It’s starting to feel a lot like haunt season. Midsummer Scream’s Awaken the Spirits! in August, several horror expos like Summer Spook Nights and haunted attractions like HorrorWorld and Halloween Horror Nights have already creeped back. And now, the return...
Larry Bones’ latest incarnation of HorrorWorld is currently ripping through Haven City Market in Rancho Cucamonga with all the blood, guts and chainsaw-wielding maniacs the special effects artist could chop, grind and stuff together. Drop by for dinner with Bubba...
Horrible Imaginings Film Festival is back, bringing film lovers together for a communal deep-dive into our worst nightmares and burning desires. They’re swapping the pre-vaccine virtual platform of 2020’s festival for the more 2021-style hybrid platform. Labor Day weekend, HIFF...
King Kong piercing the forests of Skull Island and claiming a helpless and screaming Ann Darrow is one of the most thrilling moments in movie history. Served up live on stage at Maverick Theater — even with a bit of...
Kong returned to Fullerton’s Maverick Theater to ravage the streets of New York — eh, of 1933 — again, and though the ending hasn’t changed, the fun remains. The clever, high-tech staging, strong cast and breezy production keep Maverick’s King...
A cucumber. An eggplant. Four toothpicks stuck into the body of each. Sitting atop a shrine next to the ashes of grandma and grandpa, mounts of produce offer rides to and from the afterlife. This is the strongest memory my...
David Markland was expecting this summer to be a very different one. Even more different than last summer. But he’s quite happy to be wrong. In the first announcement, Markland wrote he was “almost as surprised and excited as you...
Editor’s note: As a service to readers, H.E.N. continues to publish dispatches from our special correspondent Ray-Edgar Upton Spillane, who travels the world in search of real men’s adventure, epic peril, and daring escape. LAS VEGAS — I’ve always...
The mystifying atmosphere of North Bend that stirred the imagination of David Lynch continues to offer its surroundings as a platform to showcase modern filmmakers. The North Bend Film Festival is back this summer with a new hybrid experience. From...
Avant-garde theater company Zombie Joe’s Underground Theatre returns with a vengeance in their new production Urban Death: Trail of Torment. LA’s theater scene has been dark for more than a year and the new production will be keeping the lighting...

