“One of the most surprising, haunting and well-crafted genre films of the year so far… expressionist horror meets HELLIONS with a hint of TRICK R TREAT.” – Jay Kay of HORROR HAPPENS RADIO Written, Produced & Directed by Torin Langen, read the synopsis and watch the trailer of Langen genre anthology that will be screening across North America during 2017! WATCH THE TRAILER HERE SYNOPSIS: After stumbling …
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Music and the Occult Influence – Part2
Released in the UK on Friday the 13th of February, in the first year of the dawning decade, Black Sabbath’s self-titled debut (named, like the band itself, after Mario Bava’s 1963 horror film) was the distorted “shot heard ‘round the world” of occult/doom rock. Not only did these working class boys from Birmingham, England deliver a haunting, gloomy album cover …
Read More »Music and the Occult Influence – Part1
I recently found myself attending, in the span of a week, concert performances by two classic hard rock/heavy metal bands, arguably two of the most successful and influential exemplars of the form, Black Sabbath and AC/DC. Both of these veteran groups were on what is likely the final major tour of each act’s lengthy career (the outing officially announced as …
Read More »A&E Adds More Horror With OCCULT
And the horror on TV train just keeps on rolling.. A&E just announced today that they are moving ahead with production on a brand new horror themed show titled OCCULT. With a title like that you can probably put two and two together and figure out what this one is all about but, let me tell you anyway. According to …
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: An A to Z of the Occut – Author Simon Cox
AN A TO Z OF THE OCCULT (SIMON COX’S A TO Z) by Simon Cox (Author), Mark Foster (Author) Published by Mainstream Publishing Publication Date: 2008 Format: Black /White (with some color inserts) 240 pages Price: $24.95 How about some occult training in shorter doses? The latest book by author Simon Cox & Mark Foster offers just that . A …
Read More »Book Review: The Black Book of Horror
This compendium of chills aims to satisfy the twisted desires of those who like their horror in short, scary bursts. Harking back to the glory years for short horror stories, when the Pan Books proved demand was high for both the genre and the format, the Black Books of Horror are now up to number seven in the series – …
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