George Romero is about to begin filming a new Zombie film in Toronto, but thankfully, it isn’t the Diary of the Dead sequel that has been mentioned in interviews. Romero revealed the following to SchlockAroundTheClock:
“It’ll be about three weeks in [past the outbreak] and it doesn’t start with the people in the mansion [at the [...]

It is official, Warner Bros has greenlit a prequel to I Am Legend. Will Smith has signed on to reprise his role as Robert Neville, and Francis Lawrence has returned as director. Looks like Lawrence won’t be finding time to work on Chuck Palahniuk’s Survivor anytime soon. According to Variety, D.B. Weiss (The Game) is [...]

It seems like only last week that I declared Let The Right One In was one of 2008’s must see movies. I was since informed that the film is already getting an English language remake by Hammer Films and Spitfire Pictures. And tonight Variety announced that Cloverfield director Matt Reeves has signed on to helm [...]

Kevin Smith appeared on the Cinemablend podcast and listed off some of the reasons that studios might be afraid to greenlight his next film, Red State:
1. The Movie is ““decidedly non-commercial, it’s really fuckin bleak and dark, so bleak that it makes The Dark Knight look like Strawberry Shortcake.”
2. “There’s no character to root for.” [...]

Zombie Girl: The Movie is a fun documentary about Emily Hagins, a 12-year-old girl from Austin Texas who spent two years directing a feature-length zombie movie titled Pathogen. Encouraged by her mother Megan, who produced, created the special effects and held the boom mike, Emily filmed the movie on weekends and school holidays. Emily is [...]

Yesterday I wrote about an incredible film called Let The Right One In (read here). A lot of readers have written in to share their love for this film festival favorite. And among the responses, Reamwe also received some noteworthy updates.
Neoufo51 called Magnet Releasing and found out the film will be released on DVD on [...]

Rarely does a film transcend its genre in the way that Tomas Alfredson’s Let The Right One In does. Based on a novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, this must see Swedish coming of age vampire film is about a twelve year old boy who befriends a girl in the apartment next to him. But little [...]

If you’re in L.A. tonight, there is a can’t-miss midnight screening and cast-reunion for Fright Night at the NuArt Theatre. On hand for the event will be the film’s writer/director Tom Holland (Child’s Play, Cloak and Dagger) and stars Chris Surandon (!), William Ragsdale, Stephen Geoffreys and Jonathan Stark. Also joining the festive occasion will [...]

Last week at the Toronto International Film Festival, I saw two of the strangest films I’ve seen all year: Control Alt Delete and Deadgirl. One film involves a guy who drills a hole in his computer tower and literally has sex with his computer. The other tells the story of a group of high school [...]

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Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman has described his directorial debut Synecdoche, New York as his version of a horror movie. It’s a film about death, and man’s fear of mortality. I had the chance to se the film in Toronto, and I’m still unsure of what I saw. It is either brilliant or completely insane. It’s [...]

Lionsgate has released a video clip from SAW V on the film’s official website. I’m told that the clip is the same one that was shown at Comic Con in July. It begins with a man bound to a table. A recorded video message plays where Jigsaw explains that the man must sacrifice his hands [...]

Korean auteur Park Chan-Wook, most famous for the phenomenally kickass Oldboy, is getting some help from American shores for his next film, Thirst. Universal Pictures and Focus Features will be investing and co-producing, and Focus will distribute the film in North America.
The film, about a priest who becomes a vampire after a medical experiment gone [...]

Deadgirl tells the story who two friends, Rickie (Shiloh Fernandez) and JT (Noah Segan), who skip High School and break into a local abandoned mental hospital. In the boiler room they find a dead woman strapped to a gurney and covered in plastic. But it turns out that the dead girl is alive, and JT [...]

When we reported Friday that Sam Raimi would return for Spider-Man 4 and possibly 5, there was speculation that his new Evil Dead film would once again be brushed aside. Not so. Well, sort of. According to Screen Daily, Raimi has given the okay for a 3D theatrical movie based on Evil Dead: The Musical, [...]