Underworld Awakening Claws Its Way to the Top of the Box Office

As expected, Underworld Awakening topped the US box office this past weekend, scoring an estimated $25.4 million. That’s on par with the other three films in the Underworld franchise, whose opening weekends have ranged from $20.8 million (Underworld: Rise of the Lycans) to $26.8 million (Underworld: Evolution). Of course, Awakening benefitted from elevated 3-D prices, but it’s still a good figure that, combined with The Devil Inside‘s strong opening three weeks ago, helps put the horror genre back on track after several flops in the latter half of 2011.

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TV Movie Highlights of the Week: Grave Encounters, Bleeding House

This week, a pair of solid indie horror films from Tribeca Films make their TV debuts, as the “found footage” ghost film Grave Encounters airs on Tuesday, January 24, at 10:00 PM ET/PT on Showtime Beyond, and the twisty thriller The Bleeding House airs on Saturday, January 28, at 9:00 PM ET/PT on The Movie Channel.

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Who’s Returning for American Horror Story Season 2?

Season 1 of FX’s ghostly American Horror Story was one of the most unique seasons I’ve seen on television in a long time, but it certainly left us with the question of where the show goes from the shocking final episode. The question came soon enough: it will be an anthology series with new characters, settings and story lines each year. However, series co-creator Ryan Murphy teased that “two or three” of the cast members may return in new roles but didn’t reveal which ones. Now we have a bit of clarification.

Who’s Returning for American Horror Story Season 2?

Season 1 of FX’s ghostly American Horror Story was one of the most unique seasons I’ve seen on television in a long time, but it certainly left us with the question of where the show goes from the shocking final episode. The question came soon enough: it will be an anthology series with new characters, settings and story lines each year. However, series co-creator Ryan Murphy teased that “two or three” of the cast members may return in new roles but didn’t reveal which ones. Now we have a bit of clarification.

House of the Devil, Splice, Devil Inside Directors Line Up Next Films

Several notable genre directors have lined up their next movie projects:

• Ti West (The House of the Devil), whose The Innkeepers hits theaters on February 3, is moving on to The Side Effect, a sci fi thriller that stars Liv Tyler as a woman who “spends several months alone in space as an experimental subject for a global pharmaceutical company, and finds herself inexplicably pregnant.”
• Vincenzo Natali (Splice, Cube) is proceeding to Haunter, a haunted house story told from the point of view of a dead girl who “haunts (and possesses) a young living girl by the name of Olivia in an attempt to save her from the same fate.”

Underworld Franchise: Where Were We?

With Underworld Awakening set to hit theaters this Friday, it seems the perfect time to take a look back at the previous three films in the Underworld franchise as a “refresher course” on where the series left off.

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New This Week: Underworld Awakening, Undocumented, Cold Sweat

This week, Underworld Evolution hits theaters, while Undocumented and Cold Sweat land on home video.

First Looks at Warm Bodies and Sinister

We’ve got our first look at photos from a couple of late summer horror movies: Sinister, which stars Ethan Hawke as a writer whose new home was the site of a mass murder, and Warm Bodies, a horror-romance about a zombie boy who falls in love with a living girl. Warm Bodies hits theaters on August 10, while Sinister lands on August 24. You can’t tell much about the films from the stills, but I can’t help but think that zombie Nicholas Hoult in Warm Bodies looks a bit like the lead character from the Otto; Or, Up with Dead People — presumably with a lot less gay porn involved.

Kill Me Now: The Summer of Massacre DVD Review

I’ve been reviewing horror movies for About.com for over four years now, and never have I wanted to give a film zero stars…until The Summer of Massacre. Unfortunately, the system is such that if I give it zero stars, the review will look like there’s no rating rather than a zero rating, so I’ve given it half a star. That’s half a star more than it deserves.