Is it broken? I think so! Discuss!

read more from this topic.....

HorrorYearBook published an article panning Platinium Dunes latest move. As HorrorMovieFans reported here, Platinium Dunes has reached a deal with Paramount Pictures. It looks like this will give the “creative” team over at Platinium Dunes a chance to do something different than make money off others ideas.
The Butcherhouse Chronicles is on deck as the next […]

read more from this topic.....

Some of our more dedicated readers may remember the very first editorial this newsblog ever published, which you can see here. The article, a question about whether you liked your horror to be Nazi or Commie (as it were) was a fairly fun look at history and its subsequent juxtaposition in modern horror cinema. The […]

read more from this topic.....

About a week and a half ago on Sunday Night Horror my guest was Steve Persall of the St. Petersburg Times and TampaBay.com.  He recently panned “Black Devil Doll” on his TampaBay.com’s “Reelin’ Through the Years” blog, which you can read here.

Immediately in the interview Steve said he didn’t think he “panned” the film […]

read more from this topic.....

Shocktillyoudrop.com has reported, that the cheesy cult classic Stephen Dorff starrer, The Gate, is next in line to be remade.  Not much is known, as Shock is currently having page-load issues, but I felt the need to spread the warning.  What I do know, is that it is planned for 3-D.
Think we’ll have nu-metal as […]

read more from this topic.....

“Without mystery life would be very dull indeed.  What would be left to strive for if everything was known?”
- Charles de Lint
“Mystery is at the heart of creativity.  That, and surprise.”
- Julia Cameron
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.  It is the source of all true art and science.”
- Albert Einstein
The internet […]

read more from this topic.....

Have you seen Robert Englund, Tony Todd, or Kane Hodder in a movie lately?  Perhaps a better question would be, have you seen a direct to DVD movie recently without them?
We are now a few years into the Media Age, and in this era, we have produced celebrities at an unprecedented rate.  For the first […]

read more from this topic.....

I have noticed that defenders of remakes always tend to bring up two films:  ‘The Fly’ and ‘The Thing’.  Can we all agree that those films are in no way similar to the current remake trend?  When Cronenberg and Carpenter remade those flicks, the thought process was clearly not the same as the thought process […]

read more from this topic.....

In politics and marketing, there is a term known as “Astroturfing”.  It is the process of artificially creating a grassroots campaign.  The idea is that the business makes it appear that a groundswell among the people is spontaneously happening.  They want the public to believe that their peers are really making an effort to support […]

read more from this topic.....

One of the most highly anticipated movies for horror fans was the Friday the 13th remake/reimagining/whatever bullshit word they make up for it.  Even before the movie was announced, speculation was rampant.  Since the film began production, fans were bombarded with jaded set reports, studio-approved images, and bootleg trailers.  The hype machine was in effect, […]

read more from this topic.....