Being one of the over four million people living in the Los Angeles Area, being told that traveling out of the city for something damn well better be worth it. Weâve been told this many times, and we have seen enough of both amazing experiences and ones which leave us desperately wanting our stolen time back. So when we were invited to experience a new escape game in Brea, CA (about 30 miles east ...[Read More]
ďťż Deep in the mansion-filled neighborhoods of Los Angeles lies a mysterious manor with a horrible secret. The fine people from Just Fix It Productions who brought to life the cerebral haunt CreepLA the last two years have come back with a brand new show going on right now! Before we go any further, we want to make it clear that we were invited to a dress rehearsal, but couldnât make it to the actu...[Read More]
JosĂŠ Pedro Lopesâ The Forest of Lost Souls(also known by its Portuguese title, A Floresta das Almas Perdidas) is a very interesting kind of horror movie. Describing any aspect of it beyond the first fifteen minutes or so would ruin the impact of whatâs to come. Suffice it to say, The Forest of Lost Souls is a film quite unlike any other youâre likely to see this year. Shot in gorgeous black and wh...[Read More]
Location: USA Biography: I grew up in a small town near San Luis Obispo Ca. From a very young age, I started writing short stories and making horror movies with my friends (as many kids from the pre-iPhone generation). From day 1 all I have wanted to do was have fun and make something cool. Right out of school I became a touring bass player and radio DJ/producer. In 2009 I moved to Los Angeles. Sh...[Read More]
There is something in the air this year, quite a firey stench surrounding the indie horror scene. It seems to be the brimstone rising from the world below. Every week a new film is released that deals with the devil and occultist ideas. Coming out of Ireland is the latest in occultist horror and damn it delivers with a dark and powerful punch. A Dark Song will stand tall in this yearâs trend of ho...[Read More]
âIâm Duke, the prettiest goddammit unicorn in the world.â With that, CarousHELL opens, and the viewer is enveloped in one of the strangest horror comedies to come out in years. Steve Rudzinski takes a simple story â a young woman forced to take her brother while her stripper mom works â and twists it around the tale of Duke, a carousel unicorn bent on revenge. âNow you can be in charge of security...[Read More]
Weâve seen it beforeâ and weâve also been warned beforeâ yet none of the bad omens found in horror films, those that are supposed to deter us from the perils of technology, ever actually deter us from anything. Although a Tinder-like app is at the center of Slasher.com, the film posits that itâs not so much the tech, but the people behind the screen that are the true monsters. Something like Tinde...[Read More]
Friends for life since childhood, Cesare (Luca Marinelli) and Vittorio (Alessandro Borghi)Â have spent the better part of their primes living hard and fast, conning whoever has something to lose and fighting anyone who dares to get in their way. But after Vittorio has one bad night too many he decides itâs time for a change. It is around this time that he meets Linda, who represents his shot at a c...[Read More]
Stephen Kingâs story, âThe Rainy Season,â can be found in his 1993 short story collection, Nightmares and Dreamscapes. Itâs not one of Kingâs better-known stories, but the 2017 short film of the same name, written and directed by Vanessa Ionta Wright, does an excellent job of taking what seemed like a slight variation on Shirley Jacksonâs âThe Lottery,â and making it something more. Setting the sh...[Read More]
Dee McCullay Filmmaker, Writer, Artist Location: Belgium Biography: I was an 80âs horror kid, always renting up all the horror and cheese horror I could find and making horror movie props and wishing I could get into special makeup fx when I grew up. A love for horror has always been there, as I had always loved it.  By the time I started my first scripted horror short, Fallacious, I was fully pre...[Read More]
The universal adage âlove hurts,â manifests painfully in the horror/comedy Clinger, a literal representation of the cliche. Clinger is about love gone wrong, even in the afterlife, in this wacky horror/comedy brooding with fun and often hilariously bloody moments. From director Michael Steves in his first feature length film from Paragon Pictures is distributed by Osiris Entertainment. As one gath...[Read More]
The compelling feature film debut from director Peter Hurd, The Control Group, manages to surprise and entertain through the entirety of its labyrinthine and unique plot. The film opens up with our protagonist Jack (Ross Destiche) sprawled out and dazed across the floor. When he gains some of his senses back it turns out Jack has awoken from his slumber in an insane asylumâ and not one any person ...[Read More]