“Welcome to Stake Land, kid.” Director Jim Mickle and co-writer/lead Nick Damici have gone beyond the “horror” and “vampire” genre cliches to create a post-apocolyptic road movie that kicks major ass. Stake Land builds you up with scenes of laughing, ice cream and dancing that give the characters and audience hope of a New Eden [...]

by Britt Hayes Welcome to our newest column here at Brutal as Hell: Definitive Directors. In this series we’ll take a look at directors who we feel are currently defining the horror genre. Each entry will present a director, their best work and how that work is setting the standard for the future of horror. [...]

Wake Wood (2011) Distributor: Dark Sky Films DVD Release Date: July 5, 201 Directed by: David Keating Starring: Aidan Gillen, Eva Birthistle, Timothy Spall, Ella Connolly Review by: Keri O’Shea Ah, Hammer. I must admit that seeing that Hammer logo appear on the big screen – replete with a brief montage of classic Hammer poster art [...]

MPI/Dark Sky Films has just announced the official release date for Wake Wood, one of the first feature productions in more than three decades from the classic horror studio Hammer Films, on Blu-ray and DVD. Wake Wood marks a bold return to the gripping stories and atmospheric visual style that made Hammer productions the gold [...]

Stake Land Studio: Dark Sky Films Release Date: April 22, 2011 Directed by: Jim Mickle Starring: Nick Damici, Connor Paolo, Danielle Harris, Kelly McGillis Review by Marc Patterson Stake Land sits as one of the best new horror films I’ve seen this year. How’s that for an opener? I’m not going to say it’s the [...]

by Marc Patterson Two titles worthy of note, Wake Wood and Black Death, will be finding their way to Blu-ray and DVD here in the US over the coming months. Both films have received fairly favorable reviews by our staff, and that always makes it much more pleasant experience to announce their release to disc. [...]

Interview with Ti West – The Innkeepers Interview conducted by Britt Hayes at SXSW 2011 In the crazy hectic environment that defines the SXSW experience Ti West took a few minutes of his time to sit down and chat with Managing Editor Britt Hayes and talk about his newest project The Innkeepers, and hinted at [...]

by Marc Patterson I liked Hatchet. I absolutely loathed Hatchet 2. Guess I’m going to get one more shot at seeing a modern day slasher try to revive itself with Hatchet 3, because Dark Sky has officially given Adam Green the go-ahead to begin production. Not a lot more to say than that. It’s far [...]

SXSW 2011: The Innkeepers (2011) Studio: Dark Sky Films Directed by: Ti West Starring: Sara Paxton, Pat Healy, Kelly McGillis Review by: Britt Hayes The Yankee Pedlar is a small, unpopular hotel on the verge of going out of business. With the owner away on vacation, friends Claire and Luke are working during the hotel’s [...]

by Marc Patterson I’ll rarely, if ever, make a post solely around a poster premiere, unless that poster is something worth talking about. In the case of Ti West’s latest film The Innkeepers, it’s a poster worth talking about. This thing is gorgeous. Ti West really does get all the good posters. Think about it. [...]

by Marc Patterson Usually we don’t consider items regarding distribution deals, especially regarding films in pre-production to be newsworthy. However, we’re always willing to make exceptions when the potential for greatness is high. You read the headlines, so you pretty much know what you need to – the potential for greatness is indeed high. Yesterday [...]

On February 1st Dark Sky Films, in conjuction with MPI Media Group will be releasing Hatchet II, the highly anticipated sequel to Adam Green’s throwback to old school horror, Hatchet. The latest installment picks up right where the original ended. The quiet but hot-tempered Marybeth (Danielle Harris) barely escapes the clutches of the mysterious Crowley [...]

Bitter Feast (2010) Distributed by: Dark Sky Films / Glass Eye Pix Release Date: January 4, 2010 Directed by: Joe Maggio Starring: James Le Gros, Joshua Leonard, Amy Seimetz, Mario Batali, Larry Fessenden Review by Marc Patterson You might say Bitter Feast is a film with “bite”. You could say it was a sumptuous film [...]

by Marc Patterson Fuck the MPAA. Watchdogs of morality? Try just dogs of the industry. Apologies to our animal lovers out there in calling the MPAA a bunch of dogs, but this so-called rating system is so incredibly fucked it just has to be run by the same folks who are behind our current political [...]

by Marc Patterson Let me just come out and say it – I love Dark Sky Films lately. Hell… I think I’ve always loved them. Let’s review why. 1. Great original horror. Most recently? Deadgirl, The House of the Devil, Let the Right One In for starters. They’re also at the helm of Adam Green’s [...]

by Marc Patterson Whew… that’s a hell of a post title for such a small announcement isn’t it? If you get nothing else from it you should get the following one word: FREE. That’s right. While most celebs and figures in horror charge twenty plus dollars to get a photo taken with them you can [...]

by Marc Patterson We just got notification moments ago that Sara Paxton will be taking the lead in Ti West’s upcoming haunted hotel flick, The Innkeepers. Of course horror fans know Sara Paxton from the remake of Last House on the Left, where she took on the infamous role of Mari, the used and abused [...]