http://www.fearzone.com/ We scare everyone! en-us Copyright 2007 Hot Saki Design, LLC Sat, 7 Nov 2009 06:36:13 EST http://www.fearzone.com/images/header-logo.png http://www.fearzone.com/ http://www.fearzone.com/blog/last-rites When I was hired to create and launch Fear Zone, I conceived it as a monthly magazine that would be doled out in daily doses. That being the case, you now "hold in your hands" what amounts to the Zone's final issue. Traffic for this site remains exceptionally high (and we've shown a 40% increase over the last 3 months) and I know editors at other sites who would kill for our numbers. But this is a commercial venture, and advertising revenue on the web has dried up during the recession, and... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/last-rites Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.fearzone.com/blog/rue-canges Jovanka Vuckovic has announced that she's leaving her post as Editor-in-Chief of RUE MORGUE magazine to concentrate on personal creative projects and to start a family. Jovanka has worked at RM for seven years and has served in this position for three. She'll be succeeded by Dave Alexander, who has been contributing to the mag for four years.Some of my favorite features in this great magazine were published during Jovanka's run, though she always stressed that the decisions made regarding... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/rue-canges Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.fearzone.com/blog/sacramento-horror To the casual observer, Sacramento doesn't exactly jump to mind when it comes to iconic horror names & places ,but the state capital of California actually has a rich history of supporting the genre. For over a decade spanning the early 1970's -1980's, one of the most fondly remembered Horror TV shows in history, CREATURE FEATURES, helped to raise a generation of "Monster Grandkids," myself included. The Sac-based show was hosted by the ever lovable Bob Wilkins, and later by John Stanley... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/sacramento-horror Thu, 5 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.fearzone.com/blog/fear-fame I know, I know - "Best of" lists can be silly, but I didn't want to wrap up Fear Zone (more on that another day) without drawing up a list of the 25 most influential figures in horror. I kept the list short - 100 or even 50 seemed too ambitious, and the more names you add to a list the less significant their accomplishments seem - and I restricted myself to writers, filmmakers, and special make-up artists (and one "other"). Had I made a longer list, I would certainly have included film... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/fear-fame Wed, 4 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.fearzone.com/blog/11-2 November is here and soon, the slaughter of the turkeys will begin! That's right, October may have Halloween, the scariest time of year for us humans, but November has Thanksgiving, the most terrifying time of year for turkeys...imagine, having your friends pulled from your community, plucked, skinned and then having bread crumbs stuffed up their ass before being baked! Scary, right? Well, since it's a scary time of year, why not pile on with some cool horror DVDs? So, here's what hits... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/11-2 Tue, 3 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.fearzone.com/blog/strand-2 They say that lightning doesn't strike twice, but I beg to differ when it comes to jazzy Jeff Strand. His outstanding, hilarious, morbid and gruesome short story collection, GLEEFULLY MACABRE TALES, which was nominated for a Bram Stoker Award and sold out its Delirium limited edition - is now available as an affordable trade paperback from Dark Regions Press. I typically read four or five stories in single author collections and multi-author anthologies then put them down, but I burned through... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/strand-2 Tue, 3 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.fearzone.com/blog/moore MOORE "Guillotines And Angel Wings" CD(USA, 2009, Nightwing Records)It took a whole four years until bandleader Jim Moore (vocals) and his companions Joe Johnson (guitars), Chad Parsons (bass) and Haakon Sjoergren (drums) finally came up with a follow-up to MOORE's latest full-length album "Bleed" from 2005. The long wait, however, was definitely worth it 'cause in the year of 2009, MOORE are stronger than ever and totally rip your head off with their crushing new CD "Guillotines And Angel Wings... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/moore Mon, 2 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.fearzone.com/blog/dweller-strand After the success of his first mass paperback novel, the outstanding PRESSURE (originally published as a limited edition hardcover and currently being developed as a movie), Jeff Strand is getting ready for his next Leisure title, a paperback original titled DWELLER. DWELLER tells the story of a boy and his monster, then evolves in the story of a teen and his monster, and then matures into the story of a man and his monster. Yes, Strand is tracing the relationship between these two social... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/dweller-strand Mon, 2 Nov 2009 00:00:00 EST http://www.fearzone.com/blog/nicholas-kaufmann Back when Fear Zone first launched, one of our first author reading videos was Nicholas Kaufmann reading an excerpt from his Bram Stoker nominated novelette General Slocum's Gold, which we selected as our Best Short Fiction for that year (although Nick pointed out it wasn't all that short). For one year, this New York based author wrote "The State of the Genre", and he currently writes a similar column, "Dead Air," for The Internet Review of Science Fiction. This is a big year for Kaufmann:... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/nicholas-kaufmann Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/shooting-out Mary Bogle braces for action in SCM With Mecenary Weekend out of the way, you'd think we'd have had a breather. Just the opposite was true: halfway through the 20-day schedule, we actually faced a series of pressing deadlines. "Shooting out" an actor means wrapping their scenes so they can leave town for their next job. One of the advantages of Jennifer Bihl being the lead - with the greatest amount of screen time - was that she had the most flexible schedule. Our other stars were visitors.... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/shooting-out Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/artbattles Hey, New Yorkers! We're giving away three pairs of free tickets to ArtBattles Presents: The Thriller, A Friday the 13th Battle, which will be held at M1-5 lounge in Tribeca at 8 PM On Friday, the 13th. All you need to do to win is send me an e-mail with "Friday the 13th is Art" is the subject line and your full name in the body: glamberson@verizon.net.Join us as two teams of two artists battle with the hopes of wining a one-week, all expense paid getaway in the Catskills at the Solo Foundation... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/artbattles Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/brian-bad Happy, Happy Halloween...Silver Shamrock, to you all! That's right, it's the Tuesday before the 'big day' and I know all the ghouls and goblins are primed and ready to haunt the living hell out of everyone this Saturday. But, before you put on that mask and grab that pillowcase you want to fill with candy, how about something to put you in the mood? That's right, you have 3 more days before you can legally start trick or treating, so why not head down to the video store and grab a special... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/brian-bad Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/reznick-flicks Glass Eye Pix is thrilled and chilled to announce the arrival of Graham Reznick's debut feature film on DVD this October 27, 2009 from Kino International!Also included in the release is Reznick's all-new 3D short film THE VIEWER with your very own pair of special 3D glasses!When the three-man staff of a boutique ad firm trades their Brooklyn home base for a rural backwater campsite, a classic "city slickers in peril" scare-film set-up is reborn. But in I Can See You, Graham Reznick's "surprising... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/reznick-flicks Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/vi-review OH NO! IT'S SAW VI!I've seen every installment of the SAW series, and I'd say the hardest part about watching these movies is trying to convince yourself that what you're seeing is actually new. After awhile, these movies tend to all blur together and seem interchangeable. Between the flashbacks to scenes from previous movies, to newly filmed flashbacks to scenes we hadn't seen before (mainly revolving around John Kramer (Tobin Bell) the "real" Jigsaw back when he was alive), and then the same... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/vi-review Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/voices-dark Dark Regions Presswww.darkregions.comDark Regions is proud to announce "Voices From The Dark" by Gary William Crawford is a brand new retrospective poetry collection from this Bram Stoker nominated poet. Poems of madness and the stars, from this world to others millions of miles away... A sense of profound loss mingled with horror... A place beyond death that is almost insane in its realism ... Visions of cities and planets of pure evil ... The loneliness of the outcast and the artist of dreams ... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/voices-dark Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/complete-survivor All 26 episodes of SLIME CITY SURVIVOR, Madeleine Koestner's video documentary of my upcoming film SLIME CITY MASSACRE, are now live on YouTube. The goal was to follow the production day-by-day, interviewing some of the key personnel. The interviews were conducted by Wil from Horror Yearbook. The last episode features an interview with Roy Frumkes, who plays "Ronald Crump," a villainous real estate tycoon who hires a team of mercenaries to wipe out the homeless population in Slime City. In... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/complete-survivor Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/fall-haded Dark Regions Presswww.darkregions.comDark Regions is proud to announce the shocking new novel "The Fall of Hades" by Jeffrey Thomas. This is a sequel to the cult classic "Letters From Hades". A Hellish Tour de Force of the Imagination! A young woman emerges from a catatonic state to find herself naked and devoid of memory, a centuries-long prisoner of an apocalyptic battle between formerly human avenging Angels, rebel bands of the Damned, and monstrous Demons of every description. With only a... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/fall-haded Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/hillbilly-bob HILLBILLY-BOB ZOMBIE (2009 dir Ray Basham)Ray Basham Productions DVDRecently premiered horror comedy from Ohio filmmaker Ray Basham is a story that takes place in a backwoods hillbilly portion of rural Ohio. A bearded redneck father (Sal Lizard) and his retarded son (Chris Burdulis) come across a toxic waste barrel in their neck of the woods on what appears to be a normal, sunny day when they're out looking for something that might help them with selling their moonshine. The two argue, bicker,... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/hillbilly-bob Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/zone-11 11:11Much has been written about the 11:11 phenomenon, which consists of certain people noticing that number on their digital clocks in a way that's too strong to be coincidence, and too random to involve their looking for it. There was even a 2004 movie, 11:11: HELL'S GATE, and another movie titled 11:11 will be out next year.I know, because I'm an 11:11 person myself.It started for me about a year and a half ago, when I honestly hadn't heard, read, or seen a word about the thing. I'd pass by... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/zone-11 Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/horror-box What are we to conclude from the box office for U.S. horror films the last few months? In short order, THE FINAL DESTINATION creamed ROB ZOMBIE'S HALLOWEEN 2, the much hyped JENNIFER'S BODY bombed, ZOMBIELAND debuted in the #1 position, and PARANORMAL ACTIVITY - in limited release - annihilated THE STEPFATHER remake.First of all, let's award the dunce cap to the rocket scientists at Weinstein Co. that released ZOMBIE'S H2 in late August rather than, duh, October, the month of the holiday for... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/horror-box Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/oct-20 It's October 20th and All Hallow's Eve moves every closer! Can you feel it, the darkness moving closer, the evil beginning to waken, the dumb-ass kids getting ready to egg your house? I can feel it! Well, let's take our mind off the egg cleaning that we'll be doing on November 1st and see what hits horror DVD today, shall we?First up, from Sony Pictures is BLOOD: THE LAST VAMPIRE, a live action version of the cult anime series. Saya is a half-human, half-vampire warrior who hunts vampires. ... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/oct-20 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/horror-confessions Back when I made SLIME CITY, I was a ravenous comic book fan. Everyone on set passed around comics during what I consider the real Golden Age of that medium: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, ELEKTRA: ASSASSIN; WATCHMEN; CEREBUS and Miller's DAREDEVIL all circulated among the slime cast and crew. I remember having a conversation with Robert Sabin regarding books that had changed creative hands. I felt that if a top writer or artist left a title, and that title's quality decreased, it was important to... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/horror-confessions Mon, 19 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/night-play Some of the best holiday fare out there is pretty scary - Dickens's A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Rankin and Bass's RUDOLPH, SANTA CLAUSE IS COMING TO TOWN, THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY, Tim Burton's THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. Hell, people forget all the time just how dark IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE is. But it warms my heart knowing that each Halloween, in the City of Buffalo, thespians and artisans bring to "life" George Romero's NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD as a theatrical experience. I spoke to Paul McGinnis,... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/night-play Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/curried-fear Although the phrase "Asian cinema" usually puts a cineaste in mind of one of the major film centers - India, Hong Kong, Japan - film production has exploded throughout the entire continent over the last ten years. One of the most interesting countries producing movies right now is Thailand. Yes, a place known in the past for dishes with names like "Prik King" is now putting out some of the best horror movies in the world. Unlike the scarefests released from Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan, the... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/curried-fear Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT http://www.fearzone.com/blog/masked MASKHEAD (2009 dir Scott Swan and Fred Vogel)Toe Tag Pictures DVDAfter their return to "spreading the sickness" this year with MURDER COLLECTION VOL. 1, Pittsburgh's Toe Tag Pictures brings us another venture into the macabre with "Masters of Horror" and "Fear Itself" writer Scott Swan teaming up with Fred Vogel for MASKHEAD.MASKHEAD tells the story of Syl and Maddie (Shelby Vogel and Danielle Inks), two girls who produce fetish videos and recruit actors for parts in their movies along with the... http://www.fearzone.com/blog/masked Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT