Will "The Following's" fans "Forgive" this uneven season and return for the show's already announced third go-round? It all boils down to Episode 2.15 and if director/exec producer Marcos Siega can deliver the "huge... fantastic" finale promised in this clip.

"The Following" Episode 2.15 - "Forgive" (4/28/14, 9-10PM)
THE TABLES TURN ON RYAN HARDY AND JOE CARROLL - Mark and Luke (Sam Underwood) turn the tables on both Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) and Joe Carroll (James Purefoy), forcing the two sworn enemies to come together to save the woman they love.

Cast: Kevin Bacon as Ryan Hardy; James Purefoy as Joe Carroll; Shawn Ashmore as Agent Mike Weston; Natalie Zea as Claire Matthews; Sam Underwood as Luke/Mark; Jessica Stroup as Max Hardy

Guest Cast: Sprague Grayden as Carrie Cooke; Mackenzie Marsh as Tilda; Felix Solis as Agent Clarke; Carter Jenkins as Preston; Connor Fox as Jason

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Tonight we'll see if the second episode of WGN America's "Salem," entitled "The Stone Child," lives up to the promise of the show's premiere. The two scenes we've seen already from Episode 1.02 were creepy enough, but this latest one... well, just check it out, and let us know if you'll be tuning in.

"Salem" explores what really fueled the town's infamous witch trials and dares to uncover the dark, supernatural truth behind them. The series is created, executive produced, and written by award-winning writer/producer Brannon Braga and Adam Simon.

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“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.

"Salem" Episode 1.02 - "The Stone Child" (airs 4/27/14)
With witch fears rising, Alden (West) seeks the truth of what's really going on in Salem while Cotton (Gabel) continues to wrestle with his guilt and Mary (Montgomery) looks to execute a plan. The witches get closer to finding out who interrupted the ceremony, but Mary continues to find her emotions for Alden affecting her focus. A clue in the woods leads Cotton and Isaac (Goldberg) to find more evidence that the witches may indeed be real.

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

There's a reason we're still reading Frankenstein... why Dorian Gray provokes our thoughts and Dracula still frightens us. Those themes and more are explored in this look at the literary origins of Showtime's "Penny Dreadful" narrated by series creator John Logan.

"Penny Dreadful" is set to premiere on Showtime on Sunday, May 11th, at 10PM ET/PT.

Timothy Dalton, Reeve Carney, Josh Hartnett, Harry Treadaway, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, and Eva Green star. Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage, The Impossible) directs the first two episodes.

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"Penny Dreadful" is created, written, and executive produced by three-time Oscar nominee John Logan (Hugo, The Aviator, Gladiator) and executive produced by Oscar winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall) and Neal Street's Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, "Call the Midwife").

Synopsis
Some of literature's most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula, are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London. "PENNY DREADFUL" is a frightening psychological thriller that weaves together these classic horror origin stories into a new adult drama.

For more info visit "Penny Dreadful" on Showtime, "like""Penny Dreadful" on Facebook, and follow @SHO_Penny on Twitter. Be sure to also visit the Penny-Dreadful.com website; it's chock-full of goodies!

Back in 2011 my best of the year list was topped by Mike Flanagan's Absentia, and with his follow-up, Oculus, in theatres now, it's good to see a little love being shown to his award-winning breakthrough film as it hits UK Blu-ray for the first time.

From the Press Release:
One of the most frightening films of recent years, Mike Flanagan's critically acclaimed Absentia makes its UK Blu-ray debut courtesy of Second Sight Films. A new DVD release is on its way as well, with both hitting stores on 7 July.

Synopsis:
Tricia’s (Courtney Bell) husband, Daniel, has been missing for seven years, and with the help of her sister, Callie (Katie Parker), she finally declares him legally dead ‘in absentia.’ As Tricia tries to move on with her life, she becomes haunted by terrifying visions, while Callie is strangely drawn to an ominous tunnel near the house with links to other unexplained disappearances.

Does the key to Daniel’s fate lie in the cold darkness of the tunnel, and could the truth be something far worse than death?

Bonus Features:

Deleted Scenes

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Mr. Jones is nearly here, and he's more than ready to begin haunting your home video collection. To herald his arrival, we have an exclusive clip for you along with a pair of exclusive stills! It's Monday! Blow off everything and watch it! Screw yer boss!

“Who is Mr. Jones?” To some, he is an enigmatic artist with a unique vision of humanity and our place in the spiritual universe. To others, his very name conjures unimaginable primal fears. But for two young people, he will become their worst nightmare...

From Preferred Film & TV’s Ross M. Dinerstein, the producer of the Sundance Film Festival smash hit The Pact and The Divide, comes Mr. Jones, bowing May 6th on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand from Anchor Bay Films.

Having premiered at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in 2013, Mr. Jones will also have an exclusive Los Angeles limited theatrical engagement beginning May 2nd.

Synopsis
Scott (Jon Foster of Stay Alive) and Penny (Sarah Jones of “Sons of Anarchy”) just moved to a remote cabin to escape the pressures of the world and breathe new life into their art. But they’ll soon discover they are not alone: An infamously reclusive artist - known only as "Mr. Jones" - lives nearby. He doesn’t like to be disturbed and only comes out at night when he drags his strange, sinister sculptures deep into the woods. When Scott and Penny’s curiosity leads them too close for Mr. Jones’ comfort, he plunges the young couple into a nightmare world of mayhem, madness, and mind-bending terror.

Diane Neal (“Law & Order: SVU”), Mark Steger (I Am Legend), and David Clennon (John Carpenter’s The Thing) co-star in this startling tale from debut director Karl Mueller (screenwriter of Xavier Gens’ The Divide).

The work of H.P. Lovecraft has inspired not only legions of fans throughout the years but an entire sub-genre of horror. Highlighted by frail, false realities masking a horrific and unfathomable truth… and of course, tentacles, fans embrace Lovecraftian horror films like the squishy appendages they feature.

And with the release of Dead Shadows, we remember our Top 11 Lovecraftian Horror Films.

This list contains not just movies inspired by the writings of H.P. Lovecraft, although some of them are certainly here; it also has movies that fall into the Lovecraftian-inspired category. Cosmic horror of the unknown and unknowable that could fracture sanity hovering over reality. Cthulhu. And, of course, those tentacles we mentioned earlier.

As for honorable mentions, how about the wildly popular hit HBO show "True Detective" for starters? There are certainly some Lovecraftian influences there, including Rust Cohle's ideas on fate and religion and the cult of Hastur operating in Louisiana. Rod Serling's "Night Gallery" adapted some Lovecraftian works, and "The Outer Limits" had episodes that embraced the mood.

As for films, there are plenty that walk the Lovecraftian path. John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness and Prince of Darkness certainly fit the bill, as does The Resurrected and Malefique. Lovecraft director extraordinaire Stuart Gordon's Castle Freak is adapted from one of the author's stories, and the hilarious horror/sci-fi/comedy At World's End starts with a pub crawl and ends up with humans facing an unspeakable reality… 'Show me the way to the next whiskey bar'… now that's Lovecraftian!

Now, without further ado, on to the...

The Evil Dead (1981)
After The Evil Dead writer/director Sam Raimi studied H.P. Lovecraft, he was inspired to make a film entitled Book of the Dead, which was to be a full-length retelling of his Within the Woods short film. A pretty ambitious plan for a filmmaker who had just turned 20 years old. The Evil Dead does not scream Lovecraft, but the fact that the entire situation revolves around a Necronomicon (Book of the Dead) and the fact that we have plenty of otherworldly, inter-dimensional things going in The Evil Dead (and also its sequels) make this one that definitely qualifies for this list.

Necronomicon (1993)
Also known by its extended titles, Necronomicon: Book of the Dead and Necronomicon: To Hell and Back, the three sections in this anthology film are each based on Lovecraft stories and feature a different director. Brian Yuzna directs Whispers, which is based on The Whisperer in the Darkness (incidentally, Yuzna also directs the wrap-around piece, The Library, that runs between the anthology segments). Christophe Gans directs The Drowned, based on Rats in the Walls, and The Cold, based on Cool Air, is helmed by Shusuke Kaneko. Lovecraft himself is featured as a character in the movie and is fittingly played by Jeffrey Combs, who would go on to compile quite a resume of Lovecraft-inspired work.

The Thing (1982)
The first part of John Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy (along with In the Mouth of Madness and Prince of Darkness, each with their own Lovecraftian ties), The Thing has intense Lovecraftian issues as we learn that if the indescribable thing reaches the unsuspecting human population, it would certainly mean the end of life as we know it. Although the movie was actually based on John W. Campbell, Jr.'s novella, Who Goes There?, moviegoers have long appreciated the influence that H.P. Lovecraft certainly had on both the book and movie versions of the story. And tentacles, oh yeah, plenty of tentacles!

From Beyond (1986)
Directed by Stuart Gordon, produced by Brian Yuzna and starring Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, this Lovecraftian power quartet created this adaptation directly from the short story by H.P. Lovecraft with the same name. It's based around a scientific experiment gone horribly awry and has all the makings of a great Lovecraftian story. It's got gruesome creatures and alternate dimensions, it's got tentacles and heightened perceptions and a sense of foreboding that runs throughout the movie. Gordon reunited Combs and Crampton as they had worked together previously on a Lovecraftian film (yes, yes…it's on the list) and knew they would be asked to do some rather strange things. Purists are sometimes put off by the overt sexuality of From Beyond, but all we can say is, lighten up. Man cannot live on tentacles alone!

The Mist (2007)
You want mysterious creatures, unsuspecting humans and a sudden sense of impending doom? You've got it all in The Mist, which was based on a Stephen King novella. So while the inspiration for the story was not Lovecraftian (it actually came to King on a visit to the grocery store with his son), the sense of horrific fear beyond the scope of human knowledge and comprehension, combined with the tentacles and their squid-like appearance on otherwise unseen beasts, definitely shows Lovecraft's influence on King. And, of course, there's the seemingly ever-present New England locale that both Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft use so commonly in their works.

Alien (1979)
Here we begin our Sigourney Weaver section of the list. Hey, Jeffrey Combs and Stuart Gordon can't get all the love! Weaver's first appearance in an overtly Lovercraftian-styled film occurred when she appeared as Ripley in Alien. Alien had a Lovecraftian component built right into the art team as H.R. Giger, an artist with a known Lovecraftian influence, designed the signature alien creature (based on his creation Necronom IV) that would go on to define the franchise. Giger would win an Oscar in 1980 for his work on the film. If looking at the drooling xenomorphs isn't enough to convince you of Giger's love for HPL, the fact that he named his first printed collection of images Necronomicon should prove it. Now where have we heard that name before?

Ghostbusters (1984)
Sigourney Weaver returned a few years later to star in another Lovecraft-flavored film. Ghostbusters is certainly the funniest film on this list, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have its money shot moments. With gods and monsters coming from other dimensions and that obligatory feeling of doom right around the corner, Ghostbusters has tons of elements to qualify it for this list. And if you need more proof, check out this quote from Louis Tully (Rick Moranis) a.k.a. Vince Clortho, Keymaster of Gozer… "Gozer the Traveler! He will come in one of the pre-chosen forms! During the rectification of the Vuldrianaii, the Traveler came as a large, unmoving Torb, then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex supplicants, they chose a new form for him: that of a giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was like to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day, I can tell you!"

The Cabin in the Woods (2012)
Finally, Ms. Sigourney Weaver returns not to fight the evil as she did in Alien or to assist it as when she was possessed by Zul in Ghostbusters, but in The Cabin in the Woods Weaver is The Director of The Facility, a faction responsible for keeping The Ancient Ones at bay. And it is these Ancient Ones that bring the most Lovecraftian flair to the movie. In true Cthulhu mythos fashion, the power of The Ancient Ones is only hinted at for most of the film (that is, until the final moments when they decide to lay the smack down on Earth), but once again we have a huge ominous power hanging over the movie, with the vast majority of humanity having no idea they are just one teenager's death (or survival) away from complete annihilation.

The Call of Cthulhu (2005)
Who knows Lovecraft better than members of the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society? This group was responsible for distributing The Call of Cthulhu, which was a silent film adaptation of the Lovecraft story. Produced by Sean Branney and Andrew Leman (Leman also directed), the film runs just 47 minutes long but is a very creative effort. It was shot silently and in black-and-white so as to give the audience the feel of a film created in the 1920's. This is a wildly successful adaptation and popular among Lovecraft fans. If you need something done right, you do it yourself… and get the historical society on board to help out!

Dagon (2001)
Stuart Gordon appears again on the list as he directed this Spanish film (Brian Yuzna produced), which is based on the Lovecraft novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth (not his short story Dagon as one might assume). The film kept very close to the source material and was embraced by most fans. The film centers around the worship of the god Dagon and the Imbocans, who do the worshiping. And none of the congregation is more colorful than the unforgettable Uxia, who must be seen to be believed, but let's just say, if you've got to have tentacles wrapped around you, these would be the ones you'd want.

Re-Animator (1985)
Amongst horror fans this is probably the most memorable film based on a Lovecraft story. Re-Animator (from the story Herbert West—Reanimator) left an impression on audiences that still lasts to this day as some of the shocking imagery from the film was just unforgettable…you know what I'm talking about. Once again the team of Stuart Gordon directing with Brian Yuzna producing and Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton starring made for another fantastic Lovecraft adaptation. Although some HPL fans felt the movie was a desecration of their hero, who could never write such exploitation, in reality it is a relatively close retelling of the story. And regular ol' horror fans loved every drop of the 24 gallons of blood Gordon used on the film (his previous bloodshed record for a film was two gallons).

Dead Shadows Synopsis
Dead Shadows, David 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 Haley'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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To celebrate the release of David Cholewa's Dead Shadows (review) on April 29th, Scream Factory is sponsoring another fantastic contest for genre fans.

Scream Factory is giving away a total of three sets of three post-apocalyptic Blu-rays. Each of the three winners will get a set of these three movies: Dead Shadows, Lifeforce, and Night of the Comet.

Dread Central readers can enter this contest by sending an email to contests@dreadcentral.com, including your FULL NAME and MAILING ADDRESS. We’ll take care of the rest.

Don't forget to include your FULL NAME and MAILING ADDRESS. Please note that this contest is open to residents of the US and Canada only and will end at 12:01 AM PT on Sunday, May 4th, 2014. Please note that by entering this contest, you are consenting to allow Scream Factory/Shout! Factory use of your email address.

If you cannot wait, you can buy the Dead Shadows Blu-ray directly from Scream Factory's website.

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This spring, brace yourself for more high octane sci-fi terror and apocalyptic alien & zombie mayhem! On April 29, 2014, SCREAM FACTORY™ will unleash DEAD SHADOWS on Blu-ray™ and DVD.

Boasting a large cult following in France, Japan and U.K and a festival favorite at the 2012 STIGES International Fantastic Film Festival, DEAD SHADOWS is a wildly entertaining thriller that combines heart-racing suspense, sci-fi action and alien terror with plenty of jaw-dropping surprises. This highly anticipated SCREAM FACTORY™ release marks the North American debut of this movie. Packed with insightful bonus content, DEAD SHADOWS Blu-ray™ is priced to own with a suggested retail price of $22.97 and $14.97 for the DVD. A must have for movie collectors and sci-fi action enthusiasts, DEAD SHADOWS is available for pre-order now.

Produced and directed by French Filmmaker David Cholewa, DEAD SHADOW, starring Fabian Wolfrom, Blandine Marmigère, John Fallon and Rurik Sallé, tells the terrifying story about a young man, Chris, whose parents were brutally killed 11 years ago, on the same day that the 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 the 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?

The Blood Stream mines the Internet for horror gold so you don’t have to, delivering streamable horror titles never before featured on Dread Central. Occasionally I’ll dredge up something good, maybe even great. To find those gems, I’ll have to sift through a lot of breathtakingly bad cinema. Enjoy!

It's hard to think of many movies more intentionally, non-ironically derivative than Proteus (1995).

First the obvious: A group of unsuspecting people happens upon an oil rig housing a dark, mutated secret. Right off the bat we've got direct plagiarism of maritime monster movies like Leviathan and Deepstar Six, albeit a decade late and several million production dollars short. (Obviously Leviathan>Deepstar. I will hear no argument on the subject.) But Proteus' shameless cribbing doesn't end there.

With the exception of the finale's more or less passable money shot, the gloppy, haphazard creature effects are a halfhearted knockoff of Bob Bottin's work in The Thing. Wailing, drawn out violin tones make the comparison unavoidable. Instead of Bottin's elaborately articulated nightmare creations, Proteus features little more than a few pulsating piles of rubber doused with motor oil. Occasionally, for no reason at all, the monsters take the form of actors wearing Halloween masks. Other times they're literally just clumps of latex dangling from a string through a hole in the ceiling. The illusion is less than convincing.

As if all that wasn't enough to cram into one B-movie, somebody apparently decided to squeeze in The Usual Suspects as well. The exposition scenes of Proteus feature two elements that closely mirror the intro to The Usual Suspects: A boat explosion presented with no context and a tense, one-on-one dialogue between a bloodied hero and a half-seen, cigarette smoking aggressor.

Both movies were released in August 1995, but The Usual Suspects screened at Cannes the preceding May. That would have been more than enough time for an opportunistic production company to order hasty reshoots in hopes of capitalizing on what everyone knew was going to be a big hit. Unfortunately, they must have run out of time. After the first two minutes, this interview scene -- clearly intended to bookend the narrative -- never shows up again. Just like that...it's gone.

I still enjoyed parts of Proteus for sheer nostalgia. If you haven't seen it yet and you have fond memories of cheesy, late 20th century sci-fi/horror, you might too. Proteus hits virtually every every 80s/90s action movie cliche with gusto.

Our hero sports huge, perpetually oiled muscles. He wears his pants hiked up to the ribcage, matched with a puffy, tucked-in t-shirt. His girlfriend is inexplicably able to decipher technical schematics, often exclaiming, "It must have been some kind of genetic experiment!" Corporate conspiracies, ethical violations, human-voiced auto-destruct sequences, diving away from explosions...I could go on but I suddenly have an overpowering urge to listen to Smashing Pumpkins and play Magic: The Gathering.

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Though the effects, direction and editing are terrible (from the team that brought you Carnosaur!), the cast isn't half bad. Granted, they're forced to play New England heroin smugglers with names like Chrissy, Mark and Linda. (GANGSTA!) But they do a decent job with what they're given. Especially fun is the macho leading man, Craig Fairbrass, whose gruff, London accent will be familiar to fans of the Modern Warfare video game series. I recognized him as Delmar, the hired gun/soccer enthusiast in Cliffhanger who almost kicked Michael Rooker off a mountain.

Fairbrass is a little like a cockney Nathan Fillion on steroids. I wonder if his toned physique got him typecast as a Stallone/Schwarzenegger wannabe, curtailing a possibly grander career. He has solid comedic timing, delivering jokes so naturally they feel ad libbed. In Proteus this hulking, machine gun toting man-beast spends the first act getting his ass handed to him by little old men and mousey research scientists. His wounded masculine pride leads to dry, exasperated quips like, “That’s the second time today I’ve been thrown around the room by a complete stranger. My confidence now is very, very low.”

Alas, Proteus is a movie you're likely to enjoy only if you're hard up and/or partaking in a few cocktails. Instead, why not stream yourself a little Death Machine?

Vastly wackier and even more dated than Proteus, Death Machine is also derivative sci-fi horror that will never escape the era in which it was made. Nevertheless it's a good deal more fun and feels much more like a viable piece of entertainment. And who doesn't love goofy styrofoam power armor?

On April 29th in the US and a few weeks later on May 16th in the UK, Titan Books is releasing Aliens: The Official Movie Novelization, Alan Dean Foster's adaptation of the iconic movie sequel. We have all the details you need no matter which side of the pond you're on!

This official novelization of Aliens, the explosive James Cameron sequel to Ridley Scott's Alien, features the return of Ellen Ripley and is filled with the wonderful characters and rapid-fire action that make Aliens one of the greatest science fiction films of all time.

Synopsis:
In the sequel to the 1979 film Alien, Ellen Ripley is forced to return to planet LV-426, where her crew encountered the hostile Alien creature. There they discovered hundreds of eggs, and just one slaughtered everyone but Ripley. This time she's accompanied by a unit of Colonial Marines, but even their firepower may not be enough for them to survive and learn the fate of the colony known as Hadley's Hope.

With all the good Godzilla news coming out this past year, it was only a matter of time before something crappy hit the wire. As it turns out, franchise star Akira Takarada's cameo has been omitted from the theatrical cut of the film.

The news comes from Yutaka Ichimura on Facebook, who writes that "Takarada-san today revealed during his talk show at 'Super Festival' in Tokyo that his cameo scenes for the upcoming Legendary's 'Godzilla' were omitted and would not be included in the final film."

Super bummer, but let's hope for the goods to be included in the home video release, shall we? Also in other dubious Godzilla news, The L.A. Times posted a new image which is stunning but also has us thinking it's fan made as no one in it is running. Call us crazy, but a 200-foot tall lizard would have us running like Carl Lewis down the street at speeds in excess of Mach 3 and beyond. Check it out! Real or not, it is cool.

You can also dig on a new still we are sure is legit under the one you see below via USA Today.

From visionary new director Gareth Edwards (Monsters) comes a powerful story of human courage and reconciliation in the face of titanic forces of nature, when the awe-inspiring Godzilla rises to restore balance as humanity stands defenseless.

Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Johnson, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn, Ken Watanabe, Richard T. Jones, Sally Hawkins, Akira Takarada, Victor Rasuk, Yuki Morita, and C.J. Adams star in the film, which has been rated PG-13 for “intense sequences of destruction, mayhem and creature violence."

Visit the official Godzilla website here.

Showtime is free May 9-11, which is the weekend when "Penny Dreadful" premieres, but you don't have to wait that long to see it. We have Ep. 1.01, "Night Work," in its entirety here... plus a special code that's good all year for some "Dreadful" merch.

A profoundly unsettling new saga, "Penny Dreadful" completely reinvents literature’s most terrifying characters, including Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, and iconic figures from the novel Dracula, who are lurking in the darkest corners of Victorian London.

The series premieres on Showtime on Sunday, May 11th, at 10PM ET/PT.

Timothy Dalton, Reeve Carney, Josh Hartnett, Harry Treadaway, Rory Kinnear, Billie Piper, and Eva Green star. Juan Antonio Bayona (The Orphanage, The Impossible) directed the first two episodes.

Related Story:Visit our "Penny Dreadful" Archive

As for the previously mentioned promo code, just enter DREAD20 when checking out from Showtime's "Penny Dreadful" store to receive 20% off all "Penny Dreadful" merchandise. And the code is valid through December 31, 2014!

"Penny Dreadful" is created, written, and executive produced by three-time Oscar nominee John Logan (Hugo, The Aviator, Gladiator) and executive produced by Oscar winner Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall) and Neal Street's Pippa Harris (Revolutionary Road, "Call the Midwife").

"Penny Dreadful" Episode 1.01 - "Night Work" (airs 5/11/14)
London 1891. Sir Malcolm (Dalton) and Vanessa (Green) begin their search.

For more info visit "Penny Dreadful" on Showtime, "like""Penny Dreadful" on Facebook, and follow @SHO_Penny on Twitter. Be sure to also visit the Penny-Dreadful.com website; it's chock-full of goodies!

Coming on June 13th to VOD, limited theatrical, and iTunes is Paul Hough's acclaimed film The Human Race, and right now we have an exclusive early peek at the artwork for you cats! Check it out, and get those legs into running shape!

Paul McCarthy-Boyington, Eddie McGee, Trista Robinson, T. Arthur Cottam, and Brianna Lauren Jackson star.

For more info on the film, check out the official The Human Race website and like The Human Race on Facebook.

Synopsis
Eighty strangers from all walks of life are ripped out of their daily lives and forced to participate in a brutal race to the death. The rules are simple: Follow the arrows or you will die, step on the grass and you will die, get lapped twice and you will die. Only one participant will survive. Race or die. There can only be one winner, but who will survive and for what purpose?

"From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series" returns tomorrow, April 29th, with Ep. 1.07, "Pandemonium," and it's the episode everyone has been waiting for, when the action really kicks into high gear inside the Titty Twister. Check out an exclusive clip!

Also, note that "Pandemonium" will be an extended episode! El Rey Network has allotted five minutes longer than usual to fit in all the awesome mayhem so if you are setting your DVR, be sure to add the extra time so you won't miss any of the events at the infamous and iconic Titty Twister strip club.

“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). 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.

Related Story:Jake Busey Talks "From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series," How Mayan Gods & Robert Rodriguez Saved Him, Snake People, and More

"From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series" Episode 1.07, "Pandemonium" (airs 4/29/14)
With everyone at odds, the Gecko brothers and the Fuller family are forced to sit down and watch the nightly performance by Santánico Pandemonium. When Ranger Freddie Gonzalez shows up to exact revenge, the show takes an unexpectedly savage turn. Teleplay by Diego Gutierrez; directed by Robert Rodriguez.

If you want even more Pandemonium in your life, then join the "Slaves for Santánico" marketing program, which runs until May 21st. Call the Santánico party line (1-800-315-2744) to engage in a highly responsive two- to three-minute conversation wherein Santánico herself will seduce you into answering the question, "What would you do for Santánico Pandemonium?" The personal experience will vary based on caller responses, making for an unforgettable and unduplicated encounter. The most creative answers will be recreated as visual postcards and posted on a customized TUMBLR page, hosted on SlavesForSantánico.com, and shared via El Rey Network's extensive social platforms. As a parting gift to her most devoted "worshipers," Santánico will provide a passcode for fans to log on to SlavesForSantánico.com and collect exclusive "From Dusk Till Dawn: The Series" digital goods.

Visit the El Rey Network website and enter your zip code to find out how to see it in your area. You can also find it in the U.S. via the following partners: Amazon, iTunes, Sony Playstation, Xbox, Vudu, Google Play, Cinemanow, Blackberry, and Target Ticket. Each episode is made available the day after broadcast on all outlets.

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FX's adaptation of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan's "The Strain" is set to infect us all on June 22nd, and on tap for you today are a new teaser and piece of poster art for the series, which are sure to give your eyeballs nightmares for many weeks to come.

Check 'em out; the artwork is courtesy of Entertainment Weekly.

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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Set to kick off on May 14th, this year's Cannes Film Festival will see the premieres of many hotly anticipated genre flicks, and today we've gotten word of an exciting collaboration between Cannes and other top festivals that brings even more exciting genre fare to the event.

Per Variety, Ventana Sur's genre film market Blood Window will team with the world’s top six fantastic film fests for five Blood Window Midnight Galas of Latin American genre movies.

Four event partners collaborate to select one film each at the Blood Window Galas: Austin’s Fantastic Fest, Spain’s Sitges-Catalonia Festival, the Puchon Fantastic Fest, and the Frontieres Co-production Market, a joint venture of Montreal’s Fantasia Fest, Vision-in-Motion, and Brussels Festival.

The first Blood Window Midnight Galas line-up includes two sci-fi movies – The Incident and Fallen Cape– plus a rabies outbreak movie with Sapphic undertones: Darkness by Day.

The Incident combines two stories of people trapped in illogical endless spaces for 35 years: wo brothers and a detective locked on an infinite stairwell and a family on an endless road to the beach.

Directed by Spain’s Santiago Alvarado and put forward by Sitges, Fallen Cape turns on a wrongly disgraced superhero, forced to work in a store.

Put forward by South Korea’s Puchon-PiFan Fest, Darkness by Day (stills and artwork below), a village-set mood genre auteur piece helmed by Argentine’s Martin Desalvo, is sold by Germany’s M-Appeal.

Unspooling May 16-20 at the Rue d’Antibes’ Star Cinema, the Blood Window showcase kicks off with Gabriel Grieco’s Still Life, also from Argentina.

A serial killer slasher/procedural set in Argentina’s big ranch country where the suspects all belong to a group of vegan activists and the victims to the cattle industry, Still Life snagged four plaudits at Blood Window’s Bloody Work In Progress last December, including selection for Morbido’s 2014 edition.

The Cannes showcase closes with The House at the End of Time, from Venezuela’s Alejandro Hidalgo, a symptomatic mix of horror. A mother of two experiences ghoulish apparitions in an old house – with reflections on the psychology of family dynamics; 30 years later, now elderly, she returns to try to discover what really happened.

Latin American VOD platform Clarovideo will make available the Blood Window Screenings title for 24 hours the same day as it screens physically in Cannes.

Most of the big 80s horror franchises ventured into the world of 3D at one point or another, but one series that never asked you to slap on those blue and red glasses was Poltergeist. That all changes next year, however, when the reboot haunts theaters. Read on!

In an interview with Beyond the Trailer, star Jared Harris (The Quiet Ones) briefly talked about the Sam Raimi-produced remake, revealing that it will be released in 3D.

Considering we never heard anything about this before, we're inclined to believe the film is being converted in post-production, though we don't yet know for sure. Check out the full interview below!

Twentieth Century Fox has announced a Valentine’s Day weekend release for the Poltergeist remake. Gil Kenan is currently lensing the film that will hit theaters February 13, 2015.

Harris will play Carrigan, a larger than life TV personality who left the world of academia behind to become the star host of basic cable TV show “Haunted House Cleaners.”

Rosemarie DeWitt, Sam Rockwell, Kyle Catlett, Saxon Sharbino, and Jane Adams also star in a revisionist take on the classic horror film. David Lindsay-Abaire, Juliet Snowden, and Stiles White worked on the screenplay.

Synopsis
A family struggling to make ends meet relocates to an outdated suburban home and is confronted by an angry spirit who kidnaps their youngest daughter and challenges them to band together to rescue her from the clutches of evil.

We've been talking about Romain Basset's debut feature Fever for a few years now, and our excitement for the film has officially hit a fever pitch now that the trailer has finally made its way onto the net. If you love gory French horror, you're gonna love this sneak peek. Dig it!

The film stars Catriona MacColl, Philippe Nahon, Lilly-Fleur Pointeaux, Murray Head, Emmanuel Bonami, Shane Woodward, Gala Besson, Fu’ad Ait Aattou, Vernon Dobtcheff, and Joe Sheridan.

Synopsis
Jessica has never dreamed in her life but has had regular nightmares, the meaning of which escaped her. This peculiarity has led her to conduct studies specializing in the psychophysiology of dreams and to follow a therapy with Sean, her mentor and boyfriend, to try and understand the origins of her nightmares.

Following the death of her maternal grandmother whom she scarcely knew, Jessica must return reluctantly to the family home. Upon her arrival, she discovers that her late grandmother is resting in the adjoining room to her own during the wake. After a rough first night made restless by a strange nightmare in which she meets her dead grandmother, Jessica suddenly becomes ill. Stuck in her bed with a high fever, the young woman decides to use her lethargic state to experience lucid dreams and thus try to take control of her nightmares. Henceforth, on the advice of Sean, Jessica needs to breathe a little bit of ether when a crisis arises to sink deeper into the other world.

Jessica will begin to evolve in a nightmarish world, and gradually developing capabilities as a lucid dreamer, she will investigate to discover the evil that gnaws her and haunts the family house...

Happily, the creepiness factor of WGN America's "Salem" was in no way toned down last night, and it looks like it may even be amped up a bit in next week's Episode 1.03, "In Vain." Check out this trailer for the ep, and you'll see what we mean!

"Salem" explores what really fueled the town's infamous witch trials and dares to uncover the dark, supernatural truth behind them. The series is created, executive produced, and written by award-winning writer/producer Brannon Braga and Adam Simon.

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“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.

"Salem" Episode 1.03 - "In Vain" (airs 5/4/14)
Mary decides on a course of action after discovering who witnessed the witches' ceremony.

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I keep hearing The Quiet Ones is so loud and noisy that its title seems a bad joke. Well, the joke's on it because the supernatural chiller only succeeded at tying Vampire Academy as the year’s lowest opening for a wide release film. And that wasn't its only dubious honor.

While Captain America’s comic book war against Hydra was finally knocked out of the top slot by three women waging a comic war against the penis, The Quiet Ones bombed in a big way.

The latest Lionsgate spookfest (the one with the trailer that even had me wondering if it was supposed to be some sort of prequel to The Apparition since both films seem to be conducting the same paranormal experiment) opened in 7th place with barely $4 million for its first (and most likely next-to-last) weekend. According to Box Office Mojo, The Quiet Ones experienced the worst opening ever for a supernatural horror movie playing at more than 2,000 screens.

Oculus is currently the highest grossing horror flick of the year, which isn’t all that impressive considering its lump sum is so far just a smidge over $25 million.

Transcendence fell to 6th place with less than $4.1 million, further solidifying its status as one of the guaranteed biggest money-losers of 2014. A Haunted House 2 is already down to 10th place with another $2.7 million. A third installment looks increasingly unlikely.

Next weekend is all about whether or not the movie that exists solely to set up The Amazing Spider-Man 3 can web enough money to guarantee that and the myriad of planned spin-off movies happen.

We recently told you about Kevin Smith's new holiday horror anthology film that embraces the European child-eating Christmas creature known as The Krampus, and now it has a new title and international sales agent. Read on for the details!

From the Press Release:
XYZ Films has picked up all international sales rights to Kevin Smith’s ANTI-CLAUS, a Yuletide horror film populated by the stars of Smith’s TUSK, including Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, Genesis Rodriguez, and Michael Parks.

The festive fright flick will be produced by Jordan Monsanto, Andy McElfresh, and Jennifer Schwalbach for Smith’s SModcast Pictures with Jason Mewes executive producing. XYZ Films will give buyers their first look at the project during the Marché du Film in Cannes this May.

ANTI-CLAUS tells the tale of the centuries-old, devil-like creature known the world over as the Krampus – the “Anti-Claus” of Alpine country folklore, infamous for eating naughty children during the season of giving.

“When I was a kid, if they wanted to make a Christmas horror movie, they’d stick an axe in Santa’s hands,” says Smith. “In ANTI-CLAUS we leave Santa alone and creep with the Krampus through twisted tales of holly-jolly murder, desire, desperation, and despair. Just in time for the holiday season.”

Principal photography begins in September. Explains Smith, “In America we’re taught that nice kids gets presents from Santa and naughty kids get coal. But in countries like Germany, Austria, Bavaria, Romania, and Hungary, Christmas is more metal than merry: Saint Nicholas brings a sack full of toys for good kids and the Krampus carries an empty bag for taking away the bad kids. I wanna see THAT Christmas movie. So rather than wait for it, we’ll make it instead.”

Robert Kurtzman, the SFX legend behind the makeup for TUSK, also returns to create the Krampus. WME Global is handling North American sales.

XYZ Films is also currently handling sales for Smith’s upcoming and highly anticipated horror-thriller TUSK, which will be released by A24 later this year. Sony Worldwide Acquisitions Group acquired several international territories at the European Film Market in February.