DVD Review: Grimm Love (Rohtenburg) – by Kayley Viteo – First things first, if you ever want to lose several hours reading a fascinatingly gruesome story, search for Armin Meiwes, the man upon which this film is heavily based. The short version of Meiwes’ tale is that on March of 2001, he met Bernd Brandes over the Internet after Meiwes posted an ad for someone to meet a peculiar requirement: must desire to be consumed. This true story presents…  (read full article)

‘Zombie Girl: The Movie’ Set for November DVD Release – by Marc Patterson – I can’t believe that it was over a year ago that I first saw and celebrated one of the most endearing, and totally NOT horror movies on this site. No, Zombie Girl: The Movie is not a zombie movie, but it’s likely to be one of the most loved films you’ll see this year. R2 Films has picked up distribution rights to Zombie Girl: The Movie and is set to give it a November release. Read on for more… (read full article)

Blu-ray Review of ‘The Evil Dead’ – by Marc Patterson – It might as well be declared now that this is going to go down as the undisputed best horror re-issue of 2010. The Evil Dead has effectively influenced nearly every major filmmaker to have come into the genre since it’s original release. Today for the first time American fans can join the dead with this steller release from Anchor Bay. Editor-in-Chief Marc Patterson dives into the details… (read full review)

Ben’s Last Word on FrightFest 2010 – by Ben Bussey – So Frightfest 2010 is over. It was my first time at the festival, and all things considered it was a rewarding, enjoyable five days, from Hatchet 2 at 6.30pm on Thursday, all the way through to The Last Exorcism at 9.30 on Monday… except, alas, I wasn’t there for that one. Indeed, I regret to inform I missed quite a few of the screenings, including all the post-11 pm shows due to my need to catch… (read full article)

Red Band Trailer for ‘Lake Placid 3′ (No Really, We’re Not Kidding) – by Marc Patterson – I don’t really know what to say about this.  No really, I don’t.  So I’m just going to ramble while a stream of consciousness washes over me like pollution filled lake water.  When I saw the DVD cover art I literally laughed out loud.  That to your left is probably some of the most funny shit I’ve seen all day.  No synopsis in the world will do this film justice. (read full article)

DVD and Blu-ray Releases for August 31, 2010 – by Richard Romero – Aug. 31 is here and with it comes more DVD’s to add to every fright fan’s collection. This week look forward to everything from The Evil Dead on Blu-ray to a movie about mind control via brain surgery by drill!  All of that and more in this week’s DVD releases!  The releases start this week with Brainjacked, a twisted film featuring loads of gore and mind control via a drill to the brain! (read full article)

True Blood Recap: Episode 3.11 – by Britt Hayes – WARNING: This feature is VERY spoiler heavy. For those who are not current with this season we encourage you to avoid this column at all costs. All other fans may proceed. – Last night’s penultimate episode set the framework for the explosive and blood-soaked finale. At least I hope it’s blood-soaked – after all this faerie and were-panther-meth business, I’m not sure we’ll get the bang we got with Mary Ann… (read full article)

FrightFest 2010 Review: Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship and Videotape – by Ben Bussey – They called them the Video Nasties. They were the new wave of horror films that took things to a whole new level of violence and viscera: rape, mutilation, disembowelment and cannibalism were the order of the day, all presented in lingering detail. Mostly low-budget affairs, such films might in earlier times have happily existed without too many people… (read full review)

FrightFest 2010 News: Green & Lynch Announce Anthology Movie – ‘Chillerama’ – by Ben Bussey – Hey guys, your international correspondent coming to you once again from London’s Frightfest with a neat little scoop. Adam Green and Joe Lynch, two guys who really, really love Frightfest, announced today that they are collaborating with fellow writer/directors Adam Rifkin and Tim Sullivan on a horror anthology pastiche… (read full article)

Trailer for Adam Wingard’s Latest, ‘A Horrible Way to Die’ – by Marc Patterson – Adam Wingard is one of the few directors I’ve made a point to support at every turn, despite the fact that the majority of his films lean too much towards “art house” for the likings of most horror junkies. I really enjoyed Pop Skull, a phenomenal psychological horror film shot on a paltry $3,000. Back in March we got a look at his first production still… (read full article)

FrightFest 2010 Review: The Tortured – by Ben Bussey – My first thought on seeing The Tortured was that there was no way in hell I’d give it a full write-up; that it belonged as little more than a funny footnote in a wrap-up of Frightfest 2010, as I will indeed be doing for some of the festival’s less notable movies. But then I recognised the wonderful challenge this presented critically; to see if it is possible to do justice in words to how completely and… (read full review)

Neil Marshall is going Cannibal? – by Marc Patterson – According to Deadline Neil Marshall is set to get into the directors seat on a rather unique film of exquisite taste and refinement. The film in question is Underground, a David Cohen penned film that is “set in the world of gourmet underground supper clubs“. I’m pretty sure that by “underground” and “gourmet” we’re not talking about the sequel to Ratatouille. Marshall makes a good choice for… (read full article)

FrightFest 2010 Film Review: F – by Ben Bussey – The life of Robert Anderson (Schofield) would not make a good advertisment for the teaching profession. Divorced from his wife, distanced from his daughter – who is also one of his pupils – Anderson is a shadow of a man, riddled with anxiety. And it’s not just jaded; he’s afraid, and with good reason. A teenage boy once broke his nose in class, after being given an F for an essay…  (read full review)

Welcome to the Underground – by Cory J. Udler – Cory J. Udler, director of such disgusting and horrifying cinema as Incest Death Squad, and Incest Death Squad 2 has, as those demons from hell softly beckoned, joined us to pen a new column focused on the trials, tribulations, joys, and “what the fuck were we thinking” moments that define low-budget filmmaking. Without further introduction… Welcome to the underground!  We hope you stick around!  (read full article)

Indie Horror News: August 27, 2010 – by Marc Patterson – It’s Friday and that means it’s time for another indie horror round-up. This ongoing feature attempts to shed some light on all the great shit that’s happening outside the churn and burn studio system by focusing on the guys and gals who are pouring their blood, guts, and wallets into carving out cinema for die hard fans of the genre. It’s DIY or Die baby! This past week featured some rather cool… (read full article)

FrightFest UK 2010: Interview with The Dead: Howard and Jonathan Ford – Interview conducted by Marc Patterson – It’s the 26th of August and that means FrightFest UK 2010 is officially underway.  It’s going to be five full days of some fantastic films, including quite a few premieres.  Amongst those world premieres will be Howard and Jonathan Ford’s The Dead, one of the most original and highly anticipated films of this years fest. (read full article)

DVD Review: The Good, The Bad, The Weird – by Annie Riordan – 1940′s Manchuria. A crazy sexy hitman (The Bad) is hired to steal a treasure map from a Japanese official aboard a train. Beating him to the punch is a spectacularly doofusy robber (The Weird), who hopes to buy a farm for himself and his beloved Granny with the treasures that the map yields. Out to collect the bounty on both of their heads is a slightly-less-sexy-than…  (read full article)

DVD Review: Environmental Horror in ‘The Thaw’ – by Annie Riordan – Global warming. Climate change. Greenhouse effect. Call it what you will. Believe in it or not, the fact remains that Eco-Terror is the new wave in horror. From Larry Fessenden’s sober take on the subject in 2006’s The Last Winter to Roland Emmerich’s ridiculously overblown 2012, terror in the form of melting ice caps has never been more popular. Nor has it ever been… (read full article)

Frightfest 2010 Drops ‘A Serbian Film’ from Line-Up – by Ben Bussey – In a move that is surprising, and yet at the same time not, the organisers of London’s FrightFest have announced that A Serbian Film, originally set to be the 9pm show at the festival this coming Saturday, is no longer to be screened at the festival. The news was broken by Screenjabber, who quote Frightfest organiser Alan Jones’ official statement… (read full article)

UK News: ‘Demons’ & ‘The Horde’ Rampaging onto DVD – by Ben Bussey – Greetings one and all. It’s Brutal As Hell’s man in England here, with a couple of news snippets sure to cause excitement among fans on both sides of the pond, and beyond. Right now I’m physically and psychologically preparing myself for the UK horror event (indeed, one of THE horror events worldwide) of the year, Frightfest 2010, from which you can expect reviews… (read full article)

Del Toro lends Jovanka Vuckovic a Hand with the ‘Captured Bird’ – by Britt Hayes – Most of you are familiar with the name Jovanka Vuckovic. The former editor of Rue Morgue magazine has moved on to work in film with her first endeavor, a short film executive produced by Guillermo del Toro called The Captured Bird. The short is being described at Vuckovic as “ambitious”, and the concept art (seen in this article) from the official site acknowledges… (read full article)

The Wacky French: The Extreme Wave – by Laurent Hasson – America has been French kissed this past weekend with a high spectacle of 3D horror served up by French director Alexandre Aja. But when you look a little bit closer, the movie is actually surprising. Aja created High Tension, one of the more influential horror films of the last decade – a brutal and brooding gore fest. For him to break new ground in horror seven years ago with a low-budget gruesome… (read full article)

Exclusive First Look at Mike Pecci’s ‘Stray Bullet’ – Last Friday we provided a teaser trailer for Mike Pecci’s newest grindhouse short featuring The Suicide Girls. Well it looked like a little press worked because this week he got word that the short has officially been picked up by Suicide Girls and is slated to premiere exclusively on Suicide Girls on this Saturday August 28th. Mike was cool enough to provide us with an exclusive first look… (read full article)

Trailer for AMC’s ‘The Walking Dead’ Leaves Us Hungry for More – by Britt Hayes – We’ve been following the development of Frank Darabont’s Walking Dead since news first broke of his negotiations with AMC and producer Gale Anne Hurd to bring the beloved comic book property to life. Based on the Image comic by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead follows police officer Rick Grimes as he wakes from a gunshot-induced coma to find the hospital empty… (read full article)

Retrospective on ‘Phantasm’, Another Look at The Tall Man – by Prudence J. Figgypudding – There is a finite limit to the amount of grief and horror that the labyrinthine human mind can withstand. The overtaxed cerebrum can and will go to great lengths to protect its host body from succumbing to the shock that may otherwise cause it long term psychological damage. It may splinter, crack, distort memories and/or produce amnesia… (read full article)

‘Piranha 3-D’ Back for a Second Bite Already – by Ben Bussey – Okay, try to contain yourselves now… it’s been announced by Entertainment Weekly that Dimension Films is starting development on a sequel to Piranha 3-D. And… yeah, funnily enough, that’s pretty much all we know at this point. Now this is some fascinating news in many respects. Piranha’s opening weekend only earned them $10 million/6th place at the US box office… (read full article)

True Blood Recap, Episode 3.10 – by Britt Hayes – WARNING: This feature is VERY spoiler heavy. For those who are not current with this season we encourage you to avoid this column at all costs. All other fans of the blood and guts of True Blood may proceed. – After last week’s stellar and darkly humorous conclusion and only three episodes left, things are getting pretty messy on True Blood. But first they get a little silly as we open on Bill finally telling Sookie… (read full article)

A Very British Public Service Announcement from [REC] 2 – by Ben Bussey – This was just sent our way from E1 Entertainment – a little promo for the UK DVD/Blu-Ray release of [REC] 2, advising the uninitiated on what do in the unfortunate event of a zombie attack. Hint – it won’t help to duck and cover. (Sure, in the wake of Max Brooks the zombie survival tips thing has kind of been done, but it’s a fun little clip nonetheless.)  (Click on through to read full article)

Indie Horror News – August 20, 2010 – by Marc Patterson – We have a crazy array of announcements this week! The madness doesn’t stop, and as we hurtle towards Halloween the insanity will only get more insane. It’s a plethora of indie horror crazy that will make your head spin like Linda Blair. We’ve got stuff from Breaking Glass Pictures, Mike Pecci, Craig McIntyre, and more. Grab yourself a cold one, chillax and get ready for the news. (read full article)

Interview with Indie Horror Starlet Deneen Melody – by Marc Patterson – Deneen Melody might not be a name you’re immediately familiar with, but you will be soon. She currently has more than half a dozen independently produced films under her belt, with several more lined up for this year. She’s a model, a ballet dancer, and an actress who does her own stunt work. She’s featured as a character in the upcoming comic Ginger Stein: Rise of the Undead… (read interview)

‘Black Swan’ Trailer Promises Pirouettes, Passion and Paranoia – by Ben Bussey – On the same day that a trailer was released for a new Wes Craven movie that looks so mind-numbingly prosaic and uninventive that we’re not going to post it here, Mother Internet also saw fit to gift us with this little beauty: the trailer for Darren Aronofsky’s latest, Black Swan. It’s fascinating; it’s haunting; it leaves you with very little idea what to expect from the final movie. (read full article)

Editorial: Fucked Up, Photocopied, and The Future – by Marc Patterson – Earlier today over on Facebook I posted a call out for writers. I asked for people to pitch me with their original ideas. I said I wanted creative types. Hell… I said a lot. If you’re interested in reading my diatribe you can click on over and read it for yourself. Then I realized something. Nobody really knows what the hell I’m looking for. At first I thought this was a pretty clever attempt at… (read full article)

DVD Review: Never Sleep Again – by Annie Riordan – I couldn’t sleep for shit last night. No, my insomniac tendencies are not due to a burn-scarred pervert with Gilette’s on his fingers chasing me through dark dream corridors. I had restless legs and woke around 1am to find that my cat had hogged the entire goddamned bed, stretching out her mutant kangaroo feet and shoving me over to the edge of my mattress where I had retracted into a very… (read full article)

‘Night of the Demons’ Trailer is Sick, Gory, and AWESOME! – by Marc Patterson – Last October horror fans went nuts for the DVD release of Trick ‘R Treat, well this October that DVD release should be the new Night of the Demons. (Technically Night of the Demons comes behind the Blu-ray release of The Evil Dead, but if we’re being technical The Evil Dead is a reissue). Now, as a good horror fan, who hates remakes, I know I’m not supposed…  (read full article)

Editorial: ‘Dog Fight’ to Represent the Best of Women in Horror – by Marc Patterson – Ask what The Soska Sisters, Elske McCain, Shannon Lark, Tara Cardinal, Devanny Pinn, and Deneen Melody all have in common and we’ll tell you Dog Fight. Dog Fight is a new film, still in pre-production, that is slated to begin rolling cameras in early September and represents some of the brightest and best females acting in horror today. (read full article)

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