We were recently invited to take part in a press junket for the June 22nd release of 1408 and after some last-minute scrambling to make sure all our ducks were in a proverbial row, our good friend and

First he managed to get metal to be mainstream again. Then he tried his acting chops out starring in the title role of the still-unseen Sin-Jin Smyth. Now Korn frontman Jonathan Davis is writing an op

NECA is gearing up for a strong showing at this year's San Diego Comic Con, which means we are in for a nice bit of eye candy in the coming month! Today we get an update on Resident Evil Anniversary

MTV is finally moving its way into our genre, something that makes so much sense I’m surprised it took this long for it to finally happen. This morning The Hollywood Reporter got word on two new pr

A while back we first reported, based on info from "inside", that Paul WS Anderson was no longer at the helm of the film adaptation of Castlevania, the popular vampire-themed video game from Konami. Since then it’s been pretty quite on the adaptation’s status, but finally a new director has climbed on board.

Despite Stephen Sommers' best effort to destroy the Universal Monsters property for decades to come with the awfulness that was Van Helsing, Universal has recovered from that debacle and now seems to

Yesterday we showed you the really cool trailer made for the new vampire graphic novel 13 Bullets (review). In it, you get to watch actor Derek Mears get made up like the kind of bloodsucker you’ll fi

I got some very sad news today that’s been spreading out on the Web about a friend who passed away at a very young age this morning: Daniel Robert Epstein. The name may not mean much, but if you’ve

Anime is flooding American pop culture nowadays, but is there at least a trickle of blood for the horror fan among these wide eyed toons? Oh HELL yes; Trinity Blood is a tale of vampires, religion, t

Some good news has come down via Variety for a guy whom we consider one of our own, Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (review) producer Rudy Scalese. The trade reported this m

Director Adam Green announced today via his MySpace blog that fans in Canada will finally get their chance to sample some good old-school American horror as Hatchet (review here) is set to take the s

DVD Active got its hands on the full specs and cover art for the four new Dario Argento releases coming our way from Blue Underground. Actually, "new" isn’t the right word as two of them are re-iss

So in case you didn’t notice, Hostel Part II didn’t do so well this weekend. I could go into my usual rant about how horror just doesn’t do well in summer and when the hell is anyone going to learn th

It’s not often you hear about trailers for books. In fact I can only think of a few occasions when it’s happened, and they pretty much sucked, but in this case the creators of 13 Bullets (review), the

Thanks for the nice surprise today, MGM! DVD Active got the first word and art (on your right) about a new two-disc collector’s edition of Phillip Kaufman’s adaptation of Invasion of the Body Snatcher