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Indie Western GUN TOWN released on DVD
Filmmaker/Actor Lee Vervoort just hit Fango with the news that his micro-budget horror/western GUN TOWN has been released and is now available for purchase on DVD. Vervoort, who posts on the FANGORIA Forums (in addition to other online haunts) under ...
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Trinity of Terrors: Meet Mister Sam Shearon
One of the coolest things about Fangoria's 30th anniversary TRINITY OF TERRORS in Las Vegas was an impressive poster depicting every guest of the blood-soaked weekend. Besides classic covers and various personalities including Slipknot, there were ...
HORROR SOCIETY presents the HOLIDAY OF HORRORS fest!
Our friends over at Horror Society are bringing yet another event to Chicago's Portage Theatre, when their HOLIDAY OF HORRORS FILM FESTIVAL arrives on December 12th. Director Lewis Jackson will be in-attendance to present his 1980 classic ...
Chicago has CREEPS, BLAIR WITCH, BLACK CHRISTMAS for TERROR IN THE AISLES 3
This Saturday night, frightfans in the Chicago area can catch a "Total Horror Triple Feature" when Movieside's TERROR IN THE AISLES 3 takes over The Portage Theatre. Director Fred Dekker (MONSTER SQUAD) will be in attendance to present his directors ...
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Black Christmas
Terror in the Aisles
Fred Dekker
Night of the Creeps
Eduardo Sanchez
BSB: Jacinto Molina, Paul Naschy, Waldemar Daninsky....no more.
I have just learned the news: one of my heroes, Jacinto Molina aka Paul Naschy has passed away. I was hoping to meet this man before he died, hoped to tell him how much his dearnged and beautiful gothic horror films and unique screen presence meant ...
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I was a teenage FRANKENHOOKER!
With her pale blue eyes and long blonde (sometimes black) hair, striking Kathleen Gati is one of Hollywood's busiest character actresses. From her ruthless slaver in TRADE to DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES, Gati really gets around. You've heard her sultry ...
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Frankenhooker
Cauldron set to film LIVE DVD at Hometown Show in Toronto
For the past month, Canadian heavy metal heroes CAULDRON have been tearing their way around North America, leaving their infectious breed of timeless, true heavy metal ringing in everyone's ears along the way. CAULDRON have been supporting ...
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Metal Blade Records signs Colorado's Allegaeon
Colorado's ALLEGAEON (pronounced: uh-lee-juhn) has joined forces with Metal Blade Records! Formed in early-summer 2008, with the release of their self-titled EP immediately following, ALLEGAEON has quickly spread their brand extreme metal locally, ...
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Blade
GAY OF THE DEAD #29 - SOCKET’s Alexandra Billings
December 1 is World AIDS Day, and I have the pleasure of knowing someone HIV+ who is both connected to the horror/sci-fi world and a huge fan, actress Alexandra Billings. I met Alexandra ages and ages ago, right around when someone invented fire. ...
Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 12/01/2009
Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered. Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, ...
Saosin Kicks off Tour in Video Webisode
Saosin have just released a new Sao TV webisode (see it below) that documents the band as they embark on their most recent tour. Follow the band as they make their first stop at local San Diego radio station 91X, where fans were treated to an ...
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OBITUARY to release LIVE XECUTION PARTY DVD
Beginning their career as Xecutioner in 1984, OBITUARY remains one of the most influential and groundbreaking bands in the death metal genre they inadvertently helped forge. Hailing from the sunny state of Florida, the band's decidedly un-sunny ...
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LIMP BIZKIT reveal new album title...
As the 90's resurgence continues, cautious eyes and ears have been pointed at the LIMP BIZKIT camp for the past year. After reuniting the original Bizkit lineup, the band has made several appearances throughout Europe playing club shows and ...
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Terror Tidbits (Fango #289): What’s Scary?
All my life I’ve been going to see scary movies, beginning with 1950s black-and-white monsterfests like THE BLACK SCORPION and EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS (where the alien invaders look very much like the prawns in DISTRICT 9), and although much ...
Terror Tidbits (Fango #289): LEGION: Apocalypse Soon
Two things will be clear when Screen Gems’ LEGION opens January 22: This isn’t your father’s Apocalypse, and these ain’t your mama’s angels. Instead, they are wingless warriors waging a battle over mankind’s only potential hope, which just happens ...
Terror Tidbits (Fango #289): After Dark Horrorfest 4: THE GRAVES
In the past three years, the After Dark Horrorfest has done much to give smaller-budgeted spine-chillers a chance to be seen as they were meant to be: on the big screen. Many of these films have been the creations of ambitious newcomers, and for its ...
RANDY AND WALTER: PORTRAIT OF TWO KILLERS (Book Review)
FANGORIA just sent me the sophomore effort of young writer Tristan Slaughter [Ed Note: Slaughter is a part-time contributor to FANGORIA] . I have not read his debut novel HELPLESS MINDS (2008), so unfortunately I cannot tell you how it compares ...
UNDER THE DOME (Book Review)
Stephen King’s latest novel, UNDER THE DOME , captivates his constant readers with a mesmerizing tale about a group of people in a small town trapped by a claustrophobic dome. The citizens in Chester’s Mill live off of hope that they will ...
MIL MASCARAS VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY (Film Review)
If you are a Luchadore aficionado, the mere mention of a title like MIL MASCARAS VS. THE AZTEC MUMMY would have you salivating in anticipation of a good old fashioned butt kicking action adventure story with masked heroes who are not only champion ...
ATTACK OF THE VEGAN ZOMBIES (Film Review)
What do you do when most of the film work in an area dries up and you’ve got a number of talented actors and technicians sitting around twiddling their thumbs? If you happen to be writer/director Jim Townsend, you come up with a script, call your ...
ORPHAN (DVD Review)
ORPHAN would seem like another entry into horror’s ‘scary kid’ sub-genre but in reality it draws upon another tried and true plotline, that of the psychotic stranger entering the lives of normal people. We saw the psychotic neighbor in PACIFIC ...
Showcase Presents: House of Secrets Volume 2 (Review)
This latest volume in the Showcase Presents series collects issues #99 – 119 of the legendary DC Comics horror anthology series. For many young and up-and-coming artists of the 1960s and 70s, anthology titles like House of Secrets and sister ...
3 to debut “Rabid Animals” video LIVE on SputnikMusic.com on Wednesday, December 2nd!
Rabid Animals , the new video from melodic rock phenoms, 3, will see its worldwide debut this week at SputnikMusic.com . They'll be hosting the LIVE video premiere on December 2nd. The band will be joining fans for a live chat about the video, ...
Earache's DEATH METAL LIVE released in Europe
The folks over at Earache just gave FANGORIA MUSICK the word that DEATH METAL LIVE, a value-packed set featuring four full DVDs of classic live death metal, is out now in Europe for less than the cost of just one regular CD. With 7 hours and over ...
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OVERKILL announces KILLFEST 2010 dates
FANGORIA MUSICK has just learned that NJ Thrash legends OVERKILL have announced their signature 25th Anniversary tour entitled KILLFEST 2010. The tour will span the length of the U.S., hitting spots in Canada with one final show at New York City’s ...
SLIPKNOT members talk with DunlopTV
As the dust still settles from last month's performance at the FANGORIA TRINITY OF TERRORS in Las Vegas (their last set for the ALL HOPE IS GONE album cycle), the folks over at DunlopTV have been catching up with our friends from SLIPKNOT to ...
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DEVILDRIVER announce Winter Tour
Fresh off a European tour and having spent their summer thrashing, burning and headlining venues across the country on the Thrash & Burn Tour, DEVILDRIVER have announced a five-week winter tour of the US and Canada that will kick off in ...
CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED preps single release
As CHARRED WALLS OF THE DAMNED prepare for their self-titled debut album out February 2nd 2010 – the group is gearing up for their official release by unleashing a “radio spot” created by Richard Christy himself. The “radio spot” that is now being ...
BOX OFFICE REPORT: NOVEMBER 27-29, 2009
The TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON continued it's box office domination picking up another $42.5 million dollars ($230,674,000 two week total) over the weekend. Meanwhile Sandra Bullock's feature THE BLIND SIDE stayed fast at number two picking up another ...
Mudvayne – MUDVAYNE (Musick Review)
Over the years Mudvayne has been a complex band to figure out. Kudos for having the confidence in themselves as musicians to ditch the early-on gimmickry inflating the aura of their first few albums. However, on the past two outings for these ...
A Conversation with Captain Howdy: The FANGORIA Interview with Eileen Dietz
With vast experience on stage and screen (big and small), Eileen Dietz' career has woven a path in-and-out of the horror genre. While horror fans will no doubt associate the actress with her role as the face of evil in William Friedkin's ...
Are Horror Films Supposed To Be Scary Or Fun?
After watching hundreds (or thousands?) of horror movies over the course of decades, how many horror fans still get scared after watching a horror movie? I'm not talking about merely feeling tension because a character is in danger, but actually ...
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THE ROAD (Film Review)
Note: This review also appears on our STARLOG site. “We are not gonna quit. We are gonna survive this.” THE ROAD is a bleak, grim, raw movie set in a harsh, oppressive post-apocalyptic world sparsely populated by violent, desperate people. ...
Assorted Horror DVD & Blu-Ray News
During our brief downtime this past week a slew of new release dates and DVDetails have emerged for some upcoming genre fare set to invade the home market. FANGORIA has details and updates on the upcoming releases of PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, SURROGATES, ...
CREEPERSIN set to record new album!
Southern California Horror/Goth Rock band Creepersin is heading into the studio to record a new full length album in December. The band hasn’t put out a full length album since its 2006 album ‘Faster Creepersin Kill Kill’ (read the FANGORIA MUSICK ...
(Formerly LESBIAN) VAMPIRE KILLERS DVD Box Art
On December 29th, Vivendi Universal will release the film formerly known as LESBIAN VAMPIRE KILLERS (see Allan Dart's review from Fantasia here ) as VAMPIRE KILLERS in a DVD package that apes a bit of TWILIGHT and ZOMBIELAND all at once. The ...
MEZCO reveals LIVING DEAD DOLLS Jewelry
Frequent visitors to FANGORIA.com know that we're longtime fans of Mezco's Living Dead Dolls , but tonight we've got something a little different. Mezco just hit us with the news that they're rolling out a line of LDD-inspired jewelry, starting ...
FANGORIA MUSICK: BLACK FRIDAY Deals from EARACHE & VICTORY!
FANGORIA MUSICK just got word that two of our favorite labels are rolling out the BLACK FRIDAY deals online. Both Chicago's Victory Records and UK staple Earache have Black Friday stores set up with special pricing on a variety of music and merch ...
Terrifyingly Gnarly # 19 - Teenage Filmmaker JD Lifshitz Gets KILLED ON THE 4TH OF JULY
So it’s April. It’s the Los Angeles stop of this past year’s Fango Weekend of Horrors. In the midst of experiencing L.A. and being so close to this horror industry for the first time, I’m standing at the Fangoria booth just kind of throwing words ...
More Nirvana coming to ROCK BAND in Next Week's DLC
Harmonix and MTV Games have announced that a three pack of songs from Nirvana as well as a three pack of songs from Night Ranger will be added next week to the Rock Band Music Store of downloadable content for the Xbox 360® video game and ...
TRINITY OF TERRORS: Designer Gore and the XL Chainsaw
After tackling the terror that Designer Gore presented FANGORIA.com over the summer (read about that here ), the special effects company that was thrilled to attend the coveted FANGORIA Trinity of Terror’s convention over Halloween weekend, is ...
The Yellow Rose of "TEXAS CHAINSAW"
Although Jessica Biel is voicing a sweet, green alien girl in the upcoming animated film PLANET 51 and was the cute daughter on the long-running family drama 7th HEAVEN, she was able to successfully overturn her wholesome girl-next-door image when ...
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Jessica Biel
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Marcus Nispel
Leatherface
AUDITION T-Shirts: Now With More Blood
Share a twisted moment with your friends with your very own AUDITION t-shirt from Shout! Factory . Those titans of preservationists (IT’S GARRY SHANDLING’S SHOW!!!) are commemorating the latest DVD (review here ) and Blu-ray (review here ) ...
King Diamond – VOODOO reissue (Musick Review)
Isn’t it bizarre how an artist like King Diamond, once considered the most dangerous performer on the planet next to Mayhem, now comes through the current metal revival not only easier on the ears but less inherently evil? When you have Dimmu ...
John Hillcoat’s ROAD Trip
When John Hillcoat, director of the postapocalyptic saga THE ROAD, sits down to talk to FANGORIA, he has just come from seeing off Cormac McCarthy, author of the source novel, who was in town for the film’s premiere. So it would seem McCarthy is ...
FANGORIA HOLIDAY CHOPPING LIST: BLACK FRIDAY EDITION
For over 30 Years, the famous FANGORIA CHOPPING LIST has been your source for the latest and best releases in horror. Often imitated, never duplicated - the CHOPPING LIST has broken out the mistletoe and holly once more for another blood-soaked ...
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Special FANGORIA Subscription Deal! Save 40% and get 2 FREE DVD's!
FANGORIA ENTERTAINMENT has a special deal for NEW and RENEWING subscribers in the U.S! Get 1-year of FANGORIA MAGAZINE (10 blood-soaked issues!) and TWO FREE DVD's for the normal subscription rate of only $54.47! That's 40% off of the newsstand ...
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HORROR-FILLED FUNDRAISER in Burbank this Sunday!
On Sunday, November 22nd, a fundraiser is being held at the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank, California at 7:45 pm til 9 p.m. What makes this of interest to FANGORIA is that most of the guests have an impressive horror pedigree, including Keith ...
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John Carpenter
The Thing
They Live
Friday the 13th
J.R. Bookwalter
Gay of the Dead #28: THE LAIR, Season Three (Part 2 of 2)
What can I say about Sybil Danning that would be a surprise to anyone? Gorgeous, talented, fun to watch. In whatever project she appears, Danning is always completely committed. Watching her as I have over the years, I see not only chops, but a ...
IFC Films grabs more international chillers
Fango has learned that IFC Films has grabbed another pair of fear features from overseas, to premiere on the company’s video-on-demand platforms ahead of eventual DVD release. These titles join IFC’s growing lineup of upcoming genre titles, which ...
