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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith’s horror spoof on the Jane Austen classic, is developing into a feature film, with Natalie Portman set to star as Elizabeth Bennet, who, in the new story, has to combat zombies on top of her feelings for Mr. Darcy.  The character was last played by Keira Knightley in Joe [...]

Earlier this week, news broke out that Summit Entertainment (Twilight) was working on a new spin on Dracula with Vlad.  The project’s screenwriter, Charlie Hunnam, clarified in a recent interview that the film would focus on the rise of young Vlad Dracula, rather than on connecting him to the vampire legends.
Despite his acting work on [...]

Years after Eli Roth’s 2003 Cabin Fever, Coming Soon.net has a look at the trailer for the sequel, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever.
The House of the Devil director Ti West replaces Roth as the director in this direct-to-DVD sequel set at a high school prom where the punch is infected with the same virus from [...]

According to CHUD.com, the remake of A Nightmare on Elm Street is currently reshooting scenes after a series a test screenings in Los Angeles.  The scenes may be significant and require new casting, but nothing is known for sure other than a scene set in a diner where Nancy Thompson (Rooney Mara in the remake, [...]

While this year launched a literary sequel to Bram Stoker classic’s Dracula, Hollywood is aiming for a prequel.
Summit Entertainment, best known for the Twilight movies, has teamed up with Brad Pitt to produce Vlad, a film that covers the real-life Prince of Wallachia, Vlad Dracula the Impaler (pictured on the left).
It has been implied that [...]

After the announcement that Adam Green was returning to write and direct Hatchet 2, more news has leaked today that rising scream queen Danielle Harris is joining the cast.
Harris, who previously worked with Green on the short On the Road to Frightfest, has replaced Tamara Feldman as the heroine Marybeth.
Source: http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/news/topnews.php?id=13052

Stephen King is set to write a sequel to The Shining, set to follow a forty-year old version of Danny Torrance.  King provided a short logline of the sequel, “All these years after being tormented by the spiritual inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel and his father’s alcoholism/homicidal rage, Danny is now working at a hospice using [...]

Adam Green, producer of Grace and director of this year’s Halloween spoof Jack Chop, is set to write and direct a sequel to his 2007 film, Hatchet.
“It’s going to have double the body count and Anchor Bay is being cool enough to allow me to make the sequel I want to make,” promised the director.
While [...]

When the trailer for the Nightmare on Elm Street remake was released, Freddy Krueger fans only got a brief, dark close-up glimpse of Jackie Earle Haley’s new Freddy.
Today, figures.com provides a closer look with the new Freddy Krueger action figure, brought to us by NECA.  While the hat, sweater, and glove all have returned, the [...]

This weekend, The Twilight Saga: New Moon grossed $142.8 million, with a record-breaking $26.27 from the midnight openings alone.
That didn’t stop humor website black20.com from editing an impressive trailer spoof called Twilight: Vampires in Heat, in which “All Vampires Battle to Score With One Hottie.”  The guest-starring vampires, through clever editing, include Wesley Snipes’s Blade, [...]