It’s documentary week at the Official HorrorNews.Net Podcast where co-hosts Doc Rotten, Dave Dreher, Santos (The Black Saint) Ellin Jr. and Thomas Mariani discuss the films Room 237 and My Amityville Horror. In one film, the interviewees try to convince the audience that Stanley Kubrick tried to hide hidden messages into the film The Shining. In the other, Daniel Lutz shares his experiences surviving the terror …
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Unexplained Confidential: Joyhorrors Hall of Horror
Joyhorror’s Hall of Horror List of 13 Inductees: Creepings, I am honored to announce Joyhorror’s Hall of Horror inductees for the Class of 2011. This is our very first year and I think we have an outstanding selection of talent from the horror movie industry being represented. We have taken the traditional Hall of Fame concept and have made it …
Read More »Goodies!!: New Vincent Price “Pit and the Pendulum” Figurine
To celebrate Vincent Price’s 100th birthday (daaaang, really?!), AmokTime is running a promotion on their site called “Vincentennial” with a statue that’s two feet tall (or 12 inches to be exact) that is based on Roger Corman’s version of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Pit and The Pendulum”. The statue includes a battery operated cauldron with a hidden light to give …
Read More »Book Review: Famous Monsters Magazine – Issue 254
Famous Monsters Magazine – Issue 254 Hey all, Welcome to a new review of another familiar face on the print scene arena. This article we review the latest release of Famous Monsters #254. First off, ….and I imagine I’ll be saying this alot, it features an amazing cover per Jason Edmiston. Yep it’s that cartoonish elongated face of our natural …
Read More »“The Price of Fear” Halloween Movie Marathon MGM HD – Sunday, October 31
Get ready for Halloween as Vincent Price scares MGM HD viewers with seven cult classics based on the works of gothic master Edgar Allen Poe, including the World HD Premiere of The Fall of the House of Usher. Famed director Roger Corman teamed up with Price to create these creepy, psychological horror movies that broke new ground in the genre. …
Read More »Roger Corman Tackles Edgar Allan Poe
When the cinema of horror was temporarily abandoned in the late fifties, it was mostly low-budget black-and-white films about monsters. At the beginning of the sixties the budgets were lower than ever, but everything else was changing. As monsters flew out the window, doomed neurotics were plodding hauntedly through the door. The day of the Gothic Costume Drama had arrived, …
Read More »Film Review: The Bat (1959)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder has rented a country house called The Oaks which, not long ago, had been the scene of some murders committed by a strange and violent criminal known as The Bat. Meanwhile, the owner of the house, bank president John Fleming, has recently embezzled one million dollars in securities, and has hidden the …
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