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Don Borchert and S. S. Wilson to sign at Dark Delicacies

On Sunday August 22nd at 2:00p.m. Dark Delicacies will host a signing for two authors of monster and zombies tales. Don Borchert will be signing his new zombie mash-up novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead. Joining Don will be Screenwriter/Novelist S. S. Wilson singing his first novel Tucker’s Monster. Mr. Wilson is probably best known for penning …

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KEN RUSSELL in person with THE DEVILS and ALTERED STATES! Fri, Aug. 20, 7:30 pm, Aero Theater

The American Cinematheque Presents Brave New World: An In Person Tribute to Ken Russell Aero & Egyptian Theatres Co-presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts /Los Angeles Director Ken Russell has long been one of England’s most iconoclastic, provocative and visually (and aurally) stunning directors. He first made a name for himself at the BBC, where he …

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Film Review: Freaks (1932)

Rate this FilmSYNOPSIS: “A carnival barker displays a sideshow freak called the Feathered Hen and tells her story. Cleopatra, a trapeze artist with the carnival, is adored by a midget named Hans. Frieda, Hans’ fiancée (also a midget), warns Hans that Cleopatra is only interested in him so that he will give her money. Cleopatra has an affair with Hercules, …

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Film Review: Frankenstein Versus The Creature From Blood Cove (2005)

Rate this FilmSYNOPSIS: “Near an isolated beach on California’s coast, a sinister plan is underway in a laboratory of horror. Three renegade scientists have resurrected the Frankenstein Monster and they have also created a genetically engineered half-man half fish abomination, to use as secret weapons in the fight against terrorists worldwide. However, disaster strikes when the terrifying monsters chemical brainwashing …

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Book Review: Flowers In The Attic – Author Virginia Andrews

Although she passed away in December 1986, Virginia Andrews‘ name lives on as one of the world’s biggest selling novelists, with over seventy million copies of her books and stories in print. Often described inaccurately as horror novels, her tales reveal the dark side of human nature, mixing Dickensian motivations with Gothic melodrama to create a hybrid fiction that has …

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Film Review: Eyes Beyond

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: The Morales brothers are new to town so their next door neighbors the Rogers pay them a visit to welcome them to the community (and give them a set of steak knives, which is an odd housewarming gift if you ask me). The Rogers decide to stay for dinner but soon regret their decision as they …

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All ChiZine Publications’ Titles Now Available For Kindle on Amazon.co.uk

TORONTO, Ontario (August 10, 2010) – ChiZine Publications (CZP) has made the eBook versions of their titles available on amazon.co.uk, the UK version of Amazon.com. With UK-natives such as Tim Lebbon, Philip Nutman and Simon Logan on their growing roster, CZP co-publisher Brett Alexander Savory felt it important to give these authors’ home market greater access to their work: “Tim …

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Film Review: The Evil Mind (1934)

Rate this FilmSYNOPSIS: “Maximus, a small-time music hall mind reader, has frightening flashes of precognition; but he cannot predict or control them – until he realizes he has them in the presence of Christine, attractive daughter of a publisher, who makes Rene, his equally lovely wife, wretchedly jealous. But worse trouble comes to Maximus when he’s accused of causing a …

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Spirits and Monsters with upcoming film “The Tempest” – 1 sheet

Synopsis: In Shakespeare’s fantastical thriller the magician Prospero orchestrates spirits, monsters, a grief-stricken king, a wise old councillor, two treacherous brothers and a storm at sea into a fantastical conspiracy bringing banishment, sorcery and shipwreck into the lives of two hapless lovers to stir and seal their fate. Here Prospero takes female form as Prospera, giving her journey of vengeance …

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Film Review: Eccentric Psycho Cinema (7 in series) (1998) – CAT III

Rate this Film Partial SYNOPSIS Shinji Imaoka’s Bottled Vulva: Bank Teller Noriko (Binzume nyoin: ginkôin · Noriko), starring Megumi Makihara as the titular teller Noriko Kamimura. Bottled Vulva: Bank Teller Noriko is part of the J·nex-produced Bottled Vulva (Binzume nyoin) trilogy, which Hollywood Film Co. Ltd. (K.K. Hariuddo Firumu) released on VHS in Japan under its Spider label circa 1998; …

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Film Review: Detective Story (2007)

Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: In this shocking thriller from controversial filmmaker Takashi Miike, businessman Takashima Raita (Kuroudo Maki) and private eye Kazama Raita (Kazuya Nakayama) hunt for a brutal serial killer with a bazaar fondness for human organs. When three women, one being Kazama’s client, are found dead and stripped of vital organs, the two Raitas team up to find …

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