Hollywood Gothique

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TIMBER FALLS is opening on Decmeber 7. I saw the film at Screamfest in Hollywood last October and was pleasantly surprised: the plot (religious loonies kidnap a couple out camping and try to force them to conceive a surrogate child) did not sound particularly auspicious, but the characters suspense were handled pretty well, and the horror [...]

About a month ago, I wrote up an excerpt of anecdotes offered during the question-and-answer session after a screening of FRIDAY THE 13TH PART 3 at the Screamfest film festival in Hollywood. Here is the video of the event…

Well, it took the stamina of Sysiphus, but I managed to get through all “8 Films to Die For” at this year’s After Dark Horror fest. The fest continues through this weekend. If you’re not sure which to watch and which to avoid, check out my summary below. (Links lead to complete reviews at Cinefantastique [...]

<P><FONT face=Verdana size=2>One of the strongest films at this year’s Screamfest horror film festival was STORM WARNING, written by Everett DeRoche and directed by Jamie Blanks. It’s about a couple out boating off the coast of Australia who get caught in a storm and end up on an isolated island with some rather unfriendly inhabitants. [...]

Well, this is the final day, Halloween fans. Molar Manor is the last Halloween Haunt to keep its doors open. It runs from dusk till the line dies tonight. After that, you have to wait till next year for your seasonal fright fix.
Get info on Molar Manor on our Halloween Haunts page.

I approached MR. MAGORIUM’S WONDER EMPORIUM with almost equal parts anticipation and dread: anticipation because writer-director Zach Helm scripted STRANGER THAN FICTION, one of last year’s best films; dread because the trailer for MAGORIUM looked absolutely insipid. Walking onto the 20th Century Fox lot for a preview screening last night, I had no idea which [...]

Made it out to the final night of Seaside Haunt’s 2007 presentation. We were just too busy to get out to Ventura during October; since they stayed open through Saturday, November 3, we decided to make that our last big event of the elongated Halloween season. It was the same basic haunt as last year, [...]

Yahoo News has an odd editorial by Susan Estrich titled “Halloween Horrors.” I say “odd” because it is one of those opinion pieces wherein the author feels content to offer a discourse based pretty much on her vague personal impressions without recourse to any real evidence to back it up. What happened [...]

You’ve heard me say it before: there are too many yard haunts to get to all of them in a single Halloween night. That’s why we snuck out early for Part 1 of our 2007 Halloween Haunt Odyssey, in which we visited Boney Island, Malice in Wonderland, and House at Haunted Hill. Then on October [...]