Here’s an original idea from Old School Sinema. Take a bunch of horror fans at a convention, walk around and videotape them, then kill them off one by one, and you got yourself a flick!! "The Horror Convention Massacre" is just that film. Shot guerilla style at a real horror convention, Joe Ostrica (writer/director/producer) and his crew from Old School got an idea for a film simply from being a fan of the genre. After numerous trips to conventions, this idea of using the fans of horror movies and truly bringing them into the film by using them in the film was born. This one is sure to please the fans that also dig "similar shot" horror classics like "Blair Witch" and "El Mariachi", but with enough violence, gore, and nudity to please any and all fans of the true 70's and early 80's slasher flicks. Ostrica and company shot an exploitation indie slasher film on a shoestring budget with a high concept: a maniac is on the loose knocking off guests and fans at a horror convention. By doing this they landed some big names for cameos, including Lew Temple ("The Devil's Rejects," the upcoming "Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning"), Ari Lehman (the original Jason from "Friday the 13th") and indie icon Lloyd Kaufman of Troma fame. This film will be screening at the Cinema Wasteland Horror Convention in Cleveland OH October 6-8. You will find me (DrGore) and Sammaeal there to witness the carnage and chaos that is "The Horror Convention Massacre"!! Hopefully we won't be unsuspecting guinea pigs, being round up and conned into watching this, then actually be a part of the sequel….if so, this might be my last article!! Stay tuned for an interview with Joe from Old School Sinema soon. Official Website MySpace Page Cinema Wasteland Website

Alright, check this fuc*king guy out. His name is VOLK, and crazy, dark, madness sound is his game. And he is on top of it for sure. Volk is a musician, but some people really might not think that what they are hearing is really music. Although there are lyrics, beats, and some kind of form and structure to his madness, it is a little hard to hear.

And that is the beauty of it. For me personally, this stuff sends chills up my spine. Any fan of electronic, experimental and death metal should check this out. Volk has a definite niche sound to him and he pulls it off well. Most of the music, really is just noise that is arranged together to make it sound like some kind of nightmare you had last night, but he does that well. Very dark sinister and all around noise that seems to put you in a state of fear if you listen to it. A true Indie musician, he takes what he likes and turns it into something that some people can really appreciate. Just like the picture of him, his music is about the same. Unforgiving, dark, sinister, and really quite odd.

If you are a fan of experimental music/noise and want to check this out, head over to his Myspace account and listen to a few of the tracks that he has available. The first is a mixture of dark vocals and black metal. The second track is almost like a satanic chant of some kind. The third track is my personal favorite. A very well organized mixture of beats, horror movie sound clips, and more noise. The last track is a bit more on the funky side. This one he uses more of the familiar beats and drums but blends them well into the noise that is oh so familiar.

Click on the picture for a larger view of VOLK!!

Volk on MySpace

Red Scream Films LLC and Eerie Productions have partnered to produce a feature horror film. Both companies are based in Buffalo, New York. The film, titled "FrightWorld", is being shot in Eerie Production's Frightworld, a dark ride amusement featuring five different haunted houses, live costumed actors and state of the art special lighting and sound effects.

"We were shooting additional material for a film and needed a location," said David R Williams, CEO of Red Scream Films LLC and the producer, writer and director of FrightWorld. "David Gray of DavidGray FX suggested Frightworld. The moment I stepped into the place, I knew we had to make a movie there. Even in the middle of the day, with nothing turned on and standing with a large group of people, the place still scared me."

Frightworld has been in business since 2000. It attracts over 25,000 haunted house and horror fans from all over the northeast United States and Southern Ontario Canada each year. Frightworld features five different haunted houses with new attractions added each year. Frightworld is open from the first week in September to Halloween. "Frightworld is the place to be in October, it’s truly gives you the ultimate Halloween experience, we take pride on giving our customer’s an incredible and unique performance each year. We are honored and privileged to be teamed up with Red Scream Films, and their huge core of talented people," said Ron Doherty, co-owner of Frightworld.

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More zombies than you can find in a shopping mall during this 48-hour horror marathon.

If you just cant get enough of Zombies, and well….who cant. Monsters HD will be running a Labor Day “Marathon of the Dead” this weekend.

THE SKINNY: Voom’s Monsters HD is a high definition channel set up exclusively for the horror genre. They are set to send out the summer with an in depth 48-hour marathon. The marathon will run from Sept. 3-4. The entire marathon deals with the murderous rampages of the living dead. Check out the huge list of flicks for the Marathon below. Just click on the (more) link….

Monsters HD Website
Source: IF Magazine

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From the creators of “Dead Things” …Gallows Hill Productions is set to continue filming their next movie Dust to Dust.

A group of carefree youths who disrespects their family led by the nasty Rick Wallen (Jeff Dylan Graham) takes partying to an all new level and head to Pumpkin Hollow out on the road to hell. They pick up a beautiful hitchhiker (Kelly Sorrow) who seems a little strange and so they all decide to hang out at an abandoned funeral home. Is the events that are unfolding their drug induced visions or reality? However they decide to tell three scary tales.

Check out the official website for more info and a lot more pictures of some gruesome scenes from the movie. This one has a good cast and the special effects look excellent as well.

Official Website
Teaser Trailer

Source: Gallows Hill

The horror classic that launched 6 sequels and made Freddy Krueger into a legendary character, A Nightmare on Elm Street has been remastered with all-new bonus features.

* Available on infinifilmâ„¢ DVD September 26
* Newly remastered picture and sound
* Loaded with all-new special features, including alternate endings, filmmaker commentaries and more…
* Limited time only special packaging
* Legendary director, producer, writer Wes Craven

Dig your claws into the chilling masterpiece that spawned the greatest horror franchise in film history – now remastered and featuring hours of new Infinifilm extras. Starring Robert Englund as infamous child killer Freddy Krueger and featuring Johnny Depp in his first screen role, this “insomnia-inducing” (The Hollywood Reporter) original from director Wes Craven “goes straight to the heart of terror” (Seattle Times).

When her best friend Tina is brutally murdered, teenager Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) suspects the killer isn’t Tina’s boyfriend, but instead a much more horrifying figure from her dreams. Convinced that this vicious killer is stalking her friends and killing them as they sleep, Tina enters a desperate race against time to bring the killer out of her dream world and stop the bloodbath… before she falls asleep and becomes his next victim!

Source: NewLine

It seems that Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar just can’t leave those horror films alone - now she’s signed up to another chiller Addicted. The blonde stunner is already famed for her roles in scary flicks I Know What You Did Last Summer and The Grudge. Addicted will see Sarah as a woman whose life is flung into chaos when her hubby and brother-in-law are involved in a freak car accident, according to Variety.

Both of them end up in deep comas - but when her brother-in-law wakes, he’s convinced that he’s Sarah’s husband. The thriller is loosely based on the 2002 South Korean film Jungdok, and has been written by Queen of the Damned’s Michael Petroni. Directed by Joel Bergvall and Simon Sandquist, it should hit our screens in 2008.

Sarah has just finished filming yet another spooky film, The Return. She plays a travelling businesswoman who finds herself drawn to an old farmhouse, where a murder took place years before. The Sequel to The Grudge is reportedly in post-production, but Sarah has also appeared in diverse films such as children’s hit Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, as well as her numerous TV appearances.

IMDB link for Addicted HERE

You remember the 80’s glam rock band…the Scorpions. No, thats alright, I didnt either. But it looks like the lead singer of the band is going to be doing up the score for the new film “Brotherhood of Blood”. The Geman born Rocker of all things 80’s metal has been making a name for himself as a horror film composer. He has also scored spoof movie “Drive Thru”.

Rieckerman says, “I love horror movies, and I love to work on them. I saw a rough cut of Brotherhood of Blood and I instantly knew this was the movie I was looking for. It’s a very interesting new approach to the hunters versus vampires story.” Brotherhood of Blood stars THE DEVIL’S REJECTS star SID HAIG and JASON CONNERY. Brotherhood of Blood is a claustrophobic thriller about a team of vampire hunters who infiltrate a nest of undead to rescue one of their own. While starring some of the Devils Rejects cast here is the run down of the rest of the actors in the project.

• Victoria Pratt as Carrie
• Sid Haig as Pashek
• Ken Foree as Stanis
• Jason Connery as Keaton
• William Snow as Tom
• Wes Ramsey as Fork
• Jeremy Kissner as Derek
• Rachel Grant as Jill

IMDB Link HERE

Nina (Raine Brown) is visiting her longtime friend Michael (Joseph Zaso) and his pal David (André Reissig) in Germany for a much needed vacation. The trio decides that, to get their mind off their day-to-day lives, a camping trip into the nearby Black Forest will do them all well. Little do they know, a clan of bloodthirsty ghouls also calls this area of the woods their home - and they don’t take kindly to strangers impeding on their land! As the bodies begin piling up, the friends’ innocent vacation becomes a horrific battle for survival. The cannibalistic monsters know the forest better than anyone… and their victims are in for the fight of their lives.

That is the synopsis for “Barricade” the upcoming film from German director Timo Rose, the man behind Lord of the Undead and the Mutation Trilogy. Taking the basic plot of The Hills Have Eyes, Wrong Turn, Just Before Dawn, etc and turning the gore up to 11this one looks to be a lot of fun.

With a cast that includes Raine,(Horror, Satan’s Playground, Plasterhead), Brown, Joe, (Nikos the Impaler, And Then They Were Dead), Zaso and Andre, (Rigor Mortis-The Final Colors), Reissig shooting was recently completed and the film heads to postproduction and hopefully soon to a wide release.

For more info, check out the film’s site at http://www.myspace.com/barricademovie .And Timo’s site at http://www.myspace.com/timorose

Still not convinced? Check this out….

August 29: RIP PSYCHO scripter Joseph Stefano

Fango has learned the sad news that screenwriter Joseph Stefano, who scripted Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO, died this past Friday, August 25 in hospital after suffering a fall the previous Monday. He was 84 years old. In adapting Robert Bloch’s novel into the classic and influential film story of murderous mama’s boy Norman Bates, Stefano helped create an enduring screen icon; his PSYCHO script won an Edgar Award in 1961 and was named one of the 101 Greatest Screenplays by the members of the Writers Guild of America last year.

Stefano also penned the Mick Garris-directed 1990 TV movie PSYCHO IV: THE BEGINNING, which examined Norman’s early years, and worked with director Gus Van Sant on the latter’s ill-fated 1998 remake of Hitch’s milestone. The screenwriter’s other genre credits include episodes of both the ’60s and ’90s incarnations of THE OUTER LIMITS, the 1987 monster opus THE KINDRED, 1969’s EYE OF THE CAT, the 1988 direct-to-video feature BLACKOUT and the made-for-TV horror movies HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS (1972, featuring a young Sally Field) and SNOWBEAST (1977).

—Michael Gingold

Check out an interview with Joe here:
Interview

Well it looks like the official DVD cover for Ron DeCaro’s movie “The White Lie” is up and running. Its the extreme limited edition of the movie and the cover is just about as gory as the movie itslef. Ron DeCaro is the brains and blood behind the design. His first movie effort…Eating Razors: A Love Story…is a tale of love, lonliness, and of course razors. This next movie The White Lie is something a bit more, well, lets just say its A LOT more of everything. Much better movie this time around and if you really want a little more about it, check out the HS review of it HERE.

But of course reading about it only gets you so far, so I suggest going to his site and buying it. Its not that much money and for what you get it’s well worth it! Read on for the DVD specs, where to buy the movie, and be sure to click on the cover up there for a larger picture…

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Now here is a zombie movie with a catchy title! The Stink of Flesh is not your average zombie movie. Imagine a world that is over-run by zombies…not hard to imagine right? Throw a guy in there that is just trying to survive from day to day. Then have him get kidnapped by a crazy couple and you got yourself a movie. Not only is there good zombies, blood, and some flesh eating…but you got a different more suspenceful plot line as well.

Combining those 2 elements and a few others as well (I dont want to spoil all of the fun) and you got yourself a good zombie flick.

Check out the synopsis below and read on for the trailer!!

“Wandering a zombie wasteland, Matool survives by his wits and animal instinct, often employing his trusty hammer and gigantic nails to fend off the ravenous hordes of flesh-eating undead. But when he is kidnapped by a mysterious couple, Matool must rely on an entirely different weapon in his arsenal to survive…”

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Well if you havent noticed yet, there has been a few changes with the website now. Welcome to HorrorSociety.com version 2.0!! Hopefully this is a little more cleaned up and streamlined and better overall on the eyes, as well as the server! We are recieving some great traffic and would like to have some more, but with the last design it was hard to have more content without it looking very cluttered. Same great content and guts to the site, just a different look to it. If there is any kind of problem with any page or content please let me know here: admin@horrorsociety.com. There is still a few of the pages that have not yet been finished so please be patient with us. We will get them done for you soon. Also this site has a better engine in it now, so if any of you want to write and find some news on Indie Horror Films, of horror news in general, we would love it! Please register and you will be able to publish stories, news, and any news of your own projects at any time you like. This site is for the fans, so it is only fair to give the fans some input as well!! Enjoy!!

This short French zombie-western-comedy from director Abel Ferry actually dates back to 2004 but I’ve just stumbled across a trailer for it now and, hey! IT’s got Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman and Jeunet regular Dominique Pinon in it!