In this episode of Bloody-Disgusting’s Aural Pleasures, host Jonny talks with Ann Arbor filmmaker Matt Grevenstuk and their mutual love of horror. The guys chat about favorite horror films, great music in horror, favorite bands, and more. Head on in and enjoy the episode! Also below is Matt’s über low budget short horror film Death… Read More
Semantics. An update to our exclusive story posted yesterday regarding the plot details for the forthcoming Poltergeist “remake.” Our friends at Moviehole.net reveal that the Gil Kenan-directed Sam Raimi-produced reboot – much like the Evil Dead remake – exists in the same world as the previous Poltergeist films. So while it is a ‘reboot’ of… Read More
Here’s two pretty funny clips from Sony’s This Is the End, the new apocalypse comedy directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. One gathers all the household items and checks off the massive list of boost, snacks and guns hiding within the stars’ house. Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel, James Franco, Jonah Hill, Danny McBride, Craig… Read More
I love this behind the scenes glimpse (via IGN) at Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim because it shares and explores one of the movies most interesting concepts. If you’re a Jaeger pilot, your co-pilot has to know everything about you. Literally. I think this is the key to lending the film some immense human relationship… Read More
I’m drowning in Cannes news so here’s a quick round of news bites to help soften the blow. I want to read more about The Xbox One. UK distributor picks up anticipated Amer follow-up from Bac. Screen Daly reports that UK outfit Metrodome has pre-bought giallo-style thriller The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears, pictured… Read More
Australian prog rockers Karnivool have released a new song entitled “The Refusal” as a free download. It is the first new track the band has released since 2009′s Sound Awake, which is still an album I play on a very regular basis. Unless I’m sorely mistaken, the free download is NOT a finished mix, as… Read More
The Purge, which comes from director James DeMonaco, looks to be a fairly intense piece of work. While I have yet to see the film (something I’m fixing soon), I took the opportunity last week to hop on the phone with Max Burkholder (“Parenthood”), who plays young Charlie Sandin in the film. In theaters June… Read More
Take a bath with a new clip from Alyce Kills, the newest BD Selects title from Zombie Strippers director Jay Lee. “After accidentally knocking her best friend off a roof, Alyce is haunted by guilt and delves into a brutal nightmare wonderland of sex, drugs and violence, her mind tearing itself apart…along with anyone else… Read More
Did you hear? The Xbox One was revealed, and boy oh boy does it look sexy. Sadly, not many games were announced during Microsoft’s event. In fact, only one new IP was unveiled, and that was from Remedy Entertainment, the studio that brought us Max Payne and Alan Wake. If you were hoping for a… Read More
Arriving on VOD and in limited theaters June 28 is Neil Jordan’s Byzantium, which was acquired by IFC Films out of the Toronto International Film Festival. I have loved everything I’ve seen from this, it feels like we’re finally getting an original vampire story. It’s a total breath of fresh air and this new trailer… Read More
With the elimination of 2009′s Endgame, we are now down to the top three albums in the Bloody-Disgusting reader’s choice Best Megadeth Album! Still remaining are three classics in thrash metal history: 1986′s Peace Sells… But Who’s Buying?, 1990′s Rust In Peace, and 1992′s Countdown To Extinction! One of these three albums will be heralded… Read More
Antonio Garrido’s award-winning novel, The Corpse Reader, is set for release on May 28th in both print and ebook format. The novel is inspired by Song Cí, who was considered to be the founding father of CSI-style forensic science, and is set in thirteenth-century China. In the novel, Cí Song and his family have left… Read More
Today, Microsoft revealed their next console, dubbed the Xbox One. Their unveiling took the opposite approach to Sony’s, as they shied away from big video game reveals in favor of system specs, apps, the upgraded Kinect, new controller, and sports. Lots of sports. Let’s get familiar with the Xbox One, after the break.
We are incredibly excited to exclusively share the official theatrical poster for Franck Khalfoun’s horror masterpiece Maniac, starring Elijah Wood in the terrifying lead role, which will open in select theaters, iTunes and on VOD platforms June 21. The one-sheet depicts one of Frank’s (played by Wood) mannequins – only these dummies don’t come to… Read More
Now in Japanese cinemas as of May 18 is The Ring and Dark Water director Hideo Nakata’s The Complex, which now has an absolutely insane TV Spot. The Complex stars Atsuko Maeda as “Nursing student Asuka has just moved into an apartment complex with her parents and younger brother. On the first night in her… Read More
Here’s some early behind-the-scenes imagery from Exists, the hotly anticipated Bigfoot film directed by Eduardo Sanchez (The Blair Witch Project, Lovely Molly) from a Jamie Nash script. Exists, which follows a group of twentysomethings who take a trip to a cabin deep in the wooded wilderness and are methodically hunted by a Bigfoot-like beast, stars… Read More
Fans of Dread and Cassadaga should be excited to watch this sales promo for Anthony DiBlasi’s next feature, Missionary, starring Dawn Olivieri, Mitch Ryan, Kip Pardue and J LaRose. For sale at the ongoing Cannes market, the pic follows a wife and mother who starts an affair with a young missionary… with disastrous consequences. PoileyWood… Read More
After last week’s kick-ass red band trailer (also included below) for V/H/S/2 we’ve got a green band trailer that starts off largely the same but gives us a few nice new looks at things we haven’t seen yet as it hits its second half. Acquired by Magnet Releasing out of Sundance as S-VHS, V/H/S/2 will… Read More
A new found footage indie has cropped up in Absence, of which THR has an exclusive on the poster. The film will be directed by Jimmy Loweree (Climbing Mt. Evelyn) from a script he wrote with Jake Moreno. The (apparently) alien inspired feature stars Erin Way, Eric Matheny and Ryan Smale. Way plays “an expectant… Read More
Here’s the official U.S. poster for The World’s End, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz director Edgar Wright’s new movie that stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Rosamund Pike, Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan. In theaters August 23 2013, “20 years after attempting an epic pub crawl, five childhood friends reunite when one… Read More
Not since Willem Dafoe (Shadow of the Vampire) has a star been transformed into such a hideous vampire creature. Check out some Cannes sales art, as well as a stack of new images from Jim Jarmusch’s crypto-vampire love story Only Lovers Left Alive, which stars Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt and Anton… Read More
Yesterday, Sony teased us with a glimpse of what the PlayStation 4 will look like. It didn’t reveal much, more a bunch of close-up shots and a blurry rectangle, but that seems to have been enough for Redditor Albino-Zebra to construct a concept of what the console could look like. They could be spot on,… Read More
HOLY CRAP. We now have the UK trailer for A Field In England, the fourth feature film from writer/director Ben Wheatley, whose credits include the highly acclaimed tour-de-force thriller Kill List, the Edgar Wright-produced 2012 Cannes Film Festival selection Sightseers, and a segment in anthology horror film The ABCs Of Death. Billed as “a psychedelic… Read More
I’m a huge fan of cover songs that take an original and give it a fresh new spin. Just look at my 5 Great Cover Songs list and you’ll see what I’m talking about. That’s why I was completely blown away by Sam Westphalen‘s acoustic cover of the classic Slayer track “Seasons In The Abyss”…. Read More











































