In Part One of this story, director Christian Alvart noted the advantages of having veteran actors like Renée Zellweger and Ian McShane toplining CASE 39 (opening this Friday, October 1 from Paramount Vantage). But serving as the true catalyst for the film’s story, in which a social worker rescues a young girl from an apparently abusive home and discovers that she’s not as innocent as she seemed, is Jodelle Ferland as the child in question.

Continuing our chat with Josh Bridge, Blue Castle Games senior producer and developer of DEAD RISING 2, Capcom’s sequel to its zombie-bashing video-game hit that debuted this week (see Part One here):

Given the current financial turmoil society faces, coupled with the real advances developmental science is making, the new feature film JIM is certainly not just another postapocalyptic tale, but rather a possible vision of things to come. JIM ranks as an independent sci-fi gem with important social, economic and scientific relevancy. The movie makes its world premiere in New York City on October 8, then begins a run in Los Angeles October 15; keep reading to see exclusive pics and a clip.

Riverview Hospital sits on a palatial mountainside overlooking Coquitlam, B.C., just outside of Vancouver. Dedicated in 1904, the place was built as a psychiatric facility designed to house British Columbia’s mentally ill populace. It was originally intended to accommodate 1800 patients, but its population soon increased to more than 4600. Over the years, many a lost soul dwelled within the numerous structures that dotted its 244 acres of wooded landscape.

Ever since George A. Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD first sparked horror fans’ love affair with the zombie, the walking dead have lumbered (and run!) into all facets of popular culture, most notably the video-game world. From UK company Quicksilva’s ZOMBIE ZOMBIE for the ZK Spectrum computer in 1984 through such staples as Capcom’s RESIDENT EVIL and even non-horror games like the CALL OF DUTY series, the undead have been unavoidable, and in 2006, Capcom decided to take them in another direction with the open-world slaughterthon DEAD RISING.

Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s THE FALL (Book II in the authors’ STRAIN trilogy) debuted last week and already has fanboys clamoring for more, due to del Toro’s dedicated cinematic following and the huge international success of the series’ first installment in 2009 (it sold to 27 foreign publishers). THE STRAIN trilogy details the apocalyptic battle between man and vampire, and vampire vs. vampire, as a bloodsucker virus spreads around the globe, decimating humanity and rocking civilization to its core. You can find out more about THE STRAIN here. In Part One of FANGORIA’s exclusive interview, dark imagineer del Toro talks about Book II, his collaborative process with Hogan (pictured) and the grim places THE FALL explores.

Jeffrey Combs first became a horror icon in 1985, exploring the outer limits of medicine to extremely gruesome ends as RE-ANIMATOR’s Herbert West. Twenty-five years later, Combs is back in DARK HOUSE, using a different kind of cutting-edge science to enhance a haunted attraction—with equally dire results.