I guess directing Dan Brown’s Angels and Demons’s did something to the redhead. Now, Variety is reporting that Ron Howard is eying the directing duties for the as-yet unreleased H.P. Lovecraft comic The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft. Universal and Howard’s Imagine Entertainment have reportedly picked up the film rights to the [...]

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Director Sam Raimi has been churning out great horror flicks since 1981’s Evil Dead (Did you know Raimi is buds with Ethan and Joel Coen, as well as Bruce Campbell?). After his success with Spider Man, Raimi is returning to his horror roots with the flick, Drag Me to Hell. Here’s the trailer:

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The Dark Knight movie continues it’s great run. The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films has announced the nominations for their 35th Annual Saturn Awards and the Dark Knight was the front runner with 11 nominations.
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button had nine total nods, Iron Man had eight, [...]

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With so much media out there, you come across things in odd ways these days. I actually came across these Fear.net webisodes (they continue the wonderfully spooky 30 Days of Night’s franchise), from Hulu.com while I was looking for Pink Panther cartoons for my kid. I’ll post the first episode below. [...]

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It’s hard to keep up with all the horror media these days, so sometimes it takes a good film being sent my way by a friend. Spokane Steve sent me this DVD, which sat on the shelf through Thanksgiving, Christmas, a slew of new blu-ray movies until New Year’s Day, where I was so [...]

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I’ve been writing too much to post anything recently, but in honor of the new James Bond flick, Quantum of Solace, I thought I’d post the following, straight from the 1953 novel Casino Royale. A few simple lines, very well written, by Ian Fleming (who wrote the short story for which the new movie [...]

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Another reason why vampire novels are good for you and me. Even in this day and age of financial hardships, one Washington town is getting a boost in their economy from Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series. Forks, Washington is reporting a 48 percent increase in lodging tax revenue. The town is settled in [...]

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WB is working on a sequel to the movie I Am Legend, will Will Smith returning as Robert Neville (I can’t type that name without thinking of Neville’s pot-bellied neighbor Ben Cortman standing in the street, hungrily shouting out “Come out, Neville!” Don’t remember Cortman? Then go read Matheson’s 1954 classic novel so [...]

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Need a good scare with that homemade popcorn? The UK’s 2006 horror flick The Devil’s Chair is finally coming to DVD in the US on October 7th (from Simon Boyes and Adam Mason, Broken). Be warned, the trailer is gruesome.

The storyline? Four years after a murder involving a killer chair in the [...]

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More than ten years after it was published, Jose Saramago’s Nobel Prize-winning Blindness is about to hit the theaters (release is set for October 3rd by Miramax). In the story, people are suddenly stricken blind. Key words: epidemic, government, quarantine. I’m all for end-of-society stories, so I’m onboard for this flick. [...]

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