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Lionsgate Circling Julianne Moore for Key Role in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Parts 1 and 2

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Lionsgate Circling Julianne Moore for Key Role in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Parts 1 and 2Julianne Moore could be joining a juggernaut soon as Lionsgate and director Francis Lawrence are currently eying her for the role of President Alma Coin in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Parts 1 and 2.

Per Deadline, the studio would like to move quickly with Moore starring in both of the final films as the manipulative politician who figures brightly in the finale as Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) becomes a symbol of rebellion against the autocratic Capitol government.

Danny Strong (HBO's "Game Change," which also starred Moore) has been tapped to write the two-part Hunger Games finale Mockingjay. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 will be in theatres on November 21st, 2014, with Part 2 following on November 20th, 2015.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Book Synopsis
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge. Who do they think should pay for the unrest? Katniss. And what's worse, President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe either. Not Katniss' family, not her friends, not the people of District 12. Powerful and haunting, this thrilling final installment of Suzanne Collins' groundbreaking The Hunger Games trilogy promises to be one of the most talked about books of the year.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Lands a Strong Scribe

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Good Morning Godzilla - First On-Set Look at Elizabeth Olsen

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Good Morning Godzilla - First On-Set Look at Elizabeth OlsenCould there be a better way to cap off the news week than seeing just how wet Godzilla star Elizabeth Olsen can get? What? You dirty perverts! Not like that. That'd be cool, too, but get your minds out of the gutters for a second, will ya? (Then put it back.)

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Richard T. Jones, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, David Strathairn, Patrick Sabongui, Yuki Morita, Brian Markinson, Juliette Binoche, Akira Takarada, Victor Rasuk, C.J. Adams, and Ken Watanabe star.

Gareth Edwards is directing the film from a screenplay by Max Borenstein, Frank Darabont, and Dave Callaham. Legendary’s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing with Mary Parent and Brian Rogers. Alex Garcia and Patricia Whitcher are serving as executive producers alongside Yoshimitsu Banno and Kenji Okuhira.

A presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, Godzilla will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, except in Japan, where it will be distributed by Toho Co., Ltd. Legendary Pictures is a division of Legendary Entertainment.

Slated to open on May 16, 2014, the film is expected to be presented in 3D.

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China Sees a Deadly Sign

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China Sees a Deadly SignWe have all heard the story of China's recent troubles with pollution and air so thick you can actually chew it(!), but a toxic environment could very well be the least of their troubles thanks in part to this nasty old witch and her damned evil dolls.

Below you'll find the first poster art and international trailer for the upcoming flick Dead Sign from director Liu Hui. Jiang Song, Wang Jiexi, Liu Zheng, and Lei Yang star.

There's no official synopsis available yet, but the poster and the trailer were too creepy for us to not bring them to you. From what we gather, Dead Sign tells the tale of a group of youth academy students who unwittingly raise hell itself when they decide to try to conjure up the spirit of a long dead witch. Once the hag is up running and cursing, the whole town falls victim to her debilitating spells.

Dead Sign

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Midnight Syndicate's New CD Monsters of Legend to Be Unleashed in July

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Midnight Syndicate's New CD Monsters of Legend  to Be Unleashed in JulyHorror fans far and wide who embrace the unique band Midnight Syndicate should be thrilled to hear that their newest album, Monsters of Legend, will be released on July 19. It's their 16th studio album! Read on for all the details.

Composers Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka have created another menagerie of music and sound effects that the band has become famous for. The cover art features some of your favorite classic monsters, and there will even be a 12" vinyl edition available.

For more information on the band, visit the official Midnight Syndicate website, 'like'Midnight Syndicate on Facebook and follow Midnight Syndicate on Twitter (@MidSyndicate).

From the Press Release
Monsters of Legend, the newest album from Midnight Syndicate, is a "tribute to the golden age of horror" that features sweeping symphonic horror instrumental music and sound effects in the signature style the band pioneered. "We want to make you feel like you are a character in one of those classic horror films - that you've entered a world where any one of the iconic characters from the Universal and Hammer horror films could be right around the corner," said composer Edward Douglas.

The CD artwork features original images from classic Universal Studios horror movies including Frankenstein, Werewolf of London, and Dracula. "Listeners will hear the influence of the Universal Monster, Hammer, and Euro horror films from the 30s through the 70s, not only in the music but in the images the songs conjure," added Gavin Goszka. Although the band promises the new disc will deliver the dark atmosphere haunted attractions, role-playing gamers, and Halloween enthusiasts expect from them, they feel they've crafted a disc that transcends their favorite time of the year. "As we did on Carnival Arcane, we're always trying to take things up a notch both musically and with the sound design. There is a lot going on in this one. Plenty to pull you in, spark your imagination, and keep hold of you any time you're looking to visit that mysterious place in your mind's eye."

The CD will be available for pre-order the first week in July. In addition to other new merchandise, Entity Productions Halloween Music will be releasing a special edition 12" vinyl version of the Monsters of Legend album, hand-numbered and limited to 250 copies.

About Midnight Syndicate
For almost two decades, composers Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka have been known as Midnight Syndicate, creating symphonic soundtracks to imaginary films that facilitate a transcendental and adventurous escape into the secret dimensions of the mind's eye. To many of their fans, they are Gothic music pioneers brewing a signature blend of orchestral horror music and movie-style sound effects. To others, they remain the first "haunted house band" that forever changed the Halloween music genre and became a staple of the October holiday season. And some know them as the duo that teamed up with Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast to produce the first official soundtrack to the legendary Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Their critically-acclaimed works are reminiscent of sweeping, complex masterpieces by artists such as James Horner, Danny Elfman, Black Sabbath and King Diamond and have been featured as a part of groundbreaking films, television shows, video games and at haunted attractions, amusement parks and live performances worldwide.

Midnight Syndicate’s music has become integral to setting a powerful mood at top-rated haunted attractions and amusement parks as well as at costume shops, gaming and Halloween parties and Halloween-themed cruises from Siberia and Hong Kong, to Europe and the United States. The duo has released 15 studio albums since 1997, and Douglas and Goszka's original, work also been used at Hugh Hefner’s Halloween parties, on episodes of "The Barbara Walters Special" and in the drive-in film The Rage, Universal Studio’s Horror Nights XVIII as well as by "Monday Night Football" and by artists Insane Clown Posse, Three Six Mafia, Twiztid and The Misfits. In 2010, Midnight Syndicate released a full-length horror film called The Dead Matter, directed, scored and co-produced by Douglas alongside Robert Kurtzman (From Dusk Till Dawn, co-founder, KNB FX) and Gary Jones ("Xena", Boogeyman 3).

Midnight Syndicate continues to pursue its quest to use instrumental music to tell explicit stories full of tension, twists and turns. Most recently, the band completed the score to the grindhouse thriller Axe Giant: The Wrath of Paul Bunyan. In summer, 2013, Midnight Syndicate will release the soundtrack to that film along with Monsters of Legend, a tribute to the classic Universal, Hammer and Euro horror films that helped shape horror cinema.

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English Subtitled Trailer for Rigor Mortis Stiffens Up

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New Rigor Mortis One-Sheet Gets a StiffyAn English subtitled trailer for the Chinese vampire flick Rigor Mortis has hit the interwebs, and now we can finally know what the hell is going on in between all that undead hopping and such. Dig it!

In this eerie and chilling contemporary action/special effects-laden homage to the classic Chinese vampire movies of the 1980’s, writer-director-producer Juno Mak makes his feature directorial debut. Co-produced by J-Horror icon Takashi Shimizu, and reuniting some of the original cast members of the classic Mr. Vampire series, Rigor Mortis is set in a creepy and moody Hong Kong public housing tower whose occupants, we soon discover, run the gamut from the living to the dead to the undead, along with ghosts, vampires, and zombies.

Synopsis
RIGOR MORTIS stars action movie veteran Chin Siu-ho (Siu-ho) as a former vampire hunting actor who now finds himself reaching the end of the line as a washed-up star, separated from his wife and alienated from his son. Down on his luck and with barely a dollar to his name, he checks into Room 2442 in the housing estate, an allegedly haunted flat. His aim is to end his misery by doing himself in, but instead Siu-ho is interrupted by some of the other "occupants" of the building including a Taoist master-exorcist (Anthony Chan), a traumatized housewife with a tragic past (Kara Hui), as well as a seemingly benign elderly woman (Paw Hee-ching) who has an empty coffin conspicuously hanging in the middle of her apartment. Soon it becomes apparent to Siu-ho that the people around him and the situation are far from normal. Despite his lack of belief in superstition, Siu-ho is soon thrust into the battle of his life as vicious vampires with unsettled business begin to rise from the dead...

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Exclusive: Filmmaker David Scheinbaum Talks Slasher Flick Middle of the Night; Poster Premiere

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Exclusive: Filmmaker David Scheinbaum Talks Slasher Flick Middle of the Night; Poster Premiere - Jordan CarverAs our ears are always pressed to the blood-soaked ground at Dread Central, here's exclusive word on Middle of the Night, a slasher flick starring model-turned-actress Jordan Carver, which is set to go before cameras this summer under the watchful eye of David Scheinbaum.

Penned by self-avowed slasher fan Scheinbaum, Middle of the Night revolves around a group of young men and women cast on a reality television series called "West Hills." Moving into a house in the hills to film the show, they are unaware, however, that the abode was home to several bloody murders years prior, and unfortunately for them, the killer returns home for an encore performance upon their arrival. In addition to Carver (pictured), the cast is made up by Jessica Richards, Mindy Robinson, Laura Aidan (2011's Fright Night), Adeana Lane, Marc Wayne, Dayne Ryan, Vincent Carubia, Taylor Ragan and Amanda Moyer, with stuntman Brennan Dyson as "The Man."

"This film was inspired by the works of producer Irwin Yablans," stated writer, producer and director Scheinbaum of his inspiration for Middle of the Night. "He produced the original Halloween and Hell Night, and I was friends with his son as a child and would spends weekends in his house. All we did was watch his films. We loved them so much. So I've always wanted to make a horror film, and I've never had so much fun writing this script. I laughed a lot."

As for his hopes for Middle of the Night (which contains not only the debauchery inherent to twenty-something reality programming, but also the depravity required of the slasher pic), "I hope to deliver a film that people are really going to like," Scheinbaum told us. "I know how slasher horror films work. I've studied them since I was a child. This is going to be an amazing film. Young horror fans will love it, and older fans will appreciate it because it will remind them of all those cool 80's slasher flicks we grew up with."

Principal photography kicks off on August 30th in Los Angeles. We'll have more for you from the set so stay tuned. In the meantime 'like' the film on Facebook here, and you can follow Jordan Carver on Twitter.

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Chicago Screening of The Conjuring Comes Complete with a Priest and a Warning!

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Chicago Screening of The Conjuring Comes Complete with a Priest and a Warning!Here at Dread Central we've had a love for clever viral marketing ever since William Castle wired up buzzers to theatre seats for The Tingler. James Wan's The Conjuring screened last night in Chicago, and it's pretty clear Warner Bros. went all out for the event!

Below you'll find some images from the screening from our buddies over at Chicago's Horror Society, one of which contains the contents of a goodie bag given out to lucky fans and the other two? Well, they speak for themselves!

Read our review of The Conjuring here!

Synopsis
Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville. Based on a true story described in the book House of Darkness, House of Light: The True Story by Andrea Perron, The Conjuring tells the horrifying tale of how world renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

From New Line Cinema comes a feature film drawn from the case files of married demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren. The Conjuring stars Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga ("Bates Motel," Orphan) and Patrick Wilson (Hard Candy, Insidious) as the Warrens and Ron Livingston (HBO’s “Band of Brothers”) and Lili Taylor (Public Enemies) as Roger and Carolyn Perron, residents of the house.

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Joey King (Crazy, Stupid, Love), Shanley Caswell (Detention), Haley McFarland (TV’s “Lie to Me”), Mackenzie Foy (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn), and newcomer Kyla Deaver play the Perrons’ five daughters, and Sterling Jerins (World War Z) is the Warrens’ little girl, Judy.

James Wan (Saw, Insidious) directs from a screenplay by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes (The Reaping). The film is produced by Peter Safran, Tony DeRosa-Grund, and Rob Cowan with Walter Hamada and Dave Neustadter serving as executive producers. Reuniting with the director are members of his Insidious creative team, director of photography John Leonetti, editor Kirk Morri, and costume designer Kristin M. Burke, and his Saw production designer, Julie Berghoff. The music is composed by Joseph Bishara.

New Line Cinema presents an Evergreen Media Group/Safran Company Production of a James Wan Film: The Conjuring. The film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

The film opens in the US and the UK on July 19, 2013.



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An American Ghost Story Floats Onto DVD Later This Summer

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An American Ghost Story Floats Onto DVD Later This SummerBreaking Glass Pictures and Vicious Circle Films have announced the August 20th DVD release of An American Ghost Story from director Derek Cole. The film was written by and stars Stephen Twardokus.

An American Ghost Story was a favorite on the festival circuit, playing both the Living Dead and Shriekfest Film Festivals. At the Buffalo Screams Festival, the film took home the award for Best Editing, while Stephen Twardokus won Best Screenplay. Cole was nominated for Best Director and Best Cinematography.

The DVD release will include deleted scenes and a commentary by director Derek Cole and actors/producers Stephen Twardokus and Jon Gale.

Synopsis:
Paul Anderson (Twardokus) and his girlfriend, Stella (Liesel Kopp), move into a house that is well known for being haunted. Paul, a struggling writer, plans to center his first novel around his experiences with the paranormal. What starts out as a fun and exciting adventure soon takes a very dangerous turn. They quickly realize some things are better left alone.

An American Ghost Story

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Meet a Really Big Bird in this Clip from Primeval: New World Episode 1.04 - Angry Birds

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Meet a Really Big Bird in this Clip from Primeval: New World Episode 1.04 - Angry BirdsIn case you need a reminder that it's never a good idea to take your eyes off the road when driving, we have a sneak peek of this week's "Primeval: New World" Episode 1.04, "Angry Birds." You should be able to see where this is going...

The 13-episode "Primeval: New World" stars Niall Matter ("Eureka"), Sara Canning ("The Vampire Diaries"), and Danny Rahim ("Eastenders") as a team of animal experts and scientists investigating paranormal events while battling both prehistoric and futuristic creatures.

For more info visit "Primeval: New World" on Syfy.com and "like""Primeval: New World" on Facebook.

"Primeval: New World" Episode 1.04 - "Angry Birds" (airs 6/29/13):
The team must face a team of terror birds, while Lt. Leeds (Geoff Gustafson) has his own shady plans.




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San Diego Comic-Con 2013: Dread Central Joins the Masters of the Web; Co-Hosts You're Next Screening!

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San Diego Comic-Con 2013: Dread Central Joins the Masters of the Web Panel; Co-Hosts You're Next Screening!Gearing up for my fifth Comic-Con, I am beyond thrilled to report that not only will this writer be representing Dread Central on the esteemed 2013 Masters of the Web panel, but Lionsgate and the MOTW will also present a very special screening of You’re Next!

The screening is a great way to kick off Comic-Con on Preview Night, Wednesday, July 17th; and we're inviting you to do it on us! We’ve got four pairs of tickets to share with you fiends right here!

The special screening of You’re Next is being held at 9:00 pm PT at the Reading Cinemas Gaslamp Theater with AMC’s John Campea moderating what’s sure to be a hell of a Q&A after the screening with director Adam Wingard, writer Simon Barrett and star Sharni Vinson. To enter for a chance to win a pair of tickets, all you have to do is just send us an E-MAIL HERE including your FULL NAME AND MAILING ADDRESS. We’ll take care of the rest. Just make sure you'll be in town on the 17th.

Then on Thursday, July 18th, at 11:30 am PT, you won’t want to miss the horror-fied edition of the Masters of the Web panel in Room 24ABC with both Wingard and Barrett taking their turns as moderators that morning with AMC’s Campea hosting the event. This year’s Masters of the Web panelists include Ryan Turek (ShockTillYouDrop.com), Evan Dickson (Bloody-Disgusting.com), Grae Drake (RottenTomatoes.com), Lawrence Raffel (FEARnet.com), James "Jimmy O" Oster (JoBlo.com) and myself, Heather Wixson of DC.

Being that I have the utmost respect for everyone who has paved the way in online journalism for myself and countless other over the last 5-10 years (DC’s Uncle Creepy being very much a huge part of that as well), I can’t even begin to express just how incredibly thrilled I am to be sharing the panel stage with such a great group of journalists, all while celebrating You’re Next (which is totally badass) to boot. It really feels like Christmas is coming early this year for this writer.

The Adam Wingard-directed You're Next stars Nick Tucci, Wendy Glenn, AJ Bowen, Joe Swanberg, Margaret Laney, Amy Seimetz, Ti West, Calvin Reeder, Larry Fessenden, Kate Lyn Sheil, Barbara Crampton, Rob Moran, and Sharni Vinson.

Look for it in theaters on August 23rd.

For more visit the official You're Next website, "like"You're Next on Facebook, and follow You're Next on Twitter.

Synopsis:
The Davison family comes under attack from a terrifying group of sadistic murderers during a family reunion getaway. Barricaded in their secluded vacation home, they fight off a barrage of axes, crossbows, and machetes from both inside and outside the house. However, the masked killers didn't count on Erin (Vinson), the young girlfriend of the eldest Davison son whose mysterious past has made her very difficult to kill.

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Ditch Work for a Bit and Check Out this New Trailer for Ditch Day Massacre

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Ditch Work for a Bit and Check Out this New Trailer for Ditch Day MassacreWater Tree Media, helmed by producer Megan Waters, has released the full length trailer for teen slasher Ditch Day Massacre (formerly known as just Ditch). Check it out, or we'll make you stay after class!

From the Press Release:
Ditch Day Massacre stars horror icon Bill Oberst, Jr. (Children of Sorrow, Scary or Die), and Lynn Lowry (Cat People, The Crazies). First-time director Joe Hendrick’s collaborative efforts with horror screenwriter/author Daniel P. Coughlin (Lake Dead, Farmhouse) and sibling actor/writer Ryan Coughlin (Back Slash, “Jericho”) promise to keep us begging for more twisted story, practical gore, and scantily clad scenery.

The film also stars ambitious up-and-coming talents Katy Foley (Disdain) and Zach Silverman (A Broken Code). Tara Gerard (Lake Dead), Mad Brad Potts (Puppet Master X, “Glee”), and martial arts star Morgan Benoit (The Forbidden Kingdom) fill in the blood-dripping tale with elements of mystery and a well-developed plotline. Kyle Morris (Chillerama), Gabe De Santi (Blood Shed), Samantha Dawn (Premonition), and Suicide Girl Pandie seduce and charm us with an attractive dynamic. Parental figures Suzanne Gutierrez (The Colombian Connection) and Greg Depetro (“General Hospital”) tie the film together with their small, but intricate performances.

And rumor has it there is a production journal that will be released in book form near the film’s release date, which promises to bare all. And it will tell the tale of a group of underdog filmmakers putting everything they got, literally to make this fun and explosive horror film.

Synopsis:
Jenny Bilson, a high school senior, is the perfect student and a wonderful daughter to a veteran police detective. But a figure from her past has come knocking, and throwing a high school "ditch party" will end up being one HELL of a mistake!

Look for the film later this year. In the meantime here's the trailer; for more info visit the Ditch Day Massacre website, like Ditch Day Massacre on Facebook, and follow Ditch Day Massacre on Twitter.

Ditch Work for a Bit and Check Out this New Trailer for Ditch Day Massacre

Ditch Work for a Bit and Check Out this New Trailer for Ditch Day Massacre

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The Conjuring: Official Set Visit Report - Part 2

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The Conjuring: Official Set Visit Report - Part 2The second part of our set visit report from The Conjuring is now live (or should we say returned from the dead?) and waiting for you to ingest! In case you missed it, check out Part 1 here!

WARNING: THERE ARE MILD SPOILERS AHEAD

As written previously, Lili Taylor’s character, Caroline, seems to endure some hands-on experiences with Bathsheba, the witch spirit. Taylor expands on the film’s story and her character’s place in it. “She’s really scared for a lot of it, and then she’s like ferocious for the last part of it.” We’d been tipped off there is a bit of possession in the mix as well. Taylor explains her process for these scenes: “You know, that’s other worldly, is what it is. I mean, and if you’ve ever seen people who are possessed, really, really possessed, it’s almost like they don’t sound human and they’re not acting human, in a way. So that’s almost like I just put my seatbelt on and just buckle up and just go, you know.

Ron Livingston (as Roger, Caroline’s husband) had a similar approach to his role: “There's some (films) where I do a lot of homework and then there's some, this film in particular, where it's supposed to take you by surprise. So you kind of just want to get in there and have everything take you by surprise rather than have him tell you how everything went down. Patrick and Vera play the experts, and I think they've been good about really being all over the Warrens and learning their process and their history and how they came up. We are a real family, the parents, but at the time they didn't know they were going to be this family. So I kind of wanted to go into it not knowing. I wanted to wander in and take my lumps.

To amp up that sense of impending dread, it was important to adhere to strict rules when showing the film’s horrors. The Conjuring would adapt the mantra “Less Is More.” James Wan talks about his approach: “You want to pick and choose your moments. You want to have those moments where (the audience) goes, ‘Did I just see that? Did that just happen?’ Which is the kind of filmmaking that I love. The kind of films that I love have a character walking down a hallway and you’re like, ‘Did I just see someone behind the drapes?’ I love that. I love the idea of playing with the audience and being able to build on that (tension).” So what does that leave for the reveal of the film’s central “monster?” Glimpses of a hand... feet... and indeed, a full reveal.

Lili Taylor’s character endures a possession, but again, James Wan and crew did not want this to be something you’ve seen before. There are stages to this particular terror with physical challenges she would need to prepare for. She explains: “When she gets possessed, she’s other-worldly. She can do physical things most people can’t. I didn’t have to get to the strength of 10 men but I had to move around a lot and shit. There’s weird body movement involved and moving fast and spazzing out... tackling people... running.”

I asked if she watched any actual footage of possessed individuals for reference. “Unfortunately... It’s not fun footage to watch. I saw a couple of possessions. Good old YouTube. You can find everything there. I’d seen some possessions and they actually helped a lot.” To help her embrace this “change” 3 hours of makeup came into play. “It’s a fantastic progression. I love the way they plotted it out. Even just like... we had these brown contacts that sort of deadened my eyes a little bit… like just enough that I looked like I had the flu or something is just a little wrong," says Taylor. "And then another set of contacts were darker. And then white ones. And then it’s almost like she’s getting sicker and sicker. Like what happens when we get sicker and sicker… until she’s totally sick. James is so great because what James does is, he wants it to look as real as possible, except just a little bit off, you know. He doesn’t go for the stereotypical, like what you’d imagine. It’s not what you’d imagine... or you’d imagine this sort of old lady, but he didn’t want that. Second stage possession; the second stage of contacts are a little darker brown. I’ve got a little bit of stuff happening around the lips, like sores, some broken blood vessels and I think I’m much more… almost the analogy of rabies. That the rabies is sort of... like I’m now thinking about how to get that rabies into somebody else.

With the promise of using very little CG in favor of practical effects to complete that “old school” horror film feel, it seems we are in for one wild ride. Also, there’s something about the 70’s that just lends itself to horror. Perhaps this was not the case at the time, but looking back at that era, now shown through grainy film footage and washed out, yellowed images and the odd nature of both fashion and home décor of the time... you couldn’t pick a better setting. Wan strove to create that 70’s horror vibe, remarking that those who have seen the film have compared it to The Amityville Horror, which was excellent, seeing as how the Warrens were involved in that actual case. Of course the 70’s, in itself, offers unique horrors. James agrees the clothing and mustaches can certainly be counted among them. On a more serious note, Wan remarks: “One of the things myself and (production designer) Julie (Berghoff) wanted to do was to bring across the flavor of that period. I think that’s what’s going to give this film another level. At the end of the day, it is a classic haunted house ghost story. I’m not here to reinvent that wheel. As I said with Insidious, I didn’t want to invent the wheel; I just wanted to paint the wheel a different color. With this one, the different color I want to embrace is I want to make a classical period film. I want to capture that with the production design, the wardrobe and the photography. If nothing else, I know this will be a beautiful looking film!

Ron Livingston had his own thoughts on the creepiness of the decade, starting with the color palette: “It's got those real deep blacks that they used in the 70's and the kind of earth tones in the colors. It's really cool looking, it looks badass. There’s a graininess. The colors... a kind of rust brown and... I don’t know what it is. I was trying to figure out why having it be that far in the past, 34 years in the past, really added to it. I wish I knew why. Some of it is, I think we’re so connected now, we all have cell phones and everyone could whip it out and call 911. There’s something about those days of when you’re out in the country, there’s that one phone in the house. It’s before answering machines. You’re a little more cut off. You’re not quite sure if the car is going to start. I think it accentuates the fact that it’s a real life story. It makes it feel a little bit like it’s historical. It’s like when you watch those murder shows on TV and they go back to some serial killer case and they’re always from 20 or 30 years ago.” I asked if it gave them an opportunity to be snappier dressers. Ron lamented that it wasn’t the Almost Famous 70’s, but more like how his Dad used to dress. “It’s not pretty. It’s more like that flannel and bad hair.

Production Designer Julie Berghoff likes an audience to get lost in the details and through them be transported to the time and space in which a film is placed. It is much easier to become invested in a movie when the setting is completely immersive. “I guess I'm pretty detail oriented. I really get involved in that. It's really fun for me. And I want you to feel like you're in the house. I don't want you to be like, 'Oh, I'm on a set.' I want you to feel like you're actually in the Perron house and scared and what was it like. So I think about all the history of the house and the details. Like it’s lathe and plaster and it's a hundred years old and it was plaster not paint. So we actually plastered the house and did lots of layers of mixing it to make it look aged, instead of actually painting it. Which is so much more beautiful 'cause the light hits it differently.

For Berghoff, the set in a horror film is very much a character in that film, so decisions we might take for granted like the texture of a wall and the paints used to accent a room play a vital role in setting a mood. “Before I even start designing I do tons and tons of research of what I think it should look like. Who the characters are, 'cause I want to understand them, so I understand the environment they live in and the world I'm creating for them, you know. And the tree was my favorite thing on this show. Because I love trees. I think they're amazing. They talk to you. They're old souls, you know. And so I got to create a beautiful tree that was a mix of like Sleepy Hollow meets Twisted Sister meets big oak tree. Actually, it was a pecan tree that I was referencing in the fields. So we built a 50-foot tree, too.

By now anyone who has been tracking The Conjuring is familiar with the tree as the central form on the movie poster, but you may not have guessed that the tree had more intent than mere spooky set dressing. “The tree is probably the iconic part of the film for me that I created, that represents the film. If you look at it, it kind of looks like a hand coming out of the earth with the fingers all messed up and twisting. I felt like the tree was really old and amazing and then the witch cursed it. And so it just died over time, and the limbs fell off and fell nearby. But it was such a big tree that it’s still standing. Like the carcass of it is still standing. And then vines grew all over it, but they didn't really grow 'cause the tree is cursed. Kind of that feeling. I painted it more on the darker side. Like it’s representing death so to speak.” Berghoff goes on to explain that the witch hangs herself from the tree, so the tree and the ground the tree grows from is cursed to the furthest extent of those far reaching roots. This land is poisoned. This sets the tone for The Conjuring and acts as a meager introduction to the witch/spirit known as Bathsheba.

Carey Hayes (writer) adds to that stark tone. “The original farm was on either 300 or 500 acres and when Bathsheba killed herself, she literally hung herself, but prior to that she proclaimed her love for Satan and cursed anyone who would try to take her land, and then, over that course of time from the late 1800s to the present, there has been a phenomenal amount of deaths on what was once that 500 acres.” Co-writer Chad Hayes comments: “Really unusual deaths, like you’d have a better chance winning the lottery than you would... You’ll see it in the movie, we put them in there. Drownings, suicides, hunting accidents. Car accidents. People lost in the wintertime.

Those odd events seemed to trickle out of the film and into the lives of everyone involved, crew and subjects alike.

Chad and Carey Hayes, as the film’s writers, hold the subject matter close to their heart, but a more sinister power would remind them that their ideas were based on real, supernatural events. During a set visit by the actual Perron family, that creeping dread would come rushing back. Carey and Chad set the scene. “We met the Perron girls... these girls came to set. And you still see the scare in Cindy (Perron)'s eyes. The witch was actually hanging from a tree and we’re ready to shoot it and Cindy looks and freaks out and just turns the other way. It brought back too much. And one of ‘em said, 'Something really bad is going to happen out here today.' and I was like, 'Oh, great.' And do you know what happened? Her mother, Carolyn, fell and broke her hip.

Producer Rob Cowan gives his perspective: “The family came to the set and they came for one day and it was like a family reunion. They haven’t been together for quite a little, but they collected from all over the place to come to our set on that day. The only person who didn’t come was the mother, who they said doesn’t leave much where she lives and doesn’t fly well. There was a moment where she might come anyway, but she didn’t come. So they come to the set and literally right after the incident with Cindy and the witch, they got a call that the mother had tripped and fallen and broken her hip and had to have an immediate operation. Literally, when they went down to her, she said this is Bathsheba, the witch, doing something to her. But it was that day, that afternoon, they’re all standing on our set and the mother trips and really quite seriously broke her hip and had to have it replaced. They operated that day.

“I thought they’d be fine because they knew and it was in the middle of the daytime and everybody’s around and they’re doing his (Joe Bishara’s) make-up and fixing him up and getting him ready to do a scene, and all of a sudden, one of them bolted over to Pat. I just look up at the top of the hill and... Pat’s hugging this woman. It was Cindy. The second-to-youngest; April’s the youngest. It’s funny because we’ve been dealing with eight-year-olds and she’s 50 or whatever. But she really had a bad reaction. It was quite interesting. They all have different viewpoints on what they’ve seen. It was kind of interesting having them all there because they all had different experiences in very different ways, even the father, who kind of embraced it. We asked him, and everybody always asks him... we tried to put a little bit of this in the movie; they stayed there for ten years. Why would they not leave? He said, ‘I would have stayed. I’d still be there now.’"

Cowan continues, "His wife just really couldn’t deal with it any longer. He said to us that the ghost, witch, whatever it is, was much harsher on his wife than on him. He said he actually had good experiences with it where he would be by himself and sense that she was there or see something that felt like she was there and he said it was fine, he didn’t have any problem with it at all. So all the kids had different viewpoints. With Cindy... it was interesting; you’re never sure whether it was just an apparition or were they actually... but Cindy said that’s what it felt like she had looked like. She really felt like we had recreated it. We hadn’t done it on any way other than, 'This is what we want it to look like,' but she really said that was exactly what she looked like. So they do all feel like they had seen. But I also think they saw different things. Each of them saw it in a different way.

Producer Peter Safran relayed a tale of the supernatural invading the lives of his cast. “Lorraine said there is no such thing as coincidences. I’m definitely a believer at this point. I’ll tell you one thing that was very interesting. Vera. We’d sent her the script back in December and she’s in New York... James is in LA. She got the script; she read it immediately. Got the call from her reps; she loved it and wanted to get on the phone with James on Skype the next day. So she read it that night. She went to sleep. She came back in the morning to get on her computer to Skype him and there were three deep scratches on her computer screen. Completely inexplicable. Like... they weren’t there the night before when she read the screenplay on the computer, but they were there in the morning. And there was just no way to explain what it was but stuff like that has happened constantly. A lot of people found themselves, when we were in prep, waking up between 3 and 4 o’clock in the morning, and when we mentioned this to Lorraine, she said, ‘You know that’s the Witching Hour. That is it.’ And... again... maybe it’s just in your head, but so many people were having that happen... and again, who knows what the reality of it is but it certainly... It’s in all of our consciousness at this point.”

Read our review of The Conjuring here!

Related Story:The Conjuring News Archive

Synopsis
Before there was Amityville, there was Harrisville. Based on a true story described in the book House of Darkness, House of Light: The True Story by Andrea Perron, The Conjuring tells the horrifying tale of how world renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren were called upon to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in a secluded farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful demonic entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

From New Line Cinema comes a feature film drawn from the case files of married demonologists Ed and Lorraine Warren. The Conjuring stars Academy Award nominee Vera Farmiga ("Bates Motel," Orphan) and Patrick Wilson (Hard Candy, Insidious) as the Warrens and Ron Livingston (HBO’s “Band of Brothers”) and Lili Taylor (Public Enemies) as Roger and Carolyn Perron, residents of the house.

Joey King (Crazy, Stupid, Love), Shanley Caswell (Detention), Haley McFarland (TV’s “Lie to Me”), Mackenzie Foy (The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn), and newcomer Kyla Deaver play the Perrons’ five daughters, and Sterling Jerins (World War Z) is the Warrens’ little girl, Judy.

James Wan (Saw, Insidious) directs from a screenplay by Chad Hayes and Carey W. Hayes (The Reaping). The film is produced by Peter Safran, Tony DeRosa-Grund, and Rob Cowan with Walter Hamada and Dave Neustadter serving as executive producers. Reuniting with the director are members of his Insidious creative team, director of photography John Leonetti, editor Kirk Morri, and costume designer Kristin M. Burke, and his Saw production designer, Julie Berghoff. The music is composed by Joseph Bishara.

New Line Cinema presents an Evergreen Media Group/Safran Company Production of a James Wan Film: The Conjuring. The film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

The film opens in the US and the UK on July 19, 2013.


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San Diego Comic-Con 2013: Ender's Game Bringing Cast & Crew, New Footage, Interactive Events, and More!

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San Diego Comic-Con 2013: Ender's Game Bringing Cast & Crew, New Footage, Interactive Events, and More!Summit Entertainment plans to showcase its highly anticipated Ender's Game at the 2013 SDCC, presenting never-before-seen footage, appearances by cast members and filmmakers, and several massive, interactive fan events.

The full slate of activities related to the film to be unveiled at this year's Comic-Con includes:

Hall H Panel - The studio's panel on Thursday, July 18th, will feature ENDER'S GAME filmmakers and cast, including producer Bob Orci, director Gavin Hood, and cast members Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, and Abigail Breslin.

Exclusive Fan Experience - Attendees will be able to visit an elaborate, specially constructed ENDER'S GAME exhibit outside of the Hilton Gaslamp, featuring 8 unique rooms representing the most iconic environments of Ender's world, complete with original film props and set pieces used in the movie. Throughout the experience, attendees will be able to see exclusive film footage on LED screens, interact with new digital content, integrate photos of themselves into the highly anticipated Battle Room, and register to win a home makeover.

Convention Floor Booth - Summit Entertainment's booth located within the Grand Hall will highlight ENDER'S GAME footage. Premium promotional items will be distributed to the 120,000 attendees walking the convention floor, and booth visitors will be given the opportunity to win "fast passes" to the ENDER'S Game Exclusive Fan Experience, granting them entry without having to wait in line.

Related Story:New Ender's Game Propaganda Posters Filled with Fury

Based on the bestselling, award-winning novel, Ender's Game is an epic adventure which stars Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Ben Kingsley, and Viola Davis with Abigail Breslin and Harrison Ford. OddLot Entertainment, K/O Paper Products, and Digital Domain are production partners on the film, with Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman producing via their K/O Paper Products banner, Gigi Pritzker and Linda McDonough producing via OddLot Entertainment, along with Orson Scott Card and Lynn Hendee.

Directed by Gavin Hood, the film opens theatrically on November 1st.

Synopsis
In the near future, a hostile alien race called the Formics have attacked Earth. If not for the legendary heroics of International Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham (Ben Kingsley), all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, the highly esteemed Colonel Hyrum Graff (Harrison Ford) and the International Military are training only the best young minds to find the future Mazer.

Ender Wiggin (Asa Butterfield), a shy but strategically brilliant boy, is recruited to join the elite. Arriving at Battle School, Ender quickly and easily masters increasingly difficult challenges and simulations, distinguishing himself and winning respect amongst his peers. Ender is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope, resulting in his promotion to Command School. Once there, he's trained by Mazer Rackham himself to lead his fellow soldiers into an epic battle that will determine the future of Earth and save the human race.

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100 Bloody Acres Hits VOD! New Clip!

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100 Bloody Acres Hits VOD! New Clip!Doppelganger Releasing has launched the Australian horror-comedy 100 Bloody Acres (review) into limited theaters and onto various VOD platforms, and to celebrate its arrival we have a new clip for you. Dig it!

Written and directed by Colin and Cameron Cairnes, the film stars Damon Herrriman, Angus Sampson, Anna McGahan, Oliver Ackland, Jamie Kristian, and Wolf Creek's John Jarratt.

Synopsis
In 100 Bloody Acres, brothers Reg and Lindsay Morgan are struggling to keep their organic blood and bone fertilizer business in motion. Their secret “recipe” for success (using dead car crash victims in their product) was a huge boon to business, but lately supply has been gravely low. Months have passed since their last find, and an important new customer is now waiting on a delivery. When junior partner Reg (Damon Herriman, "Justified") stumbles upon three travelers stranded on a remote country road, he cooks up a radical solution to their problem and a way of finally gaining the respect of his bossy big brother (Angus Sampson). But when Reg starts to fall for Sophie, one of the intended victims, things get complicated…


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Two New Prisoners Character Posters Get Up Close and Personal

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Prisoners Finally Unleashed Via TrailerTwo new character posters for the much talked about project Prisoners are here and they get you exceptionally cozy with stars Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. Check 'em out!

The flick, directed by Denis Villeneuve and written by Aaron Guzikowski, stars Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Melissa Leo, and David Dastmalchian. Warner Bros. has set a September 20th, 2013, release date. Check out the new synopsis below, and look for more soon!

Synopsis
How far would you go to protect your child? Keller Dover (Jackman) is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His six-year-old daughter, Anna, is missing, together with her young friend Joy; and as minutes turn to hours, panic sets in. The only lead is a dilapidated RV that had earlier been parked on their street. Heading the investigation, Detective Loki (Gyllenhaal) arrests its driver, Alex Jones (Paul Dano), but a lack of evidence forces the only suspect’s release. Knowing his child’s life is at stake, the frantic Dover decides he has no choice but to take matters into his own hands. The desperate father will do whatever it takes to find the girls, but in doing so, he may lose himself, begging the question: When do you cross the line between seeking justice and becoming a vigilante?

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Ease on Down this New Toad Road Clip

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Ease on Down this New Toad Road ClipA new clip from the indie fear flick from Elijah Wood's horror film company SpectreVision, Toad Road (review) from writer-director Jason Banker, has arrived with an explanation!

From the Press Release
The horror-thriller Toad Road earned praise from audiences and critics alike last fall at the influential Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, where it won awards for “Best Director” (Jason Banker) and “Best Actor” (James Davidson).

Building on that momentum, Artsploitation Films has announced it will bring Toad Road to theaters this October. Following the film’s theatrical run, the company will release it on DVD and VOD as well as in the digital marketplace.

“There is a nihilism and decay present within the characters of Toad Road that makes the film mesmerizing. The horror comes not from just a mystical location and inevitable conclusion, but a very real, very dark place in each of their hearts. It's a unique film that must be seen,” says Brian Sokel, vice president of Artsploitation Films. The TOAD ROAD acquisition deal was negotiated by Traction Media on behalf of the filmmakers. Jennifer Arndt-Johns negotiated on behalf of Artsploitation Films.

Director, writer, and cinematographer Jason Banker (My Name is Faith) directed and produced Toad Road, his first narrative feature. The cast includes James Davidson, Whitleigh Higuera, and Sara Anne Jones. Tragically, Jones – whose character abuses drugs in the film – died of an accidental overdose on September 4, 2012, shortly after the film’s world premiere.

Toad Road was produced by Jason Banker's Blackout Films in collaboration with Liz Levine and Adrian Salpeter of Random Bench and was executive produced by SpectreVision, a horror film company started by Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller, and acclaimed actor Elijah Wood.

Wood first saw Toad Road while helping select movies for the Nightmare City horror film festival at The Cinefamily in Los Angeles. He says: “We created our company to explore and expand the definition of the horror genre. Toad Road's blend of documentary and nightmarish hallucination speaks to this perfectly. It provides a unique and disturbing portal into self-destructive behavior that barrels horrifically out of control. We're proud to present this extremely powerful and resonant film."

For the film, Banker used a mix of documentary and narrative form to create this disturbing supernatural portrait of contemporary youth culture and drug use. The story takes place in rural Pennsylvania near the town of York, an infamous area that – according to urban legend – has a trail in the woods containing the seven gates that lead to Hell.

Speaking with Twitch, Banker discussed how much of TOAD ROAD was improvised. “I had a backbone of an idea…but other than that, there wasn’t too much that I had planned. I knew that I wanted to shoot with these kids and get into their life and let who they were and what they did inform the characters in the film.”



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Pacific Rim Promo Effort Ramps Up with a New Clip and a Featurette

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Pacific Rim Promo Effort Ramps Up with a New Clip and a FeaturettePacific Rim is supposedly lagging pretty far behind Grown Ups 2 in the world of box office tracking, but in our world, we know it's gonna kick major ass, as evidenced by the new clip and "Under Attack" featurette just released.

In the clip from MTV, Raleigh Becket (Charlie Hunnam) faces off against his potential new partner, Mako Mori (Rinko Kikuchi), to see if she can hack it.

Look for Pacific Rim, directed by Guillermo del Toro, in theatres July 12th. Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Ron Perlman, Rinko Kikuchi, Max Martini, Rob Kazinsky, Clifton Collins, Jr., and Diego Klattenhoff star.

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Synopsis
From acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ epic sci-fi action adventure Pacific Rim.


When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes--a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)--who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.


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UK's 2013 Film4 FrightFest Lineup Promises Biggest Genre Global Invasion Ever!

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UK's 2013 Film4 FrightFest Lineup Promises Biggest Genre Global Invasion Ever!If you've been jealous of our UK brothers and sisters in years past because of the incredible lineup offered by the Film4 FrightFest, well, you ain't seen nothing yet! Check out what they have on the menu for 2013 along with a ridiculous amount of new images from several of the films.

From the Press Release:
Are you ready for a spine-chilling global avalanche of Indian zombies, Israeli oldboys, vengeance-crazed Vikings, Swedish mesmerists, Irish telekinesis, Argentine undead, Aussie bone-crushers, murderous Mormons and Chilean assassins?

Film4 FrightFest 2013, returning for its 4teenth year, is delighted to unveil its biggest lineup in history. From Thurs 22 August to Monday 26 August, the UK’s leading event for genre fans will be at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square to present 51 films on three screens. Empire 1 will house the main event while the Discovery strands will play in Empires 2 & 4. The new FrightFest Xtra strand, also in Screen 2, will allow fans to catch up with sold-out performances of the most popular attractions.

This year there are eleven countries representing five continents with a record-breaking thirty-three UK or European premieres and ten world premieres. The world premieres include our opening night attraction THE DEAD 2: INDIA from the Ford Brothers, BANSHEE CHAPTER, produced by Star Trek’s Zachary Quinto, Kit Ryan’s startling DEMENTAMANIA, the epidemic shocker ANTISOCIAL the Argentinean post World War Z drama THE DESERT and the retro Spanish chiller FOR ELISA. European premieres include Don Mancini’s CURSE OF CHUCKY, Anthony DiBlasi’s MISSIONARY and Steven R. Monroe’s I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE 2.

The UK premieres feature our closing night film, the most want-to-see 2013 title BIG BAD WOLVES, Jim Mickle’s appetising WE ARE WHAT WE ARE, Vincenzo Natali’s HAUNTER, Ryuhei Kitamura’s NO ONE LIVES, Lasse Hallstrom’s THE HYPNOTIST, the Pastor Brothers’ THE LAST DAYS, the VHS documentary REWIND THIS!, Bobcat Goldthwait’s horror-comedy WILLOW CREEK, producer Adam Green’s HATCHET III, acclaimed anthology V/H/S/2, the fantasy thriller ODD THOMAS, rural horror romp 100 BLOODY ACRES, compulsive chiller THE CONSPIRACY, Renny Harlin’s mystery thriller THE DYATLOV PASS INCIDENT and Marina De Van’s high-voltage shocker DARK TOUCH.

The Brits are once again proving that the genre is in fine form. Aside from the aforementioned THE DEAD 2: INDIA and DEMENTAMANIA, there is Christian James’ toilet-humoured STALLED, Jeremy Lovering’s white-knuckle ride IN FEAR, Farren Blackburn’s axe-murderous HAMMER OF THE GODS, Kate Shenton’s human suspension doc ON TENDER HOOKS, THE PARANORMAL DIARIES: CLOPHILL, from the Zombie Diaries duo, Michael Bartlett & Kevin Gates, Kieran Parker’s latest in the zombie action franchise OUTPOST: RISE OF THE SPETSNAZ and THE BORDERLANDS, a paranormal chiller from Elliot Goldner.

Keynote previews include THE GRIEF TOURIST starring Michael Cudlitz and Melanie Griffith, and Carlos Medina’s award-winning PAINLESS.

Crowd-pleasers have always been at the heart of the FrightFest experience, so audiences can sit back and thrill to the roof-raising YOU’RE NEXT, the incredible CHEAP THRILLS, the mutant-tastic FRANKENSTEIN’S ARMY and a Special Preview of the Hollywood blockbuster R.I.P.D. starring Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges. And we have included two of our February FrightFest Glasgow draws – the fabulously trashy grindhouser BRING ME THE HEAD OF THE MACHINE GUN WOMAN and Michael Stephenson’s hugely entertaining doc THE AMERICAN SCREAM.

Expanding the Discovery Strand means there are double the treats to sample this year, including the nerve-shredding SNAP, the smart horror-fantasy HANSEL & GRETEL & THE 4:20 WITCH, Sonny Laguna’s ferocious WITHER, Israeli war fantasy CANNON FODDER, Scream-styled homage SADIK 2, James Sizemore ‘s demonic THE DEMON’S ROCK, David McCracken’s story of small-town child abuseDAYLIGHT & sex-disease horror CONTRACTED. There is also a first-time screening of three episodes of Adam Green and Joe Lynch’s TV series "HOLLISTON."

Plus, there’s a chance to discover an eclectic mix of Premiere screening restorations: Ozploitation classic WAKE IN FRIGHT, a tribute to Hammer Horror icon Peter Cushing CORRUPTION, the first Roger Corman Edgar Allan Poe masterpiece THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, and the genre landmark that is F. W. Murnau’s NOSFERATU.

With Andy Nyman’s ever-popular ‘Quiz From Hell’ now in its 4th year, the announcement of the ‘666 Short Cuts To Hell’ competition winners, in association with Horror Channel and Movie Mogul, the ‘Turn Off Your Bloody Phone!’ entries and the usual bloody red carpet gathering of stars, directors and surprise guests, Film4 FrightFest 14 looks set to raise the roof. Let the screaming begin!

Alan Jones, Festival co-director, said: "Fourteen years down the line from our seminal start in 2000, the ambitions of the Film4 FrightFest remain exactly the same: to promote horror and fantasy in all its rich and varied ways, to foster the latest in world genre cinema, to highlight our vibrant home-grown independent sector and to invite an international array of directors, actors and filmmakers to discuss their work. For that reason we have remained at the vanguard of the genre."

Julia Wrigley, Head of Film4 Channel4, added: '“We are thrilled to return for the 7th year in a row as the headline sponsors of Film4 FrightFest. Once again, the lineup includes a great range of British films, including the relentlessly terrifying Film4 Production In Fear. Our FrightFest fortnight on Film4 is packed with channel premieres, festival favourites and some classics from the crypt.”

The guest lineup and 2013 Short Film Selections will be announced shortly. Festival and day passes go on sale from 29 June. Tickets for individual films are on sale from 27 July.

100 Bloody Acres

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American Scream

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Antisocial

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The Banshee Chapter

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Big Bad Wolves

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Bring Me the Head Of The Machine Gun Woman

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Canon Fodder

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Cheap Thrills

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Contracted

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The Curse of Chucky

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Dark Touch

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Daylight

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The Dyatlov Pass Incident

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For Elisa

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Frankenstein's Army

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The Grief Tourist

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Hammer of the Gods

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Hansel & Gretel & the 4:20 Witch

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Hatchet III

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Haunter

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"Holliston"

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In Fear

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I Spit on Your Grave 2

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Odd Thomas

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Outpost: Rise of the Spetsnaz

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Rewind This!

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Snap

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Stalled

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The Conspriracy

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The Dead 2: India

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The Desert

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The Demon's Rock

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The Hypnotist

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The Last Days

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V/H/S/2

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Wake in Fright

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San Diego Comic-Con 2013: Syfy Announces Being Human Panel on July 20th

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San Diego Comic-Con 2013: Syfy Announces Being Human Panel on July 20thWithout a doubt one of the most entertaining panels at SDCC year in and year out is the one for Syfy's "Being Human" so be sure to clear your schedule from 4:00-5:00 PM on July 20th so you don't miss it. Here are the details.

2013 SDCC "Being Human" Panel

Saturday, July 20th, 4:00-5:00 PM - HILTON BAYFRONT, INDIGO BALLROOM

Itching to know what goes on behind the scenes of Syfy's smash hit series "Being Human"? Give in to your temptation and join cast members Sam Witwer (Aidan), Meaghan Rath (Sally), Sam Huntington (Josh), and Kristen Hager (Nora) and Executive Producer Anna Fricke as they discuss what's in store for the new season. Moderated by Aaron Sagers, entertainment journalist (CNN.com/MTV.com) and geek culture expert.

Along with "Being Human," Syfy is also bringing "Defiance" (Friday, July 19th, 10:30-11:30 AM - Room 6A), "Helix" (Friday, July 19th, 11:45 AM-12:45 PM - Room 6A), and "Warehouse 13" (Saturday, July 20th, 5:00-6:00 PM - Hilton Bayfront, Indigo Ballroom) to the big show.

Keep it here for more San Diego Comic-Con 2013 news as it comes.

"Being Human" is a Muse Entertainment production and is based on the acclaimed series created by Toby Whithouse and produced by Touchpaper. Executive producers are Michael Prupas ("The Kennedys,""Pillars of the Earth"), Anna Fricke ("Men in Trees,""Everwood"), who is both writer and showrunner, and Rob Pursey and Toby Whithouse. Irene Litinsky ("Human Trafficking,""The Phantom") is series producer.

For more info visit "Being Human" on Syfy.com, join the Syfy Google+ circle, "like""Being Human" on Facebook, and follow "Being Human" on Twitter.

Being Human (US) Season 3

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Cast Recorded on The Vatican TapesThe first casting news has arrived for Lionsgate's and Lakeshore Entertainment's new chiller from director Mark Neveldine entitled The Vatican Tapes, and we have all the details waiting for you with a shotglass filled with holy water.

According to Deadline, Michael Pena will play Father Lozano in the demonic thriller. The Lakeshore-produced pic will start filming next month with Djimon Hounsou, Dougray Scott, Kathleen Robertson, Peter Andersson, John Patrick Amedori, Alex Sparrow, and Olivia Dudley also in the cast. Dudley plays a twentysomething who seems to cause death and destruction to those around her. Pena’s character is the local priest who first tries to help.

THE VATICAN TAPES follows the haunting tale of 27-year-old Angela Holmes, who accidentally cuts her finger and ends up in the emergency room. Infection leads to erratic behavior, and she begins to have a devastating effect on anyone close, causing serious injury and death. Priests examine Holmes and believe she is possessed, but when the Vatican is called upon to exorcise the demon, the possession proves to be an ancient satanic force more powerful than they imagined.

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