Events
Video reports from science fiction, fantasy, and horror conventions, festivals, and other events
SUPERJAIL! & The Truth About Alice – NEW YORK COMIC CON 2009
CINEFANTASTIQUE ONLINE presents a unique moment direct from New York Comic Con 2009. SUPERJAIL! co-creators Christy Karacas and Stephen Warbrick drop the veil on the secret history of everybody’s favorite gender-bending full-time-prison-guard-and-part-time-sadist-with-a-heart-of-gold, Alice.
Dance with the vampires at Club Blood
Vampire cinema has infected popular culture with the taint of the undead. This takes several forms, including night clubs that cater to the Goth subculture. This past Halloween, Knott’s Scary Farm took a cue from this concept and created a walk-through maze called Club Blood – a nightclub that caters to the undead. Check out [...]
October Shadows
This is a video we shot last year at an exhibition of Halloween-themed art situated in Rick Baker’s Cinovation Studios. Fans of horror movies should get a kick out of this!
Friday the 13th Part 3 – Cast & Crew Reunion
To help celebrate Cinefantastique’s new look, which allows us to feature videos on the home page, we are reposting a few videos. This one comes from last year’s ScreamFest horror film festival in Hollywood, which featured a question-and-answer session with several members of the cast and crew after a screening of FRIDAY THE 13TH PART [...]
The Signal – question-and-answer with co-director Jacob Gentry
THE SIGNAL was one of the best movies I saw at last October’s Screamfest Film Festival in Hollywood. The premise involves a mysterious transmission that turns those who view it into homicidal maniacs. The plot follows a married woman and her lover, who are trying to avoid her husband after he views the “signal.” Although [...]
The Death of Hercules
Wow, I did not realize that Reg Park had died until I stumbled upon this obituary written by Tim Lucas over at VideoWatchblog. Park played Hercules in a couple of fantasy-oriented sword-and-sandal epics back in the early ’60s, HERCULS CONQUERS ATLANTIS and HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD. The later retains a certain cult appeal because [...]
Timber Falls: Q&A with director Tony Giglio
TIMBER FALLS will be opening on December 7. I saw the film at Screamfest in Hollywood last October and was pleasantly surprised: the plot (religious loonies kidnap a couple out camping and try to force them to conceive a surrogate child) did not sound particularly auspicious, but the characters suspense were handled pretty well, and the [...]
Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood
Just got a press release regarding Universal’s big haunt for October 2007. By now, if you’re interested in this sort of thing, you probably already know that Leatherface, Jason, and Freddy are joining the Universal Classic Monsters for 2007, but there are some more details you will find interesting. (Of course, unanswered remains the question [...]
