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The Best Horror Movies of 2010 [The Top 10 Released and Top 10 Unreleased]

The hardest part of making a Best-of-the-Year list is establishing the parameter of the year, so I’m just going to make this simple and do two horror lists.  The first is exclusively films that had either a theatrical, DVD or VOD release  in the US of A.  The second will simply be the unreleased films I saw in 2010, be they via film festival, import disc or screener, that did not receive Stateside distribution.

Last Week in Horror News: 9/6 – 9/13

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• ANTICHRIST – New trailer, now you can preview tree-of-human-limb sex in HD!
• SOLOMON KANE – Trailer for the sweet-ass looking upcoming fantasy film.  Weinberg just saw it at TIFF and dug it.
• PANDORUM – Clip

Studio News and Attachments

• FRANKENWEENIE – Tim Burton’s feature length adaptation of his re-animated dog short will be his feature film followup to ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
• TROLLHUNTERS – Guillermo del Toro will be teaming up with Disney for more mature/thrilling animated fare under the banner Double Dare You.  The first of these films will be TROLLHUNTERS, produced by del Toro and based on his own story.
• MOURNING AFTER – Remember when one of the key players in creating Lionsgate’s genre friendly identity created his own company, A BIGGER BOAT.  Well their next co-production will be about a “woman with a timeless, deadly secret.”  Real daring material there, guys.
• JEEPERS CREEPERS 3 – Victor Salva still wants to make it, but it seems people are only just now feeling confident enough to consider investing money…so, don’t expect JEEPERS CREEPERS 3: CATHEDRAL any time soon.
• HALLOWEEN 3D – According to Variety, Dimension has settled on MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D director Patrick Lussier to direct the Rob Zombie-less sequel to Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN franchise.  According to the big horror sites, he’s only ‘in talks’.

Remakes

• RESIDENT EVIL – According to Bloody-Disgusting, the producers plan on the 5th entry in the RE series to be a reboot back to the premise of the first film.  Because that’s what people want.

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• HOME DELIVERY – An adaptation of Stephen King’s short story from NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES is going to be directed by MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN director Ryuhei Kitamura.
• Roger Corman Wins an Oscar! – Roger Corman will receive an honorary Oscar for his 60+ year career in schlocky films.
• 10 Stephen King Stories That Should Be Filmed – Good list from a new drinking pal/enabler at Film School Rejects.

Non-Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• BITTER FEAST – Teaser trailer for the upcoming chef-kills-critic film starring real chef Mario Batali!
• PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE – A teaser trailer for the remake of Ed Wood’s most famous disaster.
• SLICE – A non-supernatural Thai horror movie?
• LAKE MUNGO – Trailer for that which After Dark Films just picked up for 2010′s Horrorfest.
• THE SHRINE – Teaser from the makers of JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAYER.

I Will Feel Empty Inside Until I See BITTER FEAST.

Starring Mario Batali as a chef who kills (and presumably cooks) his harshest critic. Yes, that Mario Batali.