| Of all the films Dario Argento has directed, none is as elusive as his third and final fauna-titled FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET. The reasons for this are unclear as Argento was a hot property at the time he shot the film in the summer of 1971. Released theatrically by... | | As a twenty-three-year devotee of Dario Argento, I have only seen a small fraction of the films directed by Lucio Fulci. I first became aware of his work on June 6, 1982 when I saw the trailer for THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY before a theatrical double dose of POLTERGEIST.... | | George A. Romero recently celebrated his 4th decade in the film business. Originally attempting to make an Ingmar Berman-inspired coming-of-age film in the Middle Ages (SUMMER WITH MONIKA meets THE SEVENTH SEAL?), funding was (fortunately) not forthcoming due to investor insouciance and he ended up making the watershed NIGHT OF... | | HATCHET, which made its long-awaited debut on December 18 in the de rigueur “unrated” form on DVD, is a valentine for horror fans who grew up on the shenanigans of Leatherface, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Fred Kruger. Adam Green, a self-professed horror fanatic since he... | | Although it was released on DVD on June 26th, 2007, winter is the best time of the year to watch Bryan Norton’s terrific short film PENNY DREADFUL which has snagged many awards from Shriekfest, the First Run Festival, New York VisionFest, the Phoenix International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, and... | |
It is unfortunate to report of an event that occurred on December 5, 2007 that was not widely publicized. The warehouse in Oregon, IL where back issues of Fangoria and Starlog magazine were stored at Kable News Company's distribution center on 700 South 2nd Street went up in flames after a fork lift hit a gas meter. The sprinkler system had been inexplicably shut off so the roughly $4 million of inventory, which was stored in the wooden building, was essentially destroyed after the tinderbox turned into a conflagration that required over 100 firefighters from neighboring counties to bring it under control. Thankfully, the 20 employees inside made it out safely. 
