Everyone likes free stuff and everyone wants free stuff and I happen to have some free stuff that I can give away, but not to everyone.   Unlike the JU-ON: THE GRUDGE giveaway, however, two people will end up finding their mailbox stuffed with free stuff this time around.  And if you couldn’t deduce it from the cryptic headline, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has given me two copies of Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN 2 to giveaway in honor of the film’s release on DVD and Blu-ray tomorrow, January 12th.

Having not actually seen the film, I’m not one to smite it just yet, but I think it’s safe to say you already know whether or not this is something you’d like to have in your collection.  So head on up to the contact button in the top right of this page and make use of your keyboard.  Send me an email with the subject line “H2 For Free Please” and you’re good to go.  Let’s say you have until Thursday at noon CST to accomplish this burdensome task.

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• THE DESCENT: PART 2 – I’m just going to assume this is going to end up in theaters.  A lot of people are shitting on this trailer, but I dig the idea of having her go back down in the caves, which is surprising considering I still hate that stupid movie.
• SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD – New promo clip.

Studio News and Attachments

• DEADMAN – Guillermo Del Toro will be producing for Warner Brothers an adaptation of the DC Comics series Deadman about the vengeful ghost of a slain trapeze artist.  Someone named Nikolaj Arcel to direct.
• LAKE MUNGO – After Dark films announces Australia’s LAKE MUNGO will be it’s third title for January’s Horrorfest. It joins THE GRAVES (shitty poster here) and Clive Barker’s DREAD.
• DREAM HOUSE – Daniel Craig is the next big name actor to relocate his family to a house in the countryside that was previously, but unbeknown to the new owners, host to all kinds of cheerful murders.  Get a new fucking storyline, Hollywood.
• MY SUPER PSYCHO SWEET 16 – MTV gets in on the slasher game.  No one else wants in.
• VANISHING ON SEVENTH STREET – Hayden Christensen is heading towards Brad Anderson’s return to horror by way of a ghost town that specializes in making, well, more ghosts.
• BURKE AND HARE – Simon Pegg joins John Landis’ return to feature length horror, a “true-story” period piece about men who sell the dead to universities.

Remakes

• SWAMP THING – I suppose this might not technically count as a remake of the previous film(s), but Joel Silver wants to bring back Swamp Thing.  And it being 2009, he of course would like to do that in 3D.
• THE BLOB – Rob Zombie will be remaking THE BLOB, though he’s sick and tired of that stupid, big, red, blobby thing killing people.  He’ll just leave that part out.

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• SPAWN – Not a lot of solid facts here, but according to Todd McFarlane’s Twitter feed, SPAWN will be returning to the world of TV animation.
• PHANTASM V? – Seems there is a new PHANTASM project on the horizon, but there are no solid details as to what that means.
• STAN HELSING – Because we all need non-theatrical SCARY MOVIE wannabes in our life, STAN HELSING comes out October 27th.
• HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN – The GRINDHOUSE competition winning fake trailer HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN, from the gents behind TREEVENGE, is going feature length.
• HOUSE OF THE DEVIL – The new poster is a beautiful work of art.
• THE SHOCK LABYRINTH – Japan’s first live-action 3D movie, directed by JU-ON’s Takashi Shimizu, picked u p international distribution.
• “FEAR ITSELF” – FEARnet will be airing the five unaired “FEAR ITSELF” episodes starting early september.

Non-Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• EVIL IN THE TIME OF HEROES – Trailer.

Also, check out Scott Weinberg’s reviews for Sundance first runners GRACE, THE KILLING ROOM, DEAD SNOW, and MOON.

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• MUTANT CHRONICLES – Red band trailer for MC’s limited theatrical run in the states in April, even though I saw it in a legal Korean DVD shop yesterday.
• GRACE – Clip.  No pick up date yet (that I know of), I’m just hoping.

Studio News and Attachments

• UNDERWORLD, the TV show?
• John August will be writing an adaptation of PREACHER with Sam Mendes set to direct.  I wouldn’t get your hopes up, hardly the first time PREACHER has been fruitlessly in the news.  Then again, it is Mendes tradition to follow up a critical success with a more mass appeal film…
• Now David Arquette is saying SCREAM 4 calls are being made.  Of course he says this to a TMZ papparrazi on inaguration day, so take it how you will.
• Richard Jenkins and Bradley Whitford join the cast of Whedon/Goddard’s CABIN IN THE WOODS.
• Bill Hader wrote a horror movie for Judd Apatow.  Bill Hader wrote a horror movie for Judd Apatow.  Bill Hader wrote a horror movie for Judd Apatow.

Remakes

• Rob Zombie talks at decent length about his motivation and ideas for HALLOWEEN 2.

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• IFC picked up Daniel Myric’s aliens in Afghanistan flick THE OBJECTIVE and will be giving the neat, but not mind blowing flick a run OnDemand starting February 4th.
• ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE producer Chad Feehan is going to try his hand at directing a flick called KINDLING.  Should probably finish his producer duties on MANDY LANE first and get out in the Sates already.  Jesus.

Non-Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• THE DEVIL’S FORK – Promo Trailer
• ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE UNDEAD – Clip
• YAMAGATA SCREAM – Teaser
• CARRIERS – Trailer

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• EDEN LOG – Trailer

Studio News and Attachments

• Paul W.S. Anderson will not deboard his RESIDENT EVIL life raft.
• MGM buys THE HOW-TO GUIDE FOR SAVING THE WORLD, which might as well give up.  We all know MOM AND DAD SAVE THE WORLD, not some guy with a tutorial.
• The new box set for FRIDAY THE 13TH will include the much needed 3D glasses.
• Surprise!  Rob Zombie is doing HALLOWEEN 2!  Le sigh.
• Witchcraft brings career success in MGM’s CONJURE WIFE, which I’m pretty sure has the same plot as WITCHES OF BREASTWICK.
• PRIEST shakes off the dust of inactivity with the announcement of effects pro Scott Charles Stewart as director.

Remakes

• Attention all parents (I’m looking at you, John); it is your duty to put son or daughter in the TROLL remake.
• How did I miss that the remake of the Russian roulette happy 13 TZAMETI was not only happening, but starring Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Ray Liotta, Ray Winstone and Fiddy Cent?
• Pair behind fest groupie DEADGIRL plucked to remake Danish film MURK for Gold Circle films.
• James Cameron supposedly orbiting a trilogy – part remake, part prequel, part sequel – of FORBIDDEN PLANET written by J Michael Straczynski.

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• Studio 407’s comic series HYBRID, about a creature aboard an adrift vessel at sea, to become a movie under 407 and Myriad Pictures.
• JUDGE DREDD is coming back thanks to DNA films.
• Alfred Hitchcock’s THE BIRDS Barbie Doll is out of stock, but definitely real.
• Barbie of the Undead, however, is slightly less commercially viable.

Non-Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• PENANCE – Trailer (would be red band if submitted to the MPAA)
• PULSE 3: PULSIER – Clip
• BAJO LA SAL (UNDER THE SALT) – Teasers
• AGAINST THE DARK – Vampires taking over the world.  Steven Segal won’t let them.
• SAMURAI ZOMBIE – Trailer
• MUM AND DAD – Clip

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• FRIDAY THE 13TH – New Trailer.  Purists be damned, I think it looks badass.  Plus, was that Willa Ford water skiing topless?  Sold!
• THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL – Four Clips

Studio News and Attachments

• Sigourney Weaver is talking up a theoretical project with Ridley Scott to bring Ripley out of the ALIEN universe.
• Jackson’s THE LOVELY BONES and Whedon/Goddard’s THE CABIN IN THE WOODS have been delayed.  BONES not til 12/11/09, CABIN 2/5/20!
• Len Wiseman to direct comic adaptation ATLANTIS RISING, to be written by mediocre machines Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci.
• David Goyer’s THE UNBORN has been rated PG-13…
• Scout Taylor Compton denies word that Rob Zombie will do the inevitable HALLOWEEN 2.
• J. Michael Straczynki talks WORLD WAR Z a tiny bit, says the “scale of what we’re doing here is phenomenal.“
• Lexi Alexander wants to do JONAH HEX so long as Josh Brolin is involved.
• BENDERSPINk buys the rights to highly praised (read: Stephen King likes it) book/comic series THE STRAW MEN.

Remakes

• CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON has lost Breck Eisner as a director, henceforth replaced by no one.
• But then AICN says that Eisner is still directing.  So…yeah…
• FRIDAY THE 13TH poster has a humongous neck.
• The Depp/Burton DARK SHADOWS lurches a tad closer.
• THEY LIVE, remade.  Could stand an update in my book.

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• Forrest J. Ackerman has passed away.  I won’t pretend to personally feel the weight of his impact in life, but from everything I’ve read we all owe him a debt.
• Because it worked so well with THE SCORNED, REALITY HORROR NIGHT is going to star cast from “SURVIVOR”, “THE MOLE”, and more crap.
• Despite even a distributor for the first go aroung, the Romero produced DEADTIME STORIES already has a sequel underway.
• Frank Spotnitz blames THE DARK KNIGHT for the terrible performance of THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE.
• If you’re going to Sundance, enjoy MOON, DEAD SNOW, GRACE, and THE KILLING ROOM.

Non-Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• NAILBITTER – Teaser
• SCREAMERS 2 – Trailer
• DEAD SNOW – Undead Nazis never lose

Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• THE HAUNTING OF MOLLY HARTLET – 6 Minute clip
• THE UNINVITED – Clip
• 100 FEET – Clip

Studio News and Attachments

• New rash of MPAA ratings out: ALONE IN THE DARK 2 is PG-13, as is Richard Kelly’s THE BOX, while both DYING BREED and RESIDENT EVIL: DEGENERATION (the CGI movie) get an R.
• Remember TYRANNOSAURUS REX, Rob Zombie’s next movie news has been trickling on for months now?  Has nothing even close to resembling a script; “All I have is one sentence.“
• I thought I had only just read about it being adapted, but already BD has some pics from Clive Barker’s DREAD.
• After Dark released the majority of their posters for January’s Horrorfest, but all I care about is the sweet job on Lena Headey’s face for THE BROKEN.
• HBO axed it, so now Sam Mendes is going to bring PREACHER to the big screen.
• A good sign for a possible release: Warner Brothers has begun test screening TRICK ‘R TREAT.  I don’t know why they’re even bothering, didn’t they get the fellating?

Remakes

Really?  No big news?  I must be missing something…

Indie, Foreign and Random News

• Is Ron Perlman interested in taking over for Bruce in BUBBA NOSFERATU?
• You need to check out LEFT 4 DEAD’S badass opening cinematic.
• Please call it JACK BROOKS: MONSTER SLAY HARDER.

Non-Theatrical Trailers and Clips

• CRAWLER – Teaser
• LADY BLOOD – Teaser
• THE ALPHABET KILLER – Trailer
• THE LONG WEEKEND – All animals vs All Humans!?
• LAID TO REST – Clip
• PONTYPOOL – Trailer
• VIY – English trailer

Oh, and in case you don’t refresh the site every 14 seconds like I do, Cinematical now has a routine horror news re-cap from its own genre head Scott Weinberg.  Now my weekly job is a lottt easier.

Last Week in Horror we finally started to see some marketing material for studio backed films and I couldn’t be more saddened?  Why?  Well, of the four studio clips, three are for remakes and the other is a PG-13 teen shocker that I’m going to guess will most heavily be advertised on MTV and MySpace.

Oh well, some cool news.  FearNET will be showing MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN for free on its service all through October.  That said, it has yet to show up on my local FearNET OnDemand menu, but then again Comcast is a fucking abysmal corporation and my OnDemand (and internet) is rarely functioning.