San Diego, March 26th 1997, deputies find the bodies of a group of 39 people who had participated in a mass ritual suicide. This group of people was called Heaven’s Gate. Heaven’s Gate (previously called Human Individual Metamorphosis / Total Overcomes Anonymous) was a religious cult lead by Marshall Applewhite, called Do, and Bonnie Nettles, […]
Troma has proudly been disrupting media for 46 years and is back with their newest offering #Shakespearesshitstorm, a tromatic take on the Tempest. In his version of the tempest Lloyd Kaufman takes on Big Pharma and Shakespeare in his newest and most likely his last feature film to direct. Lloyd Kaufman plays prospero a brilliant […]
X is a new A24 slasher by director Ti West (The House of the Devil & VHS). The cast includes familiar names such as rapper Kid Cudi, Brittany Snow (John Tucker Must Die & Pitch Perfect), Mia Goth (Nymphomanic & A Cure for Wellness) and recently breakout star Jenna Ortega (Scream 5 & The Babysitter). […]
Growing up in a strict, conservative, and religious household isn’t uncommon when you ask the average horror hound how they fell in love with the genre. We all got our first taste of blood soaked freedom in various ways and mine couldn’t have been made possible without my grandma (thanks Gram). Coming from a Blockbuster […]
Ever since the rocky release of that one movie from 2017, many including but not limited to Bruce Campbell have been trying their collective best to create a work that is considered the definitive ‘expendables of horror’. What does that even mean? The only reason we as a society care about The Expendables was the […]
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to attend the Bates High School senior prom? For the first time ever, horror fans can experience a very special screening of Carrie (1976) inside the actual gymnasium where the movie was filmed. On Set Cinema is hosting this horror event on July 30, 2022 in […]
The Mutilator and Mutilator 2 writer and director Buddy Cooper and Mutilator 2 cast members Damian Maffei and Carl J Grasso provided Mad Monster an update on The Mutilator sequel in this exclusive video. In December, Mad Monster broke the news that Buddy Cooper’s cult classic film, The Mutilator, is getting a sequel entitled Mutilator […]
Film festivals dot the landscape, but North Carolinians need look no further than their own backyard for the yearly selection of frights and delights from the Mad Monster Film Fest presented by the Mad Monster Party. For the past eleven years, the Mad Monster Party has worked to bring the Carolinas a unique selection of […]
For 2022 I wanted to make sure I consumed more books. So to kick things off, I got my claws on a novel that I had wanted to read ever since, seeing its rather captivating cover illustration. An Epic Tale of Medieval Horror sounded exactly what I needed to distract from the New Year Blues. […]
Archive 81 is a new supernatural horror series currently streaming on Netflix. It is based off a found footage podcast of the same name. The show is only eight one-hour-long episodes. It is a relatively quick viewing; I binge-watched the entire first season in two days. The series follows two different timelines and the mysteries […]