It’s Dawn of the Dead meets High Noon in the bloody, action-packed film The Dead and the Damned, on DVD wherever they are sold.

Hot on the trail of a renegade Apache warrior, gun-slinging bounty hunter Mortimer passes through an 1849 California gold rush town, where local miners direct him into the mountains to track his prey.

Following a ferocious battle, Mortimer triumphantly returns to town with his Indian captive in shackles … only to find themselves surrounded by a ravenous horde of the undead. Now the two enemies must band together if they are to escape the horrors of The Dead and the Damned!

The movie sounds like the perfect feature to be watching during the Halloween season. I just hope it is not too scary.

To enter the giveaway, post your name and we will pick the winner September 30, 2011.

So the folks out at Lions Gate sent out a copy of Husk for me to review for you, and if you’re looking for a dose of good old fashioned After Dark, you’ll likely be surprised to find it here, in a movie you may well have already seen on the SyFy Channel, as that’s where it first showed up. But despite its admittedly humble origins, Husk will prove a lot better than most of what you see there.

Husk takes us out to a group of young folks out driving to a what I’m guessing is some kind of vacation spot at a lake house. Anyway, on their way there, an entire murder of crows slams into their car, causing them to wreck just outside an admittedly rather sinister cornfield. They seek help at an old farmhouse in the center of the corn, but what’s in the farmhouse is a whole lot worse than being stranded outside the cornfield. Now the vacationing group has to survive a night of horror in the corn.

Okay, granted…we’ve heard this kind of thing before. In fact, we’ve heard this kind of thing a lot before. But there’s still plenty of life left in this rickety old concept, and putting After Dark to work on it can’t hurt either. See, speaking here as someone who lives around a lot of corn fields, it’s easy to see why they’re scary. Corn leaves can actually cut skin, and a cornfield can be sufficiently dense for anyone to get lost in it. So picture yourself in the middle of a gigantic, super-dense concentration of leaves, some of which will cut you. Now picture yourself being chased by some ungodly horror out of the deepest depths, and now you’ve got the picture. This is some creepy stuff right here.

And when you reach the point where you find out just what’s going on in this farmhouse of horrors, well, that’s going to be even creepier, frankly.

Sure, this won’t be the scariest thing you’ve seen After Dark put out, but it will handily be near the top of the list, putting a surprising amount of scares and a full-on mastery of the environment (it’s been a long time since I’ve seen a cornfield look this scary) to put on a real horrorshow that should make you nervous every time you have to walk through a cornfield for some reason.

The Screenhead Ten Scale hands Husk a nine out of ten for putting on a fine, creepy show that’s just a little bit implausible and unoriginal. Once again After Dark shows us just why they’ve been one of the best names in horror for the last five years.

This week, folks, is something of a big one. The folks out at Lions Gate sent out all three Scream titles on Blu-ray in advance of the big release of Scream 4 this Friday, the first such release in over a decade. So today, we start it off with the original Scream, perhaps the one truly good thing Wes “Nerve Gas” Craven ever did.

Scream takes us to the town of Woodsboro, where things seem relatively normal. The town has two real claims to fame, though: one, the recent rape and murder of resident Maureen Prescott, and two, the serial killer that’s been stalking the townsfolk of late. And the farther in we go, the more we discover that the killer is working according to a set of commonly accepted rules, the “rules” of horror film. And now, the local police are desperate to find out just who’s responsible for all this, and their connection to Maureen’s daughter Sidney, hopefully before the killer can strike again.

While Scream itself is a solid horror title, with plenty of scares throughout, it’s what it represents that really makes it something to see. See, when this came out, back in the depths of the nineties, 1996 to be more specific, the horror genre had seen better days. The slasher movie had lost a lot of its spark, the direct to video boom was still a good six to eight years out, and many thought that the genre had bit the big one. But then Wes Craven, the guy everybody remembered from the Nightmare on Elm Street series (which had completely wrapped with New Nightmare only two years prior), brought out something new, an experience that took the conventions of horror movies, and installed them in the movie itself. Things like “anyone who says ‘I’ll be right back’ never actually comes back” and “the virgin never dies” went from cliches to actual literal truth. And this incredibly meta performance was unlike anything that anyone had seen before. Imagine, a shot of pure originality in a genre that everyone thought was past its prime! To this day, I credit Scream with the resurgence of horror film in general; it was there at the right place at just the right time.

But aside from that, Scream is still a solidly made piece of horror, an excellent piece of meta-fiction that delivers scares, laughs, and full-on horror, the kind of which we don’t see every day, even to this day.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives Scream a full ten out of ten, not only for what it is but for what it did. This may well have changed the landscape as we know it, and not only that, but it provided us with a well put together piece of filmmaking joy in the process.

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Here is a brand new clip from the horror film Insidious, which opens tomorrow. Why do I watch these clips? I am freaked out. I jumped out of my skin when I saw the end of clip. Is it scary or what?

The writer-director team behind SAW and the filmmakers of Paranormal Activity say they are redefining the haunted house genre in Insidious.

This horror film is the terrifying story (I scare easily) of a family who shortly after moving discover that dark spirits have possessed their home and that their son has inexplicably fallen into a coma. Trying to escape the haunting and save their son, they move again only to discover that it was not their house that was haunted. Insidious comes from the director-writer team of James Wan and Leigh Whannell and stars Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Ty Simpkins and Barbara Hershey.

Like I said, the movie opens in theaters April 1, 2011.

The Silent House was one of Sundance 2011 main horror features. The story comes from a true incident that happened in the late 40′s in a small village in Uruguay.

The movie begins with Laura and her father Wilson settle down in a cottage they have to renew since its owner will soon put the house up for sale. They will spend the night there and repair the following morning.

Everything seems to go smoothly until Laura hears a sound that comes from outside and gets louder and louder on the upper floor of the house. Wilson goes up to see what is going on while she remains downstairs on her own, waiting for her father to come down.

The movie was filmed in one long continuous shot from beginning to end.  Laura is the main focus, second by second. She is intent on leaving the house which hides an obscure secret, unharmed.

I have no word on when it will arrive in the States. For the horror fans, let’s hope we don’t have to wait too long.

Look what I found in my email cache this morning? What a way to start a Monday! The horror film Insidious comes from the director-writer team of James Wan and Leigh Whannell (SAW). The film stars Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Ty Simpkins and Barbara Hershey.

The movie tells the horrific tale of a family who shortly after moving discover that dark spirits have possessed their home and that their son has inexplicably fallen into a coma. Trying to escape the haunting and save their son, they move again only to discover that it was not their house that was haunted.

The movie opens in theaters April 1, 2011.

Here is a brand new trailer from the horror film Insidious. Why do I watch these trailers; they freak me out and scare me so. Please take a look a let me know your thoughts. Is it scary or what?

The writer-director team behind SAW and the filmmakers of Paranormal Activity say they are redefining the haunted house genre in Insidious.

This horror film is the terrifying story (I scare easily) of a family who shortly after moving discover that dark spirits have possessed their home and that their son has inexplicably fallen into a coma. Trying to escape the haunting and save their son, they move again only to discover that it was not their house that was haunted.

Insidious comes from the director-writer team of James Wan and Leigh Whannell and stars Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Lin Shaye, Ty Simpkins and Barbara Hershey.

The movie opens in theaters April 1, 2011.

FilmDistrict has determined to domestically distribute the film in the US as a wide release! It’s keeping the R-rating. So, we are blessed with no diluted PG-13 terrors here. If you are compelled you can thank your lucky-horror stars.

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark opens in movie theaters August 12, 2011.

It’s a strange mix of movies for us today, and the folks out at Lions Gate sent it to us on one convenient Blu-ray. Today we’re talking about the After Dark Horrorfest Double Feature To Die For: Borderland / Crazy Eights, and part of this disc is pretty nice, while the other is fairly weak.

Borderland takes us down south of the border, down Mexico way, where a group of Texas University students have gone to get their party on just ahead of their graduation. And what they’ll find down there, well, by now is the subject of a State Department warning–a monstrous, psychotic cult looking for human sacrifices.

Crazy Eights, meanwhile, takes six people who have one thing in common, the children’s home they all spent some time in. And while the specifics of their childhood is a bit unclear, the one thing they’re all clear on is that one of their friends died accidentally. But there’s something significantly worse waiting in that house, and as the group finds themselves walking through that house of their past, they discover what they all really have in common.

The thing about After Dark Horrorfest titles is that, for the most part, even when they’re bad, they’re still pretty good. When Borderlands was originally released, it wasn’t my choice for the dog of the festival–this was the 2008 Horrorfest–but it was pretty close. It actually turned out to be my second least favorite, but as it turned out, though it came out ahead of Lake Dead (which wasn’t hard, I’ve seen some home movies that were both scarier and easier to watch than Lake Dead was) it was actually just as good as the next two (Unearthed and Nightmare Man, respectively), but for largely different reasons. Crazy Eights, meanwhile, turned out to be my third favorite in the series, coming in just behind Tooth and Nail and Mulberry St., but just a tick ahead of The Deaths of Ian Stone.

This is a good if strange mix, mostly because Crazy Eights and Borderlands really don’t have anything to do with each other. While they’ll both have their share of bizarre elements (Borderlands, for instance, will have you trying to believe that Mexican cultists are not only running drugs but they’re using blood magic to protect their haul from prying eyes. Meanwhile, Crazy Eights will have you wondering how people who grew up together could forget so much about their childhoods.), it really doesn’t matter, because in the end, they’re both still pretty good.

The Screenhead Ten Scale, meanwhile, gives a full ten out of ten to After Dark Horrorfest Double Feature To Die For: Crazy Eights / Borderlands, a blu-ray that gives you two good quality movies in one convenient package. The two by themselves aren’t tens, but getting two eights in one box, well, that’s added value. And added value is worth a perfect score in my book.

Directed by Pang Ho-Cheung, the movie follows Cheng Lai-Sheung (Josie Ho), who always dreamed of living in Hong Kong’s famed Victoria Harbour. She vows to one day save up enough money for her family to move into ‘No.1 Victoria Bay’ with a magnificent view. In order to achieve her dream, Cheng has to work hard at two full-time jobs.

She even goes as far as stealing customer data to sell to other companies. However, no matter how much she toils, she cannot earn enough to keep up with the ever-increasing values of Hong Kong’s real estate. Since property prices keep leaping higher, her dream home now seems forever out of reach…until suddenly, it dawns on her: in order to get what she wants, she must take matters into her own hands…even if it means getting her hands seriously bloody.

Dream Home will be available On Demand starting February 9, 2011 and opens in select theaters beginning February 11th.