News and Reviews

• That "Spider" short film

  submitted at Aug 5, 2009 at 2:47 PM by Tim Haskell

  Most of you being horror aficionados probably already know about this brilliant little short film called ‘Spider’ from Australian filmmakers at Blue Tongue Films. Judging by its number of youtube hits, many people already know about it. But i was just introduced to it by a buddy of mine, and i find it absolutely brilliant, so i wanted to share it with you. At 9 minutes it might be longer than most of you from the youtube generation can sit and watch anything, but trust me, you will not be disappointed. This is a very …(read more)

• Salem: A Spooky New England City

  submitted at Jul 30, 2009 at 3:31 PM by Marissa C.

  Every Halloween over 200,000 visitors crowd the tiny city of Salem, Massachusetts, selling out hotel rooms and creating a stir that resembles Las Vegas during a New Years celebration. The tourists do not come for artificial scares; instead, they come for scares that are laced with real history.

  

  Visitors makes trips to the Salem Witch Trials memorial, old graveyards where Mayflower passengers are buried, and some of the oldest mansions in Americawhere
  forlorn, ghostly figures stare out rickety, gabled windows.

  In Salem, real history and …(read more)

• Mütter Matters

  submitted at Jul 22, 2009 at 5:09 PM by Tim Haskell

  

  This isn’t exactly news, it’s been around since 1858, but I had my first opportunity to visit the famous Mütter Museum in Philly, PA not too long ago after the recommendation from my buddy Jim Glaub. I live in NYC and Philadelphia is only a two hour drive max, so I thought it was worth driving down to see it. Let me tell you, it might not be worth a long distance trip alone (although Philadelphia is a pretty neat town, so if you are going there, definitely include …(read more)

• Movie Review: Blood: The Last Vampire

  submitted at Jul 21, 2009 at 6:16 PM by Tim Haskell

  You know, I didn’t know much about this movie, and I wasn’t familiar with the anime series it was based on that people are apparently nuts over, but I went and saw it on opening night anyway (yipes – and I am writing a review two weeks later! way to go!) because it was about a vampire and this little Asian girl who cut their heads off. Sounded like something i should see and I gotta tell ya, it was really, really stupid, incoherent and ugly. Sorry, I know, not exactly …(read more)

• Dead Snow Trailer

  submitted at Jul 9, 2009 at 4:21 PM by Tim Haskell

  

  The only thing more satisfying than killing a zombie might be killing a nazi zombie. Well, that and …(read more)

• Join My Book of Face

  submitted at Jul 6, 2009 at 4:39 PM by Tim Haskell

  Join my Facebook page. It is my personal page. It ain’t a Haunternet fan page, or, god forbid, a fan of Timothy Haskell page (why do people do that? like I am going to become a “fan” of my buddy from junior year trigonometry class’s comic book art), but rather an honest to goodness personal page where you can more easily tell me what a douchebag you think I am. But you gotta become my friend first.(read more)