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In the upcoming remake of Fright Night, directed by Craig Gillespie, David Tennant has been cast to play Peter Vincent, the role made famous by Roddy McDowell.  Today, a promotional banner was seen showing off the new Peter Vincent, who is neither recognizable as the McDowell character nor recognizable as the Doctor Who actor.
Unlike the [...]

Dimension Films is making a new direct-to-DVD Hellraiser film, Hellraiser: Revelations, after plans for a remake of the Clive Barker original have stalled.  The company would have lost the creative rights if it hadn’t gone through with producing the film.
Peta Wilson will star in the film, which will be the ninth movie in the series. [...]

Blogger TempleofGhul has posted a script review of the upcoming At the Mountains of Madness adaptation by Guillermo Del Toro and Matthew Robbins.  He describes that the script feels like ”a Hellboy movie without Hellboy, with a light dose of Carpenter’s The Thing.”  While it is unconfirmed if TempleofGhoul read the legit script, click on the following link [...]

John Cusack announced on his Twitter today that he would be playing the role of Edgar Allan Poe in James McTeigue’s The Raven.  The film may share the same title as Poe’s famous poem, but the film is more in line with a serial killer in 1850s Baltimore who bases his crimes on Poe’s stories.
So [...]

Machete isn’t the only Grindhouse trailer to be made into a movie.  If you saw Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez’s exploitation film, you may remember a trailer for a slasher film called Thanksgiving, directed by Eli Roth, who also has a cameo in the trailer.  Now it turns out that Roth will turn Thanksgiving into a feature. [...]

Joe Hill’s horror comic series Locke & Key is set to become a TV series and if that doesn’t excite you, get this- Steven Spielberg is behind it and is teaming up with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Fringe) and Josh Friedman (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles).
While many believed Kurtzman and Orci would turn the [...]

A four and a half minute trailer for AMC’s upcoming zombie television series The Walking Dead has been released online.  The promo was shown at the San Diego Comic-Con, but those who were unable to go to the panel can now watch it on YouTube.
The show, based on the Image comic created by Robert Kirkman [...]

Walter Koenig, famous for playing Chekov on the original Star Trek television series, is writing a new comic mini-series called Things to Come for Bluewater Productions.  The series will last four issues and will be set in a “post-apocalyptic world in which vampires are the dominant species.”
Despite the vampire popularity in The Twilight Saga, The Vampire [...]

Bela Lugosi lives again through comics now!  The Monsterverse is releasing an anthology series called Bela Lugosi’s Tales From The Grave, “presenting weird and fantastic tales to keep you awake long into the night. In a special arrangement with Bela G. Lugosi, son of the famous actor, Bela Lugosi will act as host and commentator [...]

Continuing this week’s trailer round-up, today we have Case 39, starring Renee Zellweger and Bradley Cooper.  Zellweger plays a social worker who takes in a young girl (Jodelle Ferland) after her parents nearly kill her.  But once she adopts the girl, horrific events reveal that the abusive parents were only trying to protect themselves from [...]