As 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 […]
Movie Interviews Movies & TV“…and in the midst of this pestilence an end…” -Giovanni Villani The printed medium has been around for about as long as humans have; ever since the first human discovered they could smear more than feces and blood onto cave walls to leave messages, the […]
Authors Books & ComicsRavenous Monster’s resident horror humorist Billy Boyce is back with a look at PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3…. The PARANORMAL ACTIVITY series is perfectly woven together like the immaculate ‘do on Tyra Banks’ galactic head. I have been waiting for this poisonous little romper since I found […]
Movie Reviews Movies & TVDirector Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. said that, as a Swede, he was always fascinated with what happened to the Norwegian team we learn about in John Carpenter’s 1982 classic THE THING. So, twenty-nine years after that film came out and now holds elite status amongst […]
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