Mischief. We love mischief. We especially love mischief that leads to a night of murder and frightening mayhem. That kind is the best for sure. That being said, the new film Mischief Night more than has our interest piqued.

From the Press Release
North American rights to Ruthless Pictures’ MISCHIEF NIGHT, a home invasion thriller based on a pitch by Jesse Baget (Breathless, Cellmates) and Eric D. Wilkinson (The Man From Earth, Paranormal Movie), has been picked up by Image Entertainment, a subsidiary of RLJ Entertainment (NASDAQ: RLJE). The film, which just entered into production, is being directed by Richard Schenkman (Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies, The Man From Earth) from a screenplay by Baget and Schenkman.

From producers Eric D. Wilkinson, Richard Schenkman, and Jesse Baget, MISCHIEF NIGHT tells the story of a terrifying home invasion on the eve of Halloween. Young Emily Walton (Noell Coet), who has suffered from psychosomatic blindness ever since a car accident that took her mother’s life, must summon every instinct at her disposal to protect herself and her loved ones from a mysterious intruder.

A talented ensemble cast that includes veteran actor Daniel Hugh Kelly (Cujo, Someone To Watch Over Me, The Good Son), Ally Walker (“Sons of Anarchy,” While You Were Sleeping, Universal Soldier), Noell Coet (Cowgirls n’ Angels, 5 Time Champion), Charlie O’Connell (Dude, Where’s My Car, Cruel Intentions, “Sliders”), Erica Leerhsen (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Anything Else), Richard Riehle (Bridesmaids, A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas), Stephanie Erb (The Ring, Starship Troopers), and Ian Bamberg (Second Time Around, Warrior Road) bring the story to life.

Richard Schenkman insists that MISCHIEF NIGHT is not your typical genre movie. “This is not a horror film,” he said. “While I enjoy pictures like Scream, I think this movie has more in common with high-tension, claustrophobic thrillers like The Strangers, the French movie Them, and even the classic Wait Until Dark. While there is violence in the film, my plan is to minimize the gore and keep the effects realistic, as opposed to the stylized mayhem we see in other pictures.”

Wilkinson agrees. “I think people forget that movies like John Carpenter’s Halloween have very little blood or gore in the film. Eventually, that franchise embraced the blood and guts, but the original was all about the suspense, and I applaud Richard’s ‘less is more’ approach.”

The deal for MISCHIEF NIGHT was negotiated by producers Jesse Baget and Eric D. Wilkinson for Ruthless Pictures, and Mark Ward, Vice President of Acquisitions, for Image Entertainment.

For more visit and "like"Mischief Night on Facebook.

Those of you who have been hoping for David Cronenberg to direct a true horror film again might just be getting your wish - so long as you don't mind a bit of social commentary added to the mix.

Per THR, Julianne Moore, John Cusack, Sarah Gadon, and Robert Pattinson have joined the cast of David Cronenberg’s next picture, Maps to the Stars, a ghost story and critique of celebrity-obsessed society in Los Angeles.

Longtime Cronenberg producer Martin Katz and his Prospero Pictures shingle are partnering with Entertainment One to finance the indie movie. The screenplay is by Bruce Wagner (Wild Palms). Sentient Entertainment's Renee Tab, Cronenberg's manager, will executive produce with Integral Films’ Alfred Hurmer co-producing.

Maps to the Stars marks Prospero’s fourth collaboration with Cronenberg, most recently on A Dangerous Method and Cosmopolis, which also starred Pattinson and Gadon.

Entertainment One Films will handle worldwide sales and distribution, with production on the film to begin in July in Toronto and Los Angeles.

Look for more soon!

Fan of the anime show High School of the Dead? Of course you are! It rules! Now if you have yourself an XBox Live account or a PlayStation Network account, you can catch the show anytime that you want!

From the Press Release
VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), the largest publisher, distributor and licensor of manga and anime in North America, partners with Sentai Filmworks to unleash a frightening new world of the living dead as it premieres the zombie action of HIGH SCHOOL OF THE DEAD on Neon Alley this Friday, April 19th. Episode 1 (English dubbed) of the high-octane anime action series will debut in High Definition at 10PM EST / 7PM PST, replaying at 2AM EST / 11PM PST, and will air again throughout the week. New episodes will premiere every Friday. Check the Neon Alley program guide or NeonAlley.com for more information and additional airtimes.

Based on the ultra-violent manga (graphic novel) originally created by Daisuke Sato, directed by Tetsuro Araki (Death Note, Black Lagoon) and produced by the internationally famed studio MADHOUSE (Death Note, Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D-Bloodlust, Wicked City), HIGH SCHOOL OF THE DEAD (rated TV-MA) is distributed in North America by Sentai Filmworks and combines hordes of flesh-eating zombies with state-of-the-art animation to deliver one of the most action-packed anime series ever!

A deadly new disease is ravaging the world, turning the populace into mindless zombies, and the number of infected victims is skyrocketing by the second. As their fellow classmates and teachers succumb to the infection around them, a small group of students at Fujimi High School must fight for their lives after surviving the initial outbreak. It’s up to Takashi Komuro to unite the group of weary survivors and try to escape the horrors that surround them. In this new world of the living dead...will they escape?

“We’re thrilled to welcome Sentai Filmworks as a content partner for our innovative anime content delivery service, Neon Alley,” says Brian Ige, VIZ Media Vice President, Animation. “HIGH SCHOOL OF THE DEAD is the newest anime series to join Neon Alley’s expansive schedule for Spring 2013, and fans won’t want to miss this action-packed tale of survival when it debuts Friday!”

“HIGH SCHOOL OF THE DEAD is a riveting story that combines plenty of visceral action with compelling, multi-faceted characters and some sexy fan service,” says David Del Rio, VP of Licensing, Sentai Filmworks. “We look forward to the series finding a brand new audience of avid fans on Neon Alley and to viewers joining Takashi Komuro and his cohorts as they face a stark and dangerous world.”

Neon Alley is VIZ Media’s 24-hour, subscription-based anime channel available for the PS3 game console and Playstation® Network, and Xbox 360 and Xbox Live®. The platform features the world’s best titles (dubbed in English and uncut), presented in HD (when available), for a low monthly subscription rate of $6.99, and for a limited time only, a one-week free trial is available to all fans that sign up at NeonAlley.com

Neon Alley’s schedule includes a dynamic mix of action, adventure, sci-fi, supernatural, fantasy, and horror anime, including new debuts this season of weekly exclusive episodes of ACCEL WORLD, FATE/ZERO and ZETMAN. Fans also can catch other favorite blockbuster anime series from the beginning, including BLUE EXORCIST, DEATH NOTE, NARUTO SHIPPUDEN, ONE PIECE, TIGER & BUNNY, VAMPIRE KNIGHT and more.

Neon Alley is specially designed to be studio agnostic, featuring titles from other anime producers and content distributors, including Aniplex, FUNimation, NTV, Taiseng, and Anime News Network. Members can also share real-time thoughts and status updates using social media technology from Tout, some of which will air on the network.

Finally after an impossibly long wait here Stateside Apartment 1303, the English language remake of Ataru Oikawa’s 2007 Japanese supernatural thriller of the same name, has found itself a real estate agent to share the spookery on a national level!

From the Press Release
Gravitas Ventures announced today that they have acquired theatrical and digital rights to APARTMENT 1303 3D from MonteCristo International. The tense supernatural thriller, written and directed by Michael Taverna, is based on a novel by Kei Ôishi and is a remake of a Japanese horror title of the same name.

APARTMENT 1303 3D, starring Mischa Barton (“The O.C.”), Rebecca De Mornay (“The Hand That Rocks the Cradle”), and Julianne Michelle (“Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps”), will debut on VOD on June 17th. On July 25th APARTMENT 1303 3D will be released theatrically in 20 markets including many 3D midnight shows.

The deal for APARTMENT 1303 3D was negotiated by Gravitas Ventures’ Nolan Gallagher and Monte Cristo International’s Cindy Nelson-Mullen.
“APARTMENT 1303 3D is a taut white knuckle supernatural thriller that will frighten apartment dwellers and home owners alike,” remarked Nolan Gallagher, founder and CEO of Gravitas Ventures. “The 3D presentation and performances of Mischa Barton, Rebecca De Mornay and Julianne Michelle will take hold of moviegoers and home viewers looking for a summer scare.”

“APARTMENT 1303 3D is being released theatrically around the world and is holding its ground at the box office against higher budget 3D titles like ‘OZ’ or ‘Giant Slayer.’ This speaks to the quality of the film and of the full stereoscopic 3D as well as the demand for 3D content worldwide,” said Cindy Nelson-Mullen , CEO of MonteCristo International.

Synopsis
Having grown up under the controlling grip of her fame-hungry mother (Rebecca De Mornay), Janet Slate (Julianne Michelle) jumps at the opportunity to move into what looks to be a great high-rise apartment in downtown Detroit. Yet some deals are too good to be true as one night her boyfriend Mark (Corey Sevier) finds her in the middle of the street - having fallen from the balcony thirteen stories above. When her sister Lara (Mischa Barton) tries to investigate the mystery of what happened, she moves into the same apartment and encounters the odd neighbors in the building, including an eerie nine-year old girl who seems to somehow know the real reason for Janet’s fall. Lara soon realizes that her sister’s death might spell the same fate for her unless she can overcome the strange events that are terrorizing the inhabitants in Apartment 1303. Using innovative 3D shooting techniques, director Michael Taverna creates a tense supernatural thriller that is adapted from a novel by Kei Ôishi.

Tonight's episode of "The Vampire Diaries" Is just about ready to air on the East Coast, but already the first promo for next week's ep, which serves as the backdoor pilot for the potential spinoff "The Originals," has landed online. Check it out right here!

"The Vampire Diaries" Episode 4.20 - "The Originals" (airs 4/25/13, 9-10 pm)
KLAUS RETURNS TO HIS PAST IN NEW ORLEANS — Acting on a mysterious tip that a plot is brewing against him in New Orleans, Klaus (Joseph Morgan) makes a trip to the town he and his family helped build. Klaus’ questions lead him to a reunion with his former protégé, Marcel (guest star Charles Michael Davis), a charismatic vampire who has total control over the human and supernatural inhabitants of New Orleans.

Determined to help his brother find redemption, Elijah (Daniel Gillies) follows Klaus and soon learns that Hayley (guest star Phoebe Tonkin) has also come to the French Quarter searching for clues to her family history and has fallen into the hands of a powerful witch named Sophie (guest star Daniella Pineda).

Related Story:First Look Photos and More Details on "The Vampire Diaries" Spinoff "The Originals"

Meanwhile, in Mystic Falls, Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) continue with their plan for Elena (Nina Dobrev), while Katherine (Nina Dobrev) reveals a surprising vulnerability to Rebekah (Claire Holt) and asks her to deliver a message. Chris Grismer directed the episode written by Julie Plec.

For more visit "The Vampire Diaries" on CWTV.com, "like""The Vampire Diaries" on Facebook, and follow "The Vampire Diaries" on Twitter.

In horror's early days you could find a rabid rampaging gorilla in tons of different horror flicks. If didn't even matter if the movie was about them or whether it actually fit with the goings-on or not. Why? Because the presence of a gorilla is fun.

Filmmaker Dave Shaw knows this all too well and as a result is releasing a frightfully funny homage to the terror tales of yesteryear called, simply enough, Gorilla. Sara Duplancic, Francis Fisk, Paul Washer, Sherry Thurig, and Penu Chalykoff star. Dig on the trailer and more below.

Synopsis
A comedic salute to 1950's "Monster on the Loose" B-Movies (with modern twists). "Late Night Classics presents GORILLA!" tells the story of Anna, a young woman who discovers that an escaped gorilla is killing her friends and family. Her only hope to stop the beast is booze-hound former TV show host Riggs Deardon, who once tussled with a gorilla 20 years previously. Anna enlists the help of her logical yet sarcastic boyfriend Stephen, Riggs' lost in the 60's ex-wife Mimsy, and not quite with it cop Officer Landis to stop the beast before it kills again.

Tara Reid starring in an Asylum movie about a tornado filled with hungry sharks? Why am I not surprised? Read on to find out which stars of “Beverly Hills 90210” and the cult classic C.H.U.D. will be joining her when Sharknado touches down later this year.

Written by Thunder Levin (American Warships, AE Apocalypse Earth) and helmed by Anthony C. Ferrante, director of The Asylum’s “pretty damned good horror movie” Hansel & Gretel, “The Jaws After Tomorrow,” aka Sharknado, sees Los Angeles devastated by a monster hurricane that leaves the streets flooded with shark-infested waters leading to the inevitable moment when a tornado sucks up the sharks, producing the world’s first man-eating F5 tornado.

Tara Reid of American Pie, The Big Lebowski, and considerable tabloid fame (at least until Lindsay Lohan and Amanda Bynes stole all the headlines) leads the charge against this unholy predatory twister threatening the City of Angels. No word on what her role will be. As someone who has seen her unlikely turn as an anthropologist in Alone in the Dark, please let her be playing a scientist again. Please. Please. Please.

Joining her will be original “Beverly Hills 90210” beefcake turned recent Chippendale dancer Ian Ziering as well as the great character actor John Heard, the star of C.H.U.D., one of my all-time favorite b-movies.

John Heard once hunted Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers, now the Sharknado hunts him. Circle of life.

Sharknado promises to be a sharktacular disaster epic for the ages. No word yet as to when exactly we can expect this perfect eating machine storm to make landfall on TV or DVD, but you better believe I’ll keep you posted.

The next generation of video game comics arrives from Dark Horse and Deep Silver in May. The Gospel According to Artyom, a Metro: Last Light digital graphic novel, is a unique collaboration between Metro 2033 author Dmitry Glukhovsky and Dark Horse Comics.

From the Press Release:
Metro: Last Light is a first-person-shooter video game and the highly anticipated sequel to the extraordinary Metro 2033. In the year 2034, a nuclear war has turned the world into a post-apocalyptic wasteland. In Moscow, the tunnels of the Metro have become a new home for the former inhabitants of the city. Within the catacombs, they fight for their survival, fending off hordes of hideous mutants born from the toxic atmosphere as well as other factions desperate to take control of what little hospitable land remains. As they fight, they also search for a doomsday device that could be the key to their victory. A civil war is inevitable. During these dark hours, the players will embody Artyom and become the last light for all of mankind.

Telling the story of Artyom between the fateful events of Metro 2033 and Metro: Last Light, the digital graphic novel The Gospel According to Artyom is available exclusively to customers who pre-order Metro: Last Light through Steam and other selected retailers worldwide.

"The Gospel According to Artyom is in fact the last chapter of Metro 2033 and the first chapter of Metro: Last Light, linking both stories together and giving an unexpected insight on what really happened in the beginning of it all. Reading it will change your understanding of my saga," said Dmitry Glukhovsky.

The novel Metro 2033 served as the inspiration for the creation of both video games, and Glukhovsky personally contributed a huge volume of dialogue for Metro: Last Light. Glukhovsky’s novels Metro 2033 and Metro 2034 have sold more than two million copies worldwide. In 2013 his latest book, Metro 2035, will be available outside of Russia.

Metro: Last Light is set for release on May 14 in North America and May 17 across the rest of the world. For more information and a list of participating retailers, visit EnterTheMetro.com.

Every few months or so another behind-the-scenes video from Universal's prequel to The Thing slips online and makes us want to set our pubes ablaze with great fury over how cool this movie could have been. This is one of those times.

Mind you, these fine bits of practical FX work were unfortunately scrapped for "more realistic" looking CGI. For more on those poor decisions, read Michael Felsher's editorial on The Thing premake and my review of The Thing Blu-ray.

StudioADI has shared another previously unseen behind-the-scenes video. The torso puppet you see below was built to show Henrick's legs kicking as he's being swallowed by the "Thing" under the shack.

The videos below the torso puppet, which we've posted before but you might have missed, showcase two animatronic pilot aliens. “The mummified Pilot and the Thing having replicated itself as one of the alien crew members. In the story originally, the Thing needed to become one of these aliens in order to fly the ship buried under the ice (note the bio-mechanical connections implanted in the creature’s back),” they explain.

“ADI designed the character, built a limited animatronic puppet, and performed it on set.”

“The third Pilot was going to be a digital version of this creature, but due to a story change, it was never executed. The mummified Pilot was covered over with a digital energy effect, and we designed a new character, the Sanders-Thing, which was realized digitally.”

Watch this latest video and the others below. Then get angry and punch the wall.

While there are no new straight horror flicks arriving in theatres this weekend, we do have a genre-ish film starring Tom Cruise called Oblivion. So we did what we do... watched it and then brought back a verdict for you.

Read our Oblivion review here.

The flick, directed by Joseph Kosinski, stars Tom Cruise, Andrea Riseborough, Morgan Freeman, Olga Kurylenko, and lots and lots of CGI. Look for it in theatres now, and don't say we didn't warn you.

Synopsis
2077: Jack Harper (Cruise) serves as a security repairmen stationed on an evacuated Earth. Part of a massive operation to extract vital resources after decades of war with a terrifying alien threat who still scavenges what's left of our planet, Jack's mission is almost complete. In a matter of two weeks, he will join the remaining survivors on a lunar colony far from the war-torn world he has long called home.

Living in and patrolling the breathtaking skies from thousands of feet above, Jack's soaring existence is brought crashing down after he rescues a beautiful stranger from a downed spacecraft. Drawn to Jack through a connection that transcends logic, her arrival triggers a chain of events that forces him to question everything he thought he knew. With a reality that is shattered as he discovers shocking truths that connect him to Earth of the past, Jack will be pushed to a heroism he didn't know he contained within. The fate of humanity now rests solely in the hands of a man who believed our world was soon to be lost forever.

The day is finally here, kids! Rob Zombie's The Lords of Salem is in theatres, and our friends over at Cinefantastique Online have scored themselves a podcast interview with both star Sheri Moon Zombie and Rob himself!

From the Press Release
In the latest episode of the weekly podcast series The CFQ Interview, controversial director Rob Zombie and actress Sheri Moon Zombie sit down with Cinefantastique editor emeritus Dan Persons for a wide-ranging discussion of their latest release, The Lords of Salem, and of their careers in film in general.

In a free-wheeling and candid conversation, Rob discusses his fascination with the roots of classic horror film, describes how this latest effort departs from the worlds of terror he's created for such films as The Devil's Rejects and Halloween, and talks about the difficulties he encountered translating this newest vision to screen.

Sheri meanwhile discusses how her husband brought her up-to-speed on genre film, the complexities of being thrown into the maelstrom of a Rob Zombie project, and what it was like sharing screen time with such scream queens as Dee Wallace.

It's a lively twenty-five minutes that reveal the passion and humor of this horror couple.

The CFQ Interview is available for download at Cinefantastique Online, and on iTunes by searching for "Cinefantastique."

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.

Related Story: Lords of Salem News Archive

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 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.

Before you get too excited, this has nothing to do with the sexy Emmanuelle series of skin flicks from decades ago. This is a beast of a different kind. Read on for details.

Written and directed by Francesca Gregorini, Emanuel and the Truth About Fishes is a dark thriller starring Kaya Scodelario, Jessica Biel, Alfred Molina, Frances O'Connor, Aneurin Barnard, and Jimmi Simpson.

Check out the trailer and artwork below. And once again... sorry, no vintage circa 1970s muffs to stare at in amazement.

Synopsis
A troubled girl named Emanuel (Scodelario) becomes preoccupied with her mysterious new neighbor, Linda (Biel), who bears a striking resemblance to her dead mother. In offering to baby-sit Linda's newborn, Emanuel unwittingly enters a fragile, fictional world, of which she becomes the gatekeeper.

A new anthology film is on its way all the way from Italy, and it's home to many a ghastly horror trope such as zombies, demons, and all around general mayhem. Read on for your first look at The Pyramid.

Written by Alex Visani and Raffaele Ottolenghi and produced by Visani, The Pyramid is an anthology divided into four episodes strictly connected to an infernal object - a bizarre pyramid that came into our world to spread madness, death, and destruction. Much like Hellraiser's Lament Configuration, the pyramid has been passed down from owner to owner over the centuries until the present, when it is found by an unfortunate guy who unwittingly uses it to open a doorway to a series of terrible and unstoppable events.

Francesco Rossini, Emilia Verginelli, Antonio De Matteo, Andrea Napoleoni, Cristina Buoninfante, Raffaele Ottolenghi, Mauro Celaia, Viktorya Tori, Maria Spelta, Jack Gallo, and David Power star.

Mark your calendars! Haylar Garcia’s buzzed-about feature An American Terror is screening in Los Angeles, CA, this May, and we’ve got the details. Read on!

“We are honored to part of the LA Fear and Fantasy Film Festival,” filmmaker Garcia told us of the fest’s selection of his An American Terror. “They have been nothing but great, and they really seem to be behind independent film. We hope that showcasing the film in L.A. will help reach the sales platform we think it deserves.”

Written, directed and edited by Garcia and produced by Sam Sleiman and Tarik Heitmann and executive produced by Jim Brennan and Roland Salameh, the official synopsis for An American Terror reads as follows: Three teen outcasts decide to trade their nameless and bullied existences for internet fame by exacting a sadistic template for the unthinkable, but in their search for the assault weapons to pull it off, they come upon something far darker than even their own gruesome plans.

See the trailer below, read our previous interview with Garcia here, and to purchase tickets to the Los Angeles screening (which takes place on Friday, May 10, at 8 p.m. at Theatre Banshee, 3435 W. Magnolia Blvd., Burbank 91505), go here.

Playing tomorrow at the currently kicking ass Tribeca Film Festival is a new riff on the classic tale of Frankenstein known as The Machine, and we have several new stills and even a clip for you cats to dig on!

Check out the goods for writer/director Caradog James' (Little White Lies) film below. Toby Stephens, Caity Lotz, Denis Lawson, Sam Hazeldine, and Pooneh Hajimohammadi all star.

Synopsis
With an impoverished world plunged into a Cold War with a new enemy, Britain’s Ministry of Defense is on the brink of developing a game-changing weapon. Lead scientist Vincent McCarthy (Toby Stephens) provides the answer with his creation, ‘The Machine’- an android with unrivalled physical and processing skills. When a programming glitch causes an early prototype to destroy his lab, McCarthy enlists artificial intelligence expert Ava (Caity Lotz) to help him harness the full potential of a truly conscious fighting machine.

The Machine is having its world premiere this Saturday, April 20th, in the Midnight section of the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.

While we're still waiting for exact specs as well as a release date, word has come that you can order "The Walking Dead" Limited Edition Season 3 Blu-ray set RIGHT NOW and save some cash in the process! What are you waiting for?

Just click here or on the Amazon link below to get cracking!

In this uncertain world, Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his band of survivors must not only fight the dead, but also face a whole new fear: the living. In this 16 episode season, the series Entertainment Weekly called the “greatest thriller ever produced for television”, Rick and his fellow survivors continue to seek refuge in a desolate and post-apocalyptic world and soon discover that there are greater forces to fear than just the walking dead. The struggle to survive has never been so perilous. This season also introduces new characters, including the Governor (David Morrissey) and fan-favorite Michonne (Danai Gurira), along with her zombie pets.

To stay up-to-the-minute on all things walker related, follow @WalkingDead_AMC on Twitter and visit "The Walking Dead" on Facebook. For more be sure to hit up the official "The Walking Dead" page on AMC.com.

VISIT THE EVILSHOP @ AMAZON!
Got news? Click hereto submit it!
"Like" us on the Dread Central Facebook Fan Page!

Discuss "The Walking Dead" in the comments section below!

Three high profile genre flicks have gone before the MPAA and come away with a rating. We bet you can't guess what said rating is! Put it this way: The news is likely to make John Fithian, president and chief executive of the National Association of Theater Owners, joyfully piss himself.

That's right, kids! We have a trifecta! Guillermo Del Toro’s Pacific Rim, the Dark Horse adaptation R.I.P.D., and Takashi Shimizu’s 7500 have all received a rating of PG-13. While not entirely unexpected, we're still burning up over yesterday's news story about R-rated films being the reason that the North American box office has been flailing.

That being said, I'll end this story just like I did yesterday's...

Idiot.

Hot on the heels of the news that Anchor Bay picked up its distribution and in advance of its world premiere tonight, April 19th, at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, we have the first clip from Karl Mueller's Mr. Jones.

Mr. Jones, from writer/director Karl Mueller, stars Sarah Jones, Jon Foster, and Mark Steger and is a journey into a nightmare that’s so real, even daylight brings no relief.

Synopsis:
Scott and Penny just moved to a remote cabin to escape the pressures of the world and breathe new life into their art. Their only neighbor for miles is a strange hermit who only comes out at night, under the shroud of darkness. As Scott and Penny get deeper into his world, they start to suspect that this man is actually an infamous artist known only as "Mr. Jones" and they've stumbled across a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to document his bizarre existence.

But this is only the beginning. When Scott and Penny delve too deeply into Mr. Jones’ existence, everything around them turns in on itself, and their only escape is through the realm of their own nightmares...

The 2013 Tribeca Film Festival began April 17th and runs through the 28th in New York City. For more info visit the official Tribeca Film Festival website, "like" the Tribeca Film Festival Facebook page, and follow @TribecaFilmFest on Twitter (join the conversation by using the hashtag #TFF).

Let us be clear... we haven't the slightest idea what is happening in this latest Errors of the Human Body clip. I mean, really... no idea. The only thing we know for sure if that this dude wants his mouse back in a bad way. Read on and be bewildered!

Errors of the Human Body opens in select theaters today and is now available to watch on Cable VOD, SundanceNOW, and other digital outlets (iTunes, Amazon Streaming, PS3 Playstation Unlimited, XBOX Zune, Google PLAY, and YouTube).

From the Press Release
IFC Midnight has acquired all North American rights to Eron Sheean’s thriller ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY. Sheean wrote the screenplay for the film with Shane Danielsen. The picture stars Germany’s Karoline Herfurth (PERFUME: THE STORY OF A MURDERER, THE READER, WE ARE THE NIGHT), Iceland’s Tómas Lemarquis (NOI THE ALBINO, PAINLESS, SNOW PIERCER), Rik Mayall (THE YOUNG ONES), and Canada’s rising star Michael Eklund (THE DIVIDE, THE DAY, FRINGE, ALCATRAZ) and was produced by Instinctive Film’s Darryn Welch and Cole Payne.

Following a divorce from his wife and the loss of his son to a rare genetic mutation, Canadian geneticist Geoff Burton (Elkund) relocates to the harsh, wintry scenery of Dresden, Germany, to work on a groundbreaking new project that might just be his key to redemption. When teamed up with his former intern and colleague Rebekka (Herfurth), he starts working on a human regenerative gene with direct ties to his personal tragedy; yet, matters prove increasingly difficult: Jealous co-workers’ feelings are ruffled, old flames are rekindled, and personal demons become consistently harder to suppress in this new and oppressive work environment.

Still haunted by the memory of his wife and his failures to save his deceased son, Burton finds himself maddeningly close to a medical breakthrough, yet quickly spiraling out of control. Collapsing his career and personal life into a dark and increasingly dangerous tunnel-vision of competitive genetics, delusions of all kinds, and the terrifying potential of massive discoveries gone awry, Burton is quite literally the stranger in the strange land. The question remains: How far will Burton be willing to go to atone for the errors of his past?

In our continued support of independent horror cinema, here’s a peek at Hinnon Valley filmmaker Richard Greenwood, Jr.’s latest via a trailer for his period piece/zombie short film The Wretched.

Set in 395 AD Germania, the film follows the plights of Centurion Markus Valerious (actor Nicolas Charles) and his men, who, in an effort to crush the Germanic tribes that threaten their Roman supply chain, find themselves confronting an evil far more insidious.

Written by executive producer Collin Watts and produced by him and Greenwood, the director completed principal photography on The Wretched earlier this year in and around Los Angeles, California.

Ashlynn Yennie (The Human Centipede), Joey Kern (Cabin Fever), Bob McClean, Don Stephens, Jr., Brett Wyman and Maitza Brikisak also star, with Jacky Ferdowsi and Michele Monaco having provided makeup FX.

“Collin contacted me, and once I read the script, I could immediately see myself making this film,” Greenwood told us of the inception of The Wretched. “I loved the idea of bringing a zombie film tastefully and intelligently into a previously untouched period in history.”

With self-financing by Watts, the pair then jumped head-first into pre-production.

“We are looking to ride the wave of Hinnon Valley's festival success to get the ball rolling with The Wretched,” Greenwood told us of his plans for the latter, completed short film. “Due to the uniqueness and concept of this story, I believe that it has more than the potential to exceed any of our previous successes and to become a huge hit.”

Planning to release online a full teaser for The Wretched this June, the filmmaker furthered, “Once audiences get a taste of the bloodshed in it, we know they’re going to be hungry for more, and Collin’s (feature) script has generated a lot of interest from big name talent (who are) excited about working on such an original project.”

”Our goal with the teaser has always been to get the project out there for audiences to get excited about and to use the buzz to attract potential financiers for the eventual feature,” offered Watts of his vision. “We had such an amazing cast and crew, and we’re only now beginning to scratch the surface of what this can become.”

Looking to premiere the short film in its entirety at a major L.A. horror film festival this year, Greenwood is also attached to direct his feature script Lost the Night for Therapy Studios in the coming months.

For more info "like"The Wretched on Facebook.