Posted by Jovy on May 1, 2016 · Leave a Comment
When A&E first announced that they had greenlit a straight to series order on a show based on Norman Bates, I was very skeptical. This was in light of the rise of popularity in genre programming on television in which I welcome, but properties that I hold close to my heart make me anxious to […]
Posted by Rob Galluzzo on September 2, 2014 · Leave a Comment
Well, as of yesterday, September 1st, for reasons still unknown, Universal Studios in Hollywood, California has shut down their popular House Of Horrors attraction at their theme park. We first got wind of these plans via an article posted over on Inside Universal, which was later confirmed. One of the spotlight’s of the theme park is […]
Category BEYOND FRIGHT, Event Report, Fandom, Major Studio News, NEWS, People · Tags Boris Karloff, Child's Play, Chucky, Frankenstein, Halloween 2, Halloween Horror Nights, House of Horrors, Icons Of Fright, Lon Chaney, Mother, Norman Bates, Psycho, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Phantom of The Opera, The Wolfman, Universal Studios, Universal's House Of Horrors, Walking Dead, Zombies
Posted by Jerry Smith on May 5, 2014 · Leave a Comment
I have a massive amount of love and respect for PSYCHO II. To take what is considered by many to be not only one of the greatest horror films of all time, but one of the greatest films of all time PERIOD, and make a sequel to it…that takes some courage. Not only did writer […]
Posted by Rob Galluzzo on February 3, 2014 · 1 Comment
I don’t know about you guys, but I am beyond stoked for the return of ‘Bates Motel‘ on A&E, which kicks off its 2nd Season on March 3rd. As a die-hard Psycho fanatic (hell, I made a documentary about the entire original franchise), the funnest part of the show for me has been seeing what […]
Category Articles, COLUMNS, Fandom, Great Character Arcs in Horror, NEWS, People, Retrospectives · Tags A & E's Bates Motel, Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, Bates Motel, Chet Rudolph, Detective Arbogast, Emma Spool, Janet Leigh, Marion Crane, Norman Bates, Psycho, Tracy Venable
Posted by Justin Edwards on January 14, 2014 · Leave a Comment
In preparation for the second season of BATES MOTEL, A&E has whipped up a couple of promos that teases what the deranged family has been up to. Also, our pals over at Shock Till You Drop got an exclusive featurette that shows a look behind the scenes, all of which you can watch below! BATES […]
Category Major Studio News, New Releases, NEWS, People · Tags 2014, A&E, Bates Motel, horror, Norma Bates, Norman Bates, Season 2, TV
Posted by Justin Edwards on September 23, 2013 · Leave a Comment
I flaked out of finishing Season 1 of BATES MOTEL (I’ll be fixing that soon thanks to the just released Blu-ray!), but what little I saw I extremely liked. Vera Farmiga and Freddie Highmore are perfectly cast as the iconic mother and son. Farmiga’s Norma finely straddles the line of seductive & deranged, and seeing […]
Category Major Studio News, New Releases, NEWS, People · Tags A&E, Bates Motel, Freddie Highmore, horror, Norma Bates, Norman Bates, Psycho, Season 2, TV, Universal, Vera Farmiga
Posted by Justin Edwards on August 2, 2013 · Leave a Comment
Norma & Norman Bates’ murderous exploits are coming home September 17th when BATES MOTEL hits DVD & Blu-ray! Icons editor-in-chief Jerry & I had started doing our TAG TEAM TV REVIEW for this first two episodes of the season (read those here & here), but we stopped and now we’re kicking ourselves because we’ve heard […]
Category Direct to DVD Releases, DVD News, Major Studio News, New Releases, NEWS, People, Uncategorized · Tags A&E, Alfred Hitchcock, Bates Motel, Blu-Ray, DVD, Mother, Norman Bates, Psycho, Season 1, TV, Universal, Vera Farminga
Posted by Rob Galluzzo on December 29, 2012 · 12 Comments
You just read our TOP PICKS OF 2012 right HERE and HERE. But that doesn’t mean we can’t start getting excited for the new stuff arriving in 2013! And there’s quite a bevy of intriguing and diverse genre material on its way. Some of it original, some are sequels, and a good chunk are remakes, […]
Category Fandom, ICONS REVIEWS, Indie Horror News, Major Studio News, New Releases, NEWS, People, Theatrical Releases · Tags A Horrible Way To Die, AJ Bowen, American Mary, Barbara Crampton, Bates Motel, Bill Lustig, Blumhouse Productions, Bruce Campbell, Bubba Ho-Tep, Cabin In The Woods, Carrie, Carrie remake, Chloe Grace Moretz, Dark Skies, Don Coscarelli, Eli Roth, Elijah Wood, Emma Watson, Fede Alvarez, Guillermo Del Toro, Horror 2013, Icons Of Fright, Insidious, James Wan, John Dies At The End, Julianne Moore, Katherine Isabelle, Keri Russell, Kimberly Pierce, Lords of Salem, Maniac, Maniac remake, Norman Bates, Nurse 3d, Pacific Rim, Phantasm, Psycho, Rob Zombie, Sam Raimi, Soska Sisters, Stephen King, Texas Chainsaw 3d, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The ABC's of Death, The Conjuring, The Evil Dead, The Sacrament, This Is The End, Ti West, Warm Bodies, World War Z, You're Next
