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Deaths of Ian Stone
The Deaths of Ian Stone. After Dark Horrorfest. Lions Gate. By Brian Kirst
Ever since Lawrence, Kansas’ mid-60’s Carnival of Souls offering, a lost traveler experiencing ghost plagued strangeness generally means one thing. Your lead character is dead and simply doesn’t know it yet. Jacob’s Ladder and The Sixth Sense are perhaps the most famous, fairly recent versions of this plotline. Yet in the last handful of years we have also been offered Christine…
CRAIG Worldwide Release
Cetus Productions are proud to present the worldwide release of their feature film CRAIG - the story about a young quiet man turning serial killer in dispair.
The film is directed by experienced actor Kim Sønderholm who also plays the lead as Craig. The film is his debut as a director. It has been described as something as odd as an artsy horror slasher with depth and atmosphere - drama,…
Flesh and Blood- Horror Hospital
The Flesh and Blood Show and Horror Hospital - The Changing of the Horror Guard. By Brian Kirst
Famed horror director Pete Walker (Frightmare, House of Whipcord) notes that in the early 1970’s the face of horror was beginning to change. People were no longer thrilled by the subtleties of the early Corman films and the monsters of Hammer horror. The public demanded more flesh and blood, so it is appropriate that Walker’s 1972…
The Fall of Night
Dark Tale Pits ‘Girlfriends’ Star Persia White, Hollywood Henchman Tony Longo Against ‘One Life to Live’ Soap Star Bruce Michael Hall in Apocalyptic Road Pic
CANNES, France, May 8 /PRNewswire/ — “The Fall of Night,” first-time feature director and USC grad Derrick Warfel’s “Twilight Zone”-like offering about a tarnished rock star’s horrific, desert run-in with a rogue prophet and his mysterious female sidekick, collected two awards in as many weeks last…
Gore Verbinski’s ‘Bioshock’ to Be R Rated
Videogame adaptation hits the big screen for 17 and over only.
New Thriller Contamination
Newly formed distribution company, The Independent Film Company, a joint venture between Big Screen Entertainment and Five Star Picturs, has acquired worldwide rights to a new film by Russian filmmaker, actor-director Rodion Nahapetov: thriller “Contamination”.
May 8, 2008 — Newly formed distribution company, The Independent Film Company (IFC), a joint venture between Big Screen Entertainment and Five Star Picturs, has acquired worldwide rights to a new film by Russian filmmaker, actor-director…
Review of ‘Frontiers’ - It’s Excellent
French horror film hits theaters on Friday
After Dark to Produce Its Own Movies
Two self-produced films announced for this year’s fest.
Atkins Joins ‘Valentine’
Veteran horror actor joins ‘My Bloody Valentine’.
Another Horror Comic Hits the Screen
Lionsgate to make a ‘Deal with the Devil’.
APSK2 Snuff Version
On May 13, 2008 viewers will get a second dosage of pseudo-snuff filmmaking (this time featuring real sex and nearly 20 victims) with the controversial sequel to “Amateur Porn Star Killer” by Shane Ryan and Kai Lanette. Presented in both a “movie” version (80 minutes, widescreen, color and b&w) and a “snuff” version (running at 77 minutes, fullscreen, b&w) these two completely different interpretations are already ranking in nothing but…
Inside the Church of Satan
For the first time in over forty years, an outside investigator has filmed extensively within the organization. An important Satanic ritual was captured for the first time ever.
May 7, 2008 — New, controversial footage, from within the Church of Satan, has been released. It has been more than forty years since in-depth footage of the Church was shot, and a new Satanic ritual has been documented and publicly presented for…
REVIEW: The Chambermaid
Review by AngryPrincess
The Lovely Fiona Horsey plays Julie the chambermaid at a luxurious hotel full of freaks. The odd hotel owner to be O’Ryan is stuck taking care of his miserable aging mother so she won’t cut him out of her will and the hotel won’t become his growing empire. O’Ryan is a sexual deviant that sits on the computer chatting with people he hopes to meet up with to…
Schlock and Gore
NOT so long ago, would-be film producers Kieran Parker and Arabella Page Croft had doors closed in their faces whenever they tried to pitch ideas to executives. Now Hollywood studios are chasing the Glasgow-based pair begging for details of the projects they currently have on the drawing board.
“Last week we had phone calls from Sony, Warner Brothers, Pathé, Content, all saying, ‘When are your scripts ready and what have you…
“Coffin” to open at Cannes
Horror pic a Thai-H.K.-Singapore co-production
May 5, 2008, 11:06 AM
BANGKOK, Thailand — Director Ekachai Uekrongtham will debut “The Coffin,” a Thai-Hong Kong-Singapore co-production this month at Cannes’ Marche du Film, the world’s largest film market.
The English-language horror pic features award-winning Hong Kong actress Karen Mok (”Shaolin Soccer”) and Laotian-Australian actor Ananda Everingham, the lead in the original Thai version of “Shutter.”
“Coffin” is a co-production between Thai companies Live Inc.…
Urban Ghost Story
Review by AngryPrincess
Lizzy is a bad girl. She is an outcast at school who doesn’t care about anything or anyone….including herself. Her best friend Kevin and her go for a drunken joy ride popping ecstasy and wind up dead, only Lizzy is brought back and she thinks something evil might of come along for the ride. Urban Ghost Story leads you thru this story with a steady build up leading…
‘Rosemary’s Baby’ 40th Anniversary Screenings
The film is hitting screens in LA and San Francisco.
Julie Ege, RIP
The Hammer horror goddess has passed away.
Catch Lucio Fulci’s ‘The Beyond’ on the Big Screen
Super sick 1981 zombie film plays two weeks from tonight in San Francisco.
New Trailer Is What’s ‘Happening’
First R rated film from the director of ‘Sixth Sense’.
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