Entries from December 2008 ↓

This morning MTV scored the first official clip from Lionsgate's My Bloody Valentine 3D, which features the most publicized 3-D gimmick of the film where a pickaxe is thrown right at the camera. It also displayed a potential kill in the film, with zero gore, but I'm assuming it's because the clip was made for the internet as Patrick Lussier's film is R-rated. Read on to check out the clip, what do you guys think? In the remake hitting theaters January 16th, Tom (Jensen Ackles) returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine's night massacre that claimed the life of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders.

Leading up until the New Year we'll be unloading the best and worst lists of 2008 from all of Bloody-Disgusting's official reviewers. Beyond the break you can check out David Harley's Best Horror Films of 2008, with the final lists from myself coming tomorrow. Click here to keep up with the full year in review and also feel free to post your thoughts below, or at our forum's Top 10 of 2008 forum thread.

Leading up until the New Year we'll be unloading the best and worst lists of 2008 from all of Bloody-Disgusting's official reviewers. Beyond the break you can check out David Harley's Worst Horror Films of 2008, with the final lists from myself coming tomorrow. Click here to keep up with the full year in review and also feel free to post your thoughts below, or at our forum's Top 10 of 2008 forum thread.

Even though it's not as cool as I thought it would be, Rogue Pictures and created an interesting viral promotion for their upcoming release of The Unborn, which hits theaters January 9th. Over at YouTube you ca upload a friends image and she'll appear in a clip created to promote David Goyer's film. You can check out an example inside. Over at BDTV you'll find several clips, while you can also check out myspace.com/theunbornmovie or mytwinhauntsme.com for more fun. The psychological thriller follows an 18-year-old who is haunted by a Dybbuk - the soul of a dead person barred from heaven - in the form of a young boy who perished in Auschwitz.

Arriving on DVD February 8th from Paramount Home Entertainment is NITE TALES, a BET program that was hosted by Flavor Flav. The film was directed by Deon Taylor, who is trying to get his Twisted Pictures project CHAIN LETTER into theaters (or stores). You can check out stills here or two trailers and the cover art beyond the break. Deon Taylor presents Nite Tales, a shockingly twisted double-feature horror extravaganza that will leave you trembling with fear and amazement. First, would-be bank robbers make their escape then take a turn for the worse as they encounter a gruesome and hungry cannibal in Karma. Then, everyones a suspect when a girl turns up dead in Storm. But mysteriously, as the rain falls, so do more bodies. Nite Tales stars Tony Todd, Tyrin Turner, Sticky Fingaz, Fredro Starr and is hosted by the debonair Flavor Flav. Nite Tales… the fright fest youve all been dying for!

As part of their 2009 preview, Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks Pictures have released two new images from The Uninvited, their remake of the Korean horror flick A TALE OF TWO SISTERS that hits theaters January 30. Directed by Tom and Charlie Guard, the film stars Elizabeth Banks (Slither), David Strathairn, Arielle Kebbel (Red Mist, The Grudge 2) and Emily Browning. You ca click the title above for more info on the film, along with the first poster.

Arriving in Norway on April 3rd is a new horror flick entitled SKJULT (HIDDEN), which looks pretty solid. Today the official website was updated with the first trailer for Pål Øies film that's also available over at BDTV. Kai Knutsen fled through the woods, from his crazed mother 20 years ago. Now the woman he hated more than anything on earth is dead, and he has inherited the house in the forest. It has a cruel secret. Other great films that have come from Norway are Anchor Bay's forthcoming COLD PREY and DEAD SNOW, which will have its premiere at next month's Sundance Film Festival.

Director Jack Messitt of Midnight Movie (review), releasing on DVD on January 6th, 2009, was kind enough to pass along some killer stills of the film to give you all a sneak peak!

The film’s synopsis:

“At a run-down theater in a sleepy suburban town, a group of friends attend the midnight screening of a 1970’s cult horror film. These unsuspecting teenagers are unaware that the director and star of the movie made a bloody escape from a psych ward five years earlier and may still be on the loose.

As the midnight movie begins, the kids heckle the old black-and-white scenes. But they are jolted when the killer butchers one of their friends…on screen! They soon realize that the killing is not a prank. They are locked inside the theater and the killer from the movies is after them!

Caught between reality and the screen’s flickering shadows, are they becoming the unwilling stars of the very horror movie they are watching?”

Midnight Movie is one of the best films I saw in 2008, so I urge you to pick up a copy to find out for yourself just how good this film is!

Check out the stills below for a sweet little taste:

Review by Gabrielle Faust

If you have any fear of dogs, whether it is a mere residual uneasiness or a deep residing phobia, Dogs by Nancy Kress is probably not the book for you. In fact, this book just might send you over the edge from phobia into needing sedation. From the opening scene, Kress launches the reader into a town terrorized by a plague that has turned your fun loving Fido into Cujo on steroids. With each and every page, a new adorable household pet turns on its owner, ripping the throats out of small children and elderly alike. Honestly, I have never had a fear of dogs, but more of a mere annoyance at the ones that insist on licking me like a Tootsie Pop or jumping on me repeatedly. However, after reading Dogs, I can’t help but look at these animals sideways with a new caution. It’s an unnerving sensation not at all unlike the experience I had when first reading Stephen King’s Cujo many years ago. It took me several years to get over that experience and I have a feeling I will not feel completely at ease with Dogs for a while to come.

Indeed, Dogs is a terrifying horror thriller cunningly crafted with a cinematic-like expertise that is unrelenting and merciless. Kress, the author of over twenty novels and the recipient of several awards including the Nebula, Hugo Sturgeon and John W. Campbell Memorial Awards, has formatted her newest novel with a screenplay feel to it, the chapters short and to the point intermixed with “Interim” pieces which speak to an outside perspective on the origination of the plague within the town. Dogs is a fast read and thoroughly enjoyable, especially if you are a fan of not only horror but FBI-styled thrillers. The only aspect of Dogs which I was not able to fully embrace was the fact that, due to the breakneck speed of the plot development, one does not have the time to truly get to know the characters on a deep and emotional level. The bond, at least for me, is never fully developed. However, perhaps this is a good thing for the carnage that happens, page after page, would be then even more traumatic to the reader. Dogs is not entirely focused on the mere savage killings by man’s best friend. In the midst of all of the snarling, blood-thirsty canines is a sharp and savvy FBI conspiracy story which unfolds as quickly as the rest of the plague outbreak occurs. The suspicion and fear is tangible throughout the book and keeps the reader on the edge of their chair, dying to know just what the outcome will be.

To reiterate, I thoroughly enjoyed this novel and highly recommend it to any horror or crime thriller enthusiast. But be forewarned, you may not be able to snuggle up next to furry little Teddy later that night and you may be questioning just what he is thinking when you wake up to find him staring at you in the middle of the night from the foot of the bed.

More information about Nancy Kress and her impressive catalog of work can be found online at http://www.sff.net/people/nankress/.

Dogs is available online and in bookstores nationwide.

Inside (a l'interieur) is a horrifying film with a dismal respect for life, but lost a rating and a half for an unlikable heroine. Written by The

Adding to our piece yesterday, beyond the break you can check out the teaser poster and trailer for Brian McCulley's TEXT, which follows Sarah Madison and her three friends as they track down a series of mysterious text messages that are killing students at their high school. For more, check out the film's official website.

Jack Messitt's Midnight Movie hits DVD January 6th from Peace Arch Entertainment and we've been provided with three hi-rez screen captures from the film, along with a behind-the-scenes shot of Brea Grant (Daphne Millbrook on "Heroes") from the set of the film where a midnight showing of an early 1970's horror movie turns to chaos when the Killer from the movie comes out of the film to attack those in the theater.

Arriving on Blu-ray tomorrow from Paramount Home Entertainment is Paul W.S. Anderson's Event Horizon, which is one of his most loved horror films he directed. If you click here you can read David Harley's review of the Blu-ray release to see if it's worth revisiting nearly 12 years after its release. Its name: EVENT HORIZON. The high-tech, pioneering research spacecraft mysteriously vanished, without a trace, on its maiden voyage seven years earlier. But a weak, persistent signal form the long-missing craft prompts a rescue team, headed by the intrepid Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburne, THE MATRIX and MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III), to wing its way through the galaxy on a bold rescue mission. Accompanying Miller is his elite crew and the lost ships designer (Sam Neill, JURASSIC PARK); their mission is to find and salvage the state-of-the-art interstellar horror. Don't forget to write your own review of the film and tell other B-D readers what you thought.

Beyond the break you can check out the first teaser for Dustin Austen and Marc Tresenrider's grindhouse-esque HELL KITTENS, which looks pretty damn awesome. When an underground snuff film ring leaves 5 deadly vixens scarred for life and thirsty for vengeance, it's time to see how bad these good girls can get! The Hell Kittens will push the boundaries of bloody revenge to the edge and beyond anything you've ever seen! Does the vile band of violent and perverted snuff peddlers stand a chance in hell against the untamed wrath of the HELL KITTENS? Who will survive their orgy of shocking carnage? How far are these 5 deadly dames willing to go to settle the score? ALL THE WAY!

DELIVERY director Jose Zambrano Cassella is back again with a new horror film entitled PROJECTIONS, which was announced on the film's official MySpace. After witnessing the murders of both her mother and her sister, Laura Carpenter thought the worst part of her life was behind her. She was wrong. PROJECTIONS tells her story, a young and successful artist with a dark, traumatic past. Triggered by a series of events, Laura begins having strange dreams, pleasant at first but slowly evolving into realistic and vivid images.