Black Swan

It isn't often that we mention the Grammys here at Dread Central, but a few genre favorites have landed nominations for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards, which will be presented February 12, 2012, on CBS, and we just wanted to share the news.

The 2011 Teen Choice Awards winners have been announced, and while it's no surprise that The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows dominated, we're happy to report Paranormal Activity 2 and Black Swan both won in their categories.

If you follow the horror genre at all, then you know that winning a Saturn Award is akin to taking home Oscar gold (since the horror genre is generally overlooked by the Academy Awards, this year notwithstanding), and the prestige of taking home that golden symbol of all that is great about our beloved genre is an achievement that is definitely worth celebrating.

The 37th Annual Saturn Awards show is history, and we've got all the details on the winners and more! Read on for the gory details, and big time congratulations to everyone who took home that precious, precious gold!

This year's e-mail vote for the 9th annual Rondo Hatton Awards, conducted by the Classic Horror Film Board, drew more than 2,900 votes as fans chose among 30 categories; and we here at Dread Central are both honored and humbled to have once again been awarded a Rondo for Best Website! Read on to find out who our 2011 co-winners are.

Starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Barbara Hershey, Winnona Rider, Vincent Cassel Directed by Darren Aronofsky

It doesn't matter if you're a black swan or a white swan; we're sure you're going to want to bring home the dementedness that is Natalie Portman's Oscar-winning performance in Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan.

Still haven't seen the multiple award-winning Black Swan yet? Well, if you live in one of the four cities hosting interactive midnight screenings of "The Black Swan Experience" on Saturday, April 2nd, you now have your chance -- for FREE!

In celebration of the release of the Academy-Award® winning Black Swan, which is out on Blu-ray and DVD March 29th, we want to share with you a new website that will reveal your deepest secrets and desires: the Black Swan Experience.

Tremors? Nightbreed? Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat? 976-EVIL? Are all on the list this year. And though there were not huge horror wins in sound editing through screenplays, the Technical Awards never cease to bring out the horror veterans.

Rick Baker. Friend of apes. Maker of monsters. Seven time Oscar winner. And that lucky number seven was for The Wolfman, shared with fellow EFX maestro Dave Elsey. Their on-stage speech was great, but the extended Thank You Cam was even better. Both Baker and Elsey thanked Jack Pierce and Dick Smith for inspiring them.

It is that time of year again when Dread Central pays its respects to those who have worked in our beloved genre and made it to the red carpet on Oscar night 2011. The genre was in rare form when it came to the nominations.

Fresh off its big wins at this weekend's Film Independent Spirit Awards and the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, 20th Century Fox has released the full set of specs to be found on the Black Swan DVD and Blu-ray, which will be hitting store shelves on March 29th. From the Press Release:

While it was a fairly slow night for horror at the "83rd Annual Academy Awards", a couple of genre flicks did manage to take home some gold, and for that we are thankful!

Now this is some award show news we are definitely happy to report! Black Swan took home four major prizes from the 2011 Film Independent Spirit Awards.