Proof that movies about ghosts don’t have to be all about spectral CGI or girls with long, dark hair, THE ECLIPSE is a different sort of haunting film—in both senses of the word. While it sports elements of the supernatural and occasionally quite jolting moments, it’s more a deeply emotional drama than a strict horror movie—which suits its star, Irish actor Ciarán Hinds, just fine.

Some people enjoy the horror genre. John Everson loves it.

The affair started young when, as a child, he used to sneak peeks at genre movies or episodes of THE TWILIGHT ZONE and, later, copies of FANGORIA. As an adult, his passion for the genre has only grown, prompting him to write five novels and plenty of short stories. He’s also had the good fortune to open his own small press, Dark Arts Books.

In 1988, my mom took me to the local theater, like she would every month to expose me to films (no matter the rating—I had a cool mom, what can I say?). I remember it was a double feature, as the local theater based its business on showing two movies for one low price, and the main draw for our trip was the now-classic action film DIE HARD. While watching Bruce Willis kick ass was a great way to spend two hours, it was the second film that stuck in my memory and would not leave. I couldn’t wrap my mind around what was on the screen. Weird and scary clowns wielding popcorn guns and sucking blood from cocoons made of cotton candy?

Set in a near future where people can “lease” artificial organs, but run into big, bloody trouble if they can’t keep up their payments, Universal’s REPO MEN is the first feature by director Miguel Sapochnik. The filmmaker recently chatted with Fango about the experience, why he hates good movies with lousy third acts and how AVATAR blew him away.

New iterations of famous monsters, legends and myths have been a constant for fans to contend with, their nostalgia often shaping the way they believe their favorite creatures should be presented. Today, one need look no further for an example than the plight of the vampire. Having witnessed the creatures of the night giving way to mopey idols for tweens, horror buffs have been nothing short of mortified at their lack of bite. Inspired by a similar mishandling of the nosferatu—albeit the previous craze—Scott Snyder and Vertigo Comics have created AMERICAN VAMPIRE just in time to help soothe the current generation of disgruntled genre lovers.

In the first part of this interview (see it here), author Eric Garcia recalled how his short story “The Telltale Pancreas” evolved into both a full-length novel and his own screenplay. Universal releases that film, REPO MEN, March 19, and in this concluding portion of our chat with Garcia, the scribe discusses the differences between the book and the script, and weighs in on the REPO! THE GENETIC OPERA controversy.

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