Tag: Gothic

Gothic Life: The Essential Guide To Macabre Style Book

The New York Times–dubbed “Martha Stewart for Macabre Homemakers,” Aurelio Voltaire, presents the definitive guide to revamping your sanctuary to match your eerie vibe. Are you ready to embrace your dark side? In Gothic Life (Epic Life | August 13, 2024 | $24.99), Aurelio Voltaire shows you how to do just that, using the expertise honed as founder…


Award-Winning Duo Pen Psychological Horror Book Inspired By True Events Press Release

For Immediate Release: Selected as one of Apple’s Most Anticipated Books for Summer, River of Ashes by Alexandrea Weis, and Lucas Astor (Vesuvian, Aug 2, 2022) is a gripping Southern Gothic series debut inspired by real people and places, including the abbey located in the actual town of St. Benedict, Louisiana. Reminiscent of the Gothic…


The Cursed (2021) Press Release

Formerly titled Eight For Silver, The film premiered at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival   LD Entertainment announced today they will release Sean Ellis’ gothic thriller The Cursed on February 18, 2022 wide in theaters. Written and direct by Sean Ellis, The Cursed stars Boyd Holbrook (The Sandman, The Fugitive, Logan), Kelly Reilly (Yellowstone, True…


Horror Icon: Edgar Allan Poe – By Baron Craze

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers, madness and other mysterious consequences involving cats, graveyards and haunting deaths. Poe, refers to likely the most influential American authors and writers of the 19th century, and non-other than Edgar Allan Poe. He was the first author to actually attempt to make a living wage solely…


Gwen (2018) – By Baron Craze

First, Gwen will not appeal to many horror fans, it tends to lean more to a dark drama, with thick a gothic overtone, a slight nod to folklore horror with human monsters, all thanks to director and writer William McGregor who paints a bleak storyline filled with sexism, misfortune, and treachery all occurring in the beginning…


The Masque of the Red Death (1964) – By Baron Craze

When any horror fan hears the names Roger Corman, Vincent Price and Edgar Allan Poe, mentioned in the same breath, a few films come to mind, this year of 2019 marks 55-years since this creation first graced the screens, a film that put Satan in the forefront. In addition, this production suffered through one of…


Countess Dracula (1971) – By Baron Craze

Director Peter Sasdy is known to many horror aficionados in particular Hammer Films which include Taste the Blood of Dracula [1970] and Hands of the Ripper [1971] and returned with the classic gothic horror tale Countess Dracula based on historical events. The tale of Elizabeth Bathory, an aging countess used the blood of virgins to…


Frankenstein (1931): ALIVE for 88-years – By Baron Craze

No one in the horror genre can truly deny the importance or the significance of the legendary date November 21, 1931, the day that director James Whale gave life to the incredible movie Frankenstein, created from the mind of 21-year-old Mary Shelley in the year of 1818, now celebrating its 88th anniversary. Frankenstein has the full…


Mysterious Void Show for November 2018

Join us on a new adventure, into the Mysterious Void, where colors vanish, pure sound exists, the music heard, features Gothic themes, industrial even a hint of techno, all of it swirling into vast exploration of unknown boundaries, the enjoyment found by venturing into the void freeing oneself of all limitations.The show had success therefore another…


Cold Moon (2016) – By Baron Craze

Working from an original body of work, director and co-writer Griff Furst adapted his screenplay from the book “Cold Moon Over Babylon” (1980) by Michael McDowell {RIP 1999}, who co-wrote the script Beetlejuice (1988); delivers an enjoyable with bleak moments story, likely to fly under the radar for many horror fans, as it presents more…