Who can lay claim as the first nation of horror? Although history is littered with classical works and cultures that felt a thing for the macabre (according to old Howie Lovecraft, fear is the most fundamental human emotion known), two nations in particular stand out […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsThe best horror films are made by horror fans because we, as a genre community, are snobs. We like our deaths to be creative, our storylines to be thorough and our blood to be the right shade of red. We get it where other filmmakers […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVLet’s set a scene, shall we? It’s a coffee shop–one of those terribly pretentious ones with all the “vintage” advertisements and foreign language posters on the walls. The person next to you is intently scribbling away in a black notebook. What’s she/he writing? You probably […]
Featured ArticleKane Hodder jokes about his favorite chokes with RavMon while promoting Hatchet III at the Mad Monster horror convention (video below). The horror heavy weight talks about his new favorite kills and weighs in on who would win in a fight between disfigured, sociopathic swamp […]
Movie Interviews Movies & TVMany filmmakers only dream of becoming as multi-talented as Sv Bell of Black Flag Pictures and Black Flag TV. A Canadian comic book artist who took a turn into film, not only is Sv able to produce films on a shoestring budget, but he also […]
Movie Interviews Movies & TVThe Purge doesn’t fully “release the beast” in this creative approach to the home invasion thriller. Hardcore horror fans will be walking out of the theaters needing to binge on gore porn in the privacy of their homes to make up for the empty promises […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVFrom the darkness has curiosity ever reached out and struck you? Has it caused you to wonder about your favorite genre writers and what’s on their bookshelves? It’s reached out and struck me. Do they have some classic pulp detective novels? What about graphic novel […]
Authors Books & ComicsFor a guy who’s eaten nearly thirty different species of animal,[1] I can be pretty damn finicky. You can put almost anything on my plate, but when it comes to reading—and especially when it comes to horror–my nose is turned up more often than it’s […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsLet us go then, all of us, to that mansion isolated on the island. Now that we are gathered and the will has been read, we must find out who’s responsible for the corpse in the pantry, for one of us is the killer. Sounds […]
Music & Events Music ReviewsActor, American werewolf, and a real pepper David Naughton reminisces with Ravenous Monster about his experiences in the 1981 horror classic An American Werewolf in London. If you haven’t seen An American Werewolf or can’t recognize the face of David Naughton, I have no idea how you stumbled upon […]
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