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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.

19 August 2008 12:27 AM, PDT

Warner Premiere is heading back to the ocean with their next direct-to-disc franchise as they'll be tackling Deep Blue Sea 2, according to Moviehoe.net. Like the other flicks that Wp is putting out - Lost Boys: The Tribe for example - Deep will be made on a pretty modest budget, so dont expect any of the headline stars of the original Thomas Jane or LL Cool J, for instance to return. No other details were revealed. In the 1999 original Deep Blue Sea, while searching for a cure to Alzheimer's disease a group of scientists on an isolated research facility become the bait as a trio of intelligent sharks fight back

18 August 2008 10:21 PM, PDT

We confirmed this evening that Dimension Extreme has already filmed Feast 3: The Happy Finish, which is slated for DVD release in spring of 2009 (although tentative). In addition, we've got the full cast listing for you! Jenny Wade, Craig Henningsen, Martin Klebba, Mysti Rod-Nash, Megan Brown, Hanna Putnam, Kip Cummings, Mike J. Regan, Melissa Reed, Vance Hartwell, Oliver Simor and Juan Longoria García all star in the third film, which was also directed by John Gulager, who reteamed with writers Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan. The trio got their big start on Project Greenlight. The story is said to be much darker and take the film underground.

18 August 2008 10:03 PM, PDT

Contrary to reports, Diary Of The Dead 2 has Not begun shooting yet, although we have received official confirmation that George A. Romero will be getting behind the lens for another zombie pic on September 15th in Toronto, Canada. Casting has yet to be revealed, watch for updates soon. Our heroes, trapped in the mansion where we left them, battle waves of ravenous zombies, barely escaping alive. In search of a safe place to settle, they commandeer an abandoned ferry and sail to a deserted island, only to find that it is already populated by a civilization of the dead. Told in the same first-person style that distinguished George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead, the next episode of the saga is a violent siege set in the middle of nowhere, a desperate struggle for survival, and peace, between two tribes: the living and the living dead.

18 August 2008 9:55 PM, PDT

Michael Emanuel has ordered up his human buffet and he has filled his entire cast for Maneater, his directorial debut that he will also star in and produce. Dean Cain, Conrad Janis ("The Cable Guy"), Stephen Lunsford ("Bratz"), Walter Phelan ("House of 1000 Corpses"), Maximillian Roeg ("7th Heaven") and Lacy Phillips ("Pushing Twilight") all star in the horror thriller about a former FBI profiler and small-town sheriff investigating mysterious murders is derived from a Native American legend. Emanuel, repped by Aka, also wrote the screenplay with John K. Anderson. "Maneater" is the second in a slate of 10 movies that Canal Street is producing with independent financing; the first was "The Uninvited," which is seeking a distributor.

18 August 2008 2:51 PM, PDT

This weekend we posted our exclusive chat with Mark A. Lewis, director of the upcoming horror pic The Thaw. In the film a deadly prehistoric parasite is released when a Woolly Mammoth is discovered in a melting ice cap. Faced with a potentially global epidemic, four ecology students must destroy the parasite before it reaches the rest of civilization. One-by-one they are infected and one-by-one they turn on each other. Soon the survivors are left with only one choice - to make the ultimate sacrifice and burn everything to the ground... including themselves. At the link you'll also find a few behind-the-scenes stills.

18 August 2008 12:17 PM, PDT

Arriving on October 28th from Sony Home Entertainment is Zombie Strippers: Unrated Special Edition. The world's most famous adult film star, Jenna Jameson stars in this thrilling zombie adventure. In the not too distant future a secret government re-animation chemo-virus gets released into conservative Sartre, Nebraska and lands in an underground strip club. As the virus begins to spread, turning the strippers into "Super Zombie Strippers" the girls struggle with whether or not to conform to the new "fad" even if it means there's no turning back. They're not just strippers...They're Zombie Strippers !! Also starring Robert Englund, special features include: Commentary with Writer/Director Jay Lee, Jenna Jameson, Robert Englund and Joey Medina, Deleted and Extended Scenes, The Champagne Room: Making Zombie Strippers and The Dressing Room: Zombie Makeup.

18 August 2008 11:55 AM, PDT

Inside you'll find the first teaser poster for Paddy Breathnach's (Shrooms) latest horror venture, Freakdog, which will premiere at the Frightfest UK this month. A young doctor in a Us hospital administers a powerful and untested cocktail of drugs to a coma victim. But instead of curing him, it triggers a powerful "out-of-body" experience and enables the patient - a depraved and dangerous loner - to inhabit other people's bodies and, through them, take revenge on the bullying medical students who were accidentally responsible for his condition. The doctor, who was herself a part of this group, is also targeted and as her colleagues are singled out and relentlessly picked off, she realises that she can trust no-one - friend or stranger - as this comatose killer moves in and out of bodies at will, getting ever closer as his murderous supernatural powers increase.

18 August 2008 11:47 AM, PDT

In addition to the announcement we made here a few weeks ago, we now have an updates cast listing for Fox Home Entertainment's upcoming DVD sequel Wrong Turn 3. Now starring are Tom Frederic (The Oxford Murders), Janet Montgomery (The Hills Run Red), Tamer Hassan, Gil Kolirin, Mike Straub and Chucky Venice (Return to House on Haunted Hill), according to IMDb. Filming is now underway in Sofia, Bulgaria. Fonda and her friends go to the woods for a couple of days. Her friends are killed by the wild, now staple mutant killer, Three Finger, who of course cannibalizes them. She is left to fend for herself, but not for long. Meanwhile some dangerous prisoners are being transferred by Nate Wilson, a prison warden, on his last day before leaving to become a lawyer.

18 August 2008 12:27 AM, PDT

It is a rare thing when you find one good movie that goes directly to DVD, let alone two, but how about six? I started watching Lionsgate's DVD release of 6 Films To Keep You Awake, which is now available at a retailer near you, and have been blown away thus far. I highly recommend checking it out, so much so that I dug up the trailer for you guys, which you can check out over at Bdtv. Six chilling tales from the best horror directors from Spain comes 6 Films To Keep You Awake. The compilation features: The Baby's Room, directed by Alex de la Iglesia (Common Wealth), Xmas Tale, directed by Paco Plaza (Werewolf Hunter), A Real Friend, directed by Enrique Urbizu (Box 507), To Let, directed by Jaume Balaguero (The Dark), Spectre, directed by Mateo Gil and The Blame, directed by Narciso Ibanez Serrador (1-2-3).

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