After Dark Films and Lionsgate putting innovative horror filmmakers in the spotlight with new festival and original productions

After Dark Films, the company behind Horrorfest 8 Films To Die For, announced that it is teaming up with Lionsgate and Syfy Channel for a new series of original horror productions called After Dark Originals (ADO). Tapping into the vast and innovative talent of directors and filmmakers from Horrorfest’s acquisitions over the past 4 years, ….

CreepShow, Dawn of the Dead, original Twilight Zone, George A. Romero, Ken Foree, and Adrienne Barbeau headline inaugural horror fest

Horror comes to my hometown this weekend with the inaugural edition of Saturday Nightmare’s Weekend of Horrors, taking place at the historic Loew’s Jersey in Jersey City. This is the perfect venue for the event, offering enough classic touches, dark hallways and retro bathrooms to make any classic horror movie festival feel right at home. ….

Spider-Man 2 writers and Michael Bay adapting comic Existence 2.0

HeatVisionBlog reports that Paramount has nabbed rights to the Image comic Existence 2.0, with Smallville and Spider-Man 2 writers Miles Millar and Alfred Gough attached to adapt. Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes will produce the eventual film with Circle of Confusion’s David Alpert. The action comic Existence 2.0 was written by Nick Spencer featuring with art ….

Clive Barker producing original creature for documentary Unearthed: The Hellraiser Saga

Camelot Entertainment, DarKnight Pictures and MasiMedia announced that Clive Barker is creating a new Cenobite for the upcoming documentary Unearthed: The Hellraiser Saga. Being Barker’s first Cenobite in over a two decades to make it on film, the retrospective will include the complete transformation of a Cenobite from conception to form. “This retrospective will be ….