Dangerous Games: 'Catacombs' 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 ArticleIconic Horror Villains Get the LEGO Treatment
Tomorrow marks the stateside home video release of You're Next, which saw release over in the UK today. As a fun little promotional campaign for the release, the company handling the UK distribution...
View ArticleTen More Unconventional Movie Monsters
One of the key components to a successful horror film is a memorable adversary for the protagonists. Often, the villain is human, or once was. Sometimes the foe is a possessed home, or a revenant that...
View ArticleTrailer for Eli Roth-Produced 'Clown' Will Have You Sleeping with the Lights On
The release of Grindhouse in 2007 started a trend of fans making their own fake trailers for horror movies that don't really exist, inspired by Eli Roth's Thanksgiving and Edgar Wright's Don't. One of...
View ArticleCheck Out These Chilling Photos of Niagara Falls in Deep-Freeze
If you were caught up in the “polar vortex” that blasted through the U.S. and Canada last week, you may have seen some of the seriously spooky stuff that happens to water at extreme subzero...
View ArticleThe 'Dingonek' of Western Africa: Mythical Beast or Real-Life Monster?
If it weren't for the many accounts from people who claim to have seen it, the chimera-like cryptid known as the “Dingonek” would be easy to write off as way too absurd to be real... because this is...
View ArticleArtist Turns Peanuts Into Horror Icons
One man's trash is another man's treasure, as they say, and for artist Steve Casino, this little pearl of wisdom most definitely applies. Rather than going out and buying expensive canvases, and...
View ArticleFEARnet Movie Review: 'Raze'
A beautiful young woman wakes up in a dark basement, only to discover that she's being held captive by a pair of lunatics who... Oh, you've seen this horror movie before? Fine. Let me finish. ...force...
View ArticleNever-Before-Seen Hitchcock Documentary is Now Being Restored
We're all very familiar with the great Alfred Hitchcock's impact on horror and suspense cinema – even the way in which modern horror tales are told. But not as many know the legendary fear-maker once...
View ArticleJapanese Fisherman Nets Massive 13-Foot Long Squid
The giant squid has been described as one of the most elusive creatures of the sea, and classified as the largest invertebrate on planet Earth. In fact, it wasn't until 2004 that researchers were ever...
View ArticleFEARNET Movie Review: 'Hide and Seek'
It sure seems like a lot of Asian horror films have to do with real estate in one way or another. I'm thinking specifically of the Grudge series from Japan and the rather excellent Dream Home (2010)...
View ArticleScientists Print 3D Dragon for 7-Year-Old Girl
An adorable letter from a 7-year-old Australian girl began surfacing around the internet last week, which she recently sent off to the scientists at CSIRO (the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial...
View ArticleFirst Look at 'Bates Motel' Season 2
Bates Motel was one of last season's most enjoyable shows, so I am very excited that it returns for a second season in March. A&E just released the first two teases for season two.Someone's at the...
View ArticleMeet the Characters of Upcoming Thriller 'Repentance'
It's always an exciting thing when big name stars are attached to genre films, and the upcoming flick Repentance is full of them. Produced by and starring Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker, the...
View ArticleAfrica's 'J'ba Fofi'– The Real 'Big Ass Spider?'
Don't go freaking out just yet... the existence of the humongous arachnid species nicknamed “J'ba Fofi” (literally “giant spider”) by natives of the Congo hasn't been officially verified. But if...
View ArticleDirector Tammi Sutton Talks 'Isle of Dogs' plus Exclusive Stills!
With director Tammi Sutton’s much-buzzed about and award-winning feature Isle of Dogs premiering in Los Angeles this coming Saturday night at the New Beverly Cinema (7165 West Beverly Blvd.), we caught...
View ArticleFun Animated Video Mashes Up 'Gremlins' and 'Kill Bill'
In the opening scene of Gremlins 2: The New Batch, loveable Mogwai Gizmo sees a clip of Rambo: First Blood Part 2 on TV, which inspires him to fight back against Stripe and his evil allies later on in...
View ArticleJoyland Amusement Park Hasn't Seen Joy in a Long, Long Time
Next on our tour of abandoned amusement parks is Joyland in Wichita, Kansas. First founded in 1933 to display a miniature train, then moved locations in 1949 to the place it still stands today. In the...
View ArticleThe Plague Doctor: History's Scariest Caregiver
We've been seeing a lot of plague doctors roaming the genre landscape lately – ominous figures in long overcoats, wide-brimmed hats, raven-beak masks and goggles are becoming a regular sight in...
View ArticleDoctors Remove Large Cockroach From Man's Ear
We've all likely been spooked by stories that suggest all sorts of creepy crawlies enter our noses, ears and even mouths while we sleep, the bugs eager to find a warm and cozy place to spend the night....
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