Often, the stories that shake our skulls most are those that
toy with the brain inside. Chad Crawford Kinkle’s debut feature JUG FACE, which
premiered at this year’s Slamdance, does just that. Bearing themes similar to
THE VILLAGE, RED STATE, KILL LIST and THE WOMAN (the latter also produced by
Andrew van den Houten), the film is set in a cultish backwoods community, one
developed far outside the norms of contemporary societal ideologies and customs.
Read on for comments by van den Houten and others on the JUG FACE team, and a
few exclusive pics.
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One of the biggest celebrations of cinema in the world, TIFF
(the Toronto International Film Festival) has many appendages to both its
annual week-long festival and its year-round slate of diverse programming. One
of these strains is the TIFF Next Wave, a mini-festival (in its second year)
that spotlights teen-oriented films selected by teens for teens.
She once was blind, now she sees the Devil's light. 
Fans of the EVIL DEAD team will finally be able to complete
their disc collections, as the gang’s heretofore hard-to-find black comedy
CRIMEWAVE is coming home this spring. We got a couple of exclusive bits of info
of what will be coming with it, along with the cover art.
What effect does every nasty thing you post, paste, type, share or even think online actually have? The mass of negative energy that surrounds daily life on the internet can be overwhelming and without a clear portrait of consequence, director Michael Gallagher thinks kids today aren't learning a damn thing. SMILEY (available now on DVD and digital download), using the tried and true slasher for an era steeped in tech, imagines a new kind of urban legend, one which summons the eponymous murderer to do your impulsive bidding. Fango spoke with Gallagher about underslashing, oversharing and what exactly is wrong here.
With the second movie centered on VHS headed for theaters, a
challenger has emerged in the form of HI-8, an omnibus fright flick with a
number of shot-on-video veterans involved. Read on for their exclusive words.
Eurohorror fiends hold director Michael Armstrong’s 1970
medieval torture opus MARK OF THE DEVIL in the highest of regards and
rightfully so. The atmospheric, lush capitalization on Michael Reeve’s
WITCHFINDER GENERAL not only boasts a magnificent cast in Herbert Lom, Reggie
Nalder and Udo Kier, but a sweeping score (by Michael Holm, also employed in
Jason Eisener’s HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN)
surprising emotional heft and wincing levels of grim violence. Yes, this is the
film that was marketed with a patron sensitive vomit bag....
With a title like that, you know you’re in for a bit of
no-holds-barred horror, and we’ve got the goods on a creepy short that’s headed
for the South by Southwest Film Festival, with a couple of exclusive stills and
an eye-popping behind-the-scenes shot. 
Highly anticipated genre films from Canada and the UK are
poised to make their mark on the U.S., and Fango got the exclusive word on when
to expect them.
Prolific short horror filmmaker Drew Daywalt has lined up his next feature, the Larry Fessenden-produced supernatural THE HURTING MAN. 
Standing among long-forgotten brick kilns once used to
actually bake bricks in rural God’s country, on a cold, damp, schizophrenically
overcast and sunny day, is probably the best way to see the vision walking
confidently toward me. It doesn’t seem at first like Christina Lindberg, or her
character Candy in Todd Fischer’s new film CRY FOR REVENGE. It is Frigga,
a.k.a. Madeleine, the young woman we once ached for and so desperately wanted
to rescue…at least during the majority of 1972’s THEY CALL HER ONE EYE.
The network behind THE WALKING DEAD keeps dealing in horror business, taking on a property much colder in climate and monstrous in nature. 