Horror

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 ….

Woody Harrelson: zombie killer

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Woody Harrelson will soon be splatting zombie heads, in the Ruben Fleischer horror comedy Zombieland. The film follows a mismatched pair of survivors who find friendship and redemption in a world overrun by zombies. Harrelson will play Albuquerque, one of the two men. Film Fetish Trivia: According to various reports, ….

Interactive content series launches for Dead Space

EA has premiered noknownsurvivors.com, an evocative, experiential site that allows visitors to explore the narrative world of the new survival horror game, Dead Space. Over nine weeks, the site employs interactive components, 3D animations, voice acting, original video, and Papervision 3D technology to tell two tragic four chapter stories. The First, Misplaced Affection, is the ….

Child’s Play: Chucky’s 20th Birthday Edition coming to DVD

On September 9, 2008, MGM will release the classic creepfest Child’s Play: Chucky’s 20th Birthday Edition on DVD. Chuck’s back in this brand new DVD edition featuring tons of all-new bonus material.   Wanna play? Voodoo meets terror when film’s most un-likely horror icon returns in Child’s Play: Chucky’s 20th Birthday Edition arriving on DVD ….

More about the horror Virulents, plus two more Max Payne posters

Firstshowing reports that director John Moore’s next project, after Max Payne’s post-production and PR wrap up, will be the comic adaptation of the comicbook Virulents, which was previously speculated, and is apparently now confirmed. Moore told MTV in an interview “There’s a touch of macabre ridiculousness to it. I think we’ve seen a lot of ….