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While previous incarnations of Salem Horror Fest occured in tourist-heavy October, this year’s sixth installment smoothly shifted to two weekends in April. The official selections include 20 features and 37 shorts, along with repertory programming, celebrity guests, live podcasts, panels, after parties, and more.

Here’s what I saw at this year’s event…

Bury the Bride

After making his feature directorial debut with last year’s horror anthology Allegoria, Powerman 5000 frontman Spider One returns with Bury the Bride, exhibiting considerable growth as a filmmaker in a short span of time. He channels a redneck-fueled grit similar to his elder brother Rob Zombie’s ourve, particularly The Devil’s Rejects, coupled with Quentin Tarantino-esque idiosyncrasies.

The film follows bride-to-be June along with her older sister (co-writer Krsy Fox) and three of her closest friends into the California desert for a bachelorette party at a rural house owned by her mysterious fiance,...

Stars: Scout Taylor-Compton, Krsy Fox, Lyndsi Larose, Katie Ryan, Rachel Brunner, Dylan Rourke, Chaz Bono | Written by Spider One, Krsy Fox | Directed by Spider One

Bury the Bride, which recently debuted as a Tubi Original, is the second film from director Spider One and co-writer Krsy Fox after last year’s Allegoria. Spider One, for those not into the industrial metal scene, is the singer and only consistent member of the band Powerman 5000; and probably more important to his expansion into filmmaking, he’s Rob Zombie’s younger brother.

And Bury the Bride certainly opens like one of his brother’s films as credits playing over an old-timey love song give way to green-tinted footage of a woman hacking at someone or something just out of sight. And then to a group of women talking about the dick size of someone’s fiance while another tries, and loudly announces her failure,...

Last year, Spider One – the frontman of Powerman 5000 and the brother of fellow musician/filmmaker Rob Zombie – made his feature directorial debut with the horror anthology Allegoria. Now Spider One has made a new horror film called Bury the Bride, and our friends at Bloody Disgusting have confirmed that this one is set to be released through the Tubi streaming service on April 22nd. With just two weeks to go until that date arrives, a teaser trailer for Bury the Bride has been brought to our attention, and you can check it out in the embed above!

Spider One wrote the screenplay for Bury the Bride with Krsy Fox, crafting the following story: Bride-to-be June’s bachelorette getaway turns deadly when her blood-thirsty fiancé and his backwoods friends show up to crash the party. What follows becomes a living nightmare of unholy proportions as June, her sister Sadie and their...

A seemingly safe weekend psychology excursion becomes a sinister experience for a group of unsuspecting college students in Cate Devaney's The Mad Hatter, and with the new horror film now available on VOD from Blue Fox Entertainment, we've been provided with an exclusive clip to share with Daily Dead readers!

You can check out a hypnotic haunting in our exclusive clip below, and to learn more about The Mad Hatter, visit:

https://www.bluefoxentertainment.com/films/the-mad-hatter

Directed by Cate Devaney from a screenplay by R.V. Romero and Devaney, The Mad Hatter stars Armando Gutierrez, Samuel Caleb Walker, Michael Berryman, Isadora Cruz, Nick Miller, and Rachel Brunner.

Synopsis: "Henry and three classmates join their professor for a weekend psychology study at the ‘Mad Hatter’ mansion, supposedly haunted by those who died at a lavish party in the 1880s. Henry is hopeful that the study will cure him of his...

"Something is happening... Something is wrong... I'm seeing things..." Blue Fox Entertainment has released an official trailer for an indie horror film titled The Mad Hatter, set to be released sometime this summer. The film marks the feature directorial debut of a storyboard artist on Scott Derrickson's movies now making her first feature. Henry, and three of his classmates, encounter mind-bending ghostly terrors when they volunteer for a weekend study with their psychology professor in the haunted 'Mad Hatter' mansion. Supposedly haunted by those who died at a lavish party in the 1880s. I dig the smoldering embers look of all the ghosts, just hope the rest of it lives up to that potential for something really cool. The film stars Armando Gutierrez, Samuel Caleb Walker, Isadora Cruz, Nick Miller, Michael Berryman, and Rachel Brunner. This does look extremely creepy - check it out. Here's the two main trailers...