Realm of Shadows is a dark anthology movie featuring a series of low-budget short sketches knitted together by a good-versus-evil plot involving the influential Dagger of Destiny, the blade… Read More

In the not-so-distant future, the world’s most dangerous inmates are given one final shot at freedom: participate in the smash hit television show Arena Wars, take down some of the dea… Read More

The Malevolent Dark Horror Fiction Top 25 June 2024 Edition Check out the charts for May, April, March, February, and January 1. You Like It Darker by Stephen King  A collection of 12… Read More

Thank You For Making the Fang IndieGoGo Campaign a Huge Success!!! I started writing a long article to say how I felt. I wanted the right words t… Read More

American Mary (2012) offers a unique and thought-provoking perspective on societal norms, gender dynamics, and the autonomy of women’s bodies. This film, directed by Jen and Sylvia Sos… Read More

Where Dreams are Entombed tells the story of Tommy Gunz, nee Welter, a musician by trade, but he would not go so far as to call himself an artist. When his job as a hotel concierge ends in c… Read More

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Hell of the Living Dead (1980) is an absolutely wild zombie flick from Italy that is sure to delight mega-fans of the genre. From the very beginning, the film throws viewers into a world ove… Read More

MalevolentDark.com Top 10 Extreme Horror Fiction of 2022 Check out the lists for 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017 1. Playground by Aron Beauregard  A band of dysfunctional children is… Read More

We’ve done it, folks. We’ve reached the end of the Maniac Cop series with the third and final installment, 1992’s Maniac Cop 3 – Badge of Silence. And let me tell yo… Read More

As I’m sure we all know, a reboot of The Crow is dropping in theaters in June. The original film stars Brandon Lee, the son of martial arts legend Bruce. For anyone who is unfamiliar w… Read More

The Malevolent Dark Horror Fiction Top 25 May 2024 Edition Check out the charts for April, March, February, and January 1. The Day of the Door by Laurel Hightower By the Bram Stoker Award-n… Read More

It’s been just over a year since we first heard about Shepka Productions / Flickering Myth film The Baby in the Basket. Billed as a modern gothic, The Baby in the Basket takes place in… Read More

Released in 1997, Event Horizon is a sci-fi horror film that explores the dark depths of cosmos and the dangers that lurk just outside our view. Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, the movie sta… Read More

Fueled by a spirited cast and skillful direction, Dagr is one of the cleverest found-footage horror movies I’ve ever watched. Directed by Matthew Butler-Hart, the 2024 British film sta… Read More

Alone in the Dark – A Complicated History Resident Evil (1996) is often touted as the progenitor of the survival horror genre, and while there’s no denying that it truly created… Read More

The South African film Gaia (2021) feels very familiar. With the recent release of The Last of Us (2023), and considering that series being rooted in the 2013 video game of the same nam… Read More

The Malevolent Dark Horror Fiction Top 25 April 2024 Edition Check out the charts for March, February, and January 1. Murder Road by Simone St. James A young couple suspected of murder… Read More

6 Essential Found Footage Horror Films Welcome to Malevolent Dark’s 6 Essential Found Footage Horror Films! Found footage is a film-making technique in which all or a significant part… Read More

Here we go again. Welcome to the sequel of Maniac Cop – Maniac Cop 2. How very original. Will the movie be just as interesting? There’s only one way to find out. Read on, my frie… Read More

“When an evil is too great for man to judge, the Windigo is called upon.”  So begins The Windigo, a stark but emotionally charged tale of vengeance run amok. Directed by Gab… Read More

Alan Wake 2 and The State of the Scene For many, the mid to late 2000s were the golden age of gaming, with 2010 being a particularly memorable year. Not only did 2010 see the release of icon… Read More

Back in January, Doug Roos reached out to Malevolent Dark with his recent film, Bakemono. The film tracks the events that occur to several residents that stay in a Tokyo AirBnB. Unaware, eac… Read More

MALEVOLENT DARK HORROR FICTION TOP 25 MARCH 2024 EDITION Check out the chart for February and January 1. The Bad Weather Friend by Dean Koontz Koontz, a four-time Bram Stoker Award nom… Read More

The life and times of the infamous Wisconsin graverobber and murder, Ed Gein, permeates the world of modern horror cinema. Devout horror fans with a morbid curiosity need no introduction to… Read More

The 2014 horror flick Kristy mines the familiar territory of masked stalkers terrorizing lone victims to generate a surprisingly intense film about a college girl trying to survive against a… Read More

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MalevolentDark.com Top 10 Extreme Horror Fiction of 2021 Check out the Top 10 lists for 2020, 2019, 2018, and 2017 1. The Night Stockers by Kristopher Triana and Ryan Harding  Two Spl… Read More

Directed by Zach Cregger, Barbarian (2022) released to American audiences in September of 2022. It offers a another entry in the burgeoning “basement horror” sub-genre… Read More

MALEVOLENT DARK HORROR FICTION TOP 25 FEBRUARY 2024 EDITION Check out the chart for January 2024 1. The House of Last Resort by Christopher Golden A two-time Bram Stoker Award-winning autho… Read More

The Hellraiser franchise might be among the most recognizable in all of horror. Considering how maligned the franchise gets at times, it rather remarkable that it’s so revered. One rea… Read More

In 1977, Italian horror master Dario Argento began a journey with his groundbreaking horror masterpiece, Suspiria (1977). He tells the tale of three headed cabal of ancient witches that… Read More

In 2018, Ari Aster made his directorial debut by releasing Hereditary (2018) with A24. In 2019, he returned to A24 with a modern take on the ‘Folk Horror’ genre with&nb… Read More

MalevolentDark.com Top 10 Extreme Horror Fiction of 2020 Make sure to check out Lionel’s Lists for 2019, 2018 and 2017 1. The Magpie Coffin by Wile E. Young  2020 was the year of… Read More

In 1972, Armando De Ossario released an absolute classic in Spanish horror cinema when he released Tombs of the Bind Dead (1972). The Ghost Galleon (1974) represents his second return to his… Read More

MALEVOLENT DARK HORROR FICTION TOP 25 JANUARY 2024 EDITION Check out the charts for December, November and October 1. The Daughters of Block Island by Christa Carmen  The mysterious pa… Read More

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It’s common for a viewer to root for the bad guy in a horror film. But let’s be honest. For this flick, Harry isn’t the villain. Everyone else is. AKA people are fucking GA… Read More

MalevolentDark.com Top 10 Extreme Horror Fiction of 2019 Make sure to check out Lionel’s Top 10 Extreme Horror Fiction lists for 2018 and 2017 1. Lakehouse Infernal by Christine Morga… Read More

A Haunting in Venice – I said it once, I’ll say it again, give me a movie that doesn’t try to be more than it is and I’ll sit for hours. A plot that is so worn down I… Read More

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I scrolled weak and weary, through many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten Netflix shows. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly my eyes fell upon… Read More

For some reason that I am unable to explain, we have felt compelled to pull together this MASSIVE compendium of essential horror movies that everyone should watch at some point in their life… Read More

MALEVOLENT DARK HORROR FICTION TOP 25 DECEMBER 2023 EDITION Check out the charts for November and October Editions    1. Mister Lullaby by J.H. Markert At an abandoned train tunnel… Read More

Chicago writer/director Richard Burgin’s debut feature film Fang is a stark look at mental illness through the lens of a young man spiraling into madness. “It was an incredible l… Read More

7 More Vipco Bayview November Releases Editor NOTE: More Vipco Bayview November Releases was collated and arranged from Bayview / Vipco Press… Read More

MalevolentDark.com Top 10 Extreme Horror Fiction of 2018 Make sure to check out Lionel’s Top 10 List for 2017 1. Full Brutal by Kristopher Triana  A vicious tale told through th… Read More

“When faced with death, who should live versus who will live are two entirely separate things.” John Kramer, Saw VI, 2009 The traps of the Saw franchise have taken on a life of t… Read More

EDITOR NOTE: New Releases from Bayview and Vipco in November collated and arranged from Bayview / Vipco Press releases Paranormal UK: UFO'… Read More

MalevolentDark.com Top 10 Extreme Horror Fiction of 2017 Make sure to check out Lionel’s other Fiction Lists     1. White Trash Gothic by Edward Lee The 2020 J.F. Gonza… Read More

Return of the Blind Dead (1973), otherwise know as The Return of the Evil Dead and El Ataque de los Muertos Sin Ojos, follows up Spanish director Amando de Ossorio’… Read More

WINTER HAUNTS 2023 PRESENTS A PACKED DAY OF GHOST STORIES AND GOTHIC FICTION FOR ONLINE EVENT Winter Haunts runs for the second time in 2023, bringing together an exciting array of authors f… Read More

MALEVOLENT DARK HORROR FICTION TOP 25 for NOVEMBER 2023 Check out the October Edition 1. Becoming the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar Stephen King says all you need to know on the cover: &ld… Read More

Listen up, you primitive screwheads. It’s almost Halloween. We here at the Monkey House have given tequila shots and Mad Dog to every primate and simian in residence. So buckle up for… Read More

Saw X – Reinvigorating a Franchise? Once upon a timer, SAW was appointment cinema. For the first seven years of its run of horror dominance, one could count on a new SAW movie coming o… Read More

Eulogy Media is set to release ‘Take The Left Hand Path’ on 10/18, just in time for Halloween. First off, I would like to give out a big thank you to Hal Sinden at Eulogy Media f… Read More

We are super excited to get our hands on Bloodthirst (2023), the latest release from Mahal Empire, just in time for Halloween season. Mahal Empire has been rocking the indie horror circuit w… Read More

Four years before releasing the Folk Horror triumph, Midsommer (2019), directed by Ari Aster, A24 studios tried their hand at the sub-genre with The Witch. Directed by Robert… Read More

Starting in the early 1950s, no name is more synonymous with American pop cinema than Roger Corman. His 1959 film, A Bucket of Blood (1959) perfectly exemplifies the art of Corman… Read More

Candy Cain Kills The holidays are often filled with a tension that culminates in large pine trees meticulously draped with silver tinsel and an excessive amount of baking. Everything has to… Read More

Beneath Us All is a modern vampire horror movie that’s steeped in the classic tradition of the fanged undead. Directed by Harley Wallen, the 2023 horror film is another slow burn thril… Read More

Ranking Rob Zombie Films Today, Malevolent Dark try its hand at ranking Rob Zombie films into tiers. Before we begin, it should be known that we at Malevolent Dark act as official Rob Zombie… Read More

The Devil’s Left Hand is a moody demonic thriller chronicling the aftermath of a séance gone awry at a couple’s housewarming party.  Harley Wallen writes, directs, an… Read More

With ten movies under its belt, the Saw franchise is one of the most prolific horror series out there. However, these movies weren’t all hits, especially the later entries in the serie… Read More

Herschell Gordon Lewis – Splatter Master In the annals of cinema history, there exists none other than a man of infamous character and grisly notoriety. This same man invented a niche… Read More

Apollo 18 – It’s Like A Double Secret Apollo 13 Apollo 18 is a found footage science fiction horror film directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego that explores the fictional p… Read More

SEPTEMBER HORROR FICTION TOP 25 RELEASE RANKINGS 1. Holly by Stephen King Holly Gibney returns to investigate a mother’s missing daughter in the new novel from the King of Horror. 2… Read More

I have never in all my years of consuming media found a main character that I liked less than Annie. They designed her perfectly. Directed by Rob Savage, written by Gemma Hurley and Jed Shep… Read More

When it comes to Italian Cannibal films, many will point to Umberto Lenzi’s The Man From Deep River (1972) as the film that laid out the archetype. However, it is Ruggero Deodato… Read More

In the dimly lit corridors of cinematic history, there exists a name that sends shivers down the spines of horror film enthusiasts — Vincent Price. With an ominous voice that curdles b… Read More

13th September 2023 – PARACINEMA CULT FILM FESTIVAL RETURNS TO QUAD THIS SEPTEMBER Paracinema, QUAD’s home-grown Film Festival, returns this September for four days of cult films… Read More

I Spit on Your Grave, A Sordid History The remake of the 1978 cult classic I Spit on Your Grave matches the misogyny of the original while amping up the fury of a woman victimized in the wor… Read More

Broken Hands is a follow-up to Terra Vagus’ 2021 collection, Time Slip. Broken Hands is a reminder that healing is not linear. That it’s okay to still feel the pains of the past… Read More

Author’s Note: I had every intention of writing about ten years of Bray Wyatt, as we first saw him on the main WWE roster in the summer of 2013. That article will come, as the idea beh… Read More

Nope (2022) – Sigh. Another Jordan Peele joint. Yet again, I have to separate the hype that intends to turn Jordan Peele into the second coming of Steven Spielberg for the reality that… Read More

In 2015, Director Phil Guidry, Simon Herbert and David Whelan wrote and directed Savageland (2015) a found footage (found snapshot, more like it) mockumentary film about a massacre that happ… Read More

Welcome Home  – The Evolution of Analog Horror Despite Analog Horror being a relatively new genre in the horror scene, it’s already produced some of the most creative and te… Read More

As an author, director, educator, and popular culture historian, Caseen Gaines has been making waves in the world of non-fiction film history. Having written insightful behind-the-scenes boo… Read More

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Whelp…what can I say? Because I’ve spent the last two months on a drunken bender in Las Vegas with a retired monkey trainer and a band of hobos, I missed the opportunity to stre… Read More

As huge fans of late 70s and early 80s Italian Cannibal mania, it was only a matter of time before we talked about Eli Roth’s love letter to genre. The Green Inferno (2013) puts a… Read More

NATURE REVOLTS! In this issue of Tubi Terror, Malevolent Dark will dig deep in the creates of dusty eco-horror selections from our favorite streaming dungeon. We chose 3 movies where God&rsq… Read More

We are super stoked to get early new on Matt Schorr’s new project Vintage Horror Crate on Kickstarter. The project is pre-launch, but yo… Read More

At Malevolent Dark, we spend a lot of time looking at the international horror genre. We spent much of that time digging through the proverbial European crates. Admittedly, we need to pan th… Read More

When Darkness Falls The Indie thriller When Darkness Falls is a bleak look at the dark side of the human psyche as two American women, Jess and Andrea, hike into the rural Scottish countrys… Read More

It’s summer! Time to switch out my snowcapped winter horror for cotton candy and chainsaws. These are my top 9 favorite Amusement park and carnival horror books. Hide Author: Keirsten… Read More

LISTEN RIGHT HERE! On this episode we will have Podcaster Dave Maresca from Hollow9ine Network and Writer Argalin Darkscares from Morbidly Beautiful as our guests! We will be discussing the… Read More

Dario Argento’s Inferno (1980) marks his second entry into what would be know as his “Three Mothers” trilogy. It follows what many consider to be Argento’s magnu… Read More

Oops! You’re a Vampire – Breathing life into the undead The 2022 indie film Oops! You’re A Vampire is a microbudget masterwork of black comedy about a dysfunctional family… Read More

Every once in a while, something slips through the cracks at Malevolent Dark, and we must catch up to conventional industry wisdom. We recently reviewed the insanely hyped The Black Phone (2… Read More

Nathan Shepka’s “The Baby in the Basket” adds former Bond girl Maryam d’Abo to the cast Glasgow, Scotland – June 20thth 2023 – Actress Maryam d… Read More

Koa Aloha Media Begins Production on new horror film, Dinner With the Devil Horror/Thriller “Dinner with the Devil” Starts Production in Late Summer Gore-filled, character-driven… Read More

Into the Spookhouse with Harlow’s Haunt Years ago, some friends and I went to a local haunted house. It was just our luck that when it was time for our time to enter, all of the costum… Read More

“Amber Road” keeps audiences squirming with its close-up gore This intense thriller is now on Amazon and Apple TV  HOLLYWOOD – The low-budget, independent horror/t… Read More

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN! Director Kathryn Andrea and Actresses Ally Hunter and Samirrah Wright of the upcoming film BLOODY POOLSIDE will be joining us as guests this evening! We will discuss (… Read More

Steve Merlo is breaking ground on new psychological horror film Steve Merlo, the filmmaker behind the critically acclaimed Texas Chainsaw Massacre fan film The Sawyer Massacre, is ready to f… Read More