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Archive for September, 2009

Tiff 2009 Pix

The Toronto International Film Festival 2009 has already come and gone, but here are some pictures with friends and filmmakers to tide us over ’til next year. Horror represent!

The Q&A after the Midnight Madness screening of The Loved Ones. (Left to right) Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes, director Sean Byrne, star Xavier Samuel, co-star Jessica [...]

Artist… Good!

Last weekend while at the Festival of Fear, illustrator Jason Edmiston dropped by my booth and left a postcard with a sample of his artwork. The monster cereal mash-up illustration stared back at me and I immediately felt a rush of nostalgia and artistic envy. The concept is brilliant: merging the real actors with the [...]

Behold! The New Horror Handbook!

If you were at the Festival of Fear this past weekend, you may have noticed that we were selling The New Horror Handbook, by Aaron Berman. What makes this tome particularly interesting (to RM fans, anyhow), is the chapter on Rue Morgue, in which a bunch of us here at the mag are interviewed. So [...]

Fan Expo Feedback

A personal thanks from all of us here at Rue Morgue to all the awesome volunteers and fans that were at the Festival of Fear this weekend. I had loads of fun meeting Rue Morgue fans from all over the continent and hanging out (and geeking out). You. Guys. Rule.
Attendance was way up, which, naturally, [...]