Nebraska filmmaker Patrick Rea and his SenoReality Pictures
company (co-founded by Rea, Ryan S. Jones and Josh Robison) have been slowly
but surely building a name for themselves on the regional independent horror
scene. They have honed their craft as a seemingly inexhaustible wellspring of
short films—two of which, WOMEN’S INTUITION and GET OFF MY PORCH, have won
regional Emmys—and saw their first feature THE EMPTY ACRE released in 2007. And
they’ve continued to do so in their second feature, NAILBATER.
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The late aughts and the early twenty-teens have really been
the “age of the zombie” on video game consoles. Be it the shit-your-pants shock
and awe of RESIDENT EVIL or LEFT 4 DEAD, or the lovable camp of DEAD RISING and
PLANTS VS. ZOMBIES, the representation for the undead populous has been on high,
overshadowing vampires, ghosts, mummies, liche, and any other fabled spectre or
monster that hasn’t been sucked up by Hollywood’s next “thing” machine.
Following the recent acquisition of Rodrigo Cortés’ RED
LIGHTS by Millennium Films, the fright feature EMERGO, which Cortés wrote and
produced, has also been picked up for U.S. release.
What would survival horror be without video games like
RESIDENT EVIL or SILENT HILL? These titles not only named but defined the genre
we know today, and 2012 is boding to be one of the best years ever for these
two horror-gaming giants.
Michael Biehn and Jennifer Blanc (pictured), partners in
life and on films like THE VICTIM, recently announced a slate of genre pictures
from their Blanc/Biehn Productions, and news about the cast of one of those
films, THE FARM, has just come through, along with a couple of poster
variations.
Cloris Leachman and Tara Reid tangle with an evil presence
lurking amongst THE FIELDS in a chiller hitting DVD in April, and we’ve got the
first look at the cover art.
It’s like a treasure hunt, finding out what is in three tin
sheds in the back of my house. I put ‘em
up so long ago, I don’t want to talk about it. Put all my movie stuff in there,
followed over time by things from the house that we wanted to hold on to—were
sure we’d use again, but never did.
Fresh from its well-reviewed theatrical debut this past weekend, Ti West's THE INNKEEPERS now has a disc release date, and cover art and special-features info has surfaced.
Anyone who knows anything about horror movies knows one
thing: Vampires are cool. They’ve always been a staple of genre cinema, from
Bela Lugosi to Hammer films to DARK SHADOWS to the fun jiang-shi or “hopping
vampires” presented by many Hong Kong filmmakers. Their neighbors to the north
in South Korea have gotten into the act with HIGANJIMA (whose subtitle ESCAPE
FROM VAMPIRE ISLAND is more prominent on FUNimation’s Blu-ray/DVD combo
packaging).
Those gods of gore, the death-metal masters known to the
cowering world as Cannibal Corpse, are set to release their next opus, TORTURE,
on March 13. Produced by fellow six-string crusher Erik Rutan of Hate Eternal,
TORTURE is 12 songs of devastatingly precise yet punishing death metal as only
the old guard can serve it up.
Last April, I found myself at a convention not as press, or
as a fan, but as a vendor, proudly standing behind the FANGORIA table at the
very first Shock Stock in London, Ontario, Canada.
Upbeat nature documentary maker Dr. Emmet Cole (Bruce
Greenwood), a Steve Irwin type who never saw a creature, tribe or situation he
didn’t find fascinating, heads up the Amazon River—and vanishes. He’s presumed
dead for two years, until hints that he’s still alive send his wife (Leslie
Hope), son (Joe Anderson) and a new documentary crew in search of him. What
they find is most unnatural indeed, with an invisible force killing one of the
group before the others can do anything.
Another horror film that premiered in the Midnight Madness
section of the recent Sundance Film Festival has been snapped up for North
America, by a company that specializes in genre fare.
The new haunter from James Wan (INSIDIOUS), based on the real life exploits of married paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, has picked up a new, more obvious title. 
