Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Films
Video reports from science fiction, fantasy, and horror conventions, festivals, and other events
This Tuesday, wearing my other hat – as proprietor of Hollywood Gothique, the website of Fantasy Films, Mystery Movies, Halloween Horror and Sci-Fi Cinema Events in Los Angeles – I attended the press preview of the new “King Kong 360 3-D” attraction, which opens today at Universal Studios Hollywood. For those who don’t recall, Universal’s …
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ConQuesT 41, Kansas City’s Oldest Science Fiction Convention, is coming up this weekend at the Hyatt Regency Hotel . Their theme this year is Steampunk and Evil Geniuses. Guests include: Michael Swanwick – Author Guest of Honor -Winner of Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, & World Fantasy Awards Toni Weisskopf – Toastmaster – Publisher, Baen Books Peri …
Universal Studios Hollywood officially premiered the newest attraction on its famous theme park tour, a live stage musical titled THE CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON: A RAGING, ROCKIN SHOW. This twenty-five minute show condenses the plot from the 1954 classic, starring Richard Carlson and Julie Adams, adding a bunch of songs and dialogue heavy with …
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This year’s installment of the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors is coming to the Los Angeles Convention Center in April. Hollywood Gothique and Cinefantastique Online are teaming up to get you into the convention for free. We are giving away two pairs of tickets, which can be redeemed for any single day of the convention, which …
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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.
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 …
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!
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 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 …
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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 …