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

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

And in other holy sh!t news, an uncut version of Clive Barker’s Nightbreed will be screened at HorrorHound Weekend in Indianapolis, which runs March 26-28! Please, please, please let this mean that a DVD and Blu-ray are in the works!
For those of you unfamiliar with Nightbreed’s back story, let me explain. Basically, the studio screwed Barker by forcing him to release an edited version of his original cut. Poor marketing and a cruddy video release made the film fade away. Thankfully, fans supported it and it was elevated to something of a cult flick. Hardcore Barker fans wondered for years …read more

There’s only one place you really need to be this Spring–Austin’s SXSW (South by Southwest) film festival from March 12-20. The festival features 119 films total, 55 of which are making their world premieres. Pay attention to the Midnighters section, which has your horror fix.
Everything seems worth a look but I’m particularly excited about Amer. So far, the bank is telling me a trip to SXSW may not be in the cards this year, but I’ll be doing my damnedest to attend this event. Check out the line-up below and let me know what you’re interested in.
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Would you attend a film festival organized by a guy who made movies like Killer Biker Chicks, Silent Night Zombie Night, and Super Undead Doctor Roach? Most of us probably have our hands raised right now. Filmmaker and promoter Chad Clinton Freeman has announced The Polly Staffle Grindhouse Film Festival to be held at the Sci-Fi Center in “Givin’ You More Grind” Las Vegas this coming May.
The festival takes place May 13-16 and will consist of four glorious days of programming in the tradition of grindhouse theaters with double features each day, bookended by trailers and music videos. PollyGrind is …read more

The people of Edmonton have something to do now other than look at snow! Edmonton turns into DEDmonton, Hellberta once a month when the lunatics at DEDfest/DEDsploitation gather the masses for an evening of film and fright. They recently had a sold-out screening of The Thing in January and Silent Night Deadly Night was screened for the first time ever in Alberta in December. Just days before they showed the film, the DEDfest gang found out that the movie was the last film ever banned in Alberta. O Canada.
On February 19, there will be a screening of Romero’s The Crazies. …read more

The infamous British serial killer, the Yorkshire Ripper, is the subject of IFC’s Red Riding trilogy and Dread Central had several trailers and a behind-the-scenes featurette on tap, which you can check out here below.

The three films will premiere in New York theaters, February 5–presented in what’s being called a “marathon roadshow format” at the IFC Center. The trilogy will get a wider theatrical release starting the week of February 12 in L.A. and hopefully beyond for the rest of us peons to check out. In case you prefer to stay cozy at home, OnDemand will also be sharing the …read more

The Butcher Brother’s latest feature, The Violent Kind, was one of Sundance’s most anticipated films for horror fans and now the film’s producer, Jeffrey Allard, is ready to work on a new indie feature, Stripped. Allard will be teaming up with producer Adam Donaghey for what is being described as a “post-feminist horror film.”
Stripped is being written by Justina Walford and John Wildman. This marks Wildman’s first time in the director’s chair, after recently giving up his position as Head of Press and Public Relations at AFI. Allard has confirmed that scream queen hottie, Tiffany Shepis (Night of the Demons …read more

I’ve been looking forward to Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton’s indie horror, YellowBrickRoad, which will make its premiere at the Slamdance Film Festival in Park City, Utah (January 21-28). Cassidy Freeman, Clark Freeman, Anessa Ramsey, Lee Wilkof, Laura Heisler and Alex Draper star as the expedition group looking for answers to something horrible in the forest, but the forest finds something horrible in them.
The synopsis:
“One Morning in New England, 1940, the entire population of Friar New Hampshire – 572 people – walked together up a winding mountain trail and into the wilderness. They left behind their clothes, their money, all …read more

High school sucks and a group of outcasts turn deadly in After Dark Films’ revenge flick, The Final. The film is part of Horrorfest 4 which is right around the corner and Dread Central has the new trailer for Joey Stewart’s directorial debut. Check it out below.

In The Final, the scenic Workley Ranch in Rocky Branch, TX, becomes the setting for retribution and revenge. In the midst of a wild costume party, five previously powerless and picked upon students are giving a ‘Final Exam’ with just one question: ‘What did you do to deserve this?’

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