Got a news scoop? Send it now! NEWS HUB August 2004 - ARCHIVED BACK TO CURRENT Chucky and Jennfier Tilly Will Answer YOUR Questions! If you go to SciFi.com, you can ask Chucky and Jennifer Tilly questions regarding the 'Child's Play' franchise in a promotion to hype up Don Mancini's Seed of Chucky, which hits theaters November 10th. The Sci Fi Channel will air both 'Child's Play 2' and 'Bride of Chucky' on Thursday, Oct. 28, starting at 7/6C. During both movies, the creepy couple will answer selected questions submitted online - tune in to see if yours is one of the chosen few! "Get ready to meet Glen, offspring of the irrepressibly devilish Chucky and his equally twisted bride, Tiffany. When production starts on a movie detailing the urban legend of his parents' lethal exploits, the dolls' family dynamic turns deadly as Chucky and Tiffany "go Hollywood" and unleash a new spree of murderous mayhem on Tinseltown - much to gentle Glen's horror." Thanks to Sci Fi Inside. Weaver Still talks Alien 5 Moviehole.net reviles that Sigourney Weaver still seems to be golden for doing an Alien 5, according to the IMDB. Weaver's keen for the fourth sequel to a smaller film, something suspenseful."I always said to Tom Rothman, who runs Fox, that I thought it would be interesting to do a small, spooky movie, more like the first one; a psychological thriller that could take Ripley to whatever the next stage may be. Which side would win out, the Jekyll or the Hyde?" Source: bloody-disgusting.com The Lost Boys 2 news! Dark Horizons reports that with the special edition two-disc set of The Lost Boys drumming up sales and interest, talk has begun once again about a sequel, which would reunite much of the cast. The cast included the famous Corey Haim and Corey Feldman. The Munster's news According to the Hollywood Reporter, "The Munsters" are coming to the big screen courtesy of the Wayans brothers. Keenen Ivory, Marlon and Shawn Wayans have struck a deal with Universal Pictures to take the 1960s television show about a family of friendly monsters who never quite get why people react in terror to them and give it a 21st century makeover. The deal calls for the three Wayanses to write the screenplay as well as produce along with Rick Alvarez through Wayans Bros. Prods. There is a possibility that Keenen Ivory Wayans would direct, though no deal is in the works without a finished script. "The Munsters" aired on CBS from 1964-66. The Wayans version will stay true to the original characters, but will place them in a contemporary setting." Some Important Scenes Cut from 'Alien vs Predator'? Planetavp got and e-mail from a fan with what he calls "proof" that important scenes were indeed cut out of the Alien vs Predator movie, just like Paul Anderson said. He says he just finished reading the 'AvP' movie book, which is based on the screenplay. He found out that if you look in some parts of the featurettes and trailers, you will see parts that weren't in the theatrical release. That page (at the link above) shows lines in the book describing a scene - and pictures from the trailers/featurettes that show the same thing. Planetavp doesn't seem to remember any such scenes in the real movie, but they can't be 100% sure. SITE UPDATES FOR AUGUST The Hellraiser section was reinstated today. About time I hear you cry. The main reworking was to rewrite the pages, as they were wrote up quite some years ago. I may have been on crack. However, I did manage to add some new material, mainly: Two new character profiles and an insightful written piece by Clive Barker. Furthermore, the reviews of Hellraiser through to Hellraiser IV: Bloodline were revised, as too was the FAQ, Did you Know? and Mythology. If ever so slightly... A brand new addition is "Matt & Petch Speak". We collected a few written articles we are responsible for, over the last number of years and put them back on the current site. Check them out and feel free to agree or disagree on Guts and Gory. Have fun. PIT OF HORROR AT THE SPOOKY CON! Your friendly Pit of Horror webmasters (Rich, Petch and John) have been invited to The Spooky Convention as guests (presented by The Mighty Mini Con) in Syracuse NY (Upstate) this coming October (23rd and 24th), to exhibit the website. We hope that many of you Pitters can join us in this event. Ari Lehman and Warrington Gillette are already confirmed guests at The Spooky. The website is coming soon and will have all the information that you need. In the meantime, check out the board we have opened up on Guts and Gory, for the convention! Crystal Lake Memories: 25 Years of Friday the 13th.: Today is Friday the 13th- what an appropriate day to launch the official website for the new Friday the 13th book entitled Crystal Lake Memories: 25 Years of Friday the 13th. Culled from exclusive interviews with over 200 cast, crew and industry luminaries, and fully illustrated with hundreds of never-before-seen images, Crystal Lake Memories will take you behind the scenes of all eleven films. From the conception of Friday the 13th, to the series' controversial effects, to the blockbuster success of Freddy Vs. Jason, Crystal Lake Memories is the ultimate document of the ultimate horror franchise. Presented in collectible hardcover and totaling over 300 pages, Crystal Lake Memories will slash its way to a bookstore near you in 2005. Thanks to bloody-disgusting.com Club Dread: If you are a fan of Club Dread like I am, then you'll be super excited to read about a brand new uncut version of the film, which hits stores September 28th. The final details have yet to be announced, however USA Today recently reported that the disc will add an additional fifteen minutes to the film, along with a total of twenty-two deleted scenes and a Broken Lizard commentary. Thanks to USA Today. Blade: Trinity We all know that the intentions of New Line Cinema is to make a Blade spin-off with the Nightstalkers assuming all goes well with Blade: Trinity on December 10th. Inside David Goyer talks about the multiple endings he shot, that will appear on the DVD, which imply possibilities about the future of the franchise... During an interview with AICN, David Goyer says: "There are definitely different endings that we've been playing around with, some versions of which will show up on the DVD as deleted scenes. We're doing a third test in the coming weeks, and that will be the ending that was scripted. We've never tested that ending, so we'll see how that goes. There were also a lot of differences of opinion as to... there are just a lot of different people with wildly opinions about how, as the third movie, it should end. Everyone was very passionate about it, and I was surprised at the positions some of the party took...There could be another BLADE; there could not be another one. There could be a NIGHTSTALKERS; there could not be another one. There could be another BLADE without Wesley. New Line was willing to do that. It just depends... With Blade, there's only been one version, and it's always been Wesley. If it were a prequel, I could see the audience buying it. Would the audience buy it if it wasn't Wesley and it was a sequel? I don't know". Source: AICN. Toolbox Murders: Lions Gate Films likes to play horror god- helping save tons of great films from collecting dust on the shelf. Fangoria reports that Lions Gate Entertainment has acquired Tobe Hooper's Toolbox Murders for U.S. video, with a fall 2005 release tentatively planned. "They really like the film," co-screenwriter Adam Gierasch tells Fango, "so much so that they are toying with the idea of a theatrical release, probably midnights." Thanks to fangoria.com Hellboy: The Director's Cut: DVD Answers reports, "Columbia has announced Hellboy: The Director's Cut which is the latest film from director Guillermo del Toro. This new three-disc release will be available to own from the 19th October this year, and should be priced at around $34.95. The director has decided to introduce around twenty-minutes of additional and extended scenes for this new cut, bringing the total runtime to around 132 minutes. The set will include all of the features of the original two-disc set, with the exception of a new director's commentary replacing the old. Also new to the set will be over three hours of all-new bonus material, including the Comic Con 2002 Panel Discussion with Guillermo del Toro, Ron Perlman and Mike Mignola, a Mike Mignola Artwork Gallery with Commentary and much more. Completing the package will be an exclusive, limited edition "Excerpt from the Diary of Grigori Rasputin" created by Mike Mignola. We'll bring you the full rundown on specs shortly. Available from the same day will be a limited edition giftset that includes the three-disc director's cut along with a cool Sideshow Collectibles Hellboy statue. This will retail at around $59.95." Anchor Bay to open up DEAD & BREAKFAST: Ambush Entertainment that the North American distribution rights for director Matt Leutwyler’s horror/comedy (emphasis on the comedy) DEAD & BREAKFAST have been acquired by Anchor Bay Entertainment. The home video and DVD specialist has been looking to cut its teeth on a theatrical release for some time (current candidates also include Dario Argento’s THE CARD PLAYER and the New Zealand ghost pic THE LOCALS), and was once eyeing to help George Romero get LAND OF THE DEAD up and running (or is that shambling?). According to Ambush, DEAD & BREAKFAST will receive some form of theatrical release in the first quarter of 2005; the film is currently branded with the notorious NC-17 by the MPAA, a rating Leutwyler and Ambush are appealing. Thanks to Fangoria. RED EYE for DreamWorks: Wes Craven is taking a break from Dimension pix, has signed to direct RED EYE for DreamWorks. This project (which is no relation to the zombie film of the same title) is a thriller in which a woman is held captive on an airplane by a villain who threatens to kill her father unless she arranges the murder of a prominent businessman. The script is by Carl Ellsworth, previously a fantasy-TV specialist (including the "Halloween" episode of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER), and the movie will be produced by the Benderspink company, with a late-2004 start date being targeted. Craven is just coming off the problem-plagued shoot of the Dimension werewolf film CURSED, and is also overseeing the company's third PROJECT GREENLIGHT project, a horror film entitled FEAST, to be directed by John Gulager from a script by Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunston. YOUNG JASON TRADES THE LAKE FOR THE WEB! Ari Lehman, the ORIGINAL Jason Voorhees from the classic that is the original Friday the 13th, has just opened his new site on the world wide web: www.youngjason.com Designed by Erik Nash, the site already sports a full online store. The messageboard for Ari is hosted on Guts and Gory, check it out today! JASON 6 JOINS GUTS AND GORY CJ Graham, the man who played Jason Voorhees in Friday the 13th Part 6: Jason Lives has been added to the Guts and Gory community. Graham is easily one of the fan's all time favourite Jason's and joins Andrew Bryniarski, Warrington Gillette, Ari Lehman and the PIT as part of Guts and Gory. Everybody check it out now! The John Carpenter of the 21st century? Created as the middle section of a three-part trilogy, Malevolence is the tragic story of a group of bankrobbers on the run from the law, who hide out in an abandoned house on the outskirts of town, unaware it is next door to the home of a family of serial killers. After one of their hostages escapes and runs for help, all hell breaks loose when she runs to the WRONG house. The Pit reckons this might well be the horror movie of the year after checking out the trailer. Considering this is the director's (Mena) debut movie, it looks very promising indeed... Vist the official site: www.malevolencemovie.com View the trailer online: www.malevolencemovie.com/fla/trailer.htm Download movies for free! Two FREE CinemaNow 30 day Subscriptions are being awarded to regular Guts and Gory messageboard members each month, as part of a promotion with Pit of Horror. Make sure you visit the CinemaNow website via the banner on the main page of the Pit (or indeed the link right here!) to keep this service available to you all. There are alot of great underground horror flicks available to watch on this site such as The Unborn II, I Spit on your grave and White Zombie. Check it out now! New guests added to Canadian horror expo Toronto, CANADA – World-acclaimed artist JOE COLEMAN, Texas Chainsaw Massacre star ANDREW BRYNIARSKI and EI Cinema staple MISTY MUNDAE join the growing list of special guests for the 2004 RUE MORGUE FESTIVAL OF FEAR National Horror Expo (Metro Toronto Convention Centre, the weekend of August 27-29). For three decades, world-renowned painter and performance artist, JOE COLEMAN, has been creating apocalyptic paintings which are unflinching autopsies of the human condition. Coleman’s controversial explosive performances lead him to be charged with the crime: “possession of an infernal machine”. Coleman is the subject of the recently released award-winning documentary, R.I.P. Rest In Pieces: A Portrait Of Joe Coleman which will show at the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear. With over a dozen motion pictures and many TV shows under his belt, ANDREW BRYNIARSKI is best known for his portrayal of Leatherface in the New Line movie The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003). Bryniarski has also worked alongside Al Pacino, James Woods, Michelle Pfeiffer, Halle Berry and Cuba Gooding Jr. to mention just a few, as well as Hong Kong’s best including Tsui Hark and Yuen Wo Ping. His film work includes Tim Burton’s Batman Returns, Oliver Stone’s, Any Given Sunday, Rollerball, Scooby Doo, Streetfighter and The Program. MISTY MUNDAE, star of the successful horror feature, Screaming Dead, returns to the screen as the lead in Brett Piper’s newest horror flick, Bite Me! premiering at the Rue Morgue Festival of Fear. Well known to underground film connoisseurs, Misty prepares to conquer mainstream cinema with this, her second feature for Shock-O-Rama Cinema studios. Mundae has also directed a number of short films - most recently winning her university’s highest awards for Voudon Blues, also premiering at the Canadian Horror Expo. RUE MORGUE FESTIVAL OF FEAR Canadian National Horror Expo 2004 will be the major genre event of the calendar year, with exclusive parties, offsite events, film screenings, autograph sessions, dealer tables and much more. Comfirmed guests include Guest of Honour GEORGE A. ROMERO (Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Creepshow), legendary director ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY (El Topo, Santa Sangre), DOUG BRADLEY (Pinhead from the Hellraiser movies), KANE HODDER (Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th movies), TOM SAVINI (From Dusk Till Dawn, Day of the Dead) and BILL MOSELEY (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Pt. 2, House of 1000 Corpses). Other guests include JOHN KASSIR (The Crypt Keeper from Tales From the Crypt), EMMA CAULFIELD (Anya from Buffy the Vampire Slayer), notorious independent filmmakers DOUGLAS BUCK (Cutting Moments) and LARRY FESSENDEN (Wendigo), creepy cult musician NASH THE SLASH, Random House horror novelist KELLEY ARMSTRONG, VINCENT MARCONE from MyPetSkeleton, genre scribe EDO VAN BELKOM and many more. RUE MORGUE is Canada’s leading magazine of horror entertainment. Its glossy mainstream look and intelligent yet biting editorial have made it hugely popular with a widespread international readership. RUE MORGUE Magazine is distributed across Canada, the United States and the UK and is published bi-monthly by the Canadian company Marrs Media Inc. For press availability or to schedule an interview please contact: Nadia Sandhu at 416-839-8508 or e-mail nadia@hobbystar.com. Visit our web site at www.rue-morgue.com for more info, or contact RUE MORGUE Magazine at info@rue-morgue.com or 416-651-9675. MICK#7 ROCKS LEATHERFACE AXE AT OZZFEST! It doesn't get anymore ROCK than this people. As you know, a prototype custom Leatherface Schecter Guitar was recently developed, thanks to the excellent artist Lisa Marano of EfexAlive. Andrew Bryniarski himself oversaw the development of the AXE and took it to the recent NAMM show in Nashville. Furthermore, Andrew brought the beast to Ozzfest and MICK#7 played the guitar during the Slipknot set. The band also signed the guitar. Go to Andrew's official site for all the news and pics of the guitar... Rock on! EL CHARRO ROCKO: Andrew Bryniarski is putting together the soundtrack for the upcoming Horror movie El Charro. All we can say is that it promises to be...heavy... www.andrewbryniarski.net Alien vs Predator: A lot of people are starting to freak out because FOX has revealed that Alien vs Predator will be PG-13! Lets hope that the movie will still be good. Thanks to FOX. Hellboy 2: Quillermo del Toro spoke to Moviehole.net about Hellboy 2, "I start writing it in the Fall and then it'll depend on how fast we get a script we're all happy about and how fast we can work out a budget and a date. It's in the future, but I wouldn't put a date on it. In the next Hellboy adventure he'll (Hyde-Pierce's Abe Sapien) have a more prominent role. She'll be back (Blair). Jeffrey Tambor will be back. We will have a good class of weirdos around." George Romero and American McGee to Make the BLOODIEST Game EVER! Gamespot writes: Although Oz has yet to find a publisher, American McGee is already planning his next project. On his personal Website today, the iconoclastic game designer revealed he is collaborating with George A. Romero, legendary director of Night of the Living Dead. The project, called City of the Dead, is being developed by Asylum Entertainment. "Recently, my company Tmiec partnered with Asylum Entertainment to bring to life a new Romero concept called City of the Dead," said McGee on his site. "We're now in the process of shopping the interactive rights to games publishers." As one would expect from a Romero project, the game will involve zombies and gore galore. "The tagline for the product is 'the goriest game ever made," said McGee, adding modestly, "We hope to bruise a few psyches with this one." While McGee's site gave no indication about which platforms City of the Dead would be released for, it did supply several pieces of concept art as well as a concept overview for publishers. Seed of Chucky: Bloody-disgusting.com has the monster of ALL spoilers I don't even want to post it. I'm just going to give the link. Luckily, I have not read it myself. Apparently, someone sent over there the entire story to Seed of Chucky in one giant paragraph. If you want to know the whole story and be spoiled before the movie even comes out. Click the Link and enjoy. House of Wax gets pushed back: Dark Horizons reports that the Elisha Cuthbert/Chad Michael Murray horror remake House of Wax, which was originally scheduled for release this Halloween, has been massively pushed back to June 30th 2005. This puts it up against M:I-3 and "Fantastic Four", so expect this date to change again- and again- and again. Dark Castle's remake of the Vincent Price classic also stars Paris Hilton, Jared Padalecki, John Abrahams, Brian Van Holt, Emma Lung and Damon Herriman. Sequel to 'Valentine and Happy Birthday': Canadians John Dunning and André Link, whose résumés include producing early films by David Cronenberg, William Fruet and Ivan Reitman, were also the moguls behind two of the most beloved entries in the early '80s slasher cycle, 'My Bloody Valentine' and 'Happy Birthday to Me'. Though financially successful, neither film spawned a sequel at the time, but now, Dunning tells Fango, follow-ups to both are in the very early scripting stages. "We sort of shot the bolt there," Dunning says of 'Happy Birthday to Me', which hits DVD from Columbia TriStar October 26. "We never thought we could top it." Nevertheless, co-screenwriters Timothy Bond and Peter Jobin have come up with a 10-page outline detailing the murderous adventures of the teenage daughter of the first film's killer. "Tim and I just did it on our own," Jobin says. "At some point or another we were talking about fun things to do, and then I said, "What about 'Happy Birthday to Me' 2?"" Dunning himself has taken on co-scriptwriting duties for the as-yet-untitled 'My Bloody Valentine' sequel. With nearly 10 minutes of gory footage removed from the original film and not replaced on the Paramount DVD release, Dunning plans to write dream/flashback sequences that will allow him to incorporate the cut violence into the new picture. "They [Paramount] won't release anything that isn't MPAA-rated," Dunning notes. "But they didn't cut it out. We cut it out because we had to deliver an R picture. I have the negative here in my office. We're through the first act and starting on the second," Dunning says of the progress on the script. No shooting dates, cast or directors have yet been set for either production. Thanks to Fangoria. Saw and Cursed also get date changes: Lions Gate Film's edge-of-your-seat thriller Saw has been bumped back from a September 17th release to an October 1st release- now that Cursed has been pushed back until 2005. An October release makes more sense for a film like James Wan's Saw, which has many Dario Argento-like horror themes in the film. There is no real word on what date Cursed has now. They say February 25, 2005 but I see that changing. From Bloody-disgusting.com. Exorcist: The Beginning: Everything just keeps going wrong, even after re-shooting the entire movie with Renny Harlin, they still have more challenges to face, such as the dreaded MPAA, who has just slapped the film with a NC-17 rating. This film is going to be crazy since it has an NC-17 rating now. Got a news scoop? Send it now!