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Celebrate The New Year With Our Complete Holiday Coverage!

And just like that it’s 2013.

How in the bloody hell did this happen? The site is nearing its 12 year anniversary, there’s a remake of The Evil Dead on the way, and the world didn’t end (well, that’s boring).

While most people use the holiday season to kick back and relax, we worked our asses off to ensuring top notch content every single day throughout the snowy madness. Thus, it would be a crime for me to not use this time to send you off to our completed coverage, which includes all of our “best & worst” movies lists, “best & worst” trailers and posters, and of course our extensive 2013 preview pieces. Evan Saathoff took a deep look at horror on the small screen, while Dickson asked a serious question: What counts as horror?

Even the boys in the Video Game (Dead Pixels), Comics (Graphic Content) and Music sections of Bloody Disgusting got into the mix as they all presented a wide variety of awesome year-end lists.

And with that we look to 2013 and beyond. We thank all of you dear readers from the bottom of our disgusting hearts for all of these amazing years, and look forward to bringing the horror day in and day out for the next 365 days! READ MORE

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Here’s The Trailer For… ‘Trailer War’!

Drafthouse Films, the film distribution arm of the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, has partnered with the American Genre Film Archive to release Trailer War, a meticulously curated feature-length program of vintage, rare 35mm coming attraction trailers. Each of the selections are presented for the first time in high-definition and most have been previously unavailable on any home video format. A theatrical tour presented in 35mm is planned for December 2012 and pre-order is available now for DVD/Blu-ray fan packs which will be available December 18th exclusively on www.DrafthouseFilms.com. You can tease yourself now with the trailers for Animal Protector and Amuck, both of which are featured on the compilation here!

Head inside to check out the trailer and the poster! There’s a lot of horror in this thing! Oh and hella NSFW!!! READ MORE

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Check Out The Trailers For Scream Factory’s ‘Halloween 2′ And ‘Halloween 3′ Blus!

On September 18, 2012, fans will rejoice as Shout! Factory’s Scream Factory branch unleashes Halloween II Collector’s Edition and Halloween III: Season of the Witch 30th Anniversary Special Collector’s Edition on Blu-ray and DVD. These two formidable titles inaugurate the Scream Factory home entertainment series and are now available to preorder! Something you can do here and here.

But in case you weren’t already sold, we’ve got trailers for those releases inside! Along with full specs of course! READ MORE

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TV: [Next On] The Year’s Second To Last Episode Of “True Blood”…”Sunset”

After airing “Gone, Gone, Gone” (episode #58 of “True Blood”‘s fifth season) tonight, HBO looks forward to the final two episodes of the season, the first of which airs next week. Episode #59 airs on August 19th and is called “Sunset” and, being the penultimate episode of the season, looks to be fairly action packed. I don’t regret ceasing my viewership of the show, but I can see why some of you guys dig it.

Slipping further into religious fervor, Bill (Stephen Moyer) gives Jessica (Deborah Ann Woll) an order she’s loath to carry out. Armed with a damning video of Russell (Denis O’Hare) and Steve (Michael McMillian), the military delivers an ultimatum to the Authority. Claude (Giles Matthey) and Maurella (Kristina Anapau) take Sookie (Anna Paquin) to meet the faerie elder, who may know something about an ancient family secret. Alcide (Joe Manganiello) reconnects with his father; Sam (Sam Trammell) and Luna (Janina Gavankar) hitch a rideinto the Authority.

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E3 2012: Star Trek Might Be Giving Mass Effect A Run For Its Space Bucks

Star Trek stars Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto will be making a comeback in video game form when they reprise their roles as Kirk and Spock in the upcoming Star Trek video game. But that’s not all because some of the other actors from the movie such as Zoe Saldana, (Lieutenant Uhura), Simon Pegg (Scotty), Karl Urban (Dr. “Bones” McCoy), John Cho (Sulu) and Anton Yelchin (Chekov) will be lending their voices as well. Also revealed at E3 this year are Trek lore villains knows as “The Gorn”. Lizard like creatures who will seem to be the main focus of evil in the game. Check out some screens and an awesome gameplay teaser past the break.

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TV: Check Out The Trailer For New Kevin Bacon / Kevin Williamson Serial Killer Show “The Following”

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Yesterday I posted about Fox’s “The Following” (aka the new Kevin Williamson show) and you guys seemed pretty excited about it, so I figured I’d pass the trailer along today. The show stars Kevin Bacon, Natalie Zea (“Justified”, The Other Guys), Shawn Ashmore (Frozen, Mother’s Day), and James Purefoy (“Rome”).

THE FBI estimates there are currently over 300 active serial killers in the United States. What would happen if these killers had a way of communicating and connecting with each other? What if they were able to work together and form alliances across the country? What if one brilliant psychotic serial killer was able to bring them all together and activate a following? Welcome to “The Following”, the terrifying new thriller from creator/executive producer Kevin Williamson (“The Vampire Diaries,” “Dawson’s Creek,” the ‘Scream’ franchise). When notorious serial killer Joe Carroll (James Purefoy, “Rome”) escapes from death row and embarks on a new killing spree, the FBI calls former agent Ryan Hardy (Emmy-nominated actor Kevin Bacon, ‘X-Men: First Class’) to consult on the case. Having since withdrawn from the public eye, Hardy was responsible for Carroll’s capture nine years ago, after Carroll murdered 14 female students on the Virginia college campus where he taught literature.

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TV: A Trailer And Three Clips From JJ Abrams’ Post-Apocalyptic “Revolution”

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JJ Abrams’ and Eric Kripke’s drama pilot “Revolution” was picked up to series by NBC and we already have a trailer and a few clips out of the gate this morning.

The series will air Mondays at 10PM and is summarized thusly, “Our entire way of life depends on electricity. So what would happen if it just stopped working? Well, one day, like a switch turned off, the world is suddenly thrust back into the dark ages. Planes fall from the sky, hospitals shut down, and communication is impossible. And without any modern technology, who can tell us why? Now, 15 years later, life is back to what it once was long before the industrial revolution: families living in quiet cul-de-sacs, and when the sun goes down lanterns and candles are lit. Life is slower and sweeter. Or is it? On the fringes of small farming communities, danger lurks. And a young woman’s life is dramatically changed when a local militia arrives and kills her father, who mysteriously – and unbeknownst to her – had something to do with the blackout. This brutal encounter sets her and two unlikely companions off on a daring coming-of-age journey to find answers about the past in the hopes of reclaiming the future.

The pilot was directed by Jon Favreau (Iron Man) and stars stars Billy Burke (The Twilight Saga), Tracy Spiridakos (Being Human), Anna Lise Phillips (“Terra Nova”), Zak Orth (“Romeo + Juliet) and Giancarlo Esposito (“Breaking Bad”).

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[Blu-ray Review] Synapse’s ’42nd Street Forever’

Over the past decade, Synapse has been releasing loads of goodies from yesteryear, including the 42nd Street Forever series. Each entry is a compilation of the weirdest, sleaziest trailers from the 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s, and covers a wide variety of exploitation sub-genres including blaxsploitation, sexsploitation, kung-fu, sex comedies, porn parodies, horror, and Mondo among others. To date, there are six volumes, including a XXX-only collection and an Alamo Drafthouse edition, which showcases the very best of the vintage trailers they play at their theatres. After shelving the series for around two years, Synapsis has brought it back with a Blu-ray collection, clocking in at almost four hours (!). READ MORE

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42nd Street Forever

Synapse Films’ best-selling 42nd Street Forever series has been a favorite of grindhouse and exploitation fans around the world. This colossal best of collection combines a selection of vintage theatrical trailers from the first two volumes of the series and mixes them up with some all-new selections! Remastered in true 1080p high definition, this mind-numbing dose of classic original coming attractions will have your Blu-ray player exploding with more than three and a half hours of sex, exploitation, action, horror and science-fiction advertisements from around the world! Can your brain take all this sleaze in one sitting?

Check Out The Trailer For Supernatural Thriller ’5 Souls’

Premiering at Cannes this year will be Outsider Pictures’ new thriller 5 Souls. While I can’t quite suss out if this is for me or not, I always tend to think hospitals make great settings for horror films.

In the film, “After falling into a coma after a routine doctors visit, Noah awakens to find a man sitting at the end of is bed. The good news is that he has come to kill him, and then there is the bad news…

The Brett Donowho (At Silver Falls) directed film stars Ian Bohen (Pearl Harbor), Steve Bacic, Kristina Anapau (Black Swan), Steven Schub (The Thirteenth Floor), Samaire Armstrong (“The OC”) and Allison McAtee (“NCIS”).

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Three Brief & Fiery TV Spots For ‘Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance’

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Early reviews have been extremely unkind towards Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance 3D. But if you’re not yet dissuaded (or are still on the fence) we have three new TV spots for you to check out!

It has been several years since making a deal with the Devil and Johnny Blaze (Nicolas Cage), living in self-imposed isolation, finds himself as the only person who can help save 10-year-old Danny – and ultimately the world – thanks to his unwanted and uncontrollable power – his ability to transform into the hell-on-wheels monster known as The Ghost Rider.

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‘Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance’ TV Spot Blazes In

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Columbia Pictures has released a new TV Spot for Crank directors Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, which blazes into theaters February 17 doused in a rash of negative reviews. Screened last year (yes, it’s now 2012), the sequel was widely despised out of an early screening in Austin, Texas.

Starring Nicolas Cage, “In the successor to the worldwide hit ‘Ghost Rider,’ Johnny – still struggling with his curse as the devil’s bounty hunter – is hiding out in a remote part of Eastern Europe when he is recruited by a secret sect of the church to save a young boy (Fergus Riordan) from the devil (Ciaran Hinds). At first, Johnny is reluctant to embrace the power of the Ghost Rider, but it is the only way to protect the boy – and possibly rid himself of his curse forever.READ MORE

[BEST & WORST '11] The Best Trailers of the Year!

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Even if the movie it’s advertising isn’t so great (though many of the trailers on this list are for great films) an effective teaser can often be an inspiring piece of work that you watch again and again.

While I only feel that way about a few trailers every year – and not everything on this list elicits that kind of reaction from me – there’s also something to be said for the rare clip that fully and honestly embraces the movie it’s selling. Especially if that movie’s great (and dangerously if that movie’s bad).

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[BEST & WORST '11] The Worst Trailers of the Year!

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Most of these are trailers for films so bad there’s simply no way to cull two minutes of footage from them and make them look good. Though many of them try, they fail and end up as middling pieces of marketing.

Then there are the ones who seem to know just how bad the film is, as if the guy cutting the trailer realized that people were going to waste actual money to see this thing if he did his job properly and “saved the film”.

This dude – let’s call him “Hero” – looks like he cut some of these teasers, valiantly laying his job on the line to tell us to avoid these movies.

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‘Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance’ Official Website Launches

 Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance Official Website Launches

Following its premiere at Harry Knowles’ annual 24 hour BNAT festival earlier this month Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance 3D is gearing up for its run at cinemas nationwide with its new official website.

Head there and you’ll find the trailer, some wallpapers and animated gifs (in case you want your twitter icon to be a flaming skull) and three stills from the film as well as various other sundry items.

Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance hits theaters February 17, 2012. Hit the jump to check out the trailer! READ MORE

‘Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance’ Tries To Fight Toxic Buzz With New Trailer!

 Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance Tries To Fight Toxic Buzz With New Trailer!

So Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance 3D screened last week at Harry Knowles’ annual BNAT Birthday Bash in Austin.

Word out of the screening – from an audience predisposed to like the film – was absolutely horrific, with apparently only Harry Knowles and a well regarded performer from the upcoming Looper liking the film.

This trailer keeps the momentum going that we’ve seen in the press materials so far, but the word is that the film utterly betrays the promise its shown so far in every conceivable way.

Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor’s Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance hits theaters February 17, 2012. Hit the jump to check out the trailer! READ MORE

Third ‘Fright Night’ Trailer Pushes Dark Angle

Dreamworks continues an onslaught of press for Fright Night 3D with a third trailer that once again pushes the darker side of the vampire lore. Directed by Craig Gillespie for release on August 19, the remake to Tom Holland’s classic embraces its R-rating, and has been hoping to gain the attention of Twilight haters.

Senior Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin) finally has it all going on: he’s running with the popular crowd and dating the most coveted girl in his high school. In fact, he’s so cool he’s even dissing his best friend. But trouble arrives when Jerry (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there’s something not quite right–but everyone, including Charlie’s mom (Toni Collette), doesn’t notice. After observing some very strange activity, Charlie comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on the neighborhood. Unable to convince anyone, Charlie has to find a way to get rid of the monster himself in this Craig Gillespie-helmed revamp of the comedy-horror classic.
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Official International Trailer for ’28 Weeks Later’ Director’s Intruders

The official international trailer has been released for 28 Weeks Later director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo’s Intruders in a Spanish-language trailer. The film looks like a cross between The Strangers and The Last Exorcism.

With no U.S. release from Universal just yet, Fresnadillo’s psychological horror revolves around an 11 year-old girl (Never Let Me Go‘s Ella Purnell) dealing with the childhood demons that reappear to spook the heck out of her and her family. Clive Owen stars as her father, alongside Kerry Fox, Carice van Houten and Daniel Brühl. Intruders is written by Nicolás Casariego and Jaime Marques.
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‘Fright Night’ Vampire “The Shark From ‘Jaws’ “

In the following new clip from Dreamworks’ Fright Night 3D Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin) scoffs at best friend ‘Evil’ Ed Thompson’s (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) suggestion that his neighbor is “like the shark from Jaws.” It takes a jab at Twilight, which I guess is their way of proclaiming they’re an R-rated horror film.

In theaters August 19, “Senior Charlie Brewster (Yelchin) finally has it all going on: he’s running with the popular crowd and dating the most coveted girl in his high school. In fact, he’s so cool he’s even dissing his best friend. But trouble arrives when Jerry (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there’s something not quite right–but everyone, including Charlie’s mom (Toni Collette), doesn’t notice. After observing some very strange activity, Charlie comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on the neighborhood. Unable to convince anyone, Charlie has to find a way to get rid of the monster himself in this Craig Gillespie-helmed revamp of the comedy-horror classic.
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More Footage in UK Trailer for ‘Fright Night 3D’

Bloody Disgusting reader ‘Jarradah’ tipped us off to the UK trailer for Dreamworks’ Fright Night 3D, which is premiering at the ongoing San Diego Comic-Con. The third trailer features an array of new footage.

In theaters August 19, “Senior Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin) finally has it all going on: he’s running with the popular crowd and dating the most coveted girl in his high school. In fact, he’s so cool he’s even dissing his best friend. But trouble arrives when Jerry (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there’s something not quite right–but everyone, including Charlie’s mom (Toni Collette), doesn’t notice. After observing some very strange activity, Charlie comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on the neighborhood. Unable to convince anyone, Charlie has to find a way to get rid of the monster himself in this Craig Gillespie-helmed revamp of the comedy-horror classic.
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See the Bloody Beginnings in ‘Wrong Turn 4′ Trailer

Now arriving on DVD and Blu-ray October 25, Fox Home Entertainment has premiered the full trailer for Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (set visit), the Declan O’Brien-directed prequel starring Sean Skene, Daniel Skene, Rick Skene, Scott Johnson, Jennifer Pudavick and Tenika Davis.

At an isolated hospital deep in the West Virginia wilderness, three hideously deformed mutants go on a merciless killing spree. Now, decades later, this family of blood-thirsty cannibals is stalking new prey: a group of young skiers trapped by a blizzard. The abandoned medical wards soon become killing fields as the panicked victims come face to face with a chilling choice — fight back or die. With bonus footage too graphic for theaters, ‘Wrong Turn 4′ takes you to the most terrifying place of all…the beginning.
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The Top 10 Game Trailers of All Time

Good video game trailers are a dime a dozen, but truly incredible ones are pretty rare. A good trailer gives you the bullet points of the game it’s advertising and looks good while doing it. Then there are trailers that manage to stick with you long after you watched them, they’re the videos you’re anxious to show everyone who might’ve missed it.

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These are pretty rare, but every once in a while a spectacular one manages to surprise us all and more importantly, builds up hype for its game. These are the ten trailers that brought out the kids in us; the ones that made us mark the game’s release on our calendars and the ones that we’ll remember for a very long time. READ MORE

Zombie Racers

Get ready for an onslaught of Halloween geared games coming at you from every which way and gunning for your flesh. 1st off is Zombie Racers for your Apple devices. iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, etc. The game is pretty simple, you drive around splattering zombies, and killing them with fun weapons attached to your car. You can play online with a friend, which honestly looks like it will be really fun, it’s a shame I only own a 4 year old iPod. Oh, and the game soundtrack is done by a punk band. It doesn’t really sound like the game can get any better.

The game is out now for Apple devices. Head past the break for screens and game features. READ MORE

2 More Videos! The Next Fear Game, And Alone In The Dark

This Alone In The Dark trailer is a decent amount action, and in the HD version is looking very very good. Something you may notice in the trailer is it looks like you’ll be able to drive vehicles in the game. This could be awesome or terrible, because for any gamer you already know a game that isn’t centered around driving, or has a decent amount of driving in it, when you get in a vehicle it becomes annoying and plenty frustrating. It seems like this could be one of those situations, but I will always let something like that slide if the game itself blows be away. I’m feeling good about this game. READ MORE