 A pair of new projects are currently being prepped by writer/director Rich Robinson (who co-scripted and -helmed 2007’s MARCUS) and producer/cinematographer Neil Moore for Backwoods Entertainment. One is a creature feature called THE COLONY, and the other is a youth-oriented horror/comedy in the MONSTER SQUAD vein titled THE SLAYERS.
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 Writer/director Gregory Lamberson sent along a quartet of character sheets from SLIME CITY MASSACRE, his recently wrapped sequel to his 1988 gruefest. Featuring designs by Nicholas John Morgan Anderson and a logo by Eric Mache, they depict the characters played by FANGORIA RADIO’s own Debbie Rochon, Jennifer Bihl, Kealan Patrick Burke and Lee Perkins; check ’em out below.
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 Pittsburgh-based Fort Street Entertainment is winding up preproduction on its revenge/horror shocker REVENGE IS HER MIDDLE NAME, an ode to the gruesome drive-in flicks of the 1970s. With his lead cast and crew in place, writer/director Anthony Matthews is getting ready for the shoot, and seeking additional funds for the project.
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 For the first time ever, the SAW series goes live with The Saw VI Soundtrack Presents Tour featuring Mushroomhead with special guests Ventana & The Flood. Dates kick off on December 2nd. The tour features Cleveland, Ohio's original rock vaudeville act Mushroomhead, who are currently finishing up their 7th studio album (due out 2010 and produced by co-founding member and drummer Steve 'Skinny' Felton). In the meantime the band penned a brand new track 'Your Soul Is Mine' available on The Saw VI Soundtrack. A video for 'Your Soul Is Mine' is also being shot and directed by David Greathouse of Precinct 13, who also shot the band's award-winning video for '1200' which won the 'video of the year' on MTV's 'Headbangers Ball' in 2007.
 The 2008 Mexican thriller BAJO LA SAL (aka UNDER THE SALT) has been making the festival 'rounds for awhile, most recently screening last month at LA's SCREAMFEST. Released in Mexico by Warner Bros., Mario Muñoz' terrifying tale hit DVD in the 'States today via Maya Entertainment, and to spread the word they've sent over the latest trailer along with full details on the film, which has thus far remained under-the-radar for many fright fans.
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 03:11 PM
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 Director David Harris sent along some exclusive pics (see them below) from his fright feature SAVAGE COUNTY, an MTV production which will be presented in eight 10-minute on-line installments beginning next February. Lensed in Memphis, TN this past summer, the movie (scripted by Harris and Dan Alvarado) is about a group of high-schoolers who run afoul of a vicious backwoods family, the Hardells.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009 03:05 PM
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 Fango editor Tony Timpone reported in from the American Film Market with word that Lionsgate has apparently picked up U.S. rights to SOLOMON KANE. The supernatural adventure was written and directed by DEATHWATCH and WILDERNESS helmer Michael J. Bassett, based on the character created by Conan scribe Robert E. Howard.
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 • First Look has set a February 2 street date for TRIANGLE, the latest film from CREEP and SEVERANCE director Christopher Smith. The movie will be issued on DVD in both a limited edition with lenticular packaging (left image below) and a standard edition (right image below, which will also appear on a Blu-ray release).
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 Lonnie Martin and Cindy Marie Martin of Ningen Manga Productions dropped us a line with an update on WOMEN’S STUDIES, the feminism-oriented fright feature that, at last report, was slated to hit DVD this year. Lonnie, who wrote and directed the movie, reveals why that hasn’t happened—and how the flick has been improved as a result.
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 Actor/producer Marv Blauvelt sent over some on-set photos (see ’em below) from “Come on Down,” the wraparound story for the currently lensing independent horror anthology PSYCHO STREET. He also gave us the first look at a trailer for the movie’s over-the-top comedic segment “Hypochondriac,” which you can see at the bottom of the page.
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 The inaugural FANGORIA TRINITY OF TERRORS took place over Halloween weekend at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, and bringing back a popular feature from past conventions, the Fango crew was broadcasting LIVE from the event all weekend. Many of the attending celebrities took time to sit down at the FANGORIA.com webcast booth for a spontaneous live broadcast and chat, and on Sunday we welcomed Slipknot's #0, Sid Wilson to the booth for a post-Halloween show discussion with our own James Zahn and Shannon Lark. Check out the video below in which Sid discusses his on-stage abuse, his love for THE EVIL DEAD, and his career with Slipknot.
 Put briefly, the 42ND STREET FOREVER DVDs have become the best and most consistently entertaining series out there. I’ve never been disappointed by the trailers on view, and with Synapse Films teamed on the latest edition with Austin, TX’s now widely known Alamo Drafthouse and its owner Tim League and programmers Lars Nilsen and Zack Carlson, I knew I was in good hands.
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Monday, November 09, 2009 12:51 PM
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 According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Heat Vision blog, Columbia Pictures is now behind the David Fincher-directed remake of 1975’s THE REINCARNATION OF PETER PROUD. Fincher had previously been working on the project for Paramount, where it had been in development for almost a decade.
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Monday, November 09, 2009 12:35 PM
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 /Film has reported that Winona Ryder is one of three actors to join Darren Aronofsky’s psychological/supernatural chiller BLACK SWAN. The latest from the director of PI and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM is set to roll in New York City within the next month.
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 From October 30-November 1st, the inaugural FANGORIA TRINITY OF TERRORS took over The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas for the ultimate Halloween weekend. The following photos were taken by Barrett McGivney, whom you may recall shot our Chicago Fango Con earlier this year. A master gallery is being constructed and will be found here when completed. Look for more from the TRINITY in the weeks ahead, including archived video from the live webcast/chat, and more.
Monday, November 09, 2009 10:59 AM
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 Director Tim Sullivan got in touch with a progress report on 2001 MANIACS: FIELD OF SCREAMS, the sequel to his 2005 Herschell Gordon Lewis homage. And to make it even more appealing, he passed on an exclusive photo (see it below) of MANIACS gals Scarlet Red (played by Nicole Rae) and China Rose (Kathryn Le) “showing off some good ol’ Soutehrn hospitality,” Sullivan tells us.
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 See the first part of this article here.Ellen Ripley (ALIEN/ALIENS, 1979/86)
Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley is just hanging out on the intergalactic transport ship Nostromo, leading the often-dull life of a Space Teamster, when all of a sudden, out of nowhere, her idiot captain decides to land on the remote planet LV-426 to investigate some stupid distress signal emanating from a crashed spaceship. Now, as we all know, responding to distress signals is one of the top five most insanely boneheaded tactical decisions any science-fiction/horror space traveler can possibly make, but this doesn’t stop Captain Numbnuts from ordering his crew to get their asses down there and dope out the spooky alien wreckage.
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 For Part I of this series, click here.In what’s become one of the most anticipated events on the Fangoria calendar, the annual Spooksmodel contest brings to the forefront ladies that are not just pretty faces, but a collection of women that are just as talented as they are beautiful.
 When you scrape away the death obsessed subtext and technicalities of the process, watching and loving horror films should be just plain fun, exhilarating fun, a complete escape into another parallel world that echoes our own. If it's not, if you find yourself labouring to find that simple joyous eye of the proverbial needle, well then, perhaps you should just give up the pursuit of terror geekdome altogether.
 You’re either for or against what Between the Buried and Me has done to grind metal. The form is no longer dictated by continuously forked-rhythm mandates which Napalm Death and Morbid Angel gorged themselves upon for years. Between the Buried and Me’s ALASKA opened up the possibility of new horizons amidst a brute ugly din of aggression and ridiculous bpms. Their 2007 masterpiece COLORS proved grind metal had previously-unthinkable space to accommodate for brainy mathematics, blurring prog and outside-the-box genre shenanigans ala Mr. Bungle.
 Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered. Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, November 10, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous FANGORIA CHOPPING LIST. It's a light week, but are there some gems? We'll let you decide...
Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:04 PM
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 This weekend's box office numbers weren't exceptionally generous to the horror genre, but a few noteworthy genre pieces did draw some decent funds. The Milla Jovovich driven chiller THE FOURTH KIND opened to decent ticket sales, drawing $12.5 million dollars and claiming the number four spot in the box office top 10. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY also continued it's successful run, drawing another $8.6 million dollars ($97 million total earnings after seven weeks release), PARANAORMAL slid in the box office just behind THE FOURTH KIND at number five.
Sunday, November 08, 2009 08:13 AM
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 Variety reports that New Films has picked up worldwide rights to the teen-torture flick CHAIN LETTER. The company plans a U.S. release for the movie next year, and sees it as the potential launch of a screen franchise.
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Since the trend is on its last gasp, reflecting upon the concept of “torture porn” is now outdated and futile. Beyond that, I was never a big fan of the label, finding it a bit too obvious and silly. But if there’s any film that “torture porn” applies to, both in terms of the plot/content guidelines the genre has laid out and the banality of the phrase itself, it’s TRAIN, out next week on DVD from Lionsgate.
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