In more news to make you envy those SXSW attendees, the first image from Gareth Edwards’ Monsters has emerged. The film will be making its premiere at the Austin film festival–featured in the Midnighters lineup and feels vaguely like District-9. The story revolves around a journalist leading a tourist through an infected zone between Mexico and the United States. The infected are people who have come into contact with a crashed NASA space probe six years ago. Do we have some extra-terrestrials on our hands?
There isn’t a lot floating around yet about Monsters, but the image shows a traveler looking …read more

Follow along with the adventures of Jack Spade in John Johnson’s new web series, Spade. The CEO of Darkstone Entertainment and director of the Plan 9 from Outer Space remake (Plan 9) has chronicled the life and shenanigans of hero Jack Spade in this audience participation friendly show.
Jack Spade once saved the world, much to the chagrin of the Masonic Church of Rome. Now, forgotten by his peers, and left to his own devices for the last fifteen years, he is asked to once again to save humanity. But this time, he is not the chosen one. He is summoned …read more

Director siblings Tyler and Dennie Meyer have crafted what they are describing as part 30’s jungle adventure, part 80’s slasher and part 70’s Bigfoot documentary in their contribution to the Sasquatchploitation genre, The Legend of Grassman.
Since Dread Central has already provided the weed/Woody Harrelson jokes, I’ll refrain (dammit), but you can check out the low-budget flick’s trailer below for more details. The film is based on the legend of the Grassman, which is the nickname of a creature reportedly sighted in Ohio.
The directors recently spoke to Monster Island News and had this to say about their creature feature:
“When it came …read more

Drew Daywalt is hard at work in the Fear Factory and has released his latest horror short, There’s No Such Thing.
The film is under four minutes and is a tale about the bedtime ritual a mother and daughter share. If you’ve seen Daywalt’s other shorts, then you know this seemingly sweet story will turn creepy fast. Check it out below and let me know what you think.

I heard nothing but good reviews about Splice after it screened at the Sundance Film Festival. There was talk about the feature going straight to DVD and getting a limited theatrical release but the film, directed by Vincenzo Natali (Cube), looks like it may be getting picked up by Joel Silver’s Dark Castle label, with the promise of a 3,000 screen release!
Deadline recently reported that Dark Castle is in the final closing stages of a distribution deal for Splice and if it pans out, “it will give the film a wide summer release on 3,000 screens and a P&A commitment …read more

Lionsgate won the battle to distribute the Eli Roth produced film, The Last Exorcism. If you’re wondering why you haven’t heard of this one before–well, you have. They renamed the film, which was previously titled, Cotton. Personally, I’m not a fan of either title, but I’ll still curious to see the faux documentary feature about a disillusioned minister who lets a film crew record his his last exorcism.
“After a career spent helping the devout through prayer and trickery, Rev. Cotton Marcus invites a film crew to document his final fraudulent days as an exorcist. Soon his faith is truly tested …read more

Yeah, I’m one of those immature idiots who giggles every time I see the word rapeseed listed on the ingredients of something. It’s really just a form of canola oil that contains all the good-for-your-body omega fatty acids. Apparently in Koldo Serra’s new film Perros Muertos (Dead Dogs), rapeseed oil is a catalyst for a zombie outbreak.
Cocacolo is a petty criminal who robs a bank and then flees south. At the same time a family is leaving Northern Spain for the holidays. The group ends up meeting and banding together against a group of zombies that have arisen due to …read more

Behold–Marcus’ review of the post-Apocalyptic adventure game, Darksiders.
“This is the way the world ends; Not with a bang but a whimper.” T.S. Eliot said that. He was wrong.
As anyone who’s played Darksiders (inaugural offering from new kids on the block Vigil Games) knows, it ends with a blitzkrieg of flaming meteors and warring angels and demons. And we get front row seats, watching the carnage unfold through the eyes of War (of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse fame), who is understandably irked at being blamed for prematurely triggering Judgement Day. This glorious reign of destruction is soon …read more

Peter Briggs is up to his ears in supernatural ooze. He’s currently working on Mortis Rex, which tells the story of a disgraced Roman war hero who comes face to face with an otherworldly beast. Last week we learned that the Hellboy co-writer is gearing up for Panzer 88, a character-driven, supernatural thriller–this one set inside a German King Tiger fleeing Russia during World War II. The soldiers also happen to be fleeing a centuries-old, malevolent creature that has other plans for them.
I recently had the opportunity to talk with Briggs, who divulged further details on Panzer 88’s story and …read more

Upon hearing that there was a new film titled, Exquisite Corpse, I was excited to think that someone was bringing Poppy Z. Brite’s novel of the same name to the big screen. When watching the trailer I was met with something entirely different. Scott David Russell’s film starring Steve Sandvoss, Nicole Vicius, Guillermo Diaz, Tessa Thompson, and Larry Cedar, will be playing later this month at the EFM (European Film Market) and has nothing to do with a homosexual serial killer, cannibal, necrophiliac (not quite). Dammit.
Nicholas is a young neuroscientist who is obsessed with two things. He discovered a serum …read more