© Showtime So, what did you think of the season premiere of Dexter? Was it all you'd hoped and dreamed? I thought it was pretty good, but "pretty good" is a ... Read More

© Spike What do you think was the best horror movie of the past year? According to this year's Scream Awards, it's one of these films: 30 Days of Night The Mist The Orphanage The ... Read More

© Warner Bros. There's never been a better excuse to be a recluse, as three -- count 'em three -- horror movie premieres hit TV this week: I Am Legend: Will Smith ... Read More

© Sacred Productions The Sacred is a microbudget horror production made for around $10,000 that, judging from its trailer, nonetheless manages to look impressive. I don't know what camera they used, ... Read More

© Paramount According to The Hollywood Reporter, Cloverfield director Matt Reeves (pictured, with Lizzy Caplan) will be helming a remake of the award-winning Swedish vampire movie Let the Right One In. ... Read More

Jared Kusnitz and Greyson Chadwick in Dance of the Dead. © Lions Gate If you find yourself missing the delayed After Dark Horrorfest (now scheduled for January '09), you might want to check ... Read More

© Anchor Bay If you're a zombie movie fan, chances are you've seen your share of awful low-budget unead flicks, so when one like The Vanguard comes along, it's refreshing. Inventive, ... Read More

© Anchor Bay OK, it doens't bite, nor does it suck, despite its title. Bloodsucking Cinema is in fact a passable documentary on vampire movies. It's entertaining enough but provides little ... Read More

© Anchor Bay Breathing Room is a modestly budgeted horror movie that's basically an extension of the Cary Elwes scenes from Saw -- you know, people waking up trapped in a ... Read More

© Dimension DVDs rule the week, headed by Pathology, Mother of Tears, the Sci Fi Channel flick Vipers and a bundle of original releases from Anchor Bay. So, why bother leaving ... Read More

Photo: Junko Kimura/Getty Images Nicolas Cage is returning to witch territory after flirting with it in The Wicker Man. According to The Hollywood Reporter, he's signed on to star in Season ... Read More

© Anchor Bay Five Across the Eyes, a tale of five high school girls on a lonely back road tormented by a maniacal driver, has a cool title. The rest could ... Read More

© Screen Gems According to weekend estimates, Lakeview Terrace finished at the top of the box office, doing better than expected with $15.6 million. It's a solid tally, especially considering it ... Read More

© Anchor Bay It might sound like a tween Disney flick, but Bryan Loves You is one of several original horror releases coming out this week from Anchor Bay Entertainment. It's ... Read More

© Sony © Anchor Bay Cable channel Starz is the "star" of the week for horror fans, as it debuts two of the best fright films of 2007 (as detailed here and ... Read More

Samuel L. Jackson in Lakeview Terrace. © Screen Gems Living in Los Angeles is tough. You've got perpetual sunshine, celebrities constantly getting into your line of sight and deranged next-door neighbors trying ... Read More

© After Dark The third After Dark Horrorfest has been pushed back again, but this time only a week. Now, it's scheduled for January 9-15, 2009. Mark your calendars...when you get ... Read More

© 20th Century Fox Who knew that pathology routinely involves murder, kinky sex and hard drugs -- and all on the job! Where do I sign up? Well, except for the ... Read More

© Anchor Bay Another day, another remake. This one, though, sounds more appropriate than most. I've always thought that Children of the Corn should be remade. The original had a good ... Read More

© HBO Although only two episodes have aired, HBO has already renewed True Blood for a second season, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Although the debut didn't get boffo ratings, the ... Read More

© RHI/Genius If you've watched the Sci Fi Channel on any weekend in the past decade, you're likely no stranger to killer snake movies. This weekend is no different, as Vipers ... Read More

Michael C. Hall in 'Dexter'. Photo: Peter Iovino © Showtime Wow. For some reason, Showtime has posted the Season 3 premiere episode of Dexter online, more than a week before it premieres ... Read More

© Peace Arch Sorry, that was the best werewolf-related pun I could come up with. Anyway, don't let that deter you from reading my review of Never Cry Werewolf. Now with ... Read More

Photo: Charley Gallay/Getty Images The remake to the relatively obscure '80s slasher The House on Sorority Row -- now called merely Sorority Row -- is moving full-steam ahead, and it's sounding ... Read More

Patrick Wilson in Lakeview Terrace. Photo: Chuck Zlotnick © Screen Gems The major release of the week -- in theaters or on DVD -- is the thriller Lakeview Terrace, about a cop (Samuel ... Read More

Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki in Supernatural. © The CW If you haven't seen Supernatural, you're missing out. It's tempting to look at the pretty-boy stars and dismiss it as a superficial CW ... Read More

© Universal One of my personal favorite horror movies, John Carpenter's The Thing, is getting the remake sequel prequel treatment. Originally speculated to be a remake (I mean, what isn't nowadays?), ... Read More

© Universal With remakes of black-and-white classics The Wolf Man and Creature From the Black Lagoon scheduled to be released next year (the former for sure; the latter maybe not until ... Read More

© Vivendi Just when you thought it was safe to watch an Uwe Boll movie...up steps Seed, a film every bit as bad as House of the Dead, Alone in the ... Read More

Haley Bennett and Marin Hinkle in The Haunting of Molly Hartley. © Freestyle Releasing Here are some pics from the upcoming "my parents sold my soul to Satan and all I got was ... Read More

Shia LaBeouf in Disturbia. © DreamWorks/Paramount The group that owns the rights to the short story upon which Alfred Hitchcock's classic Rear Window was based (the author, Cornell Woolrich, having died in ... Read More

Patrick Wilson and Samuel L. Jackson in Lakeview Terrace. © Screen Gems, Inc. Here are some stills from the upcoming Sam Jackson demented cop thriller Lakeview Terrace, whch I foresee in years to ... Read More

© Vivendi As the saying goes, "If you haven't seen it, it's new to you." That's the philosophy to use when approaching this week's mountain of 30-plus releases, because 20-plus of ... Read More

© HBO So, what did you think of True Blood's first episode? Did it suck or did it bite? Wait, those are both bad, aren't they? Feel free to come up ... Read More

© After Dark Films The 2008 -- er, 2009 After Dark Horrorfest finally has official dates -- January 2-9, 2009 -- and cities (about 30 in all; see www.horrorfestonline.com for the ... Read More

© Lions Gate This week, the Canadian "zom com" (zombie comedy) Fido -- a wonderful cross between Pleasantville and Shaun of the Dead -- debuts on TV, airing today, Sunday, September ... Read More

© Lions Gate The official sites of actor Bruce Campbell and author Ted Dekker have announced tentative schedules for the release of their respective films, My Name Is Bruce and House ... Read More

© Columbia According to Variety, Columbia Pictures has tapped a pair of writers from TV's The Office to pen a second sequel to the 1984 mega-hit Ghostbusters. Luckily, the plan is ... Read More

Photo: Frank Ockenfels © Universal Shhh...Don't tell anyone, but somebody's snuck a bootleg trailer of the upcoming Wolf Man remake -- taped at Comic-Con in July -- onto WorstPreviews.com. While I don't ... Read More

© Wild Bunch The prestigious Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) begins its 10-day run today, and of the over 300 movies lined up for show are a handful of quality horror ... Read More

© Sony Passengers, the upcoming supernatural (or not?) thriller starring Anne Hathaway and a stellar supporting cast (David Morse, Andre Braugher, Clea DuVall, Dianne Wiest), now has an official poster and ... Read More

© Lions Gate According to Variety, Midnight Meat Train has made an estimated $1.6 million in South Korea since being released there on August 21. Sure, that's not exactly setting the ... Read More

© Warner Bros. It's a light week with no theatrical releases and only a handful of DVDs coming out, headed by TV shows Supernatural, Ghost Whisperer and Ghost Hunters.

© New Line Horror movies are low on the totem poll of cinematic reverence, but giant animal movies are the scourge of even the horror genre -- often mocked and dismissed ... Read More