The lovable madmen over at Funny or Die have just launched a video that’s near and dear to my horror-loving heart. Watch! Laugh! Repent!

Meanwhile, Toho’s Godzilla Resurgence, the 29th Japanese film featuring the King of the Monsters, is directed by Attack on Titan‘s Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, written by Hideaki Anno, and stars Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, and Satomi Ishihara.

Godzilla Resurgence takes place in modern-day Japan, which has suffered an attack by the Big G. The United States soon gets involved in the chaos to help the Land of the Rising Sun secure its existence.

Look for it July 29, 2016, in Japan. For more info keep it locked here and on the official Godzilla Resurgence website.

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The Buzz will be back in a big way once Scream Factory releases its special edition of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 onto Blu-ray. Don’t believe us? Check out the latest!

From the Scream Factory Facebook Page:
Hot on the heels of our recent updates for Wes Craven and John Carpenter films we bring you news on another legendary horror Director: Tobe Hooper. His wild, gory and truly off-the-wall sequel THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE 2 will be landing on a 2-Disc Blu-ray “Collector’s Edition” on April 19th. New extras are still in progress and will be announced in full at a later date.

With this official street date also comes the reveal of our newly-designed key art which was illustrated by the very talented Joel Robinson (Nightbreed, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Ginger Snaps). If you order directly through Shout Factory you’ll also receive this on a FREE limited-edition 18” x 24” poster with purchase and while supplies last.

Purists of all things retro take note: The original theatrical key art – the classic “Breakfast Club” poster art – will be on the reverse wrap of the packaging.

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With Nightcrawler Jake Gyllenhaal proved that he can do spooky and disturbing. Now he’s getting ready to do it on the small screen as Variety is reporting that the Oscar-nominated actor’s production company, Nine Stories Productions, is developing an anthology series from A+E Studios for A&E Network.

The limited series will explore major American cult personas, and the first season is planned to revolve around the Jim Jones story.

Gyllenhaal’s development project was announced by Elaine Frontain Bryant, exec vice president and head of programming for A&E, at the Television Critics Association press tour on Wednesday in Pasadena, California.

Gyllenhaal is attached as an exec producer, along with his Nine Stories producing partner, Riva Marker.

“Riva and I founded Nine Stories to push creative limits and have found a wonderful partner in A&E with this fascinating series,” Gyllenhaal said. “Jim Jones is a complex character — one who has found his way into the collective unconscious. We want to focus on the undeniable magnetism of zealots and the danger of that kind of charisma. A notion not only pertinent to cult leaders but to the geo-political climate of today.”

The Jim Jones story — which would set the stage for the inaugural season, should the project get greenlit — would focus on his cult, The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ, and chronicle Jones’ path from social leader to deranged spiritual dictator to a group of followers who eventually were involved in the biggest single loss of American life in a deliberate act until the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001. The Jones-led California-based congregation made headlines, shocking the world, when the group moved to Guyana, where they created the eponymous infamous Jonestown commune, which in 1978 was the site of the mass murder and suicide via apparent cyanide poisoning, organized by Jones. The event left more than 900 people dead, including over 300 children, U.S. congressman Leo Ryan, and many journalists.

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Just in time for the 2016 New York City Toy Fair, NECA (aka one of the biggest badasses in all things plastic) is showing off some of its upcoming collectibles for 2016, which include new figures from Alien, Predator, “Ash vs. Evil Dead,” and most exciting… Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2!

Coming this spring is Ash from the “Ash vs. Evil Dead” line.

Also coming is the latest entry in NECA’s “Cinemachines” line: the Nostromo from Ridley Scott’s Alien.

Fan of the video game Predator: Concrete Jungle? Then you’ll be happy to know a Scarface Predator action figure is on its way.

Finally we have some wondrous Leatherface concept art from Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2. No plastic to show off yet, but given that to many this is one of the best looks for the character, we cannot wait!

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When fan favorite Crystal Reed left “Teen Wolf,” several of the show’s viewers were brokenhearted so news of her return is being met with enthusiasm even though it’s just for one episode and she won’t be portraying Allison Argent, a character who died back in Season 3.

The actress herself announced her guest appearance on Twitter, and Buzzfeed filled in a few blanks:

Very excited to tell you that I’ll be returning to @MTVteenwolf for an episode! Meet ‘Marie-Jeanne’!!! pic.twitter.com/JTTssd6EHw

— Crystal Reed (@CrystalmReed) January 7, 2016

Reed will portray the progenitor of the Argent family line, Marie-Jeanne Valet, in a flashback-heavy episode written by executive producer Jeff Davis, who, it turns out, was able to convinced her to return fairly easily.

“Basically, Jeff just said, ‘France in the 1700s,’ and I was in,” Reed said of their conversation. “He was definitely playing into my emotions. He knows that I have been dying to do a period piece and I love getting my head around different accents and different cultures. He didn’t even have much of a character worked out other than it was based on the Maid of Gévaudan. And I knew the legend, so before really knowing anything further, I said yes.”

Davis created a storyline that not only allowed Reed to return to “Teen Wolf” but also informed the present-day plot: Scott (Tyler Posey), Stiles (Dylan O’Brien), Lydia (Holland Roden), Malia (Shelley Hennig), and Liam (Dylan Sprayberry) are trying to figure out how to defeat the Beast of Gévaudan, a supernatural creature that’s been resurrected in Beacon Hills that the Maid of Gévaudan, Marie-Jeanne Valet, faced in 1765.

“She was a peasant girl who had fashioned a bayonet onto a spear and was supposedly one of the first to survive an attack by the beast,” Davis explained. Allison’s grandfather, Gerard Argent (Michael Hogan), recounts Valet’s story to Scott’s pack in hopes they can deduce the creature’s weaknesses.

“Valet is another female warrior, and I think one of the great things Crystal does is she gives our viewers, especially our young female viewers, someone to look up to,” Davis said. Plus, he noted, “we also get to see her wielding a crossbow again!”

There’s also a bit of chatter about possibly spinning off the character and bringing the Argent family’s long lineage back to television so be sure to hit the above link for more!

“Teen Wolf” Episode 5.12 – “Damnatio Memoriae” (airs 1/12/16, 9pm)
Even without the support of his pack, Scott (Tyler Posey) considers what the Dread Doctors’ success means for Beacon Hills.

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

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Although you can snag most of the Puppet Master movies on DVD for next to nothing, the folks at Full Moon are enticing hardcore fans to pick up the series on Blu-ray. The company recently kicked off the pre-sale for the high-definition version of Puppet Master 5, which begins shipping on February 1. The flick is also remastered in 5.1 surround sound, which will definitely appeal to those with a kick-ass sound setup. Those pint-sized killers have never looked or sounded so ridicuously deadly.

Synopsis:
Toulon’s secret continues…The fifth exciting entry in the Puppet Master franchise.

In the darkened Bodega Bay Inn, the greedy Dr Jennings has come to pilfer Blade, Six Shooter, Jester, Pin-Head, Torch, Tunneler, and Decapitron to discover the source of their animation. Hoping to get rich quick, he plans to sell their secrets as implements of war.

Sutec, the dark pharaoh from another dimension, has sent his own puppet, Totem, to continue his quest to kill Puppet Master Rick and steal the magic which animates the puppets. Caught between the two foes, the half-pint heroes must revive Decapitron and preserve the magic formula which gives them life with the life of the Puppet Master hanging on a string!

The Blu-ray edition of Puppet Master 5 should keep you busy until Full Moon releases Puppet Master: Axis Termination. If you’re seriously considering picking up the fifth installment of the series in glorious high definition, stroll to the official Full Moon website and give them all of your money.

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“Lucifer” is set to debut on Fox in just a few more weeks so that means the promo machine is in full effect.  Up now we have a new promo that gives us a closer look at Lucifer Morningstar, played by Tom Ellis, plus a gallery of stills from Episode 1.01, which served as the show’s pilot.

“Lucifer” Episode 1.01 – “Pilot” (airs 1/25/16, 9-10pm)
MEET LOS ANGELES’ NEWEST HELLRAISER – Upon leaving hell, Lucifer Morningstar retreats to Los Angeles for a more exciting life. When the murder of a friend connects him with LAPD detective Chloe Decker (Lauren German), Lucifer becomes intrigued with the idea of punishing criminals, sending the devil himself into a struggle between good and evil.

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

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Writer/director Luke Sparke’s Australian creature feature Red Billabong looks fantastic, but it appears we’re still several months away from a release date. According to Cinema Australia, the promotional campaign should begin rolling out very soon. In the meantime, Sparke has given the world a few intriguing stills to gnaw on until the flick is finally available for mass consumption.

So what’s the holdup? Sparke told the website that he and his team are busy bringing the creature to life through the use of CGI. Instead of rushing through the process, they’re taking their time.

“I can’t recall another Aussie film integrating a fully CGI character into a film like this. We need to be sure it’s working – and it is. We’re plugging away at the visual effects. These things take time, but doing something never done before in Australian cinema takes even longer,” he explained.

If you’ve never heard of Red Billabong, then you’ll need this synopsis:

In the Australian Outback, two brothers discover old secrets and family lies. As their friends start to go missing, they fear they are being stalked by someone or something from their worst nightmares. But is it just… A story? A legend? A hoax? Or is it real?

Check out the latest stills and the trailer for Red Billabong below.

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Starring Fiona O’Shaughnessy, Abigail Hardingham, Cian Barry

Directed by Ben Blaine, Chris Blaine

If you were to read a brief synopsis of Nina Forever before fully experiencing Chris and Ben Blaine’s macabre, witty debut, you’d be forgiven for confusing it with one or two other films that have broached the “awkward undead” sub-genre recently. Whilst Joe Dante’s Burying the Ex and Jeff Baena’s Life After Beth took a slightly different approach to the setup – gunning for wholesome comedy rather than deep, evocative drama – one particular horror trope is consistent throughout all three projects: In the wonderful world of horror, loved ones returning from beyond the grave very rarely means jolly times are a-comin’.

If I was going to be haunted by somebody at the most inopportune moments, I’d probably choose my best mate to do it, but even that scenario hasn’t worked out too well if you look back at historical horror characters. I mean, as cool as Griffin Dunne’s decomposing Jack was in An American Werewolf in London, it proved a bit of a downer for poor ol’ David Naughton, having him pop up to deliver his dire predictions of doom – it’s enough to annihilate any lycanthrope’s libido. So, if your bosom buddy can’t make such a paranormal experience less uncomfortable, what chance your mangled ex-missus?!

Nineteen-year-old Holly (Hardingham) works in a supermarket while studying to be a paramedic and falls for shelf-stacker Rob (Barry), survivor of a failed suicide attempt following the death of his girlfriend. After a few successful dates, their first go in the sack is cut short when Rob’s dead ex, Nina (O’Shaughnessy), emerges from the bedsheets – limbs gnarled and broken, tongue razor-sharp – leaving physical and mental stains on everything and everyone she touches. In time Nina becomes a greater presence in Holly’s psyche than in Rob’s, obsessing over how she falls short of the phantom (desperate to leave “vanilla” behind) rather than concentrating on what she has to offer.

As Rob and Holly attempt to struggle on and accommodate the most fucked up of love triangles, Nina Forever excels by reveling in its own ludicrousness and provides some blacker-than-black amusing moments without ever becoming silly – a pitfall that’s tough to avoid when you consider its premise. Instead, we’re presented with a beautiful, bleeding tale of grief, love, infatuation and the inability to let go of the past. Metaphors of tentative feet traversing manic motorways and shattered glass will live long in the memory.

Nina Forever is made all the more impressive by our three main leads: O’Shaughnessy as the hilariously disturbing titular character, her bloody mattress birth like something from a Clive Barker novel, Cian Barry tragic as pain-stricken Rob, and showstopper Hardingham – whose innocence will drag you in, only for her sex appeal to blow you away. That being said, the scenes involving Nina’s parents (David Troughton and Elizabeth Elvin) remain my personal high points; having remained friends with Rob, the pair spend their time dishing out Sunday roasts and writing jarring erotic fiction to fill a loveless, aching void. Troughton’s emotional collapse in a restaurant is on par with any of the best scenes I’ve witnessed in years.

The Blu-ray/DVD special features are listed below; however, they were unavailable for review.

Startlingly distinctive despite the obvious comparisons, perfectly ambiguous, unsettling, funny, poignant and downright sexy, Nina Forever is brilliant; and The Blaine brothers deserve all the praise aimed their way for making such a ridiculous concept so profound and effective.

Special Features

• A Look Behind Nina Forever
• Things That Are Not There
• Things That Were Not There

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Starring Natalie Dormer, Taylor Kinney, Eoin Macken, Yukiyoshi Ozawa

Directed by Jason Zada

There’s a famous forest in Japan called the Aokigahara, or “sea of trees,” and it’s the (final) destination hotspot for suicides in Japan (and second-most popular place to pop off in the entire world; San Fran’s Golden Gate Bridge is numero uno). After the novel Kuroi Jukai was published in 1960, in which suicide in the forest is romanticized, glum guys and gals started taking their own lives there at a rate of 50 to 100 annually. Authorities sweep for bodies only on an annual basis, as the forest sits at the base of Mt. Fuji and is too dense to patrol very frequently. Ghosts known as ubasute are said to haunt the terrifying timberland. Bodies are stored in a makeshift morgue in the basement of a ranger station until they are claimed.

It’s at one of these stations that an American woman, Sara (Natalie Dormer), goes in search of her missing identical twin sister, Jess (also Dormer), and encounters a sinister spirit that pursues her throughout her journey. First Sara goes to the school where Jess taught and learns of the legend from some spooked students (a nice nod to J-horror here, with the look and feel of a Whispering Corridors movie).

Once the forest is fixed as the last known place Jess visited, Sara decides to investigate. She is convinced Jess is not dead. “I’d just know it,” she says. Not only are they twins, but in their youth they shared the tragedy of the brutal death of their parents. Somehow, she believes, all this bad luck is interconnected.

While drowning her sorrows in sake at a local bar, Sara meets a handsome and charming expat columnist named Aiden (Taylor Kinney). Aiden wants to not only help Sara, but to share the story of her search for her sister in his travelogue. She agrees, though reluctantly. The next morning the pair go into the deep, dark, dense forest where dozens of old, gray, cane-assisted boo-scares await.

It’s always a slippery slope for filmmakers to compare their movies to suspense and horror classics like Rosemary’s Baby or The Shining, but they do it all the time, and all the time they come up short. The producers of The Forest said they were going for an old-fashioned look and feel, which makes the movie seem even more lightweight than it already is. The premise is creepy, but the execution is marred by fake-out frights and cheesy CGI ghosts. Not to mention the fact it’s PG-13 and is clearly going for the teen box office buck – not because of its rating (The Others was PG-13 also, and it’s one of my fave ghost movies) but because there’s a slick veneer to it that’s nothing like the Polanskis and Kubricks the filmmakers claim to be paying homage to.

Luckily, The Forest has some saving graces in its cast and authentic Japanese location. Dormer is watchable as ever, but I was especially impressed by Kinney. He’s like a cross between Jack Nicholson and Leonardo DiCaprio, and one can see that with meatier material he could be a superstar. While the movie crew was not allowed to shoot in the actual Aokigahara forest, they found something close. Regardless, the flora and fauna of the Orient is so much different than North America that a cheat would have been obvious. Also, the sets built really have a feel of authenticity (I have been to Japan several times myself, so I know how things should look). What’s more, the score and sound design are crisp and chilling.

The Forest is a well-made movie with a few things going for it. But not quite enough going for me to suggest you check it out in theaters. Unless you’re a huge fan of Dormer or Kinney and need to see their every pore on the big screen, it’s best to wait for home viewing on this one.

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Starring Paula Brasca, Luis Ziembrowski, Marilu Marini

Directed by Valentín Javier Diment

Whilst last year’s It Follows served up some chillingly potent propaganda advocating sexual sobriety, Argentina’s latest genre offering, The Rotten Link, divulges in all manner of sexual debaucheries to further reinforce the notion that it’s probably wise to keep one’s pecker in one’s pants.

Writer/director Valentín Javier Diment goes brashly against the grain, tapping into the pneuma of an isolated township to take his audience on an unflinching journey into the abyss of cultural taboos. And what better place to portray this than in the seemingly peaceful backdrop of El Escondido – a disturbingly dysfunctional community, bereft of legal constraints?

Despite a lewd sounding premise, Diment never falls back on smutty schemings. That’s clearly not his modus operandi: He’s much more interested in setting a controlled pace to give his characters all the room in the world to breathe and flourish. This deliberate pacing might find some less patient viewers feeling fidgety, but it’s the unhealthy relationships and erotically-charged emotions Diment toys with that maketh this movie. Having said that, even if slow-burners don’t tend to light your cinematic candle, you should still give this a try, safe in the knowledge that, despite the sardonically bleak portrait it paints, The Rotten Link packs in a torrent of inspired pitch-black comedy moments that really pep things up. Likewise, a folksy guitar score performed by actual characters featuring in the film is an inspired touch, adding some welcome mirth and vitality to the proceedings.

The film’s biggest redeeming quality is by far its stainless cast, particularly the central, idiosyncratic family: the waning tyrannical mother, Ercilia (Marini), stricken with memory lapses, who watches over her two children, Roberta (Brasca), the prostitute everyone lusts for, and her brother, the mentally impaired woodcutter Raulo (Ziembrowski). The siblings are such a convincing pairing that a certain incestuous moment borders on the unbearable once we get there.

In terms of the narrative, it’s hard not to trespass in spoiler territory, but in short, Ercilia gets a gut feeling she won’t be around to fend for her kids much longer and warns Roberta not to sleep with every last male in the community so as not to lose her “purity.” It won’t take a genius to imagine what that leads up to, particularly when one certain pushy customer, Sicilio, refuses to take no for an answer, but by far does it end there, and as mentioned, the film tackles the taboo to outstrip all taboos: incest. The audience endures this particularly uncomfortable moment of intimacy before things take yet another unexpected turn and the brother’s bottled-up torment is uncorked as Diment ditches his calmer cadence in favor of a frantically-paced kamikaze killing spree.

Exactly what dark place Diment and his co-writers were coming from when they wrote this script still silently flummoxes me, but The Rotten Link does a superb job of emphasizing how life’s turmoil, not mental disabilities or madness, can lead even the most decent of people far astray from the moral path when pushed a bridge too far.

It’s disturbing, it’s lewd, it’s even absurdly funny, and it depicts society at its most toxic; and for most of those reasons it likely won’t resonate with many. That would be a real shame, though, as Diment’s respectful approach to such dark and deplorable subject matter, coupled with the fact the film revels in its own rashness and absolute unconventionality, is what makes it all the more appealing. For all its bleakness and malevolence, The Rotten Link is anything but rotten. It is, in fact, an absolute treat.

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Don’t let the pretty awful artwork for Peter Hyett’s new werewolf flick Howl fool you… the flick is a winner. Look for it online and in stores on January 12th, and read on for your chance to score a copy on Blu-ray on us!

To enter for your chance to win, just send an email to contests@dreadcentral.com including your FULL NAME AND MAILING ADDRESS with “Howl” in your subject line. We’ll take care of the rest.

This contest will end at 12:01 AM PT on January 12, 2016.

Ed Speelers, Sean Pertwee, and Holly Weston star.

Synopsis:
On a stormy night, passengers on the last train out of London begin to panic after coming to a sudden halt. They soon realize there’s something dangerous lurking in the forest, and it’s stalking the besieged train, picking them off one-by-one.

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It definitely got a mixed reaction from horror fans, but “Fear the Walking Dead” was another ratings juggernaut for AMC so of course it received a Season 2 green light.  Now we know when that second season will arrive; read on for the details straight from the network’s presentation today during the Television Critics Association (TCA) Press Tour.

From the Press Release:
“Fear the Walking Dead” will air its second season of 15 episodes in two parts, beginning with the first of seven episodes on Sunday, April 10th, at 9:00 p.m. ET/PT. The remaining eight episodes will air later in 2016. The series, which delivered the highest-rated first season of any series in cable history among total viewers and all key demos in live+3 ratings, is executive produced by showrunner Dave Erickson, Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd, Greg Nicotero, and David Alpert and stars Kim Dickens as Madison, Cliff Curtis as Travis, Frank Dillane as Nick, Alycia Debnam-Carey as Alicia, Ruben Blades as Daniel, Mercedes Mason as Ofelia, Lorenzo James Henrie as Chris, and Colman Domingo as Strand.

The series began production on Season 2 last month in the Baja peninsula in Mexico at Baja Studios, home to some of the greatest ocean-set films in recent years. Season 1 left off with Madison, Travis, and their extended family taking temporary shelter in Strand’s gated estate overlooking the Pacific Ocean. As civil unrest continues to grow and the dead take over Los Angeles, Strand prepares to escape to “Abigail,” his large yacht moored offshore.

Immediately following “Fear the Walking Dead” on Sundays at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT will be “Talking Dead,” hosted by Chris Hardwick, which will continue its tradition of welcoming cast, producers, and celebrity guests to the couch to talk about the newest episode of “Fear.”

Beginning Tuesday, January 26th, the complete first season of “Fear the Walking Dead” will be available to stream exclusively on Hulu. Hulu subscribers can catch up on all episodes of the series through Hulu’s No Commercials and Limited Commercials plans ahead of the second season premiere on AMC. The series comes to Hulu in an exclusive, multi-year licensing agreement with AMC Networks Inc.

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A new promo video for the getting closer every day premiere of Season 10 of “The X-Files” has arrived, and this one features fan favorite Mitch Pileggi.  He won’t tell you anything… but he will show you a little something from the “Files.”

In addition, we have the official synopses of the first two episodes, “My Struggle” and “Founder’s Mutation,” respectively.

“The X-Files” returns to Fox with a special two-night event beginning Sunday, January 24, 2016 (10:00-11:00 PM ET/7:00-8:00 PM PT), following the NFC Championship Game, and continuing with its time period premiere on Monday, January 25 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT).

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their iconic roles as Agent Fox Mulder and Agent Dana Scully in a mixture of stand-alone investigative episodes and those that further the original show’s seminal mythology.

“The X-Files” Episode 10.01 – “My Struggle” (airs 1/24/16; 10-11PM ET/7-8PM PT)
THE X-FILES HAVE BEEN RE-OPENED ON PART ONE OF THE TWO-NIGHT SEASON PREMIERE – Thirteen years after the original series run, the next mind-bending chapter of the thrilling series “THE X-FILES” is here.  FOX MULDER (David Duchovny) and DANA SCULLY (Gillian Anderson) have been approached by TAD O’MALLEY (guest star Joel McHale), a popular conspiracy theorist web-TV show host, who believes he has uncovered a significant government conspiracy. With the assistance of FBI Asst. Dir. WALTER SKINNER (Mitch Pileggi), O’Malley seeks to enlist the help of former X-Files agents Mulder and Scully, who have since severed ties with the FBI. Through O’Malley, they are introduced to SVETA (guest star Annett Mahendru), a possible alien abductee who shares shocking information with them that will challenge everything that Mulder has ever believed about the existence of aliens and the government’s role in covering them up.

“The X-Files” Episode 10.02 – “Founder’s Mutation” (airs 1/25/16; 8-9PM ET/PT)
MULDER AND SCULLY INVESTIGATE A DOCTOR WITH UNSCRUPULOUS PRACTICES ON PART TWO OF THE TWO-NIGHT SEASON PREMIERE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JAMES WONG – When a scientist suddenly commits suicide, Mulder and Scully investigate what unseen force may have driven him to it. What they uncover is a laboratory where extreme genetic experimentation has been going on for decades, breeding subjects who possess unexpected and dangerous powers – and who harbor deep resentments.

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Joe Hill’s The Fireman isn’t being released until mid-May of this year, but Fox has already nabbed the film rights to the novel and attached Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk, Clash of the Titans) to direct. Per Deadline, Temple Hill partners Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bowen will produce the adaptation.

We’ll be keeping our eyes open for updates; in the meantime here’s the synopsis of The Fireman, a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as The Fireman, from Amazon:

The Fireman is coming. Stay cool.

No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading like wildfire across the country, striking cities one by one: Boston, Detroit, Seattle. The doctors call it Draco Incendia Trychophyton. To everyone else it’s Dragonscale, a highly contagious, deadly spore that marks its hosts with beautiful black and gold marks across their bodies—before causing them to burst into flames. Millions are infected; blazes erupt everywhere. There is no antidote. No one is safe.

Harper Grayson, a compassionate, dedicated nurse as pragmatic as Mary Poppins, treated hundreds of infected patients before her hospital burned to the ground. Now she’s discovered the telltale gold-flecked marks on her skin. When the outbreak first began, she and her husband, Jakob, had made a pact: They would take matters into their own hands if they became infected. To Jakob’s dismay, Harper wants to live—at least until the fetus she is carrying comes to term. At the hospital she witnessed infected mothers give birth to healthy babies and believes hers will be fine too… if she can live long enough to deliver the child.

Convinced that his do-gooding wife has made him sick, Jakob becomes unhinged and eventually abandons her as their placid New England community collapses in terror. The chaos gives rise to ruthless Cremation Squads—armed, self-appointed posses roaming the streets and woods to exterminate those who they believe carry the spore. But Harper isn’t as alone as she fears: A mysterious and compelling stranger she briefly met at the hospital, a man in a dirty yellow fire fighter’s jacket, carrying a hooked iron bar, straddles the abyss between insanity and death. Known as The Fireman, he strolls the ruins of New Hampshire, a madman afflicted with Dragonscale who has learned to control the fire within himself, using it as a shield to protect the hunted… and as a weapon to avenge the wronged.

In the desperate season to come, as the world burns out of control, Harper must learn the Fireman’s secrets before her life—and that of her unborn child—goes up in smoke.

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IFC Midnight has released the second official still from Travis Zariwny’s reboot of Eli Roth’s 2002 film Cabin Fever onto the Interwebs, and we have a look for ya right here.

Gage Golightly, Matthew Daddario, Samuel Davis, Nadine Crocker, and Dustin Ingram star. The pillar of truth and virtue known as IMDb has the film slated for limited theatrical, VOD, and Digital HD release on February 12, 2016. This is unconfirmed.

Dig on the image below courtesy of Bloody Disgusting.

Zariwny directed from a script by Roth and Randy Pearlstein, based on a story by Roth. The film was produced by Evan Astrowsky, Christopher Lemole, and Tim Zajaros and executive produced by Roth, Cassian Elwes, Jerry Fruchtman, Peter Fruchtman, and Ike and Jaclyn Suri.

Cabin Fever follows a group of five college graduates who rent a cabin in the woods where all hell breaks loose as the group falls victim to a flesh-eating virus that attracts the unwanted attention of the homicidal locals.

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Bernard Rose’s Frankenstein (review) is hitting DVD and Blu-ray on February 23rd, and right now we have some up close images of the monster. Dig ’em!

For our friends across the pond, Signature Entertainment will release the flick on digital platforms in the UK on February 15th and on Blu-ray and DVD February 22nd.

Rose directed from his original script based on the Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Xavier Samuel stars as the Monster, with Carrie-Ann Moss as Elizabeth Frankenstein, Danny Huston as Victor Frankenstein, and Tony Todd as Eddie, reuniting with his Candyman director Rose.

Synopsis:
Frankenstein is set in present day Los Angeles and told entirely from the perspective of the Monster. After he is artificially created, then left for dead by a husband-and-wife team of eccentric scientists, Adam is confronted with nothing but aggression and violence from the world around him. This perfect creation-turned-disfigured monster must come to grips with the horrific nature of humanity.

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If you’ve been following our TV news over the past few days, you know the 2016 Television Critics Association press tour is under way in Pasadena, California; and on Friday the creators of AMC’s “Preacher” participated in a panel.  Of most interest to us was how much they might deviate from the much-beloved source material…

Per Variety, the development team of Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and Sam Catlin said their main priority is to strike a perfect balance between keeping the comic book fans excited while also creating great TV for viewers who have never heard of “Preacher.”

“We’re fans of the comic. We love the comic. And we’re going to make a show that we like, so we hope that translates to people that love the comics, as well,” Rogen said. “But first and foremost, our goal is to make a great television show.”

Rogen’s co-director Goldberg concurred: “We want fans who love the comic to get everything they want, but also get some new twists and turns.”

He also addressed any concerns that Garth Ennis, who originally conceived the comic for Vertigo, might have about differences in the adaptation: “Garth very much encouraged us to make a lot of small changes.”

Rogen added, “I don’t know if you could translate the comics directly to television — everyone involved thought we should not do that directly, including Garth — but we love the comic. There’s tons of stuff from the comic that we hope to include.”

What might some of those “tons” include? Caitlin promised, “For people who know the comics, there are all sorts of Easter eggs… that don’t obviously confuse people that are just coming to the show for the first time.”

As we told you previously, AMC’s “Preacher” will premiere at the 2016 SXSW in advance of its mid-2016 broadcast debut.  The show stars Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga, Joseph Gilgun, Ian Colletti, W. Earl Brown, and Lucy Griffith.

“Preacher” is a supernatural, twisted, and darkly comedic drama that follows a West Texas preacher named Jesse Custer, who – along with his ex-girlfriend Tulip and an Irish vagabond named Cassidy – is thrust into a crazy world, much bigger than he is.

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It’s obvious that the folks at Toho Cinemas are more than a little excited about Godzilla’s return to the big screen. In fact, the studio wrangled two characters from an upcoming family-friendly CGI flick to help spread the good word. In the latest promo for Toho Cinemas, the adorable duo Rudolph and Ippaiattena have an extremely close encounter with the giant reptile.

For those who are curious, Toho announced last year that an adaptation of author Hiroshi Saitō’s beloved children’s book Rudolph to Ippaiattena would hit the big screen during the summer of 2016. In an odd bit of cross promotion, the studio decided to have the furry critters cross paths with the iconic monster. At present, Godzilla: Resurgence will debut in Japan on July 29, 2016.

Check out the Toho Cinemas promo featuring Rudolph, Ippaiattena, and Godzilla below. There’s a teaser for Rudolph to Ippaiattena down below as well. Warning: It’s kind of adorable.

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In years past we’ve mentioned the “Kick Up Your Heels” online auction in which popular female celebrities sign and sell a pair of their shoes to support charity, and the 2016 event is now in full swing.  The number of horror actresses who are involved this year is a little lighter than usual, but a few of our favorites have donated to the cause, and we have the details for you right here.

This year’s auction proceeds benefit “Arts in Education” for the Bradford Creative and Performing Arts Center (BCPAC), a 501(c)(3) theater that supports the education of students through the Missoula Summer Theatre Camp and various master classes with area schools. All proceeds will benefit area children ages 6-18 and open up new opportunities to develop their skills and appreciation of the arts. A portion of the money raised will also be donated to Chiari research.

Among those joining the cause are Gillian Anderson, Brooke Lewis (pictured below), Adrienne Barbeau, and Kari Whurer.

You can check out Gillian’s and Brooke’s auctions by clicking their names above (act quickly because they just have a few days left), and be sure to visit “Kick Up Your Heels” on eBay and Facebook to see the full list of participants and stay up-to-date on what’s available.

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