Every morning, I take a 24-minute walk around my neighborhood. There are a lot of abandoned homes along my route, but this one really stands out to me. There is something about that chair, with its ragged torn fabric hanging about it that makes me think of movies about ghosts and haunted places. With my […]
I just heard about three hot micro travel trends and thought I’d share with you how they might be interpreted through genre-coloured glasses. Flashpacking This is backpacking with an electronic twist. Flashpackers travel on the cheap with all the electronic gadgets they use in their daily lives and traditional vacations, such as digital cameras, iPods, […]
Rock and Shock is an annual horror and music festival held in Worcester, Mass. Gina Migliozzi and Kevin Barbare created the event seven years ago because they saw that there was an overlapping audience between horror film fans and hard-rock lovers. Rock and Shock is a combination horror film festival and multi-act rock concert. This […]
Universal Studios HollywoodSM and Rob Zombie are partnering to recognize the nation’s top short-form filmmaking horror genre talent with the “Halloween Horror Nights – Rob Zombie Film Competition.” If you think your short horror film has what it takes, enter in your scariest short film for a chance to win a premiere showing on Chiller […]
If you’ll be in San Francisco on June 26, you might want to check out “A Nightmare to Remember” San Francisco Horror Film Fest. In fact, if you can get there early enough to be among the first 20 through the door, you’ll also get a goodie bag. The event takes place at 7pm at […]
The other day I started watching Madonna videos on YouTube and I noticed something: Many of them had a genre sensibility. I would embed them to share with you, but embedding has been disabled, so I’ll just send you off to YouTube to see for yourself. “Frozen” www.youtube.com/watch?v=evxEOXkxRIA The video for this song features Madonna […]
As usual, the Hyaena gallery in Burbank, Calif., is displaying some interesting, somewhat disturbing, but always emotion-provoking work. This time, the dark, somewhat sexual, curvaceous art of Jay N. Davis, which reminds me of some of Salvador Dali’s work, is being presented. A veteran Disney artist for 12 years, Davis has also taught drawing at […]
If you’re a True Blood fan in the U.K., you’ll be happy to know that some of your favorite stars will be appearing at a special three-day convention this August. “Bitten” is an unofficial event to celebrate the new HBO television series True Blood based on Charlaine Harris’ best-selling novel series, “The Southern Vampire Mysteries.” […]
Come October, there will be a Nightmare on Elm Street reunion scaring up some fun at Spooky Empire’s Ultimate Horror Weekend. Robert Englund, John Saxon, Heather Langenkamp, and Amanda Wyss from the original movie will be making an appearance at this year’s event at the Wyndham Orlando Resort on October 8-10, 2010. Also showing up […]
Did you know that many films important to the evolution of the modern Zombie are set in the month of May? This includes the original 1968 version of Night of the Living Dead, as well as the well received Dawn of The Dead remake of 2004. That’s why the Zombie Research Society has named May […]