Horror

Seven Arts opens new post facility to be used for Night of the Demons remake

Seven Arts Pictures announced the opening of Seven Arts Pictures Louisiana, a production and post-production facility recently purchased in the city of New Orleans, at 807 Esplanade. The newly acquired production facility is located in the historic Faubourg Marigny District of New Orleans, immediately adjacent to the famous French Quarter. The Property was at one ….

Watch full length features from Austin’s Fantastic Fest for free online

Place this one on your calendars. As I was posting my story about the Conquest of the Planet of the Apes screening at Fantastic Fest, I read one of their releases that stated festival sponsors are placing five feature films and six shorts from this year’s festival online for free streaming, starting on September 14, ….

Big Screen Entertainment gets new vampire film

Big Screen Entertainment has acquired world rights to a new French vampire film called Sodium Babies, co-directed by brothers Benoit and Julien Decaillon. According to Big Screen CEO Kimberley Kates, the company screened Sodium Babies at this year’s Cannes Film Market. Kates says “It stood out among the numerous titles we previewed. The picture has ….

Tom Cruise nabs rights to ‘Monster’ serial killer book

Variety reports that Tom Cruise and United Artists have grabbed the rights to the serial killer thriller The Monster of Florence, with Cruise attached to produce and possibly to star. This according to Douglas Preston, author of the bestseller. The author, along with Italian journalist Mario Spezi, told an Italian periodical that they have contracted ….

The Burrowers film trailer

The Burrowers takes place in the Wild West, and follows the story of a rescue party that falls prey to creatures risen from underground to feed on the inhabitants of a town. The Lions Gate film screens at the Toronto Film Festival this month, and there’s no word on a theatrical release date yet. Check ….

French horror Martyrs film trailer

Martyrs certainly seems to be in the tradition of Hostel, and has that stylish and twisted sense of relationships, as in Alexandre Aja’s French horror High Tension. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, in May, and has had screenings at various European fests, and has just been released in France. Martyrs revolves around ….

Spanish horror Sexykiller trailer

From Spain, comes the Miguel Martí (Slam, Fin de curso)-directed horror/comedy Sexykiller, which follows Bárbara (Macarena Gómez), as she slices and dices her way through the student body of a medical school. The sexy, fashion-obsessed student has an insatiable hunger for blood, and killing becomes her hobby after classes. Sexykiller (which was formerly titled Barbykiller) ….

Guillermo del Toro takes on Charles Dickens and gets genre directing gigs for years to come

According to Variety, Guillermo del Toro is booked with New Line and Universal Studios film projects through 2017, and possibly longer. Del Toro’s first priority, which has been talked about for months, is the New Line and MGM epic project The Hobbit, which he has committed the next five years to developing, with Peter Jackson, ….

Poltergeist remake close to landing director

The Hollywood Reporter followed up on a Bloody-Disgusting.com story about Vadim Perelman being in negotiations to develop MGM’s Poltergeist remake as a potential directing vehicle. If it happens, Perelman would join writers Juliet Snowden and Stiles White, who came on board last week to revamp the 1982 classic horror film. The original Poltergeist was directed ….