"Buffalo rocks. Buffalo Bleeds. Buffalo SCREAMS."

Two independent filmmakers, Emil J. Novak and Gregory Lamberson, are organizing a new horror film festival, BUFFALO SCREAMS, which will run for four days at The Screening Room in Amherst, New York, a suburb of Buffalo, from Wednesday, October 21st - Sunday, October 24th. They are calling for entries and seeking sponsors through their website, www.buffaloscreams.com.

Both men have lived in New York State their entire lives, and Novak, a lifelong resident of Buffalo, is the owner of Queen City Bookstore, the Main Street comic book store his father started in 1969. In recent years he wrote and directed the feature films Tesla the ... (more…)

Debbie Rochon and Gregory Lamberson have been announced as guests at the Eerie Horror Film Festival in Erie, Pa, which runs October 7th - 10th. They will screen SLIME CITY MASSACRE at the 4-day event, which is held in the grand, historic Warner Theatre. Lamberson previously screened SLIME CITY as a midnight attraction at the great Lakes Film Festival in Erie, and screened UNDYIONG LOVE at EHFF. Other guests at this year's event include legendary AIP producer Bert I. Gordon; Fred "the Hammer" Williamson; and Joe Polito.

SLIME CITY MASSACRE stars Jennifer Bihl, horror author Kealan Patrick Burke (Best Actor, PollyGrind Film Fest), Rochon, Brooke Lewis (Best Scream Queen, Golden Cob ... (more…)

Pictured: Michael O'Hear & Brooke Lewis

Brooke Lewis has won the Golden Cob Award for "Best Scream Queen" for her performance in Gregory Lamberson's SLIME CITY MASSACRE. The Golden Cobs will be handed to their recipients at The B Movie Celebration, which will be held September 24th - 26th in Franklin, Indiana.

In SLIME CITY MASSACRE, Lewis portrays "Nicole" in a flashback story set in 1959 which explains the origin of "the slime." Nicole is a prostitute drawn into the Coven of Flesh, which charismatic cult leader Zachary Devon (portrayed by Robert Craig Sabin, star of the original SLIME CITY).

SLIME CITY MASSACRE previously won 2 awards at the PollyGrind Film Fest in Las Vegas: Biggest ... (more…)

He's an accidental sensation - sort of the super hero who couldn't that resiliently keeps chugging along. He's Super Undead Doctor Roach.

Having previously caught the eye of celebrity blogger Robin Leach and invaded odd underground and bondage events, the crowd-pleasing short film is now online.

See it now at SuperUndeadDoctorRoach.com via Vimeo.

Edited, produced, written & directed by Chad Clinton Freeman (KILLER BIKER CHICKS), the short film was originally a seven-minute 48 Hour Film Project in April of 2009.

Starring Derek Houck (SILENT NIGHT, ZOMBIE NIGHT) as the short's title character, the film went on to screen at the Arizona Underground Film Festival.

The 13-minute director's cut of ... (more…)

CAMILLE KEATON of famed revengesploitation fare I Spit On Your Grave and GREGORY LAMBERSON, writer/director of Slime City and Slime City Massacre have joined this year's Rue Morgue Festival of Fear lineup. Other guests this year include DAVID CRONENBERG (The Fly, Rabid), GLENN DANZIG (Danzig, Misfits), KEN RUSSELL (The Devils, Gothic), BILL MOSELEY (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2), WILLIAM FORSYTHE (Rob Zombie's Halloween), HEATHER LAGENKAMP (A Nightmare On Elm Street), EL HIJO DEL SANTO (Santo Infraterrestre), JAMES MARSTERS (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and many more!
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CHASING THE DRAGON is a new novella by Nicholas Kaufmann, author of the novelette GENERAL SLOCUM'S GOLD, the short story collection WALK IN SHADOWS, and the recent pulp adventure novel GABRIEL HUNT AT WORLD'S END. Kaufmann used to write "The State of the Genre" column here at Fear Zone, and before that I posted his video reading of an excerpt from SLOCUM, which you can still find if you dig around the site. I've also spent a considerable amount of time trapped at the U.S./Canadian border with him; in fact, he first describes this novella to me during one such excursion.

CHASING THE DRAGON is the story of Georgia Quincey, descendant of the dragon slayer St. George, fated to face the same ... (more…)

Behold the cover for the upcoming Dark Scribe publication, BUTCHER KNIVES AND BODY COUNTS: ESSAYS ON THE FORMULA, FRIGHTS AND FUN OF THE SLASHER FILM, edited by Vince Liaguno.

BUTCHER KNIVES & BODY COUNTS features essays from over 70 contributors (including myself) on slasher films. My essays are on SUSPIRIA and the original BLACK CHRISTMAS. It's great to share a ToC with so many sick, twisted and deranged stalwarts, literally too many to list here. I'll hazard a guess this will be the nonfiction horror book of the year!

For a complete list of contributors, an overview of the project, and publication news, visit the Butcher Knives & Body Counts blog . (more…)

Reel Renegades announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the features section of its festival. The 2010 Reel Renegades Festival runs June 4th and 5th in Norman, Oklahoma. June 4th will be a pre-party, featuring bands and booths with fx artists and comic book artists.

"A film festival dedicated to extreme independent cinema. Organized by film makers for film makers. An outlet for taboo breaking, controversial, limit pushing artists who go against the grain and rise above. Only for the head strong."

Reel Renegades was designed as an alternative outlet to festivals that charge submission fees and cater to traditional standards of moviemaking and mainstream storytelling and ... (more…)

Medallion Press publishes my werewolf novel, THE FRENZY WAY, as a trade paperback on June 1st. It's been a long road for this particular tale to reach the public, but I'll get into that later. First I want to discuss werewolves, and why they've had such a big impact on me.

It all started with Dan Curtis, when I was a 4 year old living in Dunkirk, New York, an hour south of Buffalo. This was during the Stone Age, before cable TV, and our rabbit ears only received the big three networks, PBS, Channel 29 from Grand Island (since gobbled up by the FOX TV monster), and occasionally some Canadian stations. My mother, a single parent, was in the process of getting her Master's Degree in English.... (more…)

A sequel to a gruesome classic from more than twenty years ago and a debut feature from twin sisters that originally started off as a faux trailer were the two big winners of the first ever Polly Staffle Grindhouse Fest.

The international event, predominantly known as PollyGrind, took place May 12-16 at the Sci-Fi Center in Las Vegas. PollyGrind consisted of programming in the tradition of grindhouse theaters with double and triple features each day, bookended by trailers and music videos. The event was dedicated to independent filmmaking and those that love cult, horror, sci-fi, exploitation, arthouse, cool, edgy, sexy and bloody works of cinema.

Thirteen films and more than 31 other works ... (more…)