Tag: halloween
Screen Anarchy Last Minute Holiday Gift Guide 2024: Vol. 3: Collectibles
Welcome to the last minute gift guide for 2024. It’s a bit later than I wanted due to some audio issues. But now that those are fixed I wanted to be sure to highlight the great physical releases, books, records...
Review: HALLOWEEN ENDS With A Whimper
It’s been a long, strange road for Michael Myers and the Halloween franchise. The longest running major slasher franchise is also the most convoluted; with numerous timelines, retcons, reboots, sequels, requels, and false stops & starts littering its very uneven...
CURSED FILMS Interviews: Director Jay Cheel and Occult Writer Mitch Horowitz Talk Horror Movies
The documentary series Cursed Films (now available on Digital, DVD and Blu-ray) explores five different horror movies that, for one reason or another, have been considered 'cursed.' After several difficulties emerged during the filming of The Exorcist, such as the...
EXTRACURRICULAR Trailer: American Psychos in High School
Samuel Goldwyn Films is set to release Ray Xue's horror/thriller Extracurricular on VOD platforms January 17, 2020. This marks Xue's first feature since 2012, when he directed the mystery drama Transcendent at the age of 18, while still in school....
HAUNT Interview: Bryan Woods And Scott Beck On Their Haunted Attraction Horror Effort
Haunted attractions have been a quintessential location for horror films. Just in 2019, It Chapter Two has a major scene involving James McAvoy’s Bill trying to save, at a funhouse, an innocent kid from Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård); and prior to their...
Interview: Danny Trejo Talks 3 FROM HELL And Reveals Why Rob Zombie And Robert Rodriguez Are Such Distinctive Filmmakers
Danny Trejo might just be the ultimate badass character actor. Of course, his lead role in Robert Rodriguez’s exploitation effort Machete took Trejo to superstardom, but his filmography goes a long, long way. During my interview with Trejo for the...
Review: HAUNT, Bloodthirsty Psychopaths Run This House
Horror attractions like haunted houses and escape rooms borrow heavily from movies in both their designs and their scares. They're commonly populated with Leatherface clones, killer clowns, and green-faced girls in need of an exorcism. Many will unabashedly use the...
TRICK: RLJE Films Picks up New Film From MY BLOODY VALENTINE's Patrick Lussier
With the impending end of Summer comes the anticipation of the horror-day season in October, and RLJE Films is looking to play a part in your Halloween celebrations. They picked up Patrick Lussier's masked killer flick Trick the...
Interview: Daniel Farrands Talks THE AMITYVILLE MURDERS and THE HAUNTING OF SHARON TATE
Horror veteran Daniel Farrands is releasing two movies in the first half of 2019: The Amityville Murders, 45 years after the DeFeo murders, and The Haunting of Sharon Tate, the latter to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Tate-LaBianca...
Dark Corner Announces All New VR Horror Just in Time for Halloween
It's that creepy time of year again and while the world of VR narratives are still struggling to gain a foothold outside of the festival world, the horror slice of the VR narrative pie is looking pretty encouraging. Leading the...
Imagine Nine Inch Nails playing your favorite horror anthem - on Friday the 13th..
Imagine if Halloween fell on Friday the 13th and Nine Inch Nails decided to celebrate that by being in your ears all day? Might be a nightmare to some, to others a dream. Sound impossible? Well, then today this happened......
Watch ON HALLOWEEN, Quentin Lee's Spooky Short
The latest short film by Quentin Lee, On Halloween, pays homage to spooky classics of the past with a few clever twists of its own. Lee has made a variety of features, ranging from the emotional drama Ethan Mao to...
Giveaway: Win 1 of 3 Halloween DVD Bundles
Are you adventuresome? Do you love horror? Do you like things that are free? Then we've we got a giveaway just for you -- and you -- and you -- thanks to our friends at Music Box Films and Doppelganger...
Shudder Provides Perfect Halloween Binge Watching
You may have heard about Shudder, the new streaming service backed by AMC (yes the very AMC known for Mad Men) aimed at rabid horror movie fans. I'd only glimpsed a fraction of what the service had to offer ---...
John Carpenter puts HALLOWEEN feud with Rob Zombie to rest
A video interview posted on Bloody Disgusting resurged a long-dormant feud between directors, John Carpenter and Rob Zombie. The former is responsible for the seminal 1978 classic, which the latter reinterpreted as a two-part film series in 2007. The feud...
The Many Faces Of Halloween
Today, instead of our regular thespian-of-the-week screenshots quiz, we are going to do something different. Today it is Halloween! First we thought about doing a Michael Myers gallery, like we did with Jason on a Friday the 13th, but... let's...
Exclusive: HELLIONS Poster Offers Trick 'R' Treat Imagery
As Bruce McDonald's Halloween-themed horror film Hellions continues to wind its way through the festival circuit (next stop: Toronto International Film Festival), we have this handsome pumpkin patch and trick 'r treat poster depicting the film's murderous younglings.From Ben Umstead's Sundance review:Chloe...
Don't Answer The Door For Mike Chester's TRICK OR TREATERS
A major pet peeve of mine is the casting of actors in their late twenties or early thirties to play teenagers. Yes, it's been going on forever and I understand the mechanics of why it happens but it remains a...
Check Out America's Scariest Haunts, Thanks To THE HOUSES OCTOBER BUILT
If you are looking for some of America's scariest haunts this Halloween season, then the folks behind the upcoming horror flick The Houses October Built have created a map of some of the best in the country. They also included all...
Massive COMPLETE HALLOWEEN Box Set On The Way From Anchor Bay And Scream Factory
This is something I honestly thought would never happen. Anchor Bay Entertainment and Shout! Factory horror imprint, Scream Factory, have announced a massive, "complete" Halloween box set to hit store shelves on September 23. In addition to including every Halloween...
