by Marc Patterson If you’re a fan of Mondo posters then you won’t want to miss this. Mondo has collaborated with Wes Craven for their newest director series prints and tomorrow, April 14th Mondo will put these prints up for sale on their website. We got the tip-off from the cool folks at Badass Digest [...]

Year In Review Part Two: Remakes, and TV by Marc Patterson – Editor-in-chief In Part One of my three part year-end wrap-up I formulated a theory that the reigning theme in Hollywood for 2010 was “mediocrity”. We have a country in economic crisis. Horror has always been a great cash cow for Hollywood. Why not [...]

My Soul to Take (2010) Directed by: Wes Craven Starring: Max Thieriot, John Magaro, Denzel Whitaker, Zena Grey, Nick Lashaway, Emily Meade Review by: Damon Swindall I don’t even know where to start. It’s hard to watch a film by a director who has made such great horror in the past only to see their [...]

Never Sleep Again (2010) Studio: CAV Distributing Corporation Release Date: May 4, 2010 Directed By: Daniel Farrands & Andrew Kasch Cast: Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Review 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 [...]

by Brutal As Hell Staff Intro by Marc Patterson – Managing Editor As the saying goes – all good things have to come to an end. That being said I think it’s only fitting that we wrap up this summer long series with a look at the red headed stepchild of horror. The most popular [...]

A Nightmare On Elm Street Freddy’s Finger(ling) Potatoes by Shannon Bucaro Okay, so it’s true, I’m jumping on the Freddy remake bandwagon. Wow, that was hard to say. I imagine me typing that feels a lot like someone attending their first AA meeting. I think I’m starting to break out in a cold sweat and [...]

Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) Directed by: Samuel Bayer Studio: Platinum Dunes Starring: Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker Review by: Dustin Hall Like so many readers, I’m sure, who come to this site, Freddy Krueger is, for me, an icon. As Superman has become an icon of heroism and Americana, [...]

Smash Cut (2009) Studio: Shriek Show Release Date: March 30, 2010 Directed By: Lee Demarbre Cast: David Hess, Sasha Grey, Jesse Buck, Michael Berryman & Ray Sager. Review By: Annie Riordan When his brand new slasher film – Terror Toy – flops harder than an oxygen deprived salmon with advanced stage Parkinson’s disease, depressed director [...]

by Ben Bussey The old slasher supervillians just can’t get a break at the moment, it seems. First Patrick Lussier’s Halloween 3-D fails to get beyond the drawing board, and now it’s come to light that the sequel to Platinum Dunes’ Friday the 13th reboot has also been shelved. And, as is rapidly becoming the norm, [...]

Essay by Ben Bussey As you may have noted from our contest a couple of weeks back, Arrow Video recently released on Region 2 DVD three films from Dario Argento – Terror at the Opera, The Stendhal Syndrome, and The Card Player. It also wasn’t so long ago that Cine-Excess released the first Blu-ray edition [...]

By Marc Patterson We got our first look at The Human Centipede during last years Fantastic Fest. Kayley Viteo called it “lovingly crafted in a sort of demented fashion”.  (read full review) I haven’t yet had the chance to see the film for myself, but from the trailer and her review I can’t think this [...]

by Britt Hayes The prequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing is set to start lensing in March. Director Matthijs Van Heijningen will direct from a script by Eric Heisserer (A Nightmare on Elm Street remake), for Universal Pictures and Strike Entertainment. The plot of this script, according to Bloody-Disgusting: An alien spaceship is discovered far [...]

by Britt Hayes For years there has been discussion of a possible prequel or sequel to John Carpenter’s The Thing. The Thing was itself a remake of the 1951 film, The Thing From Another World, which was in turn based on a novella by John W. Campbell Jr., titled Who Goes There? For a while [...]

by Matt Barnette According to SpoilerTV the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street is currently in re-shoots after a series of test screenings done recently. Apparently, the re-shoots are extensive enough as to require new casting, although according to the folks at SpoilerTV, the only scene known to be in filming currently was in [...]

by Marc Patterson Here’s something I haven’t said before: I’m actually looking forward to seeing this Platinum Dunes remake of A Nightmare On Elm Street. Oh sure, I love to loathe it, but I’m a big fan of Jackie Earle Haley and I really want to see what he brings to this part. I mean, [...]

Bangungot ~The Facts Behind A Nightmare On Elm Street~ ~Article by Annie Riordan~ “Wes Craven had come across a few articles about some teenagers who were absolutely terrified – terrified! – to go to sleep.” ~Adam Rockoff “In the middle of the night they heard these horrendous screams and crashings and they ran in and [...]

The new official one sheet for the upcoming Platinum Dunes remake of “A Nightmare on Elm Street” has emerged, and all remake debates aside this is one bad ass looking poster.  Something I wouldn’t mind hanging from my wall.  Check it out and let us know what you think.