by Joseph Perry | Sep 30, 2021 | Events, Film Festivals, Foreign, Movies, Reviews
Straight to VHS In the Uruguayan documentary Straight to VHS (Directamente para video; 2021), director Emilio Silva Torres chronicles his efforts to locate fellow countryman Manuel Lamas, the filmmaker behind the 1989 direct-to-video obscurity Act of Violence in a...
by Greg Kershaw | Sep 30, 2021 | Books, Reviews
Plot “The devil is in the details” according to author P.D. Alleva in his novel Golem. This phenomenal book starts off with a phenomenal plot. A detective story, a horrific nightmare, a thriller, a view into the occult, and the spiraling of insanity all rolled up onto...
by Joseph Perry | Sep 30, 2021 | Events, Film Festivals, News
After joining together last year to present the NIGHTSTREAM online-only film festival, the four film festivals behind that project — Boston Underground, Brooklyn Horror, North Bend, and Overlook — have banded together again to present a 2021 edition from October...
by Greg Kershaw | Sep 30, 2021 | Books, News
Last year, Scottish film company Hex Studios announced its new publishing wing Hex Arcana, and released hardback short story anthology ‘The Book of Beastly Creatures’. Next on the Hex Arcana agenda; revive the pulp horror paperback. Their first offering in...
by Kelli Marchman McNeely | Sep 29, 2021 | Movie News, Movie Release, Movies, News
Shudder, AMC Networks’ premium streaming service for horror, thrillers, and the supernatural, has acquired worldwide rights to the black comedy creature feature The Seed, ahead of the film’s world premiere at Beyond Fest, in Los Angeles on Tuesday, October 5th...