Pat Fitzhugh has written two books about the Bell Witch legend: “The Bell Witch Haunting” and “The Bell Witch: The Full Account.” Two later movies took the name of his first book. His second book, “The Bell Witch: The Full Account,” introduced over 50 previously unpublished facts about the case, making it the first major publication about the subject since Ingram. It also debunked several popular myths and misconceptions, and provided extensive bibliographical footnotes and discussion notes, effectively raising the bar for modern Bell Witch research. Most Bell Witch books and articles published after “The Full Account” have made extensive use of the information it introduced, and mostly without attribution. Fitzhugh played a role in 2015’s A&E’s TV series, “Cursed! The Bell Witch,” where he acted as an advisor to the sleuths who were investigating the case. He has also been a contributing author of several publications, including “Weird US,” from Barnes and Noble Press. He wrote the foreword to Lori Crane’s Amazon bestseller, “The Legend of Stuckey’s Bridge,” and is interviewed on the Hollywood motion picture DVD, “An American Haunting,” starring Sissy Spacek and Donald Sutherland.  His other credits include appearing  in productions aired by Fox Entertainment, The History Channel, The Learning Channel, Discovery, Turner Broadcasting, and The Travel Channel. His latest appearance was in Small Town Monsters’ 2020 documentary movie entitled, “The Mark of the Bell Witch.” Also in 2020, as a musician, he collaborated with award-winning songwriter Mike Richards to pen “The Bell Witch – Let the Game Begin,” which released to all retailers on October 1st. Soon thereafter, the song debuted at #7 on the Blues and Roots Radio charts, peaking at #3 in early December. Pat Fitzhugh resides in middle Tennessee. He held elected public office from 1990-1992, and has in the past been a member of the Robertson County Historical Society, Toastmasters International, and Sertoma. He is currently involved with the Nashville Blues and Roots Music Alliance, and serves on the Board of Directors of a non-profit historic preservation group. In his limited spare time, he enjoys road trips, photography, and fishing. He is also an accomplished guitarist and session musician, specializing in rock and blues.

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Night Terrors Radio – The Bell Witch

It’s been three long years since we last caught up with filmmaker Vincente hot on the release of his groundbreaking Friday the 13th fan film, Never Hike Alone. Fast forward to 2020 and we sat down with Vincente to discuss his follow up, Never Hike in the Snow and the impact that his contributions have made to the face of the franchise. Listen to the full conversation below!

Never Hike in the Snow and the Future of Friday the 13th with Vincente DiSante

Escape rooms have always had this dark allure for me. One the one side of the sword they are a novelty, a parlor trick and a helluva lotta of fun. On the other side there is always the possibility that some insidious force is at work, waiting for hapless participants to sign their lives away to a grueling and horrible exercise in fear that ultimately leads to their demise. This fear has never been more present than in in the films of director Will Wernick. Director of the recently released No Escape (2020) and its predecessor Escape Room (2017), Will took time from his busy schedule to share his inspiration behind his latest thriller. No Escape is currently available on Amazon Prime to stream here

Night Terrors Radio – No Escape Director Will Wernick

If there is one scream queen in the horrorsphere that needs no introductions it’s Felissa Rose. From her iconic performance in Sleepaway Camp to her most recent release A Nun’s Curse, Felissa is one of the most beloved fixtures in modern horror and one glance at her IMDB let’s you know she’s not abandoning the genre anytime soon. Felissa was able to take time out of her busy schedule to talk A Nun’s Curse, Adam Green’s Hatchet franchise, Sleepaway Camp and more. Enjoy!

Night Terrors Radio – Felissa Rose

After the overwhelming popularity of 80’s horror doc “In Search of Darkness” we were certainly curious of what the creative team behind it had lined up next for fans. Not skipping a beat, and certainly not disappointing, the team behind In Search of Darkness is currently crowdfunding their newest project, “In Search of Tomorrow”. This thing is pretty epic and the personalities featured are IMPRESSIVE. We were able to sit down with one of the producers and fan extraordinaire Jessica Dwyer to discuss the film as well as our mutual obsession for all things horror/sci-fi. Enjoy!

Night Terrors Radio – “In Search of Tomorrow” with Jessica Dwyer

Rene Perez has managed to do something really special with his latest Havoc-fueled entry in the series, “Cry Havoc”. Like other brilliant action-horror mash-ups such as Silent Rage, Perez manages to put Bronson look-a-like Bronzi against the unstoppable killing machine known as Havoc. We sat down with Perez for one of the best interviews we could possibly give you. Cry Havoc also stars Richard Tyson and Emily Sweet and premieres on VOD today, May 5th. Read the official Horror-Fix review here! official Enjoy!

Night Terrors Radio – Rene Perez – Director of Cry Havoc

Michael Joy has been in the horror business a while. 12 years ago he started horrornews.net, one of the most formidable forces in the web horror game. Now, Michael is again putting his imprint on the genre with a new film label. Partnering with BayView Entertainment, Michael and horrornews.net are bringing horror fans HNN Presents, a premiere horror label set to launch this year. We were able to catch up with Michael to talk not only about the label, but to talk about his love of horror and what keeps that love alive.

Night Terrors Radio – HNN presents with Michael Joy

We sit down with Dr. Boobenstein herself, Rebecca Rinehart. Rebecca is the creative force behind The Embalmers (Indiegogo) and has just recent been cast as “Nat” in the Horror-Fix Pictures/Silver Compass Studios film “The True Tale of Ole Splitfoot vs. The Lesbian Warrior Nuns of the Great White North” (facebook) alongside Michael Paré and Robert Lasardo. Principal photography starts in September for The Embalmers while “Splitfoot” expects to shoot early November 2020. Enjoy!

Night Terrors Radio – The Embalmers’ Rebecca Rinehart

Remember what seems now like the distant past when Hollywood was seemingly overrun with vampires? Aside from the sparkling variety I didn’t mind it so much. In fact, I’m quite in love with the idea of vampires and count Fright Night, The Lost Boys, the original Dracula and many more amongst my personal favorites. So whenever we hear about something new involving those most nefarious of bloodsuckers, well, color us curious. Captive promises to bring the vampire back to its fanged glory and we were able to sit down with two of the producers of the film Cody and Frank to talk about their project and their love of the genre. So sit back, grab a nice glass of red (wine) and enjoy! Captive is currently in the middle of their campaign on Kickstarter so head on over and help make this one a reality!!!

Night Terrors Radio – Vampire Horror “Captive”

Springfield, IL based paranormal author Larry Wilson joins us in the studio to discuss his experiences in the “Murder House”. What ensues is some of the most impressive EVPs we’ve ever heard and maybe one of the strangest nights we’ve had in the studio to date!

Night Terrors Radio – Paranormal Author Larry Wilson – The Murder House

Always a good time when we get to sit down and talk all things Romero and zombies with one of the ole boys biggest fans, Leif Jonker. Director of Wichita’s own Darkness and director of the annual HorrorFest Festival Leif was nice enough to spend an evening with us and we were even able to have a wee discussion on that Dawn of the Dead 3d transfer we’ve heard so much about!

Night Terrors Radio – Leif Jonker and Darkness

It’s been 10 years since the release of writer/director Brad Sykes’ ‘Plaguers’. The sci-fi/horror thriller starring Steve Railsback (Lifeforce, Helter Skelter) has seen a long life and doesn’t seem to be slowing down. The film’s 10th anniversary is celebrated by a new edition produced by Wild Eye Releasing and we were lucky enough to catch up with Brad and his creative partner/producer Josephina Sykes to talk about the film’s longevity as well as their long career in horror. Enjoy!

Night Terrors Radio – ‘Plaguers’ Brad and Josephina Sykes

So apparently the entertainment world is all a-flutter about the premiere of something called “Star Wars” this upcoming week? Well, in addition to horror , the Star Wars saga made quite an impact in the young brains of the Night Terrors crew and continues to be a large part of our lives. We take a little bit of time to talk about our expectations of the new film and a few of our misgivings about the sequel trilogy in general. Lest we forget, we also made our way up to the great white wilderness known as Rochester, NY. We hung out with MCPI‘s Rob Pistilli, took in a cereal cocktail at Pop Roc, and even visited the grave of Rochesters very own Francis Tumblety, none other than what is widely believed to be Jack the Ripper himself. Enjoy!

Night Terrors Radio – Rochester Paranormal and Star Wars

We take a minute to sit down the writer director of the new thriller Red Handed starring Christian Madsen, Michael Madsen, Michael Biehn and Kenzie Dalton, RED HANDED will be available On Demand Tuesday December 3. Michael Biehn (The Terminator, Aliens) leads an electric cast in an unnerving new thriller from writer-director Frank Peluso and producer Nick Cassavetes. When their father is murdered, three brothers descend upon an Oregon mountain river to spread his ashes. After they arrive, one of their children goes missing. One of the brothers was himself abducted 30 years ago when they visited this same river, but he has blocked the incident out of his mind. Only by unlocking the mysteries inside his subconscious, will they be able find the child and return him to safety.Produced by Nick Cassavetes and Aaron Steele-Nicholson, Red Handed premiered at SPIFFest in Los Angeles last month.

Night Terrors Radio – ‘Red Handed’ Director Frank Peluso

It’s hard to deny that Nightmare on Elm Street creator Wes Craven was WAY ahead of his time. Here was a horror director, a genre icon, that realized that horror had become such a parody of itself that it practically opened up an entirely new sub-genre that not only appealed to the fans, but recognized their own self-awareness. This was never more evident than in Wes Craven’s New Nightmare. A non-sequel sequel that was so “meta” that one has to actually see it to believe that it actually got made (yes, Robert Englund plays himself alongside Heather Langenkamp dong the same). Probably the smartest film in the series, it is often recognized for its huge intellectual leap forward, yet rarely gets the recognition of the other entries in the series. That is, until now. Fan and filmmaker Cecil Laird has announced that he will be moving forward with “Dylan’s New Nightmare”. A Nightmare on Elm Street fan film that brings back original star Miko Hughes to reprise his role in a continuation of New Nightmare. Obviously excited as hell about the news we took the opportunity to talk to Cecil about all things Nightmare AND the crowdfunding campaign to make it all possible.

Night Terrors Radio – Cecil Laird and NOES Fan Film ‘Dylan’s New Nightmare’

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