Remembering 'Michael Jackson's Thriller' 30 Years Later
"No mere mortal can resist the evil of the Thriller..." Like any life-changing event, most everyone alive (and old enough) on December 2nd, 1983 remembers the exact moment when MTV aired the world...
View ArticleNews From the Dead Zone: You Can't Kill Stephen King
In early 2012, I saw the trailer for a campy movie called You Can’t Kill Stephen King about a group of young people vacationing near the author’s summer home who get killed off one at a time. The...
View ArticleUnsettling Video Shows Parallels Between Zombies and Black Friday Shoppers
Though the day after Thanksgiving didn't officially become the busiest and most chaotic shopping day of the year until the early 2000s, George Romero more or less predicted the future in 1978 when he...
View ArticleDangerous Games: 'Gloom' Board Game Review
The chair creaks as you settle onto it. The candlelight flickers. All around you the ravenous faces of your so-called friends twist in delight as you slowly open the box laid out on the table. Welcome...
View Article'The Walking Dead' at New York Comic Con and Beyond
This season of The Walking Dead (based on the comic by producer Robert Kirkman) is on track to be one of the best seasons yet. It's receiving huge fan approval, and at the New York Comic Con the cast...
View ArticleBagged and Boarded Comic Reviews: Walking Dead, The Maxx Reprint, and More!
New comic book Wednesday has come and gone. The dust at your local comic shop has settled. An eerie silence descends as you finish reading your last superhero book of the week. Now it's time for...
View ArticleUFO Spotted Hovering Over England
Photographer Rob Tibbles of the North Devon Journal in North Devon, England was taking pictures of a wind farm on the weekend of November 23rd, an ordinary photo-shoot that took a turn for the strange...
View ArticleMysterious River Monster Caught on Film in Thailand
Though I admit that I'm kind of annoyed by how much technology has taken over all of our lives, to the point that cell phones don't remain in pockets and purses even in movie theaters and restaurants,...
View Article'Death Metal Christmas: Hellish Renditions of Christmas Classics'– Album Review
As you've probably figured out by now, I tend to gravitate toward the darkest, most evil music of every possible stripe. However, you may be shocked to your core to learn that I'm also a pretty big fan...
View ArticleLAPD's 'Invasion of the Zombie Bandits!'
There are so many things gloriously wrong with this zombie PSA from LAPD: the nonsensical "plot;" the 1970s porno soundtrack; that the LAPD drives around with a chainsaw in their trunk; the dancing...
View ArticleGift Guide: Stack and Scare Monster Blocks
Get your kids started on a horrifically creative path with these Stack and Scare Monster Blocks. Wooden blocks in a variety of sizes and shapes are painted with eyeballs, mouths, scales, patterns, and...
View ArticleFive More of Our Favorite Underrated Horror Directors
The big names in horror are often recognized by both the genre film community and mainstream entertainment culture. They are showered with accolades by horror fans and film critics, alike. Directors...
View ArticleBook Review: 'Turn Down the Lights' Edited by Richard Chizmar
In December of 1988, Richard Chizmar decided to publish a horror magazine called Cemetery Dance. A few months later, he did. In October of 2013, Chizmar decided to publish an anthology called Turn...
View ArticleDo You Dare Visit the Ghost Ships of Mo‘ynoq?
Not too long ago, the city of Mo‘ynoq in Uzbekistan was a busy, thriving port on the Aral Sea, and home to a massive fishing industry. Over the years, the waters were heavily diverted to irrigate...
View ArticleExclusive Interview with "Xx" Filmmaker Jovanka Vuckovic
Last month, Dark Sky Films and XYZ Films announced the production of an historic film: Xx, the first horror anthology written and directed entirely by women. Filmmaker Jovanka Vuckovic is one of the...
View Article'Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones' - Will You Be The First?
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones comes to theaters January 3rd, but before that, the studio wants to get you involved:Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones - Will You Be First?That's all you get....
View ArticleVisual Essay Showcases the Artistry of Dario Argento
If you've ever seen the 2009 Belgian-French horror film Amer, then you know that the writing/directing duo of Helene Cattet and Bruno Forzani are big fans of Italian Giallo cinema, taking particular...
View ArticleGame Review: 'Batman: Arkham Origins'
Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham City did many things right: it managed to distill all of the things that make the Dark Knight a compelling character into a cohesive game that finally got Batman right. It...
View ArticlePeek Inside the Transparent Head of this Creepy Deep-Sea Fish
Take a close look at the fish in the photo below, and the small openings above its mouth that look like sleepy eyes... now step back a bit and take another look: those “eyes” are actually olfactory...
View ArticleNightmare Presents: 57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides
FEARnet is proud to present brand new fiction from Nightmare Magazine. Once a month, we'll be featuring a story from Nightmare’s current issue. This month's selection is “57 Reasons for the Slate...
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