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A Halloween Feast opens with a strange and bloody scene before a voiceover from Karen Long informs us that she’s worried about her mother Angela. Since she retired from teaching, she’s picked up some odd habits, such as sitting in the yard burning ants with a magnifying glass and killing the family pets.

Six months later it hasn’t gotten any better, and she goes as far as cutting off her husband Richard’s finger and feeding it to him after he mentions it’s the twelfth night in a row she’s served meatloaf for dinner. That gets her committed to a mental hospital.

Richard however wants to try and keep the family together, so he agrees to...

Top 10 Aliya Whiteley 23 Apr 2013 - 07:43

The Exorcist celebrates its 40th birthday this year, which had Aliya wondering, what other horror films came out in 1973? Here are 10...

Some movies become so famous, so iconic, that they rise above the time and place from which they sprang. The Exorcist is one of those movies. It doesn’t need any explanation and it doesn’t seem to age. Whether you love it or hate it, it stands above other horror movies.

It’s too easy to view influential films as if they were made in a vacuum, but when we talk about The Exorcist as possibly the best horror movie ever made, it got me thinking – was it part of a great year for the horror genre? What else was out there in 1973? Were all the horror movies of that year along similar themes, or were they all still dealing in physical rather than psychological horror?...

I love movies about people that go to strange places and enter a terrifying supernatural world. Hell, even Rocky Horror falls under that category. They used to make a lot of films like that and one of my favorites is The Hanging Woman. The film opens with the death of the local Count. Soon after, a mysterious woman is sneaking around the cemetery and entering the crypt of the dead Count. After retrieving a document from the corpse, she is found…...

Robert Englund spent some quality time in Italy early last year where he worked with director Alessandro Perrella on Night of the Sinner , which Perrella co-wrote with Roberto Natale. He co-stars with Ivana Miño who is tasked with evaluating a prince's library for insurance purposes. There she discovers a diary which reveals the eccentric prince's dark nature. Perrella has been a fixture in Italian cinema since the late '60s when he began an acting career. He appeared in a Django film, The Hanging Woman (in '73) and Dr. Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks . It wasn't until the '90s that he began to direct. Epic Pictures is currently looking for distro for Night of the Sinner . We'll keep you posted when it gets a release date. Here's a look at the trailer.

Spanish actor Paul Naschy was a leading star in horror films for forty years from the late 1960s. He was best known for his role as the tragic werewolf, Waldemar Daninsky, which he originated in the 1968 film La Marca del Hombre Lobo (Mark of the Wolfman) from his own script. Though the film pitted Daninsky against a pair of vampires, the movie was oddly retitled Frankenstein’s Bloody Terror when it was released in the United States. He went on to play the werewolf in nearly a dozen subsequent films, many that he also co-scripted under his real name, Jacinto Molina.

Naschy was born Jacinto Alvarez Molina in Madrid on September 6, 1934. He began working in films as an extra in the 1961 biblical feature King of Kings. He appeared in small roles in a handful of films in the 1960s before creating the role of the werewolf Daninsky.

Daninsky returned in...

The poster art for this 1973 Spanish horror yarn, reproduced on the cover of Troma’s new DVD, shows Gothic zombies, underground tombs, stitched-up corpses and buxom females—all depicted in that hand-sketched, morbidly colored, pulpy style that hoped to draw in an audience. To top it all off, there’s Last House On The Left-inspired ad copy that reads, “For the Squeamish, Keep Repeating, It Can’T Be True, It Can’T Be True, It Can’T Be True…” Ah, if only such motion pictures themselves were as good as their advertisements, but The Hanging Woman (a.k.a. La Orgia De Los Muertos, Return Of The Zombies and Beyond The Living Dead) is a fairly slow-going affair.

The narrative follows the structure of a murder mystery, with aloof, secretive townspeople in a 19th-century Scottish village getting picked off one by one by unseen, growling, shadowy figures—though admittedly,...

Shout! Factory gave Fango the scoop that it will release a special-edition DVD of the 1977 nature-run-amok cult favorite Kingdom Of The Spiders next year. The company also sent along final details on its disc of the original Stepfather, which we first told you about here.

Currently targeted for a January 19, 2010 street date, Kingdom will be presented with “a new anamorphic widescreen transfer, plus a slew of extras,” according to our source. Directed by John “Bud” Cardos, the movie stars William Shatner and The Candy Snatchers’ Tiffany Bolling as a rancher and entomologist battling an invasion of killer tarantulas in a Southwestern town. We’ll bring you more details as they come up.

The Stepfather, which cuts in October 13, will supplement its new hi-def widescreen transfer with the following bonus features:

Audio commentary by director Joseph Ruben, moderated by yours truly All new “The Stepfather Chronicles” retrospective documentary featuring interviews with Ruben,...

Lloyd Kaufman's Troma has announced that they will release "La Orgia de Los Muertos" (aka, "The Hanging Woman"), a Spanish/Italian co-production directed in 1973 by José Luis Merino Starring Stelvio Rosi, Gérard Tichy and Paul Naschy as Igor. As put by the press release: Paul Naschy plays a supporting role as a deranged gravedigger in this zombie movie, set in a small highland village in 19th-century Scotland, where a stranger's arrival to claim an inheritance is met with apocalyptic visions and other evil omens. The town unearths a crypt full of horrors, including a devil-worshipping coven and throngs of the living dead.. . . .