Coming May 13th is a book that looks to be right up all of our alleys, Godzilla: The Art of Destruction, and right now we have a super-sized look at some of the pages inside. Chew slowly, kids! It's the good stuff!

From the Press Release:
Insight Editions, Legendary Pictures, Toho Co., Ltd., and Warner Bros. Consumer Products have announced a collaboration that will take audiences behind the scenes of Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ Godzilla, the epic rebirth of one of the world’s most revered monster, set to release in May 2014.

Godzilla, one of the most recognizable characters in history who has become an icon of Japanese cinema since his debut in 1954, will once again take center stage in the new film by acclaimed filmmaker Gareth Edwards (Monsters). Edwards directs from a screenplay by Max Borenstein and story by David Callaham and Max Borenstein, based on the character “Godzilla,” owned and created by TOHO CO., LTD. Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing with Mary Parent and Brian Rogers. Patricia Whitcher and Alex Garcia are serving as executive producers, alongside Yoshimitsu Banno and Kenji Okuhira.

Leading up to the release of the film starring Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick-Ass), Bryan Cranston ("Breaking Bad"), Elizabeth Olsen (Silent House), David Strathairn (Lincoln), Ken Watanabe (Inception), Sally Hawkins (Blue Jasmine), and Juliette Binoche (The English Patient), Insight Editions will partner with the three major film companies to bring readers Godzilla: The Art of Destruction by Mark Cotta Vaz. The book is a visually stunning volume that delves into the making of the new Godzilla film, showcases its incredible production art, and includes interviews with its director, key crew members, and cast. Insight Editions, known for their innovative, cutting-edge books Man of Steel: Inside the Legendary World of Superman and Pacific Rim: Man, Machines & Monsters, will once again bring their expertise to this definitive book on one of the most anticipated films of 2014.

Look for the book on May 13th; pre-order info is below.

Reprinted from Godzilla: The Art of Destruction by Mark Cotta Vaz, published by Insight Editions. TM & © Toho Co., Ltd. © Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. (s14). Click on the images to see larger versions.

"RIGHT Dr. Brody monitors the crisis at the Janjira facility. BELOW The Janjira nuclear power plant control room was a daunting design challenge—everything from switches and gauges to signage and paperwork had to be created and accurately reflect a period Japanese nuclear facility. This piece of concept art set the look of the facility."

"OPPOSITE LEFT AND ABOVE Concept art depicting the Q-Zone. “The great thing about haze and fog is that you can create beautiful, dark foreground silhouettes,” says Edwards. “It really gives a sense of scale and scope.” OPPOSITE BOTTOM RIGHT Q-Zone set dressing showing a weathered radiation warning sign."

"RIGHT Concept art imagines the surreal effect of the giant monsters, such as this nuclear submarine dropped in the mountains. “I love this shot,” says Edwards. We struggled with trying to find a position for the submarine that didn’t feel too silly, but you could still read it from a distance. This is a shot that’s never in the film, they don’t actually approach it from the boat, but again, things get drawn just to give it flavor.”"

We're back with another installment of Radio 66.6! This week features the latest news, music, videos and tour dates from the likes of Michael Jackson, Goblin, Fozzy, Mastodon, Three Days Grace, Machine Head, Hawthorne Heights, DevilDriver, Miss May I, From First to Last, Deafhaven and more. Don't touch that dial.

NEWS
A new Michael Jackson album titled Xscape has been announced. In stores May 13th via Epic Records, the effort will feature eight never-before-heard tracks.

Fozzy will release a new album this summer. The first single, "Lights Go Out," will be out April 29th.

Periphery frontman Spencer Sotelo is the new lead vocalist of From First to Last. Watch the video announcement - which includes a clip of Sotelo performing "The Latest Plague” - here. Their new EP is expected soon.

Mastodon's new, as-yet-untitled album is in the final stages of being mastered. It will be released later this year.

MUSIC
Listen to a new Three Days Grace song titled "Painkiller"here. It's the first single with new vocalist Matt Walst. The band is continuing to work on new material.

Listen to Hawthorne Heights' acoustic rendition of their hit single, "Ohio Is for Lovers,"here. They'll celebrate the tenth anniversary of their debut album, The Silence in Black and White, with an acoustic version of the record. It drops on April 15 from InVogue Records.

Unique Ohio rockers Foxy Shazam have dropped a surprise on fans: a new album - for free. Download Gonzohere.

VIDEOS
Watch Miss May I's music video for "Echoes"here. It's the new single from Rise of the Lion, due out April 29th on Rise Records.

Watch Motionless In White's lyric video for their cover of Rammstein's "Du Hast"here. The track appears on the Punk Goes 90s Vol. 2 compilation, in stores now on Fearless Records.

Watch Saliva's music video for "Rise Up"here. It's the title track from their new album, which comes out April 29th via Rum Bum Records.

Watch full live shows from pop punkers Neck Deep and Knuckle Puck from their sold out show in Boston here.

TOURS
Goblin will perform the Dawn of the Dead soundtrack live on their upcoming U.S. tour! Check out the dates here.

Machine Head have announced the "Killers & Kings" club tour. Dates are here.

Whitechapel and DevilDriver are going on a co-headlining tour. Dates are here.

Fozzy’s upcoming tour dates can be found here.

Deafhaven's summer tour dates are here.

Be sure to check back every Tuesday for the latest music news!

For those who love independent, underground horror, you will want to get yourself to Syracuse, NY, on May 31st for Slaughter in Syracuse 2014, an event that will feature some of the biggest names in underground indie horror, movie screenings, and Q&As.

Vultra Video, in association with Beneath the Underground, presents Slaughter in Syracuse 2014. Among those in attendance will be Fred and Shelby Vogel of Toetag Pictures, Ryan Nicholson, Marcus Koch, Adam Ahlbrandt, Jimmy Screamer Clauz, Ruby LaRocca, and Matt Garrett.

Many of the filmmakers and actors in attendance will be doing Q&As after their movies are screened. The Q&A's will be hosted by Dread Central and Fangoria writer Heather Buckley.

Among the movies to be shown at Slaughter in Syracuse 2014 are the North American premiere of Ryan Nicholson's Collar (Nicholson will also return to the stage later to present "Good Wife," his contribution to the anthology film The Profane Exhibit), Toetag Pictures'Redsin Tower, Adam Ahlbrandt's Cross Bearer, amongst others.

For more information visit the official Beneath the Underground Slaughter in Syracuse 2014 website. Tickets can be purchased here.

Half the fun of the A Haunted House series is seeing which popular horror films the promotional one-sheets will be spoofing. Today's A Haunted House 2 poster has some fun at the expense of Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones. Dig it!

The sequel to A Haunted House catches back up with Malcolm (Wayans), who is trying to get a fresh start after having to exorcise demons out of his ex. However, moving into a beautiful home with his new girlfriend and her two children does nothing to stop the paranormal — or the humor.

Marlon Wayans, Jaime Pressly, Gabriel Iglesias, Ashley Rickards, Steele Stebbins, Essence Atkins, Affion Crocket, Dave Sheridan, Hayes MacArthur, Missi Pyle, and Cedric The Entertainer star.

Open Road Films is releasing the spoof, which is directed by Michael Tiddes and co-written by Wayans and Rick Alvarez. Look for it on April 18th.

Synopsis
Crossing new lines and breaking old barriers, A HAUNTED HOUSE 2 is the sequel to the hilarious box office hit starring Marlon Wayans as Malcolm who, after exorcising the demons of his ex, is starting fresh with his new girlfriend and her two children. After moving into their dream home, Malcolm is once again plagued by bizarre paranormal events. With spine-tingling tension and hilarious punch-lines, A HAUNTED HOUSE 2 is inspired by the latest supernatural horror movie franchises and shows that this time… it’s not just the house that’s haunted!

Stars of "Bates Motel" and "True Detective" have already signed on for roles in New Line's Crawlspace, and now another TV star is joining them in that tight space. Read on for details!

As per Variety, "Major Crimes" actress Nadine Velazquez has joined the cast of the horror-thriller. Velazquez was also recently seen in Flight, playing an airline flight attendant.

Michael Vartan stars as a widower with a daughter (Erin Moriarty) who gets remarried and, after going through a rough patch of unemployment, gets the opportunity for a new start in a new house in the suburbs.

Velazquez will play the second wife of Vartan’s character and the stepmother to Moriarty’s character.

Trouble is, the house has a very disturbing secret from the past that rears up.

Phil Claydon is directing from a script by Gary Dauberman. Peter Safran (The Conjuring) is producing along with Rick Alvarez.

It's been described as a cross between Night of the Living Dead and World War Z, and Dimension is all over it. Read on for details about the faith-based horror flick they've just signed on to produce!

Deadline reports that Dimension Films has made a preemptive deal to acquire Transference, a horror pitch from scribes Brandon and Phillip Murphy. The news comes shortly after the duo sold another horror script to Sony, titled The Bringing.

In Transference, residents of a small Bible belt town grapple with the onset of a global outbreak of demonic possession that spreads like virus.

That's all we know about this one for now, but we'll be sure to report more as we learn it!

Just three episodes remain in Season 2 of "The Following," and we're not about to stop watching after devoting so much time to it. You on board, too? Here's a preview of next week's Ep. 2.13, "The Reaping," along with a quick look back at Ep. 2.12, "Betrayal."

"The Following" Episode 2.12 - "Betrayal" (aired 4/7/14, 9-10PM)
A BETRAYAL LEADS TO CHAOS - After a series of public condemnations of Joe and his followers, Joe targets the son of a man who stands against him.

Meanwhile, Ryan is faced with the shocking news of Claire’s reappearance, and Mandy makes a decision that leads her to a familiar face, which could undo all that Joe has been working for.

Go behind the scenes as Ryan and Mike search a dark and creepy frat house and are attacked by a room full of people in white masks.

"The Following" Episode 2.13 - "The Reaping" (4/14/14, 9-10PM)
RYAN HARDY TRACKS DOWN THE KORBAN COMPOUND - Ryan tracks down the location of the Korban compound with hopes to infiltrate the cult and capture Joe Carroll, but all doesn’t go exactly as planned.

Meanwhile, Claire asks Carrie to deliver a message to Joe, and Weston makes a decision that will change the course of his life forever.

Cast: Kevin Bacon as Ryan Hardy; James Purefoy as Joe Carroll; Shawn Ashmore as Agent Mike Weston; Natalie Zea as Claire Matthews; Valorie Curry as Emma Hill; Connie Nielsen as Lily Gray; Sam Underwood as Luke; Jessica Stroup as Max Hardy; Tiffany Boone as Mandy Lang

Guest Cast: Shane McRae as Robert; Sprague Grayden as Carrie Cooke; Mackenzie Marsh as Tilda; Felix Solis as Agent Clarke; Carter Jenkins as Preston; Tom Cavanaugh as Kingston; Connor Fox as Jason; Kaija Matiss as Courtney

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

Something you might not know about Predator is that Jean-Claude Van Damme was the original choice to play the monstrous title character before being replaced by the late Kevin Peter Hall. Just as the actor was changed, so, too, was the suit as this hilarious new video reveals.

Posted on YouTube this week by the Stan Winston School of Character Arts, the vintage video of Van Damme donning the original Predator suit is joined together with a new interview with makeup effects artist Steve Johnson, who at long last reveals the true story behind the creature costume that almost was.

The never-before-seen video gives us a better look at the original outfit than past pictures have ever shown us, and Johnson's memories of the ill-fated costume are absolutely hilarious. Van Damme, he recalls, wasn't at all happy about the look of the suit, thinking that an incredibly goofy version of it that was being used for the invisibility cloaking scenes represented the way that the actual character was going to look on film. You so silly, Jean-Claude.

Enjoy this one, folks!

So, the exclusive clip we debuted yesterday from Episode 1.05 of "From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series" wasn't enough for you? Then good thing you checked back with us today because we have three more sneak peeks of "Self-Contained" to share!

“From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series” centers on bank robber Seth Gecko (D.J. Cotrona) and his violent, unpredictable brother, Richard “Richie” Gecko (Zane Holtz), who are on the run after a bank heist left several people dead.

While heading to Mexico, Seth and Richie encounter a former pastor and his family, whom they take hostage. Using the family RV to cross the Border, chaos ensues when the group detours to a strip club that is populated by vampires. They are forced to fight until dawn in order to get out alive. The series deepens the tone of the original film, adds new characters and backstories, and expands the Mesoamerican mythology behind the creatures inside the club.

Along with Cotrona and Holtz, the international cast includes Jesse Garcia, Eiza González, Wilmer Valderrama, Adrianne Palicki, Jake Busey, Don Johnson, Madison Davenport, Lane Garrison, Robert Patrick, and Brandon Soo Hoo. The 10-episode, hour-long series is El Rey Network's first scripted original and has already been renewed for a second season.

Episode 1.05 - "Self-Contained" (airs 4/8/14)
Seth escapes the motel and leads the Fullers' RV to the Border. Meanwhile, Richie deals with an irrational fear; and Jacob (Robert Patrick) is determined to get his children safely across the Border. Directed by Joe Menendez and written by Matt Morgan and Ian Sobel.

For more info keep your eyes on the show's Facebook page, the official El Rey Network website, El Rey Network on Facebook, and El Rey Network on Twitter.

More indie goodness is on its way in the form of Alex van Warmerdam’s Borgman, which enjoyed a very successful festival run at TIFF and more. A June 6th release date has been given to the flick, and right now we have your first look at the official trailer!

Jan Bijvoet, Hadewych Minis, Jeroen Perceval, Sara Hjort Ditlevsen, Eva van de Wijdeven, Annet Malherbe, and Tom Dewispelaere star.

Synopsis
Borgman is the central character in Alex van Warmerdam’s dark, malevolent fable. Is he a dream or a demon, a twisted allegory or an all-too-real embodiment of our fears? Borgman is a sinister arrival in the sealed-off streets of modern suburbia. His presence unleashes a crowing gallery of distortion around the careful façade constructed by an arrogant, comfortable couple, their three children, and nanny.

Some quick UK distro news has come in for Alexandre Aja's Horns (review) starring Daniel Radcliffe and Juno Temple. The flick will see its premiere across the pond on October 31st, 2014. Still no word on a domestic release.

Synopsis:
Horns, a supernatural thriller driven by fantasy, mystery, and romance, follows Ig Perrish (Radcliffe), the number one suspect for the violent rape and murder of his girlfriend, Merrin (Temple). Hungover from a night of hard drinking, Ig awakens one morning to find horns starting to grow from his own head and soon realizes their power drives people to confess their sins and give in to their most selfish and unspeakable impulses – an effective tool in his quest to discover the true circumstances of his late girlfriend’s tragedy and for exacting revenge on her killer.

This rock and roll infused dark fantasy explores why bad things happen to good people and what the loss of true love can do to a man. The widely acclaimed book was on the New York Times bestseller list for six weeks and has become an international bestseller as well.

Since we still have another week to wait until "The Originals" returns to The CW with Episode 1.18, "The Big Uneasy," the network has released a new promo for the ep that reveals quite a bit of footage we haven't seen yet.

"The Originals" Episode 1.18 - "The Big Uneasy" (airs 4/15/14, 8-9pm)
THE FEAST OF THE BLESSINGS - Genevieve (guest star Elyse Levesque) asks Elijah (Daniel Gillies) to allow her coven to publicly celebrate a traditional feast day, where members of the community offer the witches gifts in return for blessings.

Monique (guest star Yasmine Al Bustami) and Genevieve disagree over what the ancestors want from them, and Genevieve reveals her plan to build the witches' power.

When Elijah focuses his attention on restoring their home to its former glory, Klaus (Joseph Morgan) accuses him of doing it only to impress Hayley (Phoebe Tonkin). Next, Klaus sets a new plan in motion by finding Cary (guest star Jesse Boyd), a werewolf from his own line, and sending him off to find a missing piece of family history.

Marcel lets Thierry (guest star Callard Harris) in on his new plan to rebuild his power, but Diego (guest star Eka Darville) has his own ideas about the future. At the Feast of the Blessings, Monique and Genevieve try to use the ceremony to teach Davina (Danielle Campbell) a lesson, but Klaus intervenes and gives Davina a surprisingly important gift.

While Hayley struggles to decide where her loyalties should lie, the ceremony explodes into violence. Leah Pipes also stars.

Related Story:The Originals' Nathan Parsons Talks Jackson & Hayley's Prospects, Trusting Klaus, Turning Hybrid, and Lots More

Leslie Libman directed the episode written by Marguerite MacIntyre and Michael Russo.

For more info visit "The Originals" on CWTV.com, "like""The Originals" on Facebook, and follow "The Originals" on Twitter.

I've said it time and time again... a good one-sheet is enough to get me to watch a movie. Screw floating heads with pensive expressions. Hollywood, take note... See this poster for The Drownsman? THIS is how you do it!

Chad Archibald directs the film, which stars Michelle Mylett, Caroline Korycki, Gemma Bird Matheson, Sydney Kondruss, Clare Bastable, and Ry Barrett, who plays the title character.

Synopsis
After almost drowning in a lake, Madison finds herself bound to a life of fear. Unable to describe what happened to her during the moments she was underwater, Madison begins to develop hydrophobia: an abnormal fear of water.

Crippled by her post trauma, Madison attempts to shut out the world around her, but her fear intensifies when she begins to be haunted by the vision of an evil figure. After watching her struggle for over a year, Madison's four friends stage an intervention in a desperate attempt to help. In doing so, they accidentally open a floodgate to a dark place where none of them are safe. As Madison and her friends dive deeper into the dark history of the evil that haunts them, they’re dragged one by one to a horrifying place from which they may never return.

A new short film has hit our radar that we think you cats should keep a close eye out for! On tap right now is your first look at Call Girl, a short film from Jill Sixx Gevargizian, starring Laurence R. Harvey (The Human Centipede II, The Human Centipede III) and Tristan Risk (American Mary, The Editor).

The flick will next be showing in Kansas City at the Middle of the Map Festival on April 19th, and then at Days of the Dead in Indianapolis on June 27th.

Call Girl marks the directorial debut of Gevargizian, who has made a name for herself and her advocacy for independent horror through Slaughter Movie House, a monthly screening series she started in 2012. Her passion for horror transitioned from supporter to creator when she read the Call Girl script by Eric Havens. She decided to step into the director chair herself. With a successfully funded Kickstarter campaign behind her, Jill submerged herself completely into the world of filmmaking, employed a talented crew, and came back with Call Girl.

For more info visit Call Girl on Facebook, and follow Call Girl on Twitter.

Synopsis
In one man’s attempt to exploit his date night via video-chat, he ends up sharing something far more disturbing.

In his latest movie Proxy (review), indie filmmaker Zack Parker takes on some pretty brutal subject matter – the murder of a late-term fetus, lesbian obsession, secrets, lies, and stalkers. And that’s just for starters! Read on to see what Parker has to say about all this and more.

Dread Central: You've been making films since you were a child... What's the enduring fascination for you?

Zack Parker: I don’t think it’s something I can necessarily pinpoint. I’ve just always had a connection to movies. Almost felt I understood them in a strange way. My parents divorced when I was pretty young. My mother worked, so I was just one of those generation of kids that grew up in front of the television. That was the world I knew.

My dad bought a small Hi 8 video camera when I was eleven, and I just started making little short movies with them. Mostly clay-animation at first (the California Raisins and the Domino’s Noid were both popular at the time), then later I started making things with friends.

Once I got into middle/high school, I would always try to make a movie, or shoot a scene from a book, to get out of doing a book report or some other kind of project. It was just fun, so it never felt like work.

Like most young artists, I’m sure your parents think that you’re going through a phase, or will grow out it. I come from a place that has zero connections to movies or Hollywood, and this is pre-internet, which made it feel even further away. It’s the only career path I’ve ever pursued. I think once I made the decision at nineteen to leave collage and move to LA, my family started to take it seriously.

In regard to where it will all lead, I guess that remains to be seen. I’ve been fortunate thus far to make the films I want, how I want, and where I want. I suppose that is what’s most important to me; to continue to tell stories that I have a connection with and to maintain whatever voice I may have.

DC: Your first feature, Inexchange, has been compared to Carrie. Why do you think that is, and what do you think of all the remakes of the 70s classics? (Specifically, Carrie). That was in 2006... can you talk about how the accelerated rate of bullying and revenge in today's online world might affect you if you'd made that film today?

ZP: I suppose the Carrie comparisons came through the bullying aspect, and possibly through the stylistic choices made throughout the film. As for remakes; some work, most don’t. I certainly understand the business thinking of it. Taking a successful piece of material that has survived for decades, then repackaging and contemporizing it for a new generation in an attempt to recapture that success. I have no allusions about film being a business. It’s a necessary evil.

As films grow older they tend to take on a bit of nostalgia for audiences. I prefer the original Carrie, but perhaps that is because I saw it at a time where films were having a huge impression on me. I prefer the aesthetics of it more than the remake. It’s not that the newer one is particularly a bad film, it just wasn’t a new experience for me. It’s not going to have the same impact because I know the original so well. But, when I watch the original now, I can remember that feeling of seeing it for the first time, that nostalgia. I believe this is why every time I watch it, it still feels like a new experience.

As for would I change anything in Inexchange if I made it today; on the technical side, definitely. It was my first feature, so it is very difficult for me to watch it now. But story-wise, I don’t think I would change much. Of course, the lack of technology (cell phones, iPads, etc.) makes it feel dated, but I think the overall message is still quite relevant.

DC: In your new movie, Proxy, you focus on some really dark material... the in-utero baby murder was especially disturbing... do you take your cues from real life, like say, the killing of Sharon Tate or the recent spate of fetal abduction assaults? Or is it purely as a filmmaker thinking: What's really going to be brutal? How can I freak out the audience?

ZP: I always take a bit from real life, though typically not through news headlines. They tend to be aspects of my own life that I am dealing with, or subjects that I am fascinated by and want to explore.

Due to the structure of this particular film, I knew I had to hit the audience hard early on. I tend to be what some would call a “slow burn” filmmaker. I like a story to take time, and to build up a development of the characters and their world. I knew that if I could knock the audience off balance quickly, give them this feeling that anything could happen in this film, it would earn me the time to start to build the story. It’s almost a promise; stick with me, and something like this will happen again later. I find it ends up creating a nice innate bit of suspense and tension as the film unfolds.

DC: You put your actresses through hell in Proxy. Did any of them hesitate after their initial reading of the script?

ZP: I knew that these roles were going to go to some pretty dark places, and probably be quite challenging. So I was looking for actresses that were going to embrace those challenges, and in my mind, fall in love with the story for all the right reasons.

Alexia Rasmussen and Alexa Havins (who play Esther and Melanie, respectively) were two of several actresses that were submitted to me and whom I met with. Both really seemed to understand and be enthusiastic about the kind of film I was attempting to make. I think Alexia really responded to the introverted and broken psyche of Esther, and her potential to be a very unlikely and unconventional female lead. As for Alexa, I think she was excited about the dual nature of her character, the facade that controls her life. As a mother herself, I know there were times where it was quite difficult for her to go to those dark places, but she is a consummate professional, and executed the role quite beautifully.

Kristina Klebe’s character had to undergo the largest physical change. She did a lot of training through weightlifting and boxing. We were trying to transform not only her silhouette, but the way she moved. Her character is fueled by passion and ferocity, and it was important for both of us that the physical matched the emotional.

DC: There's one really arresting scene in Proxy, where someone is shot. And there's almost a Peckinpah vibe to it. You really keep it slow. And not just slo-mo, but what looks like still frames. Please tell us about the inspiration behind this very unusual and risky choice. Any cinematic influences for this?

ZP: The film undergoes a big change at the halfway point, so I really wanted to create this marquee sequence around that. I was in love with the super slow-motion sequences that (Lars) von Trier was doing in Antichrist and Melancholia with the Phantom camera. Since our scene was dealing largely with water and blood, it occurred to me that this could potentially be a beautiful way to execute it.

That entire sequence was shot at 1500fps. So, though it does look like still frames at some points, it is actually still moving pictures. I feel like when you when slow things down that much, the violence and gore become somewhat balletic. I knew the sequence would live or die by the score that was driving it, and as always, the Newton Brothers created an exquisitely haunting piece that elevates the whole scene to another level.

DC: What will horror fans like best about Proxy?

ZP: As with all of my films, the reactions have been quite polarizing. Some are really embracing it, some not. Personally, I’m still not sure I would call it a horror film, simply because I don’t want to create incorrect expectations. I think it is very dark and deals with some pretty tough subject matter, but I don’t want people expecting murder and mayhem every ten minutes. I think it is probably a hybrid of several genres. When I set out to make a film, my hope is that it will be something that people haven’t seen before, and executed in way that feels unique.

DC: What's your next project, or what do you hope to be working on it the future?

ZP: I am in the beginning stages of putting together the next one. I have co-written this one again with Kevin Donner, whom I wrote Proxy with. It is a story that I have been developing for several years now. I’m always wanting to progress in my work, and this has been the most complicated screenplay I’ve dealt with to date. It has a larger scope that anything I’ve made before, and if all goes according to plan, we’ll be shooting later this year or early 2015.

Look for Proxy on VOD April 18 with a DVD release to follow.

Alexia Rasmussen, Alexa Havins, Kristina Klebe, and Joe Swanberg star.

Synopsis:
A very pregnant Esther Woodhouse (Rasmussen) is walking home after her latest OB appointment when she is brutally attacked and disfigured by a hooded assailant. When Esther seeks consolation in a support group, she finds friendship and empathy in Melanie (Havins), another mother scarred with tragedy. Esther soon begins to believe that the horrific event might be a bittersweet act of fate. However, friendship and empathy can be very dangerous things when accepted by the wrong people.

Proxy is a European-style suspense-thriller that promises to challenge the traditional cinematic form. Parker has reunited with The Newton Brothers to compose the score as well as Jim Timperman as Director of Photography to lens the film. A notable addition to Parker’s crew is seasoned Special F/X Make-Up Artist James Ojala. Proxy was shot on location in Eastern Indiana.

For more info visit the official Along the Tracks Productions website, "like"Proxy on Facebook, and follow Proxy on Twitter.

We told you that Dread Central Livewould be returning on April 21st with a very special event, and now we can finally share the details with you! If you're in or near Los Angeles, we have your opportunity to see the devil delivered!

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Dread Central, theStream.tv, and Daily Motion have teamed up to give Los Angeles-based horror fans an intimate fan screening of Devil's Due!

Fans will also have a chance to meet the film's directors, Radio Silence (Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett, Justin Martinez, and Chad Villella), and watch the film along with them before being treated to a special edition of Dread Central Live, which will be streaming LIVE on April 21st at 4PM PT / 7PM ET.

To sign up for your chance to be a part of this special event, just send an email to contests@dreadcentral.com including your FULL NAME AND ADDRESS with "THE DEVIL DELIVERED" in the subject line and re-tweet this story using the hashtag #DevilsDueScreening!

If you're chosen, you will receive an e-mail prior to the event giving you all of the necessary details you need including location and start time.

This contest will end on at 12:01 AM PT on April 15th.

Also feel free to share the info on Instagram and Facebook!

Devil’s Due will be available on Digital HD on April 15 and on Blu-ray and DVD April 29 courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Synopsis
After a mysterious night on their honeymoon, Zach and Samantha McCall find themselves dealing with an earlier-than-planned pregnancy. While recording everything on video for posterity, Zach begins to notice odd behavior in his wife that they initially attribute to nerves, but it soon becomes evident the disturbing changes to Samantha’s body and mind have a much more sinister origin.

Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, part of the quartet of filmmakers known as Radio Silence (V/H/S), and produced by John Davis (Chronicle), Devil’s Due utilizes a found footage style of storytelling to deliver an emotional, character-driven thriller that showcases supernatural scares and disquieting dread.

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Listen up, King fans! This is very cool! Cemetery Dance Publications signed an exclusive deal to produce a six-volume set of special collectible editions of Stephen King's early books that were originally published by Doubleday back in the 1970s and early 1980s! Read on for details!

From the Press Release
The books in this set are Carrie, Salem's Lot, The Shining, Night Shift, The Stand, and Pet Sematary, six classics of the horror genre and all-time Stephen King fan favorites.

These are the books that launched King's career and made him a household name, and our special editions will be beautiful and oversized volumes like we've published for From a Buick 8, It, Doctor Sleep, and many other King books over the years.

The first title in this special six-volume set is Carrie, which will be published later this summer and is available for pre-order immediately.

Other volumes in this series will follow approximately every six months after that, and several acclaimed artists are already creating stunning art for these books. These special editions will feature exclusive bonus features such as introductions, afterwords, artwork, and even deleted material in some cases.

We expect extremely strong demand for these special editions of Stephen King's extraordinarily popular early books, and collectors who pre-order Carrie directly from Cemetery Dance Publications will be the first collectors offered the opportunity to order future volumes before the general public.

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The Freeze Frame Films team just put out another poster and video teaser for the short film The Eidolon State, which focuses on the haunting sensation that is Slender Man. Check 'em out, and look for more on this one soon!

"You tend to see a lot of found footage films about The Slender Man, most of them based off the popular video game Slender: The Eight Pages," says Freeze Frame Films (Dion Cavallaro, Cain Harrip and Paul Thomas).

"Along with this, most Slender Man films tend to use people in morph suits or morph masks, which we feel is not a correct portrayal of The Slender Man. Our film has been treated with a different approach. We are working on something that uses films such as The Conjuring or Sinister as a guide - detailed stories with beautiful cinematography and a true sense of horror. Along with this, our film never actually refers to the character as 'The Slender Man' but refers to him as 'The Tall Man.' Our main goal is to bring people the Slender Man short film we feel they deserve, similar to how Gareth Edwards is about to deliver the new Godzilla film that fans have been wanting."

The stars of the upcoming new and original horror movie Oculus (review) gathered on the red carpet at the Chinese 6 Theater at the famous “Hollywood & Highland” corner to celebrate its premiere – and Dread Central was there!

Some folks say the poster is a little ambiguous so if you haven’t seen our junket video or read our review yet… here’s the scary skinny:

When teenage Kaylie’s younger brother, Tim, was convicted of the brutal murder of their parents, she made it her life’s mission to prove the law was wrong. She believes their deaths were at the supernatural hands of forces unleashed through an eerie antique in their home, The Lasser Glass. Tracing the provenance of the oversized mirror, adult Kaylie tracks it to an auction house, where she purchases it, and with the help of recently released Tim, she takes history’s reflections head-on. But… the mirror makes you see what it wants to you to see. What follows is a complex flip-flop through time with young Tim and Kaylie (played by Garrett Ryan and Annalise Basso) and their mom and dad (Katee Sackhoff and Rory Cochrane), as well as adult Tim and Kaylie (Brenton Thwaites and Karen Gillan) and the malevolent mirror.

Based on his own short film, director Mike Flanagan (Absentia) said it’s difficult to take a short form and recreate the experience of watching it in long form, but he’s happy with the result. Especially as a fan of horror. “It’s a genre that’s not held up to the same standards as others,” he said. But rather than relying on suspense and gore, he strove to have a strong story and an excellent cast.

“The short was just one guy alone in a room and was made for fifteen hundred,” he told us. There was “a sense of dread that was present for the whole 28 minutes. But how do you do that for 90 minutes? It’s not easy. It took a long time to figure it out, and we even went through some ideas that completely missed like, ‘Let’s do an anthology movie! It’ll be three stories,’ or ‘Let’s try found footage.’ And so I divorced myself from the plot of the short and went after capturing the essence of the story.”

When it came casting his lead and the protagonist of the entire film, there was no doubt about Karen Gillan (the pixyish redhead shot to fame playing Dr. Who’s time-travel companion Amy Pond in the television series). He liked her and she knew it when, upon their first meeting, “He was drinking coffee out of a TARDIS mug, [and so I] realized I had a good chance of getting the role!”

Although she herself is not a big watcher of horror, she likes Oculus. “Our movie is not gratuitous or gross. There really is that feeling of going on a roller coaster, which is what a horror film should do. It should be like a thrilling, scary ride that you go on as a fun, shared experience.”

Oculus opens nationwide on Friday, April 11.

Karen Gillan ("Doctor Who,"Not Another Happy Ending), Brenton Thwaites (Maleficent, The Giver), Rory Cochrane (Argo, Parkland), and Katee Sackhoff ("Battlestar Galactica,"Riddick) star.

Oculus is directed by Mike Flanagan from a script he co-wrote with Jeff Howard, based on a short film Flanagan and Jeff Seidman made in 2005. Trevor Macy (Safe House, The Strangers, The Raven) and Marc D. Evans (Safe House, The Strangers, The Raven) produced the film, and Jason Blum, Ryan Kavanaugh, Tucker Tooley, Anil Kurian, D. Scott Lumpkin, Peter Schlessel, Dale Johnson, Glenn Murray, Julie May, and Mike Ilitch, Jr., serve as executive producers.

Synopsis
Ten years ago, tragedy struck the Russell family, leaving the lives of teenage siblings Tim and Kaylie forever changed when Tim was convicted of the brutal murder of their parents. Now in his 20s, Tim is newly released from protective custody and only wants to move on with his life; but Kaylie, still haunted by that fateful night, is convinced her parents’ deaths were caused by something else altogether: a malevolent supernatural force­­ unleashed through the Lasser Glass, an antique mirror in their childhood home. Determined to prove Tim’s innocence, Kaylie tracks down the mirror, only to learn similar deaths have befallen previous owners over the past century. With the mysterious entity now back in their hands, Tim and Kaylie soon find their hold on reality shattered by terrifying hallucinations and realize, too late, that their childhood nightmare is beginning again…

For the latest news and updates, be sure to "like"Oculus on Facebook and follow @blumhouse on Twitter.

Time to add some giant beastie action to your Hump Day! On tap right now is an exclusive clip from the remake of the '50s film The Giant Gila Monster, known simply as Gila! Check it out.

From the Press Release
"Rock 'n roll is here to stay" despite the best efforts of a giant gila monster in Polyscope's sci-fi comedy movie Gila!, scheduled for release on DVD this April 22nd.

Based loosely on the 1959 sci-fi classic Giant Gila Monster, the revived Gila! features a ferocious, rampaging giant gila monster, classy hot rods, vintage 50's rock 'n roll music, cute co-eds, fist fights, drag racing, and an all-star cast who rally to defend their small town.

"A perfect 'date night' drive-in movie," says producer Bill Dever. "Family fun with music, action, a very scary monster, and a terrific cast. Inspirational sci-fi horror."

It's not all the monster's fault since his giant size and voracious appetite come from accidental toxic chemical contact, and beneath the action, Gila! carries a few contemporary political, social, and environmental messages.

Directed by Jim Wynoski, the movie follows a small-town sheriff and a young hot-rod mechanic as they suddenly face the giant gila monster's surprise attacks - first on farm animals, hapless humans, a passing freight train, and then a small Indiana town busily preparing for the big Christmas rock 'n roll dance.

"It's funny, scary, camp, and relevant," says Dever, "featuring some of the best music of the 1950's and some cool cars." The antique hot rods and classics were provided by a Midwest car club.

Gila! stars veteran television actor Terrence Knox (Tour of Duty, "St. Elsewhere") as the sheriff. The handsome Chase is played by Brian Gross (Red Tails), who races, then rallies with restless hot-rodder Jesse Janzen as Waco Bob and seductress Carla, played with a passionate zing by Christina DeRosa, as they fight the giant gila Monster.

The gila monster is no longer the federally protected and endangered Southwest desert critter thoughtlessly nudged through balsa wood walls in the original movie. Clever EFX and a dangerous man-made chemical spill morph the gila into a monster and cave crickets into chickens. Tracked down and annoyed by the sheriff's nitro explosion that supposedly sealed the cave, the monster breaks through by morning and wreaks havoc.

Town drunk and civil libertarian Compton, played brilliantly by Rich Komenich, saves the day with a bottle of whiskey in one hand and the Second Amendment in the other. His secret stash of machine guns and nitroglycerin - stockpiled to fight Russians or Martians or atomic monsters - has everyone home just in time for Christmas.

Gerald Pauwels plays the classic rich, blowhard mayor who is forced to face the realities of city leadership as he, the sheriff, the hot-rodders, and the town drunk pull together to fight the monster. Actor Don Sullivan, who played hero Chase in the original movie, returns as a scientist.

Gila spit, as we all learned in junior high science and Sullivan reminds us, is bad, but in Gila! giant gila goo dissolves human flesh in wonderful B-movie fashion.