French Zombies Set to Invade in The Horde

Sacre blood! It’s a French zombie movie! IFC Films is preparing to release The Horde next week on Wednesday, August 11, through its on-demand service. The plot revolves around  a group of cops and gangsters who are forced to unite when they find themselves in the midst of a zombie outbreak. Check out the high-octane trailer and photos to get a sense of what to expect.

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Zombies vs. Vampires: Coming to a TV Near You?

Like a lot of people, I’ve largely abandoned network TV, but NBC has just bought a script that has piqued my interest, if only for the title: Zombies vs. Vampires. According to Deadline, it’s a “fun buddy cop” show that’s described as follows:

Saw Writers to Pen Outer Limits Movie

It seems like an unlikely pairing, but Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan, the writing team behind the last four Saw films, all three Feast movies and The Collector, have been tapped by MGM to pen an adaptation of the 1960s anthology TV show The Outer Limits. Of course, writing the script doesn’t mean that the movie will actually be made, especially with MGM’s financial troubles of late.

But Do THESE Vampires Suck? Lost Boys: The Thirst DVD Review

It’s sad that it took over 20 years for a sequel to The Lost Boys to come to fruition, but the folks at Warner Brothers are making up for lost time, with the second Lost Boys film — this one subtitled The Thirst — in the past three years.

First Creepy Trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark!

It's been all about Guillermo del Toro over the past couple of weeks. First, he announced a second film adaptation of Disney's Haunted Mansion. Then, he signed on to direct the Lovecraft adaptation At the Mountains of Madness. And now we get a first look at the trailer for his production Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.

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New This Week: After.Life, Open House, Corman Classics

It’s a light week in horror/suspense, with home video releases being headed by After.Life, Open House and a couple of Roger Corman productions — most notably Piranha (just in time for the remake).

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Not Quite a Foreclosure: Open House DVD Review

As the DVD cover shows, the main draw of Open House is True Blood stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer, but don’t get your hopes up that you’ll see more than five or 10 minutes of either of them on screen. Still, the film, about a visitor to an open house who never leaves, has some interesting moments. Read about them in my review of Open House.

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TV Movie Highlight of the Week: The Box

This week, the mind-bending thriller The Box makes its TV debut (Saturday, August 7, at 10:00 PM ET/PT on Cinemax), certain to confuse millions of viewers. Also premiering is Nature’s Grave (Tuesday, August 3, at 3:45 AM ET/PT on Showtime), a solid remake of the ’70s Australian nature-run-amok tale Long Weekend.

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Guillermo del Toro to Direct Lovecraft’s Mountains of Madness

Guillermo del Toro’s next directorial project has been the subject of much speculation for a while, and now Deadline is reporting that the Hellboy and Pan’s Labyrinth director witll tackle a dream project of his (and of legions of horror readers): H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountians of Madness.