After taking its first step into nationwide releasing with last month’s THE COLLECTION, LD Entertainment has set a release date for another horror feature, DEVIL’S RAPTURE.

Santa visited the FANGORIA office today, and brought a box full of naughty Japanese films from Synapse/Impulse Pictures. So we’re giving away this fine holiday booty to some lucky fans. You can win either SEX HUNTER: WET TARGET or I LOVE IT FROM BEHIND! Nothing says holiday viewing like these fun little flicks.

Having produced and released microbudget genre features for the past two decades, Alternative Cinema/Camp Motion Pictures has announced a series of indie productions to be lensed over the next two years, with details of the first four movies.

After playing and winning awards at international festivals, the German-made survival-horror film IRON DOORS has a date with U.S. DVD and video-on-demand.

Beware, guys: It’s GIRLS AGAINST BOYS and the girls are winning in the vigilante shocker coming to theaters early next year. We’ve got the release info and an exclusive teaser poster to share.

Despite the shatteringly good, brilliant THE CABIN IN THE WOODS and the fact that I have happily found more than ten titles to wholly endorse as genre films worth seeking out, I can’t escape the sentiment that 2012 was in fact, a weak year. Is it the aimlessness of horror at the moment?

The indie supernatural thriller, Nightscape, made its debut at the Montreal Comiccon Horrorfest and recently captivated audiences at the New York City Horror Film Festival. It concerns an emotionally-guarded drifter who crosses paths with a phantom car responsible for a wave of supernatural violence.

Set in the mysterious Pine Gap, Australia—think Area 51 with a neater accent—CRAWLSPACE (coming to theaters and on demand January 4 from IFC Films) opens as an underground research facility has put out a distress call. Chaos has broken out all around; scientists scream for help, patients do their best to escape and bodies begin to pile up.

During a particularly fruitful creative period in the early 1970s, director Jess Franco was making somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 films a year all over Europe. There are those who consider these some of his most interesting years as a filmmaker, while others see this as a period of wild excess and slipshod directorial technique that was marred by a tragic misuse of the zoom lens.

After being restored and released theatrically to great acclaim after four decades, the Aussie shocker WAKE IN FRIGHT is heading to the home market; read on for the details and cover art.

Horror was all over the map in 2012, in both senses of the phrase. We saw movies from across the globe—including an impressive first stab at the genre from Israel—and exercises in every subgenre imaginable. And my pick for the very top of the year’s offerings combined them all into one film.