In Lorcan Finnegan's latest short film Foxes, the Irish filmmaker plays with the audience's perceptions as we follow a young couple (Marie Ruane and Tom Vaughan-Lawlor) who are trapped in a remote estate of empty houses that's haunted by sinister shrieking foxes from a distance.

But as they're beckoned from their isolation into a twilight world, they soon find themselves faced with the possibility of paranormal entities, or perhaps it's just their sanity slipping away.

Dread Central had the opportunity to catch up with Finnegan from London during the 2012 SXSW Film Festival and learned more about the up-and-coming filmmaker and his latest short and heard his thoughts on the power of visual storytelling as well what's up next for him.

Check out our interview with Finnegan below, and look for more on Foxes and the remainder of our SXSW coverage coming soon!

Dread Central: Since this is somewhat of an introduction, let's begin with talking about how your career started and hear more about your projects before Foxes.

Lorcan Finnegan: Well, I started off in graphic design and then I moved into motion design work; I moved to London and started working for a comedy production company called Zeppotron that's run by Charlie Brooker. So I started editing stuff there and then eventually went on to shooting and writing stuff for them, too; then in 2004 I moved back to Dublin and set up Lovely Productions, which is my own production company.

We started off by doing a series of short films as a TV series, like 13, 30-minute episodes with each movie under five minutes, and that fueled the fire in me to want to make my own shorts. I submitted a few scripts to the film board for financing and the first script they chose was Changes, which was about two caterpillars in love but when they hatch out of their cocoons and become butterflies, it turns out the girl becomes a bitch and dumps the guy butterfly.

I did a bunch more projects after that - commercials, shorts, music videos - and then we applied to the Irish Film Board to do Foxes and luckily, we were approved. We were pretty lucky really.

But to backtrack a little, this writer Garret Shanley and I hooked up about four years ago now to work on a feature film project, but our film didn't get funded. So even though that didn't work out, we started working on other things and the similarities between our tastes in stories began to become apparent. And through all our working together, there was one theme that kept coming into the mix and it was this idea of a clash between humans and nature and how humans are wild but we try not to be.

Dread Central: I definitely see the human/animal aspect, but I would love to hear more about the setting for this short because it evoked a lot of creepy atmosphere that I thought really elevated the short.

Lorcan Finnegan: Oh thanks! Yeah, in Ireland there are these places called 'ghost estates' that are abandoned properties funded by the government in areas that really didn't need any houses built. But then once everything clashed, similar to what happened there in the States, the government was left with all of these houses in the middle of nowhere that they can't sell because they are unsafe to live in.

FOXES - Teaser from LORCAN FINNEGAN on Vimeo.

See, once the money stopped coming in, the builders and contractors all left the country so all that was left in the wake of this were these ghost estates. There's no maintenance there either so everything is really overgrown to the point where grass is coming through the streets and trees are bursting through walls; it was like nature reclaimed the property. So I thought that would be a great place to shoot and the builder gave us three of the show houses to shoot in so we painted and decorated those up and that's how we got the location for Foxes. We really had the whole ghost estate to ourselves which was really cool.

But we had always talked about shooting something in these ghost estates and at the time, Garret had these foxes in the back of his house that kept screaming all night. Have you heard a fox's mating call? It's unreal; it's actually where the 'banshee' came from because people wouldn't know what the screaming from the woods really was so the idea of this wild woman was born from that; but in reality, it was the fox mating call they were hearing.

So all these foxes were in his backyard that would just be screaming all night and he wrote a short story on his blog about it; it was from a first-person perspective of this guy telling a story to two others in a pub and he's telling them about what happened to his two friends on the ghost estate. When I read it on his blog, I knew it would make for a great movie so then converted it into a script and so now we're following this couple in their 30's who live in the ghost estate and have to deal with these foxes.

We used two live foxes from an animal shelter for the short and they had a handler that would work with them on these lines so that was really great to get the real thing for a short film; we had to use some CG foxes, too, so hopefully they're photorealistic enough (laughs).

Dread Central: Well, Foxes certainly has a look to it, and that 'look' kind of spills over a bit into the casting I suspect; can you talk about your cast and how you found them?

Lorcan Finnegan: I had originally put together a look book when we first started working on Foxes; I'm very much into the visual side of storytelling- how the lines play within the camera and how camera movement can change the viewers' interpretation of what's happening before them. So I wanted to really put together something visually that would manipulate your fears and emotions a bit and that's why the atmosphere- oh and sound design too- was so important to me.

And the look of the cast was definitely important as well; the first thing I had to do was find my female lead; she had to resemble a fox too and look a bit odd and pale too that's also sort of angelic. So we had a brilliant casting director, Maureen Hughes, who showed me hundreds of people and then we had auditions the very first person I saw was Marie who ended up being our lead. I even went to London to do more casting but it always came back to her so I knew she'd be perfect.

But I actually found our lead male in London; he's actually from Ireland but he's a working theater actor in London right now so the trip was definitely worth it in that respect (laughs).

Dread Central: So what do you have planned for future projects then?

Lorcan Finnegan: Well, Foxes will be playing the Tribeca Film Festival this April so that's pretty exciting. But we always intended Foxes to be a movie in the cinema so we are working on something bigger but really, we made this so we could do all kinds of features in the future and the one we're working on right now that is set in the same story world as Foxes where weird things can happen but it's more psychological horror.

There are no monsters, not a lot of blood; those are the kinds of movies I'm into, not really the gore fest-type movies. I like a movie that leaves you thinking for a long time after you've seen it, something unsettling that can stick with you for a while. Those are the stories I like to tell.

For more information be sure to check out the official Foxes website or follow Finnegan for the latest updates on this and future projects on Twitter.

We're almost there, kids! The release of The Wicker Tree (review here) is right around the corner and we've got a trippy new clip and even a making-of for you right here.

From the Press Release
On April 24th, Anchor Bay Entertainment, the leading distributor in classic and contemporary horror films, releases Anchor Bay Films’ highly anticipated follow-up The Wicker Tree on Blu-ray™ and DVD. Set in the same universe as the 1973 cult classic The Wicker Man starring Christopher Lee and Edward Woodward, the film is written and directed by the original helmer, Robin Hardy, who also reunited with the original producer Peter Snell and venerable UK production company British Lion to bring a chilling new vision of this classic story to 21st century audiences, after a theatrical run. SRP is $29.99 for the Blu-ray™ and $26.98 for the DVD.

Based on Hardy’s acclaimed 2006 novel “Cowboys for Christ,” The Wicker Tree tells the story of Texas-based singer Beth Boothby (newcomer Brittania Nicol) and her friend Steve Thomson (Henry Garrett, “The Bill,” “Skins”), two born-again Christians who come to Scotland to spread the gospel. When their initial efforts are met with disdain and disinterest, they find comfort in an invitation to sing in Tressock, the border fiefdom owned by Sir Lachlan Morrison (Graham McTavish, Rambo, the upcoming The Hobbit films).

However, Beth’s and Steve’s message of personal chastity quickly comes into direct conflict with Tressock’s sexual and religious practices, drawing upon ancient Celtic beliefs and rituals. Temptations begin to challenge Beth and Steve – with the stakes no less than their very lives and souls...

Lee, who played the mysterious Lord Summerisle in the original (in a career that includes Count Dracula and the Frankenstein monster in the classic Hammer films, Count Dooku in Star Wars Episodes II & III, and Saruman in the Lord of the Rings trilogy as well as the upcoming pair of films based on The Hobbit), returns again in a dramatic cameo. Rounding out the cast are Jacqueline Leonard (“Holby City,” “The Bill”) as Lady Delia Morrison, Clive Russell (Sherlock Holmes, The 13th Warrior) as Beame, James Mapes (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Conversations with God) as Reverend Moriarty and Honeysuckle Weeks (“Foyle’s War” and numerous other UK TV projects) as Lolly.

Bonus features on The Wicker Tree Blu-ray™ and DVD include a behind-the-scenes featurette, deleted scenes and the theatrical trailer.

We can't get enough of our vampires. Whether you're into the blood-dripping fangs of Stake Land; the slutty, sultry ones from "True Blood" or the sparkly kind from Twilight, we all love our vamps. Now there's new info on how Bram Stoker got the whole thing going.

A new version of Dracula will soon be released and this one will contain images and details from Stoker's actual 1897 publishing deal. Apparently, aside from being able to spin a wicked vampire tale, Stoker was pretty savvy at the bargaining table as well. The new book reveals that Stoker landed a deal which granted him 20 percent royalties on Dracula. Anyone who's in the publishing business will tell you that's one helluva deal…about double what an author could get by today's standards. Although he never practiced law, Stoker studied it, giving himself the skills to work out this honey of a deal.

In an article published in The Independent, Nick Robinson, chairman Constable & Robinson, publishers of the new edition of Dracula, said "Stoker wrote the contract himself, which, from a publisher's point of view, is rather extraordinary. The terms – roughly 20 percent royalties – are, again from a publisher's point of view, pretty tough. But he clearly knew how to frame a contract and was able to dictate terms." Bazinga!

However Stoker had less luck trying to swing a deal stateside, struggling with copyright laws that required serialization of work before going into effect. In the same article in The Independent, Bram Stoker's great-grand-nephew, Dacre Stoker, explained, "The book wasn't published in America until 1899. However, Dracula was serialized in American newspapers for a couple of years because there were very strange copyright laws in the US that required authors to serialize their work prior to them publishing. He then signed a contract with the publishers Doubleday, but they still won't reveal the contract to this day. It's one of those mysteries: why did Bram lose the copyright to the book? The party line is he apparently didn't fulfill all the requirements, but he certainly didn't have all the rights he should have had."

Obviously these odd dealings didn't sit well with Stoker, but it seems he was even less a fan of agents. The Independent quotes an interview with Stoker given around the time of the initial publishing of Dracula where he said, "Some men nowadays are making 10,000 a year by their novels, and it seems hardly fair that they should pay 10 or 5 per cent of this great sum to a middle man. By a dozen letters or so in the course of the year they could settle all their literary business on their own account." And Hollywood shuddered.

"Terra Nova" fans, we've got bad news for you. It looks like a potential deal between 20th Century Fox TV and Netflix to bring back the show is as dead as... well... the dinosaurs.

The Fox Network cancelled "Terra Nova" after it opened with much fanfare last fall, and now it looks like the dino-themed drama may be headed the way of the La Brea Tar Pits and complete extinction. Apparently it was always a long-shot for the 20th Century Fox/Netflix deal to happen as creating episodes of "Terra Nova" is an elaborate production with lots of video F/X.

Even with Steven Spielberg and Peter Chernin listed among the executive producers, "Terra Nova" could not draw enough viewers for the Fox Network to justify renewing the show considering the high costs. However, dino-fans, don't lose hope. Fox has had a knack for bringing series back from the dead such as "Family Guy," "Futurama" and, most recently, "Arrested Development" in a deal with Netflix.

Aside from all that nasty rigor mortis business, it's fun and easy to play with the dead. Now Diamond Select has made it even easier with Wave One of their Walking Dead Minimates! Check 'em out!

A Diamond Select release designed and sculpted by Art Asylum. The dead have risen! As Robert Kirkman's Walking Dead comic book shambles towards its 100th issue, DST is immortalizing the book's indelible characters with a line of highly detailed Minimates minifigures! The first assortment of two-packs features a mix of humans and zombies and includes Rick Grimes with Roamer Zombie, a Herd Zombie 2-pack, Dale with Roamer Zombie, and a short-packed Dale in Winter Coat with Roamer Zombie! Each Minimate stands 2 inches tall with 14 points of articulation and a variety of removable and interchangeable parts and accessories.

Click here to pre-order the full set NOW from TFAW!

Scott Allie is a busy man. Aside from his usual responsibilities as the senior managing editor at Dark Horse Comics, he's taken on new writing endeavors, and this weekend he finds himself as a guest of honor at the World Horror Convention (March 30-April 1) in Salt Lake City.

Allie has been named Editor Guest of Honor for the 2012 World Horror Convention. He joins his partner in crime, Mike Mignola, who will also be in attendance. Mignola is Artist Guest of Honor for 2012 (Sherrilyn Kenyon is Author Guest of Honor this year). This event also features the Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker Award ceremony, for which Dark Horse Comics has been nominated in multiple categories.

Allie has recently returned to the writer's chair, creating stories for new issues of B.P.R.D. and Buffy the Vampire Slayer with the first issue of B.P.R.D. releasing this week (March 28) and Buffy dropping next Wednesday (April 4). Amongst all this business, Allie had a chance to sit down and talk with Dread Central to get our readers caught up on the goings-on at Dark Horse Comics and the World Horror Convention.

"I think we're on a few panels together," Allie said, discussing his participation in this weekend's World Horror Convention with Mike Mignola. "He's got a spotlight panel on him, and I'm doing some writing and art workshops so I hope there are some aspiring cartoonists in Salt Lake City or I'll be awful lonely. I think they also have me doing some pitch sessions, a panel on Buffy with Buffy novelist Alice Henderson, and a panel on humor in horror, which is nice timing because that was the theme of Orycon last year in Portland, where I was also guest of honor. So I've done a lot of thinking on the topic."

Allie discussed the desire to take a more horror-minded approach to some of his upcoming work. "Mike (Mignola) and I wanted to do more horror stories," Allie said, discussing the new B.P.R.D. issue. "The stories that (John) Arcudi is focused on in the regular stories tend to be more action adventure, which kind of works better in comics, particularly in comics where the main characters have to survive everything they confront. Not that we're above killing our main characters once in a while, but you can't do it every story arc. In doing this story, we initially set out to deal with the vampire history of the Hellboy world, but then it took some detours, with some more Lovecraftian stuff. A couple of agents go to investigate a town that's suddenly been vacated after a strange mist has settled in. They encounter a professorial type who's here investigating the history of vampires and can't explain how the mist connects to the vampires. And things go badly from there."

Allie's new work on the Buffy series follows along with the abortion story arc. "After Buffy decided to terminate her pregnancy, she realized she was not in fact pregnant, but actually a robot," Allie said. "My story sees her sort of reeling from her recent experience, while trying to figure out what happened to her real body. Buffy has been on the outs with her fellow Slayers ever since she destroyed the connection between the earth and the magical realms. One of those Slayers has a particular plan in mind that Buffy has to deal with in this arc."

Discussing the horror aspects of the upcoming comics, Allie dished some info. "Buffy's not really all about the horror, but I think we get into some nicely dark emotional places. She's been to a bad place, and that's what I love about horror fiction. But with the B.P.R.D. stuff, Pickens County and subsequent Transformation of JH O'Donnell one-shot, we're really doing traditional horror, more so than I think you normally get in comics. B.P.R.D. does sort of work like 'X-Files,' but with these side projects that Mike and I are doing, it's nice in that it's more like the non-mythology episodes of 'X-Files'. And it's the agents that change from story to story, as well as the investigation itself."

Synopsis of Upcoming Dark Horse Comics
B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: The Pickens County Horror, written by Mike Mignola and Scott Allie, art by Jason Latour and Dave Stewart, covers by Becky Cloonan. Two agents are sent to North Carolina to investigate a town that's become a ghost town practically overnight. They arrive to find a field of mushrooms emanating a mysterious gas. They're given shelter by a doddering old professor who's there to interview the family of vampires who live in the hills and have for years preyed upon the town. What the vampires have to do with the gas and the mushrooms is not immediately apparent, but then one of the agents turns into a gelatinous vampire, and everything goes to hell.

B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth: The Transformation of JH O'Donnell, written by Mike Mignola and Scott Allie, art by Max Fiumara and Dave Stewart. The B.P.R.D.'s resident expert on pre-human civilization has suffered dementia since his first appearance in the comics, but it turns out it all started during a trip with Hellboy to retrieve rare books from the library of a recently deceased necromancer in the 1980s. What exactly happened that night is unclear, since little sense can be made of what O'Donnell's had to say about it, but ever since that night, he's been able to quote passages from books that have been lost for hundreds of years.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 9 #8-#10, written by Scott Allie and Andrew Chambliss, art by Cliff Richards, covers by Phil Noto. Buffy's pregnancy scare comes to an end when she discovers she's actually a Buffy-bot. Now the robot version of Buffy must team with Spike to recover her real body, with the help of Andrew Wells, who's responsible for the whole situation. Season 8's Rogue Slayer Simone returns to center stage as well.

"What did they see?" That was the question asked on all of the marketing for The Woman in Black (review here). While we can't answer that question for sure, we can tell you that the flick will be seeing a home video release on May 15th.

From the Press Release:
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has announced DVD ($30.99) and Blu-ray ($35.99) releases of The Woman in Black for May 15th. Extras will include a commentary with director James Watkins and writer Jane Goldman and two featurettes ("Inside The Perfect Thriller: Making The Woman in Black", "No Fear: Daniel Radcliffe as Arthur Kipps").

Stay tuned for the official package artwork and specs.

The Woman in Black follows a young lawyer, Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), who is ordered to travel to a remote corner of the UK and sort out a recently deceased client’s papers. As he works alone in an old and isolated house, Kipps begins to uncover its tragic secrets, and his unease grows when he discovers that the local village is held hostage by the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance.

We all love H.P. Lovecraft, don't we? If not, please feel free to turn your Justin Bieber CD back on and spin that latest episode of "Pretty Little Liars"; you're not gonna find much here to suit your fancy.

Our good friends at Titan Books just released a new collection of tales inspired by Lovecraft, entitled Black Wings of Cthulhu, and they've been nice enough to provide us with a complete story from the collection, exclusive to Dread Central!

Below you'll find the opening to Michael Shea's "Copping Squid", a nasty little modern take on Lovecraft's mythos that's a good representation of the tales in the book. Click here or on the story's title below to download it in its entirety.

Shea also wrote the Lovecraftian novel The Color Out of Time (DAW, 1984) and is the author of the short story collection Polyphemus (Arkham House, 1987). His Cthulhu mythos story "Fat Face" has been widely reprinted, notably in Cthulhu 2000 (Arkham House, 1995). Among his many other works are a four-volume series of novels chronicling the adventures of Nifft the Lean (1982–2000), the first of which won the World Fantasy Award. Shea has also worked in science fiction and has been nominated for a Hugo Award.

Look for a full review of Black Wings of Cthulhu soon, and in the meantime check out the book's synopsis:

Synopsis:
The modern masters of Lovecraftian fiction offer up 21 brand new, utterly terrifying, and thoroughly entertaining short stories of horror and the macabre. Taking their inspiration from works by Lovecraft himself, prominent writers such as Caitlin R. Kiernan, Brian Stableford, Ramsey Campbell, Michael Shea, Darrell Schweitzer, Donald R. Burleson, and David J. Schow delve deep into the psyche, expanding on concepts HPL created and taking them in new directions. The result is stories that are wholly original, some even featuring Lovecraft himself as a character. Black Wings editor S.T. Joshi is the recognized authority on all things Lovecraftian and is famous for his restorations of Lovecraft's original works. He has assembled a star-studded international line-up in a book that is essential for every horror library.

Ricky Deuce, twenty-eight and three years sober, was the night clerk at Mahmoud’s Mom and Pop Market. He was a small, leanly muscled guy, and as he sat there, the darkness outside deepening toward midnight, his tight little Irish face looked pleased with where he was. Behind Ricky on his stool, the whole wall was bottles of every kind of Hard known to man.

This job was easy money—a sit-down after his day forklifting at the warehouse. He already owned an awesomely restored ’64 Mustang and had near ten K saved, and by rights he ought to be casting around for where he might take off to next. But the fact was, he got a kick out of clerking here till two a.m. each night.

A kick that was not powder nor pill nor smoke nor booze, that was not needing any of them, especially not booze, which could shine and glint in its bottles and surround him all night long, and he not give a shit. He never got tired of sitting here immune, savoring the unadorned adventure of being alive.

Not that the job lacked irritants. There were obnoxious clientele, and these preponderated toward the deep of night.

Ricky thought he heard one even now.

Single cars shushed past outside, long silences falling between, and a scuffy tread advanced along the sidewalk. A purposeful tread that nonetheless staggered now and then. It reminded Ricky that he was It, the only island of comfort and light for a half a mile in all directions, in a big city, in the dead of night.

This Friday, March 30th, "Ghost Adventures" returns to Nevada City, California, to investigate The National Hotel as well as an underground cavern. Things get eerie when Aaron discovers a door spontaneously unlock and open. Check out this preview courtesy of Travel Channel.

While learning about the National Hotel in this original episode, the guys - Zak Bagans, Nick Groff, and Aaron Goodwin - hear that the town's underground tunnels and caves have a great deal of paranormal activity as well. These shafts are the final resting place for many Chinese workers, who died inside these caves during the times of the Gold Rush.

“Ghost Adventures” is produced by MY Tupelo Entertainment for Travel Channel. For MY Tupelo the executive producers are Michael Yudin and Joe Townley; for Travel Channel the executive producer is Daniel A. Schwartz.

For more info be sure to visit "Ghost Adventures" on Travel Channel. And then check out our continuing exclusive "Ghost Adventures" in-depth interview series for even more!

Well, okay, not really, but it is hard to not get that kind of vibe after seeing the latest sliver of concept art for Legendary and Warner Brothers' upcoming adaptation of The Spook's Apprentice known as The Seventh Son.

From the Press Release
Principal photography is under way on Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures’ fantasy action adventure Seventh Son. Shooting began on March 19th under the direction of award-winning filmmaker Sergei Bodrov, director of the Oscar®-nominated foreign language films Mongol: The Rise of Genghis Khan and Prisoner of the Mountains. Seventh Son stars Academy Award® winner Jeff Bridges (Crazy Heart, Iron Man), Oscar® nominee Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven, The Hours), and Ben Barnes (The Chronicles of Narnia films).

The film’s international cast also includes Alicia Vikander (The Crown Jewels), Antje Traue (Pandorum, upcoming Man of Steel), Olivia Williams (Hanna) and Kit Harington (HBO’s “Game of Thrones”).

Bodrov is directing the film from a screenplay by Matt Greenberg, Charles Leavitt and Steve Knight, based on the book The Spook’s Apprentice by Joseph Delaney. Seventh Son is being produced by Basil Iwanyk (The Town, Clash of the Titans, upcoming Wrath of the Titans), Thomas Tull (Inception, The Dark Knight, upcoming The Dark Knight Rises) and Lionel Wigram (Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, the Harry Potter films). The executive producers are Jon Jashni, Brent O’Connor and Alysia Cotter, with Jillian Zaks and Erica Lee serving as co-producers.

The behind-the-scenes team collaborating with Bodrov includes director of photography Newton Thomas Sigel (Drive); three-time Oscar®-winning production designer Dante Ferretti “Hugo, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Aviator); Oscar®-nominated editor Paul Rubell (Collateral, The Insider); Oscar®-nominated costume designer Jacqueline West (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, The Social Network), and Oscar®-winning visual effects supervisor John Dykstra (Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2).

Seventh Son will be filmed entirely on location in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

A presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, Seventh Son will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

Synopsis
In a time long past, an evil is about to be unleashed that will reignite the war between the forces of the supernatural and humankind once more. Master Gregory (Jeff Bridges) is a knight who had imprisoned the malevolently powerful witch Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore) centuries ago. But now she has escaped and is seeking vengeance. Summoning her followers of every incarnation, Mother Malkin is preparing to unleash her terrible wrath on an unsuspecting world. Only one thing stands in her way: Master Gregory.

In a deadly reunion, Gregory comes face to face with the evil he always feared would someday return. Now he has only until the next full moon to do what usually takes years: train his new apprentice, Tom Ward (Ben Barnes), to fight a dark magic unlike any other. Man’s only hope lies in the seventh son of a seventh son.

What the hell is Project Yellow Sphere, you may be asking yourself. Damned if we know. All we have is a brief trailer and a website that says all the info will be released on 4/1/12.

So what can we do? We'll wait for Sunday to see what kind of government-induced nastiness will be inflicted in Project Yellow Sphere, what we are assuming is a short film from Xombie creator, animator and director James Farr. But we can't be too sure about anything these days.

We suggest you keep an ear to the ground and visit the official Project Yellow Sphere website, "like" the Project Yellow Sphere Facebook page, and, by all means, follow Project Yellow Sphere on Twitter (@theyellowsphere).

Trailer Synopsis
A recent report featuring leaked footage from the Nevada-based MAZE compound, home of the mysterious Project Yellow Sphere. Find out the truth this weekend.

Just 24 short hours after we showed you cats the teaser trailer for the teaser trailer for the Total Recall remake, we've come up with some nifty motion art and the first one-sheet! Dig it!

Len Wiseman directs the film based upon the Philip K. Dick tale We Can Remember It For You Wholesale. Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Bryan Cranston and Jessica Biel star.

The remake will be landing in theatres on August 3rd, 2012.

Synopsis
Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid (Colin Farrell), even though he's got a beautiful wife (Kate Beckinsale) whom he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life - real memories of life as a super-spy might be just what he needs. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man. Finding himself on the run from the police – controlled by Chancellor Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston) – there is no one Quaid can trust, except possibly a rebel fighter (Jessica Biel) working for the head of the underground resistance (Bill Nighy). The line between fantasy and reality gets blurred and the fate of his world hangs in the balance as Quaid discovers his true identity, his true love, and his true fate.

Famed horror artist Dan Brereton provided the monster action for the cover of Volume 2 of Flesh and Blood, the acclaimed horror graphic novel series from Monsterverse, and of course we have a look at it right here!

From the Press Release:
Vampires, a werewolf, and Baron Frankenstein collide in the second book of the award-winning graphic novel series from Monsterverse, Flesh and Blood. Superbly written by Robert Tinnell and illustrated with eerie elegance by Neil Vokes, Book Two is colored with a master's passion by Matt Webb. If you thought the first volume rocked the world of horror comic books and graphic novels, you will not be able to put down the second book, which has more dark intrigue, heart-stopping action, epic adventure, sensual eroticism, and shocking twists than ever before!

It also includes two back-up features - Operation: Satan by Tinnell and artist Bob Hall and the new Frankenstein by Tinnell and Adrian Salmon. No graphic novel series delivers pure unadulterated horror entertainment like Flesh and Blood!

Book Two Synopsis:
After the girl he loves becomes a vampire, an embittered Van Helsing seeks revenge on Countess Dracula. Baron Frankenstein, a prisoner of the Countess, is forced to return the vampire Carmilla to life. Meanwhile a powerful entity driven by hate and madness seeks the destruction of them all.

Look for Flesh and Blood Book Two in comic shops and bookstores in late May. For more in the meantime visit the official Monsterverse website.

The last of the Heavy Hitters has officially been announced. The Siren is one creepy babe, and her voice and otherworldly powers allow her to bring the dead back to life to fight alongside her once more.

This leaves you with one hell of a choice; do you take out the chick with the annoying voice or the baddies trying to brutally murder you? Make the call when BioShock Infinite releases on October 16, 2012.

About BioShock Infinite
BioShock Infinite puts players in the role of Booker DeWitt, a hard-bitten former Pinkerton agent, together with the revolutionary AI companion, Elizabeth. The two struggle to escape the sky-city of Columbia, in a 1912 America that might have been. Armed with an arsenal of new weapons and abilities, they face menacing enemies, in unique expansive environments. Classic BioShock gameplay joins innovations such as aerial combat on high-speed Sky-Lines in the service of an immersive storyline – an Irrational Games signature.

For more information on the game, check ou the official BioShock Infinite website.

It's that time of day again. Yep, once again we're ready to roll out a plethora of new Dark Shadows goodies for you to either complain about or adore. A polarizing project if ever there was one. Check 'em out!

The ensemble cast includes Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Helena Bonham Carter, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Jonny Lee Miller, Bella Heathcote, Chloe Moretz, Thomas McDonell, and newcomer Gulliver McGrath.

Look for Tim Burton's Dark Shadows in theatres on May 11, 2012.

Synopsis
In the year 1752 Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England, to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass, and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet — or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Brouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire and then burying him alive.

Two centuries later Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better, each harboring their own dark secrets. Matriarch Elizabeth Collins Stoddard (Michelle Pfeiffer) has called upon live-in psychiatrist, Dr. Julia Hoffman (Helena Bonham Carter), to help with her family troubles.

Also residing in the manor are Elizabeth's ne'er-do-well brother, Roger Collins (Jonny Lee Miller); her rebellious teenage daughter, Carolyn Stoddard (Chloe Moretz); and Roger's precocious 10-year-old son, David Collins (Gulliver McGrath). The mystery extends beyond the family to caretaker Willie Loomis, played by Jackie Earle Haley, and David's new nanny, Victoria Winters, played by Bella Heathcote.

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Yesterday we brought you Empire Magazine's Prometheus themed cover art. Today we get a good look inside of the mag, which is home to several new images. Dig it!

Prometheus, starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Patrick Wilson, Logan Marshall-Green, and Ben Foster, will be in theaters on June 8th, 2012.

Synopsis
In the distant future two superpowers control Earth and fight each other for all the solar system's natural resources. When one side dispatches a team to a distant planet to terraform it for human colonization, the team members discover an indigenous race of bio-mechanoid killers.

Ridley Scott, director of 'Alien' and 'Blade Runner,' returns to the genre he helped define. With 'Prometheus' he creates a groundbreaking mythology in which a team of explorers discover a clue to the origins of mankind on Earth, leading them on a thrilling journey to the darkest corners of the universe. There they must fight a terrifying battle to save the future of the human race.

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Some quick casting news coming in for The Occult along with an official announcement for you cats. Read on for all the latest straight from the cultist's mouth!

From the Press Release
"THE OCCULT," an LD Entertainment Production directed by Christian E. Christiansen ("The Roommate”) and produced by Pete Shilaimon, Mickey Liddell and Jennifer Hilton Monroe, is shooting principal photography at the Screen Gems Studios and on locations around Wilmington, North Carolina.

Written by Karl Mueller, the horror-thriller film is executive produced by Scott Holroyd, Michael Zelman and Paddy Cullen.

Starring In "THE OCCULT" are Alycia Debnam-Carey ("Dream Life"), Rufus Sewell ("The Illiusionist," "The Tourist"), Thomas McDonell (“Prom"), Adelaide Kane ("Secrets of the Mountain"), Leah Pipes ("Sorority Row"), and Colm Meaney ("Law Abiding Citizen," "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"), Jennifer Carpenter ("Dexter," "The Exorcism of Emily Rose"), Stacey Edwards ("In the Company of Men") and Ric Reitz ("Remember the Titans").

Something very strange happened in the small village of New Bethlehem, a devout community kept under the tight reins of the town's vigilant Elders. Six girls born on the same day to different mothers. Perhaps a coincidence or as most believe a chilling omen of something yet to come. Now, on the eve of their 18th birthday, the young women are mysteriously disappearing one by one and feared dead. Terror has overtaken this quiet community. Could this be the work of a serial killer, one of the village elders or a horrific prophecy come true, born of the supernatural, The Occult?

It's taken about two years to get the goods on the Aussie horror flick Suing the Devil Stateside, but now we have the trailer, a poster, and, dare we say it, even a release date for you! Dig it!

Suing the Devil stars Malcolm McDowell, Shannen Fields, Tom Sizemore, and Corbin Bernsen. The film was written and directed by Timothy A. Chey. Look for it on demand on April 6th.

Synopsis:
Luke O'Brien, a washed-up janitor turned night law student, decides to sue Satan for $8 trillion. On the last day before Luke files a default judgment, Satan appears to defend himself. On Satan's legal team are 10 of the country's best trial lawyers. The entire world watches on Legal TV to see who will win the Trial of the Century.

Three more images from The Cabin in the Woods have come our way that were previously released in Entertainment Weekly, so if you're wanting to check em out again minus all those watermarks dig it!

Look for the flick in theatres on April 13, 2012. It stars Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins, and Bradley Whitford. Drew Goddard directs from a screenplay written by him and Joss Whedon.

Synopsis
Five friends go to a remote cabin in the woods. Bad things happen. If you think you know this story, think again. From fan favorites Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard comes THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, a mind-blowing horror film that turns the genre inside out.

Game developers Naughty Dog recently released photos of busts modeled after The Infected enemies from their upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive The Last of Us, and we're here to tell you they're not pretty.

If these busts are any indication of what we'll find in the game, The Last of Us may end up being one crazy and scary ride. Read on for more details, and check out these bad boys for yourself below!

About The Last of Us
The Last of Us is a genre-defining experience that blends survival and action elements to tell a character driven story about a population decimated by a modern plague. Abandoned cities are being reclaimed by nature and the remaining survivors are killing each other for food, weapons and whatever they can get their hands on. Joel, a ruthless survivor, and Ellie, a brave young teenage girl who is wise beyond her years, must work together to survive their journey across what remains of the United States.

For more information on the game, check out the official The Last of Us website.