The Grue-crew are joined this week by Michael Steinberg, the owner of Found Footage Critic website and co-host of the Found Footage Files podcast. Michael brings a film with him for HNR to screen and review, the found footage flick from writer director Matthew Sconce called ALTAR. The film starts of with a promising extended intro setting up the film. Join Doc, The Black Saint, Thomas and Dave as they welcome Michael to share their thoughts on the film and found footage in general.
Dave returns for the HORROR NEWS OF THE WEEK segment sharing a fresh group of updates and rumors with the reaction for the second Ghostbusters trailer, the promise for season five of Bates Motel and tease that there may be a Neighbors 3: Zombies Rising – no, no there won’t. For the What Have You Been Watching segment, the Grue-crew dive deep into the series premiere for the much anticipated TV series, PREACHER.
Co-hosts Doc Rotten, Santos (The Black Saint) Ellin Jr., Dave Dreher, Thomas Mariani and Vixen, the voice of reason, are back again this week to give you the best in horror as they recap, review and obliterate all that is horror this week! Oh, and don’t forget – Stump the Saint! (Brought to you by Gruesome Magazine)
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Episode 164 — Altar (2016) — Preacher (2016)
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- Featured Review: Altar (2016)
ALTAR is the terrifying story of a group of former college classmates who get lost driving to a college reunion camp out in the Sierra Nevada mountains. After stopping for the night, they stumble onto something much darker. They must battle to escape the evil they unleashed to not only save their own lives but their souls as well.
- d.w. Matthew Sconce
- c. Stefanie Estes, Brittany Falardeau, Tim Parrish, Deep Rai, Anchilla deValmont, Michael Wainwright Nicole L. Osborne
- Thomas Mariani
(1.5 / 5) - Doc Rotten
(2.3 / 5) - The Black Saint (1.5 / 5)
- Dave Dreher (1.5 / 5)
- Michael Steinberg
(4.8 / 5) - Found Footage Critic website
- Found Footage Files podcast
- What Have You Been Watching: Preacher (2016) s01e01 “Pilot”
A preacher heads out on a journey to combat the supernatural evil that just decimated his Texas hometown.- d. w. Seth Rogen & Evan Goldberg and Sam Catlin
- c. Dominic Cooper (Jesse Custer), Ruth Negga (Tulip O’Hare), Joe Gilgun (Cassidy), Lucy Griffiths (Emily Woodrow), W. Ear Brown (Sherrif Hugo Root), Antatol Yusef (Deblanc), Tom Brook (Fiore), Derek Wilson (Donny Schenck), Ian Colletti (Arseface – Eugene Root)
- Announcements: DragonCon (2016)
- DragonCon (2016) September 2 – 5, 2016: http://dragoncon.org
- Look for The Black Saint, Doc Rotten, Thomas Mariani and Bill Mulligan on various panels on the Horror Block
- DragonCon (2016) September 2 – 5, 2016: http://dragoncon.org
- Support HNR: Patreon & Horror T-Shirts
- Horror News of the Week: 05/16/2016
- Can the second Ghostbusters trailer change angry fan’s opinions?
- Who’s excited that Marion Crane is coming to season five of Bates Motel?
- Did the Chinese PR stunt for Resident Evil go too far?
- Did you know the upcoming horror film Clown was directed by the guy behind Spider-Man: Homecoming?
- Would you want to see a real film based on the parody Neighbor 3: Zombies Rising?
- Stump the Saint: w/ prizes supplied Gruesome Magazine
- Horror News Radio T-Shirt
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Doc a lifelong fan of horror films, sci-fi flicks and monster movies first discovering Universal Monsters and Planet of the Apes as a young child in the 1970's searching out every issue of Famous Monster of Filmland (and, later, Fangoria). Favorite films include Jaws, The Car, The Birds, The Tingler, Vampire Circus and The Exorcist. Still a huge fan of horror films from the 70s, Doc continues consuming horror films to this day for the site, for the podcasts and for the fun of it all.
