Yet another new trailer for director Eric Walter’s truly frightening documentary My Amityville Horror (review here) has made its way to the haunted and hallowed halls of the interwebs, and we have it for you right here. Check it out. Skepticism not required.

The film will be getting a one-night only theatrical release at the Laemmle Music Hall in Beverly Hills, CA, on Saturday, March 16th, at 10:00 pm. But don't worry if you're nowhere near the West Coast; it will be available via VOD starting on Friday, March 15th, through Sundance Now.

For more check out the official My Amityville Horror website and the My Amityville Horror Facebook page.

Synopsis
For the first time in 35 years, Daniel Lutz recounts his version of the infamous Amityville haunting that terrified his family in 1975. George and Kathy Lutz's story went on to inspire a best-selling novel, and the subsequent films have continued to fascinate audiences today. This documentary reveals the horror behind growing up as part of a world famous haunting, and while Daniel's facts may be others' fiction, the psychological scars he carries are indisputable.

Too weird little flicks, Manborg and Priest of Evil are on their way to DVD and we've got the skinny on each of their releases served up hot and fresh right here. Oh, and a special shout out to the glory of Manborg's cover art!

Shout! Factory has announced the May 28 release of Priest of Evil on DVD.

Starring Peter Franzén ("True Blood") and Irina Björklund (The American), Priest of Evil is a riveting psychological thriller where nothing is as it seems and trusting the wrong intuition could get you killed.

Special Features
Detective Sergeant Timo Harjunpää of the Helsinki Violent Crimes Unit is an honest and conscientious cop, one of the city’s very best, who loses his daughter in tragic circumstances. Despite the support he receives from his colleague, Constable Onerva Nykänen, Timo is unable to recover from his loss. He takes on a case involving strange deaths at Helsinki’s metro stations, eventually determining them to be serial killings. But the closer he seems to get to the killer, the elusive killer is actually getting closer to him. Timo must find the murderer, and as he tracks him down, he encounters an overwhelming darkness within himself.

The forces of Hell have risen to the surface of the Earth to wreak unspeakable havoc on humanity. And it will take a real superhuman to save the world. Or at least Manborg - a spectacular creature of the future and the hero of MANBORG, the cult favorite sci-fi/fantasy homage coming to select theaters and DVD on April 30, 2013, from Dark Sky Films.

The armies of hell have taken over the Earth, and all that stands in the way of the villainous Count Draculon and humanity's total extinction is a motley crew of misfits led by the mighty Manborg: a warrior who's half-man, half-machine, but all hero.

Once a young soldier killed during the first war against hell, Manborg (Matthew Kennedy, Lazer Ghosts 2) reawakens in the future, rebuilt as a walking weapon and mankind's last hope. Struggling to learn the secret of his origins, Manborg unwittingly befriends a post-apocalyptic Australian punker (Conor Sweeney, Heart of Karl), a knife-wielding vixen (Meredith Sweeney, Father's Day) and a kung fu master (dubbed by Kyle Herbert of DRAGON BALL Z, STREET FIGHTER) before finally squaring off against Count Draculon (Adam Brooks, Father's Day) in a desperate and bloody bid to take back the Earth.

This campy, comedic action flick, which Variety called "enjoyably ridiculous," is also an affectionate and clever tribute to fan favorite '80s films and videogames like The Terminator, RoboCop and Mortal Kombat.

Peter Howell of the Toronto Star called it "an energizing and cheesy homage to and parody of 1980s sci-fi horror action movies. ... It's also a marvel of DIY makeup, costuming and special effects." Matt Looker of website The Shiznit called it "perfect parody."

MANBORG is a tour de force for writer-director-editor-makeup artist Steven Kostanski, whose credits include the horror hit Silent Hill and Guillermo del Toro's forthcoming sci-fi adventure Pacific Rim. This lo-fi sci-fi epic from infamous filmmaking collective Astron-6 (Father's Day) was met with an uproariously enthusiastic reception from audiences. Executive produced by TIFF Midnight Madness guru Colin Geddes (Ultra 8 Pictures) and Toronto After Dark's Peter Kupowsky,MANBORGcelebrated its world premiere at Austin's 2011 Fantastic Fest, and also impressed fans at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival, Fantasia, and has played more than 30 major film festivals worldwide including Whistler, Lund in Sweden, Boston Underground, U.K. Sci-Fi, and Neuchatel in Switzerland.

Don’t look now but the Woodhaven Production Company is at it again. Producer Chad A. Verdi has announced his newest film, Army of the Damned, will begin filming in April.

Verdi was so impressed with Tom DeNucci, who wrote and directed his previous film, Self Storage, that he handed him the reins of this film as well.

Woodhaven has previously released the Robert Englund vehicle Inkubus, followed by Infected which starred William Forsythe and Michael Madsen. Dig the original artwork for Army of the Damned below.

From the Press Release
Verdi Productions and The Woodhaven Production Company announce that Rhode Island filmmaker Chad A. Verdi has tabbed writer/director Tom DeNucci to direct his next horror film, Army of the Damned. Filming will begin in April with a star studded cast to be announced soon. David Gere and Seth Rosenblit will join Verdi and Gino Pereira as producers on the project. The film will be shot by cinematographer Sam Eilertsen.

Army of the Damned tells the story of a hit reality TV show film crew following a group of local cops in a sleepy town. Things go horribly wrong when they respond to a call that brings a whole new meaning to the term "domestic disturbance." Faced with life and death situations, these officers are forced to throw the rule book out in order to stay alive. The lawmen do all they can to serve, protect and avoid joining the Army of the Damned.

Verdi will produce four films in the state of Rhode Island over the next 18 months. "This film will mark the start of one of the most aggressive production schedules ever attempted by a production company. It was not our intention to try to film all four feature films in 18 months, we had a five year plan when we started out. But due to actor and director commitments, along with the financing and distribution schedule, we decided to pull the trigger and run with it," Verdi said

Verdi's latest films, Infected and Self Storage, are being released through Screen Media and will each reach over 100 million homes through Universal's VOD platform starting with Infected on April 10 and Self-Storage on June 2. The release dates on both films were moved up due to high demand.

Tomb Raider will release for Xbox 360 and PS3 on March 5, 2013. We recently sat down with Crystal Dynamic’s Head of Studio, Darrell Gallagher, and Creative Director, Noah Hughes to get some insight into the horrors ahead.

Read on to learn why Lara Croft’s origin story is dark, gory and violent!

AMANDA DYAR: The new Tomb Raider has a lot of gory deaths, blood and violence. What prompted this new direction and the need for a darker, grittier tone?

NOAH HUGES:One of the things that we wanted to do this time was to tell Lara's origin story, and introduce people to a more human Lara Croft. She had become an icon that was sort of invulnerable in a way and that made it harder to root for her as a character. We wanted to create a story that wasn't clear if Lara was going to succeed and survival became sort of our vision for that theme. We realized at some point that part of that sense of life and death situation that survival represents--really survival is that fight to live in the face of death--which gives a sort of man versus wild theme to our story. We didn't really want to have to necessarily sanitize that and wanted to create an experience were the island really did feel lethal. When you succeeded you felt that great sense of success because you earned something in the game like an upgrade or something like that. But if you failed, you also felt that ‘ouch that hurt,’ this is not just a vacation on a tropical island. This is a life or death situation. Once that was created then that was a force powerful enough to ask Lara to grow as a character then we could turn this young, ambitious archeologist into a more hardened survivor and ultimately walking the path toward becoming that tomb raider that we all know and love. It was really a matter of sort of being true to the vision of life and death survival being the catalyst in which we would forge Lara Croft.

AMANDA: In rebooting such a well-known franchise, how did your team approach that while staying true to the fans?

NOAH:That was king of the core-balancing act that we knew we were taking on. We certainly wanted to celebrate what people loved about Tomb Raider and bring all of our classic fans along for the journey. But we also knew that when you talk about the forces that inspired our sort of reboot when you look at franchises like James Bond that it is inspiring to see them flourish fifty years after their inception. So for us there is a sense we feel that Tomb Raider as a franchise and Lara Croft as a character have those exciting attributes that can keep it fresh. This is a franchise where you can talk to my mom and they know who Lara Croft is. There is a sense that, as scary as it is, to change it but there is an obligation to continue to make it fresh and relevant. We went into it knowing that we had a difficult balance and deliver both that Tomb Raider experience at its core but deliver in a way that people had never seen before. We just feel confident that was the right thing to do.

AMANDA: An exciting new edition to Tomb Raider is the expanded multiplayer. What was the motivation in adding this to the series when it was only included previously as a DLC?

DARRELL GALLAGHER:For us it was more of an evolution then something that was new. It really started with us saying we wanted to try something different with the franchise and we had to take some bold steps to do that as the creators of the game and where the industry is at. We don't want to be afraid of doing something new and Guardian of Light was the first expression of that when we did co-op multiplayer. We did this for a couple of reasons, first we enjoyed the challenge of creating something that was traditionally a single-player experience into co-op. And two because of how much people enjoyed playing it which was a real foundation that we could actually try new things and take bold chances and it would work. The third thing is that we have the technology and the engine and the we hadn’t done before for the multiplayer. For all of these reasons, we realized the next step was to take the game to multiplayer. We spent so long crafting this island, this world, this fiction, as well as all the mechanics that go with it, and we felt it would be nice actually to have a reason to stick around and enjoy those things for longer and play multiplayer versus a single player game.

NOAH:We also knew that necessarily not all of our fans would want to do that. We also approached it in a way that we did not want to trade single player campaign for Lara’s origin story experience for multiplayer. So we ended up just creating a complimentary experience that players can jump in and pick up some play real quickly while having fun with their friends. We still felt in a way that we could focus internally at Crystal Dynamics on a single player story that wouldn’t feel like it was sacrificed because of multiplayer. We really approached it as something that would add to the experience rather than offer instead of what people expected out of Tomb Raider for single player campaign.

AMANDA: There have been many terrifying enemies throughout the series, did the team try to top this with the new release. Also, what takes the enemies in Tomb Raider to the next level?

NOAH:A lot of what we try to do with the enemies in the game was a similar approach to the rest of the game which was to ground it a bit. Things that are scary to me about enemies is when they feel real and feel like a part of the world--rather it is the wildlife when the wolves are coming out of the shadows growling--but a part of that is to make them feel like a threatening part of the environment versus a video game character thrown in. Same thing with the inhabitants on the island, we really wanted to ground their story into the island’s story and make them feel like a part of that world. Obviously their motivation puts them at odds with Lara, and their way of operating makes them a great threat to Lara and that builds a conflict there. Part of what makes them scary and intimidating is that you sort of believe them within the context of the game. Another thing we really tried to do was treat the island as almost an enemy. We tried to create a sense of foreboding atmosphere--so the island itself really presented physical threats through perilous climbing and these man versus nature situations. Also, the weather and the idea of snow, rain and lightning--that is another thing that helps with having a strong effect from the enemies is placing them in a context-rich atmosphere and really leveraging that atmosphere. For us, the island really become a type of enemy in that way as well.

To learn more make sure to visit the official Tomb Raider website.

Will Jack slay this weekend's box office, or does it belong to a certain sequel's love-starved demon? While we wait for the results, check out our Jack the Giant Slayer review and watch a new featurette for the flick along with some up-to-the-minute TV spots.

Read our Jack the Giant Slayer review here.

Jack the Giant Slayer is in US theatres NOW and arrives in the UK on March 22nd. Concurrent with the film's debut in 35mm and digital theaters, Jack the Giant Slayer: An IMAX 3D Experience was also released in IMAX theaters.

Synopsis:
An age-old war is reignited when a young farmhand unwittingly opens a gateway between our world and a fearsome race of giants.

Unleashed on the Earth for the first time in centuries, the long-banished giants strive to reclaim the land they once lost, forcing the young man, Jack (Nicholas Hoult), into the battle of his life to stop them. Fighting for a kingdom, its people, and the love of a brave princess, he comes face to face with the unstoppable warriors he thought only existed in legend...and gets the chance to become a legend himself.

Acclaimed filmmaker Bryan Singer directs the 3D action adventure Jack the Giant Slayer, starring Nicholas Hoult as Jack. The film also stars Eleanor Tomlinson as Princess Isabelle; Stanley Tucci as the deceitful Roderick; Ian McShane as Isabelle's father, the besieged King Brahmwell; Bill Nighy as General Fallon, the ferocious two-headed leader of the giant army; and Ewan McGregor as the loyal knight Elmont.

Singer directed from a screenplay by Darren Lemke and Christopher McQuarrie and Dan Studney, story by Darren Lemke and David Dobkin. The film is produced by Neal H. Moritz, David Dobkin, Bryan Singer, Patrick McCormick, and Ori Marmur. The executive producers are Thomas Tull, Jon Jashni, Alex Garcia, Toby Emmerich, Richard Brener, Michael Disco, and John Rickard.

The creative filmmaking team included director of photography Newton Thomas Sigel, production designer Gavin Bocquet, editors John Ottman and Bob Ducsay, and costume designer Joanna Johnston. The music was composed by John Ottman. Dominic Tuohy served as special effects supervisor and Hoyt H. Yeatman Jr. as visual effects supervisor.

Jack the Giant Slayer is a New Line Cinema presentation, in association with Legendary Pictures, an Original Film/Big Kid Pictures/A Bad Hat Harry Production of a Bryan Singer Film. It will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

For more info visit the official Jack the Giant Slayer website.

Well, after much discussion, it looks like a sequel to Sinister (Blu-ray review here) is on its way. Read on for the latest on the continuing adventures of Mr. Boogie.

Deadline is reporting that Jason Blum‘s Blumhouse Productions is moving forward on its third micro-budget franchise with Sinister 2, the sequel to last year’s horror pic that grossed more than $87M worldwide off of a $3M budget. The move to build the Sinister franchise follows in the footsteps of Blumhouse’s successes with the Paranormal Activity and Insidious series of ultra-low-budget genre hits.

They go on to say that all of the major behind-the-scenes players are back for Sinister 2, including creators Scott Derrickson and C. Robert Cargill. They wrote the original, which Derrickson also directed. Thinking is that they’ll write the sequel.

Stay tuned.

The more we see of BBC America's new series "Orphan Black," the more we're looking forward to seeing what the director of Ginger Snaps and one of the writers of Cube have come up with. Check out the latest teaser trailer for the show.

Synopsis:
Sarah hopes that cleaning out a dead woman’s bank account will solve all her problems. Instead, they multiply at an unnerving rate. Smart, sexy, and pulsating with suspense – BBC America’s new original series "ORPHAN BLACK" features rising star Tatiana Maslany (The Vow, Picture Day). She portrays Sarah, an outsider and orphan whose life changes dramatically after witnessing the suicide of a woman, “Beth,” who looks just like her. Sarah takes her identity, her boyfriend, and her money.

But instead of solving her problems, the street-smart chameleon is thrust headlong into a kaleidoscopic mystery. She makes the dizzying discovery that she and the dead woman are clones... but are they the only ones? Sarah quickly finds herself caught in the middle of a deadly conspiracy, racing to find answers. "ORPHAN BLACK" premieres Saturday, March 30, 9:00pm ET/PT, as part of BBC America’s Supernatural Saturday.

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Led by Tatiana Maslany, the cast includes Jordan Gavaris ("Degrassi") as Felix, Sarah’s thorny foster brother and her one true confidante; Dylan Bruce ("NCIS") as Paul, Beth’s boyfriend – a decent guy with chiseled features, but more complicated than he appears; Maria Doyle Kennedy ("Downton Abbey") as Mrs. S, Sarah’s hard-nosed working class foster mother from across the pond; Michael Mando ("The Killing") as Vic, Sarah’s volatile ex, aptly nicknamed “Vic the Dick”; Kevin Hanchard ("Republic of Doyle") as Art, a veteran detective working alongside Beth who grows suspicious of her erratic behavior: and Skyler Wexler (Carrie) as Sarah’s seven-year-old daughter. The ten-part conspiracy thriller, produced by Temple Street Productions, is co-created by Graeme Manson ("Endgame") and John Fawcett ("Spartacus"), with Manson also serving as writer and Fawcett as director.

For more visit "Orphan Black" on BBCAmerica.com, "like""Orphan Black" on Facebook, and follow "Orphan Black" on Twitter.

We got our claws into some new images from Rob Zombie's upcoming film The Lords of Salem, and we're sharing 'em with you now in the name of witchery, brotherhood, and all that jazz. Dig 'em!

The film opens nationwide on April 19th including New York; Los Angeles; Boston; San Francisco; Chicago; Philadelphia; Washington, DC; Miami; Dallas; Houston; Detroit; and more.

The Lords of Salem stars Barbara Crampton as Virginia Cable, a camera operator for a local kid's show at Salem Public Access TV called "Lobster Joe's Fishy Fun Show"; Brandon Cruz as Ted Delta, a local Salem drug counselor; Michael Shamus Wiles as Jarrett Perkins, owner of Salem's Engine House Pizza; Michael Berryman as Virgil Magnus, 50% of a well-known witch hunting duo called "The Brothers"; Sid Haig as Dean Magnus, the other half of "The Brothers"; Christopher Knight as Keith Williams, aka Lobster Joe, the host of "Lobster Joe's Fishy Fun Show", a staple of local Salem television; Patricia Quinn as Megan, the town's palm reader; Judy Geeson as Lacy Doyle, owner and landlady of Heidi Hawthorne's apartment; Ken Foree as Herman Jackson, one third of The Big H Radio Team; Richard Lynch as the film's protagonist, Reverend John Hawthorne; Lisa Marie, who plays Priscilla Reed, a woman who gives her all to support "the cause of the coven"; Billy Drago as Judge Samuel Mather, a key player in the history of the Lords; Dee Wallace as Sonny, a self-help guru; Bruce Davison as Francis Matthias, author of the book Satan's Last Stand - The Truth About The Salem Witch Trials; Maria Conchita Alonso as Francis' wife, Alice Matthias; Torsten Voges as Count Gorgann, lead singer of the Norwegian death metal band Leviathan the Fleeing Serpent; Jeff Daniel Phillips as Herman "Whitey" Salvador, one third of The Big H Team; Meg Foster as Margaret Morgan, the leader of a secret coven of witches in Salem; Ernest Thomas, as Chip "Freakshow" McDonald, the station manager at Salem's #1 rock station; and Sheri Moon Zombie as Heidi, the final third of The Big H Team.

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The flick is rated R for "disturbing violent and sexual content, graphic nudity, language and some drug use."

Synopsis
Heidi, a blonde rock chick, DJs at a local radio station and, together with the two Hermans (Whitey and Munster), forms part of the "Big H Radio Team". A mysterious wooden box containing a vinyl record arrives for Heidi, "a gift from the Lords". She assumes it's a rock band on a mission to spread their word. As Heidi and Whitey play the Lords' record, it starts to play backwards, and Heidi experiences a flashback to a past trauma.

Later Whitey plays the Lords' record, dubbing them the Lords of Salem, and to his surprise, the record plays normally and is a massive hit with listeners.

The arrival of another wooden box from the Lords presents the Big H Team with free tickets, posters and records to host a gig in Salem. Soon Heidi and her cohorts find that the gig is far from the rock spectacle they're expecting: The original Lords of Salem are returning, and they're out for BLOOD.

With the remake of Evil Dead just a few weeks away and the fact that everyone has been wondering for the last several years if we'll ever get a proper Evil Dead 4, news has come that has us grinning from ear-to-ear!

While doing press in London for his upcoming flick Oz: The Great and Powerful, for Sam Raimi the question inevitably came up again: Will there be an Evil Dead 4" Raimi's answer was music to our ears...

"I would love to make Evil Dead 4. My brother [most likely Ivan, who co-wrote Drag Me to Hell, Army of Darkness and Darkman with Sam] and I plan to work on the script this summer."

Stay tuned, kids! Dark days are coming!

The very first look at star Lacey Chabert in Brian A. Metcalf’s new horror/drama, The Lost Tree, had made its way into our e-mail inbox and we have every pixel of it awaiting your perusal right here. Dig it!

Michael Madsen (Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill: Vol. 1, Kill Bill: Vol. 2), Lacey Chabert (Mean Girls, “Part of Five”), Scott Grimes (Robin Hood, “American Dad”), and Clare Kramer (Bring It On, The Rules of Attraction) all star alongside Thomas Ian Nicholas in Brian A. Metcalf’s The Lost Tree.

Written, directed, and produced by Metcalf, The Lost Tree is centered around a man, Noah (Nicholas), who is guilt-ridden for the death of his wife, Emma (Kramer). He travels to an isolated cabin in search of peace and isolation. But he soon learns of the dangerous surroundings of the area.

A short while ago we got to see what Cemetery Dance was putting together for its special editions of Stephen King's Doctor Sleep, and now finally Scribner has unveiled the official artwork for its hardcover edition of King's long awaited sequel to The Shining.

King's official site revealed the cover today, and it most definitely gets our stamp of approval. Doctor Sleep is being released on September 24th, 2013.

Synopsis:
Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

On highways across America a tribe of people called "The True Knot" travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Haunted by the inhabitants of the Overlook Hotel where he spent one horrific childhood year, Dan has been drifting for decades, desperate to shed his father’s legacy of despair, alcoholism, and violence. Finally he settles in a New Hampshire town, an AA community that sustains him, and a job at a nursing home where his remnant “shining” power provides the crucial final comfort to the dying. Aided by a prescient cat, he becomes “Doctor Sleep.”

Then Dan meets the evanescent Abra Stone, and it is her spectacular gift, the brightest shining ever seen, that reignites Dan’s own demons and summons him to a battle for Abra’s soul and survival. This is an epic war between good and evil, a gory, glorious story that will thrill the millions of hyper-devoted readers of The Shining and wildly satisfy anyone new to the territory of this icon in the King canon.

With The Nightmare on Elm Street Collection hitting Blu-ray here in the States for the first time on this coming Tuesday, March 5th, we figured now would be a great time to revisit some of the franchise's most insane moments. Check back every day for more lunacy from each flick.

The collection includes Wes Craven’s original A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), as well as its six sequels: Freddy’s Revenge (1985), Dream Warriors (1987), The Dream Master (1988), The Dream Child (1989), Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare (1991) and Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994).

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After a week long reprieve from the yellowish norm, we're back in the groove with a new image from David Twohy's Riddick sequel. Check out this latest photo of the Furian taking on The Animal, former WWE superstar Dave Bautista.

Riddick stars Vin Diesel and is based on a script by David Twohy, who wrote both Chronicles of Riddick and Pitch Black, where he first created the character of Riddick.

Joining Diesel are a returning Karl Urban (Star Trek) as Vaako; Jordi Molla as Santana, the arrogant captain of the mercenary ship; Matt Nable (Killer Elite) as Boss Johns, a man looking for answers; Katee Sackhoff (TV's "Battlestar Galactica") as the Nordic mercenary Dahl; and Bokeem Woodbine (Total Recall) as bounty hunter Moss. Rounding out the cast are Dave Bautista (The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption), Conrad Pla (Immortals), Raoul Trujillo (Apocalypto), Nolan Funk (Aliens in America), and two-time Grammy Award-nominated singer Keri Hilson.

Synopsis:
Diesel reprises his role as the antihero Riddick, a dangerous, escaped convict wanted by every bounty hunter in the known galaxy. The infamous Riddick has been left for dead on a sun-scorched planet that appears to be lifeless. Soon, however, he finds himself fighting for survival against alien predators more lethal than any human he’s encountered. The only way off is for Riddick to activate an emergency beacon and alert mercenaries who rapidly descend to the planet in search of their bounty.

The first ship to arrive carries a new breed of merc, more lethal and violent, while the second is captained by a man whose pursuit of Riddick is more personal. With time running out and a storm on the horizon that no one could survive, his hunters won’t leave the planet without Riddick’s head as their trophy.

The next part in James Wan's haunting new franchise, Insidious Chapter 2, has gotten itself a new release date of September 20th, and we cannot think of a better way to usher in the Halloween season we love so much!

Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Danielle Bisutti, Ty Simpkins, Barbara Hershey, Leigh Whannell, Angus Sampson, Jocelin Donahue, and Andrew Astor star.

Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Productions is producing (with Alliance financing). FilmDistrict will distribute the film theatrically in the United States, with Sony handling the majority of domestic ancillary rights. Alliance will distribute in Canada, the U.K. (through its Momentum Pictures subsidiary), and Spain (through Aurum); and Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions will distribute in all other international territories.

Production is under way in Los Angeles.

Be sure to "like" the original film by visiting the Insidious Facebook page, and follow it on Twitter at @InsidiousMovie.

Stay tuned for more as it comes.

Since today is the kick-off of Indie Horror Month, it's only appropriate that we have word of a new indie project that's set to commence filming this Thursday, March 7th. Read on for the casting details, teaser trailer, artwork, and more for Thomas J. Churchill's "pre-apocalyptic"Lazarus.

The film, written and directed by Thomas J. Churchill, co-stars two members of Dread Central's 2012 Horror Starlets charity bowling team: Brooke Lewis (pictured below left; "Ms. Vampy", Slime City Massacre) and Natalie Victoria (pictured below right; DeadHeads). Other horror faces joining the cast include Sarah French and several actors from Churchill's earlier effort, Emerging Past. It's produced by Church Hill Productions with David M. Parks, Eric Stephens, and Thomas J. Churchill.

Synopsis:
It is the year 1957 in Hollywood, CA. A telegram arrives at the office of George Lazarus, an insurance investigator with the assignment to look into a suspicious claim that was just put in by Harvest International Tobacco Company. Lazarus begins to schedule routine interviews with the twelve employees that are named on this claim. He learns that they all had just gotten fired for being sick at the job. He never makes it back to the office. What seemed to be a normal fraud investigation case may have turned out to be the beginning of the end for the human race. His fiancee, Bethany, begins to worry as she realizes that he hasn't been back at the office since early that morning and he hasn't checked in either. Not the behavior from a man who lives by daily routine. She decides to follow his path in hopes of locating him. Nothing can prepare her for what she is about to witness in this eerily horrific pre-apocalyptic tale.

For more visit the official Lazarus website and "like"Lazarus on Facebook.

We don't mention it a lot around here, but Syfy's supernatural series "Lost Girl" is the number one original cable drama among Adults 18-49 and 25-54 in its time period (Monday, 10PM) so it obviously has a lot of fans. Which must be why the network announced its renewal for a fourth season.

From the Press Release:
In the series’ current third season, which ends Monday, April 22nd, at 10PM (ET/PT), "Lost Girl" is averaging 676,000 Adults 18-49, 721,000 Adults 25-54, and 1.3 million total viewers. Look for 13 all-new episodes to begin airing in 2014.

Anna Silk (Being Erica) stars as seductress Bo, a Succubus (a powerful female entity in folklore) who feeds off sexual energy. Bo is one of the Fae, creatures of legend who pass as humans. Faced with choosing between an allegiance to the Dark or Light Fae clans, Bo takes the middle path between the human and Fae worlds while embarking on a mission to unlock the secrets of her origin.

"Lost Girl" co-stars Kris Holden-Ried ("The Tudors," Underworld 4) as “Dyson”; Ksenia Solo (Life Unexpected; Black Swan) as “Kenzi”; Zoie Palmer (The Guard, Instant Star) as “Lauren”; Rick Howland (Billable Hours, Murdoch Mysteries) as “Trick” and K.C. Collins (Owning Mahowny, Doomstown) as “Hale.”

"Lost Girl" was developed by Prodigy Pictures, in association with Shaw Media and Showcase. Executive producers are Jay Firestone and Emily Andras. Vanessa Piazza is producer. Produced by Wendy Grean. "Lost Girl" is produced with the participation of the Canadian Media Fund created by the Government of Canada and the Canadian cable industry, and with the assistance of the Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit and the Ontario Film and Television Tax Credit Program.

At first we thought James Purefoy was the best thing about Kevin Williamson's new series, "The Following," but it turns out Kevin Bacon is more than holding his own as the focal point of the show. Check him out in one of two new clips from this Monday's Episode 1.07, "Let Me Go."

"The Following" Episode 1.07 - "Let Me Go" (airs 3/4/13; repeats 3/9/13)
With the help of attorney Olivia Warren (Renee Elise Goldsberry), Joe Carroll (James Purefoy) makes a case against Ryan (Kevin Bacon) and the FBI to be transferred to a different facility, but Ryan suspects a larger plan may be at play. Meanwhile Emma (Valorie Curry) and Joey (Kyle Catlett) arrive at a meeting point and come across another one of Roderick's men who has a secret of his own.

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For more info visit "The Following" website, "like""The Following" on Facebook, and follow "The Following" on Twitter.

We have a lot of bobblehead collectibles scattered around the Dread Central office, but you better believe we've already made room for one more that's coming next month: the newly announced limited edition Lucio Fulci's Zombie Bobblehead, which is set to ship on April 23rd.

Product Description:
From one of the great cult horror films of all time, Lucio Fulci’s Zombie will delight adult and horror figure collectors as well as everyone who loves zombies. And really, who doesn’t?

Meticulously rendered and pristinely sculpted, this iconic figure is hand-numbered and limited to 1,000 pieces.

Zombie is the third in this line of limited edition bobbleheads, which also includes Karen Cooper from Night of the Living Dead and Iggy Pop, the godfather of punk.

Lucio Fulci’s Zombie Bobblehead stands 7 inches high and is made of durable polyresin. Click here to pre-order yours from Aggronautix.

The results are in for the fourth showdown between various DC Comics characters in the Injustice: Gods Among Us Battle Arena. Read on to learn who won when Superman took on Sinestro and Green Arrow battled Hawkgirl.

From the Press Release:
Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and DC Entertainment reveal the newest batch of winners to triumph in the fourth round of Injustice Battle Arena. With these latest victors, the preliminary rounds of the battle close, and next week the continuing contenders will face off against each other in the quarterfinals.

As a result of fan voting over the last week, Superman smashed Sinestro to pieces in a showing of otherworldly power, while Green Arrow came out on top of Hawkgirl in an epic match of wits, agility and raw force.

Find out next Monday, March 4th, which first-round champions will enter the ring for the first quarterfinal matches of Injustice Battle Arena. By participating in these weekly showdowns, fans based in the United States can enter to win amazing prizes each week, simply by submitting their votes for each complete round of competition. Voice your opinion via Facebook, YouTube or Twitter and join the debate!

Injustice: Gods Among Us is an all-new game in development by award-winning NetherRealm Studios. The title debuts a bold new fighting game franchise that introduces a deep, original story featuring a large cast of favorite DC Comics icons such as Batman, Green Arrow, Cyborg, Harley Quinn, Nightwing, Solomon Grundy, Superman, The Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern and many others. Set in a world where the lines between good and evil are blurred, players will experience heroes and villains engaging in epic battles on a massive scale.

Injustice: Gods Among Us is scheduled for release on April 16, 2013, for the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft, PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system, and the Wii U system from Nintendo. To learn more, visit the official Injustice: Gods Among Us website.

Comics writer J. Michael Straczynski and artist Ben Templesmith have teamed up with Image Comics for Ten Grand, a brand-new story of love, death, and heartache with Issue #1 due out on May 1st.

Synopsis:
Joe Fitzgerald was a mob enforcer until the day he met Laura, who convinced him to leave that world behind. Before quitting, Joe agreed to one last job, little realizing that the man he'd been sent to kill was deeply involved in demonlogy. He survived Joe's attempt and came after him, fatally wounding Joe and killing Laura. As he lay dying, an angelic force (who may or may not be what she appears) pointed out that where she is going, he can't follow, and where he is going, he wouldn't want her to follow. But if he will agree to work for them as a different kind of enforcer, they will bring him to life and keep on bringing him to life every time he is killed in a righteous cause. The reward: For those five minutes of death, he will be with Laura again.

Would you endure an eternity of pain and death, dying over and over, to be with the woman you love for just five minutes each time you died? Most people might say no. But Joe Fitzgerald isn't most people.

Story by J. Michael Straczynski; art and cover by Ben Templesmith; variant cover by Bill Sienkiewicz. Check out Templesmith's cover below, and click here to pre-order Ten Grand #1 from TFAW.