Game Review: ‘Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable’
Earth Defense Force 2017 Portable is amateurish, ugly, and painfully stupid. It’s the sort of minimally produced effort that a single programmer should be embarrassed to release as freeware, let alone...
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Genuine 'Evil Dead II' Prop on the Auction Block
Attention all serious Evil Dead collectors with a lot of loose cash lying around: now's your chance to own one of the last props from Evil Dead II to be auctioned off by the film's artist, animator...
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Eli Roth Returns from 'The Green Inferno'
According to a new interview with UK movie site Empire Online, director Eli Roth and the cast and crew of his new cannibal epic The Green Inferno had to endure some real-life jungle perils on location....
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Get a Zine Crash Course in Satanic Horror
Thanks to the easy flow of information over the Internet, the fanzine is becoming something of a dinosaur, but for many of us, zines were an early and much-loved gateway to information and subcultures...
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Giallo Fever: 'A Bay of Blood'
We're back with the second installment in our new giallo spotlight series, moving backwards in time (from last week's spotlight on Lucio Fulci's Don't Torture a Duckling) to this landmark of both the...
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Gift Guide: Cthulhu in Love Perfume
Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab has created thousands of gothic, horror, and evil-related perfume oils, with tie-ins and inspiration from everything from Neil Gaiman and ParaNorman, to seven deadly sins and...
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'Godzilla' Gobbles Up Bryan Cranston and Elizabeth Olsen
There’s been some mayhem in the Godzilla camp. Production was delayed when Frank Darabont was brought in to rewrite Max Borenstein’s script. This was on the heels of the dispute between Legendary and...
View ArticleSneak Peek: 'The Walking Dead' Cast on Larry King
Can't wait for the return of 'The Walking Dead' Season 3 on AMC this Sunday night? Well, here's a little something to whet your appetite. Cast members Norman Reedus (Daryl) and Danai Gurira (Michonne)...
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'The Walking Dead' Season 3 Box Set is Even Cooler Than Season 2
Last year, we were psyched to discover that The Walking Dead season two blu-ray came in an awesome zombie head - complete with screwdriver to the eye. Well, they've just announced the season three...
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CineMayhem Film Fest Invades Theaters This March
Some really cool news via Dread Central writer Heather Wixson: The first-ever CineMayhem Film Fest will kick off at Muvico Theaters in Thousand Oaks, California on March 2 and 3. The festival is a...
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James Newman’s Novel is 'Wicked' Good Fun
For some reason, small towns are frequent targets for horror writers. I’ve lost track of all the small towns that have been invaded, possessed, overrun, decimated, burned or otherwise leveled in the...
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Treasure Trove of Original, Oversized VHS Boxes from Wizard Video Discovered
Charles Band, who currently runs Full Moon Features, started Wizard Video in 1980 and was a pioneer in the early days of the home video market. He specialized in horror flicks, and was responsible for...
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U.K. 'Being Human' to End AFter Five Seasons
The series that started out as a punchline and turned out to be really, really good, Being Human is ending its run after five seasons on BBC. Syfy Channel's Being Human is based on the British format,...
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Our Favorite Final Guys
Let me introduce you to the 'Final Guy'. So we all pretty much know the basic slasher film tropes that earn a horror character the 'final girl' title, right? For those of you at the back who fell...
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Exclusive: Dee Wallace Talks 'Hansel and Gretel' and 'Lords of Salem'
Dee Wallace is well known in genre circles. Perhaps best known as “E.T.’s mom” (actually Elliot’s mom, but when you are a kid, everything revolves around E.T.) she has starred in well over 100 films,...
View ArticleHere's 10 Vintage Horror Trailers with Original Footage!
Last week, I embarked on a fun little assignment to pull together a batch of teaser trailers for horror sequels; the one criteria being that they all had to feature exclusive footage specifically shot...
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'Battle Royale' Returns to Theaters... with a New Mondo Poster
Fans of extreme Japanese cinema are already intimate with Kinji Fukasaku's still-controversial film Battle Royale, the bloody teenage survival epic based on a best-selling novel that spawned its own...
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Infamous 'Ghost in a Jar' ebay Auction Turns Ten
In 2003, a strange jar with mysterious marking showed up on ebay under the title Ghost in a Jar. The seller wrote they “would not be held responsible if the black thing escaped the jar.” What appeared...
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'Stake Land' Star Nick Damici to Lead Cast of 'Late Phases'
MPI's Dark Sky Films has announced that Nick Damici, star of cult horror faves Stake Land and We Are What We Are, will lead the cast of Late Phases, the first English-language production from rising...
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Bagged and Boarded Comic Reviews: The Crow, Venom, 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...
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