If you’re into cult movies, there are some exciting developments on the horizon. A “Friday the 13th” remake is in the works, reinventing iconic killer Jason Voorhees. Director Sam Raimi has alluded to a long-awaited fourth installment of “Evil Dead,” thrilling Bruce Campbell fans everywhere with a long-awaited ray of hope. There is even talk of an updated remake of 1979’s “Rock ’n’ Roll High School.”

“Wow, that sounds like a great idea,” said David White, his voice oozing with sarcasm. “I wonder if The Ramones will be in it.”

David is in charge of marketing for Cinema Suicide, a blog dedicated to film reviews and news about cult, exploitation and horror movies. His brother Bryan White started the site at www.cinema-suicide.com last summer as a way to turn his life-long love of horror movies into a useful tool for like-minded people.

“I’ve been a ridiculous fan of horror movies since I was like 7 years old,” Bryan said. “It’s always movies that nobody’s ever heard of except for me and a bunch of obsessive weirdoes on the Internet.”

Now he has a chance to add to the horror canon with a film that hits very close to home. The White brothers are filming a documentary about the dark side of Portsmouth’s history, called “Phantasmagoria: History of a Haunted Town.” The film crew is researching a number of locations in the Port City that have purportedly played host to paranormal activities, and it will eventually conduct its own site investigations.

“The point of this is to research these locations and then actually go in and see what’s what,” David said. 

The crew recently visited the Franklin Block building on Congress Street, which has produced numerous ghost stories during its long history. Bryan said there are many other locations in Portsmouth where unexplained events have been reported. Fires have wiped out entire blocks of buildings, he said, leaving dark memories and disturbing stories. Most of the reports are vague, but the documentary is designed to shed light on the city’s haunted underbelly.

The timeframe for the movie’s release is uncertain, as Bryan must juggle his film aspirations with a day job as a Web developer and his family time with his wife and daughter. But updates will be posted at www.spookshowproductions.com, including early footage and, eventually, a trailer. The film will initially appear in several installments on the Web site, where it will also be available for download in its entirety. Ultimately, an actual DVD release will be scheduled.

In the meantime, the White brothers and the rest of the Cinema Suicide crew are keeping busy with regular updates to the site. When Bryan launched the blog in June 2006, it originally consisted solely of B movie reviews. He later began following various news feeds on the Web and started adding blurbs about film news and gossip. As the site evolved, he recruited other writers, including David, Tim Fife and Todd Rigney. The added staffing has enabled him to update the site with new material on a daily basis.

These days, cinema-suicide.com attracts close to 300 visitors per day. The number tends to spike when the site picks up a particularly juicy item. When Rigney wrote an early review of “Lost Boys: The Tribe,” the direct-to-video sequel of the 1987 classic “The Lost Boys,” hits on the site jumped to about 400 per day.

“I would say, since the review went up, 80 percent of the hits to the site lately have been for that review,” Bryan said. “Most of them hit and split, but that’s great exposure.”

A similar phenomenon occurred last year when Bryan posted an early review of Rob Zombie’s “Halloween” remake, although he also got loads of hate mail from Zombie fans who were upset that he knocked the film. But David doesn’t mind being blunt about his opinion of the remake.

“It’s a terrible film. Talk about defiling a classic,” he said.

Cinema Suicide is currently supplied with plenty of big news that came out of Comic-Con weekend in San Diego late last month. Among the most exciting tidbits was a comment from “Spiderman” director Sam Raimi, who reportedly said he is planning to return to his B movie roots with a new “Evil Dead” film.

“That sort of thing just sets horror fans off,” Bryan said. “They see that sort of thing and it’s just like, ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe it! Finally!’”

Bryan is personally excited about the new “Friday the 13th” installment, which he has written about for Cinema Suicide and another blog called Bloody Good Horror. Listening to his brief synopsis of the Jason Voorhees saga is like taking a bizarre stroll through horror film history. 

“The guy has been blown to pieces. He’s had a traumatic axe wound to the head. He went to space, where he was blown to pieces again, and then reconstructed by computer. He was resurrected by lightning. He was dragged to the bottom of a lake by the reanimated corpse of a psychic woman’s father. He was in Freddy’s dream world. I mean, what else can you do to this guy to be outrageous? Really, all the movie is is they’re just starting over,” he said. “(Jason’s) just like this brutish, horribly deformed psychopath in the woods, and it looks great.”

There is no shortage of B movie blogs out there, but Cinema Suicide is fueled by local writers with just the right balance of ambition and geekiness to pull off something that Web browsers keep coming back to. There are essays, interviews, film reviews, YouTube trailers—even a link to Fife’s blog on horror movie scores, called Soundtrack Apocalisse. The site now also sells T-shirts designed by Tom Whalen, advertising phony horror movies like “The Titanic Monster Beast from Planet Zero” and “Slasher Night 2: Return of the Slasher.”

Blogs like Cinema Suicide reflect the continually swelling subculture that surrounds B movies. Bryan thinks the evolving subject matter of horror movies reflects the social concerns of the times in which we live.

What are the White brothers favorite horror movies of all time?

“‘Black Christmas’ is the answer to that,” David said, referring to Bob Clark’s 1974 slasher flick. “‘Black Christmas’ is one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It’s the original slasher film. Brilliant piece of work.” 

Bryan had a bit more trouble deciding, but he eventually settled on George Romero’s seminal black and white 1968 zombie picture.

“I think ‘Night of the Living Dead’ is what I consider to be the perfect horror movie,” Bryan said.

“Except it’s boring,” David interjected.

“Shut up,” Bryan muttered.

Before the sibling bickering could go any further, the two decided it was time to get back to work.