Originally a 13-episode web series, Infinite Santa 8000 was the brainchild of filmmakers Michael Neel and Greg Ansin, who garnered a cult following with their batshit crazy depiction of a badass Santa Claus kicking ass in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

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D3Publisher unveiled the official box art for Earth Defense Force 2025, and if you have never played an EDF game, you'd be wise to right that wrong ASAP! Honestly? There's just nothing that's more fun for fans of giant insect movies!

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On tap right now are several animated images from the controversial flick Escape from Tomorrow, and we have every creepy moving pixel right here for ya! Dig it!

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An official image gallery for The Banshee Chapter (review) made a little noise in our inbox this morning and we figured we'd let these things shout it out for themselves.

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A new one-sheet has arrived for IFC Midnight and SundanceNow's latest release, Dark Touch, and even though everyone and their grandmothers are doing retro-style one-sheets, we still cannot help but love them. Check it out!

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Another poster is here for Machete Kills, this one is of the quad variety. Check it out and start counting the days, kids! This one is coming up on us fast! Open Road Films will open the flick in theatres on October 11, 2013.

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As I sit here writing this story about the theatrical screenings that are taking place in honor of the 35th anniversary of the John Carpenter classic, Halloween, I'm reminded of one thing... man, I'm old! In any event, dig on this new poster.

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Okay, so who's ready for 4 new posters and a new TV spot for Summit Entertainment's Ender's Game? Anyone? Too bad, you're getting them anyway! Look for the film on October 25th in the UK and on November 1st in the US.

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Had enough eye candy and video promos for "American Horror Story: Coven" yet? Of course not! There's always room for more and more has come! On tap right now is a gallery of character images, a long form synopsis of episode 3.01, and yes, more videos.

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Finally some new images from the upcoming fourth season of "The Walking Dead," have hit the wire and we have each and every one of them for you right here! Check them out and look for much more soon!

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Fans were definitely split over the ending of Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse novels, on which HBO's "True Blood" is based, but it's time to move on, and that's exactly what the author is doing in Midnight Crossroad, the first book in a planned trilogy that arrives May 6, 2014.

Below you'll find the synopsis of Midnight Crossroad (A Novel of Midnight, Texas) and the cover art courtesy of EW, which spoke with Harris, who provided the following teaser about her upcoming novel:

"The Midnight books are about a group of people, all of them with secrets, drawn to a remote and rural crossroad in Texas. Some of them are people I’ve wanted to revisit from other, older series, and some of them are people my readers have never met before. There are supernatural elements in the Midnight books, but they’re not as focused on the otherworldly as my Sookie Stackhouse novels. It’s refreshing and revitalizing to be doing something so new and different."

Synopsis:
From Charlaine Harris, the bestselling author who created Sookie Stackhouse and her world of Bon Temps, Louisiana, comes a darker locale—populated by more strangers than friends. But then, that’s how the locals prefer it…

Welcome to Midnight, Texas, a town with many boarded-up windows and few full-time inhabitants, located at the crossing of Witch Light Road and Davy Road. It’s a pretty standard dried-up Western town.

There’s a pawn shop (someone lives in the basement and is seen only at night). There’s a diner (people who are just passing through tend not to linger). And there’s new resident Manfred Bernardo, who thinks he’s found the perfect place to work in private (and who has secrets of his own).

Stop at the one traffic light in town, and everything looks normal. Stay awhile, and learn the truth...

It's not often that artwork comes our way that elicits a total and immediate bout of discomfort and nausea. The UK artwork for Thanatomorphose (review) does just that by being repulsive and badass all at the same time.

The film stars Kayden Rose, Davyd Tousignant, Émile Beaudry, Karine Picard, Roch-Denis Gagnon, Éryka L. Cantieri, Pat Lemaire, and Simon Laperrière.

A Cronenbergian smorgasbord of rancid flesh and sexual gratification, Thanatomorphose, by Canadian director Eric Falardeau, picks up where Nekromantic left off.

Synopsis:
Discovering several bruises on her body after a night of rough sex, a young woman is shocked as, rather than heal itself, her body begins rotting from the inside out. She faces a terrifying and gory descent into a living death, as her putrefying body begins to literally ‘fall off the bone’.

A strange and claustrophobic tale of sexuality, horror, and bodily fluids, Thanatomorphose not only will make you wince but is strangely uplifting in its take on mortality. The title means the physical signs of a body’s decomposition, caused by death.

For more info visit the official Thanatomorphose website.

Digital publisher Lion Forge Comics has released the first issue of Night Trap, written by Cullen Bunn, which represents the company’s first foray into the horror genre.

The first issue of Night Trap sets the stage for a suspenseful story stretching across eight issues. In the terrifying comic, a group of co-eds sets out for a relaxing weekend at a beautiful lake house, but the gorgeous backdrop quickly turns grisly when they encounter a murder-hungry madman who has watched a few too many splatter flicks. What follows is a gory maze of blood and pain, with death as the only likely escape.

Cullen Bunn, author of horror comic The Sixth Gun, wrote Night Trap as an homage to 1980s and '90s slasher films. Although it bears the same name as the video game, Bunn created an original story, influenced by the '90s video game Night Trap and other titles in the horror genre.

“I watched a lot of scary movies and slasher films growing up in the '80s; those movies were always fun as long as you liked being scared,” said Bunn. “I wrote Night Trap as a brutal, harrowing adventure in homage to the films that inspired me.”

“With its nod to horror movies from the 1980s and '90s, Night Trap fits well within our catalog of digital comics,” said David Steward II, founder and CEO of Lion Forge. “The series will not only make readers nostalgic for those movies, but it might just make them look over their shoulders or think twice about renting that secluded cabin in the woods.”

Night Trap is illustrated by J.B. Bastos, with Robby Bevard as colorist.

The ultimate and award-winning retrospective on the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise, Never Sleep Again (review), is getting ready to hit Blu-ray this January; and if you've never seen it or just want to see it in hi-def, here's the chance you've been waiting for!

Be warned: This is the same exact cut with the same features from the Collector's Edition DVD. There's nothing new, but honestly, what else could there possibly be left to say? It covers it ALL, and the remake in no way warrants mention.

Look for it online and in stores on January 21st, 2014, via Image Entertainment!

Synopsis
Murderer. Dream demon. The bastard son of a hundred maniacs. Any way you slice it, there can only be one man - one monster - who epitomizes those words: Freddy Krueger. For decades, he has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters and shows no signs of ever resting in peace.

A Nightmare on Elm Street star Heather Langenkamp is your dream guide in this thrilling "shockumentary" that takes you deeper into Freddy's realm than ever before, featuring exciting clips, never-before-seen photos, behind-the-scenes footage, conceptual art, publicity materials, and exclusive new interviews with over 100 key cast and crew from every Nightmare, including Wes Craven, Robert Englund, Heather Langenkamp, Jack Sholder, Mark Patton, Kim Myers, Chuck Russell, Jennifer Rubin, Renny Harlin, Lisa Wilcox, Tuesday Knight, Stephen Hopkins, Kelly Jo Minter, Rachel Talalay, Lisa Zane, Alice Cooper, Patrick Lussier, Miko Hughes, Monica Keena, Brendan Fletcher, Ronny Yu, and many more.

So get ready for Freddy in the definitive account of modern cinema's eternal bogeyman and what has been called the most frightening and imaginative horror franchise in motion picture history!

Altered Perception, a new project from Blanc/Biehn Productions and Small Red Star Productions, kicked off production earlier this week in Los Angeles, and the first stills featuring co-stars Jade Tailor and Emrhys Cooper have arrived.

Altered Perception is directed by Kate Rees Davies with musical composition by Randy Chance. It stars Jon Huertas, Jennifer Blanc-Biehn, Hallie Jordan, Jade Tailor, Danielle Artigo, Emrhys Cooper, Mark Burnham, Larry Wade Carrell, Nick Nicholson, Aileen Burdock, Christine Kapetan, Nichola Fynn, Matthew Ziff, and Jenise Blanc.

Photos are by Mike Skillsky. Look for lots more soon!

Synopsis:
Altered Perception is a fast-paced sci-fi thriller that follows four couples as they embark on a clinical trial of a new medication that is designed to help users move past traumatic experiences by altering their perception. As the couples continue their treatment, they begin to question and doubt their memories and eventually their sanity.

Swamy Kandan's The Secret Village is on its way to home video, and we have the details for you right here... regardless of the regular PR guy screaming at us about how they didn't want horror sites to talk about it. I shit you not. If fact I'm writing this for spite. Take from that what you will.

Whatever. How I WISH we could publish that e-mail. It was friggin' priceless.

From the Press Release
A chilling suspense-thriller, inspired by real-life events, The Secret Village comes to DVD December 17, 2013, and VOD January 1, 2014, from Vertical Entertainment.

An ambitious young journalist, Rachel (Ali Faulkner, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 1) is determined to make a front-page splash by unraveling the mystery behind an outbreak of strange events in a secretive, small town. She convinces a local (Richard Riehle, Office Space) to clandestinely meet with her to reveal what he knows about the ominous happenings, reminiscent of the Salem ergot poisonings.

However, when her source suddenly dies and her only other ally, Greg (Jonathan Bennett, Mean Girls), disappears, all leads come to a dead end; and Rachel is left alone to uncover the villagers’ deadly secret... before she becomes the next victim!

Also starring Stelio Savante (Starship Troopers 3: Marauder, A Beautiful Mind).

The Secret Village is presented in widescreen with an aspect ratio of 16 x 9 (1.85:1) and 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround Sound.

With Dead Rising 3's release date inching ever closer, word has come about the game's soundtrack, and we have all the details right here. With music composed and produced by Oleksa Lozowchuk, look for the digital album November 19th and the two-disc CD November 26th.

From the Press Release:
Sumthing Else Music Works, the premier record label dedicated to licensing and distributing video game soundtracks, proudly presents the Dead Rising 3 Original Soundtrack featuring the original music score from Capcom's new generation open-world zombie action video game available exclusively on Xbox One. The Dead Rising series is one of the most popular zombie game franchises, with more than 5.4 million units sold worldwide to date.

The Dead Rising 3 Original Soundtrack will be available digitally at iTunes, Amazon (pre-order info below), and other music sites on November 19, 2013. An expanded 99-track version of the album will be available exclusively at Sumthing.com. As a bonus, Sumthing Else and Capcom are giving away 10 tracks. To download these free tracks, visit Sumthing.com. A two-disc physical edition of the album will be released on November 26, 2013.

The Dead Rising 3 Original Soundtrack features two and a half hours of original score composed and produced by Oleksa Lozowchuk (Dead Rising 2, Dead Rising 2: Off The Record, Dead Rising 2: Case Zero, Dead Rising 2: Case West) including additional music by various artists such as Traz Damji, Sascha Dikiciyan, Brian Reitzell, Celldweller, Jeremy Soule and Julian Soule, Ashtar Command, and Dave Genn.

"Dead Rising 3's soundtrack mashes up classic horror, dirty synths, and the '80s," said Oleksa Lozowchuk, Dead Rising 3 composer and soundtrack producer. "Blend in a dose of craziness from the city of Los Perdidos to contrast the visceral pulse of survival horror, and you end up right at home in the world of Dead Rising."

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Available exclusively for Xbox One, Dead Rising 3 is the third installment in the celebrated franchise and introduces a blockbuster open-world action game that will define a new generation of zombie-slaying mayhem. With intense action and an unmatched level of weapon and character customization, Dead Rising 3 delivers a heart-pounding experience unlike any other as you fight for survival in a massive open world teeming with thousands of undead.

Set 10 years after the events of Dead Rising 2, Dead Rising 3 takes place in the vast city of Los Perdidos amid a nationwide zombie outbreak that's on the brink of decimating mankind. The story follows Nick Ramos, a young mechanic with a strange tattoo and a mysterious past who must find a way to escape a city full of thousands of bloodthirsty zombies before an impending military strike wipes the city and everyone in it off the map. But Nick can't do it alone - he must join up with other survivors to stay alive and fight their way out before it's too late. With an immersive open-world experience, intense action, and unmatched level of weapon and character customization, a new generation of zombie-slaying fun has arrived with Dead Rising 3.

For more information on Dead Rising 3, visit Xbox.com/deadrising3.

For more information on Sumthing Else Music Works and its complete catalog of video game soundtracks, visit Sumthing.com, "like"Sumthing Else Music Works on Facebook, and follow Sumthing Else Music Works on Twitter (@SumthingDigital),

Track Listing - Disc 1:
1. Please Remember My Name (DR3 Theme Song)
2. Nick Theme (extended)
3. Lust Battle
4. Envy Battle
5. Gluttony Battle
6. Gang Leader Battle Pt1
7. Hemlock Melee Battle
8. Diego Battle
9. Wrath Battle
10. Sergeant Battle Pt2
11. Sergeant Battle Pt3
12. Pride Battle (Blow by Blow)
13. Sloth Battle
14. Hemlock Drone Attack
15. Ambient 6
16. Ambient 2
17. Ambient 9
18. Ambient 1
19. ZT Pulse Sunset
20. ZT Pulse Almuda
21. ZT Pulse Ingleton
22. ZT Grapple
23. Nick Theme

Track Listing - Disc 2:
1. Resistance
2. Don't Walk Away (feat. Steve Small)
3. Icucme
4. Can't Get Enough of Me (feat. Patricia Drake)
5. Keep On Rollin
6. Sunset Hills
7. Seven
8. Mistake (feat. Damian Frost)
9. Fighting For Your Love (feat. Andrew Lawrence)
10. Amo Americano (feat. Gaston 'Cenzi' Gabarro)
11. Uncle Billy's Buffet
12. U Break Wi Fix
13. Annie's XXX Supply (feat. Devan K)
14. Despertamos (feat. Gaston 'Cenzi' Gabarro)
15. Speedy's G-Spot
16. Speed Demons
17. Pirate's Catch
18. Du Bist Mein (feat. Kami Logfren Ward)
19. La Esperanza (feat. Galdames & Campos)
20. Eating a Corpse
21. Je Chante Pour Ma Belle
22. Smiling Dragon
23. Big Buck
24. Burn Away
25. Dead End

Here at Dread Central we live for the opportunity to write ludicrous headlines that are bound to make you either chuckle or roll your eyes. Why? Because all too often people take themselves and things all too seriously, and we live to have fun. Speaking of which....

The ladies of "American Horror Story: Coven" are about to have a boatload of fun when rock legend Stevie Nicks joins their fold. The news broke earlier in the week that Nicks would be appearing on the show, and now Ryan Murphy has elaborated on just what she'll be doing.

First off, when will see her? "It’s episode 10. It’s right when we come back from winter break," said Murphy.

And will she playing a character or herself? "She appears as herself. It’s part of Fiona’s ruse in that Fiona (Jessica Lange) is trying to get the true Supreme to reveal herself because she needs to stay alive. So she tells Misty Day (Lily Rabe) that the Supreme gets so many great things in life, like tickets to the Oscars and Met Ball tickets. So she brings Stevie Nicks in as a gift to Misty to prove to her that if she exhibits more power she’ll get that and more. Then the other girls come home and see Stevie and Misty singing, and it starts them trying to move much quicker to prove that they are the Supreme."

So what songs will she be doing? Murphy added that he's currently in the process of figuring out which song Nicks and Misty will be singing.

For more info visit the show's Facebook page and Twitter feed along with "American Horror Story" on FX.

The mockumentary Reel Zombies began its extended festival run way back in 2008, scooping up awards and acclaim at various festivals around the country. Six years later, Synapse Films finally brings it home. Read on for details, and check out the trailer right here!

The film stars Michael Masters, David J. Francis, Stephen Papadimitriou, and Sam Hall.

Synopsis
Independent underground filmmakers Mike Masters and David J. Francis (playing themselves) are eager to complete the third film in their ZOMBIE NIGHT film trilogy, a series of rather unsuccessful low-budget, shot-on-video gorefests. The problem, however, is a recent zombie apocalypse has taken over the world since their series began. The dead are rising from their graves and eating the living… for real this time! Masters and Francis embark on the production of their newest masterpiece anyway, only to discover shooting in a post-apocalyptic world offers many unforeseen challenges. Instead of giving up, they decide to capitalize on the cannibalistic catastrophe. No need for latex and fake blood when there’s an entire world of flesh-eating undead to add realism to their film and help save money on special effects costs!

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Dario Argento once said, "Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back." Abertoir, Wales’ International Horror Festival that wrapped this past Sunday, November 10th, has been celebrating horror’s malleability and resilience for eight years.

This year you could find Argento’s operatic giallo style reinvented by French filmmakers Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani in The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears; vampires got a makeover in Kiss of the Damned and Chimeres; ghosts found new life in Ghost Graduation, Forgotten, and Soulmate; found footage was resurrected as Catholic horror in Borderlands; and creature features took a strange turn with The Station and Bad Milo.

Festival director Gaz Bailey had to watch a lot of awful films to find the best the genre had to offer. And he looks for one thing above all else when selecting a film: originality.

"It has to be something different ," Bailey said, "When people think of horror films, they generally think of some girl in the woods getting chased by whoever. There is an awful lot of that and I absolutely hate it but I think you’ll see by our line-up that there’s none of that. It’s the skill of the filmmaker to play with your emotions and psychology to make you scared or at least to play with your knowledge of other horror films that we respect. In our selection we’ll go from art house horror to crazy Japanese splatter movies to cult classics like the Hammer House of Horror movies, and then we go to the silent films with live piano accompaniment. We mix it up as much as we can do to show people there is a huge market for this, and there is a huge variety in the horror genre."

The audience awards reflected that diversity as well. In the feature film category, Welsh pride shone through with the homegrown sci-fi horror film The Machine taking third place. In second, Spain’s Painless found horror buried in the secrets of the past, and the first place winner was the crowd pleasing ghost comedy, also from Spain, Ghost Graduation. The best in show award went to the first place short horror comedy Fist of Jesus.

Bailey, who programs films all year long at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre in Ceredigion, Wales, started Abertoir eight years ago.

"I’m a big horror fan, and frankly eight years ago there were no horror events in Wales. You had to travel all the way to London or Edinburgh to see a decent horror festival. So I thought, 'Oh I’ll just put on a couple horror films around Halloween,' and we got carried away."

This year’s festival included a tribute to Peter Cushing’s Hammer films, filmmaker Q&As, live theater, a literary component, and even its own beer (this year called Crwr Cushing Abertoir Ale) on sale in the pub. Bailey is proud of the festival's success and of the fact that it now boasts financial support from the prestigious British Film Institute and the Film Agency for Wales. Not bad for a genre that doesn't always get the respect it deserves from the mainstream arts community.

Getting respect for an oft under-appreciated genre was one reason Bailey started the festival. But he also wanted to keep it small and intimate.

"That’s what we strive to get in our festival is sort of a family atmosphere," said Bailey.

This is reflected in the way the festival is run. Bailey is always readily available to attendees and he ushers in guests with an informality that breaks down the boundaries audiences can often feel when filmmakers and actors are treated like celebrities. It also means that Bailey can confide in the crowd about having to run one film in order to book another he really wants or that one guest racked up a bar bill that truly terrified him.

Bailey’s co-horts at Abertoir are Nia Edwards-Behi and Rhys Fowler. Although Edwards-Behi denies having any agenda other than finding the best films, she did admit special pride in the fact that this year there are four films, including The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears and Soulmate,, directed by women.

"I’m conscious to not make too big of a deal of it because I don’t want to be, ‘Hey guys, special cases - look at this!’ So it’s about striking a balance of wanting to promote a particular type of filmmaker and a particular type of story with the fact that you are just wanting to show the best possible films. I mean, personally, what I’d also like to see more of is Welsh horror films, particularly Welsh language horror films, but there aren’t that many; and in the same vein when I see a film has been submitted by or has been directed by a woman, I think, ‘Oh god, I have to go watch that.’ But if it’s not of the kind of quality we need, we won’t show it. I’m always kind of keeping an eye out for films directed by women."

Abertoir has shown American Mary, directed by twin sisters Jen and Sylvia Soska, but rejected Hidden in the Woods, which depicted repeated rape scenes.

"I’m very conscious of this depiction of particular acts and particular scenes involving women, but at the same time I always try to think, 'Okay, does this bring something to the narrative?,' and if it does, then fine. It is quite important to horror to show horrific things; horror does have to portray horrific acts and that plays into it, but there is a prevalence of just using, for example, rape scenes as a throwaway plot device. If you don’t explore it properly, if it’s not sort of an integral part of the story, then it does bother me quite a lot," said Edwards-Behi.

One of the highlights of this year’s festival was the Q&A following the screening of Lucio Fukci's cult film Zombie Flesh Eaters with composer Fabio Frizzi and star Richard Johnson. In a leisurely discussion that ran some 40 minutes, Frizzi recalled how Fulci was a "passionate filmmaker and a good guy, but when he was in a bad moment, it was a bad moment for everybody.".

Johnson recounted this anecdote: "There was a girl in the film who played the girl who came out of the sea, and she displayed more attributes than her acting, which was just as well because Fulci did admit pretty early on that she couldn’t act at all. But it just drove at his brain every day, and one time after he tried to get her to do something with some sort of vague approximation of human behavior, he got so angry take after take after take with her that he fell on the ground and started eating the grass, beating his fist on the grass, and he said, ‘I eat the grass or I eat you.’"

Welsh filmmaker Caradog James got a warm reception, even though he didn't speak Welsh. For its small budget, The Machine displayed an impressive visual style and production design, with a Welsh company creating the stellar effects.

In James' Q&A, he discussed doing research for his film, which concerns a military program that creates a robot that approximates human thinking and even emotions with troubling consequences. But the story didn't crystalize for him until his producer "managed to organize an off-the-record meeting with a guy at the Ministry of Defense who is actually building artificial intelligence machines for the government, and the kind of progression he’d gone through is that they mapped a slug brain and they mapped a rat brain, and I think they are working on mapping a chimp brain, so it is not a far-reached thing that sometime in the future they will map a human brain, and that kind of provoked me to think if a machine thinks and feels like we do, what kind of questions are we going to have to face in the next 50, 100 years' time when these machines come to fruition? And that was really the basis for the story."

James was asked about the robot language used in the film and revealed, "The actress [Pooneh Hajimohammadi] who played Suri, who’s kind of head of the implant soldiers, is from Iran and so she taught all of Suri’s army their dialogue in Farsi. She translated into Farsi and they learned it by rote, and then obviously in post we then heavily digitized it and changed it and manipulated it. But the reason I did that is not any kind of political comment or anything like that; it was purely because I didn’t want the actors making it up. When actors make up dialogue, you can tell and there’s no emotion behind it and I wanted there to be structure to the language so that it felt believable, they had confidence in what they were saying, and also they could just put a performance into it rather than talking jibberish."

Another filmmaker in attendance was Olivier Beguin. His film Chimeres considers what would happen to a couple if one of them suddenly became a vampire. It combines romance, drama, horror, and revenge. Beguin said one of the things that influenced his themes was the suicide-murders that keep grabbing headlines in which someone shoots up a club or an office and then turns the gun on themselves. The enthusiastic Beguin said that people often question his involvement in the horror genre.

"People ask me, 'How can you do horror?' But it’s so cool. There is a shower scene in Chimeres with actress Jasna Kohoutova under a blood shower; it is so much fun to have a naked girl under a shower of blood. It’s a bit like asking a painter what is so much fun with painting? So yes, red is my favorite color." Then Beguin got more serious, "Not joking, I think mixing the genres is really something that attracts me to horror cinema or fantastic cinema. That you can deal with a real relationship but with a background that is fantasy, like dealing with vampires. But still I deal with a love story with real people with real behaviors but with images that are a bit cooler and more interesting."

But Beguin also expressed frustration with the genre, "Lately I haven’t been scared in movies. I think recently horror has become a bit less subversive and a bit more mainstream. Yeah, I’m talking about you, Twilight. It is one of the worst things that have happened to the genre. But there are still films that really make me believe in horror. I love The Woman by Lucky McKee. I think he firmly believes in the genre and goes for it, and he makes a movie that can scare me. So there are some filmmakers that are doing films that are worth seeing. I just saw a few days ago We Are What We Are, the remake, and this is great. This is what the horror genre needs, films that are a bit subversive, that show something else, that mix genres. This is the kind of film when you see it that you feel, 'Yes the genre is still worth it.'"

Abertoir served up many examples of what makes the genre worth it. It made you grateful for Peter Cushing and Vincent Price in Madhouse, a restored print of Zombie Flesh Eaters, the seductive imagery of The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears, the jaw-dropping ridiculousness of All Cheerleaders Die, the wickedly endearing practical effects of Bad Milo, the death by 45s in Discopath, and the superb performances in Borderlands and Chimeres. The showcase of horror at Abertoir reflected the best the genre has to offer and the passion of the festival directors, who were already planning next year’s festival before this one even ended.

For more visit the official Abertoir website, "like"Abertoir on Facebook, and follow Abertoir on Twitter.

Beth Accomando is author of the blog Cinema Junkie.