It’s easy to think of most Haunted Attractions across the United States amidst cornfields, hayrides and surrounded by the most notorious of horrific locations, the woods. But here in New York City, there’s more than just the famed annual West Village parade and a Pumpkin Spice Latte for city-dwellers to get in the mood for autumn, Halloween and all the pagan spirit it has to offer. There’s little doubt when New Yorkers think of their options for true scares, one house of frights comes to mind first. Half because of its stunning reputation, and half its stark, memorable and ever-present subway advertisements (seriously, try and hit a stop without one), Nightmare is often voted one of the best of its kind. Fango spoke with creator Timothy Haskell and co-director John Harlacher about the often off-beat and highly regarded scare-fest and this year’s narrative theme, Superstitions.
When we last left Skye Rotter, played by Lauren McKnight (pictured left), at the end of last year’s MTV movie MY SUPER PSYCHO SWEET 16, she was departing the Roller Dome where a number of her high-school classmates had been slain by her deranged dad Charlie—leaving her nemesis, Madison Penrose, to die at his hands. In MY SUPER PSYCHO SWEET 16 2, debuting tonight on the cable channel (see review 
Leaving city limits, Fango entered a landscape that was reminiscent of a CHILDREN OF THE CORN film. We were visiting one of central Pennsylvania’s premiere Halloween haunts, Lancaster county’s Field of Screams in Mountville, Pennsylvania. This writer was excited to view the down-home frights that Field of Screams delivers to its audiences during the Halloween season.
Once again, dangerous creatures are descending on Washington, D.C., and this time it has nothing to do with Congress or Glenn Beck supporters. No, it’s time for the Fifth Annual Washington D.C. International Horror Film Festival, also known as Spooky Movie 2010. The festival is being held in a variety of locations beginning today and running through Monday, October 25.
Not many know this about me, but I sat through my first horror film, from start to finish, when I was 14. The film in question was THE RING, and it scared the crap out of me the night I watched it. But what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right? Over the years, I’ve continually found myself facing foreign terrain when it comes to experiences regarding the horror genre. I finished my first RESIDENT EVIL game at age 15—earlier attempts resulting in my returning the zombie epic to the local Game Stop—and found myself sneaking into theaters to witness the dawn of the “torture porn” era with SAW in 2004 and HOSTEL in 2005. Six years from that fateful night, I find myself feeding my morbid mind with such films as CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, SALO, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM and A SERBIAN FILM. But it was only a matter of time before I found myself on a completely different threshold, and it all started with a 20th birthday gift from dear mother. I would be flying to Orlando, FL for Spooky Empire’s Ultimate Horror Weekend, a convention held on October 8-10 at the Wyndham Resort.
It’s been quite some time since Alex Winter directed creatures on the big screen for the cult favorite FREAKED. And while he’s been busy in the TV realm since then (most notably, helming two of the BEN 10 movies for Cartoon Network), fans who freaked out over his last feature venture have been anxiously awaiting his return. Now he’s back with a new version of the 1987 independent hit THE GATE (pictured), to be shot in 3-D next year.
“One dance with you, Sally, and I’d die a happy man.” These words are stuttered and stammered painfully by a shy and bullied 1950s teenage Teddy Boy as he approaches his dream girl in a London dancehall.
The audio recording studio in Santa Monica, California doesn’t look like the kind of place where SAW’s Jigsaw threatens his victims. It’s clean, comfortable, brightly lit, with a saltwater fish tank in the reception area and nary a bloodstain, serrated edge or even grimy tile in sight. However, this is where Tobin Bell’s voice tracks for his character John Kramer/Jigsaw are being recorded for SAW II: FLESH AND BLOOD, the second installment in Zombie Studios and Konami’s video-game series (out today for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3; see screens, concept art and an adults-only trailer below) based on the film franchise.