Another year and another convention for Lexington, KY’s Lexington Comic and Toy Convention. Its held every year during March at Rupp Arena and the Lexington Convention Center. In fact it started out in the Convention Center where Scarefest is held and grew so big they opened up the basketball arena for more space. What have …
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October is the scariest month of the year, or at least portends to be. With Halloween on the 31st and a month’s worth of decoration, horror movie releases, etc. leading up to it, this is simply the time when we like to scare ourselves a little bit. And while we tend to do this mostly …
You already know that the group here at HMF have a deep love for Independent Horror, and that’s why we enjoy the work our friends at MyIndie Productions are doing. While HMF focuses on the Horror elements in film, television and other mediums, MIP is out there covering the entire world of independent film. Their short …
Our nightmares are filled with creatures of the night, yet few are more terrifying than the primal Lycanthrope, or Werewolf. Stories of the shape shifting beasts have been around since as early as 1 AD, if not earlier. It is widely accepted that the first appearance of a werewolf was in “The Epic of Gilgamesh”, …
Zombies in film have been a thing since 1932 with Victor Halperin’s White Zombie (Widely considered the first Zombie film). We won’t be looking that far back. We will be focusing on the genre since it was defined in 1968. Once upon a time in 1968, a man named George A. Romero brought to life and …
These days we have so many big budget blockbuster films hitting us at every angle, that the true unseen genius passes us by almost without a thought. The art of independent film making has turned into the last bastion of true original content for filmmakers, and those of us who want to see something more …
At the beginning of October, just a few days after Scarefest, production began on a film titled “The Rave”. This offering of film came from Matthew Ward for his second film as director. The set for this film brought together not only Matthew Ward, but Logan Smith, Michael Junkin and Amber Junkin. Through this film, …
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Halloween Night 2017, We were given an update on his Facebook page by Cameron Romero, son of the great George A. Romero, about a new film he is preparing to make. A prequel to the 1968 classic “Night of the Living Dead”, appropriately titled “Rise of the Living Dead”. George himself had said that the …
CORPSE COLD: NEW AMERICAN FOLKLORE by: Stephen Ingves With Horror Movie Freaks being big Indie supporters and some of us financially backing Independent films and other projects, we have been a part of and observed many crowdfunding campaigns. I have witnessed many varying degrees of success with these. Some just meeting their goals …
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IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU by : Stephen Ingves Written/Directed by: Lorenzo P Adams Executive Producer : Lorenzo P Adams Executive Producer : Eric Dern Production Co. : LPA Film It’s March 18th 1950 on the outskirts of Columbia, Missouri and 13 yr old Janett Christman turned down an invitation to …