Tim and Eric, of the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, will be hosting the world premiere of Birdemic: Shock and Terror at The Cinefamily in Los Angeles on February 27. There will be a Q & A with Birdemic’s mastermind, James Nguyen and stars Alan Bagh and Whitney Moore after the screening.
If the hilarious and noisy trailer wasn’t enough to reel you in then perhaps this little quagmire will. In a press release received today, it was revealed that Birdemic’s distributor, Severin, will be “transforming the theater into a temporary aviary with epic displays of Birdemic special effects, …read more

Director, Anders Jacobsson (Evil Ed), just delivered to yours truly the latest one sheet and a still for his slasher film, Insane. The film was co-written by Jacobsson with Mikael Fuchs, Nathan Berry, Henrik Koelman and Tomas Sandquist, who also co-directed. The film will be screened at the European Film Market in Berlin on February 11 and was selected to be part of the Fantasy Horror Awards in Italy March 19-21.
Insane follows the story of a woman, Sarah (Johanna Leamo), who checks into a hotel while looking for her missing sister, not realizing that it may be the same place …read more

A young woman seeks out the mundane after a troubled past and finds peace in a hospital alone at night, collating patient records. That is, until a series of unsettling events leads her to believe the hospital may be connected to a number of recent murders in the area. To get to the truth, Roslyn must solve the mystery of her own disturbing past.

The first clips for UK horror-thriller Psych:9 were released earlier this month and I recently had the opportunity to talk with director Andrew Shortell about the film that stars Sara Foster (The Big Bounce) as Roslyn, Cary …read more

Recent films like Paranormal Activity and The House of the Devil owe a debt of gratitude to Herk Harvey’s cult classic, Carnival of Souls. The film was made for a mere $33,000 and relies on dramatic black-and-white photography and a dreamy atmosphere to conjure the horror beneath the everyday. A young organist’s life is transformed after a car crash and she becomes haunted by a ghostly figure.
From the start of the film (there are no opening credits) we are jolted into Mary Henry’s (Candace Hilligoss) world. A drag race sends Mary’s car plummeting into a river, but she mysteriously survives …read more

The eighth and final film has been chosen for After Dark Films’ Horrorfest 4 which runs for one week starting January 29. Kill Theory is a psychological thriller that stretches the limitations of friendship.
Kill Theory was written by Kelly Palmer and directed by Chris Moore (Producer, Good Will Hunting and upcoming Adjustment Bureau). Agnes Bruckner, Patrick Flueger, Taryn Manning, Teddy Dunn, Ryanne Duzich, Daniel Franzese, Theo Rossi, Steffi Wickens, and Kevin Gage also star.
In Kill Theory, a group of college friends visit a secluded vacation home to celebrate their impending graduation.  The fun doesn’t last long, however.  Forced to participate …read more

Even though I will never be able to forgive Brett Eisner for attempting to remake The Brood, I’m actually kind of interested in seeing his remake of The Crazies, which Overture Films is releasing February 26, 2010.
There are some new one sheet images floating around which I caught on Dread Central today. Check out this one which features a nasty looking pitchfork. Mmm. Pitchfork.
The remake of George A. Romero’s 1973 film stars Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Reegan, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson and Justin Welborn. The original film tells the story an accidental release of a military biological weapon in an American …read more

The Reeds is lucky number seven in the After Dark Horrorfest 4 lineup, which opens January 29, 2010 and runs for one week. Nick Cohen directs the film and Chris Baker and Simon Sprackling wrote the script based on a story by Chris Baker.
The cast for The Reeds includes Anna Brewster, O.T. Fagbenle, Will Mellor, Danny Caltagirone, Scarlett Johnson and Emma Catherwood.  Geoff Bell appears as Mr. Croker.
“In The Reeds, a weekend boating trip through the Norfolk Broads becomes a deadly ordeal for six 20-something year old friends who lose their bearings in the vast reedy tidewaters.  Chances of escape …read more

Director Andrew Shortell and writer Lawrence Robinson are behind the new horror-thriller, Psych:9, starring Sara Foster (‘The Big Bounce’), Cary Elwes (‘Saw’), Michael Biehn (‘Aliens’) and Gabriel Mann (‘The Bourne Supremacy’). I wonder if Cary gets to keep his foot this time around.
The film gets a UK theatrical release February 5, 2010 and a small US theatrical release is expected for later next year–possibly Spring. Universal Pictures UK has acquired UK home entertainment rights to the film through its indi Vision label
In Psych:9, a young woman with a troubled past takes a job at a recently closed hospital to collate the …read more

When the TV series V hit the air in 1983, it quickly established itself as the thinking man’s sci-fi–an allegorical and creative imagining that combined suspense, action and philosophical drama (with a nice helping of cheese thrown in for good measure). It was easy to ignore the low production value for a great story that at its heart was very human despite the alien theme. This is the very reason I feel confident posting an ultimately sci-fi themed topic on a horror website.
Aside from being smart and seriously entertaining, there are many reasons that the show appealed to horror audiences. …read more

I love being introduced to independent filmmakers in the horror world because it’s a good reminder that there really is more to the scene than the sludge being churned out by studio execs. Thanks to Stu from Buy Zombie, I was directed to the work of Chicago filmmaker Mac Eldridge and his new zombie short Chemical 12-D.
The story surrounds Michael Frank who has been living alone in a post apocalyptic world for some time. He tries to cope with his new existence by searching for a cure that will end the zombie outbreak. One day, he comes across a newly …read more