This is one fucked up movie! Looking at the cover makes you think you are in for some boring independent mess of a movie, this is far from that. The Blood Shed is just a tale of your average inbred, cannibal family that lives way back in the woods. There were many similarities in this to flicks like The Texas Chainsaw Movie, The Devil’s Rejects and an older movie called Townies. There just isn’t a sane one out of the Bullion bunch

New Jersey’s Sussex and Morris County’s has an Amber alert in effect for two missing kids that haven’t been seen in weeks, they now make it a total of 11 disappearances. Then a news reporter who was covering a major investigation into the Bullion twisted family goes missing. He knows damn well they have something to do with it but ends up a prisoner in their home locked in a cage bound and gagged with no hope in sight.

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“Things change, people die. But in a painting or a picture, they’re yours forever.” - Frank Zito, maniac

A young couple (the boyfriend being none other than Tom Savini) are in a car. They think they see someone lurking outside their window. They turn the headlights on–revealing a figure in the shadows. It’s a man. He’s wearing a military jacket and holding a shotgun in his hands. He rushes the car, leaps onto the hood, gets down on one knee, hoists the shotgun into shooting position and… well, you really need to see what happens next in order to believe it.

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NBC Greenlights 13 Eps of Fear Itself - A Masters of Horror Reworking
Variety reports NBC has given a 13-episode commitment to the horror anthology series Fear Itself, which the Peacock plans to air sometime next summer. The project is a reworked version of the Emmy-winning Masters of Horror and comes directly from the Showtime series’ producers, Lionsgate and Industry Entertainment. Masters of Horror exec producers Keith Addis, Andrew Deane and Mick Garris are all onboard as well.

—–OK, stay away from too much blood and gore huh? Well there goes a majority of the audience MOH has found, including me!! Fuck this. MOH was a good series and Im all for more horror in the mainstream media, but if you are going to take a good thing, chop it all up to shit, put it on network TV and call it horror, then Im not watching it. Im sure many others will not either. I wonder how much Mick Garris got for this?? Anything for money huh?—–DrGore

NBC Entertainment/Universal Media Studios co-chairman Ben Silverman, who announced the project Monday, said he’s looking for new ways to offer scripted fare in the summer. “It’s less expensive than the traditional license fees we pay,” Silverman said. “That’s allowing us to open up original programming to work across the whole year. There are different ways to get scripted shows on the air all year round.”

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Review by BigBadWolfBoy

I don’t think I’ll ever tire of ‘Evil Kid’ movies. From The Omen to The Bad Seed to The Village of the Damned, I just love watching knee-high Hellspawn frighten the ever-lovin’ crap out of folks using techniques such as the "Stand Quietly In the Corner…Staring" gambit, and the "Speak Softly and Use Verbiage Way Beyond the Grasp of a Normal 8-Year Old" trick. They like to smirk, too, when adults aren’t looking. Talented smirkers, it seems, are the Children of Darkness.

In Whisper, the 2007 Direct-to-Video release from Gold Circle Films, a young, creepy, possibly demonic half-pint named David uses the above tactics and much, much more to juju the hell out of a pack of unsuspecting kidnappers who attempt to hold him for ransom in a secluded cabin.

A big part of producing a successful ‘Evil Kid’ movie is finding a competent Devil Child. In the case of Whisper, director Stewart Hendler did a bang up job- young Blake Woodruff nails the role of David. Also along for the ride (as the band of nefarious kidnappers) are Josh Holloway, Joel Edgerton, Sarah Wayne Callies, and Michael Effin’ Rooker.

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Larry Fessenden’s (Wendigo, Habit) movie The Last Winter is showing in New York and L. A. this month. No word yet on a planned release date for DVD.  Despite the NYTimes review, it has gotten some varied criticism for either pushing the boundaries of horror films so far as to not even belong in the genre…

Trailer

TLW website

Glassy Eye Pix

NYtimes review

Just wanted everyone to know that there is a new forum here at HorrorSociety.com. The old one was a little slow and filled up with spam quickly, so I have made a new one, so feel free to stop in and introduce yourself. Click on the forum link at the top to check it out.

You have to register for the site first to post anything in the forum, so if you have not registered yet, hit the link up top on the navbar and register! Soon we will be having forum only member contests, so make sure you register and get chatting with your fellow horror freaks!!

Take Care!

DrGore

Review by BigBadWolfBoy

Billy Zane is the Jesus of B-Movies. Sometimes he’ll appear in the midst of a low-budget thriller or splatterfest and, just like the kind and gentle Jesus from the majority of the Bible, the Almighty BeeZee will smile upon the film and imbue it with a spark of wit, or coolness, or whatever juicy tidbit he feels inclined to pull out of his Savior-for-hire bag of tricks. Other times, though, BeeZee will make like the “I’m here to punish sinners! Look, I’ve got a blazing sword!” Christ that we’re supposed to see whenever this world gets around to ending, and in those instances he can drag even the most well-intentioned flick down into the fiery pits of damnation. Also, I think Billy Zane can resurrect himself from the dead, but that’s just a theory I’m working on.

Anyway, Johnny Kalangis, director of the The Mad, can breathe easy because Billy Zane smiles kindly upon his 2007 zombie comedy, and while the Almighty BeeZee can’t completely salvage the film’s hit and miss script, he does help to make it likable, silly fun.

He plays Jason Hunt- Doctor. Father. Widower. Ex-New Wave Musician. He’s traveling with his new girlfriend Monica (Shauna MacDonald), his daughter Amy (Maggie Castle), and her stoner-ish boyfriend Blake (Evan Charles Flock).

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Check this out. I just recieved this in my inbox. I’m sure many of you have already seen this classic, but if you havent or want to check it out on the big screen, just clisk on the picture!!

This zombie musical-comedy-horror film comes complete with sexy dancing zombies and a rock opera score. Political satire congeals with buckets of blood that appeals equally to fans from a multitude of genres.

Song of the Dead is Night Of The Living Dead meets The Who’s Tommy with a splash of Shaun of the Dead.All across America, the Jihad Resurrection Virus (JRV) seeps into the pores of the dead, waking them from their sleep and ghoulishly transforming peaceful corpses into flesh-devouring zombies.

News anchors and government officials are conveniently vague about the circumstances surrounding the biological release of JRV and subsequent zombie infestation. The President (Reggie Bannister, Phantasm films and Bubba Ho-Tep) calls upon Americans to unite and resist the treacherous “terrorist attack.”

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“99 PIECES” DARKENS HALLOWEEN WITH OVER 7 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS ACROSS THE NATION!

Canyon Country, CA – September 25th, 2007 – After almost a year since it’s wrap, Falcons Productions “99 Pieces” has a busy Halloween season lined up. Since it’s completion in January, the film has already taken home the award for Best Horror Film of the Year by the Bare Bones International Film Festival and an Official Selection at the Independent Features Film Festival at the world famous Tribeca Cinemas in NYC. Now with the dark season around the corner “99 Pieces” has finally taken the nation by storm.

The first weekend in October (Oct 7th, – 8pm) marks the Third Official Selection at the Shriekfest Horror Film Festival in Hollywood, CA, where the film screens for audiences at the beautiful Chaplin Theatre located inside Raleigh Studios, the longest continuously operating studio in the country. The second weekend in October (Oct 14th – 5:30pm) marks the Fourth Official Selection for the film, which screens at the Spooky Movie Film Festival in Washington D.C. Spooky Movie calls the film Claustrophobic, intense with superb acting and direction.

Following up in D.C, the third weekend in October (October 19th and 20th) the film receives it’s Fifth Official Selection in Tampa Florida at the 5th Annual Halloween Horror Picture Show which will be held among a special Halloween treat for guest because the festival is now part of an annual Halloweenapalooza; a weekend filled with films, tricks, treating, games and much more. Taking a break for a few weeks until the second weekend in November (November 16th-18th) “99 Pieces” takes the honored spot among many other great films with it’s Sixth Official Selection at the After Dark Films and Bloody-Disgusting Horror Hound Weekend in Indianapolis. In it’s second year the festival contains more than 25 guests ranging from John Landis to Gunnar Hansen.

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Review by BigBadWolfBoy

Now don’t get me wrong here. If I pop a movie into my DVD player and find my wolfish eyes immediately assaulted by the sight of a naked young man strolling through the woods, I do not normally clap my hands together, wag my shaggy tail, and announce to the world , “Hell yeah! That’s what I’m talking about!”

Yet I did precisely that when I watched the opening of Sheldon Wilson’s intriguing 2004 creeper Shallow Ground. Because every inch of the aforementioned naked young man is covered in blood. And he’s carrying a large hunting knife. And he’s not so much ’strolling’ as he is ’striding purposely forward with an intense, focused gaze affixed to his bloody visage’ while the camera glides through the woods around him.

Now that, my little horror darlings, is indeed what I’m talking about!

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TERROR IS COMING THIS OCTOBER TO STARZ WITH “FEAR FEST”

Frightening Lineup Includes the Premiere of the Starz Inside Original Special

Bloodsucking Cinema on Friday, Oct. 26 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT)

Englewood, Colo., Sept. 25, 2007 – Tune in to Starz this October for the fourth annual “Fear Fest,” a creepy collection of spine-tingling movies kicking off with the world television premiere of the Starz Inside original special Bloodsucking Cinema.

Bloodsucking Cinema premieres on Starz Friday, October 26 at 8 p.m. (ET/PT) and is followed by a 24-hour marathon of spooky films including Underworld: Evolution, Dawn of the Dead, Silent Hill and more. Come back Halloween night for a triple-feature headlined by Bloodsucking Cinema.

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Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Zombie Invade North America

Tour starts October 18 in Seattle. The long-awaited first live album from Rob Zombie Zombie - Live (Geffen Records/UME) releases October 23, 2007.

Hollywood, CA (PRWEB) September 24, 2007 — Ozzy Osbourne announced his 2007 North American tour in support of the new CD release Black Rain [Epic Records. Aligning with Ozzy this tour is the pioneer of new horror media and music, Rob Zombie. Zombie just released Halloween, premiering number one at the box office breaking all Labor Day Weekend records while grossing an estimated 31 million dollars. As Halloween is well on its way towards cult status, Zombie once again takes his horror-show back on the road in support of the long awaited Zombie-Live album.

Recorded in 2006 during the tour supporting the Educated Horses album, which hit #5 on the Pop chart, Zombie-Live finds Zombie leading a supercharged band featuring guitarist John 5, bassist Piggy D, drummer Tommy Clufetos and was produced by long-time co-writer and producer Scott Humphrey.

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Hey Freaks, Look what you can now get on DVD from Amazon (click here to buy)….Our Kingdom Come!!

Lilith, first wife of Adam, has been rotting in Hell for thousands of years after being exiled from Paradise by The Almighty. Melinda, a confused and directionless young lady is being haunted by a plot to free Lilith.

An occultist named Hera, bent on being forth her master’s bloody revenge, has made a deal with the devil to unleash an ancient evil upon God’s Creation…..

Check out a review of the movie here, and click below for more info and a trailer

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Just re-watched The Screaming Skull (1958, B&W, Alex Nicol). Originally the first of a double feature with Terror from the Year 5000 and later shown on late-night television, The Screaming Skull is quite a movie to watch–including the introductory scene of a visitation with lit candles and flowers and an empty casket with a sign that reads "Reserved for You".

Of all the horror movies I’ve seen in my life, I’ve never encountered one with a word from the Producers assuring free burial services to anyone who watched their movie because of the possibility of dying from fright! The original score, by Ernest Gold, has an uncanny similarity to the music from Kubrik’s The Shining. As with most 50’s horror films, there are fairly straight forward special effects along with obvious symbolism in the characters (Reverend Snow, for example).

The newly married couple returns to Eric’s (the husband) home where his former wife (Marianne–made me think of stories from the Borely Rectory and the skull buried underneath the Rectory) was killed. Eric, trying to take advantage of his new wife’s fragile psychology and "great deal of wealth", uses a skull in various places of the empty house to send her back to the mental institution. The skull shows up multiple times, driving Jenny (the new wife) crazy–until the skull proves too much for Eric himself to control!

Some other interested facets of the movie are that the portrait of Marianne on her tomb in the movie is based of the famous french Inconnue de la Seine, a death mask of an unknown Sienese woman found dead in water (and Marianne also died by drowning). Enjoy the horror, and don’t forget about the free burial service!