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‘The Green Inferno’ Gets Hotter with Eli Roth Taking Helm

While many of us were wondering when director Eli Roth might be returning to his director chair, news arrives that Eli will be taking the job with the announcment of ‘The Green Inferno’. Eli has been busy the last few years with producing films like “The Last Exorcism” and of course his occasional acting gigs. The new mystery film is reported to be inspired by the Aftershock in Chili and set to… More

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Carrie Gets a Mother with Julianne Moore

The Kimberly Pierce remake of Carrie appears to be coming togther quickly with recent news of Chloe Grace Moretz taking the lead as the troubled telekinetic teenager. Now hot on the heels of that news comes the accouncement made that actress Julianne Moore will be playing the role of her mother. This takes previous announcement that Jodie Foster might sign on, out of the running. Whatever the case may be, it’s still… More

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Edgy, Preceptual Thriller ‘Scalene’ New from Breaking Glass Pictures

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May 14, 2012 – Philadelphia, PA — Breaking Glass Pictures is proud to announce the July 31 Blu-Ray (SRP $29.99) and DVD (SRP $24.99) release of Scalene, a dark, edgy thriller that asks you to decide the truth for yourself in the face of tragedy.

Written and directed by Zack Parker, and starring Emmy Award winner Margo Martindale (“Justified”, “A Gifted Man”), Hanna Hall (Rob Zombie’s Halloween, The Virgin Suicides) and Adam Scarimbolo (Stake Land).… More

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New Poster Roundup: The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

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Those hankering for more superhero action will undoubtedly be waiting for Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises (2012)”. To wet your appetite we have the latest character posters.

“Eight years after Batman took the fall for Two Face’s crimes, a new terrorist leader, Bane, overwhelms Gotham’s finest, and the Dark Knight resurfaces to protect a city that has branded him an enemy. ”

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New Poster Roundup: Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (2012)

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Lincoln…the next Blade?? Well Abe better have his game on with the arrival of this latest promo.

“Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, discovers vampires are planning to take over the United States. He makes it his mission to eliminate them. “

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New Poster Roundup: The Pact (2012)

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Can’t get enough of those ghost films! More promo imagery from “The Pact“, This marks the 2nd poster promotional for the film.

“As a woman struggles to come to grips with her past in the wake of her mother’s death, an unsettling presence emerges in her childhood home.”

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New Poster Roundup: Machete Kills (2013)

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Damn!, you gotto love news of a new Machete film!. This one debuts “Machete Kills” with our favorite Danny Trjo taking helm again. What’s that? Mel Gibson is on board also?? Sweet! The U.S. government recruits Machete to battle his way through Mexico in order to take down an arms dealer who looks to launch a weapon into space.

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Hell Hunters Adds Lin Shaye to New TV Series

“Insidious” and “Something About Mary” star, Lin Shaye will be joining horror icons Bill Moseley and Michael Berryman in the new TV Series Pilot “Hell Hunters”, created by Lawrence Donini and Directed by Jourdan McClure.

Known for some of the most prolific and horrific characters of all time, Lin Shaye will be playing her most terrifying and grotesque role yet; as the disgustingly demented grandmother of young Hazard, Gramma Ethel.

Hell Hunters is an action/horror… More

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Film Review: Get the Gringo (2012)

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SYNOPSIS:

A career criminal (Gibson) nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.

REVIEW:

Give it time, I always say…and our favorites will return with a bang. Mel Gibson has had a few bad years with the press, though it’s safe to say that this role is a perfect comeback for a former actor hero gone bad. Gibson plays the… More

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Horror Fans Wanted for Hollywood Screening Test – Children of Sorrow

Wanted: Los Angeles horror fans to attend a test screening in Hollywood
Thursday night.. The film is the innovative horror feature film “Children
 Of Sorrowhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1942828/  from director Jourdan
McClure, whose last film was “Rogue River” with Bill Moseley. McClure’s
motto is “unsettling is the new gore.” The film is fresh out of post and
this is an initial test screening on a studio lot in Hollywood 8pm on… More

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Gotham City Impostors invades Arkham Asylum

Gotham City Impostors invades Arkham Asylum

Gotham City Impostors players can now enjoy the new Arkham Asylum map available as a free download on PlayStation Network and Xbox LIVE Marketplace and is coming soon to the PC version. The new map takes players to the infamous asylum where players can battle along the outside of the massive structure or take the battle inside to the more confined hallways and rooms found within Arkham Asylum.

This is just one more great piece… More

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Mass Hysteria Unfolds in ‘The Secret Village’

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A slew of new pics and update in the “Secret Village” production leeks on over – check out below

Currently filming in The Berkshires, MA….The Secret Village is directed by Swamy Kandan, and stars Jonathan Bennett (Memorial Day, Van Wilder:Freshman Year, Mean Girls), Ali Faulkner (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1), SAG nominee Stelio Savante (A Million Colours, Stealing Roses, Ugly Betty) and Richard Riehle (Bridesmaids, Halloween II, A Very Harold and Kumar 3D… More

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80′s Horror Film Reviewers – HorrorNews.net Seeking!

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While we are always adding new reviewers and seeing old ones move onto other things (life…that is), we are adamant about providing a horror resource for fans of the genre in the form of intelligent and insightful film reviews.

Some films are well known while others might only exist on tape in someone’s garage sale somewhere. Regardless, we provide a community service of flagging those worth watching and those best left not.

Certainly you can… More

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‘Quiet Ones’ Update – Sam Claflin attached to star opposite Jared Harris

LONDON, 11 May 2012: Simon Oakes, Vice-Chairman of Exclusive Media and President & CEO of Hammer and Guy East and Nigel Sinclair, Co-Chairmen of Exclusive Media, Hammer’s parent company, announced today that Sam Claflin (SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN, PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES) has signed on to star opposite Jared Harris in THE QUIET ONES.

Claflin will play BRYAN MCNEIL in THE QUIET ONES, a supernatural thriller/horror to be directed by John… More

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‘The Ghost is a Lie’ But These sure Aren’t

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Production shooting is reported as moving forward on this new project. For the time being we got 2 lovely ladies to make this post worth checking out.

Eight people head into the woods to manufacture the next great “found footage” ghost story. One of them is tired of pretending.

Hoping to cash in on the final stages of the found-footage phenomenon, a shady LA producer hires a small crew of cult-icon, has-been and never-were filmmakersMore

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‘Spirit Stalkers’ Haunts New Audiences

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“Sly, ironic, surprising and ultimately really scary as hell. Not your run-of-the-mill slice and dice horror flick.”
VICTOR MILLER writer of “Friday the 13th”

The Award Winning Big Biting Pig Productions is pleased to announce the release of their latest film SPIRIT STALKERS, on June 16th 2012.

Following up on the success of their previous movies HELL IS FULL & THE CREEPY DOLL, Big Biting Pig Productions is releasing a movie for Ghost Story… More

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‘Mr.Hush’ has something to say about Horizon Acquisition

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NEW YORK, NY – MAY 15, 2012 – Kino Lorber’s Horizon Movies label is proud to announce the acquisition of all North American rights to MR. HUSH, a new horror film that celebrates the classic style of the horror movies of the 1970′s and 1980′s.

The film premiered at Anthology Film Archives in 2011 and continued its limited theatrical release at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in West Hollywood, The Hollywood Theater in Pittsburgh, PA and… More

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Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead Tops 1 Million Episode Sales

Critically-acclaimed title featuring innovative tailored narrative design tops the charts on Xbox LIVE® Arcade for Xbox 360®, PlayStation®Network, PC and MAC
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., May 17, 2012 — Leading digital publisher Telltale Games and Robert Kirkman, the Eisner Award-winning creator and writer of The Walking Dead for Skybound Entertainment and Image Comics, announced today that their internally developed The Walking Dead video game has sold over one million episodes across PC, Mac, PlayStation®Network for… More

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Fantasy Master Tom Baxa Debuts New Art Book Release

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Los Angeles, CA—May 10, 2012—Dark fantasy art fans and gamers alike will rejoice at today’s release of veteran fantasy illustrator Tom Baxa’s new art book Blood Rituals: The Art of Tom Baxa. Baxa’s art for notable games like Dungeons and Dragons, Magic: The Gathering, World of Warcraft tcg, Darksun, L5R, Shadowrun, miniatures and more has been in high demand for years, and is available now for the first time in this one comprehensive collection.

Said… More

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Go Go Girls vs the Nazis – More News from the Gestapo

Today Wayne Clingman, executive producer of Go Go Girls vs. The Nazis, announced the following:

“I am pleased to report that independent film maker, Carlo Rodriguez (Psycho Killer Bloodbath, Naked Horror: The Movie), has come on board as an associate producer. Carlo brings with him a background in not only all elements of film production, but also in the art of publicity. This will allow Go Go Girls vs. The Nazis to be known aroundMore

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Film Review: Battleship (2012)

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SYNOPSIS:


A fleet of ships is forced to do battle with an armada of unknown origins in order to discover and thwart their destructive goals.

REVIEW:

What is it with Hollywood & Taylor Kitsch all of a sudden? More importantly, what is it with Taylor Kitsch being cast in not one but TWO movies with $200 million dollar budgets this year? Does Hollywood know something we don’t? Maybe they do…maybe they don’t. Last… More

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Horror Author Lia Scott Price Releases New Vampire Comic Book

May 16, 2012. Horror Author Lia Scott Price has released her new Vampire Comic Book. Entitled “The Guardian”, the book is the first issue from her new comic book series called “Vampire Guardian Angels™”. There will be 3 issues published in 2012. The first issue is published through createspace.com. The series is based on characters created by Price from her Vampire Trilogy Novel “The Guardian, Revenant, and Dominion”.

The comic book’s creative team includes Creator/Writer… More

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Cusack! Cage! FROZEN GROUND

John Cusack has been horror happy of late. His last handful of films have all been genre related fare and it looks like that trend is going to continue.

His next film titled FROZEN GROUND will highlight him as a serial killer stalking the Alsakan landscape. Hunting him down will be none other then Nic Cage. Here’s all the details:

FROZEN GROUND tells the tale of Alaskan detective Glenn Flothe (Cage) as he sets out… More

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Film Review: Hell Penitentiary (1985)

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SYNOPSIS:


Julia, a famous physician, infiltrates a prison in an attempt to find a witness to her sister’s killing, but instead she becomes the victim of a sadistic warden’s sexual brutality.

REVIEW:

Day 2 of the 80′s experiment. For those of you who don’t know, here at HNN we’re trying to get into films from wayback in the 70′s & 80′s. Films that you might never have heard of but might want to… More

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True Blood – Season 5 – 1st Fan Poster

Today it was announced that poster submission #1 from the True Blood Fan Posters has been released! It is titled “Gimme Five” You can check out the submission below!  Make sure and stay tuned for the next 2!

TRUE BLOOD will return for Season 5 on Sunday, June 10th at 9pm, only on HBO!

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Teen Wolf – Season One Giveaway!

Win a copy of TEEN WOLF THE COMPLETE SEASON ONE, out on DVD on May 22

Discover the story of how one strange night forever transformed one teenager’s life, when MTV’s hit show “TEEN WOLF” Season 1 comes to DVD May 22 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Nominated for six Teen Choice Awards®, Season 1 is a must-own for every fan, with an exclusive never-before-seen extended season finale, deleted and… More

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Michael Biehn Headed to ‘The Farm’

Genre mainstay Michael Biehn seems to have found himself a nice little niche with a little resurrection of the grindhouse genre. It all kind of started when he starred in the film GRINDHOUSE and his last couple films have all been in that down and dirty 70′s style.

He’s decided to team up with director Xavier Gens with whom he worked on THE DIVIDE for a handful of projects the first one being THE FARM.… More

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DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans – No More Gangs in Government , Jesse Ventura’s latest controverial book

JESSE VENTURA SAYS POLITICAL PARTIES
ARE JUST THUGS IN BROOKS BROTHERS SUITS


DemoCRIPS and ReBLOODlicans
No More Gangs in Government
By Jesse Ventura with Dick Russell

“It shall be unlawful for any national bank, or any corporation organized by the authority of any laws of Congress, to make a money contribution in connection with any election to any political office.” —Teddy Roosevelt, The Tillman Act, 1907

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2012 Fall TV Genre Shows – Cancellations and Renewals

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As the 2012 Fall TV season rolls forward, we’ll have to say goodbye to a few decent genre “related” shows. Though with cancellation comes renewals as well, so hopefully this will help you plan your viewing nights appropriately. With the exception of 1 or 2, I hate to see any of these go…….but with that, let’s hope that there’s something more interesting to take their place for the genre fans. (please note: there may beMore

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‘Jaws’ Eats it Way into High Resolution August 14th

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ACADEMY AWARD® WINNER STEVEN SPIELBERG’S ICONIC SUMMER CLASSIC COMES TO BLU-RAY™ FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER, DIGITALLY REMASTERED & FULLY RESTORED IN HONOR OF UNIVERSAL’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

ON AUGUST 14TH, OWN THE BLU-RAY™ COMBO PACK WITH DVD, DIGITAL COPY, ULTRAVIOLET™ & OVER 4 HOURS OF BONUS FEATURES INCLUDING AN ALL-NEW DOCUMENTARY “THE SHARK IS STILL WORKING”

JAWS – the landmark motion picture that still makes audiences afraid to go in the water – comes… More

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