Well, last night dashed our hopes of a Joe/Lily showdown on "The Following," but with just two episodes left, we'll keep tuning in just to see what the twins do next! Here's a preview of next week's Ep. 2.14, "Silence," along with a quick look back at Ep. 2.13, "The Reaping."

"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.

In the below "Insider" video Shawn Ashmore (Mike Weston) gives you the inside look at the final moments of Episode 2.13.

"The Following" Episode 2.14 - "Silence" (4/21/14, 9-10PM):
Ryan and Mike try to stop Joe from going forward with his plan, which threatens many lives.

Meanwhile, Claire makes a dangerous decision, and Mark and Luke try to figure out what to do next.

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; Sam Underwood as Luke and Mark; Jessica Stroup as Max Hardy

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FilmBuff has set a release date of May 13th for Devil in My Ride and will make the film available to audiences through leading video-on-demand platforms including iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Cable Movies On Demand, Google Play, Sony PlayStation, Xbox Video, and Vudu.

Devil in My Ride is the first feature produced by Red Band Films, the specialty genre label of L.A.-based production and finance company Unified Pictures. Gary Schultz produced the film and also wrote the original screenplay with Mike Dozier.

Starring alongside Sid Haig are Frank Zieger (Conviction, Ocean of Pearls, Finding Preet), Erin Breen (Housekeeper, Rose White, Fate Accompli), Llou Johnson (Barbershop, Let’s Go to Prison, Normal), and Joey Bicicchi (Rudderless).

Synopsis
When Doreen becomes possessed by the devil on her wedding night, her groom, Hank, and her rebellious brother, Travis, put aside their differences to travel across country from Chicago to Las Vegas in the hopes of finding a mythical street preacher who is said to be the last exorcist in America.

Rehab for anything can be a real bitch. Especially unorthodox rehab that could very well result in horrific consequences. Enter Matthew Brown and his new horror flick, Julia.

Brown writes and directs. Ashley C. Williams (The Human Centipede: First Sequence), Tahyna Tozzi, Jack Noseworthy, and Joel De La Fuente star.

Julia is a neo-noir revenge thriller centering on Julia Shames, played by Williams, who after suffering a brutal trauma, falls prey to an unorthodox form of therapy to restore herself.

Archstone will be handling distribution at Cannes. More as it comes.

A new teaser is here for FX's adaptation of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's "The Strain," which is set to infect us all on June 22nd, and we bet it can kick your ass in a staring contest. Or maybe just send you screaming from the room. Check it out!

The ensemble cast of "The Strain" includes Corey Stoll, Mia Maestro, Sean Astin, Kevin Durand, Natalie Brown, Jonathan Hyde, Richard Sammel, Robert Maillet, Jack Kesy, Ben Hyland, Miguel Gomez, and David Bradley.

"The Strain" is a high concept thriller that tells the story of Dr. Ephraim Goodweather (Corey Stoll), the head of the Center for Disease Control Canary Team in New York City. He and his team are called upon to investigate a mysterious viral outbreak with hallmarks of an ancient and evil strain of vampirism. As the strain spreads, Eph, his team, and an assembly of everyday New Yorkers wage war for the fate of humanity itself.

Start counting the days until the 13-episode first season arrives.

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One of our favorite directors, Toby Wilkins (Splinter, "Teen Wolf"), has directed the entire third season of the truly kick-ass Crackle original series "Chosen," and we'd figured we'd be remiss if we didn't give you guys a heads-up!

"Chosen" is a lurid tale in the vein of The Box which focuses on what happens when a mysterious package arrives at a home and leads to murder, mayhem, and all sorts of the stuff we dig on!

The third season stars Rose McGowan, Chad Michael Murray, Sarah Roemer, Caitlyn Carmichael, Brandon Routh, Stacy Haiduk, Lexi Ainsworth, Bridger Zadina, Tristan Bankston, Sammi Hanratty, and Alexander Le Bas.

Click here to watch "The Chosen".

Synopsis
You’re a regular person with a regular family and a regular life. That is, until you receive the box. Suddenly, you and your loved ones are thrown into a ruthless game of “Kill or Be Killed” — all for the sadistic pleasure of a mysterious group called the Watchers. Your survival is up to you, and how long you last is based solely on your wits and skill. Only one thing is certain: From the moment the box arrives, you have been "Chosen."

I heard about The Butterfly Room– an American suspense thriller with an Italian sensibility, starring the British-born Barbara Steele – almost a year ago, and I’ve been waiting ever since on the proverbial pins and needles to see it.

Well, I got plenty of pins and needles in the squirm-inducing scenes involving the pinning of butterflies to specimen boards! Be sure to read my The Butterfly Room review for the details!

In a nutshell, it was well worth the wait.

I figured I’d be lucky to catch a streaming link somehow, never dreaming I’d actually get a personal invite from the film’s director to see it in a historical indie movie theater just down the street from my house – and what’s more, the regal Ms. Steele was in attendance!

She took part in a Q&A along with screen legend James Karen (who’s only in the movie for a couple of minutes, but he’s a joy to see). In spite of some serious spotlight-hogging from a long-winded, self-serving moderator (nope, not Elvis Mitchell – but almost as overstated!), we did manage to hear a few words from director Jonathan Zarantonello and his illustrious cast members.

Proceed with caution... spoilers lie in wait.

Jonathan Zarantonello: Well, the idea [for the movie] was to portray a mother and to make it as universal as possible. For example, there is a line in the movie that says, ‘It was so much better when you were younger; you were so much cuter when you were a kid.” And this is a line that Barbara says and that all the ladies in the movie say. So the idea was to portray, definitely, a killer as an unusual character but with some traits that may be common to mothers in general. And, as a matter of fact, at the end, when there’s the close-up with Heather and her daughter, yeah, of course she may have inherited something from her mother. She says the same line even when she touches the hair of her son, Matthew, 'You were so much cuter when you were younger.' So, once again, the same line... I was hoping that they would show us that motherhood sometimes cannot be that sweet and kind thing that we’re all used to, especially in the movies.

What I like to see in horror movies is the everyday life turned into something dark. Especially figures like little kids, beautiful children… and eerily gentle women who are portrayed in movies as victims or just as innocent people who will seem then as being evil. And Alice, I guess, is even more evil than Ann. She is manipulative and takes advantage of lonely ladies. So I wanted to show an evil side of something that usually is beautiful, and maybe that’s what butterflies are. Butterflies are usually a symbol of something that’s beautifulm and instead here it’s a symbol of death.

Barbara Steele: I think that all horror should be made in black and white. I think, essentially, that the psyche is actually more acute and more personal and more intense when things are black and white. Because I have a nostalgia for all those great film noirs as well from the Forties, etc., and the silence in them and the darkness. As far as I’m concerned, the films of today are just too hyper-lit and everything is just too excruciating and so you don’t have to reach into anything. It’s all thrown in your face like acid. But working with Jonathan was a very civilized experience because he’s very civilized. I think that Jonathan made a very quirky, clever, original film.

JZ: Once Barbara decided to make the movie, [she] basically made my life much happier because, I mean, I’ve seen her when I was growing up. I saw her movies, and being able to have her in the movie and being able to see her on set saying lines that I’ve written has been a tremendous privilege.

James Karen: The most important thing is, all we’ve got left today are our performances because the enhancement and all the machinery, that’s not what counts. What counts is what the director can give to the actor to produce something wonderful that’s on the screen. And I just spent three days at the Turner Classic movie festival; we’ve seen an awful lot of pictures, and really, it’s all in the performances and not in the mise-en-scène, and what we saw tonight was the performance of a great actress and nothing else counts.

JZ: The idea was more general to show that even the lady who solved the problem of the movie basically, killing the killer, may become a killer herself. Not particularly because she was her daughter but just because sometimes, when you were a kid it was much easier, those lies reveal some madness that could be in everybody.

I grew up with [Dario] Argento’s movies. All the details when she cuts the butterfly and then she cuts the fabric in her butterfly room, those are somehow Argento homages. Of course he’s been so inspirational for generations of directors in Italy. Growing up and watching all those movies, even if you don’t want to, you make references because they are so much inside of us.

You'll find full screening information over on The Butterfly Room's official website!

Also starring are P.J. Soles, Adrienne King, Erica Leerhsen, and Camille Keaton.

Synopsis
Ann, a reclusive, elegant lady with an obsession for butterflies, is surprisingly befriended by the eerily beautiful young Alice. Using her seductive innocence, Alice establishes a disturbing mother-daughter relationship with Ann. Lured into her twisted world, Ann soon discovers that she is not the only recipient of the girl's affections.

Confronted by Alice's other lady friends, Ann's shock awakens a dark, hidden past, unchaining a spiral of madness: a series of brutal and bizarre crimes that Ann will have to commit to preserve her harmless and deceptive appearances. The only one who recognizes there's something unsettling about Ann is nine-year-old Julie, her next-door neighbor's daughter.

With the inevitable curiosity of a child, Julie begins to explore the corners of Ann's apartment, discovering a dark secret hidden in the walls of the forbidden butterfly room. No one believes what she's seen except for Ann's estranged daughter, Dorothy. Horrified, she realizes that the fate of the young girl lies in her hands. To save both Julie and herself, she must summon up the courage to confront an evil that has haunted her for years.

With special effects created by Academy Award winning AFX Studio and elegant and refined visuals, in contrast with the sickness of the story, The Butterfly Room is an all-female story, an American thriller with a European soul.

News of a new horror project has come our way as Cassandra Scerbo (Sharknado) and legendary horror icon Tony Todd (Candyman, Final Destination, Night of the Living Dead) have joined the cast of Lou Simon's Agoraphobia.

Cassandra will playing the lead role of a fragile young wife who believes her new home is haunted. Todd goes against type as the reassuring doctor.

The cast also includes horror staples like Maria Olsen (Paranormal Activity 3, Percy Jackson & The Olympians), Julie Kendall (Girls Gone Dead), and Gema Calero (Hazmat).

Agoraphobia is written and directed by Lou Simon (Hazmat, The Awakened), who won Best Horror Film at the Berlin Independent Film Festival, and produced by Tara Cardinal, the creative force behind the fantasy action franchise Legend of the Red Reaper.

More on this one as we get it!

You’ve got to love the fact that the press junket for Adam Gierasch’s latest extreme horror film was held in a bar – in the middle of the day. (Not only was press allowed to imbibe, the open tab certainly was encouraging of vice.)

As the jukebox played and the fermented juices flowed, I sat down with Gierasch and company to ask a few questions about Fractured (formerly, Schism).

The movie’s main male stars – Callum Blue and Vinnie Jones – were not able to attend the event, but that’s okay... we had the lovely and talented actresses, Nicole LaLiberte and Ashlynn Yennie, to chat up.

LaLiberte plays wild sex kitten Marlena, while Yennie takes on the tamer (though no less-clothed) character of Brandy. It’s interesting to think that maybe the roles would have been reversed. “I got the script and there were two female characters. One was Marlena and the other was Brandy. I initially auditioned for Brandy,” LaLiberte told me. “Marlena’s character seemed a lot more dynamic,” she added.

Yennie was glad to leave the "dynamics" to someone else. In the film she plays the sweet and innocent girlfriend to Blue’s demon-cursed character. “I really wanted to do this film, especially since Human Centipede was so extreme,” she revealed. “It was crazy when I first saw the movie because I didn’t work with Nicole or Vinnie and didn’t see any dark parts of the film [when shooting]. My character Brandy has the only ‘normal’ role in the film,” she laughed.

After speaking with the ladies, we got down to the nuts and bolts with co-writer and director Gierasch.

Dread Central: You are working with the lovely Ashlynn Yennie in this film, and you have some other great actresses and actors... Were these pulled from your pool of friends that you've known for years?

Adam Gierasch: No, not at all! I saw Ashlynn on television one night, and the next day I went to the casting directors and asked, “Can we call her in? Would she come and read?” And so she came in, auditioned, and got the part just like anybody normally would.

DC: Wow! So also, she's nude – I’m mean, totally. There's actually a lot of nakedness in this film.

AG: (Laughs) Yes, I tried to be fair about it.

DC: Yes, you did! Callum Blue is also nude in this film. Did you have any trouble with the actors [and on-screen nudity]?

AG: No. Not at all.

DC: Really, they were all okaywith it?

AG: Absolutely, 100%.

DC: All right, what's your trick- how do you get them to take their clothes off?

AG: You tell them beforehand they're going to. And that was the thing, I needed people who were going to be willing to do that because it has to do with Callum's character - in the first scene with Ashlynn he's very much an innocent, and so I wanted them to be having this very innocent, very vanilla sex, and that was very important. Then with Nicole later on.... it's defiantly NOT vanilla. I wanted to be able to show that and show different kinds of sex that you would have under different emotional circumstances.

DC: When you write screenplays like this with your wife (Jace Anderson), does that help you with these sex scenes?

AG: Oh, no, we fight about it! I'm always dirtier, and she says, “No, no, no!” Originally there was one scene in this... there was a visual effect that I wound up cutting before we shot... there was a line in the script where I said “Jace, you have to write 'vaginal lips part,'” she said, “NO! Absolutely not!” It's not in the script, she vetoed it. In [writing] the scene that involves Nicole, it was difficult; she's always more conservative than I am - she wanted to write it tastefully.

DC: Well, there's a balance.

AG: There is, but I know that I’m going to shoot it. It's not distasteful, but I want it to be rough, you know?

DC: I also think that nudity like that is required in this film because it shows vulnerability that is also subliminal. Plus, if they had their bras on or something, it wouldn't work, right?

AG: Yes, and it's also just not honest. That's just – no one leaves their bra on when they're having sex. I mean, maybe somebody does, but... you see it all the time in movies! As soon as that happens (shakes head) it feels bad, like the filmmakers aren't being truthful. In this I wanted to show sexuality - really the characters' sexuality - for what it was and sort of a variety of different things.

DC: This movie was originally called “Schism,” which may be a more apropos title, but why did it change?

AG: Ah, the dreaded question. It was the foreign sales company. I was just very grateful that I got to keep the movie intact and didn't have to cut anything out. Really, I felt like, it's just a title - as long as the content is in there, I will live with it.

DC: How did you come up with this story? I feel like it's horror noir, but it's also very psychological too.

AG: Jace and I were going to go visit her parents, and I did everything I could to make sure Jace did not get on the plane; so we did not go see her parents. I felt very guilty, and I thought to myself, “Am I damned? I tricked my wife, that's horrible! How can I be 'that guy' who did that?” I just started thinking about damnation, damnation, damnation; and all of the sudden this idea popped in my head for this film. Although our character's sin in this story is MUCH worse than telling your wife, “Now, please don't get on a plane; we're having car trouble!”

DC: Callum Blue, whom I've always loved from "Dead Like Me," is great in this movie. How did he first become involved?

AG: He was with my agency; they sent over his reel, and after I watched it, I invited him to the house. He made fun of my giant skull collection.

DC: He didn't see the naked cowboy picture, did he? [an infamous oil-on-velvet painting owned by Mike Mendez, which is on display at every Gierasch / Anderson house-party.]

AG: Yes, he did.

DC: And he still did the movie? Wow! (laughter)

AG: Yes, I think I showed it to him, and he was laughing, like, “This isn't going to dispel the gay rumors!” He's not at all gay.

DC: Ultimately, what do you hope horror fans will take away from Fractured? What do you have to say for those who haven't seen it yet?

AG: Please see it. It's not like most horror films. In every other movie I've done, some people go to a house, a hospital, a mansion, and get chased around by ‘Something Bad’. This movie, it's got a very different plot structure, much more like an old detective movie. I wanted to do that and mix in noir with surrealism. I feel like it's really something different, and I hope people dig it. This is the first movie I've made where I feel like it's “Me”; whereas, I felt like many of the others were just a hollow shadow of who I am as a person.

DC: Interesting you say that because I do feel like this is your most mature, fully-realized work to date, and it can only get better from here, right?

AG: (laughs) Your lips to God's ears!

Synopsis
Fractured tells the story of Dylan White. After awaking from a coma with no idea who he is, Dylan creates a safe and and normal life for himself. It doesn’t last long as horrifying visions start to interrupt his waking moments. Following clues that take him to the dark and blood-splattered underbelly of New Orleans, Dylan meets his arch nemesis, Quincy (Vinnie Jones), and soon finds that both his life and soul are in danger. FRACTURED is a trip to the dark side, noir-style: bad men, bad dames, bad sex, and bad intentions.

Charlene Amoia ("How I Met Your Mother,"American Reunion) will star in a new horror film for Zoe and Pebbles Productions in association with Mulberry Street Films, LLC, entitled Nefas: The Wicked, a haunted house tale based on true events. Of course!

Filming begins in June just outside of Chicago. The terrifying tale is inspired by true events and is loaded with unforeseen twists. (That's never been seen in a possession movie before, right?)

Ayush Banker and Justin LaReau direct. Scripters were Banker, LaReau, Michelle Beyda-Scott, and Helene Gonze. Amoia will play the lead role of Julia.

Amoia, best known for playing Wendy in CBS's "How I Met Your Mother," next appears in the psychological thriller Vitals.

Synopsis
Julia is a quirky single mother who has left the big city with her teenage daughter, Charlotte, and has taken up residence in the old Miller house. What she is unaware of is that the Miller house is known by the townspeople to have been a place where demonic possession occurred throughout the past. As history repeats itself, Julia must work with the previous owner of the house, Dr. Miller, not only to save Charlotte from this evil case of possession but to ultimately keep the evil entity from latching on to Dr. Miller.

Want to see Hammer's upcoming spooker The Quiet Ones for free? Then hurry up because we're giving away passes to early screenings all over the United States! Click, print, and hurry! It's first-come/first-served!

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The Quiet Ones is written and directed by John Pogue (Quarantine 2) and stars Jared Harris ("Mad Men,"The Ward), Sam Claflin (Snow White and the Huntsman, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire), Erin Richards ("Breaking In,""Being Human"), Olivia Cooke ("The Secret of Crickley Hall,""The Fuse"), and West End theatre actor Rory Fleck-Byrne.

It's produced by James Gay-Rees (Senna, Exit Through the Gift Shop), Exclusive Media’s Tobin Armbrust, and Simon Oakes along with Steven Chester Prince and Ben Holden in association with The Traveling Picture Show Company (TPSC).

Didn't get your passes in time? Look for The Quiet Ones in US theatres on April 25, 2014, from Lionsgate.

Synopsis:
The Quiet Ones (inspired by true events) tells the story of an unorthodox professor who uses controversial methods and leads his best students off the grid to take part in a dangerous experiment: to create a poltergeist. Based on the theory that paranormal activity is caused by human negative energy, the rogue scientists perform a series of tests on a young patient, pushing her to the edge of sanity. As frightening occurrences begin to take place with shocking and gruesome consequences, the group quickly realizes they have triggered a force more terrifying than they ever could have imagined.

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On Sunday we'll be able to see if WGN America's "Salem" lives up to the promise of its disturbing promo materials, but in the meantime let's hear from co-stars Seth Gabel and Ashley Madekwe as they answer questions from the "heathens" at the recent press junket for the show.

“Salem,” premiering on Sunday, April 20th, enters the world of the most notorious witch trials in history, a period steeped in fear, suspicion, and hysteria. “Salem” explores what really fueled the town's infamous witch trials and dares to uncover the dark, supernatural truth behind them.

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"Salem" Episode 1.01 - "The Vow" (airs 4/20/14)
John Alden returns from war to discover that the woman he left behind is now married to another man and that his hometown of Salem, Mass., is in the midst of a witch panic in the premiere of this supernatural drama.

Created, executive produced, and written by award-winning writer/producer Brannon Braga and Adam Simon, “Salem” stars Janet Montgomery as the ruthless but vulnerable Mary Sibley, Salem’s most powerful enchantress; Shane West as handsome, hardened war veteran John Alden – and Mary’s onetime love interest; Seth Gabel as local aristocrat Cotton Mather, who fans the flames of Salem’s witch hunt; Ashley Madekwe as Mary’s mysterious, carnal accomplice, Tituba; Xander Berkeley as chief politician Magistrate Hale; Tamzin Merchant as the forthright Anne Hale, an artist with a perilous attraction to Alden; Elise Eberle as the mysteriously afflicted Mercy Lewis; and Iddo Goldberg as outcast Isaac Walton.

Keep your eyes on the "Salem" Facebook page for updates and more info.

We here at Dread Central love a good controversy. Especially when it comes to pinheads who point their fingers at horror movie and video game violence for the heinous crimes committed by assholes who blame this and that for their own stupidity instead of owning up to their deeds.

Enter the video game The Evil Within. Our friends over at The Onion report that representatives from barbed wire advocacy groups are up in arms over the fencing materials portrayal in a violent new video game. You can see the shocking video proof below.

Shinji Mikami, the father of survival horror, is back to direct The Evil Within -- a game embodying the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story weave together to create an immersive world that will bring players to the height of tension.

The Evil Within is in development for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One video game and entertainment systems from Microsoft and Sony's PlayStation 3 and PlayStation 4 computer entertainment systems. Look for it in stores on August 26th, 2014.

The New Face of Horror - Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story weave together to create an immersive world that will bring players to the height of tension

To learn more, visit the official The Evil Within website.

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Last month we learned that Graham King’s GK Films acquired film rights to The 5th Wave, a young adult sci-fi novel penned by Rick Yancy. We know it'll star aliens, but who will be tasked with fending them off? Read on!

Sony Pictures announced today that Carrie White herself, Chloe Grace Moretz, has signed on to star in the adaptation, playing the lead role of a 16-year-old girl named Cassie.

King and Tim Headington will produce with Tobey Maguire. Susannah Grant is writing the screenplay, and J. Blakeson (The Disappearance of Alice Creed) is attached to direct.

Synopsis:
After the 1st wave, only darkness remains. After the 2nd, only the lucky escape. And after the 3rd, only the unlucky survive. After the 4th wave, only one rule applies: Trust no one.

Now, it's the dawn of the 5th wave, and on a lonely stretch of highway, Cassie runs from Them. The beings who only look human, who roam the countryside killing anyone they see. Who have scattered Earth's last survivors. To stay alone is to stay alive, Cassie believes, until she meets Evan Walker. Beguiling and mysterious, Evan Walker may be Cassie's only hope for rescuing her brother--or even saving herself. But Cassie must choose: between trust and despair, between defiance and surrender, between life and death. To give up or to get up.

As we near the PC and PlayStation 4 April 29th release date for the new horror game from Zombie Studios & Atlus, entitled Daylight, the powers-that-be have released two new videos to fuel our nightmares. Check 'em out!

Only the bravest souls will find all the messages and clues scattered through Daylight's labyrinthine twists of derelict hospital corridors and other creepy environments, where procedurally generated levels ensure no two playthroughs will be the same.

Daylight is told in the first-person perspective and begins with players regaining consciousness in an abandoned hospital with only a cell phone to use as a source of light. The ominous atmosphere, powered by Unreal Engine 4, gives players the immediate feeling that they need to escape. But since each level is procedurally generated, no clues, haunted corridors, life-saving flares or lurking specter will ever be in the same place twice.

Daylight was written by industry veteran Jessica Chobot, who also provides the quavering, terrified voice of the protagonist.

For the PlayStation 4 system, Daylight will take full advantage of the console's features, including:

RealD 3D Support: Daylight uses the latest 3D technology from RealD to expand its haunting atmosphere into the third dimension.

To learn more, visit the official Daylight website.

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At the start of this year, the folks who run The Criterion Collection teased that Scanners would be receiving their prestigious home video treatment this year, and now the box art has been revealed and the discs put up for pre-order.

Read on for all the details, which are sure to make your head explode with excitement!

Set for release on July 15th, Criterion's release of the flick will be available on both Blu-ray and DVD, with the Blu-ray also including a DVD copy. Both releases will feature brand new, eye-catching cover art, courtesy of artist Connor Willumsen.

Pre-order your copies over on Criterion's website, and check out full release details below!

With Scanners, David Cronenberg plunges us into one of his most terrifying and thrilling sci-fi worlds. After a man with extraordinary—and frighteningly destructive—telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other “scanners” have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.

A trademark Cronenberg combination of the visceral and the cerebral, this phenomenally gruesome and provocative film about the expanses and limits of the human brain was the Canadian director’s breakout hit in the United States.

Special Features

PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic Kim Newman

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Not only did the Amando de Ossorio-directed 1971 flick Tombs of the Blind Dead kickstart a boom of Spanish horror films, but it also served as the starting off point for an entire franchise, collectively known as the Blind Dead series.

Now, courtesy of Blue Undergound, the entire quadrilogy is coming home! Read on for plot crunches and full release details for the 'The Complete Blind Dead Saga,' which is a must-own for fans of zombie cinema. Look for it on July 29th!

Tombs of the Blind Dead Synopsis
In 1971, director Amando de Ossorio created what horror fans worldwide consider to be Spain’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. In Ossorio’s nightmare vision, a legion of Knights Templar – executed horsemen whose eyes had been pecked out by crows – rise rotting from their graves, hunting only by sound in a quest for human flesh. The BLIND DEAD saga begins here, as a modern-day tourist trip to the ruins of the Templar monastery unleashes a frenzy of lesbian desire, sexual violence and the unholy onslaught of the eyeless undead!

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More small screen vampire mayhem is coming our way as Flowers in the Attic author V.C. Andrews' toothy tale Daughter of Darkness is getting the television treatment. Read on for details.

According to The Wrap, MarVista Entertainment has partnered with Canada's EVOS Media to develop the book for television.

Daughter of Darkness is a vampire story that features teenage Lorelei and her sisters. All adopted by their father, he has taught the girls how to use their powers of seduction and told them to never fall in love. But Lorelei breaks the rules when she falls for a handsome classmate and must deal with the consequences.

More on this one as it comes.

Finally, after months of waiting, the trailer for Eli Roth's next film, The Green Inferno (review), has arrived! Look for it in theatres September 5, 2014, via Open Road Films.

Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, and Sky Ferreira star.

Synopsis
How far would you go for a cause you believe in? In horror master Eli Roth’s terrifying new film, a group of college students take their humanitarian protest from New York to the Amazon jungle, only to get kidnapped by the native tribe they came to save: a tribe that still practices the ancient rite of cannibalism and has a healthy appetite for intruders.

Another new cast member has been announced for Season 2 of "Under the Dome," and while details are scarce, we thought fans of the show would be interested in keeping up with the latest so read on to see who it is!

Per Lilja's Library, home of all things related to Stephen King, Dwayne Boyd (The Hunger Games, "Resurrection,""Sleepy Hollow") has been tapped for the role of Greg, who will first appear in Episode 2.05.

He joins the other Season 2 newcomers announced thus far, which include Sherry Stringfield, Eddie Cahill, Grace Victoria Cox, Karla Crome, and Dwight Yoakam.

The popular CBS summer series returns on Monday, June 30th.

"Under the Dome" stars Mike Vogel (Barbie), Colin Ford (Joe), Alexander Koch (Junior), Rachelle Lefevre (Julia), Natalie Martinez (Linda), Dean Norris (Big Jim), Mackenzie Lintz (Norrie), and Britt Robertson (Angie). But no telling how long any of them will stick around as it's already been announced that two "favorites" will be killed off in the show's Stephen King-penned Season 2 premiere.

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As we told you earlier this year, Scream Factory is putting out David Cholewa's Dead Shadows (review) on April 29th, and we have a handful of new stills for you to dig on!

The film looks be a gory and grotesque good time. Dig in!

DVD and Blu-ray extras include a special effects featurette, deleted scenes, and an interview with director David Cholewa.

The flick stars Fabian Wolfrom, Blandine Marmigère, John Fallon, and Rurik Sallé.

Synopsis
DEAD SHADOWS, Cholewa’s first feature film, tells the terrifying story about a young man, Chris, whose parents were brutally killed 11 years ago on the same day that Halley's comet could be seen from earth. Tonight a new comet is going to appear, and everyone in his building is getting ready for a party to celebrate the event. There's even an apocalypse theory going around.

As night falls, Chris starts to discover that people are acting strange - and it seems to somehow be connected to the comet. People are becoming disoriented and violent, and it doesn't take long before they start mutating into something from beyond this world. In a fight for survival, Chris has to try to escape from his building with the help from some other tenants - but will they make it out alive?

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