Happy New Year, Ravenous Readers! It’s time to take a look back at all that our dark and depraved genre had to offer in 2011. First, I’d be remiss if I didn’t point out that this past year holds the distinction of being the first […]
Featured ArticleEditor’s Note: Spoilers ahead! DEXTER SEASON 6 is in the books and I feel like I should be in mourning. No, not because the hit Showtime series is built on a foundation of death, homicide in particular, but rather it seems as though last year’s […]
Movies & TV TV ReviewsNeo-Victoriana Can Wrap Its Quivering Lips Around My Burnished Steel Galvanophallus of Progress, Or, F*ck Steampunk When I was about sixteen, some kids I knew became Goths, and some joined the in-crowd and some became stoners, but me? I went nineteenth century. I bought a […]
Featured ArticleAs bookstores across the country close their doors, horror fans, authors and more seek ways to continue to indulge their dark needs. In the midst of losing easily accessible literature, independent bookstores are opening their doors even wider to welcome us in. Eljays Used Bookstore […]
Event Coverage Music & EventsA couple years ago the news that a name-filmmaker, Frank Darabont, was adapting Robert Kirkman’s long-running zombie apocalypse comic book series into a television show was noteworthy to say the least. Though I’ve never had to resist the urge to run through the streets screaming, […]
Movies & TV TV ReviewsIndependent filmmaker Jeremiah Kipp is on the cusp of becoming a household name in genre circles. His feature debut, THE SADIST, starring horror deity Tom Savini, is generating cyber-buzz worthy of horror and exploitation heavyweights. But this didn’t happen overnight. Kipp has served as second-unit […]
Movie Interviews Movies & TVI think ghost stories are the hardest kind of horror to write. I love body horror, but it’s easier; a disease that causes you to sprout hands in random places, a woman with shark heads instead of breasts. . . .Sure it’s creepy, but there’s […]
Book Reviews Books & ComicsWhen I set out to make my debut film, I quickly realized a short flick wasn’t the end of the world. Sure, I had dreams of full-length projects (my first feature-length flick actually starts filming this November), but we were working with a tight budget […]
DEAD JournalI’ve received a fair number of screeners over the years, most of which contain movies of the ultra-indie variety. There’s an inherent excitement to popping in a Sharpie-inscribed DVD-r, sitting through whatever it may contain, and then after a bit of objective analysis, discovering the […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVI have always been a die-hard feminist when it comes to the horror I love. I fist pump in triumph every time Jennifer Hills mutilates a perverted mountain man in I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE. Ripley and her alien-whoopin’ ways will always hold a tender […]
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