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Wisconsin is Dark and Full of Terrors
We’re a long way from Hollywood, but when it comes to horror, we’re practically the capital. Ever since Ed Gein lifted his first shovelful of grave dirt, our biggest export…
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Creature Fear: Interview with Wisconsin Filmmaker Manny Gumina
What happens when a quiet Wisconsin lake town becomes a pressure cooker of resentment and desperation? For Wisconsin filmmaker Manny Gumina, the answer is Creature Fear, an award-winning independent horror…
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Monster: The Ed Gein Story Posters & Release Date Dropped on Gein’s Birthday
In a striking bit of timing, Netflix dropped the release date and key art for Monster: The Ed Gein Story today—August 27—the birthday of Ed Gein (born August 27, 1906).…
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Milwaukee Horror Film ‘Skinny Dip’ Promises Blood, Mark Borchardt, and Backwoods Terror
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3lP8I1z8lw Milwaukee’s indie-film renegade Frankie Latina (the mastermind behind 2009 cult fave Modus Operandi) is working on his next DIY feature horror film titled Skinny Dip. And it stars the…
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The Giant Spider Invasion Reawakens: A New Cut of the B-Movie Classic Is Coming
Legendary Wisconsin director Bill Rebane is breathing new life into his 50-year-old drive-in B-movie masterpiece The Giant Spider Invasion with new characters, new scenes, and a whole new edit. The…
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Wisconsin-Made Horror Film Premieres at the Milwaukee Film Festival
What Happened to Dorothy Bell? is a bone-chilling new found-footage horror film from Wisconsin-based filmmaker Danny Villanueva Jr. (of How Bizarre Pictures) and it’s making its Wisconsin premiere at the…
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Blood Hook: Horror Comes to Hayward in this 1980s Troma Slasher
At the intersection of slasher films and giant muskie sculptures is the unlikely town of Hayward deep in the Northwoods of Wisconsin, the filming location of the 1986 Troma horror…
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Do Not Watch This Movie: Fever Lake (1997)
Fever Lake has a solid 2.6/10 on IMDB and 22% on Rotten Tomatoes. It stars Mario Lopez, Corey Haim, and Bo Hopkins. It was released straight to DVD in 1997. No…
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The Original Backrooms Location Has Been Found – In Wisconsin
The original Backrooms location has been traced to a real-world site in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, where the original photo was taken inside a furniture store during renovations in the early 2000s.…
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The Scariest Analog Horror Series on Youtube Comes from Wisconsin
When The Mandela Catalogue emerged on Youtube in 2021, it quickly earned praise by many as the scariest and most unsettling analog horror series on Youtube. Combining found footage, informational…
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