Dee Snider’s Big STRANGELAND: DISCIPLE Update

By Samuel Zimmerman

The long-in-development sequel to STRANGELAND, the 1998 fright film penned by rocker and FANGORIA RADIO host Dee Snider, who also starred as the evil Captain Howdy, is finally headed before the cameras. Encouraged by tax breaks for film production in the state of Ohio, STRANGELAND: DISCIPLE, whose story Snider began writing shortly after the original was released, has been picking up speed and will lens soon in Cleveland and Youngstown, OH. Snider spoke exclusively to Fango and let us in on a wealth of new info about what to expect from the follow-up.

Cover and contents for FANGORIA #291

By FANGORIA Staff

Fango #291 is ready to hit the stands this month, and past the jump you’ll find the first look at the cover, as well as the full contents. It’s got everything from werewolves old and new (a Makeup FX Lab and cast piece on THE WOLFMAN and a remembrance of the late Paul Naschy) to independent chills (Adam Green discussing his new FROZEN) to literary horror (a chat with hot author Jonathan Maberry)!

Exclusive first photos from Aussie horror NEEDLE

By Michael Gingold

Fango got ahold of a few exclusive pics (seen past the jump) from NEEDLE, an Australian chiller being handled by Lightning Entertainment. The movie stars Michael Dorman (also seen in the recently released DAYBREAKERS and TRIANGLE) as a college student who inherits an 18th-century device with supernatural properties that begins causing the deaths of his friends.

UK horrors TONY and SALVAGE coming to U.S. DVD

By Michael Gingold

Revolver Entertainment has set an April 6 DVD release date for Gerard Johnson’s British serial-killer film TONY, and passed on the content details for the disc. The movie, which recently premiered at the Slamdance Film Festival and has already won critical raves, is a case study of an alienated Londoner (Peter Ferdinando) whose mental downward spiral leads him to murder.

What’s buried in MEADOWOODS?

By Michael Gingold

Dread Central reported today on a mysterious new project called MEADOWOODS, for which information has been slowly leaking out on-line. It started with a YouTube video of a girl being buried alive, and Dread got an exclusive look at an early trailer; checking out the YouTube poster’s page also leads to a clip called “Naked Ginger Runs Through Forest.” You can see all three videos below.

BABYSITTER WANTED and more horror DVD news

By Michael Gingold

• Fango has learned that Jonas Barnes and Michael Manasseri’s BABYSITTER WANTED will be released on DVD by its production entity Big Screen Entertainment Group. Sarah Thompson (pictured after the jump) stars as a college student who takes a job looking after a young boy at a remote farmhouse one night, and becomes subjected to frightening phone calls and worse.

SXSW fest sets Fantastic and other horror titles

Austin, TX’s South by Southwest Film Festival has announced its lineup of features for the 2010 event, running March 12-20. Among them is a slate of Midnighters features including several rounded up by the folks behind the city’s Fantastic Fest, an eclectic group of international movies that counts three in the horror genre.

DVD/Blu-ray updates: Corman films and SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD!

By Michael Gingold

We first broke the news here about the updated schedule for the many Roger Corman DVDs and Blu-rays coming from Shout! Factory this year, and now we’ve got an update courtesy of disc supplement producer Michael R. Felsher. He’s currently putting together extras for a few of those titles, and gave Fango the first word on what to expect from them.

FROZEN and SPIDER BABY screenings w/guests in LA

By Michael Gingold

Los Angeles-area fans can catch a new chiller and a horror cult classic and hear from the people responsible this month. First, director Adam Green will be on hand for showings of his ski-lift-to-terror film FROZEN when it begins its commercial run this weekend.

The Changing States of PANDORUM

By Samuel Zimmerman

Last year’s PANDORUM was an underseen exploration into sci-fi horror, offering psychological terror, excellent production design, mutated creatures and some intriguing ideas about the future of humanity. Now, with the film currently available on DVD and Blu-ray from Anchor Bay Entertainment, screenwriter Travis Milloy spoke to Fango about the film’s genesis and creation, and we got ahold of some exclusive creature photos to go with his comments. Beware if you haven’t seen the film, as spoilers will follow.

Director’s update on MALEVOLENCE sequel BEREAVEMENT

By Michael Gingold

If, like us, you’re a fan of writer/director Stevan Mena’s superior slasher film MALEVOLENCE, you may have been wondering what’s up with BEREAVEMENT, the second in Mena’s intended MALEVOLENCE trilogy. Fango spoke to Mena recently to get the lowdown on his progress with the sequel, which lensed a couple of years back and stars genre vets Michael Biehn and John Savage.

FREE passes to TERRIBLY HAPPY in NYC

By FANGORIA Staff

FANGORIA, in association with distributor Oscilloscope Pictures, is offering readers the chance to win a free pass for two to the New York City run of the dark Danish thriller TERRIBLY HAPPY, opening this Friday, February 5 at the Angelika Film Center (18 West Houston Street). Directed by Henrik Ruben Genz, the movie follows a city cop who is reassigned to a small town, where he becomes embroiled in local violence and murder.

The RED RIVER Begins to Flow

By CHRIS HABERMAN

In the small, Mayberry-esque town of Greensburg, Kentucky, stomach-turning things are going on in the enormous crawlspace of one decaying house. A demented marijuana farmer in his 50s named Roland is about to smash a young girl’s head in with a sledgehammer. Bloody brains will surely burst from the skull upon impact, which is probably why Roland is so giddy—he can’t seem to stop croaking long, raspy laughs (extremely unpleasant to the ears due to his laryngectomy). Also in this subterranean pit are two nude women trapped in chicken-wire cages, a hacked-up torso hanging from the ceiling by its feet and a mentally and physically warped character referred to on the set as “Hamburger Head” (seen in the first of the exclusive photos after the jump).

DISTRICT 9 scores in Oscar nominations

By Michael Gingold

The sci-fi thriller DISTRICT 9, a sleeper hit this past summer for Sony’s TriStar Pictures, has something more to celebrate this morning with the announcement of the nominees for the 82nd annual Academy Awards. The Peter Jackson-produced, docudrama-style saga of the bloody conflict between humans and extraterrestrials they’ve segregated in South Africa landed four nominations, including one of the 10 slots for Best Picture.

New York City Horror Fest makes 2010 call for entries

By Michael Gingold

It’s only the first of February, but it’s never too early to start thinking about the fright festivals gearing up for Halloween season 2010. The organizers of the New York City Horror Film Festival dropped us a line to let us know that they’ve already begun accepting entries for this year’s event.

2001 MANIACS sequel sets FrightFest premiere; new exclusive pic

By Michael Gingold

2001 MANIACS: FIELD OF SCREAMS director Tim Sullivan sent over an exclusive new photo (see it after the jump) with the news that his sequel will have its world premiere at Film4 FrightFest’s 2010 Glasgow edition, part of the Glasgow Film Festival. The event takes place in the Scottish city Friday-Saturday, February 26-27.

Exclusive sexy pics, comments from FINAL girl Julin

By Michael Gingold

Actress Julin, who can be seen in theaters right now in Joey Stewart’s revenge chiller THE FINAL, gave Fango the exclusive first look at some of her latest modeling pics; check ’em out below the cut. She also talked to us about THE FINAL, part of After Dark Horrorfest 4, in which she plays one of a group of “mean kids” who suffer badly at the hands of an outcast group they tormented in high school.

Open THE TOY BOX for killer thrills

By Michael Gingold

Murder runs rampant again in Texas in THE TOY BOX, a new feature from director/cinematographer Michael Colburn, who gave us some info on the soon-to-lens feature. Based on an original screenplay by Kristin Wong that was adapted by Jennifer Peebles, the movie is based on the true case of serial killer David Parker Ray, who is suspected of slaying as many as 60 victims, whom he tortured in the homemade chamber of the title.

Comments on UK Blu-ray of Romero’s DAY OF THE DEAD

By Michael Gingold

Britain’s Arrow Video is preparing to unleash a new Blu-ray release of George A. Romero’s classic DAY OF THE DEAD with all-new bonus features, and Fango scribe Calum Waddell, one of the creators of the fresh material, got in touch with details of what it has to offer. The disc is set to street March 29.

Make CONTACT with horror short on-line

By Michael Gingold

Fango scribe Jeremiah Kipp passed along word that his genre short CONTACT is now visible on the web as part of the IndieRoar on-line film festival and competition. Designed to give filmmakers a venue to share and be honored for their work, IndieRoar is showcasing a number of minimovies in horror and other genres.