Beyond Fest: “The Howling” And “The Wolf Man” With Joe Dante Q&A
Halloween is nigh, and that means horror movies aplenty, not that we need any more of an excuse to dust off the classics of our favorite genre. But BEYOND FEST, an event taking place in LA throughout...
View ArticleBeyond Fest: “Tales From The Crypt: Demon Knight”
In case you weren’t convinced that BEYOND FEST is just a wacky ball of fun, this past Friday TALES FROM THE CRYPT: DEMON KNIGHT was paired with Joe Begos’ ALMOST HUMAN. The result was a throw-back...
View ArticleBeyond Fest: “The Mummy” And Nerdist’s “Thrilling Adventure Hour”
In addition to screening THE WOLF MAN, BEYOND FEST also screened a 35 mm print of another of Universal’s classics, THE MUMMY. Despite perhaps being its most profitable overall, thanks to the Hammer...
View ArticleBeyond Fest: “Goblin”
Italian horror has had a marked imprint on the landscape of genre film, thanks mostly to Dario Argento and his gialli style films like SUSPIRIA, DEEP RED, and TENEBRE. The Giallo genre is known,...
View ArticleFREE STUFF: Win Tickets To Halloween “Nosferatu” Screening!
Beyond Fest is one of the newest film, music, and horror festivals in Los Angeles, but it’s already one of the best, with a diverse roster of classics and new releases (both U.S. and foreign films),...
View ArticleBeyond Fest: “Trick ‘r Treat” + “Trick ‘r Treat 2″ Announced
I’ll be honest. TRICK ‘R TREAT is a cult horror movie that completely passed me by. The film, cobbling together four short “tales of terror” into a cohesive horror anthology of yore, has been a...
View ArticleBeyond Fest: “Clive Barker’s Nightbreed: The Cabal Cut”
In October’s last weekend, BEYOND FEST was taken over by Clive Barker. Making just his 8th trip out of his house in the past two years, the wildly popular and influential horror author and artist...
View ArticleStan Lee’s Comikaze: Crowdfunding Your Vision With Reinventing Films
STAN LEE’S COMIKAZE is an entirely different atmosphere than the SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON, and that’s a good thing. It’s not overcrowded, smelly, or so obviously corporate. STAN LEE’S COMIKAZE is for the...
View ArticleVampires: A Very Enlightening Panel From Stan Lee’s Comikaze
Without a doubt, when I was looking through the schedule for the first day of STAN LEE’S COMIKAZE, “Vampires In Pop Culture And Myth” stood out as the must-see. This was due not only to my love of...
View ArticleTV RECAP: “ALMOST HUMAN” S01 E01 “PILOT”
35 years in the future, ALMOST HUMAN thrusts us knee-deep in a dystopian future where the crime rate has ballooned 400%, and the police force now requires every police officer be joined in the field by...
View ArticleFREE STUFF! Spread The Holiday Fear By Winning A Horror DVD Pack!
The horror-days are upon us in full force, and lucky for you, that means free stuff. RLJ Entertainment and Famous Monsters have teamed up to bring TWO lucky winners a holiday horror DVD prize pack that...
View ArticleFM Exclusive: Interview with Charles de Lauzirika director of “Crave”
While you may not know Charles de Lauzirika’s name offhand, you’ve likely collected a fair amount of his work already. The director of some of the biggest behind the scenes features on DVDs and Blu...
View Article“Voodoo Possession” Actor Ryan Caltagirone Talks Horror, Danny Trejo & Barney...
Voodoo has always been a creepy subject, and a popular choice for horror films, perhaps most notably with the classic (and first) WHITE ZOMBIE, starring Bela Lugosi as an evil voodoo master. Now, the...
View ArticleGENRE SMASH!: Eric Kripke talks REVOLUTION, SUPERNATURAL
Tuesday night at the NerdMelt theater in Los Angeles, television writer and creator Eric Kripke was on hand for a panel called GENRE SMASH!—a nonprofit event sponsored by the Writer’s Guild Foundation...
View ArticleA Sneak Peek at FM 274
While the lot of you are still reading and enjoying FM 273 (you ARE, aren’t you?), it’s time to preview our yearly Kaiju Issue—which of course means we have welcomed Consulting Editor (and Big Wow!...
View ArticleBeyond THE ZONE: An Exclusive Interview with Anne Serling
Interview and photo by Michael Lizarraga. Whether we were on Mars, in a time machine, wandering a realm, or raising the dead, Rod Serling‘s (THE TWILIGHT ZONE) messages on morals and social justice...
View ArticleBENEATH THE MONSTER: Chatting with Sara Karloff
Interview and photo by Michael Lizarraga. When Lon Chaney Sr. drove by a tall, thin contract actor waiting for a bus one night in the pouring rain, the famous movie star did more than just offer this...
View ArticleGodzilla, Ultraman, and Kikaida Talk Gareth Edwards’ GODZILLA
Rather than giving you yet another typical online critic’s opinion, FM has decided to bring you its verdict on the new GODZILLA movie by transcribing the opinions of four more qualified individuals:...
View ArticleOn Scales and Scale with Bob Eggleton
The man behind the GODZILLA: GENERATIONS COVERS is FM-favorite artist Bob Eggleton—multiple Hugo Award winner, Chesley Award recipient, and all-around awesome dude who is an endless source of...
View ArticleFM 275 Sneak Preview!
Apes and ghosts and comics, oh my! That’s right, now that you’ve all got your heads happily buried in FM 274, it’s time to tease our upcoming issue so you completely lose your foc—I mean—get super...
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