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September 1, 2010 -- It's been a while since we've been able to provide an update. The good news -- that's about to change. Even better news -- we have a new contest. You could win both "The Evil Dead" and "Hatchet" on Blu-Ray.
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August 22, 2010 -- MGM may be in such dire financial straits that they can't even produce a James Bond movie. But they at least can bring us "Return of the Living Dead" and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" on Blu-Ray finally.
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July 31, 2010 -- I actually was just asking myself: Whatever happened to the Ridley Scott "Alien" prequel everyone was talking about? The one that will apparently tell the story of the "The Pilot" from the first film -- the fossilized alien with the burst chest the crew of the Nostromo discovered.
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July 31, 2010 -- His departure from "The Hobbit" is already yielding results. Guillermo del Toro has returned to the genre we love. He is not going to sell out and abandon us.
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July 1, 2010 -- Here's the trailer for the English language remake to the Swedish masterpiece, "Let the Right One In." It's called "Let Me In" and it's produced by the newly resurrected Hammer Studios.
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June 1, 2010 -- Hitting screens September 10, the next "Resident Evil" entry is being directed by Paul Anderson, who helmed the original. And, of course, it's in 3D.
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June 1, 2010 -- From being an out of print oddity fetching $75 for a blurry DVD release on Ebay to an impending Blu-Ray release! Not only will the Roger Corman-produced sexy shocker "Humanoids From the Deep" be getting a release in its uncut version -- but it will be hitting stores in high definition!
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June 1, 2010 -- Guillermo del Toro will have more time to direct horror films, including the much anticipated "At the Mountains of Madness", now that he has dropped out of filming the two "Hobbit" films.
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June 1, 2010 -- Magnolia Releasing unveiled a new poster and "red band" trailer for "Rec 2", which hits U.S. theaters July 9 -- but is available on video on demand as early as June 4. Only a handful off theaters will be getting the sequel to the Spanish basis for "Quarantine".
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June 1, 2010 -- Did you know that George Romero's "Martin" had a score by Goblin in Italy? And it may have been edited by Dario Argento there?
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June 1, 2010 -- If you liked "Cube" from the 1990s, and you live in or near Los Angeles, you probably owe it to yourself to check out a sneak preview screening of "Slice" June 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the American Cinematheque's Egyptian Theatre, 6712 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA.
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April 29, 2010 -- So Wes, Kevin, Neve and crew are making a "Scream 4" and having it come out 11 years after the last one. Question is: Will anyone 20 or under even remember that there was a "Scream" series, given that the franchise isn't even available in a proper DVD format anymore?
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April 28, 2010 -- We haven't heard too much about French zombie film "Mutants" in quite a while. Expect to hear a lot more, as the film is hitting DVD in the U.K. on May 10 courtesy of Momentum Pictures.
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April 16, 2010 -- God bless Severin Films. The U.S. company is delivering high definition remasters of some essential British horror films that either have never been released on DVD in the U.S. before, or only had weak DVD releases.
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April 9, 2010 -- He was supposed to direct the big screen version of "Bioshock," but budgetary woes now have the film on hiatus. So "28 Weeks Later" helmer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo is set to direct a horror film starring Clive Owen.
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April 8, 2010 -- Chamber Productions, LLC, a New York based production company, today announced that it starts production on independent filmmaker Dante Tomaselli's fourth feature film, Torture Chamber. An imaginative horror shocker about a demonically possessed 13-year-old boy who escapes from an asylum and discovers an old abandoned castle with a secret passageway to a cobwebbed torture chamber.
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April 7, 2010 -- Universal can't make up its mind what it's next "catalog" Blu-Ray release should be, so they've set up a poll where shoppers can vote on the next title. Among the candidates: 1960's "Psycho," the Alfred Hitchcock film that absolutely positively deserves a Blu-Ray release.
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April 6, 2010 -- This looks like the horror 3D movie of the millennium. I wish someone other than Paul W.S. Anderson was directing. Russell Mulcahy did a fine job with the last one. But this sequel looks like it will be taking the franchise in exciting directions.
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April 2, 2010 -- MySpace just posted the first photos from "Resident EVil: Afterlife"! The film hits theaters Sept. 10 of this year and will see Paul W.S. Anderson directing again.
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March 28, 2010 -- The Wagner/Cuban Company's Magnet Releasing, genre arm of Magnolia Pictures announced today that it has acquired US rights to [REC] 2, the hotly anticipated sequel to the terrifying cult favorite, [REC].
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March 23, 2010 -- On April 15, 2011, the "Scream" series will continue with "Scream 4" -- more than 10 years after the last movie in the franchise.
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March 22, 2010 -- What? Don't own a Blu-Ray player already? Well, the AfterDark HorrorFest, which is hitting DVD on March 23, is gearing up to give away a Blu-Ray player. All you have to do is enter their sweepstakes here.
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March 11, 2010 -- A "Quarantine 2" is in the works, but apparently won't be a remake of "Rec 2" ("Quarantine" was an almost shot-for-shot remake of "Rec").
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March 5, 2010 -- You could have predicted this, but the upcoming "Alien" prequel from Ridley Scott is going to be in 3D.
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March 5, 2010 -- Another 1980s horror classic that does not need a remake is "Pet Sematary". But the hugely successful Stephen King film is indeed getting a remake. Matthew Greenberg, the man who wrote the script for the good King adaptation "1408," is writing it too.
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March 5, 2010 -- George Romero's "Survival of the Dead" hits DVD in the UK in about a week and a half! We have a view of the DVD art for UK residents, plus a giant view of the film's new poster. It hits some theaters in the U.S. in April.
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March 5, 2010 -- Here's a forgotten slasher that I don't think has ever had a DVD release before. 1982's "Dorm That Dripped Blood" is finally heading to disc. Synapse Films has secured the only 35mm print of the film under its alternate title "Death Dorm."
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March 5, 2010 -- It may be the last horror film to star Isaac Hayes. William Lustig's 1997 direct-to-video "Uncle Sam," which was written by the great Larry Cohen, is heading to Blu-Ray June 29, in time for Independence Day.
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February 25, 2010 -- The advance buzz from test screenings is that the "Nightmare on Elm Street" remake is a PG-13 piece of hogwash. The "Texas Chainsaw" remake from Platinum Dunes was passable as a retelling of a supposedly "true" event. The "Friday the 13th" remake could be swallowed as a sequel in the series -- not a true remake, which it wasn't. But this new non-Robert Englund Freddy film just seems like too much to swallow.
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February 25, 2010 -- It has been far too long since Brian De Palma directed a horror movie -- or any movie for that matter. The helmer of the original "Carrie," "Sisters" and "Dressed the Kill" left the genre to direct mainstream films but hasn't been busy lately. Now, he may be tapped to direct the apparently high-budget sequel to the megasmash "Paranomral Activity."
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February 19, 2010 -- Reports the L.A. Times today: Craven recently finished “My Soul to Take,” which is scheduled for release sometime this year. And in May, he starts on “Scream 4.” And after that?
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February 13, 2010 -- America's Shout! Factory is set to release Luigi Cozzi's 1979 sci fi film "Starcrash" on August 10! Details are scarce. While this is not a horror film, it's certainly of interest to horror fans because of Cozzi and of course the fact that Caroline Munro is in the cast. More details to come.
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February 13, 2010 -- Based on a Jack Ketchum novel, Offspring basically went to DVD last year without much fanfare. But a sequel is already in the works and guess who is directing? None other than a Master of Horror, Lucky McKee. And, yes, Angela Bettis will be starring in the follow up. Scripted by both Ketchum and McKee, the film -- entitled Offspring: The Woman, about the last surviving member of the savage cannibal clan from the first film. McKee is prosimising a "feral" film.... More>>
February 13, 2010 -- The 1960 classic "The Innocents" remains one of the best ghost stories ever filmed. Now, the Henry James book upon which it was based, is being adapted into a 3D movie -- in Italy of all places.
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February 13, 2010 -- The film franchise may thankfully be dead -- replaced by the long-in-development "Alien" prequel and a coming "Predators" reboot movie -- but the "Alien vs. Predator" videogame franchise is alive and kicking. Here's a preview trailer for the next game in the series, "Alien vs. Predator," which arrives
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February 13, 2010 -- Eli Roth is joining the mockumentary horror club by producing "The Last Exorcism," a new "Paranormal Activity"-style horror film that has been picked up for distribution by Lionsgate, according to MTV.
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February 9, 2010 -- Richard Blackburn, director of "Lemora: The Lady Dracula" will be on hand to discuss his film at a screening on Wednesday at the Egyptian Theatre down in L.A., Wednesday, Feb. 10.
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February 9, 2010 -- One of the best horror films of the 1970s, "Blood on Satan's Claw" has never had a proper DVD release -- anywhere. The only one it ever got was overseas and it was non-anamorphic widescreen. Weak! Well, it looks like UK DVD maker Odeon is working on a new transfer, which means hopefully a proper Anamorphic widescreen release of this excellent, unjustly unreleased -- in the U.S. release -- horror masterpiece.
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February 9, 2010 -- Heaven help us all! Taurus Entertainment is at work on a third "Day of the Dead" film. That would actually be a fourth if you include the recent "Day of the Dead" remake that went direct to DVD.
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February 9, 2010 -- One of the best horror releases in recent months, Frank Henenlotter's "Bad Biology" is just about to strike DVD. For those of youin Yew York City, they are holding a DVD release party with the cast and Henenlotter this Saturday.
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