July 30, 2014 marked a bleak day in the world of horror. Television and internet network FEARNET, horror fans’ source for pretty much everything related to the genre, announced that it would shut down operation. The staff concerning the shutdown via the network’s Facebook page said, “After 8 wonderful years, from Philadelphia to Los Angeles,…
The announcement of Project Zero: Nuregarasu no Miku (Fatal Frame: the Black-Haired Shrine Maiden) marks the first main entry in underground survival horror series Fatal Frame since 2008’s Project Zero: Tsukihami no Kamen (Fatal Frame: Mask of the Lunar Eclipse). Back in its heyday, Fatal Frame set a pretty high bar for its survival horror…
A survival horror series as prolific as Resident Evil has seen its fair share of monsters. Some of them were creepy; some of them were gross; some of them were so flat-out scary that they visited you in your nightmares long after you’d shut off the game console. And a few others had that extra…
Fans of HBO’s long-rurnning vampire soap opera “True Blood” may not be in mourning over the show’s ending (which occurs later this month) for long. Actor Stephen, who plays droopy-eyed vampire Bill Compton on the show (and who has also slipped into the director’s chair for a few episodes), recently let drop a delicious little…
Primetime hit “The X-Files” ended its nine-season reign as the quintessential sci-fi program over a decade ago. Since then, we’ve heard little from (former) Special Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, save for a Playstation 2 video game and a modestly budgeted (and modestly earning) theatrical release by the name of The X-Files: I Want…
In a fan community as hopping with arguments as that of popular video game series Resident Evil, few subjects incite more controversy than director Paul W. S. Anderson’s Resident Evil films. Most fans stand on polarized opposite sides concerning the films; either they accept them and enjoy them for their high-octane action and monster-movie cheese,…
Before the commencement of “True Blood”’s final season, HBO announced that the character of James—who was introduced in the prior season as a new love interest for main character Jessica Hamby—would be recast. No specifics regarding the recast were dropped, save for the fact that James’s actor, Luke Grimes, would be replaced with Nathan Parsons,…
Given the enormous success of Naughty Dog’s 2013 survival horror revival The Last of Us, it was only a matter of time before Hollywood decided to make a film adaptation thereof. Nothing except a plan is set, though, and thus far that plan envisions Sam Raimi (of Evil Dead and original Spiderman trilogy fame) in…
After nearly a decade (and many spin-off titles), Square Enix has finally announced Kingdom Hearts III, a director sequel to its smash-hits, Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II. Being a long-awaited and highly anticipated follow-up to two such ultra-successful games, Kingdom Hearts III (which is thus far slated for release only on the PS4 and…
Tomb Raider star Lara Croft has never been one to spend Friday night—or any night—at home. Having the good fortune of being both active and rich (not to mention fictional) has granted her the freedom to travel around the world several times over. Although the locations of Ms. Croft’s adventures have always thrilled and entertained…
It seems the winds of possibility are always turning the turbines of the Silent Hill fan community’s rumor mill. A recent rumor pegged a September 2015 release date for a supposedly upcoming console title called Silent Hill: Otherworld. Another rumor that’s been floating around the lake (Toluca Lake, that is) is the possibility a third…
Ready your Camera (Obscura)! The popular survival horror series Fatal Frame (or Project Zero, as it is known in Japan) is back with a new ghost in its machine. That’s ghost’s name? Project Zero: Nuregarasu no Miku, the subtitle of which translates into something along the lines of The Black-Haired Shrine Maiden. Fatal Frame: Nuregarasu no Miku This entry follows Japan-exclusive…
Of all of the subjects that inspire incessant waves of hatred across the internet, few are so bizarre in the amount of disdain that they receive as fanfiction. Haters Gonna Hate Often laughed at and sneered upon by writers and readers alike, fanfiction (fiction written openly using character and story elements belonging to an already…
The slow-to-rise Playstation 3 found a spring board to stardom in part thanks to 2007’s PS3 exclusive, Uncharted. The game, which followed wise-cracking sort-of hero Nate Drake as he sought the legendary El Dorado via a map sealed in the watery tomb of his ancestor Sir Francis Drake, won enough critical and financial success to…
As the date on which True Blood meets the True Death looms closer, fans of the sexy vampire soap opera are shedding tears of sadness (or joy, depending on whether or not you’re one of the numerous fans who have voiced displeasure with the show’s declining quality over the past three or four seasons). Whether…