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Question: What do the reviewers think of Sucker Punch? The movie reviews are in and Sucker Punch has to be one of the most reviled movies of all time. The consensus is that occasional interesting visuals do not make up for a boring and despicable story line and hypocritically sanctimonious attitude. The action and the […]
Everyone at Gothic.net HQ West Coast Division is still recovering from Saturday night. The party to celebrate the newest Gothic.net site design was a smashing success. Luminaries in attendance included writers Maria Alexander, Gram Ponante, and Richard Dean Starr, dark artists Forrest Black, Carlos Batts, and Tim Sin, nightclub impressario Tricia LaBelle, superstar Blue Blood […]
You have no doubt noticed the spiffy new design on Gothic.net, so come on out this Saturday, March 19, and help us celebrate. In Gothic.net’s fifteen years, this is probably the sixth or seventh site design. Mixing things up is good. Here at Gothic.net, we pride ourselves on our combination of horrific literary tradition and […]
The 29th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival at Berkeley has some very unusual horror selections. The event features special screenings of Histeria from Malaysian filmmaker James Lee, Nang Nak from Thailand’s Nonzee Nimibutr, and Living In Seduced Circumstances from filmmaker Ian Gamazon who hails from the Philippines. These are rare horror movies to […]
Question: What 2010 horror releases (film or book) did you find most notable? The results are in from our Gothic.net Panel of Experts. Literary horror culture is aware of history and how literature, in whatever medium, builds upon what came before. So a lot of us spent 2010 catching up on releases from prior years […]
IFC has brought Shinya Tuskamoto’s man machine classic Tetsuo movies to On Demand. Tetsuo III: The Bullet Man went live for On Demand this week. Tetsuo III is the first Tetsuo movie to be made in English. IFC describes the impact the controversial director made in the West, before even making an English language Tetsuo, […]
The United Kingdom has an Advertising Standards Authority called the ASA. A ten-year-old child saw an advert for Saw 3D. The advertisement was a typically gross Saw trailer and ran at eight something at night, a time when children are still awake. The BBC reports that the child complained to the ASA that the Saw […]
Locke and Key is of course based on the comic by Joe Hill. Joe Hill is perhaps best known for being the fruit of Stephen King’s loins, but he is really a very very very talented writer. Some people have genius in their blood, but it is recessive, but Joe Hill has it. Deadline Hollywood […]
Rue Morgue is up to an amazing 108 issues. That is about 105 more than most horror magazines get to, so kudos to them. For some subscribers, with this issue, they are also giving about a bunch of copies of Saw: The Final Chapter Unrated, Buried and The Last Exorcism on Blu-ray. Blu Ray really […]
