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2009 Winners include Rob Zombie, Tobin Bell, and Rick Baker
Every October, on the night they launch their theme park’s Halloween Horror Nights, Universal Studios conducts the Eyegore Awards, honoring filmmakers in the horror genre. For 2009, the awards presentation was re-named “Chiller-Eyegore Awards,” a bit of corporate synergy between the movie studio and NBC (both [...]

Just in time for Halloween, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is releasing over twenty titles under the banner “Horror Unleashed.” Although most of the films have been previously available on DVD or Blu-ray, the new releases include $10 in “movie cash,” which you can use to offset the cost of a ticket to see ZOMBIELAND when [...]

[ September 24, 2009 11:59 pm to September 26, 2009 11:59 pm. ] PARANORMAL ACTIVITY scared the proverbial unmentionable excremental waste material out of audiences when it screened at films festivals in 2007. The film made such a big impression that DreamWorks snatched up the rights early in 2008; unfortunately, their game plan was not to release the micro-budget horror movie but to remake it on a larger scale. [...]

Here is a second television spot for PANDORUM, which opens on September 25. The mutants darting around in the darkness of the space ship suggest an interplanetary version of I AM LEGEND or THE DESCENT, but the film actually looks as if it might be a decent popcorn movie. Too bad it didn’t come out [...]

[ September 25, 2009; ] Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster star in this thriller about two astronauts whose awakening from hypersleep is complicated not only by amnesia (they cannot remember their identities or their mission) but also by the uncomfortable realization that they are not alone on their isolated spacecraft – and their other inhabitants are not human. What would a science fiction [...]

The original short subject 9, on which the new feature film is based, is a cryptic little gem. Without the time to develop its premise fully into a dramatic story, writer-director Shane Acker instead presents an eerie vignette that throws us into a seemingly post-apocalyptic world. Without dialogue or exposition, Acker’s film leaves us to [...]

Originally scheduled for release in November of this year, THE WOLFMAN has been pushed back to February 10, 2010. This remake of the 1941 classic – which turned Lon Chaney Jr into a horror star, features Benicio Del Toro in the title role, with Anthony Hopkins as his father (a father-son relationship almost as unlikely [...]

Starting in 1960 with THE HOUSE OF USHER, producer-director Roger Corman crafted a series of stylish horror films inspired by the work of Edgar Allan Poe. Although the screenplays (usually by Richard Matheson or Charles Beaumont) had to embellish the short stories in order to fill out the feature length running time, the production design and [...]

Anchor Bay Entertainment gives a platform release to  writer-director Paul Solet grim exploration of the dark side of maternity. Jordan Ladd (GRINDHOUSE) stars as Grace, who opts to carry her stillborn child to term. Miraculous, the baby comes to life when born; unfortunately, it hungers for something other than mother’s milk.
GRACE was produced by Ingo Vollkammer, Cory [...]