LITERAL REMAINS

When I attended the Nashville Tattoo & Horror Festival, I handed out business cards emblazoned with our site’s name, Literal Remains.  One person I gave a card to was Lloyd Kaufman, the president of Troma Entertainment.  He is also the writer, director, and producer of several Troma films, including such fare as Poultrygeist: Night of [...]

South Korean Cadaver, from IFC Films, opens tonight, Wednesday May 20th.  It’s available on-demand from IFC Festival Direct. In a cold dark shaded anatomy class, 6 medical students perform their first dissection. They shiver with their first meeting of a deadly beautiful cadaver. They, still in fear, apply a scalpel on her body in turns. [...]

The Husband by Dean Koontz, author of about forty billion books, is headed to the big screen.  Here’s the plot synopsis from the book: What would you do for love? Would you die? Would you kill? We have your wife. You can get her back for two million cash. Landscaper Mitchell Rafferty thinks it must [...]

Listen up Twilight fans (Kathy, Suzanne, Krystal, everyone else gaga for this stuff) and try not to break your computer screens:  Here are the latest teaser posters for New Moon.  And The Hollywood Reporter reports the following: Robert Pattinson, who shot to stardom in “Twilight” and is now filming the second and third movies in the [...]

Marburg, Massachusetts, USA – Teenager Katie O’Sullivan goes to a new babysitting job. Instead of a regular family, she encounters ghostly twins Henry and Grace and a terrifying apparition that drags her off towards a sinister tower. She is never seen again. Soon afterwards, Pat Quinn and his family move to the seemingly idyllic town, [...]

Robert McCammon, author of Boy’s Life and Gone South, is adding a new entry in his Mattrew Corbett series (Speaks the Nightbird and The Queen of Bedlam) to be published late this year, or early 2010, by Subterranean Press called Mister Slaughter. The world of Colonial America comes vibrantly to life in this masterful new historical [...]

They’ve invaded before, sending their best and brightest to transform popular music for all time. This time, they’re leaving the music behind and focusing on words. The British Invasion has begun again, in a collection of twenty-one unforgettable stories of horror and the dark fantastic. From the birthplace of horror fiction, the land where writers [...]

From out of a shadowy backwoods hollow, echoes a dark threat from the past, nearly a century lost and forgotten. The rural town of Harmony, Tennessee possessed a disturbing secret; a secret so ancient that most of its residents were completely unaware of it. Even the last survivors of a vigilante raid long ago have [...]

The inmates of the Darden State Hospital for Criminal Justice are among the most dangerous psychopathic killers in the country. Now, while fires burn out of control in Southern California, authorities face the overwhelming task of relocating hundreds of these patients before the raging inferno descends. But in the frenzy, two of the murderers remain [...]

Bullet Trick, by Ray Bradbury is a signed limited edition of never-before published material. It contains five  teleplays (original stories that were not based on previously written stories), written by Ray Bradbury, that appeared on TV from 1955 through 1963. With the exception of the 1959 Steve Canyon production, the other four teleplays deal with [...]

“Based on Stephen King’s eponymous short story, Dolan’s Cadillac is a dark tale of murderous and unrepentant revenge. A modern twist on the Edgar Allan Poe classic ‘The Cask of Amontillado,’ Dolan’s Cadillac proves that revenge really is a dish best served cold. Robinson is a non-descript middle school teacher whose beloved wife, Elizabeth, witnesses [...]

Gothic Babe of the Week

Twilight fans take heed:  May 31st, 2009, MTV will air an exclusive clip from the forthcoming New Moon motion picture during the MTV Movie Awards.  Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, and Taylor Lautner will present the clip. Twilight, itself is nominated for seven MTV movie awards, including Breakthrough Performance Male (Pattinson), Best Female Performance (Stewart), and Best [...]

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