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News Bits: Rachel Wood as a Vamp, H2 Rating, Demons Bumped & MUCH more…

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When there more horror than we can handle, we’ve got a news post dedicated to the tid-bits of news floating around the web. Yesterday we told you about Paris Hilton in “Supernatural” and a few other bits, now we’ve got the official rating for Rob Zombie’s Halloween II, a first ever look at Evan Rachel Wood in HBO’s “True Blood”, the first hi-res images from Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones and Univeral’s Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, along with the new trailer for Spike Jonze’s Where the Wild Things Are and a bump for the remake of Night of the Demons. Read all about all of that, and more inside!Let’s kick things off with the brand spanking new trailer for Warner Bros. Pictures’ Where the Wild Things Are, the hotly anticipated Spike Jonze film arriving in theaters October 16, courtesy of Yahoo!. The film will combine voice performances, live-action puppetry and computer animation to dramatize the ad-ventures of Max, a rebellious young boy who runs away from home after a fight with his mother and finds himself in a forest where the wild things roam.

EVAN RACHEL WOOD GETS BITTEN

Just when we thought True Blood could not get any sexier, Evan Rachel Wood joins season two of the HBO hit as Sophie-Anne, the Vampire Queen of Louisiana. Wood will make her first appearance in the August 30 episode when a desperate Bill (Stephen Moyer) seeks Sophie-Anne’s advice. TV Guide has your first look.

Nobody’s ever entirely happy to see her” character, Louisiana’s blood-sucker boss lady, Queen Sophie-Ann, says series creator Alan Ball. “She’s very powerful, capricious and most likely insane.

HALLOWEEN TREATS

In other news, Rob Zombie writes that Halloween II is rated R for “strong brutal bloody violence throughout, terror, disturbing graphic images, language, some crude sexual content and nudity.

Check out a drunk Uncle Seymour below.

NIGHT OF THE DEMONS ATTACK IN FEBRUARY?

Fangoria is reporting that Adam Gierasch and Jace Anderson’s Night of the Demons has been bumped to an undetermined February 2010 date. The film was slated to open again Zombieland on October 9th. It will premiere at the Film4 Frightfest UK Film Festival this month.

In the remake Angela Feld is throwing the Halloween party to end all Halloween parties at the infamous Broussard Mansion in New Orleans, where dark events transpired almost a century ago. But when the packed party gets busted by the police, Angela and her friends Maddie, Lily, Suzanne, Colin, Dex and Jason are the only ones left behind. Soon Colin and Angela make a grisly discovery in the basement and inexplicable events start to take place. With the mansion gates mysteriously locked, the seven find themselves trapped for the night…and soon they’re fighting ancient demons for their very souls.

LOVELY BONES IMAGES ARE HEAVEN

DreamWorks Pictures provided Bloody-Disgusting with the first four hi-res images from Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones, which arrives in theaters December 11. The film centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family – and her killer – from heaven. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal. Watch the trailer here.

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The Lovely Bones

ANOTHER TEEN VAMP MOVIE

Below you’ll find the first batch of stills from Universal Pictures’ adaptation of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, which was retitled to appeal more to the Twilight crowd. If you missed out on the trailer and opfficial poster, dig on ’em here. The Vampire’s Assistant tells the frightening tale of a boy who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.

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NOT HORROR, BUT MAN DOES THIS SUCK. R.I.P. JOHN HUGHES

John Hughes, the Chicago-based filmmaker who redefined the teen movie in the ’80s with his sympathetic comedies about the joys and heartbreak of high school life, died Thursday of a heart attack in New York. He was 59.

Hughes suffered the heart attack while taking a morning walk while visiting family members in Manhattan, his representatives said.

With films like “Sixteen Candles” (1984), “The Breakfast Club” (1985) and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” (1986), all of which he wrote and directed, Hughes treated teens with respect. In contrast to raunchier teen movies like “Porky’s,” Hughes reached beyond the conventional stereotypes to create idiosyncratic characters that spoke to a generation. In the process, he nurtured the careers of such young actors as Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall and Ally Sheedy – continue reading here.

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‘Mickey vs. Winnie’ – The Public Domain Horror Trend May Have Just Jumped the Shark

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In case you haven’t noticed, the public domain status of beloved icons like Winnie the Pooh, Cinderella and Mickey Mouse has been wreaking havoc on the horror genre in the past couple years, with filmmakers itching to get their hands on the characters and put them into twisted situations. In the wake of two Winnie the Pooh slashers, well, Pooh is about to battle Mickey.

It’s not from the same team behind the Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey films, to be clear, but Deadline reports that Glen Douglas Packard (Pitchfork) will direct the horror movie Mickey vs. Winnie for Untouchables Entertainment and the website iHorror.

Deadline details, “The film follows two convicts in the 1920s who escape into a cursed forest only to be dragged and consumed into the depths of the dark forest’s muddy heart.

“A century later, a group of thrill-seeking friends unknowingly venture into the same woods. Their Airbnb getaway takes a horrifying turn when the convicts mutate into twisted versions of childhood icons Mickey Mouse & Winnie-The-Pooh, and emerge to terrorize them. A night of violence and gore erupts, as the group of friends battle against their now monstrous beloved childhood characters and fight to break free from the forest’s grip.

“In a horrific spectacle, Mickey and Winnie clash, painting the woods in a gruesome tableau of blood—a chilling testament to the curse’s insidious power.”

Glen Douglas Packard wrote the screenplay that he’ll be directing.

“Horror fans call for the thrill of witnessing icons like the new Aliens and Avengers sharing the screen. While licensing nightmares make such crossovers rare, Mickey vs. Winnie serves as our tribute to that thrilling fantasy,” Packard said in a statement this week.

Producer Anthony Pernicka from iHorror previews, “We’re thrilled to unveil this unique take to horror fans. The Mickey Mouse featured in our film is unlike any iteration audiences have encountered before. Our portrayal doesn’t involve characters donning basic masks. Instead, we present deeply transformed, live-action horror renditions of these iconic figures, weaving together elements of innocence and malevolence. After experiencing the intense scenes we’ve crafted, you’ll never look at Mickey the same way again.”

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