Unique film to tell the tale of infamous real-life “necromantic”. Here’s something cool…   Director Ronni Thomas (WALTER POTTER: THE MAN WHO MARRIED KITTENS) has teamed up with the incredible Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn, NY to produce a Gothic-tinted doc about the notorious “Key West Necrophile”. The film is called NO PLACE FOR THE…

Movie junkie Jessie Robbins picks a fright flick for a Saturday night. When I was in grade nine I had a girl’s movie night/Halloween party. Now, I think you may have gotten to know me a little in the past few weeks here at Shock, I obviously love a good scare. What you may NOT…

Our resident poet Nigel Parkin delivers another paralyzing poem. I – Driving Into the Shower Her hands tighten on the wheel as the world Closes in, cars looming, headlights reaching Into the descending night to expose Her shame. Her face is held in close up for Our judgement as we follow the trial In her…

Former Backstreet Boy talks about his boy-band SyFy film DEAD 7. It’s gunslingers versus zombies in Syfy’s latest TV movie, DEAD 7. Conceived and starring Backstreet Boys’ Nick Carter – and produced by Asylum – the project takes place in a post-apocalyptic Western world plagued by Apocalypta (Debra Wilson) and her zombie army. It’s up…

Wes Craven mentored slasher satire is tired affair. We caught the premiere of director Nick Simon’s THE GIRL IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS at TIFF 2015 and there was a definite shadow cast over the screening. The film came presented and executive produced by the late Wes Craven, who had passed away only a few weeks prior…

Gory POV thriller gets another SHOCK review. SHOCK’s Howard Gorman reviewed PANDEMIC back in February. Now, on the cusp of its theatrical release, our Alyse Wax gives her take… Found footage films are so 2013. Now, the popular conceit seems to be POV films, like HARDCORE HENRY. (I have not seen Hardcore Henry.) PANDEMIC, the…

Revered actor will possibly return for sci-fi comic book sequel. Variety reported today another update on the J.J. Abrams produced sequel to 1986’s notorious Marvel Comics bomb and now beloved cult film, HOWARD THE DUCK. It seems actor Tim Robbins, who appeared as Howard’s friend and foil Phil “Philsy” Blumburtt in the original science fiction/comedy…

  SHOCK looks at some of the most arresting horror movie posters from the first decade of the new century. Here we go again folks, forging forward into the next decade of incredible poster art work and glorious one-sheets.  There were a tremendous number of outstanding entries from 2000 till 2010 to sift through; so…

AMC’s Shudder Labs extends filmmaker deadline. Shudder, AMC’s own horror streaming service recently announced the launch of Shudder Labs, a workshop aimed to develop the talents of aspiring filmmakers, watched over by a cabal of established creators. The inaugural Shudder Labs program will take place June 13-18 in New Paltz, New York, and will feature…

Saban Films to distribute Stephen King’s Cell, starring John Cusack Saban Films has acquired the US distribution rights to sci-fi horror film Cell, starring Golden Globe nominee John Cusack (Love & Mercy, Being John Malkovich, 2012), Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Avengers: Age of Ultron, Django Unchained, Pulp Fiction) and Isabelle Fuhrman (Orphan, The…

Massive documentary on Florida exploitation movie maker coming to DVD. Good Grefé! Filmmaker Daniel Griffith is well known for the endless series of thoughtful, meticulously detained behind the scenes features and long form documentaries he makes for cult film DVD and Blu-ray releases, everything from working on the back end of Shout! Factory’s MYSTERY SCIENCE…

SHOCK rocks an exclusive clip form teen slasher flick PROM RIDE.  With Vision Films’ teen horror PROM RIDE now out on DVD & VOD, SHOCK brings you an exclusive clip to whet your appetite. Set almost entirely in a single location, Kazeem Molake’s directorial debut PROM RIDE finds a group of friends heading to the…

Nicolas Onetti takes us behind the scenes of FRANCESCA. Argentinian filmmakers Luciano and Nicolas Onetti, the men behind the award winning, first-person experimental neo-giallo SONNO PROFONDO, are on the cusp of releasing their latest Italian thriller throwback FRANCESCA, which will be released in North American via Unearthed Films later this year. Here’s the synopsis: It’s…

The WOLF CREEK TV series gets a trailer. I’m sure you’ve heard that those unapologetically sadistic WOLF CREEK films are being spun into a six part series for Australian TV. But now, SHOCK just got an eyeful of the official trailer and it looks A-OK. The awesome John Jarratt is back again as the malevolent…

More amazing news from the perversely exciting house of Scream Factory! After the announcement that they were prepping a new bells and whistles high-def edition of Eric Red’s underrated werewolf drama BAD MOON (read our exclusive interview with Red here), the company is getting cult film fans pulses popping again with word of a Blu-ray…

SHOCK gets into the guts of DARLING with director Mickey Keating. Earlier this week, our minds were not-so-gently blown after watching writer/director Mickey Keating’s industrial-strength psychodrama DARLING. The film is a monochrome, low-budget nightmare, shrieking and unsettling, over-the-top and yet artfully restrained. We cited it as the best horror film of 2016. You can read…