New Release Dates: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, I Spit on Your Grave, Devil, Red Riding Hood

Several upcoming theatrical releases have new release dates you can add to your calendar, in chronological order:

• Devil: This M. Night Shyamalan production from the directors of Quarantine will hit theaters on September 17, 2010, almost a full five months earlier than originally scheduled. It’s refreshing to see a movie bumped UP for a change.

This Year’s Paranormal Activity? The Last Exorcism Review

The Last Exorcism won’t open until August 27, but I was lucky enough to see the world premiere  at the LA Film Festival last week. Stylistically, it conjures memories of two of the biggest surprise hits in cinematic history — The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity — and I think that it has the stuff to fall in line with those and become one of the sleeper hits of the summer. Read about it in my review of The Last Exorcism.

…

Read Full Post

Heads Up: Two on a Guillotine DVD Review

Two on a Guillotine is a relatively obscure ’60s haunted house movie that has attained a modest level of “cult-dom” over the years, thanks in part to an impressive cast that includes Connie Stevens, Dean Jones and Cesar Romero, plus William “Fatman” Conrad behind the camera.

Posters and Pics Galore: Piranha 3D, Eclipse, Resident Evil 4, The Walking Dead, Fangoria FrightFest

Here's a bunch of photos and posters from upcoming projects: Piranha 3D, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, Resident Evil 4, The Walking Dead and the Fangoria FrightFest. That is all.

Read Full Post

Jonny Lee Miller Joins Dexter

On the heels of Julia Stiles being hired for a major role in Season 5 of Dexter, British actor Jonny Lee Miller (Dracula 2000, Mindhunters) has been added to the season’s cast as well. Last seen on American TV as the lead in the TV show Eli Stone, Miller will play…well, who knows? His character, like Stiles’, is being kept under wraps, but it looks like the two will have some connection to each other. Only three months to go to find out what it’s all about…

…

Read Full Post

EEville

Shoot the attacking zombies from your hummer’s rooftop to eliminate them before they attack you.

M. Night Shyamalan Preps Second Night Chronicles Feature: Twelve Strangers

Devil, the first film to be released under M. Night Shyamalan‘s horror-themed Night Chronicles banner, has yet to be released (it’s due February 11), but the writer/director already has the second of a scheduled three films lined up. It’s called Twelve Strangers, and according to Deadline, it’s “a thriller that involves a jury deliberating a case involving the supernatural.”

M. Night Shyamalan Preps Second Night Chronicles Feature: Twelve Strangers

Devil, the first film to be released under M. Night Shyamalan‘s horror-themed Night Chronicles banner, has yet to be released (it’s due February 11), but the writer/director already has the second of a scheduled three films lined up. It’s called Twelve Strangers, and according to Deadline, it’s “a thriller that involves a jury deliberating a case involving the supernatural.”

Night of the Demons Remake to Go Direct-to-Video in October

When we got our fist look at the Night of the Demons remake back in 2008, I speculated that the cast seemed appropriate for a direct-to-video release (Edward Furlong, Shannon Elizabeth, Diora Baird, Monica Keena, Tiffany Shepis, Linnea Quigley), but then I kept hearing that it would get a theatrical release in February 2009…and then October 2009…and then February 2010…or not.