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Sep 12 2012 01:04 PM ET

'V/H/S': Check out the horror anthology's new poster from 'Walking Dead' artist Tony Moore -- EXCLUSIVE

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Want to get a jump on Halloween? Well, you could hone your pumpkin-hollowing skills. Or you could watch the new, found footage horror anthology V/H/S, which arrives in cinemas October 5 but is already available on VOD.

Framed by the tale of a burglary attempt which goes horribly awry the terror compendium’s directors include Ti West (House of the Devil), Glenn McQuaid (I Sell the Dead), and the filmmaking collective Radio Silence. The latter group are responsible for the anthology’s concluding chapter, “10/31/98,” in which the attempt by a group of costumed friends to attend a Halloween party goes, yes, horribly awry. “10/31/98″ is also the inspiration for a new V/H/S poster from artist Tony Moore, who is best known for his work on the Walking Dead comic. Moore’s work is one of five posters commissioned from comic book artists — the other contributors being James StokoeRM Guéra, Jason Latour, and Esad Ribic.

You can exclusively check out Moore’s poster above and, in larger format, below, where you’ll also find the V/H/S trailer.

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Sep 5 2012 02:29 PM ET

'The Bay' trailer: Check out the clip for Barry Levinson's found footage horror movie -- VIDEO

What would a coastally-set found footage horror movie look like if it was directed by much lauded, Oscar-winning director Barry Levinson? Yes, that’s an unusual, and unusually specific, question. But it’s one we’re now able to ruminate upon in an informed manner thanks to the arrival of the trailer for The Bay, a coastally-set found footage horror movie which is indeed the work of the Diner and Rain Man auteur.

The answer? It looks much like the kind of amazingly gruesome, body horror-featuring gorefest one imagines David Cronenberg might make had he not abandoned the genre in favor of the sort of high-minded, actorly material once much more associated with filmmakers such as, well, Barry Levinson.

Take a look at the clip for The Bay — which swims into cinemas and onto VOD, November 2 — and see if you agree.

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Aug 27 2012 12:13 PM ET

Final 'Star Wars' prequels get back-to-back 3D releases

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Blame Jar Jar Binks. In the wake of last winter’s successful 3-D release of The Phantom Menace, Lucasfilm has announced that the movie’s fellow prequels, Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III — Revenge of the Sith, will be translated into the third dimension as well.

According to the official Star Wars Facebook page, these films will hit theaters again next fall. Clones will begin playing Sept. 20, 2013, while Sith will follow on Oct. 11.

George Lucas’s movies won’t be 2013′s only major re-releases. Universal announced two weeks ago that Jurassic Park 3D will debut on April 5, while Disney revealed in 2011 that enhanced versions of both Monsters, Inc. and The Little Mermaid will appear in theaters on Jan. 18 and Sept. 13, respectively.

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Aug 23 2012 04:59 PM ET

'The Apparition' director Todd Lincoln talks about his new horror movie -- and terrorizing 'Twilight' fans

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Ever since he was a horror movie-obsessed kid growing up in Tulsa, Okla., Todd Lincoln has dreamed about unleashing hell onto the big screen. But the writer-director has spent much of the past decade discovering the real-life horrors of development hell as a succession of projects — including a reboot of The Fly and an adaptation of the comic book series Hack/Slash — came to naught. “You’d have the friends and the family and everybody come up and say, ‘Hey, maybe you should think about something else,’” Lincoln admits.

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Aug 16 2012 11:04 AM ET

Austin's Fantastic Fest adds 'Sinister,' 'Looper,' and Halloween haunted house doc 'The American Scream' to lineup

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Fantastic Fest has announced that the Ethan Hawke-starring horror movie Sinister, director Rian Johnson’s time travel thriller Looper, and The American Scream — a documentary about homemade haunted houses directed by Best Worst Movie filmmaker Michael Paul Stephenson — will all be playing at next month’s celebration of genre movies in Austin, Texas. Johnson and Stephenson are set to attend the festival, as are Sinister director Scott Derrickson, producer Jason Blum and writer C. Robert Cargill.

Other new additions to the event include anthology movies The ABCs of Death, Doomsday Book and the world premiere of Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning, which will be attended by Dolph Lundgren and Scott Adkins.

This second wave of films lengthens a lineup which already boasts opening night film Dredd 3D, the Shining documentary Room 237, and the horror-comedy Cockneys vs Zombies.

Fantastic Fest takes place at the Alamo Drafthouse’s South Lamar location, Sept. 20-27.

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Aug 14 2012 05:38 PM ET

'Sexy French girl' becomes giant, disgusting [spoiler] in teaser trailer for new horror movie -- NSFW VIDEO

What do you we know about French women in movies? Well, they tend to be hot and uninhibited. And, in the teaser trailer below, one particular Gallic girl turns into a giant…

Actually, why don’t you check out the clip — if you’re a horror fan with a high tolerance for grotesquerie — and we’ll talk more afterwards.

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Aug 9 2012 04:07 PM ET

'Antiviral' trailer: Get infected by Brandon Cronenberg's debut movie -- VIDEO

Writer-director Brandon Cronenberg is clearly not worried about being compared to his father, horror legend David Cronenberg. Or, if he is, then the guy has some very worrying days ahead.

Cronenberg Jr.’s debut movie Antiviral looks to be a very, well, “Cronenbergian” tale of sick celebrities and the rabid fans determined to infect themselves with the diseases their idols are suffering from. Certainly the film’s new trailer features several tropes which will be familiar to aficionados of Cronenberg Sr.’s early, gore-drenched output such as Shivers/They Came From Within, Rabid, and The Brood. Disease-oriented plot? Check. Fictional medical facility? Check. Appearance by Brood and Dead Zone actor Nicholas Campbell? Check. General air of clinical (in every sense) gross-out horror? Checkity-check-check-check.
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Aug 9 2012 12:18 PM ET

'[REC] 3: Genesis' director Paco Plaza on his latest zombie bloodbath: 'It's really romantic!'

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Fed up with watching found footage horror movies? Imagine how their makers must feel. “I hadn’t used a tripod for five years!” laughs writer-director Paco Plaza, over the phone from Barcelona. The Spaniard is talking about the period he and co-director Jaume Balaguero spent making the first two films in the [REC] franchise — 2007′s [REC] and 2009′s [REC] 2. The pair of films detailed one truly terrible night in the life of a Barcelona apartment block as first its inhabitants and then their rescuers attempt to avoid being infected by a zombie virus. The original [REC] itself helped infect the horror genre with the found footage bug through its 2008 U.S. remake, Quarantine, and has now spawned another sequel, Plaza’s solo-directed [REC] 3: Genesis, which is currently available on VOD and hits cinemas Sept. 7.

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Aug 4 2012 02:44 PM ET

'Cockneys vs Zombies': Check out the horror-comedy's gore-drenched, red band trailer

According to tradition, a “Cockney” is a someone who was born within earshot of the bells of London’s historic St Mary-le-Bow church. Meanwhile, a “zombie” — at least since George A. Romero’s undead classic Night of the Living Dead — is a revived corpse who enjoys luncheoning on the innards of the still-breathing. Put them together and what do you get? That’s right, a revived corpse who was born within the sound of “Bow bells.” And the new British horror comedy Cockneys vs Zombies, which stars Michelle Ryan (the Bionic Woman revival), Alan Ford (Snatch), Honor Blackman (Goldfinger, cult TV show The Avengers), and the-largely-unknown-in-America-but-absolutely-awesome Richard Briers.

Inevitably, comparisons will be made between Cockneys vs Zombies — which receives its U.S. debut at this September’s Fantastic Fest — and Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead, a high-water mark of the Londoners-versus-undead-lurchers genre. And it is worth pointing out that Briers’ costar in the long-running ’80s Brit-com Ever Decreasing Circles, Penelope Wilton, played Simon Pegg’s mum in Shaun. (The pair’s fellow Ever Decreasing cast member Peter Egan should feel free to start rehearsing the line “I’ve been bitten by a blinkin’ zombie!” round about…now.) On the other hand, the new red-band Cockneys trailer does make it look like a (foul-mouthed and gore-drenched) hoot.

Take a “butcher’s” (Cockney rhyming slang: “butcher’s hook”/”look”) and see if you agree.

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Jul 30 2012 05:31 PM ET

'Dredd 3D,' 'Room 237,' and 'Cockneys vs Zombies,' to play at Austin's Fantastic Fest

The organizers of Fantastic Fest have announced the first wave of film programming for this year’s event, which includes Dredd 3D, the Shining documentary Room 237, and the U.S. premiere of British horror-comedy Cockneys vs Zombies. The Karl Urban-starring Dredd 3D will screen on Sept. 20, the opening night of the genre festival which is hosted by the Alamo Drafthouse’s South Lamar location in Austin, Tx. The festival runs until September 27.

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