The popular Midnight Madness Programme at the Toronto International Film Festival has announced their highly anticipated titles for TIFF 2008. Programmed by Colin Geddes, the selections for this year include action flicks, Japanese metal music, a cult documentary, missing people, dead people, serial killers and much more. Keep reading for a preview of the more interesting films of the bunch, which will have festival goers up until the early morning……

Check out the new film Berdella. Its still not finished, but its coming soon. Another story of a serial killer that is smack dab in the middle of a nice neighborhood, just snaggin up people left and right. The film is from Northeast Film Group and they are currently looking for some extras, so check out the plot and their site for more info…

Bob Berdella, Kansas City’s most notorious serial…

The Horror 88 film started pre-production on April 23,2008 and is scheduled for release on October 31, 2008 via Goldmine Pictures.

Actress Veronica Diaz has announced today she is going to be co-starring in the new Hollywood thriller. Veronica will be playing ‘Marie,’ the wife of Frank, whos chronic infidelity has made Marie feel like a piece of artwork in their house. Her endless love and commitment to Frank keeps her…

Harry Penderecki, a once heralded horror auteur, finds himself on the outside looking in at Hollywood.

He hasn’t had a hit film in years, and most in the industry, including his close friends, think he’s washed up. Harry is given one last chance to redeem himself with what could be his best or last picture.

Brutal Massacre becomes just that, as the cast and crew find themselves battling one mishap after another…

A horror film has been banned in Germany because it infringes on the personality rights of the German man who killed and ate a voluntary victim on Christmas Day in 2001.

Rohtenburg is a horror film about a man who engages in very similar acts to Armin Meiwes, who was arrested in 2002 and convicted of murder in 2005. Meiwes took the case to assert his ‘personality rights’, which he said…

THEIR award-winning short films put Longridge on the slasher movie map.

Now Mark and Tracy Smith of Optic Nerve Productions are shooting another slasher flick in their home town, using an entirely local cast.

Sweet Dreams is set in the not-too-distant future and tells the story of the mysterious Peter Manson.
It stars Craig Proudfoot, from Ashton, Gemma Cowburn, from Longridge, and Fulwood actor Brad Mayor, who contacted the filmmakers after reading about…

Blood is thicker than water but, between the DeRushie brothers, most of the blood is fake.

The Belleville natives — Jason and Jeff — have turned their lifelong joy of horror films into a career. The pair have been making in-roads in the film industry under their company’s name, The Brothers Gore FX. In the past three years, the brothers have handled the special effects duties in a half-dozen short films,…

PassmoreLab teams with Spike & Mike’s Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation to Produce 3D Conversions of Short Features.

Ushering the animated shorts of the beloved Spike & Mike’s film franchise into the 21st century, digital 3D technology innovator PassmoreLab has produced the first round of 3D conversions from the Sick and Twisted Festival catalog. Better than a pantleg full of live ferrets, these animated shorts in 3D are guaranteed to…

Sherman Oaks, CA (PRWEB) July 24, 2008 — York Entertainment has acquired worldwide rights to Rocky Costanzo’s suspense-thriller feature film,”Amhurst,” which will be released on DVD this October, just in time for the Halloween season. The eight-year exclusive deal was negotiated between York’s Director of Acquisitions Marty Poole and LifeLine’s COO Roy Thomasson.

Amhurst tells the story of Rebecca Cabot, whom after the death of her abusive grandfather, returns to her childhood…

New Line has taken a step forward in bringing Freddy back to the big screen. The Warner Bros. division has hired veteran scribe Wesley Strick to pen the relaunch of the A Nightmare on Elm Street series, the franchise that helped establish New Line into a movie player in the mid-1980s.

The original Nightmare was written and directed by Wes Craven and released in 1984. It created one of the most…

Check out the Hicks Road theatrical trailer below…

Hello folks,

I hope everyone is enjoying our theatrical trailer and the holiday!

Sorry i haven’t been updating our progress to you guys in the past few months, things have been real busy and really really really picking up.

I want to first thank everyone that came out to our marketers (David) bday party which we the production company were apart of the sponsorship, it was…

Once again, its TIME!!

HorrorSociety.com is proud to announce our second indie horror film festival…and this time its gonna be a brutal one!

We pulled off the first one in Cincinnati, Ohio. One of the most conservative cities in the midwest! Now its time to unleash the HORROR in the city of Chicago!

On October 11, 2008 at the Portage Theater in Chicago, Illinois - we are bringing you the most brutal, blood filled, extreme…

The multi-talented Melissa Bacelar, touted as the next “Elvira”, is making quite the name for herself in the Horror Film genre. Melissa, already a successful businesswoman and prolific writer, is one of the top names in the horror film industry. Her latest project, “PINK EYE”, in which Melissa produces and stars in, will have its theatrical release by Warner Bros. Halo 8 on September 30, 2008. The DVD will be…

Check out the new trailer for the low budget horror film, Blood God. This film looks to be about someone changing into some sort of hideous creature out to change the world and make it a “darker” place.

This is brought to you by Sonny Fernandez, a low and no budget filmmaker from North Dakota. He put out a couple other films, one of which will be released by Brain Damage.

Check…

Chicago Zombie March. Story by Brian “Routh” Kirst. Photos by Kirsten “McClure” Pfeiffer.

On Saturday June 21st 2008, zombies invaded Chicago’s Millennium Park. This undead parade, organized by a group of dedicated horror fans, featured zombies of all sorts. There were Bettie Page pin-up hotties, flesh hungry babies, demented preachers, slim jean emo-teens and a variety of power hungry surgery loving medicos.

Many of the participants were simply thrilled to have the…