The Official HorrorNews.Net Podcast Eps 7 – Star Trek Into Darkness

Posted in Articles, Featured Items, Podcasts, Shock Treatment by - May 22, 2013
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The Official HorrorNews.Net Podcast Eps 7 – Star Trek Into Darkness
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Co-hosts Doc Rotten, Dave Dreher, Santos (The Black Saint) Ellin Jr. and Thomas Mariani boldly go where no HorrorNews.Net podcaster has gone before…deep into space with J.J. Abrams and his latest feature Star Trek Into Darkness with the return of Captain Kirk, Spock, Bones McCoy and the crew of the Enterprise facing the deadly threat of John Harrison also known as…[shut your mouth]. Ah! Spoilers abound as the grue-crew review the sci-fi instant classic. Also, welcome aboard the latest addition to the podcast crew, the lovely Vixen. That’s right, the HorrorNews.Net Podcast now has a female perspective.

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Monster Movie Podcast Episode 50 – Marvel Studios: Iron Man, Hulk, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers

Posted in Articles, Featured Items, Monster Movie, Podcasts by - May 18, 2013
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Welcome to the Monster Movie Podcast. This is episode 50 as Doc Rotten and Thomas Mariani celebrate the modern cinema juggernaut known as Marvel Studios. Iron Man. The Hulk. Thor. Captain America. The Avengers. Never before has a film company accomplished what Marvel Studios has in its universe building. Doc and Thomas look at each of these films, the upcoming films and the Marvel properties that are held at other studios: Spider-Man, X-Men and the Fantastic Four.

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Episode 50 – Marvel Studios
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The Official HorrorNews.Net Podcast Eps 6 – Patrick Rae (director of Nailbiter) and Aftershock

Posted in Articles, Featured Items, HorrorNews.Net, Podcasts by - May 15, 2013
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The Official HorrorNews.Net Podcast Eps 6 – Patrick Rae (director of Nailbiter) and Aftershock
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Co-hosts Doc Rotten, Dave Dreher, Santos (The Black Saint) Ellin Jr. and Thomas Mariani welcome director Patrick Rae to the podcast to discuss his film Nailbiter coming out May 28, 2013 on DVD/BluRay. The guys also talk about this week’s limited theatrical/VOD releasse of Eli Roth’s Aftershock. Dave brings the news and Doc shares his visit to the Blood at the Beach III convention in Virginia Beach, VA. And, we have a winner for the Krampus: The Christmas Devil poster contest.

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Episode 6 – Patrick Rae (Director, Nailbiter) and reviews of Aftershock (Eli Roth)
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Review: The Call (2013)

Posted in Reviews, Theatrical Reviews by - May 10, 2013
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Review: The Call (2013)

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Veteran operator Jordan (Halle Berry) Turner, still reeling from a 911 call months ago that resulted in the death of the caller, must face her fears when another similar caller phones in. In this case, Casey (Abigail Breslin) Welson finds herself kidnapped and thrown into the trunk of a killer’s car. Jordan struggles to keep the girl calm, safe and alert in hopes someone will notice her waving from the back of the car on the freeway, and they will then also call into 911 revealing Casey’s location. Finding the car is Jordan’s only hope to saving Casey. But just …

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The Official HorrorNews.Net Podcast Eps 5 – Iron Man 3

Posted in Articles, Featured Items, HorrorNews.Net, Podcasts by - May 10, 2013
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It’s super hero week at the Official HorrorNews.Net Podcast where co-hosts Doc Rotten, Dave Dreher, Santos (The Black Saint) Ellin Jr. and Thomas Mariani discuss the this summer’s first blockbuster, the mammoth box office hit, Iron Man 3. Robert Downey Jr. returns as Tony Stark in the first of phase 2 in Marvel Studios elaborate cinematic universe. After the lively (in one corner, we have Doc; in the other, we have Santos), Dave steps in to tackle this week’s horror news, May’s HNN Podcast contest and contact information.

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Episode 5 – Iron Man 3
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Review: The Frankenstein Theory (2013)

Posted in DVD Reviews, Reviews by - May 08, 2013
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Review: The Frankenstein Theory (2013)

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A young, brilliant scientist, Professor John Venkenheim, hires a film crew to document his journey into the Canadian wilderness, deep in the Artic to prove his mad theory, to find evidence of a man-made monster living in the wild for centuries. The theory, that the work of Mary Shelley was based on fact not fiction, that Frankenstein was inspired by the accomplishments of his grandfather’s great grandfather. With years of research behind him, based on the number of missing person cases and unsolved murders in small communities, Venkenheim believes the creature migrates south during the winter, close enough to population, …

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Monster Movie Podcast Episode 49 – Horror Television 2013

Posted in Articles, Featured Items, Monster Movie, Podcasts by - May 07, 2013
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Welcome to the Monster Movie Podcast. Kevin Bacon stars as Ryan Hardy on FOX’s hit show, The Following. Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore are Norma and Norman Bates in A&E’s Bates Motel. And Mads Mikkelsen is Hannibal Lecter in NBC’s Hannibal. It’s terror on TV as Doc Rotten welcomes Dave Dreher from HorrorNews.Net to take a look a horror programming on today’s television sets.

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Episode 49 – Horror Television
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The Following is FOX’s latest hit television series already renewed for a second season. Along with Kevin Bacon as the show’s protagonists, James Purefoy stars as serial …

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Review: Antiviral (2013)

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Review: Antiviral (2013)

SYNOPSIS:
In a world consumed by obsession with those in the public eye, celebrity diseases are a highly sought after commodity. Companies like the Lucas Clinic are marketing the contracting of the hottest celebrity’s illness as being the ultimate way to connect with media royalty. Syd (Caleb Landry Jones) March sells and extracts the most sought after infections, even the most popular ills belonging to Hannah (Sarah Gadon) Geist. He also secretly infects himself in order to steal the viruses, selling them on the black market. When he injects the disease that kills the adorned superstar, he becomes involved in conspiracies …

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Review: The ABCs of Death (2013)

Posted in DVD Reviews, Reviews by - May 06, 2013
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Review: The ABCs of Death (2013)
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SYNOPSIS:
In a bold cinematic experiment, 26 directors from 15 different countries come together to present a collection of 26 shorts on the subject of death. Each director is given a single letter of the alphabet to use as a topic of their short. This is the ABCs of Death.

REVIEW:
Entertaining. Provocative. Disturbing. The ABCs of Death is like the Twilight Zone on crack, a bing-bang-boom collection of horror shorts from 26 different directors from across the globe with varied results and diverse approaches to film. The movie is difficult to digest as a whole as the there is no narrative running …

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Review: The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013)

Posted in DVD Reviews, Reviews by - May 05, 2013
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Review: The Haunting in Connecticut 2: Ghosts of Georgia (2013)

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Andy and Lisa Wyrick (Chad Michael Murray and Abigail Spencer), along with their young daughter Heidi (Emily Alyn Lind) move into a secluded farm house in the Georgia countryside. When Heidi begins to see ghosts of their new home’s previous residents, Lisa realizes her daughter has the ability to see the spirits of the dead who remain behind, much like herself. With the help of Lisa’s sister, Joyce (Katee Sackhoff), the family begins to uncover the links between the supernatural haunting and events that lead back to a horrible tragedy during the 1800′s.

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Based on true events, David Coggeshall’s screenplay and …

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