Contest: Win a Dario Argento Prize Pack

Horror Yearbook and Arrow Video are giving away two Dario Argento prize packs that include: special edition DVDs of the The Stendhal Syndrome, The Card Player and Terror At The Opera. All three titles will be available for purchase from Arrow Video on March 22, 2010.

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After Dark Films Introduces After Dark Originals

Did anyone even attend After Dark Films’ Horrorfest this year? And after their track record, are horror fans willing to give original movies created by them a chance? Lionsgate and NBC Universal’s Syfy seem to think so.

They’re teaming up with ADF for a new series called “After Dark Originals” (AOD), 8 new and original films from the filmmakers involved with the Horrorfests of the past four years. Seven of the eight films have been filmed and are in post-production. They include Husk, Fertile Ground, Scream Of The Banshee, Prowl, The Task, Re-Kill, Seconds Apart and 51.

Harpoon: Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre Teaser Trailer

There is little information about Harpoon: The Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre, besides that it is an Icelandic film about a group of whale watchers, who get picked up by a whale fisher vessel after their ship breaks down. It is being released on DVD in the UK on May 10, 2010.

Check out the teaser trailer below.

Sigourney Weaver and Alicia Silverstone to Star in Vamps

Alicia Silverstone is still alive? Who knew! The Clueless (yes you have to go that far back to find something worth mentioning on her resume) star will team up with Krysten Ritter (Veronica Mars) and Sigourney Weaver for Amy Heckerling’s vampire comedy Vamps. Weaver must have agreed to this crap before Avatar was a hit.

Silverstone and Ritter are playing two younger vampires partying it up in New York City. The poop hits the fan when one of them falls in love. Weaver will play Ciccerus, the vampire who turned the two into vamps… Basically another vampire flick trying to cash-in on Twilight craze, and something our Editor will love!

Dark Night of the Scarecrow is Finally Coming to DVD

YAY! Dark Night of the Scarecrow is finally coming to DVD! Writer J.D. Feigelson told HYB that VCI Entertainment will be releasing the DVD sometime around Halloween.

DNotS made our Top Ten Made for TV Horror Movies and has been called, “the creepiest made for TV horror flick ever made,” by our own Brain Hammer.

News Roundup: True Blood, Sasha Grey and Zombies

I just got back from two weeks of heavy, heavy drinking in San Francisco and El Cerrito and I need time to recover. Here are a few quick important news stories until I return tomorrow.

True Blood season will premiere on June 13.

Porn star Sasha Grey returns to the horror genre with Richard O’Sullivan’s Hallows Grey told HorrorSquad.com, “Hallows basically takes the standard kids-in-the-woods-running-from-a-killer genre and flips it on its ear. The deaths aren’t random. They’re not cookie cutter. Each character dies in a fashion relating to the way they live their life. I’m less interested in gore-for-the-sake-of-gore (although there is gore in this film and plenty of it) than the psychology behind the characters and how they react to what happens.”

Predators Sneak Peak

Here is the special sneak peek at Predators that was shown at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas on Friday night. There are also reports that the trailer will be released on March 18th. Very exciting stuff!

A bold new chapter in the Predator universe, Predators was shot on location under Rodriguez’s creative auspices at the filmmaker’s Austin-based Troublemaker Studios, and is directed by Nimród Antal. The film stars Adrien Brody as Royce, a mercenary who reluctantly leads a group of elite warriors who come to realize they’ve been brought together on an alien planet… as prey. With the exception of a disgraced physician, they are all cold-blooded killers – mercenaries, Yakuza, convicts, death squad members – human “predators” that are now being systemically hunted and eliminated by a new breed of alien Predators.

The Descent: Part 2, U.S. Trailer

The Descent: Part 2 is coming to the U.S. on April 27. Shauna Macdonald returns as Sarah Carter, in Jon Harris’ follow-up to the Neil Marshall’s 2005 horror thriller. Traumatized, Sarah emerges alone from the cave system where she confronted her darkest dread. With no rational explanation to what happened, the authorities force her back into the subterranean depths to help locate her five missing girlfriends. But as the rescue party enters further uncharted domains, flashbacks start haunting Sarah as shocking memories of the past hit home. For they are venturing into the habitat of a new tribe of Crawlers, even more viciously feral than the ones Sarah faced before.

Check out the U.S. Trailer below.

Puppet Master: Axis Of Evil, Extended Trailer

Here is the full trailer for Puppet Master: Axis Of Evil on DVD June 15th. The official Full Moon website is taking preorders for a limited edition 2 disc set, that comes in an Andre Toulon trunk collectors case. My pee pee dripped a little because it looks so fucking great!

Check out the pictures below.

The Women of Elm Street Nude: Freddy vs. Jason

It’s Friday and I’m on my way to see Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, but before I go here is our final Women of Elm Street Nude, before the new Elm Street hits theaters on April 30, 2010.

This time we have Monica Keena in a deleted scene sex scene. Tammy Morris going nude in the shower as the body double for Katharine Isabelle. Odessa Munroe from Final Destination 2, and Jacqueline Stewart (below) for Freddy vs. Jason — the last time Freddy Krueger was on the big screen.

What Dumb Crap Will They Come up With Next?

The German film Last Call’s tagline should be “The perfect horror movie for black people,” because it encourages the audience to use their cell phones in theaters.

Last Call uses a “voice recognition software” to create a choose your own adventure horror film, where an audience member can communicate with the protagonist using their cell phone. We all know how the voice recognition crap works from calling our bank or other businesses. It’s fucking annoying, so why would we want to pay $10 to do it while watching a movie? You just know this shit is lame.

Kevin Costner’s The New Daughter DVD Info

Say it ain’t so… The great Kevin Costner in a a direct to DVD horror/thriller!?! Actually The New Daughter had a very limited theatrical run in December and Anchor Bay is releasing it on DVD and Blu-ray May 1. Both discs will feature an audio commentary by director Luis Berdejo, a behind the scenes featurette and a theatrical trailer.

New Daughter follows John James (Costner) as he tries to rebuild his family after a painful divorce. John has his hands full raising his youngest child, Sam (Gattlin Griffith), and especially his adolescent daughter, Louisa.

First Clip of Christina Ricci’s After.Life

Anchor Bay Films posted a new clip of After.Life on the official website today.

After.Life opens April 9, 2010 and stars Liam Neeson and Christina Ricci.

After a horrific car accident, Anna (Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her. Trapped inside the funeral home, with nobody to turn to except Eliot, Anna is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her own death. But Anna’s grief-stricken boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) still can’t shake the nagging suspicion that Eliot isn’t what he appears to be. As the funeral nears, Paul gets closer to unlocking the disturbing truth, but it could be too late; Anna may have already begun to cross over the other side.

The Legend of Boggy Creek Director Charles B. Pierce Dies

Wow two horror deaths in less than one week (If you count Corey Haim that is) . The Legend of Boggy Creek director, Charles B. Pierce, died on Friday at a nursing home. No cause was specified. He was 71.

Pierce’s low budget documentary-type horror flick, about a creature lurking in an Arkansas swam, paved the way for and influenced movies like The Blair Witch. Other horror credits include The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Boggy Creek II and the 1973 made for TV movie Killer Bees.

No More Lost Boy Sequels For Corey Haim: Dead at 38

I guess Corey Feldman won’t have to worry about Corey Haim messing up his Lost Boys sequels, with drugged-up hissy fits anymore. The actor died at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday of an apparent accidental overdose, according to the LAPD’s North Hollywood Division. Haim’s mother was with the actor at the time. He was 38.