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Game of Thrones fever continues this month with special season 7 fan screenings in select Us cities. Also in today's Horror Highlights: a new episode of the Splathouse podcast, home media release details for Tyler Perry's Boo! A Madea Halloween 2, info on the short film Night of the Witch's Amazon debut, and a trailer for the video game The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker.

Game of Thrones Season 7 Fan Screenings: Press Release: "New York, NY December 6, 2017 – To celebrate the release of Game of Thrones: The Complete Seventh Season on Blu-ray and DVD, HBO® is bringing this season’s most action-packed episode plus never-before-seen bonus content to the big screen for exclusive fan screenings in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Fans will have the opportunity to experience Daenerys’ dragons in full force as she rains down fire and blood on the Lannister army in the jaw-dropping episode,...

Kitty Gordon: Actress in silent movies and on the musical comedy stage. Rediscovering a long-forgotten silent film star: Kitty Gordon It seems almost unthinkable that there are still silent stars who have not been resurrected, their lives and films subject to detailed, if not always reliable, examination. Yet I am reminded by Michael Levenston, a Canadian who has compiled what is best described as a “scrapbook” of her life and career, that there is one such individual – and not just a “name” in silent films, but also from 1901 onwards famed as a singer/actress in musical comedy and on the vaudeville stage in both her native England and the United States. And she is Kitty Gordon (1878-1974). 'The Enchantress' and her $50,000 backside Kitty Gordon was a talented lady, so much so that Victor Herbert wrote the 1911 operetta The Enchantress for her; one who also had a “gimmick,” in that...

Clive Barker ranted and raved; then he hoped and prayed. Finally, some enterprising horror devotees hunted and found, giving him the chance to deliver on a promise 25-years in the making. In 1990, Morgan Creek slashed Clive Barker’s adaptation of his own novella, Cabal, into a flimsy pseudo-slasher, in that there was almost no violence in the actual movie but they wanted to cut a trailer catering to the least common denominator schlock fan. The marketing completely avoided the monster elements and more nuanced dark romantic fairy tale. The result was a box office misfire and one really unhappy Mr. Barker. For over two decades, he spoke at conventions and in interviews about the real Nightbreed, a monster mash love story, lost on the cutting room floor. Finally, it has arrived, but its story to final release is as surreal as the fantastical creature world of Midian.

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From Japan, where they may not have Halloween, but they probably don't need it.

Images from the 1968-69 Daiei Studios series of films about the yokai, which might loosely be translated as monsters or goblins. The appeal of the films being that, like Clive Barker's misbegotten but somewhat fondly remembered Nightbreed, there are more monsters on display than you can shake a stick at, and for once the monsters are actually the good guys.

Well, in two of the films, Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters and Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts, the critters are heroes, protecting sympathetic humans from the depredations of villainous ones. In Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare, the Japanese demons do battle with an imported Babylonian vampire beast who has used sorcery to take the place of a local magistrate. Although allowing even more screen time for the monsters, this patriotic approach to the genre is actually a little...

He was one of television's most beloved game show hosts, and Bob Barker will return to "The Price is Right" for a special birthday tribute in December.

The feisty silver haired gent, who held court on the popular show until his retirement in 2007, will be featured on an upcoming episode during a week dedicated to pet adoption, one of Bob's main causes.

The pre-taped show will air on Mr. Barker's 90th birthday, December 12, and will show the former host participating in a special pet adoption, as will as a show case highlighting the advantages of being 90.

Executive producer Mike Richards said of the big event, "We've had Bob on just one other time since Drew Carey took over the show. It was when Bob's book, 'Priceless Memories', came out and it was a priceless moment for fans. I was looking for the perfect reason to bring Bob back again...

You may have overlooked the 2008 Scottish offering known as Outpost, but seeing as it played multiple genre-friendly film festivals, stars Ray Stevenson, and earned some decent praise from the horror press (myself included), I'm going to assume that FEARnet readers have seen it by now. (It's about a group of soldiers who discover a nasty old Nazi experiment and do not live to regret it.) Those who enjoyed that flick will be pleased to know that not only is there an Outpost 2 available now, but there will soon be a third chapter. For the sake of this review, we'll focus on Steve Barker's Outpost: Black Sun.

Right off the bat I'm tempted to give Outpost: Black Sun a break because of one simple reason: it offers a potentially ridiculous premise, but it does so with a grim tone and an admirably straight face. A sequel that deals with "Nazi...

Writer, film-maker and artist Clive Barker may be in for a return to the public eye in more ways than one. After his near-death experience while in a coma—induced from a toxic shock during a visit to the dentist early February—he is back. After a few weeks of rest, he is ready to take the world by storm again.

The news of "Cabal" (aka "Nightbreed") being developed for cable television is as exciting as having sex with a female cenobite. Some may not want it, but the pleasure and pain will be exquisite. The movie was widely panned and many cuts were made. The latter contributed to distorting what this filmmaker wanted.

And just maybe, after his real life trip to the “dark side,” he may inject a new form of night terror into this tale about how humans and monsters should get along. The amount of time...