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The zombie genre is one of the oldest and most resilient subgenres in horror, starting with Victor Halperin's seminal 1932 film "White Zombie" starring Bela Lugosi. The subgenre has evolved and seen many changes throughout the decades, with new variations, genre mixes, and reimaginings that keep the walking dead fresh and relevant. Whether that's George Romero defining the modern zombie with poignant social commentary in his "Dead" movie series that started with "Night of the Living Dead" in 1968, Danny Boyle bringing the genre to modern times with fast zombies and gritty handheld filmmaking in "28 Days Later," or "The Walking Dead" turning the undead into compelling TV drama in the 2010s.

One thing many modern zombie movies and shows have in common, which may appear bizarre for those not overly familiar with the genre, is the lack of the word "zombie." Indeed, zombie is almost a dirty word in the genre,...

The zombie horror goes back to 1932's White Zombie, directed by Bela Lugosi, though most would consider the mainstream beginning to be George A. Romero's 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead. Throughout the decades, there have been many interpretations of the subject, as the idea of a slowly moving, unintelligent monster doesn't terrify once you become comfortable with the premise, with movies like Zombieland aiming at these tropes. This has led to a diversification of how one can define a zombie and an increased focus on how they affect humanity, with The Walking Dead and World War Z being key examples.

The Zombiemovie genre has enjoyed mainstream popularity for the past 56 years, with its origins dating as far back as 1932. Since then, this horror theme has experienced several waves of popularity, especially since the creation of George A. Romero's Living Dead Universe in 1968. However, certain titles inspired more significant upticks in zombie horror media than others, one of the most notable being the 2010 debut of the milestone zombie TV series The Walking Dead.

The hoards of new zombie movies and TV shows that have followed in the wake of such titles have been unstoppable; while arguably overdone, the undead genre shows no signs of dying off now. Zombie horror owes its popularity to movies like Romero's that avoided common genre tropes and brought something new and thrilling to the table. Whether by playing with the origin of the zombie outbreak, the speed and behavior of the zombies, the setting, or the character types,...

These are frightening times. Of this, there is no doubt. We may even believe there’s never been more to fear. And for some populations, that’s true. But humanity has always lived in frightening times.

Since we first cast shadows onto cavern walls, we’ve made things to fear. Over time, those shadows evolved into performers donning masks, authors putting ink to paper, and filmmakers harnessing technology to project our nightmares onto the screen as we returned to our cave-dwelling roots to sit in the dark with others. We are a horror people. And as the world has gotten scarier, horror has been there to reflect back our fears.

The rise of Hollywood and independent filmmaking in the 20th century created a lasting dialogue between what we see in the fear-seeking news, and what films are made in response. Early American horror movies of the mid-1920s and 30s,...

Zombie films have continued to dominate the horror space, but there are a few classic films within the early decades of the subgenre that are more underrated than others. Zombie films as they are known today have been largely influenced by the work of George Romero, most notably with Night of the Living Dead. As a result, many filmmakers have used Romero's characterization of zombies to inform their films, which can be seen in Jorge Grau's Let Sleeping Corpses Lie and Lucio Fulci's Zombi 2.

Most terrifying zombies seen in modern films show the creatures coming to be through the means of radiation or diseases. However, the idea of zombies originates from Haitian folklore which explains the reanimation of dead bodies through means of witchcraft. Several examples of zombie films from decades ago entertain this version of zombies, while others, like Cemetery Man, have depictions closer to what audiences see today.

Stephen King has shared what he thinks is the scariest movie, and this classic horror movie boosted a specific genre, but not its biggest and most defining trend. In addition to writing some of the most terrifying stories in the horror genre, Stephen King has now also become known for sharing his thoughts on horror movies on social media. The seal of approval of the King of Horror is now awaited by horror fans, and King has now shared what, to him, is the scariest horror movie of all time.

In an essay for Variety, King shared his thoughts and feelings on some classic horror movies and the ones that have scared him the most. King explains that he thinks the scariest movie will vary according to the viewers age, as when he was 16, it was The Haunting, but as an adult, The Blair Witch Project took the spot. However,...

Today, zombies are some of the most popular horror movie monsters. Since Night of the Living Dead, theyve ceaselessly shambled after protagonists brains across countless titles. However, the concept is even older than Romeros late-60s classic. In 1932, Victor Halperin introduced audiences to the living dead in White Zombie. But even that film had a predecessor. Even earlier, in 1919, French director Abel Gances JAccuse (literally I Accuse) showcased a then-revolutionary concept. A hoard of undead soldiers silently marched across cinema screens, though they were unlike any other horrifying monsters of the time.

These monsters didnt thirst for blood, so they werent vampires. However, they were also too solid to be ghosts. Instead, they were single-minded beasts from beyond the grave. By all definitions, these beings were what modern audiences would call a zombie. But theres one final trick up Gances sleeve, and its why JAccuse is often overlooked in horror film history.

In the nick of time for Halloween, Scream TV, a new free horror channel, is launching on Oct. 13, Variety reports. The free channel, focusing on all things horror, is available for download on any Roku or Amazon Fire TV via the DistroTV app and can be downloaded to iOS and Android devices.

Scream TV released the following statement about its launch: Halloween is finally on the horizon and Scream TVs Oct. 13 launch is just around the corner. The brand new, free-to-air, and free-to-stream (or scream!) TV channel dedicated to horror will be bringing viewers the very finest in horror entertainment from around the globe as well as celebrating the golden years of genre cinema. So get ready for the dark ride of your life, and dont forget its all free to view.

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Scream TV, the free new horror channel launching on Oct. 13, just announced a spooky programming run for its launch.

Per a press release, “Halloween is finally on the horizon and Scream TV’s Oct. 13 launch is just around the corner. The brand new, free-to-air and free-to-stream (or scream!) TV channel dedicated to horror will be bringing viewers the very finest in horror entertainment from around the globe as well as celebrating the golden years of genre cinema. So get ready for the dark ride of your life, and don’t forget it’s all free to view.”

For launch month, Scream TV is running some titles as seen on Variety‘s recently-published 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time list, including “Halloween” and “Freaks,” classics like “White Zombie” and “The Last House on the Left,” essential cult titles like “Motel Hell” and “Demons 2” and more recent fare like “Hell House LLC III: Lake of Fire...

Stephen King knows horror. The bestselling author has been scaring people for more than 50 years now, with the vast majority of his books being turned into memorable horror movies. Because of this, King's thoughts on the genre often get lots of attention. He has an entire non-fiction book about the art of horror, and he often offers up his opinion on horror movies. In a new essay over at Variety, King tackles a loaded subject: the scariest movie ever made. King is smart enough to acknowledge that the concept of something being thought of as the "scariest" is relative. "My conclusion is that the 'scariest' varies according to the viewer's age," King writes. "As a kid of 16, the scariest movie was 'The Haunting' (directed by Robert Wise). As an adult, it was 'The Blair Witch Project,' with that building sense of doom and those truly horrible last 35 seconds.

As I’m sure you wonderful gore-hounds know by now, we love every weird and wonderful sub genre the twisted world of horror has thrown our way over the years. Sit this particular horror fan down to watch the latest splatterfest, zombie massacre, creature feature or slasher flick, to name but a few, and I’d be happy as a pig in shit. Happier in fact. Folk horror and witchcraft is one subgenre that I’ve grown to increasingly appreciate over the years, and most recently the work of Robert Eggers, for example, has had me enthralled. It was his 2015 folk horror, The Witch, that first introduced me to his nuanced, macabre yet beautifully crafted movies, and everything he’s produced since has been a must see. The trailer for his take on Nosferatu has just dropped at the time of writing this video and it looks immense. However, with...

Zombie movie fans are well aware of the fast versus slow debate. While zombies are depicted as fast chasers in great movies like 28 Days Later or Zombieland, the genre purists firmly believe that slow zombies are an innate part of the horror the creatures bring ever since early examples in cinema like White Zombie or I Walked With a Zombie. Even quintessential filmmaker George Romero has spoken against the use of fast zombies, as his vision was the sole blueprint for the modern zombie genre for a long time until the fast undead became popular.

Fast or slow, a good movie can make zombies terrifying or hilarious -- or both at the same time. Classics directed by Romero like 1968's Night of the Living Dead and 1979's Dawn of the Dead are canonical entries that feature slow zombies and heavily influenced what people have expected from the genre since then.

Zombies have become a pretty major part of the horror genre. The first zombie movie, "White Zombie," was released all the way back in 1932, but they first really took a bite out of our subconscious with George Romero's "Night of the Living Dead" in 1968. Since then, their popularity has exploded, with more zombie movies, TV shows, and books than you could shake a stick at. But where did the idea of zombies really come from?

It turns out that zombies have their origins in Haitian Vodou (more commonly known as voodoo). Unlike its cousin hoodoo, practiced in New Orleans as a kind of mixture of folk medicine and superstition, Vodou is a complex diaspora faith borne of West African religions. In Vodou, a zombi is someone put under the control of another through the use of psychedelic plants, a nightmarish concept documented in anthropological texts like "Tell My Horse...

Zombies weren't always brain-craving; the idea was introduced in 1985, a turning point in zombie history. George A. Romero defined modern zombies, using them as a metaphor for social-political issues. The Return of the Living Dead introduced brain-craving zombies, cementing the concept in horror film history.

While zombies have become a staple of the horror genre, their time has been relatively short in the media. Unlike other monsters like vampires, werewolves, and ghosts, zombies are a modern construct created on the screen as opposed to literature, at least as the fresh-hungry monsters we know them as today. While it is almost universal knowledge that the living dead crave brains, this concept was only introduced as recently as 1985 and is only one of a few stepping stones that have led to zombies as we view them today in movies, TV, and video games.

We will look at the history of zombies, from voodoo to re-animated corpses,...

Fast zombies redefine horror genre by introducing relentless, terrifying undead threats in recent films. Classic horror comedies and action horrors showcase the evolution and danger of fast-moving zombies. Movies like "Train to Busan" and "28 Days Later" explore post-apocalyptic fast zombie scenarios in thrilling ways.

Fast zombies were terrifying creatures that have frightened filmgoers in plenty of nail-bitingly tense zombie movies in recent years. While the zombie horror movie genre dates as far back as White Zombie in 1932 and its modern incarnation can be traced to George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead in 1968, these earlier movies featured slow-moving, lethargic zombies that were easily outrun when compared to more sinister fast-moving zombies. While fast-moving zombies have their origins in 1980s horror, they truly came to the forefront in 21st-century horror movies that featured undead creatures.

From horror comedies like The Return of the Living Dead to truly tense...

In the 1930s, Universal laid claim to the two biggest horror stars of the era, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and it was only a matter of time before the pair would meet on screen. In 1932, only months after each rocketed to stardom in Dracula and Frankenstein respectively, the two were dressed in tuxedoes and brought together for a genial photoshoot that simultaneously announced their partnership and implied a rivalry. Through a series of circumstances, it was another two years before the pair would star in a film together. As one might expect, it was in the most transgressive horror film of the era, 1934’s The Black Cat, a film that remains shocking not only for the early 1930s but even more surprising as a product overseen by the newly enforced Hays Code.

The Code had been established in 1927 as a self-censoring wing of the motion picture industry and an attempt to avoid government censorship.

Land of the Dead deconstructs the zombie genre, and highlights George A. Romero's use of zombies for social commentary. Romero's zombies are unique because they have human emotions, and he delves into their psychology, inviting empathy for the flesh-eating monsters. The film explores powerful political messages, such as the oppressive nature of capitalism and the idea that humanity is getting dumber, to the point of being outsmarted by the zombies.

George A. Romero's Land of the Dead didn't have the same impact as Night of the Living Dead or Dawn of the Dead, for example, but only grew in relevance as time went by. The filmmaker's Living Dead film series started in 1968 and went on to become Romero's magnum opus; many years would pass from one movie to the other, and each film would deliver a new setting and a new set of characters, something that proved to...

Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.The Deep Blue Sea.REMEMBERINGTerence Davies has died, aged 77. Michael Koresky, who wrote a monograph on Davies in 2014, penned a beautiful Sight & Sound obituary, in which he wrote that “no one made movies like Davies, who precisely sculpted out of a subjective past, creating films that glided on waves of contemplation and observation, inviting viewers to join him in the burnished darkness of a past about which he felt complex, contradictory feelings.” Last year, Dan Schindel wrote for Notebook about the role of poetry in Benediction (2022), and in 2012, Michael Guillen interviewed Davies about The Deep Blue Sea (2011). "The problem with film is that it's always in the eternal present,” says Davies. “But it's closest, I think, to music. You don't have to be a musician to follow a symphonic argument. If you love the music,...

Horror films have the power to completely change genre conventions and audience expectations, shaping the horror movie landscape for years to come. Some horror movies, like Night of the Living Dead and 28 Days Later, have altered the portrayal of zombies, paving the way for new interpretations and subgenres within the horror genre. Horror films have often challenged traditional storytelling norms, such as Psycho killing off its star early on and The Blair Witch Project blurring the line between fact and fiction, leaving audiences with unexpected surprises and unsettling experiences.

The horror genre is arguably the most inventive genre in movies, and some horror films have been so groundbreaking that they changed the genre's conventions completely. By altering the genre's fundamental aspects and audience expectations, these movies were able to deliver highly effective scares. The result was that they completely changed the horror movie landscape, influencing all that came next.

When the zombie apocalypse hits, the last thing anyone is worrying about is why, mostly because the world is infested with the flesh-eating undead. Fighting off hordes of zombies and trying to survive one more day tends to occupy one's thoughts. Still, it is hoped that somebody is trying to get to the root cause and reverse it.

Not all zombie outbreaks are the same and neither are the causes. Sometimes scientists mess around with nature, unleashing a plague, and other times it's a case of nature striking back at humanity. There are many ways a zombie apocalypse can be triggered and ranking them goes in reverse because the best is actually the worst, most irreversible cause.

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In the TV show iZombie, much of Seattle became infested with zombies and had to be cordoned off to stop the infection. This...

It's hard to believe that zombies existed before George Romero's Night of the Living Dead hit the cinemas in 1968, but they did. That movie may have rocked everyone's undead world and brought the horrors of zombies to the mainstream movie-goer, but it wasn't the first zombie film ever. Romero's film paved the way for the subgenre by providing us with gory special effects and socially relevant themes, but more than three decades before his release, another developed the blueprint. Hollywood's resident and forever Dracula, Bela Lugosi, starred in the first-ever zombie film called White Zombie.

Ever since the inception of horror filmmaking, zombies have wandered the Earth. We all know George A. Romero as the Godfather of the Dead, but historians track the first zombies on screen back to 1932’s “White Zombie” starring Bela Lugosi. Before “The Walking Dead” made flesh-munching a source of mainstream cable entertainment, voodoo curses turned the living into dead-eyed shufflers like in Jacques Tourneur’s “I Walked With a Zombie.” Then came the brain feasts, the often debated runners, the contemporary remakes, and Negan’s trusty Lucille.

Film historians can connect the dots between zombie benchmarks that travel at different speeds over decades of releases. Lucky for you, we’re here to rank the 25 best zombie movies to set the record straight. Our list, our rules for inclusion. Let’s slash through the endless horde of zombie titles and see which are left standing as the undefeatables.

Rob Zombie and Waxwork Records have collaborated multiple times in the past, and now they’re working together on a cool new project: a collection of classic horror movie soundtracks that will be released under the banner of “Rob Zombie Presents”! This line of never-before-released soundtracks, personally selected by Zombie, will include Spider Baby, Carnival of Souls, The Last Man on Earth, The House on Haunted Hill, Island of Lost Souls, plus many selections from the Hammer film library… and it all starts with the release of the soundtrack for the 1932 classic White Zombie. Of course it would start with White Zombie.

This 180 gram vinyl release comes in deluxe packaging, with new artwork by Graham Humphreys and liner notes and interviews by Rob Zombie. You can take a look at the White Zombie package at the bottom of this article.

The press release notes: Starring Bela Lugosi, 1932’s White Zombie...

Rob Zombie Presents Classic Horror Film Soundtrack Series Exclusively Through Waxwork Records: "Rob Zombie and Waxwork Records have partnered to release an exclusive, curated line of classic Horror movie soundtracks. “Rob Zombie Presents” will feature several never-before-released film soundtracks that were personally selected by the singer, songwriter, and filmmaker.

Rob Zombie and Waxwork are thrilled to announce their first soundtrack title as “Rob Zombie Presents White Zombie”. Starring Bela Lugosi, 1932’s White Zombie is considered the first zombie movie. It was also filmed on Universal Studio’s lot, using several props from other horror films of that time. Starring Madge Bellamy, Robert W. Frazer, and John Harron, the film follows the cast as they navigate zombies, love, obsession, and treachery. Initially slammed by critics upon its release, the movie has been reevaluated and praised by recent critics for its classic horror production. The film has gone on to influence mainstream media,...

In a perfect matchup, Rob Zombie and Waxwork Records have partnered to release an exclusive, curated line of classic horror movie soundtracks. Up first is, fittingly, the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack LP for 1932’s White Zombie.

“Rob Zombie Presents” will feature several never-before-released film soundtracks personally selected by the singer, songwriter, and filmmaker.

“I have always been a huge fan of movie soundtracks. So, I jumped at the opportunity to work with Waxwork on this project,” Zombie said. “I can’t wait to release these albums. So many of these films are greatly underappreciated, and they all contain such great music. So, to be able to release these deluxe packages is a dream come true.”

You can order a copy of White Zombie at Waxwork Records now!

Bela Lugosi starred in the 1932 classic horror feature.

In the film, “Murder Legendre is the menacingly named zombie master of Haiti. Charles Beaumont...

Simon Pegg reveals what has become of his iconic Shaun of the Dead costume in a new post celebrating the film's 19th anniversary. Directed by Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead follows Pegg's titular unambitious character as he and his best friend Ed, played by Nick Frost, attempt to survive the zombie apocalypse. The 2004 dark comedy was a surprise success at the box office, kickstarting a pattern of collaborations between Pegg, Frost, and Wright that has since been dubbed the Cornetto Trilogy.

Celebrating 19 years since Shaun of the Dead was released, Pegg took to Instagram to share a photo of his framed costume from the film.

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While the reflection from the glass in the frame would suggest that the piece is hanging somewhere in Pegg's home or office, the actor tagged the location as "The Winchester Pub," a...

This episode of Wtf Really Happened to This Horror Movie was Written and Narrated by Andrew Hatfield, Edited by Mike Conway, Produced by Lance Vlcek and John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian.

“Don’t let them bury me, I’m not dead!”

When we think of zombies, it’s only natural to first go right into everyone’s favorite flesh-eating ghouls that were popularized by George Romero in his genre classic Night of the Living Dead. But the idea of zombies has been around much longer and is actually steeped in fact. Haitian voodoo has claimed to create zombies for hundreds of years and in film, these were represented in some of our earliest horror movies. White Zombie and I Walked with a Zombie are two of the more famous ones, but the entire sub-genre has some fascinating watches. Horror legend Wes Craven brought a return to Voodoo...

This episode of the Horror TV Shows We Miss video series was Written and Narrated by Niki Minter, Edited by Adam Walton, Produced by John Fallon, and Executive Produced by Berge Garabedian. Here’s the text of the video script:

I think 1991 shaped my life before I even realized it did. Aeon Flux, Pete & Pete, Clarissa Explains It All, Liquid Television, The Addams Family, People Under the Stairs, Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead, and of course, Eerie, Indiana.

All those shows and movies I just mentioned, I can still enjoy just the same as I did then. A few of them actually get repeat viewings throughout the year. There was something cool about these shows made for kids and teens around this time– they weren’t dumbing it down. Kids felt like they were watching something that they could experience for themselves– it was something that felt real. These...

Suppress your bitter aching loneliness this holiday by watching some very anti-Valentine’s Day cinematic relationships on Shudder! We here at Trailers From Hell have culled through all of the least romantic flicks currently showing on that spookiest of movie streaming platforms, and found some intriguing viewing fodder if you’re less-than-receptive to the typical amorous pablum.

Valentine (2001)

This hokey slasher, starring such staples of the early aughts as Denise Richards and David Boreanaz (plus a pre-Grey’s Anatomy Katherine Heigl). A serial killer wanders the streets of San Francisco (with a Los Angeles interlude) wearing a creepy marble Cupid mask, using a variety of slick household items, including an electric drill and a hot iron. Not the healthiest form of romantic self-expression for our Cupid.

White Zombie (1932)

The Haitian-set Bela Lugosi horror classic so memorable it inspired the name of a multiplatinum hard rock band five decades later! In White Zombie,...

Something almost beyond comprehension is happening on October 31st… and two men want to do a couple of podcast episodes about it. This is the Halloween Parade… volume 1.

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Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

The Exorcist (1973) – Oren Peli’s trailer commentary

Wait Until Dark (1967) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

The House On Skull Mountain (1974)

King In The Wilderness (2018)

Sugar Hill (1974)

World War Z (2013)

I Walked With A Zombie (1943)

White Zombie (1932) – Mick Garris’s trailer commentary

Night of the Living Dead (1968) – George Hickenlooper’s trailer commentary, Glenn Erickson’s Criterion Blu-ray review

Pumpkinhead (1988)

Blacula (1972)

Blackenstein (1973)

The Flesh And The Fiends (1960) – Charlie Largent’s two reviews

Road Rebels (1964)

Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

Perks Of Being A...

Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, which opened May 14 in theaters and hits Netflix on May 21, owes a tip of the hat — and perhaps the crumbling of a limb — to 1932’s White Zombie, the first zombie film.

An independent feature shot primarily on the Universal lot and starring Bela Lugosi, White Zombie was not met with the same critical plaudits bestowed on Universal’s Dracula — the horror flick that made Lugosi a star — and Frankenstein, both released in 1931. “If it succeeds in nothing else,” wrote one critic, “it at least teaches any number ...

Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead, which opened May 14 in theaters and hits Netflix on May 21, owes a tip of the hat — and perhaps the crumbling of a limb — to 1932’s White Zombie, the first zombie film.

An independent feature shot primarily on the Universal lot and starring Bela Lugosi, White Zombie was not met with the same critical plaudits bestowed on Universal’s Dracula — the horror flick that made Lugosi a star — and Frankenstein, both released in 1931. “If it succeeds in nothing else,” wrote one critic, “it at least teaches any number ...

This February on Shout! Factory TV, chivalry is undead. The streaming service will host a Valentine's Day marathon event called Date Night of The Living Dead, featuring a special screening of George Romero's 1968 zombie classic, Night of the Living Dead, along with the 1932 Bela Lugosi-starrer White Zombie and two classic zombie-themed episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 - Zombie Nightmare and The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies.

Fans are encouraged to celebrate with someone who appreciates their beauty and their braaaiiinnnsss and tune in on for date night on Saturday, February 13th. It'll be a scream. The marathon begins February 13th at 6 p.m. Pt and will continue all night. The stream can be viewed on ShoutFactoryTV.com; Shout! Factory TV's Roku, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, and Android apps; and the following digital streaming platforms: Twitch, Pluto TV, Samsung TV Plus, Comcast Xfinity, Xumo,...

It’s hardly a surprise that Resident Evil Village is capturing everyone’s attention (including our own) at the moment. Not only is it the next entry into one of gaming’s biggest franchises, but in a year that will likely feature many game delays as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s a new game scheduled to be released in the near future that we can actually look forward to. Besides, how often do you get to celebrate horror in January?

Of course, Resident Evil Village is nothing if not a celebration of horror that pays special tribute to the Universal horror era of the ’30s and ’40s. We’ve already spoken about how Lady Dimitrescu’s daughters honor Dracula’s brides, but you’ve also got Dimitrescu herself who invokes elements of Carmilla and Dracula. You’ve also got a werewolf paying homage to The Wolf Man,...

In today's Horror Highlights: a 24-hour Chopping Mall marathon, the trailer and release details for Trail of Ashes, and info on the Halftone Horrors Kickstarter!

Trail Of Ashes: "Los Angeles, CA – Gravitas Ventures, a Red Arrow Studios Company, has acquired North American rights to Arturo Lizardi’s thriller, Trail Of Ashes. The film will be available to rent and own on North American digital HD internet, cable and satellite platforms through Gravitas Ventures on December 1, 2020.

The search for the empress's daughter reunites two long lost brothers who grew up on opposite sides of a war and now must choose between family bonds and political alliances.

Written and directed by Arturo Lizardi, Trail Of Ashes was produced by Samari Vega and Lizardi. Trail Of Ashes stars Lizardi, Hector Escudero, Cecilia Arguelles and Carlos Miranda.

Lizardi said “When we began our search to find a home for Trail of Ashes, Gravitas Ventures immediately stood out.

"Do you dare imagine what it would be like to be the last man on Earth... or the last woman?"

It seems only fitting that in the midst of a global pandemic, during a resurgence of pop-up drive-in movie theater's that artist Richard Fowlks would release the 13 card promo set for his Drive-In Double Feature Series Two trading cards.  Equally fitting are the films represented; the apocalyptic Last Man on Earth and Night of the Living Dead - a double barrel shotgun tour de force of what are proving to be eerily accurate predictions of how the world could be destroyed by disease.

But this isn't the first Drive-In Double Feature trading card set.  Series One showcased horror classics White Zombie and The Ape by artists like Byron Winton.  While that set was awesome, Series Two is the sequel that might just put the original in the ground!

Drive-In Double...

Zombi Child director Bertrand Bonello on what happened after Jacques Tourneur's I Walked With A Zombie: "And then the Zombi becomes something very different. Like in the trilogy by George Romero.” Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze

In the second half of my conversation with Bertrand Bonello on Zombi Child, shot by Yves Cape (Leos Carax’s Holy Motors) featuring Mackenson Bijou, Louise Labèque, Wislanda Louimat, Katiana Wilfort, Adelé David, Ninon François, Mathilde Riu, and Patrick Boucheron, the director notes the change in the genre from Victor Halperin’s White Zombie to George A Romero’s trilogy in response to my comment about Jacques Tourneur's I Walked With A Zombie.

Bertrand Bonello on Zombi Child: “The construction is very precise.”

The director/screenwriter of Nocturama; Saint Laurent; House Of Tolerance (with Adèle Haenel and Jasmine Trinca); Ingrid Caven: Music And Voice; and Tiresia has included Brian De Palma’s Carrie; Richard Donner’s [film id=19857]The.

One of my favorite parts of the Halloween season is listening to seasonal music, be it classics like “Grimm Grinning Ghosts” from Disney’s Haunted Mansion ride or familiar tracks from horror movies like Alice Cooper’s “He’s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)” from Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives. Hell, I’ll even do deep cuts like Frank Vinci’s “Just What I’ve Been Looking For” from Sleepaway Camp or Gowan’s “Moonlight Desires,” most recently used in WolfCop. I’m lucky enough to have friends that make me Halloween mixes, too, giving me plenty to listen to all month long.

My new favorite Halloween album, though, is a little unconventional and a whole lot of fun. Sean Keller, a musician, actor, and screenwriter (Hulu’s All That We Destroy), has recorded the ultimate Halloween mix this year: The Killer Sounds of Halloween, 13 original songs from 13 fake bands.

Sid Haig, a towering character actor with a shiver-inducing grimace, died Saturday at age 80. His wife, Susan L. Oberg, reported his death on Instagram but did not mention a cause of death, though she did write, “This came as a shock to all of us.”

Haig is best known for playing the murderous villain Captain Spaulding in the Rob Zombie–directed horror films House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil’s Rejects, and the forthcoming 3 From Hell. His intimidating appearance — he was well over six feet — and the combination of...

It's been a long road leading up to 3 from Hell. We got wind that Rob Zombie was directing this sequel to House of 1000 Corpses and The Devil's Rejects last year. He then took a filmmaking hiatus to go on tour with White Zombie, before heading into the editing bay to finish off post-production. The movie is finally ready to go and will be in theaters this September. Today, Lionsgate has unleashed a murderous new poster and several blood-soaked images featuring the cast.

Rob Zombie both wrote and directed 3 From Hell reviving characters he created, only to kill them all off at the end of the Devil's Rejects, which hit theaters way back in 2005. It's been over a decade since we last saw the Firefly family getting up to some bad business. This new batch of images gives us a great sneak peak at the carnage we can expect.

Sheri Moon Zombie,...

You can tell that the Halloween season is getting closer, between various retailers already donning their shelves with tons of decorations, the days are getting shorter, and Turner Classic Movies has debuted their October schedule online, which features an abundance of genre awesomeness that will be hitting airwaves this fall. Without a doubt, TCM is one of the best resources for classic film, so for those of you looking to broaden your horizons this Halloween, definitely check out their calendar and set those DVRs.

Also, TCM has designated Godzilla as their “Monster of the Month” for October, so look for a bunch of classic films featuring the “King of the Monsters” and other beloved Kaiju throughout October as well.

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Friday, September 27th

3:15pm – The Mummy’s Shroud

6:30pm – The Mummy (1959)

Saturday, September 28th

2:00am – Belladonna of Sadness

3:30am – House (1977)

Sunday, September...

As many of you know well and good by this point in time, writer-director Rob Zombie has an all-new entry in his infamous "Firefly Family" franchise headed our way in early 2019, called Three from Hell. It's been a whopping thirteen years (holy hell) since we've seen these three psycho killers grace the big screen, and Zombie recently teased that they will be joined this time around by a bunch of "bizarre cameos" including Chaz Bono. And today Zombie let us know that he's added another classic genre actor to the cast with The Rocky Horror Picture Show star Barry Bostwick.

Rob Zombie took to Instagram to announce this new cast member writing:

"Another exciting 3 From Hell cameo! Here I am with the one and only Barry Bostwick! As a huge fan Rocky Horror, it was a blast to have Barry join the cast."

Barry Bostwick is best known for the...

One can suppose it was inevitable for Hammer to take on a lesser celebrated (at the time) yet influential sub-genre such as zombies; the ’30s and ’40s were certainly a heyday, with such films as White Zombie (1932) and I Walked with a Zombie (1943) setting a template of voodoo curses and unwilling (and undead) subjects. By the ’50s, they were already used for comic effect, until Hammer took their chance with The Plague of the Zombies (1966), an atmospheric yet rousing period piece that would help set up another template for zombiedom’s biggest sea change two years later.

Part of a four picture co-op with Seven Arts Productions, Plague was released stateside by Twentieth Century Fox in late January to better than average reviews; mind you, Hammer usually found an appreciative press, if even for set design and production values alone. But critics at the time liked the fact that they...

Rob Zombie on Broadway? Even the rocker and director knows that it sounds crazy, but it's something he's at least toyed with in his head over the years. Specifically, Zombie thinks that his directorial debut House Of 1000 Corpses would work well as a Broadway musical. Does that mean anyone is crazy enough to actually make this happen? Not necessarily, but stranger things have happened, even, arguably, when it comes to this movie specifically.

This came up when Rob Zombie was recently a guest on Larry King's talk show. While taking fan questions from social media, someone asked if there's anything that he wants to do with his life that he hasn't already had the chance to do. Surprisingly, Zombie took the opportunity to reveal that he's put at least some thought into the idea of House of 1000 Corpses as a musical. Here's what he had to say about it.

Lakeshore Records will be dropping a a collector’s edition vinyl soundtrack to the Netflix sci-fi series Altered Carbon next month, and we have your first look at it. Featuring original music by Jeff Russo, a cover of a White Zombie song, and some eye-catching pink artwork, this is going to be one unique, unusual release. See the Altered […]

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Happy Halloween, Trailers From Hell miscreants!

Roughly 14 million folks stateside as of this writing have seen the latest Halloween film (based on its current $132.3 million domestic box office take divided by the average ticket price), which premiered to stellar reviews and brisk business. Upon leaving their local theater, I’m sure a lot of those 14 million folks had questions. Some people inevitably asked themselves, “Wait — I thought Laurie Strode was Michael Myers’ sister? And that she died in a car accident, orphaning a daughter named Jamie (Danielle Harris) to fend off her evil uncle?” Still others, I expect, asked themselves, “Wait — I thought Laurie Strode was Michael Myers’ sister? And that she faked her death in a car accident, and she and her son John (Josh Hartnett) ably fended off her evil brother?” Well, both those realities are true. As is the universe where Michael and Laurie share powerful psychic...

Classic horror film lovers get excited, as Turner Classic Movies just unveiled its movie lineup for the Halloween season. I’d run through and list all the classics that will be popping up throughout the month, but there’s just too many to list. This is Turner Classic Movies after all. Check out the full lineup below, and let us know if you’re excited for any of these! (via Bloody Disgusting)

Wednesday October 3, 2018

8:00 Pm The Unknown (1927) Dir: Tod Browning

9:00 Pm The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Dir: Rupert Julian

10:45 Pm The Monster (1925) Dir: Roland West

Thursday October 4, 2018

12:30 Am The Penalty (1920) Dir: Wallace Worsley

2:15 Am The Unholy Three (1925) Dir: Tod Browning.

4:00 Am He Who Gets Slapped (1924) Dir: Victor Seastrom

Saturday October 6, 2018

2:00 Am Deadly Friend (1986) Dir: Wes Craven

3:45 Am Demon Seed (1977) Dir. Donald Cammell

Sunday October 7, 2018

8:00 Pm The Mummy’s Hand (1940) Dir: Christy...

Blumhouse, under the leadership of Jason Blum, has gone from a maverick independent studio to an industry leader, almost single-handedly reinventing the movie landscape of the 21st Century-especially when it comes to the horror genre. With a penchant for producing films fast and on the cheap, the studio is home to The Purge and Insidious franchises (among others), not to mention 2017's Oscar Winner (for Best Original Screenplay) Get Out and Spike Lee's upcoming BlacKkKlansman. Blumhouse is also tackling their first reboots with Halloween slated to hit theaters on October 19 and Todd McFarlane's Spawn in pre-production. On the remake front, we're getting word that Blumhouse has identified and procured their next property: White Zombie!

While filmmaker George A. Romero is rightly considered "The Godfather of the Modern Zombie" for the enduring tropes he first established in 1968's Night of the Living Dead, the film that first introduced modern...

Chamber of Horrors

Blu-ray

Kino Lorber

1940 / B&W / 1:33 / Street Date March 21, 2017

Starring: Lilli Palmer, Leslie Banks.

Cinematography: Alex Bryce, Ernest Palmer

Film Editor: Ted Richards

Written by Gilbert Gunn, Norman Lee

Produced by John Argyle

Directed by Norman Lee

Near the turn of the century a struggling war correspondent named Edgar Wallace began churning out detective stories for British monthlies like Detective Story Magazine to help make the rent. Creative to a fault, his preposterously prolific output (exacerbated by ongoing gambling debts) soon earned him a legion of fans along with a pointedly ambiguous sobriquet, “The Man Who Wrote Too Much.”

A reader new to Wallace’s work could be excused for thinking the busy writer was making it up as he went along… because that’s pretty much what he did. He dictated his narratives, unedited, into a dictaphone for transcription by his secretary where they would then...

Another impressive horror restoration! Majestic Pictures pulls together a great cast, including Fay Wray and Lionel Atwill, for a smart gothic horror outing complete with squeaky bats, a flipped-out village idiot (Dwight Frye!), a crazed mad scientist (the worst kind) and a lynch mob with torches that have been hand-tinted in color. Melvyn Douglas is the debonair flatfoot assigned to solve a series of vampire killings.

The Vampire Bat

Blu-ray

The Film Detective

1933 / B&W with part-tinted scene / 1:37 Academy / 83 min. / Street Date April 25, 2017 / 19.99

Starring: Lionel Atwill, Fay Wray, Melvyn Douglas, Maude Eburne, George E. Stone, Dwight Frye, Robert Frazer, Rita Carlyle, Lionel Belmore, William V. Mong, Stella Adams, Harrison Greene.

Cinematography: Ira H. Morgan

Film Editor: Otis Garrett

Written by Edward T. Lowe Jr.

Produced by Phil Goldstone

Directed by Frank Strayer

Hollywood horror was a hot trend in 1932: with the arrival of Frankenstein and Dracula the horror field boomed.