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

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

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

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

Two new clips arrived from Martin Scorsese’s latest film, Shutter Island, which is one movie I am very much looking forward to. The ominous and almost Gothic setting is perfect for Laeta Kalogridis’ story about two U.S. marshals who investigate the mysterious disappearance of a murderess from a hospital for the criminally insane, that looms like a fortress on the island.
The cast includes includes Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley, Michelle Williams, Patricia Clarkson and Max von Sydow. Of course the press release fails to mention actors Elias Koteas and Ted Levine whose performances will undoubtedly add to the creepy …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

Cory Callahan’s Yellow Future clocks in at around nine minutes and aside from being an incredible throwback to Italian cinema’s giallo period, it’s a remarkably polished film that achieves a lot in such a short amount of time. Callahan’s Kaleidoscopic eye and original soundtrack sets the tone for a futuristic story about a madman killing actresses in Los Angeles. A determined detective is out to stop the killer, who believes he is a true artist and murder is the highest art form.
In the opening scene, Callahan immediately establishes his connection to giallo cinema by showing the masked killer slipping into …read more

Gustavo Heranandez’s The Silent House achieves what Hitchcock wanted to do for his 1948 film, Rope. The Spanish horror film was shot in one long continuous take. Check out the teaser trailer below which has been interspersed with pseudo Polaroid shots and is looking pretty darn interesting
The story revolves around a father and daughter who encounter a series of bizarre events in a cottage that hides many secrets. According to Shock, the plot is based on true events that happened in a small village in Uruguay. The story in The Silent House focuses on Laura’s attempt to leave the house …read more