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 GLEEFULLY MACABRE TALES cover to cover and in record time. And look at that cover: the center kid looks just like the author! I'd recognize those empty, soulless eye sockets and bloody cheeks ... (more…)

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 misfits over a period of decades.

DWELLER is scheduled for publication in April, 2010, and promises to be the monster book "the year we make contact"! (more…)

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 horror debut" (Village Voice), nothing is what it seems for even the blink of an eye.

Lead designer Ben Richards (Ben Dickinson) pairs off with free-spirited hippie girl Summer Day (Heather Robb), as ... (more…)

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Dark 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 -- poems that haunt you long after you've closed the book.

"I've long admired Crawford's unique style, his obsession with dreams vs. reality, sanity vs. insanity. ("I pick at the scab/of my madness/... (more…)

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 his interview, Roy discusses STREET TRASH, which he wrote and produced, and STREET TRASH 3, currently in development, as well as SCM. The total running time for SLIME CITY SURVIVOR is 112 minutes, ... (more…)

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, who directs this production each year.

Why choose NOTLD as an annual production?

I remember being blown away by the script the first time I read it. It translated so well onto the stage, something I ... (more…)

Debbie Rochon in SLIME CITY MASSACRE

DEBBIE ROCHON, the star of more than 150 independent horror films, will head up the attractions at the 4th Annual Variety Club Fund Raiser for Buffalo's Womens and Children's Hospital Saturday, Oct. 24th in the historic N.Y. Central Terminal.

"In addition to starring in American, German and Italian films, Debbie also co-hosts a weekly horror cult classic radio show on Fangoria Satellite Radio," explained attorney Paul Cambria, the event organizer.

"As an added bonus, director Greg Lamberson will air a short preview of his latest film, SLIME CITY MASSACRE, at the event. Rochon co-stars in the film, which was shot at the Terminal's abandoned postal ... (more…)

I SELL THE DEAD comic book in stores this Wednesday October 7!

Image Comics presents a Glass Eye Pix production of the I SELL THE DEAD comic, based on the award-winning motion picture starring Dominic Monaghan, Larry Fessenden, Angus Scrimm and Ron Perlman.

Written by I SELL THE DEAD writer/director Glenn McQuaid with art by "GUERILLAS" creator Brahm Revel, this beautiful volume is made up of 40 full color pages of undead thrills and chills plus 5 bonus pages on the art of the film!

When 19th Century justice catches up with the infamous grave robbers Grimes and Blake, the condemned Blake reveals to the peculiar clergyman, Father Duffy, that you can never - ever - trust a corpse.

Don't hesitate! ... (more…)

David Cronenberg will reportedly helm the latest remake of THE FLY. Cronenberg's 1986 version of the 1958 original may have been the best received horror remake ever, so why visit that well again? Supposedly, the possibilities of what CGI can do intrigued him enough to revisit material many fans already consider classic. Cronenberg will develop, write and direct this version for 20th Century Fox. (more…)

I was saddened to learn of filmmaker Robert Ginty's death from cancer last week, at the age of 60. Ginty was a familiar face to me when I was growing up, as one of the fighter plane pilots on the Robert Conrad TV series BAA BAA BLACK SHEEP, as "Anderson" in the first season of THE PAPER CHASE (in the role played by Edward Hermann in the excellent film version), and as Bruce Dern's uniformed sidekick in COMING HOME (how strange to think of right wing wacko John Voight's 70s ouvre as a gigolo in MIDNIGHT COWBOY, a liberal minded teacher in CONRACK, a pacifist in DELIVERANCE, and as an anti-war paraplegiac Vietnam vet in this Hal Ashby directed flick).

But Ginty achieved his greatest notoriety ... (more…)