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March 16th, 2014—Writer/Director Bryan Coyne’s (Harvard Park and Incarnate) new horror film Utero wrapped principal photography this week in Los Angeles. The entirety of the movie was shot in Los Angeles and was independently financed by Coinopflix. Jonathan Higgins and Jessica Cameron (Truth or Dare) […]
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Mark Torgl (The Toxic Avenger) is launching a crowd-funding campaign this Friday to finance a mockumentary depicting the story of his Toxic Avenger everyman Melvin the Mopboy. The full press release is below! March, 10th, 2014—Hello Friends, Fans and Associates, We are proud to announce […]
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Adaptation, Not Transcription: “I work up a detailed synopsis. I print off a text version of the entire book which is broken down into paragraph chunks and go through it with a red pen. I make a point of highlighting themes and character relationships and […]
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Robert Bloch agreed with me, and if he’s on my side I don’t care what the rest of y’all motherfuckers think. Okay, that’s not entirely true, but I still have to say: I don’t think The Exorcist is that scary. Likewise Rosemary’s Baby. Likewise The […]
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Ellen Ripley is back in Tim Lebbon’s Alien: Out of the Shadows , the first book in a brand new Alien trilogy from Titan Books. Adding to an established universe of loving/obsessed fans is tricky. The novel has to be successful on multiple levels in […]
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The horror genre is a big tent. It’s dark, entombed in cobwebs and inhabited by all manner of nightmarish entities, but there’s a lot of room. The people that make their bones creating works of horror—the ones who reside inside the tent—they’re an eclectic bunch. […]
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Confession time: I used to be obsessed with pro wrestling. Not only did I go to matches (the big ones and the small, indie ones), but I ransacked the arts and crafts stores looking to make the perfect Ultimate Warrior face paint. I even got […]
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I’m stuck, Savage Readers. On December 7th, I got assigned to review a newly-released independent horror film called The Sunderland Experiment. I watched it, and I procrastinated. Oh sure, there were holidays, work, family, a New Year’s hangover to recover from, other writing projects, polar […]
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Some have argued that it’s his best film. I’m not entirely convinced myself, but I do believe the film’s soundtrack represents his best work as a composer. The film in question is The Fog, and the maestro behind the tube synthesizers is of course John […]
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It’s become commonplace to identify Japan with all things weird. From tentacle porn to wearable robotic cat tails for humans, the Land of the Rising Sun has birthed some seriously strange cultural artifacts. Whether or not Japan has always been like this is a question […]
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