Edgar Wright’s "The Night Stalker"

We recently learned that Edgar Wright is attached to direct the big screen adaptation of Kolchak: The Night Stalker, with Johnny Depp in line to play the title character of Carl Kolchak.

Today we have word that a writer has been found for the project. According to The Hollywood Reporter, D.V. DeVincentis (Gross Pointe Blank) has been tapped to pen The Night Stalker for Disney.

“The series centered on Carl Kolchak, a reporter for the Chicago-based Independent News Service Stories, who investigated bizarre crimes committed by supernatural agents.”by deth_banger

Jaws Blu-Ray August 14th 2012 Release

This summer, Universal Studios Home Entertainment will bring Jaws to Blu-ray. Director Steven Spielberg's classic adventure stars Roy Scheider (The French Connection) as Martin Brody, a police chief who has to team up with a marine biologist (Richard Dreyfuss, American Graffiti) and a crazed shark hunter (Robert Shaw, The Deep) in order to defeat a man-eating great white shark plaguing Brody's New England beach community.

Along with the first Star Wars, Jaws helped usher in the now-pervasive style of contemporary blockbuster filmmaking; it broke box office records, grossing over $470 million worldwide, and won three Academy Awards at the 1976 Oscar Ceremony - Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, and Best Sound.by josh katz

Update: Universal's Blu-ray/DVD/UltraViolet Digital Copy combo pack presents the film in its 2.39:1 original aspect ratio alongside a newly remastered 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track. The following short video provides further information on the restoration work Universal commissioned for

In addition to Universal's standard BD-Live, pocket BLU, Advanced Remote Control, Video Timeline, Mobile-To-Go, and Keyboard functionalities, the Digibook set also contains a number of bonus supplements, such as:

All-new The Shark is Still Working: The Impact & Legacy of Jaws feature-length documentary
Two-hour The Making of Jaws documentary
Behind-the-scenes featurettes: - Jaws: The Restoration
- From the Set
Jaws Archives that features "storyboards, production photos, and marketing materials, as well as a special segment on the Jaws phenomenon"
Deleted scenes
Outtakes
Original theatrical trailer
Jaws is expected to street on August 14th.

The year of 3D horror remakes 2012

Next year’s cinema looks set to be somewhat familiar yet super-scary, as 3D remakes of some horror classics will take centre stage on the big screen.


‘Halloween 3D’, from ‘Drive Angry’ director Patrick Lussier, is set for release near October 31. It will star Brad Dourif and Scout Taylor-Compton.

Meanwhile ‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3D’ will beat it to movie theatres with a release date of October 5, coming nine years after the previous reboot starring Jessica Biel and Eric Balfour.

John Luessenhop ('Takers') will direct. His movie, which will pick up directly after the first film, is set to ignore other sequels and recent reboots. So far only Bill Moseley (‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2’) has been cast.

Producer Carl Mazzocone told Shock Till You Drop that he’s enjoyed teaming up with Luessenhop for the new film:

“I'm excited to reconceive this iconic horror classic in a contemporary setting for a new generation of horror fans to enjoy.

“Both John Luessenhop and I intend to deliver a new chapter derived from Tobe Hooper's 1973 masterpiece with the goal of making it as horrifying as the original, in 3D.”

Looks like the villains on the silver screen next October will get frighteningly close!
by beth squires

The Woman In Black

A widowed lawyer travels to a secluded village on an important assignment, and encounters a vengeful ghost with mysterious motives. After losing his beloved wife in childbirth, young barrister Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) was nearly consumed by grief. A haunted widower father, he raises his young son with the help of his devoted nanny. Arthur is on the verge of losing his job when an important client of the firm dies, and his boss offers him one last opportunity to prove his worth by settling the woman's affairs. Determined to succeed, Arthur travels to the remote village and receives a chilly welcome. Something horrible once happened here, and it seems that the locals are determined to ensure Arthur never finds out what it was. Now, the more time Arthur spends in his client's crumbling estate, the more aware he becomes of a presence that isn't quite human. In this house dwells a woman's ghost. In life she lost something precious, and now in death she'll do whatever it takes to get it back. Until she does, her spectral presence will serve as a harbinger of doom, always to be followed by the death of an innocent.by Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Junkyard Dog

Synopsis of Junkyard Dog
A traumatized FBI agent races to save a terrified college coed from a cannibalistic serial rapist in this thriller that was inspired by actual events. Confined to an underground cell for weeks, Audra Buckman pleads with her sadistic captor to spare her a fate worse than death. Meanwhile, FBI Agent Samantha Deatherage has unearthed a series of clues that lead her to believe she can identify the killer. But with each passing hour that he continues to walk free, the risk that Audra won't live to see another day continues to grow. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

Humans Vs Zombies May 22 2012

Students on summer break are exposed to a deadly virus that is spread rapidly through direct human contact. They spread the infection to their fellow classmates and other unsuspecting townspeople. A campus security guard, obsessed with conspiracy theories, leads a group of students as they and a small band of uninfected townspeople attempt to discover the source of the "zombie" virus and save the world. Based on the "Live Action Role-Playing" game of the same name.by blu-ray.com

"Lovely Molly" May 18th 2012

An ex-drug addict falls prey to the malevolent ghosts of her past after getting married and moving into her family's secluded farmhouse in the countryside in this supernatural shocker from Eduardo Sanchez, co-director of the seminal '90s horror film The Blair Witch Project . Having recently conquered her heroin addiction, pretty and strong-willed Molly (Gretchen Lodge) marries hardworking truck driver Tim (Johnny Lewis). They start a new life together in the home Molly grew up in, and everything seems idyllic until strange sounds begin emanating from deep in the house and something starts to set off their high-tech alarm system. When Tim later departs for an extended road trip, Molly begins to rapidly deteriorate, frightening her sister and raising serious concerns from her boss. Though suspicions of a relapse into drug abuse soon surface, the reality of Molly's situation is much more terrifying. An unimaginable evil dwells in Molly's home, and it won't stop until she submits to it completely. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi