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TIMBER FALLS will be opening on December 7. I saw the film at Screamfest in Hollywood last October and was pleasantly surprised: the plot (religious loonies kidnap a couple out camping and try to force them to conceive a surrogate child) did not sound particularly auspicious, but the characters suspense were handled pretty well, and the [...]

Esplatter.Com informs us that George A. Romero’s DIARY OF THE DEAD will be screening at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, which will run from January 17 through 27 in Park City, Utah. The film is part of the Part City at Midnight series, which presents ” eclectic mix of horror, over-the-top comedies, surreal tales, explicit [...]

Somehow I missed this USA Today article when it came out in October (must have been too busy with Halloween stuff). Basically, it is an interview with directors Collin and Greg Strause, who say they want ALIENS VS PREDATOR: REQUIEM to return to the horror roots of the 1979 Ridley Scott film ALIEN.
“That movie was [...]

TIMBER FALLS is a pretty good backwoods horror flick that screened at this year’s Screamfest in Hollywood (I mentioned the film in this post). Unlike many low-budget films sans stars, this one is actually going to get a theatrical release, on December 7. Check out a clip below.

Guillermo Del Toro’s fantasy-horror-war film, set in the war-torn Spain of 1944, is an obvious attempt to follow-up his previous THE DEVIL’S BACKBONE, which also set supernatural elements in the context of the Spanish Civil War. The film is beautiful and frequently moving, but it cannot quite match the heights of its predecessor, due to [...]

Bloody-Disgusting.Com has an interview with Rob Zombie, who discusses details of the upcoming unrated HALLOWEEN DVD release. In a nutshell, Zombie says that the unrated cut is not the workprint that was leaked online shortly before the film’s theatrical release:
I don’t know what this bullshit workprint is, something got online which I never saw. But [...]

Simon Baker, Shane West, Phillip Baker Hall, Rebecca Pidgeon, Rachel Leight Cook, and Mell Harris have joined Edward Molina and Hope Davis in the cast of THE LODGER, a thriller written and directed by David Ondaatje for Stage 6 Films, a new Sony subsidiary set up to create low-budget features with an eye toward the video [...]

ETOnline.Com has a video featurette on the set of I AM LEGEND, featuring interview clips with Will Smith. At a glance, the footage suggests the new film will be closer in feel to THE OMEGA MAN than to THE LAST MAN ON EARTH (both of which were based on the same source material.

On his blog, director Rob Cohen has posted a plot synopsis of THE MUMMY 3: TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR:
The blockbuster global Mummy franchise takes a spellbinding turn as the action shifts to Asia for the next chapter in the adventure series, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Brendan Fraser returns as explorer Rick [...]

MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN is a filmic adaptation based on the Clive Barker story of the same name (which appears in the first volume of his “Books of Blood” series). Director Ryuhei Kitamaura (who practically exploded with screen with far-out monster action in GODZILLA: FINAL WARS) is the director, so I can only imagine that the [...]

JoBlo.Com points us to this nifty promo featurette, in which director Christopher Nolan and others discuss using IMAX technology to film THE DARK KNIGHT:

This sounds like incredibly good news. The IMAX format is truly impressive, and I cannot even begin to imagine what the action scenes with Batman and the Joker will look like splashed [...]

Sometimes, you can’t win for losing. THE GOLDEN COMPASS - the $180-million dollar adaptation of the first in Philip Pullmans “His Dark Materials” trilogy – deliberately tried to avoid controversy by toning down the anti-religious elements of the books. The result? Fans are upset, and the Catholic League, a U.S. group, has called for the film [...]

Comic Book Resources has an interview with Sam Raimi, in which the director talks obliquely about the possibility of a fourth SPIDER-MAN film. Raimi says he will begin working with a screenwriter on the project as soon as the writers’ strike ends. Regarding whether the sequel would proceed from the previous trilogy or chart its own [...]