SYNOPSIS: Ellen Carter is an award-winning True Crime novelist whose specialty is in her ability to get her subjects, serial killers, to reveal the motivations behind their murderous tendencies. She unwittingly leases out a room in her home to the nondescript, polite gentleman Leslie Steckler who just happens to have a dark secret. Mr. Steckler is the White Angel, the …
Read More »Film Review: The Cutting Room (2011)
SYNOPSIS: Jordan is making an indie slasher flick but is having trouble getting the kill scenes to look the way he wants them to. Good for him he has Edit, the lovely Goth film editor, who is taking the initiative to make his shots better looking and more realistic. Problem is that his cast and crew are disappearing. REVIEW: The …
Read More »Film Review: Hatchet II (2010)
Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: Marybeth escapes the clutches of the deformed, swamp-dwelling iconic killer Victor Crowley. After learning the truth about her family’s connection to the hatchet-wielding madman, Marybeth returns to the Louisiana swamps along with an army of hunters to recover the bodies of her family and exact the bloodiest revenge against the bayou butcher. REVIEW: Hey acolytes, what’s …
Read More »The Occult Cinema of H.P LoveCraft
As the stars align in weird conglomerations, this edition of Esoterror Sinema shall stick the blade of cinematic bullsh*t into the subject of occultism within the films adapted from the works of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. The literary genius of H.P. Lovecraft is well known to anyone with even the most infantile understanding of the origins of horror and understands his …
Read More »Book Review: Dungeon the Early Years: Inn – Author Lewis Trondheim
DUNGEON THE EARLY YEARS 2: INNOCENCE LOST (DUNGEON: THE EARLY YEARS) (PAPERBACK) Written by Lewis Trondheim Lewis Trondheim (Author), Joann Sfar (Author), Christophe Blain (Illustrator) Published by Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing Publication Date: 2009 Format: Color – 96 Pages Price: $12.95 Dungeon – the Early years, Vol 2. Innocence Lost continues the long lasting Dungeon series cartoon epic. Well I …
Read More »Book Review: Devil’s Knot – The True Story of the West Memphis 3 – Author Mara Leveritt
DEVIL’S KNOT : THE TRUE STORY OF THE WEST MEMPHIS THREE Written by Mara Leveritt Published by Atria Books Publication Date: 2003 Format: B&W – 404 pages Price: $15.00 Hell-o, True Crime buffs (and false imprisonment Fighters). This review is for a novel that I hold near and dear to my heart. I am a big part in the battle …
Read More »Book Review: Devil – Issue 2 – Author Torajiro Kishi
DEVIL #2 (COMIC) Story & Art: Torajiro Kishi, Madhouse Studios Letters: Sasquatch Editors: Tim Ervin Cover Artist: Torajiro Kishi Publisher: Dark Horse Publication Date: 2010 Format: Full Color – 28 Price: $3.50 “Could there ever be such thing as a vampire virus? Sounds like the stuff of sci-fi and horror all wrapped up in one, and that’s what makes Devil …
Read More »Book Review: Devil – Issue 1
DEVIL #1 (COMIC) Story & Art: Torajiro Kishi, Madhouse Studios Letters: Sasquatch Editors: Tim Ervin Cover Artist: Torajiro Kishi Publisher: Dark Horse Publication Date: 2010 Format: Full Color – 28 Price: $3.50 A virus is raging across the planet, turning people into bloodsucking superhumans referred to as “Devils.” Most victims die within days, sometimes months, but there’s a new strain, …
Read More »Wake Wood: Quad and trailer release
[dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgsqsn_wake-wood-2011-uk-trailer_shortfilms[/dailymotion] SYNOPSIS The village of Wake Wood in rural Ireland has preserved a tradition which enables its inhabitants to bring a person back from the dead for three days, one year after their death, in order to say a final farewell to their loved ones, before they make their final journey to the spirit world. Patrick and Louise Daly have …
Read More »Very Cool ‘Black Swan’ FX Demo Reel
[dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgsqvc_black-swan-fx-demo-reel_shortfilms[/dailymotion] Check it out!, even seeing how its done doesnt make it any less cool to watch
Read More »Book Review: Embracing the Darkness – Author Corvis Nocturnum
EMBRACING THE DARKNESS; UNDERSTANDING DARK SUBCULTURES Written by Corvis Nocturnum Art by Corvis Nocturnum Published by Dark Moon Press Publication Date: 2005 Format: B&W – 242 pages Price: $17.95 Publication Date: 2005 Format: B&W – 242 pages Price: $17.95 Making the assumption that this was a “how to be a Goth book” would be a mistake. Why I say this, …
Read More »Book Review: Doorway Unto Darkness – Author Larry Niven / Owen Keehnen
DOORWAY UNTO DARKNESS Written by Owen Keehnen Published by: Dancing Moon Press Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black / White – 280 pages Price: $15.00 Possession, evil, darkness, brutality, and gore are all words that could be used to describe Owen Keehnen’s Doorway Unto Darkness. Keehnen tells the tale of a man possessed by an all-consuming, powerful, and unmerciful evil; a …
Read More »Comic Review: Dingo – Issue 2
DINGO- ISSUE#2 (COMIC) Creator & Writer: Michael Alan Nelson Artist: Francesco Biagini Colors: Stephen Downer Letters: James Dashiell Editors: Matt Gagnon, Dafna Pleban Cover Artists: Francesco Biagini, Paul Harmon Published by: Boom Studios Publication Date: 2010 Format: Full Color – 24 pages Price: $3.99 “Dingo thought all his problems were behind him. Sure, his brother asked an impossible favor. Yes, …
Read More »Book Review: Digital Horror Art – Author Martin McKenna
DIGITAL HORROR ART: CREATING CHILLING HORROR AND MACABRE IMAGES Written by Martin McKenna Published by Course Technology PTR; 1 edition Publication Date: 2006 Format: Color – 160 pages Price: $29.99 It’s not very often you see books published on the subject. But it doesn’t change the fact that Horror Art is an extremely popular field that crosses over into film, …
Read More »Book Announcement: Willy – Author Robert Dunbar
Willy by Robert Dunbar (Uninvited Books) In a school for boys with emotional problems, a disturbed adolescent struggles against a mire of superstition and oppression. Then he meets Willy … and the other boy – charismatic and strange – saves him. Or damns him.
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