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As a horror fan, summertime means one thing for me: Jaws It is the summertime horror choice. Horror fans that live in the Central Florida area (or those that fancy a road trip) have a 25 foot (“Three tons of `em”…) reason to rejoice. Spooky Empire’s Horror, Halloween, Tattoo & Film Festival has announced that legendary actor Richard Dreyfuss–Matt Hooper himself–will be appearing as a guest at this year’s event. Richard Dreyfuss (Jaws, American Graffiti, Stand By Me, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) is the last living member of the cast trio that helped make Jaws one of the greatest films of all time. From comedy to horror to sci-fi, his career has given fans countless memorable characters. Dreyfuss is headlining a still-growing guest list at Spooky Empire’s Horror, Halloween, Tattoo & Film Festival. The event will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Florida over the weekend of October 27-29, 2017. To get the lowdown on all
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The musical vein of the horror world has lost a great composer. Daniel Licht (60) has passed away due to cancer. While Licht is most known for scoring the music for ‘Dexter’, he has been working steadily on film and TV, and video game music scores since the early ‘90s. Growing up in Detroit, Licht first found a love of jazz music and focused a great deal of time on the guitar. He received a composition degree in New Hampshire and travelled around Europe writing music and developing his craft. After moving to L.A., Licht was noticed by Clive Barker (of Hellraiser fame) and the two worked together on a number of projects. Licht was fond of using odd items in his music – especially for ‘Dexter’ – such as surgical tools, saws, bones and whatever else created his unique macabre sound. You will be missed.
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While a lot of fans of the Jeepers Creepers franchise are excited about the third installment approaching release, a lot of other genre fans have made it clear that they will not support any film involving the franchise’s writer-director Salva. For those of you who know nothing of Salva’s past, let me explain. In 1987 Slava was arrested on eleven counts of sexual abuse of a child. Yeah, he’s a peodophile. In fact, that’s his mugshot (above). He was smiling. His victim, Nathan Forrest Winters, was the young boy who played the role of Casey in Salva’s ’87 film Clownhouse. Reportedly, Winters is not Salva’s only victim. Winters in Clownhouse Winters has finally broken his silence about what he and others suffered at the hands of Salva with help from filmmaker Connar Frazier will be making a documentary and using his experiences to raise awareness, educate, and help others who have been through the same horrible crimes. Winters now Nathan
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As you Little Monsters may remember, a few months back I reviewed a crazy horror-comedy containing cabbage and carnage called SLAW…please forgive the lengthy alliteration. In advance of the film’s VOD release in October, the folks at Green Apple Entertainment have revealed the artwork for the film’s poster. Now, y’all know the drill, click on one or both of the pictures below to see it larger. Now that you’ve had a chance to take a gander at the poster art, you’ll no doubt see that it is very similar to that of the concept for James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s maniacal brainchild, Saw. Of course, as you can see, this concept features a severed hand holding a huge dollop of coleslaw garnished with an eyeball on top…mmmm, yummy. You have to admit it’s a very eye-catching poster design. See what I did there – huh – huh? Yeah…OK, that was…that was bad. Anyways, keep a weather eye out for any
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Every TV spot that arrives for Andy Muschietti’s IT is darker than the one before. Yesterday, we shared with you the new Latin spot. And new TV spot has just been released. In it the kids are scared to the point that we half way expected to see a little yellow pool at their feet (pee), or worse. The adaption of Stephen King’s IT, based on the screenplay written by Gary Dauberman, centers on a group of teens, referred to as the “Losers’ Club”. On a daily basis they face bullies and now a monster that takes the shape of a demented clown known as Pennywise, has arrived in their sleepy little town of Derry Maine. The cast who make up the “Losers’ Club” includes Jaeden Lieberher (Midnight Special), Finn Wolfhard (Stranger things), Jack Dylan Grazer (Tales of Halloween), Wyatt Oleff (Guardians of the Galaxy), Chosen Jacobs (Hawaii Five-O), and Jeremy Ray Taylor (42). Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard) will terrify theater
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Neil Marshall’s upcoming film Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen has just added Ian McShane (American Gods) to the cast alongside David Harbour who will be playing Hellboy. In the reboot, Hellboy will face off against a medieval sorceress who seeks to destroy humankind. Rise of the Blood Queen, which is aiming to begin filming this fall, was penned by Andrew Cosby, Christopher Golden, and Mike Mignola. Fans of the Hellboy franchise were shocked back in May to learn that a new Hellboy film was on the way that didn’t involve Guillermo del Toro or Ron Perlman who made the comic based character iconic. Marshall has some seriously big shoes to try to fill.
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Welcome back, my Little Monsters! This week it’s Woman Crush Wednesday in more ways than one. It not only refers to the day of the week, but arguably this wonderful Woman of Horror’s most famous character – Wednesday Addams. That’s right it’s the spooky, tiny, lovely and talented Christina Ricci. Christina is the baby of the family, being the fourth out of four children born to Sara Murdoch and Ralph Ricci. You could say she’s a California girl, having been born in Santa Monica. But Christina actually grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, where she attended Edgemont Elementary School, Glenfield Middle School, Montclair High School, as well as the Morristown-Beard School and then the Children’s Professional School in New York City. Christina was discovered by a critic from a Bergen County paper, The Record, at the age of eight years old, while performing in a school production of The Twelve Days of Christmas at Edgemont Elementary. She wasn’t originally cast
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Southern California’s premier haunted Halloween event returns on September 28, and this time the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor is serving up FEAST, a new maze, sure to satisfy even the most voracious horror appetite. According to a recent press release, this new maze will tell the tale of Chef, a legendary spirit of the historic R.M.S. Queen Mary. From the press release… “Chef and his long-forgotten legend have resurfaced and will be brought to life through FEAST, the new horrific maze onboard the ship venturing into previously unrevealed areas of the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor. Chef and his carnivorous kitchen staff have resumed their deadly duties, collecting new victims for Chef’s latest recipes. All who dare will swelter with fear as they crawl their way out of Chef’s scorching oven to reach their final destination…Are YOU ready to be served?” For horror fans it doesn’t get much better than walking through a haunted maze on board an ACTUAL haunted vessel,
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The first images and the cast for Justin Lee’s creature feature, Big Legend, has just been unveiled. Kevin Makely, Todd A. Robinson, Summer Spiro, and scream queen Amanda Wyss (A Nightmare on Elm Street) star in this film about a man on a mission to find answers about the disappearance of his fiancee (Spiro). From the Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Kevin Makely, Todd A. Robinson, Summer Spiro, and horror-veteran Amanda Wyss (A Nightmare On Elm Street) make up the cast for the upcoming creature-feature “Big Legend” which wrapped principle cinematography in December. Filming took place in southwest Washington in and around the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, at the base of an actual volcano: Mt. St. Helens. “Big Legend” follows an ex-soldier named Tyler (Makely) who ventures out into the Pacific Northwest wilderness in hopes of finding answers to the disappearance of his fiance (Spiro). After a series of strange and violent occurrences, Tyler finds himself relying on a
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A&E will soon premiere their new paranormal series The Lowe Files, hosted by actor Rob Lowe (Code Black, The Grinder, Salem’s Lot: The Series) who will be joined on his investigations by his two sons, Matthew and John Owen. Together they will travel across America in search of answers to unsolved mysteries. Since I was a kid I’ve loved unexplained legends, strange phenomena and the scary, supernatural stories told around campfires,” Lowe said. “When I became a father I shared those tales with my two sons. Together we bonded over Bigfoot, UFOs, and every creepy and bizarre story we could find, passionately debating if they were real…or not. And we swore that someday the three of us would go on our own adventure to find out. That day has come.” In each of the nine episodes they will be exploring a story or legend, meeting with top experts in the field, and will be using the latest technology, all in
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As a horror fan, summertime means one thing for me: Jaws It is the summertime horror choice. Horror fans that live in the Central Florida area (or those that fancy a road trip) have a 25 foot (“Three tons of `em”…) reason to rejoice. Spooky Empire’s Horror, Halloween, Tattoo & Film Festival has announced that legendary actor Richard Dreyfuss–Matt Hooper himself–will be appearing as a guest at this year’s event. Richard Dreyfuss (Jaws, American Graffiti, Stand By Me, Close Encounters of the Third Kind) is the last living member of the cast trio that helped make Jaws one of the greatest films of all time. From comedy to horror to sci-fi, his career has given fans countless memorable characters. Dreyfuss is headlining a still-growing guest list at Spooky Empire’s Horror, Halloween, Tattoo & Film Festival. The event will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Orlando, Florida over the weekend of October 27-29, 2017. To get the lowdown on all
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The musical vein of the horror world has lost a great composer. Daniel Licht (60) has passed away due to cancer. While Licht is most known for scoring the music for ‘Dexter’, he has been working steadily on film and TV, and video game music scores since the early ‘90s. Growing up in Detroit, Licht first found a love of jazz music and focused a great deal of time on the guitar. He received a composition degree in New Hampshire and travelled around Europe writing music and developing his craft. After moving to L.A., Licht was noticed by Clive Barker (of Hellraiser fame) and the two worked together on a number of projects. Licht was fond of using odd items in his music – especially for ‘Dexter’ – such as surgical tools, saws, bones and whatever else created his unique macabre sound. You will be missed.
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While a lot of fans of the Jeepers Creepers franchise are excited about the third installment approaching release, a lot of other genre fans have made it clear that they will not support any film involving the franchise’s writer-director Salva. For those of you who know nothing of Salva’s past, let me explain. In 1987 Slava was arrested on eleven counts of sexual abuse of a child. Yeah, he’s a peodophile. In fact, that’s his mugshot (above). He was smiling. His victim, Nathan Forrest Winters, was the young boy who played the role of Casey in Salva’s ’87 film Clownhouse. Reportedly, Winters is not Salva’s only victim. Winters in Clownhouse Winters has finally broken his silence about what he and others suffered at the hands of Salva with help from filmmaker Connar Frazier will be making a documentary and using his experiences to raise awareness, educate, and help others who have been through the same horrible crimes. Winters now Nathan
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As you Little Monsters may remember, a few months back I reviewed a crazy horror-comedy containing cabbage and carnage called SLAW…please forgive the lengthy alliteration. In advance of the film’s VOD release in October, the folks at Green Apple Entertainment have revealed the artwork for the film’s poster. Now, y’all know the drill, click on one or both of the pictures below to see it larger. Now that you’ve had a chance to take a gander at the poster art, you’ll no doubt see that it is very similar to that of the concept for James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s maniacal brainchild, Saw. Of course, as you can see, this concept features a severed hand holding a huge dollop of coleslaw garnished with an eyeball on top…mmmm, yummy. You have to admit it’s a very eye-catching poster design. See what I did there – huh – huh? Yeah…OK, that was…that was bad. Anyways, keep a weather eye out for any
Continue reading →
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Every TV spot that arrives for Andy Muschietti’s IT is darker than the one before. Yesterday, we shared with you the new Latin spot. And new TV spot has just been released. In it the kids are scared to the point that we half way expected to see a little yellow pool at their feet (pee), or worse. The adaption of Stephen King’s IT, based on the screenplay written by Gary Dauberman, centers on a group of teens, referred to as the “Losers’ Club”. On a daily basis they face bullies and now a monster that takes the shape of a demented clown known as Pennywise, has arrived in their sleepy little town of Derry Maine. The cast who make up the “Losers’ Club” includes Jaeden Lieberher (Midnight Special), Finn Wolfhard (Stranger things), Jack Dylan Grazer (Tales of Halloween), Wyatt Oleff (Guardians of the Galaxy), Chosen Jacobs (Hawaii Five-O), and Jeremy Ray Taylor (42). Pennywise (Bill Skarsgard) will terrify theater
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Neil Marshall’s upcoming film Hellboy: Rise of the Blood Queen has just added Ian McShane (American Gods) to the cast alongside David Harbour who will be playing Hellboy. In the reboot, Hellboy will face off against a medieval sorceress who seeks to destroy humankind. Rise of the Blood Queen, which is aiming to begin filming this fall, was penned by Andrew Cosby, Christopher Golden, and Mike Mignola. Fans of the Hellboy franchise were shocked back in May to learn that a new Hellboy film was on the way that didn’t involve Guillermo del Toro or Ron Perlman who made the comic based character iconic. Marshall has some seriously big shoes to try to fill.
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Welcome back, my Little Monsters! This week it’s Woman Crush Wednesday in more ways than one. It not only refers to the day of the week, but arguably this wonderful Woman of Horror’s most famous character – Wednesday Addams. That’s right it’s the spooky, tiny, lovely and talented Christina Ricci. Christina is the baby of the family, being the fourth out of four children born to Sara Murdoch and Ralph Ricci. You could say she’s a California girl, having been born in Santa Monica. But Christina actually grew up in Montclair, New Jersey, where she attended Edgemont Elementary School, Glenfield Middle School, Montclair High School, as well as the Morristown-Beard School and then the Children’s Professional School in New York City. Christina was discovered by a critic from a Bergen County paper, The Record, at the age of eight years old, while performing in a school production of The Twelve Days of Christmas at Edgemont Elementary. She wasn’t originally cast
Continue reading →
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Southern California’s premier haunted Halloween event returns on September 28, and this time the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor is serving up FEAST, a new maze, sure to satisfy even the most voracious horror appetite. According to a recent press release, this new maze will tell the tale of Chef, a legendary spirit of the historic R.M.S. Queen Mary. From the press release… “Chef and his long-forgotten legend have resurfaced and will be brought to life through FEAST, the new horrific maze onboard the ship venturing into previously unrevealed areas of the Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor. Chef and his carnivorous kitchen staff have resumed their deadly duties, collecting new victims for Chef’s latest recipes. All who dare will swelter with fear as they crawl their way out of Chef’s scorching oven to reach their final destination…Are YOU ready to be served?” For horror fans it doesn’t get much better than walking through a haunted maze on board an ACTUAL haunted vessel,
Continue reading →
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The first images and the cast for Justin Lee’s creature feature, Big Legend, has just been unveiled. Kevin Makely, Todd A. Robinson, Summer Spiro, and scream queen Amanda Wyss (A Nightmare on Elm Street) star in this film about a man on a mission to find answers about the disappearance of his fiancee (Spiro). From the Press Release: Los Angeles, CA – Kevin Makely, Todd A. Robinson, Summer Spiro, and horror-veteran Amanda Wyss (A Nightmare On Elm Street) make up the cast for the upcoming creature-feature “Big Legend” which wrapped principle cinematography in December. Filming took place in southwest Washington in and around the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, at the base of an actual volcano: Mt. St. Helens. “Big Legend” follows an ex-soldier named Tyler (Makely) who ventures out into the Pacific Northwest wilderness in hopes of finding answers to the disappearance of his fiance (Spiro). After a series of strange and violent occurrences, Tyler finds himself relying on a
Continue reading →
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A&E will soon premiere their new paranormal series The Lowe Files, hosted by actor Rob Lowe (Code Black, The Grinder, Salem’s Lot: The Series) who will be joined on his investigations by his two sons, Matthew and John Owen. Together they will travel across America in search of answers to unsolved mysteries. Since I was a kid I’ve loved unexplained legends, strange phenomena and the scary, supernatural stories told around campfires,” Lowe said. “When I became a father I shared those tales with my two sons. Together we bonded over Bigfoot, UFOs, and every creepy and bizarre story we could find, passionately debating if they were real…or not. And we swore that someday the three of us would go on our own adventure to find out. That day has come.” In each of the nine episodes they will be exploring a story or legend, meeting with top experts in the field, and will be using the latest technology, all in
Continue reading →
