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ATB Publishing Releasing Biography of Director Mick Garris

ATB Publishing is releasing an official biography of iconic horror director, Mick Garris! The highly anticipated novel will be released on August 13, 2021 and you can pre-order it here. Written by Abbie Bernstein with a forward by John Landis, this biography promises to be extremely entertaining. I can’t wait to read (And review) it! Check out the press release below: What makes a true Master of Horror? If you’re a horror fan, you may know Mick Garris as the creator of the television series, Masters of Horror, and the anthology film, Nightmare Cinema, as well as the director of multiple television adaptations of Stephen King novels like The Stand and The Shining. But although you may know his work, you may not know much about the man that so many in the industry call “the nicest guy in horror.” From his days as front man for the band Horsefeathers, to his work with a certain diminutive droid at the

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Capt McNeely

Jul 6, 2021

HalloweenMusicNews

Twenty-Four Horror Icons Team With Britton Buchanan For Music Video

“The Voice’s” Britton Buchana has teamed with a mindblowing twenty-four horror icons for the new Halloween/horror-themed music video for “October’s Queen” which makes its debut now! This “lip-sync” music video was filmed amongst twenty-four horror icons and Buchanan all from the safety of their own homes in the COVID-19 pandemic. With an emphasis on expressing the sense of community the horror genre can still maintain even in a global health crisis, the video, directed by Buchanan himself, stars Dee Wallace, Barbara Crampton, Kane Hodder, Danielle Harris, Mick Garris, Joe Bob Briggs, and Darcy the Mail Girl, Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Berryman, Linnea Quigley, Scout Taylor-Compton, Felissa Rose, Lisa Wilcox, Tuesday Knight, Toy Newkirk, Kelli Maroney, David Naughton, Gabrielle Stone, Belinda Balaski, Thom Mathews, Lori Cardille, R.A. Mihailoff, Katherine Kamhi, and Del Howison. “October’s Queen” is the second single from Buchanan’s forthcoming debut album and Buchanan’s debut music video which has been released on all streaming platforms. At the age of 18,

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Oct 16, 2020

MoviesReviews

Movie Review: Nightmare Cinema (2018)

Five strangers end up in an abandoned theater where a strange projectionist (the one and only Mickey mother fuckin’ Rourke) shows them some fright flicks that contain each of their deepest fears. Thus begins Nightmare Cinema; the latest arcane anthology that weaves five terror tales balls deep in the ol’ horror biz! The first story is titled The Thing in the Woods (directed by Alejandro Brugués) and it begins with us thrown directly into the third act of a slasher picture already in progress. Our spunky final girl is on the run from the wicked Welder (and his implements of bodily harm) who has managed to kill nearly all her friends. Unfortunately for that masked maniac, our heroine is more than capable of putting up quite the fight…and then something turns this already pitch-perfect stalk n’ slay pastiche into a real thing of beastly beauty. Full of great grizzly gore, excellent shifting of paradigms, and an ability to bring some

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DanXIII

Jun 24, 2019

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Blu-ray Review: The Critters Collection (1986 – 1992)

Man oh man I love me some Critters…well the first film anyway. To be truthful, I loved the sequel as well, but only ended up seeing it once or twice, and the third and fourth pics? Well, I know I saw them at some point, but I remember fuck-all about them…but that first film; my lord I must have watched that fifty times in the late eighties alone! So, since it’s obviously waaaay past time for a re-visit to the frightful franchise, and since those delicious devils at Scream Factory have just put out a new Blu-ray collection featuring all for films, we begin my latest revoltin’ review for these hallowed haunted halls! To the surprise of no one we begin with: Critters (1986): A group of intergalactic convicts, who resemble the offspring of Fizzgig mating with a porcupine (and we both know that lil’ bastard totally would too), escape a prison asteroid and land near the farm of young

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DanXIII

Dec 10, 2018

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Take A Trip To A Sinister Theater In The ‘Nightmare Cinema’ Trailer

Ahead of its world premiere the Friday at the Fantasia Film Festival, Nightmare Cinema, from Cinelou Films, has released its first teaser trailer. Featuring five tales from five brilliant Masters of Horrors, this film includes segments from directors Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling), Mick Garris (The Shining series, Sleepwalkers), David Slade (30 Days of Night), Ryuhei Kitamura (Downrange, Versus), and Alejandro Brugues (Juan of the Dead). In this anthology, “A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings. By the time our patrons realize the truth, escape is no longer an option. For once the ticket is torn, their fate is sealed at Nightmare Cinema.” The cast includes Patrick Wilson, Eric Nelson, Mickey Rourke, Richard Chamberlin, Adam Godley, Orson Chaplin, Kevin Fonteyne, Maurice

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Jul 13, 2018

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After 24 Years We May Actually Be Getting ‘Hocus Pocus II’!

With Halloween approaching and our favorite Trick ‘ Treat season movies are on our minds. One film that is a must see every year is 1993’s Hocus Pocus. Well, for those of you who love the cooky witches we have good news. After twenty-four years there may be a sequel brewing. There have long been rumors of a Hocus Pocus sequel for years involving Mick Garris (one of the original writers). Now, he’s given us real hope. During a conversation with Forbes, Garris himself teased that Hocus Pocus 2 is in development. Generation after generation, it’s kind of remarkable and fantastic to have something brought to the screen like that and to have it embraced generation after generation,” Garris said. “Everybody I meet, it’s either their daughters or their own favorite movie and it’s incredibly exciting. There have been rumors of a Hocus Pocus sequel for the last 10 years that will not die. I have heard they are developing

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Sep 28, 2017

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Movie Review – Unspeakable Horrors:The Plan 9 Conspiracy Is A Zany And Campy Mockumentary

In 1956, Edward D. Wood Jr. began production on a film called Grave Robbers from Space. And even though it had been screened privately at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles in March 0f 1957, it wouldn’t be released until July of 1959 under it’s new title, Plan 9 from Outer Space. Over the years it has clawed its way to becoming a cult classic while still being saddled with the dubious honor(?) of being the worst film ever made. Of course over the years it has faced tough competition from films that threaten to overthrow the film from its throne of utter mediocrity. Such films vying for the lowest rung are Ishtar, Gigli, From Justin to Kelly, Grease 2, Glitter and Troll 2. The list could seriously go on and on, but these are these movies are knocking hard at the doors and windows trying to grab that crown. Now what was it that made Plan 9 so bad?

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Capt McNeely

May 5, 2017

MoviesNewsReviews

Help Bring The Hollywood Horror Museum To Life

There is currently a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the first educational nonprofit museum of it’s kind, The Hollywood Horror Museum. The museum would educate the public on the legacy of horror films, TV, makeup, art, and literature. The museum’s board includes a list of who’s who in horror, Clive Barker, Joe Dante, Tom Holland, Sean S. Cunningham, Victoria Price, Mick Garris, Jennifer Lynch, Tim Lucas, Jen and Sylvia Soska and Sara Karioff. “In March of 2015, when our Hollywood Science Fiction Museum was preparing for it’s 2016 exhibit, many Sci-Fi/Horror film props were offered to us including Alien and John Carpenter’s The Thing. It became apparent these gory props had no place in a science fiction museum that taught NASA space and real science through sci-fi, but since there is no nonprofit educational Horror Museum anywhere in the world that teaches filmmaking, special effects, makeup and the history of horror in films, TV, art and literature, we decided to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Sep 17, 2015

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Movie Review : Digging Up The Marrow (2014)

Adam Green, the man behind the ‘Hatchet’ franchise, has brought us ‘Digging Up The Marrow’. Green plays himself in this faux documentary about monsters. In ‘Digging Up The Marrow’, while filming a documentary about horror artists, Green is approached by a strange man with an even stranger story. William Dekker, is a man on a mission, he’s trying to find someone who can help him expose the truth, that monsters are real. Adam Green wrote and directed ‘Digging Up The Marrow’. Green, William Barratt, Josh Ethier, Rileah Vanderbilt, Kane Hodder, and most everyone in the film, play themselves, except for Ray Wise, who plays William Dekker. Wise also starred in many movies, including this year’s hottest supernatural movie ‘The Lazarus Effect’. The concept behind ‘Digging Up The Marrow’ was a fresh idea and a welcomed change from the same old movies ideas we see over and over. Green’s creativity truly showed with each monsters unique design. Ray Wise did a

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Kelli Marchman McNeely

Apr 15, 2015

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