An icon, Tim Burton has ignited the darker recesses of audiences’ imaginations with an aesthetic so his own, the likes of MoMA have recently dedicated exhibitions to his work. With FRANKENWEENIE, Burton revisits both his own childhood and his early days in the industry, updating a 1984 live action short with a stop-motion feature that filters his youth through a love of the macabre.

Over 40 years since its disastrous U.S. release and once feared lost, WAKE IN FRIGHT, one of the seminal films in Australian film history, is now getting a long-overdue rerelease in America courtesy of Drafthouse Films. This resurrection also shines a new light on its veteran director, Ted Kotcheff (pictured).

Steve Niles is the end result of a lifelong love of comics. From running his own company in his early twenties to writing some of the most successful horror titles in the industry, he’s come a long way from his days of a starving writer. With such popular series as 30 DAYS OF NIGHT and CRIMINAL MACABRE under his belt, Niles is always looking to push the boundaries and limits of both the genre and medium. He’s worked with horror greats such as Clive Barker and Harlan Ellison, adapting their work into, and has shared his own with DC, Image, Dark Horse, and others. With a sharp eye for the horrid and the horrifying, he has kept us at the edge of our seats for years and promises to do even more.

Do you believe in psychic phenomena? It’s an oft-pondered question that’s at the heart of RED LIGHTS (on DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow from Millennium Entertainment), the second thriller feature by Spanish-born director Rodrigo Cortés. Fango spoke to the filmmaker about his LIGHTS collaborators, his other 2012 paranormal film, APARTMENT 143 (which he scripted), and his breakout film BURIED.

FANGORIA took a trip to Tinsley Studios, the FX house behind FX Network’s acclaimed horror series AMERICAN HORROR STORY, and after touring the space, we sat down with the show’s makeup FX designer, Christien Tinsley.

Indie actor Noah Segan has found himself a part of two filmic families. That is to say he's been welcomed within the horror community for turns in the weird, wild likes of DEADGIRL and SOMEONE'S KNOCKING AT THE DOOR, as well as a stalwart component of the films of Rian Johnson. Johnson, one of the best and most exciting new voices, now sees the opening of his biggest picture yet, LOOPER. And while the two worlds don't necessarily clash for Segan (who's overdue for a breakout) in the time travel tale, he did give Fango the lowdown on LOOPER and some of its spectacular displays of violence, and reflected on past genre work. 

If you reflect the address of 999 Park Avenue in just the right way, you get 666 Park Avenue. That second number explains a lot about the high-class, mysterious apartment building, where wishes are granted, souls are lost and tenants sometimes get sucked into the walls or come back from the dead.