No, Universal didn’t announce that JURASSIC PARK IV is going into production. However, there is going to be a new adventure in the dinosaur saga. In June, IDW will be launching a new comics series based on the franchise, starting with a five-issue story arc titled JURASSIC PARK: REDEMPTION.

Here’s something for those of you who just can’t get enough of Bella, Edward and Jacob: THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON, which made its Blu-ray and DVD debut this past Saturday, has broken the single-day sales record with 4 million units sold.

Any pop-culture receptacle who hasn’t gone deaf or blind in the past four years is no stranger to the inexplicable cultural phenomenon known as the TWILIGHT Saga. Stephanie Meyer, the captain of this teenage girls’ attention-span-consuming cash cow, and her subsequently movie-directing cohorts and actors have taken the age-old story of Romeo and Juliet, mixed it with vampires and werewolves, given it an emo makeover and slapped it across bookstores, big screens, small screens, T-shirts, and every side of the Internet possible.

COP OUT wasn’t quite the hit Warner Bros. expected, but Kevin Smith is already ready to roll with his next project—and it isn’t his hockey movie HIT SOMEBODY with Sean William Scott. In surprising news, the CLERKS director will finally be helming RED STATE, the horror film that Smith has been talking about since 2007.

I was sitting at my desk one day when a package arrived, addressed to the FANGORIA Film Fest and myself. Inside were seven short films, one of which was called THE KILLER KRAPPER. OK, I’ll admit that intrigued me since I love bathroom humor, and I thought to myself, “Anyone who calls their film THE KILLER KRAPPER is likely OK with me.” Little did I know just what I was in for!

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.

Last week, FANGORIA heard about a mysterious little black and white clip on YouTube featuring Fango fave Debbie Rochon as a newscaster discussing the wonders of green screen and Fango employee Marla Newborn laughing along. Quickly after, we got in touch with filmmaker Dave Campfield, who revealed the bit was from his upcoming CAESAR AND OTTO MEET DRACULA’S LAWYER short. Read on for the revamped version of the clip and more!

Filmmaker Roy Frumkes, who told us about his in-the-works remake of FIEND WITHOUT A FACE here, also shared the latest news on a couple of reduxes of his own movies. He premiered “The Definitive DOCUMENT OF THE DEAD” at this past weekend’s Saturday Nightmares event in New Jersey, and is continuing to develop a sequel to his cult-fave gross-out epic STREET TRASH.

BURKE AND HARE is John Landis’ long-awaited return to horror comedy. Shooting has wrapped on the picture, which stars SHAUN OF THE DEAD’s Simon Pegg and LORD OF THE RINGS’ Andy Serkis, as well as Isla Fisher, Tim Curry, John Cleese, Tom Wilkinson and AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON’s Jenny Agutter. And now, the first official image from the film has been released.

Filmmaker James Felix McKenney, whose credits include AUTOMATONS, the upcoming SATAN HATES YOU and the recently wrapped HYPOTHERMIA, got in touch to let us know that he’s venturing into distribution with the new Channel Midnight Releasing. The company will offer independent genre fare on DVD, video-on-demand and digital download.

Along with leg warmers, the Golden Age of the slasher film died in the mid-1980s. Since then, there have been hundreds of uninspired films that took the established formula, added one or two very slight variations and burned our retinas with an inferior sense of déjà vu. Very few post-Golden Age slashers have stayed true to the formula while offering a fresh, smart take on the subgenre. It’s not an easy task, and unfortunately, SPIRIT CAMP is not one of those few. Its heart is in the right place, but it doesn’t have the guts.