Press Release: FANGORIA Announces New Web Initiative

Thomas DeFeo, President of The Brooklyn Company and Publisher of FANGORIA magazine, proudly announces the debut of the completely redesigned FANGORIA.com. A complete rethinking of FANGORIA’s online assets for the 21st Century, FANGORIA.com

represents a bold new vision from the most widely read horror-themed publication in the world.

In addition to new and expanded daily content that brings readers articles, news, blogs, exclusive movie trailers and clips and incisive reviews of the best in horror across all media (including film, television, comics, music, video games, collectibles and more), the Fango Faithful will also have an even larger interactive role with the advent of new features, including “Everyone’s A Critic,” which gives the readers a front page platform to voice their reviews and opinions on film, books and more, and “FANGORIA Crypts,”, where we’ll post pictures and information about the online communities’ personal horror collections and overall commitment to the FANGORIA lifestyle. Readers will also witness the launch of FANGORIA Graphix, an evolution of the previous FANGORIA Comics brand, which will release comics, graphic novels, prose novels and more, both in traditional and digital formats.

The award-winning FANGORIA Forums, one of the longest-running forums in the horror community, has also been greatly enhanced and updated, with a fast and friendly new interface and strikingly individual graphic look.

We are also proud to announce that the FANGORIA Gore Store has been completely redesigned with all new products and features, and is now the home to HORRORBLES, the official store of Fangoria Entertainment! Horrorbles has everything horror lovers want- from statues, props, masks and toys to cult videos, books, posters and T-shirts; from rare autographed items and hard to find model kits, to an incredible magazine back issue collection of everything from FANGORIA and FAMOUS MONSTERS to CREEPY, EERIE, CASTLE OF FRANKENSTEIN and many more. The Gore Store will also be offering new FANGORIA T-shirts and exclusive Fango products, downloadable digital versions of the comic book line, and, for the first time ever, downloadable digital versions of the entire 30-year run of FANGORIA magazine! FANGORIA online truly has it all!

The online initiative is just the first salvo in an onslaught of new creative energy from the FANGORIA Family. Expect much more in the near future from FANGORIA Graphix, FANGORIA Radio, FANGORIA Musick and the FANGORIA Weekend of Horrors conventions. FANGORIA . . . after 30 years, still your number-one name in horror.

Fangoria Graphix Update

I was talking to a few of my friends from The Scream Factory, who as you may have become the studio/proudction team under the Fangoria Graphix banner. One of the guys said that they'll be putting out a DEATH WALKS THE STREETS mini-series to be followed with an OGN sometime in 2009.

I keep asking my pal, Associate Editor Troy Brownfield, what else is coming, and he just laughs.

Fangoria Going Bye-Bye?

Found a bit about Fangoria going through bankruptcy on their Wiki page and followed it to the source on Bloomberg.com.

Publisher Creative Group Files Chapter 11 in New York

Creative Group Inc., the publisher of Starlog and Fangoria magazines, filed to reorganize under Chapter 11 in New York on March 21, saying it owes $16.6 million on a secured bank loan and $15 million on subordinated notes.

Creative said it intends to use Chapter 11 to restructure the debt.

The New York based company also does animation, sound mixing and production work for film and television.

Creative was accompanied in the Chapter 11 filing by eight affiliates.

To read Bloomberg coverage, click here.

The case is In re Creative Group Inc., 08-10975, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York (Manhattan).

Hmmm. Personally, this makes me wonder even more about that warehouse problem they had that destroyed tons of their back catalog.

So...Now We Know What Scream Factory Is...But...

...do we know where some of the previous Fangoria titles are that haven't been announced with Scream Factory thus far?

Of the original Fangoria Comics books, Bump, Beyond The Valley Of The Rage, and Strangeland are accounted for. What about The Fourth Horseman or Shifter?

On a related note, I had heard a rumor about a 80s horror movie fan-favorite actress being attached to Bump and, through the modern miracle of IMDB, confirmed that Ashley Laurence is, indeed, attached to the movie. You might remember her from a little horror classic named Hellraiser.

That's in addition to Tobin Bell (why do I always want to type KOBEN?), of Saw fame, attached to the role of the sheriff.

Busy and mysterious week for the former Fango guys just trying to make good...

Who Or What Is "THE SCREAM FACTORY"?

I saw this page in the Friends display of one of my top friends on MySpace, but he wasn't answering any questions about it...



I have the sneaking suspicion that it is related to this article, though.