----- September 2nd, 2010 -----

** SAW 3D: Chester Bennington from the rock group Linkin Park will make his move to the big screen like many other rockers before him. He's another victim in Jigsaw's game of traps in the upcoming 3D sequel which hits theaters on October 29th.

** SHARK NIGHT 3D: SNAKES ON A PLANE director David R. Ellis is prepping up for his next film horror film. Ellis has started to gather his cast together for the film who will take on the 3D shark madness. Sinqua Walls, Chris Carmack, Alyssa Diaz and Joel David Moore will star in campy 3D horror film being written by Jesse Studenberg and Will Hayes. The story revolves around seven men and women who spend a weekend at a lake house in Louisiana's Gulf area. Their vacation quickly becomes a nightmare of hellish shark attacks. unheard of in freshwater lakes, they soon discover that the sharks are part of a sick, greedy plan on the part of several locals.

** SCRE4M: Actress Kristen Bell was one of the latest additions to the cast of the upcoming sequel. And it appears her work is complete on the sequel. "I am in the movie, I will say that. I don't know if I can say much more than that but it's a really, really fun movie and everyone loves it as much as they did the first one." Will her character suffer a fate like Drew Barrymore's in the first flick? "It doesn't go down like you think it does. But it was fun doing it, that's what I'll say. I loved being a part of the movie." Anna Paquin is also making an appearance in the film, but it has not been confirmed as to what kind of scenes she shares with Bell. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)

** Hayden Christensen is said to be replacing Jesse Bradford in THE COLD. Being directed by Daniel Calparsoro (who was once attached to direct Ghost House's BURST 3D), when seven friends go on an annual hunting trip, they soon realize that the only thing being hunted are themselves. They are terrorized by an unseen beast - but what is stalking them? Is it the cold, starvation or has The Wendigo come to hunt them down? (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)

** LET ME IN: In theaters October 1st, from CLOVERFIELD director Matt Reeves, Chloë Moretz (KICK-ASS) stars as Abby, a secretive 12-year old girl, who moves next door to Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee). Owen is a social outcast who is viciously bullied at school and in his loneliness, forms a profound bond with his new neighbor. Owen can’t help noticing that Abby is like no one he has ever met before. As a string of grisly murders occupy the town, Owen has to confront the reality that this seemingly innocent girl is really a savage vampire.

----- September 1st, 2010 -----

** John Carpenter has been much more vocal in the press as of late with THE WARD prepping to make its Toronto International Film Festival debut. The Icons vs. Icons web site spoke to Carpenter recently and got the drop on a few upcoming projects like:

FANGLAND: The adaptation starring Hilary Swank. "It is a novel that has been turned into a script and we are still trying to get a good screenplay out of it. Somebody at the office said 'Would you like to do this?' I read it and I thought it had a very interesting idea. So, now we will just have to see if we can get it there."

L.A. GOTHIC: "Which has undergone a title change. I actually have a copy of the script which I am supposed to read this weekend and we will see where we go from there." (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)

** Lucky McKee's THE WOMAN: An official website has been launched for Lucky McKee's sequel to Jack Ketchum's OFFSPRING starring regular Angela Bettis (MAY), Pollyanna McIntosh, and Sean Bridgers. The Woman is the last surviving member of a feral clan that has roamed the Northeast Coast for decades. When the last of her family is killed in a battle with the police, The Woman finds herself alone, severely wounded and vulnerable. Unfortunately, she is now a far too easy prey for local hunter, successful country lawyer and seriously disturbed family man Christopher Cleek. With his twisted set of ideals, Cleek decides to embark upon a deranged project - to capture her and "break" The Woman - a decision that will soon threaten the lives of Cleek, his family and The Woman. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)

** THE LAST EXORCISM director Daniel Stamm revealed to press in London that his next flick might be TWELVE STRANGERS, the second of M. Night Shyamalan's NIGHT CHRONICLES trilogy (the first being DEVIL, in theaters September 17). "My next project is a supernatural thriller and it’s not going to be shot in documentary style," he tells press. "One of my favourite filmmakers in the world, whose a legend, is producing it," he continues adding that it's "an idea of his that another writer is writing and I'm going to direct. It has a twist in the ending, without giving away who it is." Chris Sparling is penning the thriller that involves a jury deliberating a case involving the supernatural. (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)

** SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE helped define the slasher film ethos of the 1980s. Put together by first-time director Amy Holden from a script, titled “Don’t Open the Door," by feminist author Rita Mae Brown, the film was an immediate hit for Roger Corman's New World Pictures, eventually spawning two sequels. Here, for the first time, all three SLUMBER PARTY MASSACREare brought together in one DVD set, due to drill its way into your heart on Oct. 5, 2010 from Shout! Factory, in association with New Horizons Picture Corporation!

The 2-DVD set includes The SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE: Special Edition, SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II, and SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE III, as well as such killer all-new bonus features as a three-part documentary, "Sleepless Nights: Revisiting The Slumber Party Massacres," a photo and poster still gallery, and an essay on the Slumber Party phenomenon, "Close Your Eyes For A Second … And Sleep Forever." A must have collection for all slasher fans and collectors of Roger Corman’s Cult Classics, own the complete set for $24.97 SRP.

Disc 1
The SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE: Special Edition (1982)
Disc 2
SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE II (1987) and SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE III (1990)
Special Features:
- New anamorphic widescreen transfer (1.78:1) of “The Slumber Party Massacre” and “Slumber Party Massacre II”
- All-new three-part documentary: "Sleepless Nights: Revisiting The Slumber Party Massacres"
- Photo and poster still gallery
- Theatrical trailers
(thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)

----- August 31, 2010 -----

** Dario Argento's INFERNO: Completists may want to hold off before rushing out to buy that new UK Blu-ray. Boming in October from Koch and Camera Obscura in October is a new edition that they promise to be definitive, one loaded with new original features built around a new, HD transfer supervised and color corrected by the film's cinematographer, Romano Albani. Here's the full list of features:

- New HD digital transfer of the uncut version was supervised and colour-corrected by the cinematographer Romano Albani
- English, Italian and German audio
- New, 2010 produced and over 90 minutes long documenatry about INFERNO with Dario Argento, cinematographer Romano Albani, actress Daria Nicolodi, the makeup as well as the special effects department, Luigi Cozzi, Claudia Simonetti as well as the animal trainer of the film.
- Irene Miracle hosted by Tim Lucas
- Question & Answear with music composer Keith Emerson
- New, 2010 produced location tour
- German, English as well as Italian trailer
- New audiocommentary by film-historicans Dr. Marcus Stigelegger ans Christian Kessler
- Booklet
- Movie as well as ALL supplementary materials have English & German subtitles
(thanks to TwitchFilm.net)

** DEVIL: Evil abounds in the confines of a small elevator in DEVIL, a film from the Dowdle brothers that M. Night Shyamalan produced. It opens on September 17. Check out the official web site. (thanks to ShockTillYouDrop.com)

** MY SOUL TO TAKE: Here's a better version of the poster for the new film from Wes Craven.

** HATCHET II: Hesre's the trailer for the upcoming sequel.

----- August 30, 2010 -----

** UNDERGROUND: Neil Marshall (THE DESCENT) is set to direct the food-themed horror thriller UNDERGROUND for Ozla Pictures. David Cohen penned the story of an ambitious young chef who ventures into the terrifying underbelly of extreme cuisine served up in gourmet underground supper clubs. For those unfamiliar, these clubs serve outlandish cuisine prepared by a gourmet chef, usually food that's legal in other countries but not approved by food & drug authorities in respective countries. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)

** THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE FULL SEQUENCE: Director Tom Six mad a surprise appearance at the London FrightFest where he talked about the forthcoming sequel. Already revealed to be attaching 12 humans, THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE FULL SEQUENCE will be "100% medically INaccurate," he explained adding "part one will be my little pony compared to this one." The sequel is filming in London so that it can be entirely in English. The plan is to wrap by December and premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Six also laughed about the porn version, and joked that "people want to castrate me!" (thanks to Bloody-Disgusting.com)

** THE LAST EXORCISM took the number one spot at the box office with a surprising $23.3m. PIRANAH 3D dropped to the 10th spot with $4.0m for a total of $17.9m.

** X-GAME: Yohei Fukuda (CHANBARA BEAUTY) is back with latest offering - the revenge horror X-GAME. Based on a novel by Yamada Yusuke X-game stars the members of Japanese pop groups (doesn’t everything these days?) D-boys and AKB48, in a tale of an ex pupils extreme idea of revenge, for past school room bullying. Check out the official web site. (thanks to 24framespersecond.net)

** HOSTEL PART III: John Hensley (TEETH), Thomas Kretschmann (WANTED), Chris Coy and comedian Skyler Stone (THE RULES OF ATTRACTION) have all joined the cast of the third entry in the HOSTEL film franchise. (thanks to DarkHorizons.com)

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