What's that splashing noise I hear? Is it the Cloverfield monster dropping the kids off at the pool? No, it's the horror lineup for this year's Slamdance Film Festival making ... Read More

Check another competent yet unspectacular flick off the list of '80s slashers that haven't been remade by the Hollywood machine. While new versions of both Prom Night and April Fool's ... Read More

The remake of the Pang Brothers' The Eye is the marquee theatrical release of the week, and on the heels of One Missed Call, I think I speak for every ... Read More

Last week's box office champ Cloverfield fell like, well, a skyscraper being trampled by a giant monster. In its second weekend in release, it tumbled to #4 on the box ... Read More

A bunch of updated DVD release dates for 2008 have come in recently, most notably: February 19: Black Water - One of two killer crocodile films to come out of Australia ... Read More

As the Sundance Film Festival winds down with surprisingly few big deals, over at the rival Slamdance Festival, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer made unexpected waves by scoring a deal with ... Read More

George Romero's Diary of the Dead is currently playing at the Sundance Film Festival, but you don't have to go to Utah to see images from this latest zombie opus ... Read More

Like the remake of George Romero's Day of the Dead, it appears that the remake of the 1986 slasher April Fool's Day will be headed directly to video this spring. ... Read More

Serial killer flick Untraceable is the only new horror/thriller fare this week in theaters, battling it out with dubious counterprogramming like Rambo and -- yikes -- Meet the Spartans. Untraceable ... Read More

Check out new trailers for three upcoming movies: Doomsday: From director Neil Marshall (The Descent) comes this post-apocalyptic, Mad Max-like tale of a military mission behind the walls of a contaminated, ... Read More

This past weekend, the monster movie Cloverfield set a January geek box office record with a whopping $41 million in ticket sales. It beat the previous record holder, 1997's special ... Read More

Horror legend John Carpenter is finally ready to make amends for his last theatrical effort, 2001's disappointing Ghosts of Mars (pictured). He's currently in pre-production on a film called L.A. ... Read More

Legendary Italian horror director Dario Argento (Suspiria, Deep Red), whose Mother of Tears opens in limited release this February, will next shoot an English-language giallo called, appropriately enough, Giallo. A ... Read More

Although Slamdance bills itself as the true independent alternative to the Sundance Film Festival, you'd be hard pressed to find films more independent than those on display at TromaDance. Run ... Read More

That is, Cloverfield finally hits screens this Friday. At last, the mystery is over, and we finally get to see (and inevitably be disappointed by) the big bad Cloverfield monster ... Read More

Even though The Orphanage expanded this past weekend to a still-modest 700 theaters, it couldn't scrounge up enough business to break into the top 10 at the box office, earning ... Read More

In a star-less and spectacle-less -- thanks to the writers' strike -- Golden Globes ceremony Sunday night, Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd won the award for Best Motion Picture (Musical or ... Read More

As previously reported, in an effort to fill the gap left by the writers' strike, Showtime's hit "serial killer with a heart of gold" show Dexter will begin airing on ... Read More

CBS's vampire private eye TV show Moonlight won the People's Choice Award for Favorite New TV Drama on Wednesday night, an impressive feat given it was the largest category in ... Read More

The numbers are in, and Resident Evil: Extinction was the top horror DVD rental for the week ending January 6, according to Home Media Magazine. The third film in the ... Read More

Aside from The Ring and The Grudge -- and, to a lesser extent, their sequels -- American remakes of Asian horror movies have been flops. Even when Asian filmmakers have ... Read More

After a less-than-impressive run in theaters this past November, After Dark Horrorfest's "8 Films to Die For" will hit the video store shelves March 18. The schedule is similar to ... Read More

Theatrical releases take a week off and let their direct-to-video siblings hog the spotlight, with Boogeyman 2, White Noise 2 and, um, Witchcraft 13? Did I sleep through the first ... Read More

OK, maybe it's not a "hit," but the remake of Takashi Miike's Japanese thriller One Missed Call did better than expected at the box office -- no doubt helped by ... Read More

The new trailer for the upcoming Prom Night remake is out, and it looks...PG-13. Imagine High School Musical if you replaced the music with murder (And boy, how we wish ... Read More

The good news: The remake of George Romero's Day of the Dead finally has a release date: April 8. The bad news: It's going straight to video. Actually, that might not ... Read More

Ah, 2007. It might not have been the best year for horror thus far in the 21st century, but it's at least in the top seven. In major theatrical releases, ... Read More

Will Smith's I Am Legend was the top horror movie draw in 2007, racking up around $200 million, and depending on your definition of a horror film, it could overtake ... Read More

The trailer for Michael Haneke's upcoming remake of his own Funny Games is playing in theaters right now, but there's a more explicit "restricted" trailer online that gives a better ... Read More