Cam Gigandet's Update on Priest [-->full article]
Jun 12, 2009
Straight from the set of his new horror/thriller, The Roommate , one-time Twilight vampire Cam Gigandet gave Shock an update about his upcoming turn in the opposite direction: as a vampire-hunting sheriff in an adaptation of the Korean comic book series Priest by Hyung Min-Woo. "[Shooting is] coming up in August," says Gigandet, "It's a big movie. Paul Bettany and I are fighting vampires. Or creatures. vampire-creatures to be exact... If you wanted to call them something, they'd be v...

The First TV Spot from Orphan ! [-->full article]
Jun 12, 2009
Warner Bros. and Dark Castle has begun its television campaign for Orphan , the evil tyke thriller from director Jaume Collet-Serra ( interview ) who last brought us House of Wax . Peter Sarsgaard and Vera Farmiga are the parents who adopt a lil' ball of evil wrapped in an unassuming, cute package (Isabelle Fuhrman) and pay the price. Click on the player below for a TV spot and here for the trailer, poster and photos.

First Look at the Survivors of Zombieland ! [-->full article]
Jun 12, 2009
Columbia Pictures dropped a quartet of stills from Zombieland into the laps of the fellas at AICN. It's your first look at stars Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin in the zom-com directed by Ruben Fleischer. How do they look? Well, like a zombie film. The undead look good and the gang have a nice assortment of weapons to deliver some ass-kickery. We'll have to see a trailer to get any real kind of vibe of what's to come on October 9th. For more stills click...

Screen Gems Hooks Up With a Beautiful Girl [-->full article]
Jun 12, 2009
Michael Cunningham ( The Hours ), reportedly a genre fan, has sold a spec script entitled Beautiful Girl to Screen Gems, Clint Culpepper's ever-growing house of horror at Sony. According to THR, the story concerns a brainy high school girl who cleans up good in the looks department by the time she hits her senior year. She strikes up a relationship with her English lit teacher, he develops a crush and exacts "maniacal revenge on everyone who was cruel to her." Hmm, teacher goes psycho-bonzo...

Jump Into This Trailer for The Canyon [-->full article]
Jun 12, 2009
Recently, we introduced you to a new film called The Canyon starring Yvonne Strahovski, Will Patton and Eion Bailey. You can check out a still from Richard Harrah's film here , or better yet, check out the trailer that Twitch premiered. Look for the film's premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival; Magnolia takes it to theaters on October 23rd.

Tony Scott on The Hunger Sequel [-->full article]
Jun 11, 2009
ComingSoon.net talked to The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 director Tony Scott about his upcoming projects, one of which is a sequel to his 1983 vampire horror movie, The Hunger , which starred Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon. Scott remained mum about whether or not any of the original cast would make it into the sequel--many of them are vampires after all--and how they'd accomplish that, but he did give a few tidbits: "I'm not going to tell you how we're doing it, but I'm cont...

Check Out This Trailer for Shutter Island [-->full article]
Jun 11, 2009
Didn't see that coming. I debated covering Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island for months. Then I saw the trailer that made its debut yesterday. Consider me very interested now. You can watch it in HD right here or using the player below. This is clearly Scorsese back in Cape Fear mode, taking on a thriller with a hyper-stylized eye. The film is the story of two U.S. marshals, Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule, who are summoned to a remote and barren island off the cost of Massachusetts to inve...

A Pint-Sized Look at Homeless Michael Myers [-->full article]
Jun 11, 2009
This morning, Rob Zombie posted this look at what he's calling "homeless Michael Myers" in action figure form. As we reported earlier, Mezco acquired collectible rights to the upcoming Halloween 2 , which hits theaters on August 28th. The figure gives you an idea of what ol' Mikey (once again played by Tyler Mane) has been wearing in the two years since we last saw him get plugged by Laurie Strode in Halloween .

Lost Footage from Halloween Update [-->full article]
Jun 11, 2009
Hey, remember when word Synapse Films' Don May Jr. announced an estimated 45,000 feet of negative outtakes from John Carpenter's Halloween was discovered about three years back? Yeah, we wondered what happened with all of that, too. It appears that in the last three years May and purchaser Billy J. Kirkus have hit a roadblock. There's far too much footage for them to transfer and any attempts to drum up interest from Malek Akkad and Anchor Bay, according to May, has been fruitless. May sti...

Soisson Interested in Trick or Treat Remake [-->full article]
Jun 11, 2009
Joel Soisson, who was a producer on the 1986 horror pic Trick or Treat (not to be confused with Michael Dougherty's Trick 'r Treat ), tells Moviehole he would be interested in doing a remake. "I am actually kind of interested in a remake," Soisson said. "Problem is, like Bill and Ted which we made around the same time for DeLaurentiis Entertainment group, the rights have been sold and resold from that now defunct company to the point it would take the FBI to puzzle it out. But your re...

Dark Hero Teams with Pandemonium for Deadworld [-->full article]
Jun 11, 2009
Dark Hero Studios partners David Hayter and Benedict Carver have joined with Pandemonium's Bill Mechanic to turn the comic book "Deadworld" into a zombie feature franchise, says Variety . Hayter ( Watchmen ) will write the screenplay, and he and Mechanic will produce with Framelight's Robert L. Robinson Jr. and Jeffrey D. Erb. Carver and Pandemonium's Suzanne Warren will be executive producers along with Gary Reed, who wrote and co-created the comic. "Deadworld" veers from the popular zombie ...

Megan Fox Talks Jonah Hex [-->full article]
Jun 11, 2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen star Megan Fox talked to MTV about her upcoming role in the Warner Bros. comic book adaptation, Jonah Hex . "That movie is gonna be amazing," she said. "Its a post-civil war, apocalyptic type Western. The director Jimmy [Hayward] is a lunatic, and he might be a genius. From some of the things I’ve seen him shoot, it's a badass movie." But who is she playing? "They've changed her name a couple of times — it's Leila now," Fox added. "She is a prost...

Update: Want to See That Lost Nightbreed Footage? [-->full article]
Jun 10, 2009
Update: Huge update, in fact. Phil and Sarah report they have, in their possession, a workprint on VHS! 145-minute cut. What's on it? Read on. As Phil and Sarah, operators of the Clive Barker Revelations site, are right to point out, Barker, for decades, has had a memorized answer to the question he's asked time and time again: "Will we see a director's cut of Nightbreed ?" The answer, in short, was usually "the excised footage is lost." It turns out, not really. Barker pal Mark ...

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter Alternate Ending! [-->full article]
Jun 10, 2009
On top of this sneak peek , we've got an added treat for you. Paramount Home Entertainment has forwarded to us a sampling of the alternate ending from Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter that is included on the Deluxe Edition DVD (hitting June 16th). Kudos to disc producer Daniel Farrands for digging into the vaults! The clip below is just a sample. When you pick up the disc you'll get actress Kimberly Beck's commentary and the full ending which includes the discovery of Mrs. Jarvis in the...

EXCL: Wrong Turn 3 & Hills Star Janet Montgomery [-->full article]
Jun 10, 2009
By the end of this year, horror fans will have seen newcomer Janet Montgomery fend off maniacal cinephiles and backwoods mutants in the Warner Premiere release The Hills Run Red and Fox Home Entertainment's Wrong Turn 3: Left for Dead , respectively. Quite a feat for an actress trained in dance and who was thrown into the genre fray in rapid time. ShockTillYouDrop.com spoke with the British actress briefly about both experiences when she dropped in on Los Angeles. ShockTillYouDrop.com: ...