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Stars: Nicole Tompkins, Kaiwi Lyman-Mersereau, Kim Nielsen, Amanda Barton, Trevor Stines, Christy St. John, Tonya Kay, Bobby Emprechtinger, Lai-Ling Bernstein, Klaudia Kaye, Korey Knecht, Sarah Lieving, Cher Hubsher, Priscilla Emprechtinger, Jocelyn Saenz | Written by Amanda Barton | Directed by Michael Angelo

The Jacobsen family moves into an aged house in the town of Amityville. Almost immediately they witness strange occurrences and begin seeing terrifying images around the house. The local townspeople also have a secret and soon the Jacobsens are battling with an evil spirit in the house and the malicious locals who want them silenced…

After a stunning opening coda, The Amityville Terror soon decends into the same direct-to-market cash in we’ve come to expect from the Amityville series. At least this one doesn’t hang around too much: within twenty minutes we see our first haunting – a gory bath death that isn’t (much like other haunted house movies,...

Actress Karen Black, star of such films as Five Easy Pieces and Trilogy of Terror died today in Los Angeles. She was 74.

Born in 1939 in Illinois, she studied acting at Northwestern University until she dropped out and moved to New York. Summer stock and theater were Black's staples, eventually debuting on Broadway in 1961. Her first major film role was in Francis Ford Coppola's You're a Big Boy Now. Black is best known to "mainstream" audiences for her roles in films like Five Easy Pieces (a role for which she was nominated for an Oscar), Easy Rider, and Nashville, which represented a time when independent films were emerging as a viable, respectable segment of the film world.

Black's career took a "turn" in 1975 when she took the lead in Trilogy of Terror, a made-for-tv anthology film. (The "turn" reference comes from Hollywood Reporter, which to me comes off dismissive, as if she wasted her career.

As a child of the 1980s, I raised myself on a steady diet of terrible zero-budget cable slasher flicks. I would scour the TV Guide to check out what was playing that night, and keep my fingers crossed that my parents would go to bed before my movie would start, so I could sneak into the living room and watch it (at a very, very low volume, lest it wake them.) Brinke Stevens, one of the three "original" scream queens (along with Linnea Quigley and Michelle Bauer) was a frequent star of these cheap little flicks. With over 150 titles to her credit, picking out even a handful of her most well-known credits is tough, but let's try. Slumber Party Massacre, Sorority Babes in the Slime Ball Bowl-a-Rama, and Haunting Fear all spring to mind. After over 30 years in the horror industry, she, Linnea, and Michelle finally have a documentary, Screaming in High Heels.

It’s been a while since we updated you on Joe Hollow’s upcoming horror flick Disciples, but that changes as of right now. Read on for an exclusive with the filmmaker, ‘first look’ stills and word on the production’s convention booth this weekend at Monsterpalooza.

Written and directed by Hollow with cinematography by Wolfgang Meyer, Disciples features a genre-heavy cast, which includes Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects), Tony Todd (Candyman), Angus Scrimm (Phantasm), Linnea Quigley (The Return of the Living Dead), Brinke Stevens (Haunting Fear), scream queen Debbie Rochon, Nick Principe (Laid To Rest), Tom Lodewyck, Camden Toy (‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’) and more, with a log-line that reads, “It has been written that an angel would be risen to usurp the emperor Lucifer. If this angel were to be given life, Lucifer would no longer be what God now fears.”

“Disciples is being edited right now,...

David DeCoteau Legendary scream queen Brinke Stevens (Teenage Exorcist, Haunting Fear) announced on her official Facebook wall that this week she is reteaming with cult director David DeCoteau (Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama) to star in "Cougar Cult". 

Cougar Cult starts filming this week. The film will reunite Brinke Stevens with fellow scream queen alum Linnea Quigley (Night of the Demons, The Return of the Living Dead) and Michelle Bauer (Nightmare Sisters, Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers).

It's nice to see David DeCoteau getting back to his scream queen roots after spending over a decade with scream twinks in such efforts as Voodoo Academy and The Brotherhood. Or maybe given the title, he plans on merging the two together in one film? We'll just have to wait and see....

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From Jason Paul Collum, director of October Moon and November Son, comes a documentary detailing the rise and fall of the 80's Scream Queen era in which his mentor Brinke Stevens (Haunting Fear) will be partaking with a bevy of familiar faces from the 80's horror era in:

Screaming in High Heels: The Rise & Fall of the Scream Queen Era

During the video boom of the 1980s, three ladies (and a small group of energetic filmmakers) headlined upwards of 10 low-budget horror films per year, fending off men in rubber monster suits, pubescent teen boys, and deadly showers. As a result of their unintended cult fame, they were flown all over the world, dined with President Regan, and built mini-empires of their own. Then it all came crashing down. This documentary follows these accidental actresses on how smart they were to play stupid.

In addition to Brinke Stevens, other participants...

Jon Keeyes is the director behind the horror movie American Nightmare starring two legendary horror divas, Debbie Rochon and Brinke Stevens. With American Nightmare, Jon Keeyes created a low budget indie slasher that was accessible and commercial, yet a bit edgy and different. It featured Debbie Rochon in the leading role as a psychopathic killer who stalks a group of friends one Halloween night bringing their worst fears to life. American Nightmare proved that Rochon just isn't another pretty face, but a force to be reckoned with. She turned in a performance that was loud and in your face, but also subtle and naunced. No easy combination to pull off! There has been talks swirling in the air of a sequel and a possible tenth anniversary edition, but untill that day comes, we will have to wait in anticpation of Keeyes latest film, The Gathering, which is getting under way.

What horror fan hasn't had fond memories of watching veteran scream queen Brinke Stevens in either The Slumber Party Massacre, Nightmare Sisters, Sorority Babes In The Slimeball Bowl-o-Rama, Haunting Fear, Sigma Die, Cheerleader Massacre, Teenage Exorcist, etc.? However, Brinke has been working for 30 years now! She has an incredible volume of work behind her and has earned her legendary status in the genre. However, I am sure at some point, she is going to be slowing down and not working as frequently as she once did. So what does that mean for horror fans? We need a new scream queen for this generation that emulates this legendary actress, but yet is distinctive in her own right.

I think this generation has found such an actress in the form of Devanny Pinn. Let's examine the evidence. Both actresses have similar looks. Both actresses have similar body types. Both actresses share similar career paths.

Season three of the hit here! cable series The Lair will be previewed at the next West Coast edition of Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors convention, to be held April 17-19 at the Los Angeles Convention Center (1201 South Figueroa). Appearing from the gay vampire show will be veteran exploitation director Fred Olen Ray (Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers, Glass Trap, Tomb Of The Werewolf, Haunting Fear), producer Kimberly (Teenage Cavegirl) Ray and stars Dylan (Dante’S Cove) Vox and Peter (Cemetery Gates) Stickles (pictured).

The panel will be hosted by writer/director/Fango blogger Sean (Socket) Abley. Other exciting guests/programs set for Fango’s Southern California blowout include:

• Clive Barker: creator of Hellraiser, Candyman, Nightbreed, Midnight Meat Train and Lord Of Illusions will preview his new movies Dread and Book Of Blood, plus the novel The Scarlet Gospels

• Tobe Hooper: director of Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist, Eaten Alive ’Salem’S Lot,...