By Steve Newton If somebody asked you what Mark Wahlberg’s first film was, I bet you wouldn’t know it’s The Substitute. I doubt many folks have seen The Substitute. Heck, I […]
By Steve Newton Most of the Vancouver-shot movies I covered during my time as a freelancer for Fangoria magazine actually made it into theatres. One that didn’t was The Resurrected, which was based […]
By Steve Newton So I was looking through my collection of old Fangoria magazines last night, searching for a story I wrote to post for Halloween, and came across a […]
By Steve Newton Vancouver has not been kind to Dean Koontz. First you had his awesome 1987 suspense novel, Watchers, being turned into a godawful Corey Haim vehicle up […]
By Steve Newton One of the first set-visit stories I did for Fangoria was back in 1988, when I went down to Vancouver’s Granville Mall to cover a low-budget flick […]
By Steve Newton Back in 1997 I went on the set of the Vancouver-shot action-horror flick Deep Rising on assignment for Fangoria. I chatted with director Stephen Sommers and actors […]
By Steve Newton Here’s a story I did on the Vancouver-area filming of the 1998 Katie Holmes vehicle Disturbing Behaviour. It wasn’t the worst horror flick I ever did a set-visit […]
Here’s my piece that ran as the cover story in the Georgia Straight‘s Halloween 2003 issue. By Steve Newton Ten years ago, Robert Rodriguez caused a sizable stir in the […]
Here’s my piece that ran as the cover story in the Georgia Straight‘s Halloween 1999 issue. By Steve Newton The first time I meet TOBY LINDALA, he’s indulging in one […]
By Steve Newton Back in 2000 a Vancouver-shot horror flick called Final Destination was released which depicted young people, having escaped death in an exploding plane, being hunted down by […]
photo by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward Here’s my piece that ran as the cover story in the Georgia Straight‘s Halloween 2000 issue. By Steve Newton The first time I sat down for a […]
By Steve Newton Not everyone has managed to see both Jason Vorhees and Michael Myers in bloodthirsty action–and lived to tell the tale. But as the Vancouver correspondent for the […]
By Steve Newton Just before she started getting recognized for her appearances in a string of videos for Aerosmith power-ballads, Alicia Silverstone made her feature film debut in the low-budget […]
By Steve Newton When I was covering the Vancouver horror scene as a correspondent for Fangoria back in the ’80s and ’90s, I would normally make an effort to see the projects […]
By Steve Newton As dedicated Vancouver horror fans know, the city has had its fair share of terrible flight flicks filmed here. Some were worse than others, of course. For […]
By Steve Newton I still remember the major buzz I got when I saw my first full-colour, three-page spread in famed horror mag Fangoria back in ’88. It was for a Vancouver-shot […]
By Steve Newton I just finished reading Stephen King’s latest novel, Doctor Sleep, and to be honest–even though it was dedicated to Warren Zevon–I wasn’t that crazy about it. Then again, as […]
