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21 August 2008 11:48 AM, PDT

MGM has slated Drew Goddard's (Cloverfield) latest project, The Cabin In The Woods, for release October 23, 2009, although early announced dates like these rarely stick. In addition, MGM is putting the film out a week before Lionsgate's Saw VI, which will hit theaters on October 30th. I'm not quite sure it's such a good idea to let them go head-to-head as Jigsaw will ruin Goddard's (short) camping trip. Woods is being co-written by fan fav Joss Whedon. No details have been released for either film. Saw VI will be written by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton with franchise editor Kevin Greutert behind the lens.

21 August 2008 10:50 AM, PDT

We've got all sorts of goodies today for James Watkins' UK thriller entitled Eden Lake, which will play Frightfest UK and get a DVD release here in the States by Dimension Extreme. If you click on over to Bdtv, you can check out the red band trailer for the film, while reading on you'll find a batch of new stills. When nursery teacher Jenny escapes to the country for a relaxing weekend away with her boyfriend, she is unaware of a romantic surprise he has in store. The location is perfect. A lake enclosed by woodlands, seemingly deserted. The scene is set for a picturesque proposal. But before the happy couple can enjoy the retreat, their peace is shattered by a gang of violent youths. What begins is a shocking and unrelenting game of cat-and-mouse, as Jenny is forced to fight back against her aggressors.

21 August 2008 10:16 AM, PDT

We received a call this morning where we learned that Warner Home Video will in fact be releasing Michael Dougherty's Trick 'R Treat on DVD in the future, although no immediate plans have been made. What we found interesting is that we were told that the horror anthology will also play in a few theaters this October, so a few lucky individuals will get a chance to check it out soon! For everyone else you can get hyped by picking up the Sideshow Collectibles toy, which is now shipping, or check out the incredible book that ships this September. More details on the release when they come in.

20 August 2008 9:10 PM, PDT

One thing that's pretty amazing is the cast for Darren Lynn Bousman's Repo! The Genetic Opera, which features Alexa Vega, Bill Moseley, Paul Sorvino, Paris Hilton, Nivek Ogre, Anthony Stewart, Terrance Zdunich and even Sarah Brightman. Today we scored a whole batch of new colorful stills that give a better representation of Lionsgate's film that arrives in theaters November 7th. Read on for a look at Paris Hilton all dolled up, along with numerous others. In the not-so-distant future when an epidemic of organ failures devastates the planet, scientists gear for a massive organ harvest. A biotech giant comes up with easy organ payment plans, but all financed organs are subject to legal default, including repossession at the hands of repo men.

20 August 2008 3:27 PM, PDT

Yesterday Bloody-Disgusting was interviewed for a brand new Friday The 13th documentary entitled His Name Was Jason, which is slated to premiere on Starz! in February of 2009 (a week before the release of Platinum Dunes' remake) before hitting DVD soon thereafter from Anchor Bay Entertainment. The doc is being directed by Dan Ferrands, the editor and co-publisher of the incredible Friday interview book, "Crystal Lake Memories" and two Amityville Horror documentaries. The documentary will be the definitive retrospective on the Friday The 13th series and cover everything from the franchise, even talk about the forthcoming remake. Brought to you by MasiMedia Production, the film is being produced by Blake Reigle, Anthony Masi and Thommy Hutson. Watch this spot for more details and an official release as it comes in.

20 August 2008 12:17 PM, PDT

After being pulled from the internet a few weeks back, we have just been given the first hi-res look at Jason Voorhees (Derek Mears) in Warner Bros. Pictures and New Line Cinema's Friday The 13th remake. Inside you can take a peak at the masked killer who will return to the big screen on February 13, 2009. The pic directed by Marcus Nispel is the retelling of the original Friday the 13th about teenaged summer camp counselors that are systematically slaughtered by a mysterious killer. Jason Voorhees will wear the mask and kill, keeping the famous setting of Crystal Lake. Jared Padalecki, Derek Mears, Amanda Righetti, Danielle Panabaker, Aaron Yoo, Travis Van Winkle, Willa Ford, Nick Mennell, Jonathan Sadowski, Nana Visitor, Arlen Escarpeta, Ryan Hansen and Julianna Guill all star.

20 August 2008 12:09 PM, PDT

If you head on over to Bdtv, you can check out SpookyDan's exclusive video interview with Sam Raimi, who takes some time out of his busy schedule to chat his latest horror feature, Drag Me To Hell. Arriving in theaters May 29th from Universal Pictures, the film stars Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Jessica Lucas, Dileep Rao, Lorna Raver, David Paymer, Adriana Barraza,Fernanda Romero, Reggie Lee, Alex Veadov, Bojana Novakovic and Bill E. Roger. Click the title above for the first image and a long synopsis. Director Sam Raimi (Spider-Man trilogy, Evil Dead series) returns to the horror genre with Drag Me To Hell, an original tale of a young womans desperate quest to break an evil curse.

20 August 2008 12:03 PM, PDT

Warner Home Video has informed Bloody-Disgusting that they have bumped Tim Iacofano's The Cell 2 to an undetermined 2009 DVD/Blu-ray date from it's planned October release. The Cusp is a serial killer who kills his victims and then brings them back to life; over and over again; until they beg to die! Maya is a psychic investigator who gained her powers after a 1 year coma after she was the Cusp's first victim! Now the Cusp Killer is back and Maya has little time to do what she has never done before, go into the mind of a killer unprotected, and save his latest victim. Tessie Santiago, Chris Bruno, Frank Whaley, Bart Johnson and Charles Halford all star.

20 August 2008 11:53 AM, PDT

With Toronto International Film Festival's "Midnight Madness" arriving in less than a month, it's time to start really pushing the event. This morning we got our hands on the first four official stills from J.T. Petty's The Burrowers. After a family is brutally murdered in their home, a group of ranchers and infantry men embark on a crusade to find the killers. When a mysterious killer attacks their ranks, they discover that carnivorous creatures are hiding beneath the surface of the earth waiting to feed on their flesh. Click here for all Tiff '08 news or read on for the images.

19 August 2008 11:46 PM, PDT

This reminds me of the battle that went on to get the remake of Friday The 13th on the big screen. After AICN posted their incredible interview with Child's Play creator Don Mancini and producer David Kirschner, we got in touch with Mancini who gave us an update of the actual status of the remake, which will also see the return of Brad Dourif. What will it take for Charles Lee Ray to return as Chucky in theaters? Read on and find out. "We've had several meetings," Don Mancini tells Bloody-Disgusting, "I pitched my new take to the studio and got their notes. They definitely want to make the movie. But they're busy with the deal-making process at the moment, which is complicated by the fact that the remake rights are owned jointly by Universal and MGM (where we made the original film). "

19 August 2008 10:31 PM, PDT

Bloody-Disgusting learned exclusively today that David Anders ("Heroes", Left in Darkness) and Kandyse McClure ("Battlestar Galactica", "Reaper") are the first to be cast in Anchor Bay and Starz Entertainment's made-for-tv remake of Children Of The Corn, which will have it's premiere on the Sci-Fi Channel next year. Original producer Donald P. Borchers will be directing from his own screenplay. Former Vietnam vet Burt's marriage to Vicky is on the rocks, but Burt hopes to rekindle their old flame with a second honeymoon driving trip. Unfortunately, their journey takes them into the heart of darkness -- a seemingly deserted rural community that conceals a grim secret among its rows of tall corn... Shooting begins September 3rd in Davenport, Iowa.

19 August 2008 10:23 PM, PDT

A film that I had been tinkering with covering here on Bloody-Disgusting is Henry Selick's (The Nightmare Before Christmas) latest stop-motion animated movie, Coraline, which is based on a series by Neil Gaiman. With every story we miss, I get more and more e-mails asking me why I refuse to cover it. Until today I thought I was just going to pass on it, but after watching Rotten Tomatoes' fifth exclusive behind-the-scenes video it seems apparent I should be all over this film. In the video found inside, Selick explains that Coraline is "Scary and spooky and filled with creepy-crawler things..." The imagery also screams horror, even though Dakota Fanning (yuck) provides her voice. Read on for a link to five behind-the-scenes videos and watch for more Coraline soon.

19 August 2008 10:11 PM, PDT

It looks as if Universal Pictures remake of Death Race could be crashing before it even hits the wall. Writer Adam Stone is in a race to stop the release of Universal's film, which is slated to hit theaters everywhere this Friday. The reason? Plagiarism. Read on for the story and watch for news as it develops. Stone claims in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles federal court that the upcoming Universal thriller is based on a script he pitched to the film's producer-director Paul W.S. Anderson and producer Jeremy Bolt. He seeks a court order stopping the film's release. Stone claims that after the producers passed, Bolt made and kept a copy of his screenplay, titled "Joust," to use as a "blueprint" for Anderson's revision of the script for "Death Race." More inside.

19 August 2008 5:21 PM, PDT

Glass Eye Pix announced this mont that they have wrapped production on Red Earth, a series of short films by horror fave Jt Petty (Soft For Digging, Mimic: Sentinel ) to promote his forthcoming feature The Burrowers from Liongate. Cinematographer Phil Parmet (Halloween, The Devil's Rejects) was on hand to shoot with a crew culled from the recent Glass Eye production I Sell The Dead. Red Earth was produced by Peter Phok and co-produced by Brent Kunkle; production design by John Vogt, Fessenden doubles as producer and cowboy. Read on for a little behind-the-scenes photo. The Burrowers will premiere at the "Midnight Madness" segment of the Toronto International Film Festival.

19 August 2008 5:14 PM, PDT

Blu-ray.com reports that in an early announcement to retailers, Anchor Bay Home Entertainment has revealed that they will bundle their Masters Of Horror series into the 'Blu-ray Masters of Horror Bundle' on September 9th. Additionally, they will release the Amazon-exclusive 'Blu-ray Zombie Bundle' (which will feature Dawn Of The Dead, Day Of The Dead, and Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn) on the same day. These will be direct bundles with no additional features, so for those of you who already own these titles, there is no benefit in picking up the bundle. But if you have been holding out on these great titles, now is the time to pick them up.

19 August 2008 12:48 PM, PDT

Finally, finally we have bragging rights. Can we now say "I told you so?" It was officially announced today that MGM is moving forward on their remake of Tobe Hooper and Steven Spielberg's classic '82 horror film, Poltergeist, which we broke the news on back in November of 2006. Inside you can find out who is writing the remake and then cringe a little with me. Juliet Snowden and Stiles White are going into the light. The "Boogeyman" scribes are rolling out more children's nightmares for MGM's planned remake of "Poltergeist," the 1982 horror film that made "they're here ..." the creepiest announcement ever voiced by a 6-year-old kneeling in front of a static-filled television. The story of a suburban home built over an Indian burial ground and thus inhabited by a nasty spook earned further cult status when two of the child actors in the movie died after the film's release.

19 August 2008 12:05 PM, PDT

Said to be this year's Mandy Lane, we've got your first ever still from Marcel Sarmiento and Gadi Harel's Deadgirl, which is a horror/thriller about two teenagers who make a shocking discovery that not only threatens their friendship but also their lives. In a forgotten room of an abandoned asylum, they find a beautiful woman tied to a bed, and soon come to realize she is anything but dead. Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan, Michael Bowen, Candice Accola, Andrew Dipalma, Eric Podnar and Nolan Funk all star in this new coming-of-age horror film. The pic will have its World Premiere at the "Midnight Madness" section of the Toronto International Film Festival.

19 August 2008 11:47 AM, PDT

We learned this morning that After Dark Films' Perkins' 14 is currently in post productionin NYC. The film is the first feature film to be developed entirely over the Internet. Produced by After Dark Films, and Massify in association with FanLib, Perkins' 14 will be distributed in theatres nationwide (January 2009) as part of the third After Dark Horrorfest. Singer's film "Dark Ride" was one of the more successful features released theatrically during year one of Horrorfest. Directed by award winning filmmaker Craig Singer (Dark Ride, Dead Dogs Lie, A Good Night to Die), with a screenplay by Lane Shadgett (Luna Park, All Lost Souls), Perkins' 14 was developed online at Ma ssify.com. Writers were invited to upload story pitches, and actors submitted audition videos. The film joins Butterfly: Revelation, Faithless and The Broken in this years After Dark Horrorfest.

19 August 2008 11:43 AM, PDT

A few months ago it was reported that Child's Play creator Don Mancini would step behind the camera and direct a remake to his own film that he brought to the world back in 1988 with director Tom Holland. This morning a brand new interview was posted to help promote the upcoming 20th Anniversary DVD release, where creator Don Mancini and producer David Kirschner talk in details about the forthcoming remake. "Its not like we would ever who would you get thats better?," director Don Mancini adds. "I mean with Chucky so much of it and David and I talk about this a lot, that because hes a puppet, theres an aspect of him that feels like hes an animated character, so his voice is such an immense part of it as well as what he looks like. Its almost like recasting Homer Simpson or something..." More inside

19 August 2008 12:33 AM, PDT

This afternoon we got our hands on the official poster, along with the official synopsis for Luke Ricci's How To Be A Serial Killer from Matador Motion Pictures. How to Be A Serial Killer is the story of Mike Wilson, a charismatic, educated, and articulate young man who has found his lifes purpose in exterminating people. Mike is determined to spread his message about the joy of serial killing and recruits a lost soul named Bart to be his pupil. Mike leads Bart through the ethics of serial killing as well as teaching him various lessons in disposing corpses, balancing work and play, methods of killing, and many many more. Mike and Bart's curriculum is interrupted when Mikes girlfriend discovers whats beneath her boyfriends charming exterior and Mike and Bart must kill their way out of being discovered by the cops.

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