If you love the classic fairy tale “Red Riding Hood,” then you might want to prepare yourself before watching the awesomely gruesome trailer for the upcoming “Dog Soldiers: Legacy” web series and “Dog Soldiers” sequel. The trailer, “Dog Soldiers: Red,” which is certainly not for the faint of heart, is below the post. Also below are some production stills. D. Eric Allen, Kismet vice president, produced the Ryan Lightbourn-trailer and many of his family members cast, including his grandmother Pat “Nan” Allen who plays the anxious grandmother and his sister Emmy Allen who portrays “Red”. The trailer was shot in a weekend in Northern Arkansas in August 2011. “The trailer  [ Read More ]

Director Adam Wingard feels very pleased with the success of his film. “I’m pretty satisfied with it,” he said when asked about the positive response the indie circuit has given his film “A Horrible Way To Die.” “The criticism is generally one of two things; some people think it’s either too stylized, particularly with the camera work, or the ending is too stylized. Some people felt the ending was too over the top. But the reception’s been great. We got a positive review from the New York Times, and the reaction is pretty accurate to how I feel about the film.” Quite a lot of the buzz is about the  [ Read More ]

Title: John Carpenter’s The Ward Directed by: John Carpenter Starring: Amber Heard, Lyndsy Fonseca and Jared Harris Running time: 88 minutes, Rated R, available on standard DVD After burning down a farmhouse in 1966, Kristen is brought to the North Bend Psychiatric Hospital in Oregon. She meets with several same-age institutionalized girls who are being treated by Dr Gerald Stringer. While taking a shower, she is attacked by a girl whom she reveals is named Alice, a former patient who had mysteriously disappeared. Soon the other girls begin to disappear or wind up murdered by a misused therapy device. Kristin is on a mission to escape the mental ward or  [ Read More ]

ShockYa reported on the new maze opening at Universal Studios “Halloween Horror Nights,” “La Llarona: Villa de Almas Perdidas.” Now, we have some exclusive images from the development of the maze to share with you. You can view the images below. According to the press release, “La Llorona: Villa De Almas Perdidas,” which translates to “Weeping Woman: Village of Lost Souls,” will have elaborate sets depicting sites within and around a small Mexican village: “The new maze will tell the haunting story of ‘La Llorona,’ doomed to wander the earth forever after drowning her children in a desperate attempt to win a lost love. She then drowns herself when this  [ Read More ]

Universal Studios Hollywood’s “Halloween Horror Nights” event has a new maze! The maze “La Llorona: Villa De Almas Perdidas” will open September 23 and run on select nights through October 31. The maze’s creative consultant is Mexico-based film star Diego Luna. ‘Like all Mexican children, I gew up with the story of ‘La Llorona’ and I think it’s a tale with universal appeal,” said Luna. ‘Story-telling is at the heart of all my work and I’m thrilled to have the chance to help present the great ‘La Llorona’ legend in a different kind of medium at the ‘Halloween Horror Nights’ event.” According to the press release, “La Llorona: Villa De  [ Read More ]

Title: Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Director: Troy Nixey Starring: Bailee Madison, Katie Holmes, Guy Pearce, Jack Thompson, Julia Blake Haunted house films are back in full force. In April we got the beautifully modest and wildly enjoyable Insidious from James Wan and now Guillermo del Toro and Co. are giving the subgenre a go with Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. While the two are rooted in entirely different core concepts, they do have quite a bit in common, namely child stars vs. evil entities, eerily warm yet threatening tones, fantastic visuals and the fact that they’re both incredibly frightening, exhilarating and entertaining all in one. Haunted house  [ Read More ]

Director Craig Gillespie has had an interesting career. After making his debut with “Lars and the Real Girl,” episodic television work ensued, followed by a contretemps over the comedy “Mr. Woodcock,” starring Seann William Scott, Susan Sarandon and Billy Bob Thornton that saw him removed from the project. His latest film is the adaptation/reboot of 1985′s horror-comedy “Fright Night,” starring Anton Yelchin as a Las Vegas high school kid who finds out his new neighbor (Colin Farrell) is actually a vampire. ShockYa recently had the chance to talk to Gillespie one-on-one about what attracted him to “Fright Night,” what he thought about shooting the movie in 3-D, and his next film, the genre  [ Read More ]

Title: Super Hybrid Directed by: Eric Valette Starring: Shannon Beckner, Oded Fehr and Ryan Kennedy Running time: 94 minutes, Rated PG-13, available on standard DVD A car is brought into a Chicago police impound garage after an accident. The mechanics who work there soon realize that the car has a mind of its own and is able to change its appearance to other car models to elude them, while devouring anyone who comes near. Didn’t they do this before? Oh yeah, it was called Christine…and then Maximum Overdrive. Did we really need another “killer car” movie? The mechanics pop the hood and a den of blue snakes tries to attack  [ Read More ]

A few days ago, ShockYa posted the first look at Daniel Radcliffe’s thriller “The Woman In Black.” Now, Yahoo! Movies has released the trailer of the film. And it’s creepy, complete with prerequisite scary children, creepy dolls (I’m not sure which are creepier: the moldy porcelain dolls, the clowns, or the monkeys), and the scary window shot. You can check out the trailer here as well as below this post. On the whole, the film looks like it’s going to be genuinely disturbing. Kinda weird that it’s coming out in Feburary, a month which is deemed by movie-makers and movie-goers as a month where sub-par movies go to die, because  [ Read More ]

The Universal Studios event “Halloween Horror Nights” has announced another scary experience participants can take part in. The experience, “Terror Tram: Scream 4 Your Life” is based on the latest installment of Wes Craven’s “Scream” series. In the experience, the “Ghostface Killer” of the fictional “Stab” movies within the “Scream” films will be unleashed on the world-famous backlot. Mirroring the “movie within a movie” aspect of the “Scream” movies, the experience will introduce guests to the “Stab” franchise and lead them toward the set of “Stab 8″, which is being “filmed” on the backlot. The element of fantasy clash with the reality of the moment when guests come face-to-face with  [ Read More ]

Title: The Clinic Directed by: James Rabbitts Starring: Tabrett Bethell, Freya Stafford and Andy Whitfield Running time: 94 minutes, Unrated Cameron and his pregnant wife Beth are driving cross country to visit her parents for Christmas, and they decide to stop at a hotel for the night. Cameron’s hungry and goes out to find an open restaurant, while leaving Beth asleep in the room. When he returns, Beth is missing and the police and the weird hotel manager are absolutely no help at all. Meanwhile Beth awakens in a seemingly abandoned warehouse, naked in a bathtub full of ice…and a C-section scar. As Cameron desperately searches for answers, Beth discovers  [ Read More ]

Image Entertainment is introducing the Midnight Madness series just in time for Halloween. This movie series will be out on DVD, Blu-ray and digitally September 6 and will contain classic 1980s horror films from Lakeshore Entertainment such as “Hellraiser,” “Children of the Corn,” “Elvira: Mistress of the Dark,” “Vamp,” “Creepshow 2,” and “Return of the Killer Tomatoes.” Here are the synopsis for each film: “Children of the Corn” (also on Blu-ray) Based on the classic short story by Stephen King, this film is about a young couple (Linda Hamilton, Terminator 2, and Peter Horton, “thirtysomething”) stranded in a rural town in Nebraska. They are surrounded by prospering corn fields…and a  [ Read More ]

Title: George A. Romero Presents Deadtime Stories, Volume 1 Directed by: Jeff Monahan and Matt Walsh Starring: Nick Mancuso, Kristin Slaysman, Jeff Monahan, Amy Marsalis and Bingo O’Malley Running time: 76 minutes, Rated R Three film shorts presented by the godfather of horror George A. Romero. In “Valley of the Shadow,” a woman gets funding to investigate her husband’s disappearance. “Wet,” a lonely alcoholic fisherman digs up the wrong type of buried treasure. Housecall, a town doctor is called to the home of a boy who is experiencing a change and it’s not puberty. Oh George A. Romero, why did you agree to put your name on this steaming bowl  [ Read More ]

Title: [REC] 2 – Fear Revisited Directed by: Jaume Balaguero & Paco Plaza Starring: Jonathan Mellor, Manuela Velasco and Oscar Zafra Running time: 84 minutes, Rated R Picking up where the previous film left off, an official from the Ministry of Health along with a SWAT team outfitted with helmet cameras go into the quarantined apartment building in search of the source of the contagion and fight off zombies at every turn. The surviving SWAT members soon discover that the official is really on a secret mission assigned from the Vatican, and the zombies are infected by demon possession. If you’re not a fan of subtitles, it may be a  [ Read More ]

Title: Scream of the Banshee Directed by: Steven C. Miller Starring: Lauren Holly and Lance Henriksen Running time: 90 minutes / Rated R A college professor and her two students discover an ornate box containing the severed head of a banshee, which is still not quite dead. According to Irish lore, anyone who hears the scream will die. Mysterious deaths begin to occur to those within the vicinity when the box was opened, or who have heard the recording of the scream. It’s a Syfy movie, so you gotta just roll the dice and see if it’s a total campy horror flick or something brilliant. With exception to the bloody  [ Read More ]