Rue Morgue is a multinational magazine devoted to coverage of horror fiction. Its content comprises news, reviews, commentary, interviews, and event coverage. Its journalistic span encompasses films, books, comic books, video games, and other media in the horror genre. Rue Morgue was founded in 1997 by Rodrigo Gudiño, and is headquartered in Toronto, with regional offices in various countries throughout North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe. The magazine has expanded over time to encompass a radio station, book publishing company, and horror convention. The magazine's namesake is Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (1841).
Fantasia International Film Festival is a genre film festival that has been based mainly in Montreal since its founding in 1996. It focuses on niche, low budget movies in various genres, from horror to sci-fi. Regularly held in July/August, by 2016 its annual audience had already surpassed 100,000 viewers and outgrown even the Montreal World Film Festival.
Matthew Joseph Servitto is an American actor known for his roles as Special Agent Dwight Harris on the HBO crime series The Sopranos, Trask Bodine on All My Children (1989–1990), Deputy Brock Lotus on the Cinemax action series Banshee and Representative Donatelle on the Showtime series Brotherhood (2006–2008), and his film roles as Chipmunk in Two Family House (2000), and as Eddie in Hitch (2005).
Paul Solet is an American film director, film producer, writer and actor.
Anthony DiBlasi is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter known for his work in horror films. He made his directorial debut in 2009 with the film Dread, based on the 1984 short story of the same name by English novelist and filmmaker Clive Barker. DiBlasi also directed and co-wrote the 2014 film Last Shift and the 2018 film Extremity.
Etheria Film Night is an annual Los Angeles–based genre film festival for new short films by women directors. Etheria Film Night was founded in 2014 by Heidi Honeycutt, Stacy Pippi Hammon, and Kayley Viteo, former Viscera Film Festival staff members. The festival screens a curated lineup of horror, science fiction, thriller, fantasy, dark comedy, and action short films and sometimes a feature film.
Dan DeLuca is an American actor and filmmaker, best known for his role as Dr. David Parenti in the HBO television series The Wire.
Izzy Lee is an American filmmaker and writer, known for her short films Re-Home (2019), The Obliteration of the Chickens (2019), My Monster (2018), and Innsmouth, which she produced through her company Nihil Noctem. She has written for multiple outlets such as Birth.Movies.Death, Rue Morgue, TwitchFilm, and Fangoria and has also helped program and curate film festivals like the Boston Underground and the Boston Sci-Fi Fest.
Preston Fassel is an American author, journalist, film critic, and producer primarily known for his work in the horror, science fiction, and crime genres. His work has appeared in Fangoria, Rue Morgue, Screem magazine, Dread Central, The Daily Grindhouse, and Cinedump.com. He is the author of Remembering Vanessa, the first biography of actress Vanessa Howard, published in the Spring 2014 issue of Screem. From 2017 to 2020, he was a staff writer for Fangoria; in 2018, the magazine published his debut novel, Our Lady of the Inferno, as the first entry in their "FANGORIA Presents" imprint. The book received an overwhelmingly positive critical response, and was named one of the ten best horror books of 2018 by Bloody Disgusting. Since the book's publication he has been described as a cult author.
The Retaliators is a 2021 American horror film starring Michael Lombardi, Marc Menchaca, and Joseph Gatt. The film also features appearances by musicians Tommy Lee, Jacoby Shaddix, Zoltan Bathory, and The HU.
The Sadness is a 2021 Taiwanese zombie horror film written, directed, and edited by Canadian filmmaker Rob Jabbaz in his feature directorial debut. It stars Berant Zhu and Regina Lei as a young couple attempting to reunite amidst a viral pandemic that turns people into homicidal sadists. The story is heavily inspired by Garth Ennis' comic book Crossed.
Everybody Dies by the End is a 2022 found footage comedy horror mockumentary film written by Ian Tripp and directed by Tripp and Ryan Schafer in their feature film debut. The film stars Vinny Curran, Bill Oberst Jr., Brendan Cahalan, Iliyana Apostolova, and Ian Tripp.
Ditched is a 2021 Canadian horror film directed by Christopher Donaldson, starring Marika Sila, Mackenzie Gray, J. Lindsay Robinson and Kris Loranger.
Kill Her Goats is a 2023 American slasher film written, produced and directed by Steve Wolsh. It stars Arielle Raycene, Ellie Gonsalves, Monica Sims, and Dani Mathers, with Kane Hodder as a killer "Goatface".
The Outwaters is a 2022 American horror film written, directed, produced, and edited by Robbie Banfitch, who stars alongside Angela Basolis, Scott Schamell, and Michelle May. It is presented as found footage from memory cards belonging to a group of friends who venture into the Mojave Desert in 2017 to shoot a music video, where they encounter mysterious and threatening phenomena.
Moon Garden is a 2022 American dark fantasy horror film written and directed by Ryan Stevens Harris, and starring Haven Lee Harris, Augie Duke, Brionne Davis, Maria Olsen, Timothy Lee DePriest, Philip E. Walker, and Morgana Ignis. The film follows a young girl named Emma who slips into a coma and finds herself in a surreal, industrial dream world where she is haunted by a monster who feeds off her tears.
The Renegade Film Festival is an annual event held in the Atlanta, Georgia area that specializes in genre film and showcases diverse and independent cinema from marginalized voices. The festival spotlights short and feature films that are typically independently produced and would not otherwise receive theatrical release. In addition to film screenings, the festival hosts panel discussions, workshops, and networking events designed to support and empower independent filmmakers.
Bloodletting is a 1997 American direct-to-video horror film written and directed by Matthew Jason Walsh and executive produced by J. R. Bookwalter. The film was shot-on-video, and stars James L. Edwards as Butch Harlow, a serial killer who is blackmailed by young woman Serena Stalin into taking her on as his apprentice.
A Town Called Purgatory is a 2024 American horror Western film directed by Matt Servitto and written by Ken Arnold and Dan DeLuca. Arnold and DeLuca star in the film as a Yankee lawman and an ex-Confederate in the aftermath of the American Civil War; when they join forces to catch a gang of train robbers, they are led to a ghost town called Purgatory, where they find themselves hunted by a skin-walker of Navajo legend.
Vindicta is a 2023 American slasher film from the screenplay of Ian Neligh directed by Sean McNamara. It stars Elena Kampouris, Jeremy Piven and Sean Astin. The film centers on a rookie paramedic whose first days in a city plagued by riots becomes all the more terrifying when a sadistic serial killer begins targeting a select group of people, leading her to learn of a dark secret with connections to her own family.
