I can empathize with Gary A. Braunbeck. Much like the impressive hand behind 2005’s Keepers, I too once thought that my students could benefit by writing from the perspective of a fictional character. Specifically, during an assignment that coincided with Halloween, I tasked my eighteen […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsRavenous Monster’s Rob Hibbs interviews Gunnar Hansen, star of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and the original Leatherface! Listen to Gunnar talk about his new book, making TCM, and who would win in a Leatherface battle royale!
Movie Interviews Movies & TVRock and roll made horror movies. More importantly, rock and roll made horror movies the brash, classless, and underground entities that we know them as today. Sure, there were plenty of crude and exploitative horror films before the 1950s (Dwain Esper’s Maniac immediately springs to […]
Featured ArticleLet’s start with some numbers: –In horror movies, only 16% of lead roles go to non-white actors. –32% of all female characters in horror films die, compared with only 23% of male characters. –70% of all non-white characters die, compared with only 27% of all […]
Featured ArticleRavenous Monster caught up with IronE Singleton best known as T-Dog on The Walking Dead. Extra special thanks to Megan Fahey for persevering through a zombie horde of technical difficulties to make sure we got this shot. And thanks again to IronE Singleton for being […]
Movie Interviews Movies & TVJason Figgis’s (whom we interviewed earlier this year) post apocalyptic feature Children of a Darker Dawn—formerly Railway Children, comes to DVD just in time for the holidays. Read the full press release below. Nov. 5th—Teen Sci-Fi/Horror title from October Eleven Pictures will be distributed on DVD […]
NewsThe Lords of Salem written and directed by Rob Zombie came and went from select theatres in the blink of an eye, never coming close to a major release. I caught up with it after being dumped to DVD/Blu-Ray with little marketing and the sole […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVIn late October of my freshman year of college, I was failing every creative writing class on my schedule. My personal narrative, “How I want to be a Horror Writer and Shit” (full text: “I want to be a horror writer because I like to […]
Featured ArticleStuart Gordon has an extensive resume that features five H.P. Lovecraft adaptations, a Hollywood blockbuster and a number of features that have gone criminally ignored by the mainstream. Following his big break in 1985 with the cult classic RE-ANIMATOR, Gordon went on to helm FROM […]
Movie Interviews Movies & TVHighly referential fiction is a difficult proposition. Obviously, the main concern for any scribbler is the question of “Will anyone get my references?” Nobody wants to bash the reader over the head, but similarly, nobody wants to write something so occult that nobody picks up […]
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