With so much media out there, you come across things in odd ways these days. I actually came across these Fear.net webisodes (they continue the wonderfully spooky 30 Days of Night’s franchise), from Hulu.com while I was looking for Pink Panther cartoons for my kid. I’ll post the first episode below. [...]

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Seems like someone has been playing too much Left 4 Dead on the old 360. Road signs in Austin were hacked overnight, leaving morning commuters surprised to find two road signs which was meant to warn about upcoming construction instead warn of “Zombies In Area, Run!”

A city spokesperson reported the messages [...]

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More than ten years after it was published, Jose Saramago’s Nobel Prize-winning Blindness is about to hit the theaters (release is set for October 3rd by Miramax). In the story, people are suddenly stricken blind. Key words: epidemic, government, quarantine. I’m all for end-of-society stories, so I’m onboard for this flick. [...]

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If anyone out there likes vampires, Louisiana, sex, Anna Paquin and watching TV (and who doesn’t?), here is the show for you.  True Blood. HBO’s new series debuted last Sunday,  adapted by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) and taken from Charlaine Harris‘ (From Dead to Worse, Ice Cold Grave) Southern vampire novels.
The story is [...]

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I finally caught the debut of NBC’s Fear Itself. Between Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who and the horror flick The Last Winter, I hadn’t had the chance. Reviews were mixed on the Fear Itself premiere episode, written by the show’s creater Mick Garris. CBS’s Swingtown beat Fear Itself in the Nielsen Ratings, [...]

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…for the summer at least. But the best part of this story is good horror making a comeback on something other than paid television (or the now defunct Monster HD on DISH). Starting to feel more and more like speculative horror is on the upswing. Sure beats the run on serial killer [...]

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