SYNOPSIS: An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho, the “man behind the curtain”, and the screen murder that profoundly changed the course of world cinema.
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Halloween Watch Party on Twitter / Saturday, May 16th – 12:45pm PT / 3:45pm ET
Join @HorrorNewsNet on Twitter – Saturday, May 16th at 12:45pm PT / 3:45pm ET for #HalloweenAtHome hosted by Blumhouse, Director David Gordon Green and Jamie Lee Curtis. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment kicks off a Twitter Watch Party for Halloween (2018) with special guests John Carpenter, Jason Blum, Judy Greer, James Jude Courtney, Nick Castle, and Andi Matichak. Halloween (2018)
Read More »KEVIN SMITH, JAMIE LEE CURTIS, JON FAVREAU, GINA TORRES and MORE CONFIRMED TO APPEAR AT THE 45TH ANNUAL SATURN AWARDS
KEVIN SMITH, JAMIE LEE CURTIS, JON FAVREAU, GINA TORRES AND MORE CONFIRMED TO APPEAR AT THE 45TH ANNUAL SATURN AWARDS THE ANNUAL CELEBRATION WILL FEATURE A CALVALCADE OF BELOVED PERFORMERS FROM FILM AND TELEVISION The Saturn Awards organization today announced exciting new show elements as well as who is expected to appear at the 45th annual celebration taking place on …
Read More »Film Review: Halloween (2018)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “It’s been 40 years since Laurie Strode survived a vicious attack from crazed killer Michael Myers on Halloween night. Locked up in an institution, Myers manages to escape when his bus transfer goes horribly wrong. Laurie now faces a terrifying showdown when the masked madman returns to Haddonfield, Ill. — but this time, she’s ready for …
Read More »Podcast: Horror News Radio – Eps 88
The final theatrical horror film of 2014 is The Pyramid from director Gregory Levasseur featuring Ashley Hinshaw and Denis (American Horror Story) O’Hare. The film takes a small band of archaeologists and documentary film makers to the deserts of Egypt where they have discovered a three sided Pyramid on unknown origin. They venture into the apex of the mysterious man made marvel only …
Read More »Film Review: Prom Night (1980)
SYNOPSIS: A group of kids playing a very strange game leads to the accidental death of a little girl. Years later when the group is in high school and looking forward to attending their prom someone decides to make them pay for their actions that caused the little girl to die by killing them one-by-one. Will Kim and the school …
Read More »This Fall ‘Prom Night’ Comes To Blu-ray
1980 was a huge year for Jamie Lee Curtis. It’s the year she starred in three genre classics. ‘The Fog’, ‘Terror Train’ and of course, ‘Prom Night’. While “Halloween certainly thrust her into the “Scream Queen” arena it was the release of those three films in 1980 that cemented her crown. On Sept. 9th Synapse Films will release the later …
Read More »Film Review: Halloween (1978)
SYNOPSIS: The first flick in the trilogy from director John Carpenter, Halloween almost single-handedly invented the 1980s slasher genre. Escaped lunatic Michael Myers (no, not the Austin Powers actor) goes on a murderous baby-sitter-slaying rampage on Halloween. Only baby sitter Jamie Lee Curtis (the quintessential scream queen) and psychiatrist Donald Pleasence can stop him. REVIEW:
Read More »Jamie Lee Curtis Returning To Horror – And It’s On A TV Show!
Here is some welcome Halloween season news! It appears that everyone’s favorite scream queen is returning to horror but how that return is taking place may be a bit of a surprise. According to DEADLINE Jamie has inked a deal with ABC FAMILY to star in a a project penned by writer Jeff Dixon. It is described as a “high …
Read More »Film Review: Road Games (1981)
SYNOPSIS: A truck driver finds himself involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse with a brutal serial killer who enjoys butchering young female hitchhikers. REVIEW: Road Games is an entertaining little suspense/thriller that has a nice Hitchcock-like feel to it (which is no surprise considering that director Richard Franklin was a huge fan of Alfred Hitchcock). It has …
Read More »Film Review: Terror Train (1980)
SYNOPSIS: A group of college students decide to celebrate their last year of college together by having a costume party aboard a train on New Year’s Eve. Unfortunately the victim of one of their pranks that went horribly wrong (do any of them ever end with someone not dying or being physically/mentally scarred for life?) has decided to join them, …
Read More »Film Review: The Fog (1980)
SYNOPSIS: “One hundred years ago, on April 21st, the wealthy leper Blake bought the vessel Elizabeth Dane and moved with his friend from a leper colony to California to build a town for them to live with more comfort. However, while crossing a fog in Spivey Point, they were misguided by a campfire onshore, steering the course of the vessel …
Read More »Film Review: Halloween II (1981)
SYNOPSIS: This bloodier sequel picks up where the original ended. An injured Jamie Lee Curtis recuperates in the hospital not knowing that murderous Michael Myers is licking his wounds in a nearby room. The hospital setting makes for spooky sequences with Myers’ slow footsteps echoing loudly on the tile floor. The diagnosis for impressionable viewers: long nights of insomnia. REVIEW: …
Read More »Film Review: Halloween Resurrection (2002)
SYNOPSIS: When a group of college students win a contest to spend the night in the childhood home of serial killer Michael Myers, they expect a few scares but none of them are prepared for what awaits them. The house has been rigged with cameras as they are to be broadcasted live over the internet to be watched by millions. …
Read More »Real Queens Of Scream
A Scream Queen is an actress who has become associated with horror films, either through an appearance in a notable entry in the genre, as a frequent victim, or through constant appearances as the female protagonist. She belongs to the Damsel-In-Distress family of fictional characters. Long before the term was invented, the Scream Queen has always been a classic figure …
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