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29 December 2008 1:22 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

This past year was a pretty damn good one for horror—as long as you didn’t depend on the mainstream. While most of the wide-release features conformed safely to formula, much more daring and interesting stuff was cropping up all over the art-house, festival and DVD scene.

Perhaps no better example can be drawn than the fact that while the bloodless, predictable Twilight was sucking millions of bucks out of tween girls at the multiplexes, the small Swedish import Let The Right One In, a modern classic on the same theme, was quietly knocking out audiences on a much smaller scale. Not everything the studios gave us in 2008 was negligible; a couple of titles from the majors made my top 10, and The Ruins and The Strangers would be among the runners-up. But there are far more indie features swarming like piranhas just below my list…

1.) Let The Right One In »

14 July 2008 12:58 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

It’s all about the traps this week. Check out what horror flicks are hitting DVD on Tuesday, July 15th, 2008...

Asylum (2008)

Directed by David R. Ellis

It seems all the madness surrounding Ellis’ last effort, Snakes on a Plane, popped something in his head and he decided the only way to follow it up would be with the most generic, bland, impotent kind of horror film. Enter Asylum, the story of a group of new kids at college who find out their new dorm is adjacent to the former stomping grounds of a doctor who got off on conducting experiments on kids their age. Lameness follows. Be sure to read our Asylum DVD review for more! Buy it here!

Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell (2007)

Directed by Kevin Wheatley & Jonny Gillette

How strange; I remember when this film first was getting festival play it was the talk of the »

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27 May 2008 10:46 AM, PDT | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »

A realy cool Photoshop job courtesy of Fox Home Video who has released the final DVD cover art for their upcoming unrated release of Shutter. The Masayuki Ochiai directed horror will be available to own from the 15th July, with each disc retailing at around $29.98. The rated edition will include anamorphic widescreen and full screen presentations, along with English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround tracks. The only extra material will be 2 featurettes (A Ghost In The Lens, A History Of Spirit Photography). The unrated edition will receive an anamorphic widescreen presentation, along with English Dolby Digital 5.1 and Dts 5.1 Surround tracks. Extras will include a commentary with Production Executive Alex Sundell, Screenwriter Luke Dawson and actress Rachael Taylor, 5 featurettes (A Cultural Divide, The Director: Masayuki Ochiai, A Conversation With Luke Dawson, Create Your Own Phantom Photo, The Hunt For The Haunt: Tools And Tips For Ghost Hunting), 9 deleted scenes, an alternate ending (Mental »

3 articles from 2008