary from director Ruggero Deodato presents footage from a team of New York University filmmakers mysteriously lost in the Amazon jungle. The film, allegedly recovered by Professor Harold Moore, reveals the deplorable treatment of a tribe of suspected South American cannibals and, ultimately, the fate …

SYNOPSIS: Set in Middle America, a group of teens receive an online invitation for sex, though they soon encounter fundamentalists with a much more sinister agenda. REVIEW: The Black Saint was never really much of a Kevin Smith fan, Not that the man isn’t talented. None of his films (Besides “Dogma”) have ever struck me as particularly entertaining. And yes, …

David Lynch’s Modern Day Masterpiece Debuts On Blu-ray November 8 With Over 50 Minutes Of Never-Before-Seen Lost Footage  From the mind of David Lynch (Mulholland Drive, “Twin Peaks”) comes a visionary story so startling, so provocative, so mysterious that it will open your eyes to a world you have never seen before. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment celebrates the anniversary …

JournalStone Publishing (JSP) President, Christopher C. Payne is pleased to announce the signing of multi-year contracts with multi-award-winning, celebrated authors, Joe McKinney and Lisa Morton, each, respectively, for the publication of six new novels. Joe McKinney will be writing a currently undisclosed three-novel series as well as three stand-alone novels. Lisa Morton will be writing two three-novel series, the first …

While visions of sugar plums dance in the heads of many Yuletide-minded Americans, December brings another ghastly episode of the hit thriller TV series, “Lee Martin’s The Midnight Hour.” Premiering Thursday, December 1 and repeating Thursdays and Saturdays throughout December, “Slaughterhouse Sorority” tells the sordid tale of four college co-eds whose game of strip poker turns deadly when one of …

Issue: Family Bones Vol. 2 Writer: Shawn Granger Artists: Brent Giles, Mannie Abeleda, Pablo Agustin Lordi, Stefano Cardoselli, Kyle Strahm, Will Caligan Letters: Richard Nelson Publisher: King Tractor Press Release Date: 2010 Pages: 170 Price: $14.95 “This is the final volume of “Family Bones”, a true crime graphic novel about the elderly serial murderers from Missouri. In their 70’s, Ray …

 Exclusive Horrornews Interview: Maria Elena Laas Tell us a little about your character Detective Rios in the movie “Unknowns”?   Detective Rios is a young, tough detective with a hidden agenda. She competes with her peers to nail the killer (or killers?) of the unknown actors. Although she is mysterious in this first installment her story will unfold in the …

How did you get into filmmaking? One winter in Ohio it was so cold for so long that me and a friend decided to use my Dad’s old 8mm – not even super 8 – camera to do a Star Trek parody stop motion animation film. Turned out the camera was half broken, but I guess the results weren’t so …