GRUESOME MAGAZINE
A New Online Community For Horror
Movie Fans From The Grue-Crew
That Created Popular Horror Podcast Shows
A New Online Community For Horror
Movie Fans From The Grue-Crew
That Created Popular Horror Podcast Shows
NEWS UPDATE! Welcome Grue-Believers to a brand new horror movie website called GRUESOME MAGAZINE. This awesome site is brought to you by the team behind the popular horror podcast shows HORROR NEWS RADIO, DECADES OF HORROR, MONSTER MOVIES PODCAST, THE HANNIBAL FAN PODCAST and THE AMERICAN HORROR STORY FAN PODCAST (originally Shock Treatment).
The core group of co-hosts became known as the GRUE-CREW. They have officially joined forces once again to stitch together from the bodies of their twisted minds this monster new horror film website full of reviews, podcasts, news, interviews, trailers and much more. It’s Alive! It’s Alive!
The ultimate goal of GRUESOME MAGAZINE is to bring the readers into the mix, get to know the people behind the site, the Grue-Crew and share in the site’s growth and direction. The focus is not only to build an international community, but to also share thoughts on horror films and get to know the creative minds behind the horror movies themselves!
The Grue-Crew have tons of new ideas and plans for the site as it continues to grow looking at effective ways to expand, how to get the readers and fans of GRUESOME MAGAZINE more and more involved in new and exciting ways as technology grows all around us. The Grue-Crew is also hard at work in providing additional way to enjoy horror films and the Gruesome community with horror t-shirts and an upcoming line of horror books.
The Grue-Crew is excited to continue this journey and more importantly, we are excited to have you... The Grue-Believers– joining us on this wild and wacky new adventure. Are you ready?
MEET THE GRUE-CREW
Doc Rotten is a lifelong fan of horror movies from the first time he saw Abbott & Costello meet Frankenstein when he was 5 or so. He remembers the trill of seeing that film, discovering Universal Monsters and, not far behind, Famous Monsters of Filmland. Growing up in the Seventies, his horror heart belongs to the monster films of that era as well: Exorcist, Carrie, Halloween, Dawn of the Dead, The Omen, Phantasm and, above all else, Jaws. But those are all the films he adores from the 1970’s: The Car, Blacula, Prophecy, The Devil’s Rain, Frogs and Beyond the Door. The hits keep coming. Doc, a one time artist, is now a programmer and database guru during his alter ego hours; but, at night, Doc is one of the film reviewers at HorrorNews.net. He is a champion of found footage, 3D and even remakes – when they’re good. He is a horror-meister with decades of viewing horror films and reading about horror films behind him, hundreds of film reviews and articles at HorrorNews.net, DocRotten.comand Widescreen Warrior.
With the Monster Movie Podcast and The American Horror Story Fan Podcast already in his arsenal, Doc is continuing to conquer the growing medium of podcasting. Working with his fellow mates at HorrorNews.net he is the host of Horror News Radio, one of the top horror podcasts out there. And HNR is just the beginning, there are other podcast shows in the works and he recently completed a stint at TVTalk covering NBC’s Dracula.
Santos Ellin Jr (aka The Black Saint) has been watching films of dubious quality since time began, he has also watched a few horror films along the way as well. He has been writing for Horrornews.net for the last four years and was promoted to the position of Lead Theatrical Reviewer/Interviewer/PR last year. He makes so much money doing this that he needs do nothing else with his life but he was also asked to be a co-host of the Horror News Radio podcast last year as well. It’s been said (by a family member) that he is indeed the glue that holds the podcast together although his co-hosts might not agree. He thinks they are all jealous of him anyway. Additionally Santos has contributed articles to both Fangoria.com& FANGORIA magazine, as well as appearing (as a Horror Historian…so there!) in one of the bonus features on Arrow Video’s special edition DVD of the seminal 1980’s slasher film “Pieces.” If you ask him, he will tell you that the greatest film ever made is William Girdler’s “The Manitou” (1978).
He was also honored to be asked to judge at last year’s NYC Horror Film Festival (which is the greatest film fest on earth) and this year’s Macabre Faire Film Fest. He appears in the upcoming global box office smash “PLAN NINE” and wonders why he has not received any film offers since then. He also subscribes to far too many genre magazines in an effort to make it look like he knows how to read. His near encyclopedic knowledge of horror/sci-fi films is pretty amazing but he has not figured out how that’s gonna get him a date with Jessica Alba just yet.
Dave Dreher is the "Grandpa" of this motley group of horror fanatics. Having cut his horror teeth on Saturday afternoon horror hosts and giant bug films he quickly embraced the second golden age of horror as the splatter craze swept the nation in the late 1970’s and through the 1980’s. As an adult he has been fortunate enough to work with the one and only Tom Savini serving as his official Webmaster since 1997. Originally reporting news for Creature Corner (back in the day) and then for House of Horrors he joined forces with Horrornews.net a few years back where he served as the lead news reporter for a while, now a contributing writer to the site he mainly handles news duties at the Horror Channel. A fan of “old school” horror he often finds himself at odds with his podcast mates over “super hero films” and “fantasy” fare but it's all good as long as they turn their music down and stay off his lawn.