“Chillingly atmospheric, MARA’s icy grip will send shivers down your spine from first frame to last.” Jim Wynorski, legendary independent filmmaker (“Chopping Mall,” “The Return of Swamp Thing,” “Piranhaconda”), after watching “Mara” Filmkoncept Scandinavia is proud to announce that the Swedish horror-thriller “Mara” will premiere on DVD and VOD in the U.S. and Canada during spring 2013. “Mara” is to …
Read More »Xlrator Media Sews up U.S. rights to American Mary
XLrator Media has acquired all U.S. rights to the horror sensation, AMERICAN MARY, written and directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska (Dead Hooker in a Trunk). The female-centric surgical horror-thriller will be released on XLrator Media’s newly announced Screamfest label in Fall 2013. “AMERICAN MARY is one of the most original, thought-provoking and subversive horror films I’ve ever seen. It …
Read More »Film Review: Whisper (short film)
SYNOPSIS: Mike moves into a new dorm room and finds something strange whispering to him at night in his closet. What is it and how far will Mike go to learn it’s secret? REVIEW: Now short films don’t come much more D.I.Y than Whisper does, and I mean that entirely in a good way. The filming took place in director …
Read More »Film Review: The House That Cried Blood (short film) (2012)
SYNOPSIS: Four teens venture up to Old Lady Death’s house to find the remains of her dead decomposing body they believe to be lying in the house. What they end up finding is far worse then what they could’ve imagined REVIEW: This has been described as ‘a Halloween short of badass proportions’ by the star Damian Maffei, but I wish …
Read More »Book Review: The Handy Physics Answer Book – Author Paul W. Zitzewitz
You don’t have to be a Physics major to appreciate a book like this. The book is called “The Handy Physics Answers Book“, published by Visible Ink and authored by Paul W. Zitzewitz. In the style of Visible ink’s other “Answers” books, “The Handy Physics Answers Book” provides an extremely easy-to-read “question to answer” format that any age could benefit …
Read More »DAEMONIUM – Chapter 2: The Zero Hour/ Online Premiere!
The feature length film done in episodes DAEMONIUM will be premiering the second Chapter online and totally for free thru the official YouTube channel and all social networks on the internet. This premiere of the second episode will come into effect on Friday December the 7that 10:00 pm Argentine time, 8:00 pm Eastern US and 5:00 pm Pacific Time US, …
Read More »Comedy Gone Horror by HorrorNews Staff
Welcome to our December HorrorNews Staff project, “Comedy Gone Horror” as myself and four other HNN writers explore some strange possibilities when we take your favorite comedy and family friendly movies and twist and distort them into something the horror genre would be proud of. What happens when these movies, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Spinal Tap, Toy Story, …
Read More »Film Review: The Comeback (1978)
SYNOPSIS: Seeking a little peace and quiet to write some new songs, a washed-up American singer moves into a secluded English house. But his mind isn’t on a new romance when he’s contacted by his ex-wife’s ghost, whose clues about her murder lead Jones to a confrontation with the killer. REVIEW: Unlike the more exploitative work for which Pete Walker …
Read More »Book Review: Trespass – Author Jo-Anne Russell
TRESPASS By: Jo-Anne Russell Ten short stories with a common theme of violation, sin or injustice. The Denturist: Bruce Jones makes a dark deal for a dazzling new smile Accidental Death: A writer’s dreams becomes a living nightmare as the story that tells itself goes horribly out of control Covenant of Flesh: Tyler realizes there is more to kinship than …
Read More »WWE: Attitude Era
WWE: Attitude Era DVD/Blu-Ray This collection of matches, highlights arguably the most popular time period in wrestling history. If you had your eyes open in the mid to late 1990’s then you probably heard about or witnessed this pop culture phenomenon. After the big wrestling boom in the 1980’s, things became stagnant and wrestling had a down period. It was …
Read More »Sneak A Peek at a Couple Teaser Clips for BATES MOTEL
Sure seems like HITCHCOCK and Hitch related items are all the rage this fall. A couple of movies based on his life and this new A&E series really shine a light on his legacy. The A&E series titled BATES MOTEL will shine a light in the early life and times of Norman Bates and his rather interesting obsession with his …
Read More »Film Review: The Selling (2011)
SYNOPSIS A real estate agent trying to raise money to pay for his mother’s hospital bills takes on a property that looks too good to be true, and is. REVIEW Horror-comedy is one of the most difficult movie tricks to pull off. Nine times out of ten the film isn’t frightening enough to be a horror and not funny enough …
Read More »Film Review: Bearz (short film) (2012)
SYNOPSIS: 6 year old Sam gets a birthday gift – a new teddy. Old Ted is not so pleased with this turn of events. A short horror filmette from Rob Parnell for R&R Film.
Read More »Film Review: Asylum (2008)
SYNOPSIS: When Jack, an aspiring young thug tangles with the wrong people he somehow gets an audition to work for the big time mob. After he botches one of his first jobs he goes on the lamb only to be captured, tortured and chained to a tree in a remote forest left to his own devices. Will he have the …
Read More »Film Review: Schizo (1976)
SYNOPSIS: A little girl watches helplessly as she is the sole witness to her mother’s murder. Years later, that little girl has grown into the beautiful skating star Samantha Gray (Lynne Frederick). But after her wedding announcement is published in the local newspaper, a man who becomes more and more obsessed with her begins turning up everywhere she goes. Samantha’s …
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