For place and times, check out Shriekfest.

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'Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil' spoofs hillbilly horror movies
"Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil," a gory comedy that spoofs the images of hillbillies in flicks like "Deliverance," has been turning heads at comic conventions and won the audience award at Austin, Texas' South by Southwest film festival. The movie, from first-time director Eli Craig, follows two Southern good old boys headed to the sticks to fix up a rundown "vacation house" and go fishing. They cross paths with a group of clueless college kids who mistake them for demented hill people.

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Horror exhibit at Seattle's EMP is a scream
SEATTLE – Whether you like your horror movies with blood and gore, intense drama, scary creatures or camp and comedy, there is something for everyone at the "Can't Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film" exhibit that opens Sunday at Experience Music Project.

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The Enduring Creepiness of Haunted House Films
The haunted-house film may just be the perfect subgenre for today's economy, where real-life real-estate ownership has led to plenty of horror stories. After all, a mortgage you can't pay off is a scary, but not as scary as a mortgage you can't pay off for a home populated by ghosts.

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THE VICTIM is the inaugural acquisition of WTF which was recently launched by former TF1 International senior sales executive Dimitri Stephanides. Kevin Iwashina and Christine D'Souza of Preferred Content represented the filmmakers and negotiated the deal with Stephanides.

THE VICTIM will make its international premiere at the Sitges Film Festival in Spain on 7 and 8 October in a double feature with Hobo With A Shotgun."

Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over twenty novels, the Edgar Award winner THE BOTTOMS, and the ever popular Hap and Leonard series (BAD CHILI, CAPTAINS OUTRAGEOUS) to name a few. He has penned countless short stories, chapbooks, graphic novels, screenplays, animated series work, and comic books. His work spanning western, horror, science fiction, suspense, and mystery has won him numerous awards including the British Fantasy Award, the American Mystery Award, the Grinzane Cavour Prize for Literature, and an impressive eight Bram Stoker Awards to name a few.

Iconic author and pioneer in transcending genre, Joe R. Lansdale blends lost dreams, death, thievery, and a trip down river on a raft with a Southern flair that only he can manage. With a plot that is reminiscent of the classic Mark Twain and Stephen King works combined - Edge of Dark Water is crime fiction at its best.

May Lynn was once a pretty girl who dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead, her body dredged up from the Sabine River. Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn's body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood to spread around. If May Lynn can't become a star, then at least her ashes will end up in the land of her dreams. Along with her friends Terry and Jinx and her alcoholic mother, Sue Ellen steals a raft and heads downriver to carry May Lynn's remains to Hollywood.

Only problem is, Sue Ellen has some stolen money that her enemies will do anything to get back. Including avoiding a strange and relentless hired assassin called Skunk. What looks like a prime opportunity to escape from a worthless life will instead lead to disastrous consequences. In the end, Sue Ellen will learn a harsh lesson on just how hard growing up can really be.

I enjoy MIMIC for another reason. It's pretty good! Unlike RELIC, MIMIC uses a real Science Fiction Story and Real Science to tell its tale.

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THE MATRIX: REPACKAGED and THE MATRIX: REGURGITATED (double disc)

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A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: Freddy Again & A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3: The Dream Losers (double disc)

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Frights From Cooper, Roth Fill Universal Backlot
With his legs propped up on a teacher's desk, shock rocker Alice Cooper looks right at home inside a demented science classroom filled with phony spiders and snakes. The eerie enclave is just one of the stops in a haunted maze attraction inspired by the "School's Out" headmaster at Universal Studios Hollywood's annual Halloween Horror Nights event.

"I hope we don't have any heart attacks in here," Cooper says with a grin while leaning back in his seat.

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DARK SHADOWS First Cast Photo
Hey horror hounds! Courtesy of our friends at Entertainment Weekly here's our first look at the cast of Tim Burton's big screen version of the small screen classic, DARK SHADOWS. Now this is not the first time the Collins clan have made it to the movies. In 1970 MGM released HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS based on the daytime drama and starring most of the TV cast. NIGHT OF DARK SHADOWS followed.

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Heather Langenkamp thrice kicked Freddy Krueger's ass, but remains a second-class citizen
One of the horror-film genre's most iconic heroines, Heather Langenkamp (who played Nancy Thompson in the Nightmare on Elm Street series) kicked Freddy Kreuger's ass not once, but three times.

We spoke with the actor, who is in town for Denver Film Society's The Watching Hour: An Evening With Heather Langenkamp. The DFS will screen the documentary I Am Nancy (which Langenkamp produced) at 8 p.m. on Friday, September 23, at the Denver FilmCenter, followed by an audience Q&A with the scream queen herself.

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Now, for the first time, fans of The Walking Dead will discover how The Governor became the man he is, and what drove him to such extremes.

This is the story of Philip Blake, his daughter, Penny, and his brother Brian. Along with two of Philip's friends, this ragtag group of survivors attempts to make it to Atlanta as the zombie apocalypse rages around them. But as their journey becomes more and more dangerous, Philip will realize that he must do whatever it takes to save his friends and family… and his own soul in the process.

Narrated by four-time winner of the Audiofile Earphone Award Fred Berman, all of your favorite characters in the Walking Dead universe are brought to life along with the fear, adventure, and excitement that the story conveys.

Sources say the deal is in the $1 to $2 million range.

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From Thomas M. Sipos,
GHOSTS, DEMONS WHOOP ZOMBIES, SERIAL KILLERS AT 2011 TABLOID WITCH AWARDS
[Hollywood Investigator.com] Slashers, torturers, and serial killers dominated the film entries to the 2011 Tabloid Witch Awards -- even out-numbering zombies (though the latter continued to arrive in large numbers). Paranormal Activity type "shaky-cam mocumentaries" (often featuring serial killers or torturers) were likewise well represented.

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A More Perfect Union: Tom Six Discusses 'The Human Centipede II'
It is entirely possible — maybe even likely — that you know the plot of Tom Six's horror movie "The Human Centipede (First Sequence)" without having seen a single frame of it. After receiving a modest theatrical release in the United States last year, the film has become a cult sensation as a video-on-demand offering and been referred to on mainstream shows like "South Park" and "The Colbert Report" because of its simple, memorable and thoroughly unnerving premise: a mad doctor who surgically combines three human captives into a single organism by stitching them together, mouth to anus.

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Dubbed "The Master of the Macabre" and "King of the Gimmicks," Castle was internationally famous for producing Rosemary's Baby (1968) and producing/directing countless horror classics such as House on Haunted Hill (1959) and The Tingler (1959). "My dad was notorious for both his spine-tingling movies as well as the legendary gimmicks he devised to drive people to the theater again and again," says his daughter Terry Castle who helms William Castle Productions. "And now, for his latest and perhaps greatest marketing gimmick yet, Dad has written 'From the Grave.' He's really outdone himself this time!"

Indeed, Castle is as famous for his ongoing gimmicks as he is for the films themselves. As film critic Sean Axmaker recounts in this review for Turner Movie Classics, "Director William Castle was an ambitious journeyman looking for his breakout film when he hit upon his winning formula with Macabre, a low-budget 1958 thriller that sold its onscreen shock effects with promotional ballyhoo. In a brainstorm of publicity ingenuity, Castle issued an insurance policy (backed by Lloyds of London) to cover all ticket buyers against 'death by fright.' The campaign was a success, the film was a hit, and Castle found his new persona: a B-movie P.T. Barnum by way of Alfred Hitchcock. He launched a new gimmick with each succeeding horror film and took to personally promoting and introducing his films, just like Hitchcock was doing on television."

Castle's marketing exploits are well documented. View these two recent articles to learn more (including video clips): "Top 10 William Castle Film Gimmicks" and Film School Reject's "6 (non 3D) Movie Gimmicks From the Warped Mind of William Castle."

From the Grave: The Prayer Synopsis –
As the Gypsies gather in the ancient village of Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer for the annual celebration honoring their patronsaint, a mystical convergence of events brings four adolescents together at a haunted house and sets them on a perilous quest to locate a centuries-old manuscript that holds the power to release the devastating force of the Ancient Ones upon the Earth.

Fifteen-year-old Sarah and her younger brother Luca are lonely Gypsy kids who travel about Europe with their parents. Forced by their Gypsy father to beg and pick pockets for money, Sarah and Luca find it impossible to earn their father's approval. Fifteen-year-old Edgar cannot stand his parents (and the feeling is mutual) when the family moves from New Jersey to France so that his parents can live out their dream of being French aristocracy. Fourteen-year-old Aleck's world is turned upside down when his parents are killed in a car crash and his older sister decides that he would be better off in France with their Aunt and Uncle whose real concern is their own lavish lifestyle.

Beset by their parents and guardians, the four young people must also survive the mercurial activities of a spirit haunting the house that holds clues to the location of the manuscript that is also sought by a secret society bent on locating it for its own purposes. In a frenzied chase that takes them from the ancient villages of Provence through the blood-soaked quarries of Roussillon to the macabre catacombs of Paris, the four must put aside their differences and suspicions to outwit the evil forces who will stop at nothing to get their hands on the ancient book.

William Castle –
Born in New York City in 1914, William Castle made horror films in the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s and lived his life scaring the living daylights out of people with the numerous horror films he produced and/or directed. Macabre (1958), House on Haunted Hill (1959), The Tingler (1959), 13 Ghosts (1960), Mr. Sardonicus (1961), Homicidal (1961), Straight Jacket (1964), and Rosemary's Baby (1968) are a few of his classic credits, the second and third films starringVincent Price in career-defining roles. In addition to directing and producing, he also made many appearances in films (his own and others) such as Shampoo (1975) and The Day of the Locust (1975). He also appeared in a non-speaking part in Rosemary's Baby as the grey-haired man lurking outside the phone booth while Mia Farrow attempts to get in touch with her obstetrician.

Castle is perhaps best known, however, for the marketing strategies he developed to get his fans into theaters. In addition to the tingled butts of movie-goers at The Tingler screenings and insuring moviegoers against death by fright for Macabre, he also created "Illusion-O" a ghost viewer/ghost remover for 13 Ghosts, a "Punishment Poll" for Mr. Sardonicus, and Homicidal audiences were introduced to "Fright Breaks" and the "Coward's Corner." He also introduced audiences to new film techniques such as "Percept-O" and "Emerg-O."

At 15, he began his career on Broadway, securing his first acting role by passing himself off as Samuel Goldwyn's nephew. He began his directing career at the age of 18 with a stage production of Dracula before graduating to work as an assistant to director Orson Welles, doing much of the second unit location work for Welles' noir classic, The Lady from Shanghai (1947). John Goodman's character in Matinee (1993) was based on Castle. His 1976 autobiography, Step Right Up, I'm Gonna Scare the Pants Off America, was reprinted in 1991 with a foreword by John Waters, who eulogized Castle thusly, "Without a doubt, the greatest showman of our time was William Castle. King of the Gimmicks, William Castle was my idol. His films made me want to make films. I'm jealous of his work. In fact, I wish I were William Castle." Castle died of a heart attack in Los Angeles on May 31, 1977.