 The inaugural FANGORIA TRINITY OF TERRORS took place last weekend at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, and bringing back a popular feature from past conventions, the Fango crew was broadcasting LIVE from the event all weekend. Many of the attending celebrities took time to sit down at the FANGORIA.com webcast booth for a spontaneous live broadcast and chat, and on Sunday we welcomed Slipknot frontman/Trinity of Terrors Executive Producer Corey Taylor (see his favorite horror films here in a FANGORIA MUSICK List of Doom) to the booth for a post-Halloween show discussion with our own James Zahn and Shannon Lark. Check out the video below the break.
 Just when we thought we were done with the day’s disc news, Fox Home Entertainment sent along the complete specs for its dual release of JENNIFER’S BODY. The Megan Fox-starrer arrives on DVD and in a two-Blu-ray set December 29, with each edition containing both the theatrical and unrated extended cuts.
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 • IFC Films and MPI Media Group gave Fango the first look at cover art for their DVD release of PONTYPOOL (pictured), the acclaimed and unusual zombie thriller starring Stephen McHattie. Also coming this winter from the two companies is another well-received genre film, the Argentinean ghost story THE APPEARED.
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 • DEMON RESURRECTION (pictured), the new shocker from writer/director William Hopkins (who wrote the original story for Fangoria Films’ CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT) is now available from Feature Resources, Inc. Alexis Golightly, Damian Ladd, Bashir Solebo, Laurie Miller, Will McDonald and Joe Zaso star in this story of a witches’ coven, exectuted 200 years ago, who arise as skeletal zombies in search of a young woman who may be carrying the child of a Cthulhu-like deity.
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 All sorts of legendary creatures are coming out for FANGORIA RADIO. Tonight’s show, hosted by Debbie Rochon and Fango managing editor Michael Gingold (airing live on Sirius XM Stars satellite radio, Sirius channel 108/XM channel 139, from 10 p.m.-1 a.m. EST, with a repeat immediately thereafter) will give you the skinny on a bunch of indie frights:
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 Love it or hate it, Fango #288 has been on the market for a few weeks, and that means it's time to take a look to the future. Shipping in December is FANGORIA #289 (January 2010). This is the first issue featuring contributing writer Stephen King with the first installment of his two-part essay (to be concluded in Fango #290). Check out the full GUTS & GRAVY below the jump, where you can also pre-order this issue a la carte, or subscribe for massive savings!
 From October 30-November 1st, the inaugural FANGORIA TRINITY OF TERRORS took over The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas for the ultimate Halloween weekend. The following photos were taken by Hew Burney, at the special performance by SLIPKNOT on Halloween night - their final performance of the ALL HOPE IS GONE album cycle. A master gallery is being constructed and will be found here when completed. More photos of the Slipknot performance to come.
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 Last Friday at New York City’s 92YTribeca, fans of Robin Hardy’s 1973 British horror classic THE WICKER MAN got a special treat. Not only was a 35mm print of the movie screened with Hardy in attendance, but the director unveiled 10 minutes of clips from his latest feature THE WICKER TREE (formerly known as COWBOYS FOR CHRIST). Fango got a chance to speak with Hardy exclusively about the new project, which was partially encouraged by the misbegotten 2006 remake of THE WICKER MAN starring Nicolas Cage.
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 Halloween is over, but the horror-film screenings continue. A quartet of genre features that have yet to achieve general distribution will be shown this month on opposite coasts, all with special guests on hand.
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 From October 30-November 1st, the inaugural FANGORIA TRINITY OF TERRORS took over The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas for the ultimate Halloween weekend. The following photos were taken by Hew Burney, and represent the show floor on Sunday, November 1st. A master gallery is being constructed and will be found here when completed. More photos to come.
Friday, November 06, 2009 10:35 AM
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 Absurda and Industrial Entertainment have announced that their film MY SON, MY SON, WHAT HAVE YE DONE has set a debut theatrical-release date. The movie marks the first collaboration between cinematic mavericks Werner Herzog and David Lynch, who directed and executive-produced respectively.
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From October 30-November 1st, the inaugural FANGORIA TRINITY OF TERRORS took over The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas for the ultimate Halloween weekend. The following photos were taken by Hew Burney, and represent the show floor on Saturday, October 31st. A master gallery is being constructed and will be found here when completed. More photos to come.
 From October 30-November 1st, the inaugural FANGORIA TRINITY OF TERRORS took over The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas for the ultimate Halloween weekend. The following photos were taken by Hew Burney, and represent the show floor on Friday, October 30th. A master gallery is being constructed and will be found here when completed. More photos to come.
 To answer the most obvious question right away: No, sadly, Richard Kelly’s THE BOX is not a return to the absorbingly strange glories of his knockout debut feature DONNIE DARKO. But nor is it as frustratingly out of control as his follow-up film SOUTHLAND TALES either. In fact, it’s kind of a combination of both: opening and closing reels of compelling and dark personal drama surrounding more expansive, elaborate plotting that loses its grip.
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Friday, November 06, 2009 06:10 AM
Michael Gingold
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 Variety reports that Hideo Nakata, who helmed the Japanese RINGU chillers among others as well as the American THE RING TWO, will direct VOICE FROM THE STONE for Zanuck Independent. The project is based on the Italian cult novel LA VOCE DELLA PIETRA by Silvio Raffo.
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 The trick to making a successful vérité horror film, especially in this post-BLAIR WITCH age of audience skepticism, is not forcing the issue that the events on screen are real. The makers of THE FOURTH KIND have geared their campaign toward encouraging viewers to make up their own minds, but the more the movie itself insists—frequently and blatantly—that it’s authentic, the harder it is to buy any of it, undercutting a number of genuinely creepy sequences.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 07:50 PM
Tony Timpone
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 The original PREDATOR inspired more American Film Market-screened knockoffs than just about any other movie, and the word on the street here at the sales event is that the upcoming Robert Rodriguez production PREDATORS will also jumpstart a whole new stream of human-vs.-aliens movies. And those who gotten a look at the PREDATORS screenplay have been raving.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 07:47 PM
Tony Timpone and Michael Gingold
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 Roger Corman (a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award at our recent Trinity of Terrors) is a mainstay of the American Film Market and always has been, and that’s where we caught up again with the veteran producer, who’s doing a couple of new killer-fish movies for the Syfy channel. “DINOCROC was a big hit for us,” he tells Fango, “and Syfy wanted another one, so now we have DINOSHARK, which we shot in Mexico, and that has turned out so well, the next one we’ll do for them is…
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 07:43 PM
Michael Gingold
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 The organizers of the New York City Horror Film Festival have announced the movies they’re presenting in the 2009 edition. The fest runs Thursday-Sunday, November 19-22 at the Tribeca Cinemas (54 Varick Street at Canal Street), with an opening-night party Wednesday the 18th at 8 p.m. at BLVD (199 Bowery near Spring Street).
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Thursday, November 05, 2009 07:40 PM
Michael Gingold
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 Variety reports that Ashley Greene (pictured), who plays Alice Cullen in TWILIGHT and the upcoming NEW MOON and ECLIPSE, is in talks to star in the Dark Castle production THE APPARITION. Todd Lincoln will direct the film from his own script, for producers Joel Silver, Andrew Rona and Alex Heineman.
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 If you want to talk about badass crap, you really can’t do a hell of a lot worse than the horror genre. Whether it’s crazy Eastern Europeans with slicked-back hair and overly developed canine teeth chomping down on the necks of scantily clad maidens or demented, murderous psychopaths running around in body armor made from human skin and carving X’s into the chest cavities of wayward coeds with gasoline-powered gardening implements, horror never seems to disappoint when it comes to violent homicide or paint-bombing dungeon walls with a thick coat of crimson substances. Therefore, in an effort to promote my new book BADASS: A RELENTLESS ONSLAUGHT OF THE TOUGHEST WARLORDS, VIKINGS, SAMURAI, PIRATES, GUNSLINGERS, AND MILITARY COMMANDERS TO EVER LIVE (in which I talk about such real-life badasses as the notorious Vlad the Impaler; see the trailer here), I will attempt to discuss some of the toughest heroes and villains the genre has to offer.
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We've got an early announcement for this Friday's installment of FANGORIA RADIO (airing live on Sirius XM Stars satellite radio, Sirius channel 108/XM channel 139, from 10 p.m.-1 a.m. EST, with a repeat immediately thereafter), that actor Sean Patrick Flanery will be joining us for a chat.
 NOTE: This review does contain minor SPOILERSCheerfully gory and revolting, CABIN FEVER 2: SPRING FEVER is the fun sequel to Eli Roth's cult classic that recently made it's debut on the last night of Screamfest L.A. Starting immediately after the events of the first film, Paul (top-billed Rider Strong in a two-minute cameo) climbs out of the creek with the virus eating away at him, and he's promptly mowed down by a schoolbus (hardly a 'spoiler', having been revealed in the film's marketing materials).
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According to The Hollywood Reporter, British filmmaker Lawrence Gough, who currently has SALVAGE (pictured) doing the festival circuit, will next direct DROUGHT for The Works International and Mann Made Films. The movie is an ecological action/horror story in the vein of John Hillcoat’s upcoming Cormac McCarthy adaptation THE ROAD.
