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Actor Tom Atkins is a legend. He has starred in everything from Escape from New York, Halloween III: Season of the Witch, My Bloody Valentine 3D, Night of the Creeps, The Fog, HBO’s OZ.  Tom took time to speak with Horrornews.net. He talks about Trick and more. Hi Tom, How are you?

Welcome to the Monster Movie Podcast. This week Doc Rotten and Thomas Mariani cover the films an career of John Carpenter, one of the most influential horror directors of the modern era. From Halloween to Escape from New York to The Thing, John Carpenter shaped the future of horror, setting trends and creating sub-genres. He’s responsible for such horror icons …

SYNOPSIS: “The year is 1997. New York City has been turned into a maximum security prison colony, when the American crime rate grows high. New York City is surrounded by a wall and the bridge is mined making sure no convict escapes from New York. Snake Plissken, a one-eyed former soldier turned bank robber arrives at New York after being …

Scream Factory has announced the April 21, 2015 release of John Carpenter’s Escape From New York (Collector’s Edition) on Blu-ray. The new edition of the 1981 cult classic starring Kurt Russell, Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence, Isaac Hayes, Season Hubley, Harry Dean Stanton, and Adrienne Barbeau includes several bonus features including a new 2K scan of the inter-positive, …

Professional Wrestler, Ox Baker, passed away early Monday morning.  Ox Baker will forever be remembered as one of the great villains of the squared circle.  Ox Baker played Slag in the movie, “Escape from New York” and had a brutal fight with Kurt Russell’s character Snake Plissken. I had the pleasure of talking with Ox Baker last Tuesday evening about …

Professional Wrestling Legend, Ox Baker, makes his triumphant return to the motion picture industry in the horror genre film titled, “Pinwheel”. Ox conquered the move role and made it his own, much like he dominated the squared circle in his wrestling career. Pinwheel is currently being filmed at a top secret location in Connecticut, and it’s carnival collection of bizarre …

With the whole remake thing having been going on for what – a decade now – hell, probably longer than that – it’s hard to believe that they haven’t gotten around to remaking this one yet.  It’s been rumored for quite some time but no solid news has been tossed around, till now. Starlog Magazine (yeah, that Starlog Magazine) is …

The upcoming months are going to be huge for fans of Scream Factory and their continued series of top notch Blu-ray genre fare. At their SDCC presentation they let loose with an impressive slate of 10 new releases that are sure to have any horror fan jumping for joy. Starting this fall and continuing into 2015 here’s where your money …

It’s been long rumored and to date nothing had come to pass but today’s news wire brought the confirmation. ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK is being remade. A couple of years back New Line optioned the property, looked like they were going to run with it and then did absolutely nothing with it. That option was up about 2 years ago. …