During the recent Zombo Italiano at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, fans had a chance to see the 1979 apocalyptic opus ZOMBIE (a.k.a. ZOMBI 2) on the big screen. This is the quintessential ghoul flick that established director Lucio Fulci as a horror icon. While this is an unofficial sequel to DAWN OF THE DEAD, which was titled ZOMBI in Italy, the films have nothing to do with each other; the producers were simply seeking to cash in on the success of George A. Romero’s sequel.

In DRACULA IN LOVE, the new novel by Karen Essex debuting next week from Doubleday (see review here), Mina Harker finally comes clean about what happened between her and a certain Count. Harker agreed to a short telephone interview under the condition that she not be asked about her present identity or her life today. Here is what the vampire’s eternal muse had to say:

Since the early days of theater and the dawn of cinema, renowned American poet and author Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849) has had significant influence on pop culture, especially film. Countless movies have adapted Poe’s trailblazing work (the most famous being the Roger Corman/American International cycle from the 1960s), others merely reference it (i.e. the recent TELL TALE). This Friday, August 6, FANGORIA FrightFest will introduce THE TOMB, a new modern-day take on the Poe short story “Ligeia,” helmed by directorial newcomer Michael Staininger.

Anyone familiar with the SAW franchise knows that it revolves around two things: ridiculous torture traps and bloody gore. The folks at Konami, home to the SILENT HILL series and no strangers to splatter and scare, plan to propagate that further with the newest installment in the SAW gaming series – SAW II: FLESH AND BLOOD. FANGORIA got a chance to spend some quality time with producer Jaime Bencia in the Konami suite at Comic-Con, getting wrist-deep in the grit and gore in another of Jigsaw’s torture chambers.

Veteran Florida exploitation filmmaker William Grefé (pictured left), best known for the ’70s animal-attack features STANLEY and MAKO: THE JAWS OF DEATH, is now resurrecting a fright feature he first developed back during that heyday. It’s a supernatural chiller called WHY WON’T VALERIE DIE?, and Grefé and his cohorts gave Fango all the details.

Last December, the producers of RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE granted FANGORIA exclusive access to the Toronto set of the fourth chapter in their action/horror franchise, derived from the best-selling Capcom video games. For 10 weeks, right up to AFTERLIFE’s September 10 release from Screen Gems, Fangoria.com is presenting a series of one-on-one interviews with the movie’s cast and crew.

Creating a sequel to THE EXORCIST is a job I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. Famous for being one of the highest-grossing horror films ever made, scaring the ever-loving shit out of everyone who saw it, containing some of the best special FX ever created in the genre and responsible for a whole generation’s worth of nightmares and Catholic outrage, William Friedkin’s film isn’t just a tough act to follow—it’s like doing standup comedy right after Richard Pryor when all you’ve got is a knock-knock joke.