Archive for October, 2011

The Vampire Diaries: Ghost World

Fitting for Halloween, the dead are rising from their graves. Anna, Lexy, and even Mason Lockwood are back. Considering Damon was the one who killed Mason, this isn’t the best news for Damon. He is trapped and tortured until he can reconcile what he did. Despite their rivalry they might have a common goal that lies within the tomb.

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HYB ON THE SCENE: Day Three of The Buffalo Screams Film Festival

Greg Lamberson and Emil Novak, co-founders of The Buffalo Screams Film Festival are definitely on their way to mastering the formula. They’ve put together a program highlighting local films, national films, and international films, of all shapes and sizes. The venue is a great choice, a perfectly sized independent theater called The Screening Room. Another great thing about Buffalo Screams is the audience, many of whom are filmmakers themselves, whether or not they have work screening in the festival.

Buffalo Screams 2011

Horror Yearbook is currently attending the Second Annual Buffalo Screams Film Festival. The event kicked off last night with a pretty impressive lineup of movies. The best film of the night was Absentia — which is the best mindfuck flick I’ve seen since Christopher Smith’s Triangle.

Watch Screamfest 2011 Short Film THE NIGHT CALLER Online

Our buddy Peter Podgursky and Donna Thorland’s new short film, The Night Caller, just premiered at Screamfest 2011 in Los Angeles. It’s available online. Watch it right now. It’s good, do it.

The Vampire Diaries: Smells Like Teen Spirit

It’s the first day of senior year. Elena, Matt, Caroline, and Bonnie can’t help but think how much their lives have changed in the past year. Matt’s sister was alive, not a ghost trying to get him to meddle with supernatural elements to bring her back from the dead. Bonnie didn’t know she was a witch and didn’t have a back-from-the-dead boyfriend who was seeing his ghost ex-girlfriends. Caroline wasn’t a blood-thirsty vampire with a vampire-werewolf hybrid boyfriend; the first successful hybrid that is now having master dependency issues with Klaus. It was exactly a year ago that Elena met Stefan and changed her life forever. Now she is foolishly trying to get stronger and learn self-defense against a vampire who she still loves, but nearly killed her.

Bye Lindsay…

I really liked your Joan Crawford makeup!

Movie Review: Wrong Turn 4

The first Wrong Turn came out in 2003, well after I had lost faith in mainstream horror films. I have still never seen it. But after accidentally seeing the first few minutes of Wrong Turn 2, I decided to give the franchise a shot.

What Did They See Daniel Radcliffe!!!

Here’s the Woman In Black sneak peek from the 2011 Spike Scream Awards that we promised you earlier. You can also check out the new animated poster via EW.com, or just wait and see it here tomorrow. Its honestly not that exciting.

From the acclaimed Susan Hill 1983 novel comes a new thriller about a young lawyer (Daniel Radcliffe) as he contends with a vengeful spirit during his exploits in a remote village. The film opens nationwide February 3rd, 2012!

Amber Heard’s Cleavage: 2011 Scream Awards

I caught around 2-minutes of the Scream Awards last night and I’m pretty sure it gave me cancer. They were giving Pee-wee Herman a lifetime achievement award, and I couldn’t stop thinking about how pathetic the entire thing was. Who watches this crap?

Blu-ray Review: Cannibal Holocaust (Shameless Entertainment)

Being a movie hoarder, er….collector, certain titles repeat in my collection and not just once, twice but sometimes three, four or five editions of the same title. Gaining numerous items of the exact title does a number on my subconscious; the notion that is inserted about these various editions leaves me lethargic in getting to the actual movie and, in turn, can cease my ambition in reviewing a blu-ray edition of one of the best, if not the best, exploitive movie we’ve seen to date! Cannibal Holocaust is notorious around the world and was once believed, and probably considered still is, a snuff film even if the actors have revealed themselves alive and well. In my eyes, Cannibal Holocaust is a kind of snuff film, but not the sort of snuff film that you’re thinking.

Final Destination 5 DVD and Blu-ray Info

Final Destination 5 is the perfect ending to one of the last great horror film franchises (assuming it’s the final film). If you skipped it the first time you should give it a chance on DVD. It’s much better than the 4th film. Final Destination 5 will be available on Blu-ray and DVD December 27.

Movie Review: Universal’s THE THING (2011)

If you’ve been a horror fan for longer than the last five minutes, the title THE THING should be very familiar to you. It’s John Carpenter’s aliens-in-the-arctic masterpiece, one of the best horror films ever made. And now there’s a different The Thing in theaters. Yet, Universal has been insisting this is not a remake, but a prequel to Carpenter’s Thing.

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale DVD and Blu-ray Info

It’s the eve of Christmas in northern Finland, and an ‘archeological’ dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. But this particular Santa isn’t the one you want coming to town. When the local children begin mysteriously disappearing, young Pietari and his father Rauno, a reindeer hunter by trade, capture the mythological being and attempt to sell Santa to the misguided leader of the multinational corporation sponsoring the dig. Santa’s elves, however, will stop at nothing to free their fearless leader from captivity. What ensues is a wildly humorous nightmare – a fantastically bizarre polemic on modern day morality.

The Vampire Diaries: The Reckoning

As anticipated, Damon couldn’t stay away from Mystic Falls for long. He doesn’t even make it a full episode away with Katherine. Katherine tries to keep Damon in her grasp. She loves being in control, feeling superior to others, and making boys squirm, even bad ass blood-lusting vampire types like Damon. Damon appeases her to an extent, but really only to throw it back in her face. No matter how he rebels against the idea that Elena wants him to live up to, he will love her above all else. She is one of the only things he has the capacity to have any true feelings for anymore.