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Sometimes a movie can be a best horror movie you never saw candidate but there are other instances where a movie has been seen and talked about but altogether lost to time. Richard Stanley has had a long career in terms of time he has been active but a very small amount of output in terms of actual number of projects. While the saga of his journey to direct the big budget remake of The Island of Doctor Moreau and subsequent firing has been widely captured in the documentary Lost Soul and his latest success with The Color Out of Space was highly regarded but tinged with controversial allegations, he had a couple of gems before all that. Dust Devil, his sophomore effort, still very much so belongs in the Best Horror You Never Saw category and I will get to that one too, but Hardware (pick up a copy...

As previously noted, Wesley Snipes made a surprising return to his iconic role as Blade in Deadpool & Wolverine, much to the excitement of his fans. Given his popularity, it’s no wonder that fans are thrilled to see him back in action. This resurgence has sparked rumors of a potential comeback in a future film, although this has not been officially confirmed.

The buzz around Wesley Snipes’ return has made Blade one of the most discussed characters online. In light of this, we dug into an older interview that suggests we might not have seen the full story behind the film.

In a comprehensive interview with Entertainment Weekly, producer Peter Frankfurt, writer David S. Goyer, and Wesley Snipes shared intriguing behind-the-scenes details about the original Blade movie and its trilogy.

In the interview, Frankfurt, Goyer, and Snipes covered a range of production topics, sharing fascinating insights about the superhero classic we all know and love.

As previously said, Wesley Snipes, the original Blade, surprised everyone by returning to one of his most well-known roles in Deadpool & Wolverine. It makes sense that fans are ecstatic to see Snipes return to the role, seeing how popular he is. In addition, his reappearance raised rumors that he would make a comeback in a later movie, however this has not been officially confirmed.

Because the fans are so ecstatic to see Wesley Snipes returning to one of his most well-known roles, Blade is currently one of the most talked-about characters online. In light of this, we have gone a little further back in time and found an older interview, indicating that we may not have even seen this film.

Producer Peter Frankfurt, writer David S. Goyer, and star Wesley Snipes sat down with Entertainment Weekly for a large interview in which they revealed numerous interesting behind-the-scene details related...

Brad Dourif has had an incredible acting career that stretches back more than fifty years – and back in the early days of that career, he even earned a “Best Actor in a Supporting Role” Oscar nomination for his performance in the 1975 classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Over a decade later, he started playing the role he is best known for, that of Charles Lee Ray, a.k.a. Chucky, a serial killer who uses voodoo to transfer his soul into the body of a doll. Dourif is now 74 years old, so when we hear that he has decided to retire from acting, it’s totally understandable… but while talking about his retirement, Dourif has also made sure to assure fans that his days of Chucky are not over. He will still continue to work on any Chucky projects that might come up.

News of Dourif’s retirement comes...

Killer Collectibles highlights five of the most exciting new horror products announced each and every week, from toys and apparel to artwork, records, and much more.

Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!]

RoboCop 2 4K Uhd from Scream Factory

RoboCop 2 will protect the innocent on 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray on June 18 via Scream Factory. The 1990 sequel has been newly scanned in 4K from the original camera negative with Dolby Vision.

Irvin Kershner (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back) directs from a script by comic book legend Frank Miller and Walon Green (Eraser). Peter Weller returns to star with Nancy Allen, Dan O’Herlihy, Tom Noonan, Belinda Bauer, and Gabriel Damon.

Special features include: commentaries by CG supervisor Paul M. Sammon and the RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop documentarians; Corporate Wars: The Making of RoboCop 2; Machine Parts: The FX of RoboCop 2; Ocp Declassified; and more.

Species...

Nick Oliveri has announced two career-spanning compilations, N.O. Hits at All Vols. 8 and 9, continuing his running series of the same name. Both arrive January 19th via Heavy Psych Sounds.

As a teaser, Oliveri offered up the Vol. 8 opener “Chains and Shackles” — the first official release of a 2010 collaborative track with Slash.

The song originates as an outtake from Slash’s 2010 self-titled album and is finally receiving a proper release on Oliveri’s comp. His unhinged snarls and Slash’s frenetic riffing call back to the stoner-punk that the former contributed to the early Queens of the Stone Age albums. The track was even produced by Eric Valentine, so that sound is definitely there.

“Slash wrote the music and Eric Valentine and myself wrote the words,” said Oliveri in a press release. “I feel the song is hard-driving and it has the right amount of uncensored dirt, filth, sex,...

In the age of Alexa and Siri, it’s not hard to imagine a world where machines rule. But what if they weren’t as friendly as our favorite virtual assistants? If you’re fascinated by the chilling prospect of tech taking over (or just love a good cinematic robo thrill!), then this list of killer robots and malicious machine movies is tailored just for you. Be warned, though; you might think twice before asking Siri to play your playlist after watching these!

The Terminator (1984) | Orion The Terminator (1984)

In this sci-fi classic, a buff cyborg is sent from the future with a singular mission: end Sarah Connor’s existence. It’s an action-packed roller coaster that introduced us to Arnie’s iconic phrase, “I’ll be back.” Oh, and spoiler alert: he wasn’t just talking about returning from a grocery run. The quintessential killer machine.

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The feature debut from Fritz Böhm, Wildling is a spellbinding take on the werewolf legend starring Independent Spirit Award Nominee Bel Powley (The Diary of a Teenage Girl) and Liv Tyler (Lord of the Rings), Brad Dourif (Death Machine).

IFC Midnight will release Wildling in theaters in New York and on VOD and Digital HD on April 13, 2018 with theatrical expansion in Los Angeles on April 20, 2018.

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Wildling is a unique dark fantasy tale centered on young Anna (Powley) who has been raised in isolation by a man she knows...

If anything, the first two Terminator movies have remained among the greatest, most memorable science fiction films to grace the big screen in the past thirty or so years. Not only did they launch the respective careers of director James Cameron and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger into the stratosphere, but they also happen to be highly quotable, serving as inspiration for many Austrian Death Machine songs.

In the time since, three separate sequels have seen the light of day, though all proved to be highly divisive among moviegoers, if not downright reviled. Personally, I didn’t hate any film in the series and felt that Rise of the Machines and Salvation seemed like the natural progression of the overall story. Still, one can’t overlook the fact that the series’ timeline had become overly convoluted, with both Salvation and Genesys having intended on kicking off trilogies, only to fail at the...

As a film critic and metal enthusiast, I can’t resist a good meeting of mediums. Movies like Deathgasm utilize the devil’s music to further themes and action, while bands like Austrian Death Machine (whose songs are based on Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes) exist to pay homage to pop culture. Movies may be my life, but metal provides my soundtrack – so imagine the speed of my heartbeat after being asked to a “Star Wars themed metal show.”

That’s the exact description a fellow NYC critic came to me with. A Saturday night concert at Webster Hall, featuring a Star Wars themed metal band from Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the headlining slot. Galactic Empire is their name, and they don’t need a Death Star blast to melt your faces.

I arrived halfway through the second opener, Metalfier, but while the growly triumvirate were wrapping things up, Galactic Empire was already making their presence known.

The '90s were a terrible era for a lot of things. Popular music? Check. Awful fashion? Double check. Horror movies? Well, let's look at one of those...Death Machine is the brainchild of Stephen Norrington. Norrington would later go on to make his biggest mainstream impression with the first Blade movie, however, in 1994 he was mainly an FX guy for hire. Death Machine is Norrington's cyberpunk version of Hardware, Die Hard, or Alien, only instead of terrorists and extraterrestrial monsters, the antagonist here is a mad scientist and his deadly attack robot. This is a film which could only have been made in the '90s, its aesthetic is very clear and shares a similar vision of the near future with films like Akira or Osamu...

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Never mind The Terminator and Ed-209, what about Eve, Hector or Warbeast? Here's a pick of 15 less famous killer robots from the movies...

"They say Zapp Brannigan single-handedly saved the Octillion system from a horde of rampaging killbots!" enthused Leela in classic the Futurama episode, Love's Labour's Lost In Space.

It was, reflected the alcoholic, cigar-smoking robot Bender, "A grim day for Robotkind", before adding as an afterthought, "Eh, but we can always build more killbots."

Killer robots are a longstanding staple of science fiction cinema, and if we were to compile the list of the best and most celebrated, it would probably read pretty much like everyone else's - The Terminator, 2001: A Space Odyssey and the Sentinels from X-Men: Days Of Future Past would all get a mention.

But what about the less famous killer robots from film history - the ones that have been largely eclipsed by...

The falling leaves are a sure sign it’s now the beginning of awards season, with Oscar short lists starting to leak out, Ida Awards prepping their program and the Emmy’s already handing out golden statues. Also, on the festival circuit this month we have a whole host of big lineup announcements coming from a hefty set of acronym loving non-fiction fests the world over, from Cph:dox and Doc NYC, to Idfa and Ridm. Best of Fests Docs is a monthly snapshot of the films and filmmakers that are the make-up of the docu film festival and awards circuit. Check out the full rundown below:

Cph:dox - Denmark – November 6th-16th

The festival, also known as Copenhagen International Documentary Festival , has announced its 2014 lineup, which was guest curated this year by Citizenfour director Laura Poitras. Over 200 films (with the likes of Robert Greene’s Actress, Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence,...

The Academy has announced the new class of invited members for 2014 and, as is typical, many of which are among last year's nominees, which includes Barkhad Abdi, Michael Fassbender, Sally Hawkins, Mads Mikkelsen, Lupita Nyong'o and June Squibb in the Actors branch not to mention curious additions such as Josh Hutcherson, Rob Riggle and Jason Statham, but, okay. The Directors branch adds Jay and Mark Duplass along with Jean-Marc Vallee, Denis Villeneuve and Thomas Vinterberg. I didn't do an immediate tally of male to female additions or other demographics, but at first glance it seems to be a wide spread batch of new additions on all fronts. The Academy is also clearly attempting to aggressively bump up the demographics as this is the second year in a row where they have added a large number of new members, well over the average of 133 new members from 2004 to 2012. As far as...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is extending invitations to join the organization to 271 artists and executives who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures.

Those who accept the invitations will be the only additions to the Academy’s membership in 2014.

“This year’s class of invitees represents some of the most talented, creative and passionate filmmakers working in our industry today,” said Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs. “Their contributions to film have entertained audiences around the world, and we are proud to welcome them to the Academy.”

The 2014 invitees are:

Actors

Barkhad Abdi – “Captain Phillips”

Clancy Brown – “The Hurricane,” “The Shawshank Redeption”

Paul Dano – “12 Years a Slave,” “Prisoners”

Michael Fassbender – “12 Years a Slave,” “Shame”

Ben Foster – “Lone Survivor,” “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”

Beth Grant – “The Artist,” “No Country for Old Men”

Clark Gregg – “Much Ado about Nothing,” “Marvel’s The Avengers”

Sally Hawkins – “Blue Jasmine,...

Michael Fassbender and Lupita Nyong’o of 12 Years a Slave were two of the 271 artists and industry leaders invited to become members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which determines nominations and winners at the annual Oscars. The entire list of Academy membership—which numbers about 6,000—isn’t public information so the annual invitation list is often the best indication of the artists involved in the prestigious awards process. It’s worth noting that invitations need to be accepted in order for artists to become members; some artists, like two-time Best Actor winner Sean Penn, have declined membership over the years.

Pop quiz: What do Chris Rock, Claire Denis, Eddie Vedder and Josh Hutcherson all have in common? Answer: They could all be Oscar voters very soon. The annual Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences invitation list always makes for interesting reading, shedding light on just how large and far-reaching the group's membership is -- or could be, depending on who accepts their invitations. This year, 271 individuals have been asked to join AMPAS, meaning every one of them could contribute to next year's Academy Awards balloting -- and it's as diverse a list as they've ever assembled. Think the Academy consists entirely of fusty retired white dudes? Not if recent Best Original Song nominee Pharrell Williams takes them up on their offer. Think it's all just a Hollywood insiders' game? Not if French arthouse titans Chantal Akerman and Olivier Assayas join the party. It's a list that subverts expectation at every turn.

Vic Bateman, one of the UK’s longest serving international sales agents who handled films including The Deer Hunter and The Elephant Man, has died.

Tributes have been paid to Victor ‘Vic’ Bateman, the co-founder and vice chairman of London-based sales company Av Pictures, has died. He was 72.

Bateman’s career in film spanned more than 40 years. He began in the contract administration department of British Lion in 1961, where he developed detailed knowledge of the commercial, financial and legal terms governing distribution arrangements on a global basis. In the early 1970’s Vic was promoted to the international sales division of what was by then Emi Films.

Over the years, Bateman achieved notable sales successes and established his reputation with film buyers worldwide, handling major films such as The Deer Hunter, The Elephant Man, A Passage to India, All of Me, Highlander, The Hitcher, Death on the Nile, Murder on the Orient Express, The Last Emperor and [link...

The Blood Stream mines the Internet for horror gold so you don’t have to, delivering streamable horror titles never before featured on Dread Central. Occasionally I’ll dredge up something good, maybe even great. To find those gems, I’ll have to sift through a lot of breathtakingly bad cinema. Enjoy!

It's hard to think of many movies more intentionally, non-ironically derivative than Proteus (1995).

First the obvious: A group of unsuspecting people happens upon an oil rig housing a dark, mutated secret. Right off the bat we've got direct plagiarism of maritime monster movies like Leviathan and Deepstar Six, albeit a decade late and several million production dollars short. (Obviously Leviathan and Deepstar. I will hear no argument on the subject.) But Proteus' shameless cribbing doesn't end there.

With the exception of the finale's more or less passable money shot, the gloppy, haphazard creature effects are a halfhearted...

Reviewed by Kevin Scott, MoreHorror.com

Death Machine (1994)

Written by: Stephen Norrington

Directed by: Stephen Norrington

Cast: Ely Pouget (Hayden Cale), William Hopkins (John Carpenter), John Sharian (Sam Raimi), Martin McDougall (Yutani), Richard Brake (Scott Ridley), Brad Dourif (Jack Dante)

The early to mid-nineties were an interesting time in horror. To coin a very familiar phrase, “It was the best of times, and the worst of times.” I’ll go with the bad stuff first. Nothing much was happening at the popular theatres in the vein of any quality horror, but on the bright side, we did get some small theatrical release and direct to video gems on VHS. At this point VHS was an established format. The novelty had worn off, but all of these really unique movies that would have never been seen, found a home on the rental shelves. I’ve seen some great ones that still are personal favorites,...

Former As I Lay Dying and current Austrian Death Machine singer Tim Lambesis is undergoing some of the worst legal woes imaginable right now but his latest album has finally been unleashed upon the masses. 'Triple Brutal' is the third Austrian Death Machine record that combines Arnold Schwarzenegger comedy with brutal and uncompromising metal. Lambesis pleaded guilty in February on charges that he'd tried to hire a hitman (who was an undercover police officer) in order to murder his estranged wife. Lambesis will attend sentencing on May 2 where he faces up to nine years in prison and a $10,000 fine. In the wake of the disaster that is Lambesis' personal life, he's released what is one of the silliest and most comical music albums of the year with Austrian Death Machine's third album '...

We're back with another installment of Radio 66.6! This week features the latest news, music, videos and tour dates from the likes of Slipknot, Rob Zombie, Of Mice & Men, Every Time I Die, Miss May I, Him, Whitechapel, Austrian Death Machine, For the Fallen Dreams, Melvins and more. Don't touch that dial.

News

Slipknot will start "major work" on their new album in March, according to vocalist Corey Taylor. They already have 17 demos they’ll be taking into the studio.

Every Time I Die have entered the studio with producer Kurt Ballou (Converge) to begin recording their new album.

Music

Listen to a new Miss May I song titled “Gone” here. Their new album, Rise of the Lion, comes out April 29 on Rise Records.

Listen to a new For the Fallen Dreams song tilted "Emerald Blue" here. It's the lead track from their forthcoming album, Heavy Hearts, which comes out April 8 via Rise Records.

We're back with another installment of Radio 66.6! This week features the latest news, music, videos and tour dates from the likes of Bruce Springsteen, Black Stone Cherry, Brand New, Korn, Austrian Death Machine, Chevelle, Memphis May Fire, Silverstein, Despised Icon, Ronnie James Dio and more. Don't touch that dial!

News

Black Stone Cherry have announced their new album: Magic Mountain will be released on May 6 via Roadrunner Records.

Despised Icon are reuniting for a handful European shows in April to be followed by select North American appearances.

Various hard rock and heavy metal musicians are teaming up for Ronnie James Dio: This Is Your Life. The tribute album will benefit the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up and Shout Cancer Fund. It's due out on April 1 via Rhino. Details are here.

Music

Austrian Death Machine (the side project of As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis) will release Triple Brutal on April 1 via Artery Recordings.

Christmas may be over, but if you're asking me, that doesn't mean we need to file movies like Silent Night, Deadly Night and Black Christmas back onto our DVD shelves, and relinquish them to a fate of collecting dust until next year's holiday season.  As long as it's cold outside, and snow on the ground, it can never be the wrong time of the year to keep warm with tales of Christmas horrors, and the brand spankin' new anthology When Red Snow Melts is all about filling your post-holiday season with killer Santas, season's beatings and, of course, bloody snow.

Put together by Horror Novel Reviews' Matt Molgaard, When Red Snow Melts is a 267 page digital book that features over 30 short holiday horror stories from various different writers, including two from Bubba Ho-Tep scribe Joe R. Lansdale.  With titles like Candy Cane Uprising, Gingerbread Death Machine and Christmas with the Dead,...

We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes trailers for Zombie Hamlet, Cowboy Zombies, and Antisocial, details on an apocalyptic card game, release information for 7E, and much more:

Zombie Hamlet Trailer and Release Details: “The All-Star comedy feature film, Zombie Hamlet, will be available exclusively on DVD from Level 33 Entertainment beginning on December 31, 2013. Following a successful film festival run, the movie sets its sights on entertaining audiences everywhere that DVDs are available for rental or sale by capitalizing on a uniquely funny story and a long list of recognizable names and faces including: Travis Wester, Jason Mewes (Jay And Silent Bob Strike Back), Emmy Award winner Shelley Long (“Cheers”), Vanessa Lee Evigan, with Emmy® Award nominee John Amos (“Good Times”) and June Lockhart (“Lost In Space”).

Directed by John Murlowski, written by John McKinney, and produced by Tom Shell,...

F rom the works of masters like Costa-Gavras and Asghar Farhadi to newcomers like Nagraj Manjule and Kim Mordaunt, the Mumbai Film Festival 2013 offers above 200 films to choose from for an entire week!

Anu Rangachar, the Program Director of Mumbai Film Festival, lists her 20 favourite films in the lineup.

1. The Act of Killing

Dir.: Joshua Oppenheimer (2012 / Col. / 115′)

Section: The Real Reel

The film won the Panorama Audience Award and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Berlin International Film Festival 2013 and the Cph:dox Award at the Cph:dox Film Festival 2012. It has bagged several other awards in film festivals at Istanbul, Prague, Geneva, Warsaw, Barcelona, Zagreb, Mexico, etc.

An Indonesian documentary, The Act of Killing challenges the total impunity on genocide by the death squad leaders. In 1965, Anwar Congo and his friends were promoted to the ranks of Death Squad Leaders to help the army obliterate more than one million alleged communists,...

Ever since California's Governator made his return to Hollywood, he's talked openly about starring in sequels to just about everything he's ever participated in. ("Kindergarten Cop 2," anyone?).

The passable but somewhat laughable "The Last Stand" was a box-office bomb. To be fair to the Austrian Oak, plenty of "The Expendables" guys had movies bomb this year. But it makes sense that he'd return to the franchise well.

While in Australia for something called the 21st Century Financial Education Summit seminar, Arnold revealed that shooting will commence on a fifth "Terminator" movie in January, 2014! But in the same breath, he spoke about the rumored "Twins" sequel, which he envisions as "Triplets" with Eddie Murphy showing up alongside him and Danny DeVito. He also brought up "King Conan," which will presumably do away with any continuity from the failed 2011 "Conan" reboot.

Arnold has been talking about all of these great ideas for...

The Missing Image – Rithy Panh

Section: Un Certain Regard

Buzz: Cambodian director Rithy Panh, perhaps best known for his 2003 documentary, S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine or a 2008 Isabelle Huppert film, The Sea Wall, unveils this intriguing hybrid documentary/Claymation feature in Un Certain Regard, and it has already been compared to the likes of Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir. Luckily, Panh’s latest has already received distribution deals through Paris based Film Distribution (Fd) ahead of its world premiere, which bodes well for a project that may very well introduce Panh to a wider audience.

The Gist: In The Missing Image, Franco-Cambodian Panh pieces together his adolescence in a Khmer Rouge labour camp, through archives and reenactments using small clay figurines, in the work.

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Reuters reports that Tim Lambesis, the 32-year-old frontman for metal band As I Lay Dying, was arrested in California on Tuesday for allegedly hiring an undercover detective to orchestrate the murder of his estranged wife. "The information came to us late last week. We acted quickly on it. I believe that we averted a great tragedy," said San Diego County Sheriff's Department spokeswoman Jan Caldwell. Lambesis's wife, Meggan, filed for divorce in September 2012. The former couple has three children who they adopted from Ethiopia. As I Lay Dying got its start in 2000 and has been categorized as a Christian act; Lambesis also has an Arnold Schwarzenegger-centric side project, Austrian Death Machine. He'll be arraigned on Wednesday or Thursday.

2013′s Un Certain Regard section carries a whopping five first time feature filmmakers that’ll be measuring themselves up against auteur cinema heavyweights. While we nailed predictions for Alain Guiraudie’s L’inconnu du Lac, Rebecca Zlotowski’s Grand Central and the more international flavored title of the Sundance hit, Fruitvale Station by Ryan Coogler, we didn’t see major players such as S21: The Khmer Rouge Death Machine director Rithy Panh, or Paradise Now‘s Hany Abu-Assad (who brings us the first fully-financed film to come out of the Palestinian cinema industry) or Mohammad Rasoulof from Goodbye fame (brings us what is surely an aptly titled film in Anonymous) in the horizons.

As Nicholas mentioned yesterday, this would be a year of the women filmmakers (by Cannes standards) – six of them find themselves in the Un Certain Regard category. Sofia Coppola is joined by the baffling inclusion of...

Sneak Peek Oscar-winning English actress Rachel Weisz in the Spring 2013 edition of "Harper's Bazaar" (UK) magazine.

A former fashion model and classically-trained stage actress, Weisz started her film acting career in the British mini-series "Inspector Morse", followed by "Scarlet and Black" and the Mow "Advocates II". 

Weisz made her film début in the film "Death Machine" (1994), but her breakthrough performance was in the feature "Chain Reaction" (1996).

This led to her high-profile role as 'Evelyn Carnahan-o'Connell' in the films "The Mummy" (1999) and "The Mummy Returns" (2001). 

Other notable films include "Enemy at the Gates", "About a Boy", "Constantine", "The Fountain" and an Academy Award-winning performance as 'Tessa Quayle' in "The Constant Gardener".

In 2007 Weisz starred in "My Blueberry Nights", followed by "Fred Claus", "Definitely, Maybe" (2008), "The Brothers Bloom (2008), "Agora" (2009), "The Lovely Bones (2009), "The Whistleblower (2010), "The Deep Blue Sea (2011), "Dream House" (2011), "The Bourne Legacy" (2012), and "Oz The Great and Powerful" (2013).

Weisz' new film...

This morning, Bethesda released details about the voice cast for their upcoming supernatural revenge title Dishonored, from Arkane Studios. Among the names joining the cast are a whole mess of Academy Awards and Golden Globes. So the game's gonna sound good at least, right?

More details after the jump.

A curious note: among the cast announcements, there's no one lending their pipes to the role of assassin and lead character Corvo. Does that mean Bethesda's not announcing it yet or that the character is simply going to be voiceless throughout the campaign?

In any event, we've got Susan Sarandon onboard as Granny Rags, a deranged blind woman and former aristocrat and Carrie Fisher as an announcer spouting government propaganda throughout the game. Kill Bill star Michael Madsen plays another assassin here as Daud. This isn't his first go-round with game Vo after he voiced the English dub of Yakuza for Sega.

With "Rock of Ages" thundering through theaters on Friday, the retro spotlight will once again shine on the crazy '80s, the decade of decadence when rock stars were true rock stars and unapologetic about being so.

In anticipation of the nostalgia this will inspire, we're looking at nine hard-rock and heavy-metal films that have made noise in the mainstream. Horns up!

9. 'Detroit Rock City' (1999)

While a majority of teen flicks tend to focus on love, partying and sex, 'Detroit Rock City' has a singular directive -- getting four teenage Kiss fanatics to a concert after one of their mothers burns their tickets and banishes her son to Catholic school. Naturally that's not going to stop them, and once reunited, the four garage bandmates (including Edward Furlong) go on a wild road trip that involves drugs, fights, a botched mugging and robbery, a strip club contest and other ridiculous situations.

We at Blogomatic3000 love our horror movies, so it’s fitting that we get the chance to bring you the schedule for FEARnet’s exclusive Halloween horror movie extravaganza! So if you’re looking for a good scare in the month of October, read on to see just what FEARnet has planned for you!

On Sunday, October 30th at 9:00 p.m. Et, FEARnet will air a special Halloween episode of Psychoville, the award-winning British black-comedy thriller series written by and starring Reece Shearsmith (Shaun of the Dead) and Steve Pemberton (The League of Gentlemen, Doctor Who). In the Halloween special, four tales of terror unfold as a film crew investigates the abandoned ruins of Ravenhill Psychiatric hospital.

On Halloween, FEARnet will air an all-day marathon of Trick ‘r Treat, starring Anna Paquin (True Blood), Brian Cox (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) and Leslie Bibb (Zookeeper). Michael Dougherty...

La-La Land Records has released a soundtrack album for the NBC superhero drama The Cape. The 2Cd-set includes selections of the original score from the show by composer Bear McCreary. More than 150 minutes of music is included on the 2 disc release, which is limited to 2000 copies. To listen to audio clips and order the soundtrack, visit the label’s online store and check out McCreary’s official website for more information, including video clips about the making of the score. The Cape created by Tom Wheeler and starring David Lyons, Keith David and Summer Glau aired earlier this year on NBC and the complete series is available on DVD. To learn more about the superhero show, visit the official series webpage.

Here’s the track list of the album:

Disc 1:

1. The Cape Main Title (0:49)

2. A New Day Ahead from “Pilot” (3:02)

3. The Death of Vince Faraday from “Pilot...

Today is the day, military shooter fans who also happen to love killing zombies. The "Call of Duty: Black Ops" Escalation map pack is available right this very second on Xbox 360. If you're willing to plunk down $15 (1200 Microsoft Points), five brand new multiplayer maps and the star-studded "Call of the Dead" zombie mode are all yours. The multiplayer maps are fine and all, but this great-looking undead map is why I'm actually excited.

"The tide will rise...and so will the body count."

See, I wasn't joking around about the star-studded cast. Beyond the fact that Treyarch enlisted the help of zombie aficionado George Romero for "Call of the Dead," the mode's characters run the gamut of horror celebrities. Danny "Machete" Trejo, Robert "Freddy Kruger" England, Sarah "Buffy" Michelle Gellar, and Michael "Walking Dead" Rooker will all make appearances in the game.

The mode's an obvious homage to the legendary Romero,...

Rick Baker. Friend of apes. Maker of monsters. Seven time Oscar winner. And that lucky number seven was for The Wolfman, shared with fellow Efx maestro Dave Elsey. Their on-stage speech was great, but the extended Thank You Cam was even better. Both Baker and Elsey thanked Jack Pierce and Dick Smith for inspiring them. Though there were grumblings online that the Academy clip showed the CG transformation rather then the make-up. It is always a treat to see our own getting the gold.

In the best original music category, Trent Reznor won for The Social Network. But who could forget his rivethead contributions to Class of 1999, Se7en, and Tetsuo: The Bullet Man? And Danny Boyle’s nominated 127 Hours didn’t win for Best Picture, but we will always love him “best” for his bloody crazies in the 28 Days series.

Rounding out the highlights in horror cred are nods to Jason X,...

With all that nasty governing business now behind him, action star Arnold Schwarzenegger is looking to return his focus to a life back behind the cameras,, and the possibilities are endless.

Arnie made the announcement on his Twitter page, where he dropped the news. "Exciting news. My friends at CAA have been asking me for 7 years when they can take offers seriously. Gave them the green light today," said the former Governator.

One thing I think we can count on? A return to the Predator franchise. Mark our words ... Dutch will ride again (with a little help from the CGI wizards of course). To celebrate the good news, how about a little Austrian Death Machine?

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Stephen Norrington will probably go down in film history has the man who had a fight with Sean Connery on the set of The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. It’s a shame because his work is interesting if miscalculated to some effect. Death Machine and Blade displayed moments of wonderful invention and vision but Norrington just doesn’t like playing ball. He’s flown the nest on The Crow remake after ‘creative differences’. Yawn.

One of the biggest news items attached to this was the involvement of Mark Wahlberg – which would have been bloody awful, to be honest. The actor who’s a dreadful leading man but shines like a mega-star when in an ensemble told Cinematical of his brief involvement:

“We never committed to making the movie. They talked to me about it and there was a director attached who I was a fan of, and he’s no longer doing it.

Stephen Norrington is one of those director’s often brimming with great ideas and often let down by other events. If anybody has seen the brilliant b-movie Death Machine, you’ll know what I’m on about. Same goes for Blade and The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Tom Sawyer? Wtf? Alas, Norrington has been rather quiet since his boxing days with Sean Connery but all that is about to change.

MTV managed to grab word with The Crow producer Edward Pressman for an update on Norrington’s remake. He confirmed the production will begin shooting later in the year and the director is planning all kinds of great stuff.

“The Crow itself is a character in this movie: it’s not just a bird. It’s got a personality… and a more active role in the story.”

The famous original, directed Alex Proyas, remains a cult classic to this day...

Stephen Norrington is a mysterious chap. He doesn’t do publicity for his movies. At all. The last film he did was a disaster known as The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Most of us remember it as the film that announced Sean Connery’s retirement. Norrington has taken a lengthy break from the business but is coming back, hopefully, with the one-two punch of, The Lost Patrol and a re-gothed Crow movie. The Crow is most famous for the set death of Brandon Lee – son of legend, Bruce Lee, when a blank fired from a gun lodged into his abdomen. There was the dreadful sequel, City of Angels, and an even more ropey effort later on. Shock Till You Drop managed to to get him to speak a few syllables that formed words that formed sentences from the press-shy director. Norrington says The Crow is approaching a green light with...

It’s been a quiet few years for the former special effects man turned film director, Stephen Norrington. There was a rather expensive disaster and Sean Connery career-ender called The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, but nothing since. The film has since passed into film history as an expensive flop. His two previous flicks: Death Machine (for anybody who’s seen it) and Blade demonstrated a vast amount of talent. There have been rumours afoot of Norrington “re-flying” The Crow (see what I did there?), but The Hollywood Reporter have it that he’s instead been hired by Legendary Pictures to re-write and direct a supernatural WW2 thriller called The Lost Patrol. Norrington himself has said:

“Hardware, heroes, grime and insane monsters.”

The original script was written by Andrew Hilton and purchased by Legendary Pictures some time last year and passed to Matt Cirulnick before Norrington got his mitts on it.

Last we heard from Stephen Norrington he was preparing a reboot of The Crow. But it looks like that'll have to wait, as it's just been announced that he'll be re-writing and directing The Lost Patrol for Legendary Pictures.The original screenplay by Andrew Hilton was picked up by the production company last year, and has already undergone a re-write by Matt Cirulnick, who scripted the as-yet unproduced, Avebury-themed Stones for Ridley Scott a couple of years ago. Norrington says the supernaturally-tinged World War 2 action thriller contains "hardware, heroes, grime and insane monsters", and therefore presses all his "geek buttons".Even though we poked ourselves in the eyes like everyone else did, rather than witness the career-derailing unravelment of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, we're still rooting for Norrington here. We've had a lot of time for him since way back in the Death Machine days, and we seriously loved him for Blade.

If it's Sunday, then that means its time for another Fangoria Week In Review. We're turning back the clock to look back on the past seven days of blood-soaked horror goodness.

We've got the entire week broken down by category so that you can catch up on anything you might've missed. It was a big week for us here at Fango as the announcement went out that Stephen King would be joining the ranks of Fango scribes, the mag would be honored at Stiges, and news from the Trinity continued to flow.

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In this installment, Fango grabs the latest releases from Megadeth, Dethklok, and Austrian Death Machine - three flavors of death, and two having fictional frontmen. It's the Deth Edition...

Megadeth - Endgame

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Back in 1993, Megadeth's Dave Mustaine was the second interview I'd ever conducted. Only 16 at the time and sporting a horrible Iowa-style metalhead mullet, taking a seat next to Dave was a huge deal. One thing that was clear to me even in my youth was that there's two types of metal fans: one's that like Megadeth, and one's that don't. The very traits that draw some listeners into the fold are the same that drive others away. Megadeth is a unique thrash-metal beast.

While the late '90's and early 2000's were not kind to the band (lineup changes,...

Happy Labor Day Weekend, Fangorians! It's time for another look back at the past 7-days of blood-soaked horror goodness.

We've got the entire week broken down by category so that you can catch up on anything you might've missed - including advance reviews of Sorority Row & Daybreakers, a pair of Dexter interviews, a post-hii talk with Rob Zombie, and so much more.

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I almost feel bad that we haven't given enough props to Austrian Death Machine around here. Fangoria readers should take notice, as the band is fronted by "Ahhnold", as in a comedic nod to the Governor of California, the hunter of Predators, The Running Man, the guy who had a Total Recall... you get it.

Well, today As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis and California frontman Ahhnold are back for round two with the release of Austrian Death Machine’s Double Brutal, the follow up to 2008’s highly successful (and, well, brutal) release, Total Brutal. With an appetite for all things barbarous, Austrian Death Machine ups the ante with Double Brutal. This two-disc goliath features one disc of all new heavy tracks in the tradition of all of Ahhnold’s greatest cinematic moments and a second disc of cover songs including songs originally performed by Metallica, Megadeth, Misfits, Judas Priest and more,...

How I missed this amount of pure fucking awesome is beyond me. I mean shit, I hadn't really lived until I discovered Austrian Death Machine.

Adm was formed as a solo project by As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis. From what I've read, there is another Arnold tribute band called ArnoCorps that is pretty awesome too, but from listening to the tracks thus far, Lambesis puts anyone who ever thought about doing this to shame. With song titles like Get to the Choppa, It's Not a Tumor, and If It Bleeds We Can Kill It, this stuff will make you a goddamned sexual Tyrannosaurus.

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So imagine you're Stephen Norrington.  You make a mildly entertaining little film called Death Machine about a battle-bot run amok, and three years later you release the kick-ass, franchise-starting Blade.  It's a big success, but instead of capitalizing on it you disappear from the directing scene.  Three years pass and you return ...

It only takes 14 years for a film to be remade. Alex Proyas' The Crow, starring Brandon Lee, is up next, with Relativity Media negotiating with producer Ed Pressman to acquire the film franchise. Stephen Norrington has signed on to both write and direct the "reinvention" of the film, which was originally based on the comic created by James O'Barr. The original film, which hit theaters in 1994, is about a rock musician who is murdered trying to rescue his girlfriend from thugs but returns from the dead a year later to avenge his and his girlfriend's death. "Whereas Proyas' original was gloriously gothic and stylized, the new movie will be realistic, hard-edged and mysterious, almost documentary-style," Norrington said. Stephen Norrington has been laying dormant ever since he directed The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in 2003. Norrington is an accomplished sculptor who made his directorial debut with Death Machine then went ...