The 2009 New York Horror Film Festival (November 18 thru 22) at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City, USA has a great lineup of shorts and features directed and produced by women this year. The creepy spin on the Van Helsing tale Abraham's Boys (Dorothy Street), dark fairy-tale White Radishes (Christina Won), Together (Gigi Romero), award-winning short Death in Charge (Devi Snively) and claymation feminist horror short Barbee Butcher (Sophie Lagues) all follow feature film The Shadow Within by Silvana Zancolo.

Horror produced by women at the fest includes The Familiar (Jennifer Snick), Must Love Death (Anna Wendt), and Sweatshop (Katherine Banks, Kristi Boul and Laura Bryan.)

Director Silvana Zancolo's new horror film The Shadow Within is playing the 2009 New York City Horror Film Festival (NYCHFF) (November 18 thru 22) on Sat, Nov 21, 6:30PM at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City.

The Shadow Within is a supernatural thriller about Maurice Dumont, a nine year-old with an enduring connection between this world and the next...

Family Demons, the award-winning psychological horror film produced by Sue Brown and directed by Ursula Dabrowsky, has been picked up for worldwide distribution by IFM World Releasing Inc, the US/Australian international film and TV sales company!

Billie (Cassandra Kane) kills her violent alcoholic mother (Kerry Reid) in a fit of fury and repressed anger. Helped by her boyfriend Sean (Alex Rafalowicz) she plans on getting out of town and heading for the big city but her mother’s vengeful, evil ghost will not let her go....

The Minneapolis, Minnesota USA-based all-female production company Silent But Deadly (Rachel Grubb, Brooke Lemke, and Virgina Head) have 4 films under their belt including the Rachel Grubb-directed horror/thriller feature Why am I in a Box? and a new ten-episode web-series called SBD that you can watch now.

SBD synopsis: Jill (Lemke) and Gina (Grubb) are roommates—single, unemployed and left to their own devices. Gina is in love with a fictional villain from her favorite movie, and Jill likes to talk to the audience in her head. Together, they take everyday obstacles way too seriously and make their lives more interesting than they have any right to be...

The incredibly inane, but nevertheless mainstream representative, People's Choice Awards have nominated some impressive women and films in their categories this year;
Abbie Cornish, of Bright Star, for fave breakout star; Christine Jeffs' Sunshine Cleaning, Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker and Jane Campion's Bright Star for fave independent films; Catherine Hardwicke's Twilight as fave film; and the Barrymore-directed Whip It's Ellen Page, Eve and Kristen Wiig as best onscreen pairing. Not to mention the Charlaine Harris-created True Blood, the Eliza Dushku-produced Dollhouse, and female-watched Ghost Whisperer as fave sci-fi/fantasy shows. True Blood, not surprisingly, appears in the TV Obsession category.

Did you know YOU can vote right here? You're people, and you can choose stuff.

The Molting #1 (of 12)
“Chapter 1: Guilty Susie”
Writer/Illustrator: Terrance Zudnich (Scary Stud of the Year 2008)
Colorist: Brian Johnson
Designer/Letterer: Oceano Ransford

Indie comics is, to be blunt, a sucker’s game these days. The days of Dave Sim and Jeff Smith are long gone. The Direct market contracts more and more every year, plenty of small scale titles are fighting for catalog space with no way to beat the stranglehold Diamond Distributors holds on the thousands of comic stores left in America. To self-publish, and self-distribute, takes a certain sort of madness, or major balls. Not to mention serious cabbage...

Welcome to the first edition of the newest romantic advice column for horror lovers on Pretty/Scary - 'Ask Joe Bob'. Joe Bob Briggs , the drive-in movie critic of Grapevine, Texas, will be dispensing sex and relationship advice from his uniquely male, and sometimes gross, point of view. The idea here is that women NEED THIS INFORMATION, the kind that men never share.

Dear Job Bob,

I've started dating a white man in his mid thirties whose house is filled with horror posters, DVDs, creepy masks, weapons, slasher action figures, and movie collectables. Nothing else; just gross horror and torture stuff...

Written and directed by Faye Jackson
Featuring Constantin Barbulescu, Roxana Guttmann, Vlad Jipa, Catalin Paraschiv
www.strigoimovie.com
Review by rochefort

In the opening scene of Strigoi, directed by Faye Jackson (Lump), ex-Communists Constantin and Ileana Tirescu (Constantin Barbulescu and Roxana Guttmann), cold-hearted landowners whom the townspeople suspect of murder, are themselves murdered and buried angry-mob-style. Soon after, Vlad (Catalin Paraschiv) returns to his Romanian hometown after an extended vacation in Italy, and finds that the townspeople are dropping like flies. Almost everyone but him is convinced that an undead Constantin and his wife are responsible, but Vlad and local policeman Octav (Vlad Jipa) decide to conduct their own amateur investigation into the steadily-rising death toll, uncovering a long-buried local history of corruption, racism, and supernatural dirty tricks...

Now I’m not sure really how to classify this, but these girls describe their art as “Transfusion Dance.” (Now don't get your hopes up, there's no blood letting in the dvd.) I picked it up thinking that this could really work because metal music would be a great sound to work out to and if I had to listen to one more “Only 3 more! You can do it!” in the terrible sing song voice of “Sasha” on the last dvd I purchased I'd probably murder the television. I was desperate for something that got me moving without forcing me to endeur faux beach landscaping or kick boxing routines. A metal fitness video seemed too good to pass up...

France's Gaumont Pictures produced the 2010 highly ambitious — and potentially controversial — movie The Round Up, written and directed by Roselyne Bosch (who also wrote and directed the 2005 psychological horror film Animal). The Round Up (La Rafle) will tackle the subject of French collaboration with the atrocities of The Holocaust...