We’ve been talking about Marcus Nispel’s Exeter (formerly Backmask) around these parts for a really long time, and word has come that the flick will soon be hitting Blu-ray and DVD in the UK as The Asylum. Read on for details and a NOT SAFE FOR WORK image gallery.

Exeter opens Stateside on July 2nd, and the UK will release the film under the title The Asylum on DVD and Blu-ray May 4, 2015.

Gage Golightly, Kelly Blatz, Brittany Curran, Brett Dier, Nick Nicotera, Michael Ormsby, Nick Nordella, and Stephen Lang star.

Synopsis:
When a group of teens party in an abandoned building with a dark history, they find an old vinyl record that unleashes a dark spirit when played backwards. But is there something even more horrific and terrifying in their midst?

The Asylum is a genre-busting evolution in teen horror bringing together the slasher, the supernatural and the urban myth.

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Two new UK quad posters for Insidious Chapter 3 have arrived to walk their way into your horror-loving hearts. Check ‘em both out right here.

Insidious Chapter 3 will be hitting theaters on June 5, 2015. It stars Dermot Mulroney, Stefanie Scott, Lin Shaye, Angus Sampson, and writer/director Leigh Whannell.

Related Story: Insidious Chapter 3 to Pave Way for Several New Installments?

Synopsis:
The newest chapter in the terrifying horror series is written and directed by franchise co-creator Leigh Whannell. This chilling prequel, set before the haunting of the Lambert family, reveals how gifted psychic Elise Rainier (Shaye) reluctantly agrees to use her ability to contact the dead in order to help a teenage girl (Scott) who has been targeted by a dangerous supernatural entity.

For more information visit the official Insidious website, “like” the Insidious Facebook page, and follow along on Twitter at @InsidiousMovie.

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Our experimental anthology with Ruthless Pictures, Zombieworld (reviews), is getting set to hit the UK on June 8th; and right now we have your first details and a look at the very different artwork!

From the Press Release:
The end is here! The Zombie Apocalypse is upon us – and all you can do is kick back and watch how it happened, right here, right now in the place we call Zombieworld.

Satisfy your thirst for all things zombie as we take you back in time to the biblical rise of the living dead before running screaming from continent to continent as reports of zombie devastation arrive from Ireland, Canada, Australia, and all over the U.S.

Watch for the ‘Government Health Warnings’ on ‘How to Survive a Zombie Attack’. They could be the only thing between you and a newfound hunger for human flesh. And above all else, enjoy yourself – you may not have much longer to live.

With ultra-violence, gallons of gore, and heaps of bloody fun, Zombieworld is like nothing you’ve seen before. This ravenous collection of deadly tales takes over DVD on 8 June 2015 courtesy of Image Entertainment.

Welcome to Zombieworld.

Special features include: Marathon Apocalypse.

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Ahead of its premiere at this year’s Stanley Film Festival, Oscilloscope has acquired the U.S. rights to the Slamdance favorite Body.

Dan Berk and Robert Olsen wrote and directed Body. Helen Rogers, Alexandra Turshen, Lauren Molina, and Larry Fessenden star.

Synopsis:
Best friends Holly, Cali, and Mel are home for the holidays. It’s a couple nights before Christmas, and the three girls are bored out of their minds, sitting at Mel’s parents’ house. As she is wont to do, Cali suggests they go out and have some fun. Her uncle owns a mansion one town over and happens to be out of town for the holiday. Better yet, he’s given her permission to party there. Despite Holly’s reservations, the girls head out.

It’s only after hours of partying and taking advantage of the home’s many amenities that the girls discover Cali has lied to them. This is not her uncle’s house. It belongs to a family that Cali used to babysit for. And it becomes quite clear that permission was certainly never granted to party there. Holly and Mel, infuriated with Cali, immediately head for the door. Unfortunately, before they can leave, the groundskeeper of the estate arrives. The girls attempt to flee but wind up running into him on their way out. An altercation follows, and in a freak accident the girls push him down the stairs. He falls awkwardly, breaking his neck and ultimately dying.

For the remainder of the film we watch the girls slowly unravel as they decide what to do about the dead body in the living room. But covering their tracks might mean adding to the body count…

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While we’re still waiting for the online premiere of the trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit, we now have an international poster for you guys to dig on. Check it out!

The Visit was written and directed by Shyamalan and stars Kathryn Hahn, Ed Oxenbould, Erica Lynne Marszalek, Peter McRobbie, Olivia DeJonge, Deanna Dunagan, Benjamin Kanes, Jon Douglas Rainey, Brian Gildea, Shawn Gonzalez, Richard Barlow, Steve Annan, and Michael Mariano.

Look for it in theaters on September 11, 2015. For more info follow @TheVisitMovie on Twitter, and visit stayinyourroom.com, which will most likely launch along with the trailer.

Synopsis:
A brother and sister are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a week-long trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances of getting back home are growing smaller every day.

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More casting news has arrived for MTV’s upcoming TV series “Scream” based on the hit Wes Craven film franchise. TVLine is reporting that “True Blood’s” Amelia Rose Blaire (Willa on the HBO series) will recur on the show as Piper Shay, the smart, quirky host of a wildly popular podcast who comes to town to investigate the recent deaths.

“The Killing’s” Bex Taylor-Klaus plays Aubrey Jensen. Also starring in the series are Willa Fitzgerald, John Karna, Connor Weil, Amadeus Serafini, Carlson Young, Tracy Middendorf, and Joel Gretsch. Jamie Travis directed the pilot.

MTV and Dimension TV (The Weinstein Company) bring the series adaptation of the hit horror film franchise to television. Jill Blotevogel (“Harper’s Island,” “Ravenswood”) and Jaime Paglia (“Arrow”) will executive produce and showrun, with John Shiban (“Hell on Wheels”, “Breaking Bad”) on board as a consulting producer. Jay Beattie and Dan Dworkin (“Criminal Minds,” “The Event,” and “Revenge”) wrote the original script. Under the Dimension TV production umbrella, Harvey and Bob Weinstein will executive produce. Additional executive producers are Wes Craven, Tony DiSanto, Liz Gateley, Marianne Maddalena, and Cathy Konrad.

Synopsis:
After a cyber-bullying incident results in a brutal murder, the shocking violence stirs up memories of a killing spree from the past that has haunted some, intrigued others, and maybe just inspired a new killer. A group of teens – with two old friends struggling to reconnect at its heart – become lovers, enemies, suspects, targets, and victims of a killer who’s out for blood.

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The casting news for AMC’s “Preacher” keeps rolling in as Deadline is now reporting that Scream and “Deadwood’s” W. Earl Brown has signed on to play the villainous Hugo Root, the mean-hearted father of Arseface and a local sheriff.

The project, from Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, Sony TV, and AMC Studios, centers on Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), a conflicted preacher in a small Texas town who merges with a creature that has escaped from heaven and develops the ability to make anyone do anything he says. Along with his ex-girlfriend, Tulip (Ruth Negga), and an Irish vampire named Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun), the three embark on a journey to literally find God.

The cast also includes Lucy Griffiths as Emily; Elizabeth Perkins as Vyla Quinncannon, a genteel but formidable businesswoman who owns the local slaughterhouse in Annville; and Ian Colletti as Eugene Root, aka Arseface.

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The work of Edgar Allan Poe has been adapted and re-adapted for the screen many times, and it doesn’t seem like that will ever stop. The man has quite the following and rightly so. Just ask Joe Carroll (remember when that show had something to do with Poe?). In any event, another one is on its way.

Deadline reports that Beau Mirchoff (MTV’s “Awkward”) and Alexa PenaVega are set to star in Tell-Tale Lies, a modern take on Edgar Allan Poe’s classic chiller.

Synthetic Cinema International and Stargazer Films have begun production on the film directed by Colin Theys from John Doolan’s script. It revolves around four friends at a prestigious university whose promising futures are jeopardized when they become connected to the accidental death of a classmate. When another student says she knows about their involvement, the friends panic and start to plot her murder.

Renee Olstead, Michael J. Willett, Bailey De Young, Sara Kapner, Ethan Phillips, Anthony Del Negro, Sean Patrick Thomas, and John Heard round out the cast.

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Rodney Ascher’s (Room 277) new film, The Nightmare, has gotten an official one-sheet ahead of its premiere at the upcoming Stanley Film Festival. Look for the film in North America in select theaters and on VOD on June 5 via Gravitas Ventures.

The Nightmare is a documentary-horror film exploring the phenomenon of sleep paralysis through the eyes of eight people. Victims of this scary malady often find themselves trapped between the sleeping and awake realms, unable to move but aware of their surroundings while subject to disturbing sights and sounds.

Synopsis:
THE NIGHTMARE’S subjects hail from different backgrounds and walks of life, but share eerily similar visions of malevolent, near-human beings that grow increasingly aggressive the longer the sleep paralysis recurs. Are these just random hallucinations or something more? Rational explanations get challenged by the similarities of the “shadow people” multiple subjects describe looming over them. Ascher, who has first hand knowledge of sleep paralysis, brings the full intensity of this experience to the screen while maintaining empathy and respect for his subjects. As the film unfolds, distinctions between the documentary and horror genres fade as do easy lines between reality and the imagination.

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We’re just a few hours away from the premiere of Episode 6.19 of “The Vampire Diaries,” entitled “Because,” and to get you ready for it, here’s a new clip from the ep. With Jo and Alaric’s wedding just around the corner, there’s a lot to be done!

“The Vampire Diaries” Episode 6.19 – “Because” (4/23/15)
TO TELL HER OR NOT TO TELL HER – Wrestling with whether or not to tell Elena (Nina Dobrev) about the cure, Damon (Ian Somerhalder) brings up their future together and what life would be like if they weren’t vampires. Meanwhile, it’s all hands on deck when attempts to stop a humanity-free Caroline (Candice Accola) doesn’t go as planned.

Related Story: Synopsis Revealed for The Vampire Diaries Season Finale Episode 6.22 – I’m Thinking of You All the While

Elsewhere, when Bonnie (Kat Graham) discovers that Damon has betrayed her trust, she takes matters into her own hands, setting off a chain of events that leaves Damon dealing with the fallout. Lastly, after being forced to face his traumatic past, Enzo (Michael Malarkey) sets out for answers and is surprised when he learns the truth about the day he was turned into a vampire.

Paul Wesley, Zach Roerig, and Matt Davis also star. Geoff Shotz directed the episode written by Melinda Hsu Taylor.

For more info visit “The Vampire Diaries” on CWTV.com, “like” “The Vampire Diaries” on Facebook, and follow “The Vampire Diaries” on Twitter.

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Heading our way on June 2nd from Image Entertainment is Infected, in which a quiet suburb becomes ground zero for the end of the world as we know it.  After treating you to several stills earlier this month, we now have the film’s trailer to share.

Andrew Gilbert directs. Luke Hobson, Nicky Paul Barton, Roger Fowler, Samuel Hogarth, and David Wayman star.

Related Story:  New Infected Stills Spread the Zombie Plague

Synopsis:
An average day in a quiet suburb becomes ground zero for the end of the world that we knew. When a fast-spreading global pandemic turns ordinary people into flesh-eating monsters, a handful of terrified survivors and the remnants of an army squad find refuge in an elementary school turned emergency shelter. With the hordes of walking dead trying to get in, scarce weapons, and a dwindling food supply, the embattled refugees begin to turn on each other. As they slowly perish, they desperately attempt to escape and determine if they are the last uninfected humans left on Earth.

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On tap for you guys right now are two tasty nuggets of news from the Scream Factory. The powers-that-be have announced via their Facebook page the surprise acquisition of The People Under the Stairs.

Via the Scream Factory Facebook Page:
“Our “Summer of Fear Part 2” line-up continues to increase with our plans to release Wes Craven’s fascinating and weird (in the best way possible) cult favorite THE PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS in an all-new Collector’s Edition release!

“Planned release is for August and pre-order links will go up next month. The newly designed artwork you see here is official. (Purists: Yes, the classic “skull house” original poster art will be on the flip side too.) No exact details to announce about any upcoming extras but we already have two all-new ones banked and more planned.”

If that’s not enough to get you guys smiling, we also have the artwork for their upcoming release of the underrated I, Madman. Look for more on these two titles soon!

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The trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit has finally arrived, and we’ve gotta say… it looks pretty damned good. Then again… we’ve been fooled before. Color us guardedly optimistic.

The Visit was written and directed by Shyamalan and stars Kathryn Hahn, Ed Oxenbould, Erica Lynne Marszalek, Peter McRobbie, Olivia DeJonge, Deanna Dunagan, Benjamin Kanes, Jon Douglas Rainey, Brian Gildea, Shawn Gonzalez, Richard Barlow, Steve Annan, and Michael Mariano.

Shyamalan produces The Visit through his Blinding Edge Pictures, while Jason Blum produces through his Blumhouse Productions alongside Marc Bienstock (Quarantine 2: Terminal). Steven Schneider (Insidious) and Ashwin Rajan (Devil) executive produce the thriller.

Look for it in theaters on September 11, 2015. For more info follow @TheVisitMovie on Twitter, and visit stayinyourroom.com.

Synopsis:
Writer/director/producer M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable) and producer Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity, The Purge and Insidious series) welcome you to Universal Pictures’ The Visit. Shyamalan returns to his roots with the terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents’ remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances of getting back home are growing smaller every day.

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Syfy’s second annual “Sharknado Week” will be running Saturday, July 18, to Saturday, July 25, and will feature seven original movies, including, of course, the hotly anticipated Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! plus two new “versus” flicks: Sharktopus vs. Whale Wolf and Mega Shark vs. Kolossus.

Read on for the early details, and look for the exact schedule soon.

• Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No!
• Sharktopus vs. Whale Wolf (Roger Corman’s third installment of the Sharktopus franchise, starring Casper Van Dien)
• 3-Headed Shark Attack (starring Danny Trejo)
• Roboshark
• Mega Shark vs. Kolossus (starring Illeana Douglas)
• Zombie Shark (starring Jason London)
• The world premiere of Lavalantula, starring Steve Guttenberg and fellow Police Academy alums Leslie Easterbrook and Michael Winslow as they battle lava-breathing tarantulas threatening to destroy Los Angeles

Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! will cause mass destruction in Washington, D.C., before roaring down the Eastern Seaboard and into Florida. It stars Ian Ziering as Fin, Tara Reid as April, and Cassie Scerbo as Nova. Joining them will be David Hasselhoff as Fin’s father, Gil; Bo Derek will play April’s mother, May; Ryan Newman will play April and Fin’s daughter, Claudia Shepard; and Jack Griffo will portray Claudia’s friend, Billy.

Additional cameo roles include Mark Cuban as the President of the United States; Ann Coulter as the Vice President; Michele Bachmann as herself; Jerry Springer as Mr. White, a manic tourist; Washington Redskins tackle Tom Compton as a reporter; *NSYNC singer Chris Kirkpatrick as a pool lifeguard; and Chris Jericho, who will portray Bruce the roller coaster ride operator.

Anthony C. Ferrante will once again direct, based on an original screenplay by Thunder Levin. Sharknado 3 is a production of The Asylum.

When it aired last July 30, Sharknado 2: The Second One became Syfy’s most-watched original movie ever.

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Wes Craven, now in his seventies, shows no signs of slowing down, and right now we have the first word regarding his latest endeavor, The Girl in the Photographs. Read on for the early details and some casting news.

From the Press Release:
Al-Ghanim Entertainment (AGE), a specialty financing and production company founded by Kuwaiti industrialist Nawaf Alghanim, has announced today that Kal Penn has been cast in the original thriller THE GIRL IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS, which the company will both finance and produce. Horror legend Wes Craven (A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, SCREAM franchise) is set to executive produce along with Alghanim with Craven’s protégé Nick Simon is set to direct. AGE’s Andrea Chung (SEOUL SEARCHING) will produce alongside Thomas Mahoney (PARLOR) with a script written by Simon, Oz Perkins, and Robert Morast.

The film will be lensed by the veteran cinematographer Dean Cundey (BACK TO THE FUTURE, JURASSIC PARK), which marks his return to horror after lensing the original HALLOWEEN films.

THE GIRL IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS is scheduled to begin production in Canada this month. CAA is selling North American rights.

Synopsis:
Colleen’s life isn’t going anywhere. The small town natural beauty is bored with her dead end job at a grocery store and is ready to distance herself from her abusive boyfriend. In the midst of her turmoil, a pair of deranged serial killers begins leaving her photos of their mutilated victims. Her chance to escape comes in the form of Peter Hemmings (Penn), a hipster celebrity photographer who has traveled back to his hometown of Spearfish, South Dakota, with a pack of models, intent on copying the killers’ intense and unapologetic artistry and use it for an important ad campaign. When he learns Colleen is their muse, Peter resolves to make her his own and use her as the centerpiece of a photo campaign in Los Angeles. But before Colleen can leave her old life behind, she must contend with the desires of her murderous stalkers, who have chosen her last night in town to execute their most provocative work to date.

Penn is best known for his comedic turn in the HAROLD AND KUMAR series and has most recently been seen in the teen thriller THE SISTERHOOD OF THE NIGHT as well as a starring role on the CBS show “Battle Creek.”

Nick Simon, having written the thriller COLD COMES THE NIGHT and genre film THE PYRAMID, initially gained the attention of Craven with his first feature film after attending AFI entitled REMOVAL, which he both wrote and directed.

The Alghanim family, who own international conglomerates and have links to theaters in Kuwait, are backing the film as part of a slate for AGE, which is positioned to participate in various levels of filmed entertainment financing.

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Entertainment Weekly scored the first few images from Fox’s upcoming “Scream Queens,” which offer new looks at Jamie Lee Curtis, Emma Roberts, and more. Dig it!

The ensemble cast includes Lea Michele, Nasim Pedrad, Jamie Lee Curtis, Emma Roberts, Nick Jonas, Oliver Hudson, Keke Palmer, Ariana Grande, and Abigail Breslin. Slated to premiere in the fall with 15 episodes, “Scream Queens” revolves around a college campus rocked by a series of murders.

Related Story: Pop! Goes Another Scream Queens Teaser

The Fox comedy-horror anthology series hails from 20th Century Fox TV and Ryan Murphy Television. Murphy will exec produce with “Glee’s” Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, and Dante Di Loreto.

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One has to wonder just how much faith Syfy has in its original movie Lake Placid vs. Anaconda given that the network waited until about 48 hours before the film’s premiere to put out a trailer for it.

Syfy has been cranking out Lake Placid and Anaconda TV sequels for several years now so why not a versus film? I’m sure it sounded like a great idea on paper; based on this preview it looks to be less so on film.

Yancy Butler returns as a character presumably killed in a previous Lake Placid sequel. Robert England looks to be playing the same character that got killed in the opening minutes of Hatchet. The crocodile effects look like holdovers from the previous made-for-TV sequels. The anaconda… Ugh. The anaconda looks like a digital effect nobody finished rendering.

I ask in all seriousness:  Was the film production so rushed they didn’t have time to finish the effects, or was the budget not there?

IMDB lists the plot as “a giant alligator goes head to head with a giant anaconda. The town sheriff must find a way to destroy the two monsters before they kill the whole town.”

Either whoever submitted that synopsis doesn’t know the difference between a crocodile and an alligator or they decided to scrap the continuity of the previous Lake Placid films by changing the creature’s species.

Lake Placid vs. Anaconda premieres this Saturday night at 9/8 Central.

Is it just me or is the anaconda looking a tad anorexic? Poor thing looks like it’s starving. No wonder it wants to eat a monstrous crocagator.

Click HERE for the trailer!

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A new featurette has been released for the Sam Raimi-produced remake of Poltergeist, and we have every pixel of it right here for your perusal. Check it out courtesy of ComingSoon.net.

The haunting begins on May 22, 2015.

In Poltergeist, which is to be released in 3D, Jared Harris plays 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.” Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Saxon Sharbino, and Jane Adams also star. Gil Kenan directs.

For more info visit the official Poltergeist website, “like” Poltergeist on Facebook, and follow Poltergeist on Twitter.

Synopsis:
Legendary filmmaker Sam Raimi (producer) reimagines and contemporizes the classic tale about a family whose suburban home is invaded by angry spirits. When the terrifying apparitions escalate their attacks and take the youngest daughter, the family must come together to rescue her.

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So what if it’s after 9:00 pm on the East Coast and most people are already done for the day on the West Coast? Work never ends, damn it! In some quick release news Universal announced during its CinemaCon presentation that the sequel to Guilermo del Toro’s giant sized monster mash Pacific Rim has been moved a couple of months.

That’s right; you can now tentatively pencil in an August 4, 2017, release date for Legendary’s Pacific Rim 2 which will be released in 3D.

More on it later. Probably much later.

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Eriq La Salle (“ER”) previously directed an episode of CBS’s “Under the Dome” during Season 2, and for Season 3 he’s not only going to do it again, but he’s also going to appear in front of the camera for a change!

Per Deadline, La Salle has been cast as Hektor Martin, a lead role in Season 3, joining previously announced guest star Marg Helgenberger.  Martin is a ruthless CEO of the energy company run by Barbie’s (Mike Vogel)  father.  La Salle will also direct Episode 3.09.

Want more info about the upcoming season?  Then check out this just released teaser!

About “Under the Dome” Season 3:
“UNDER THE DOME” returns for its third season with a special two-hour premiere on its new night, Thursday, June 25 (9:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT). It moves to its regular time period on Thursday, July 2 (10:00-11:00 PM). Based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, “UNDER THE DOME” tells the story of a small town that is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome.

“UNDER THE DOME” stars Dean Norris, Mike Vogel, Rachelle Lefevre, Alex Koch, Colin Ford, Mackenzie Lintz, and Eddie Cahill. It is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Amblin Television. Steven Spielberg, Neal Baer, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Stacey Snider, Peter Leto, and Tim Schlattmann are executive producers.

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