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Dark Sky grabs THE LAST LOVECRAFT for North America
By Michael GingoldDark Sky Films announced today that it has picked up North American rights to THE LAST LOVECRAFT: RELIC OF CTHULHU, a comedic horror feature directed by Henry Saine from a script by...
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Koontz’s FRANKENSTEIN to hit the screen—again
By Michael GingoldVariety reports that Ralph Winter and Terry Botwick of 1019 Entertainment have picked up the screen rights to the series of FRANKENSTEIN novels written by prolific horror author Dean...
View ArticleCRAZIES scripter takes over VLAD for Brad
By Michael GingoldAccording to The Hollywood Reporter, genre specialist Scott Kosar will rewrite the screenplay for VLAD, a feature update of the Dracula legend for Summit Entertainment and Brad...
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THE SKY HAS FALLEN onto DVD
By Michael GingoldIndie filmmaker Doug Roos passed on the news that his horror feature THE SKY HAS FALLEN is now available on DVD. The movie, which he wrote, produced and directed, won Best Horror...
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Original EVIL DEAD to finally hit Blu-ray
By Michael GingoldFirst, a bit of a mea culpa: We discovered this news tidbit in an on-line article from Video Businessa little while back, and have spent the time since trying to dig up more details....
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More info, DVD release and art for MEADOWOODS
By Michael GingoldWe first reported here about a new independent horror feature called MEADOWOODS, which was being virally promoted via a couple of disturbing on-line videos. Now we have more info...
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Freddy, his new glove and more at Toy Fair 2010
By Bekah McKendryFango spent another exciting day at Toy Fair 2010 (see our first report here), checking out the licensed products and original terrors coming to frighten you this year. Read on past...
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THE DESCENT: PART 2 DVDetails
By Michael GingoldFango got ahold of the specs for the DVD of THE DESCENT: PART 2, coming from Lionsgate Home Entertainment April 27. The sequel to Neil Marshall’s subterranean scare film, directed by...
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Clive Barker’s Dark Bazaar at Toy Fair 2010
By David McKendryAt the current Toy Fair event in NYC, Fango dropped by the showroom of JAKKS Pacific, where we got an up-close-and-personal look at this Halloween’s sweetest costumes. From JAKKS...
View ArticleGet viral with THE CRAZIES’ Operation Scarlet Omega
By Michael GingoldDread Central has been reporting on all the viral activity going on surrounding the upcoming release of Overture Films and director Breck Eisner’s THE CRAZIES, and today had an...
View ArticleWerewolves are only HUMAN in SAUNA director’s latest
By Michael GingoldScreen Daily reports that Finnish director Antti-Jussi Annila will follow up his well-received chiller SAUNA with a werewolf movie called HUMAN. As the title suggests, this is a...
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Details on scary/sexy DEMONIC II/FOREST OF THE DAMNED II
By Michael GingoldMark Evans, co-writer and co-producer of the new DEMONIC II (a.k.a. FOREST OF THE DAMNED II), got in touch to talk up the sequel, for which an official website has opened. The movie...
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Writer/actress talks THE GHOST OF SLAUGHTERFORD
By Michael GingoldWe reported the other day on an upcoming supernatural feature called THE GHOST OF SLAUGHTERFORD, but the news break omitted one very important name: screenwriter Axelle Carolyn, who...
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Exclusive Interview: Hugo Weaving on THE WOLFMAN
By Lee GambinUniversal’s eagerly anticipated update of THE WOLFMAN was unleashed in cinemas everywhere this past Friday, and one of its stars, the MATRIX films’ Hugo Weaving, gave Fango some of his...
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DVDetails for THE COLLECTOR
By Michael GingoldFango got the scoop on the special features that have been collected for the DVD and Blu-ray releases of THE COLLECTOR, coming April 6 from Vivendi Entertainment. The directorial...
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SHUTTER ISLAND (Film Review)
By Michael GingoldThe first thing that should be said here about SHUTTER ISLAND is that it’s not the consistently scarifying horror film that some of the ads are making it out as—and nor is it trying...
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Cast and director set for Gothic thriller THE MONK
By Michael GingoldVariety reports that Vincent Cassel, fresh off Darren Aronofsky’s supernatural drama BLACK SWAN, has been cast in the title role of THE MONK for France’s Diaphana Films and Spain’s...
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Morse and Burke will DRIVE ANGRY
By Michael GingoldArrow in the Head got the first word that David Morse has joined the cast of Summit Entertainment’s 3-D action-chiller DRIVE ANGRY. This comes hard on the heels of a Moviehole...
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SOMEONE’S KNOCKING, GOD OF VAMPIRES, VINDICATION and more indie DVD date/art...
By Michael Gingold• Fango got the word from Breaking Glass Pictures that it has picked up Chad Ferrin’s new shocker SOMEONE’S KNOCKING AT THE DOOR for release under its Vicious Circle banner. The...
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First set report on Aussie horror NEEDLE
By Michael HelmsNo notable horror films have lurched out of Western Australia since ZOMBIE BRIGADE circa 1988. NEEDLE, shot just before Christmas 2009, is seeking to redress the situation, and goes...
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Filmmaker talks MACHETE MAIDENS and PATRICK remake
By Michael GingoldFango caught up with Australian director Mark Hartley, creator of the amazing documentary NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF OZPLOITATION!, while he was in NYC grabbing...
View ArticleSOMETHING scary and funny coming from Universal
By Michael GingoldVariety reports that Universal has made a mid-six-figure deal to buy up a horror/comedy pitch called THE SOMETHING from Rodney Rothman, who will script. The writer, whose credits...
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DRAG ME TO HELL leads horror nominees for 36th Annual Saturn Awards
By Michael GingoldThe Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films has announced the nominees for its 36th Annual Saturn Awards (though strangely enough, as of this posting, they haven’t...
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First photo from del Toro-produced JULIA’S EYES
By Michael GingoldAn early photo from JULIA’S EYES (LOS OJOS DE JULIA), the latest chiller to have Guillermo del Toro on board as a producer, has appeared on-line with news that the movie has started...
View Article28 WEEKS LATER director to helm INTRUDERS
By Michael GingoldFango got in a news tidbit about INTRUDERS, an upcoming film by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, the Spanish director who first won notice with the 2001 thriller INTACTO and then helmed...
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