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About two years back, there was a whole bunch of buzz about a new horror movie called Unholy. Directed by newcomer Daryl Goldberg and starring Adrienne Barbeau (The Fog) and Nicholas Brendon ("Buffy the Vampire Slayer"), the film dealt with occult Nazi artifacts secretly being held in a small Pennsylvania town. Stills were released in September 2005, followed later that month by the official trailer... and then nothing. Silencio.

Now, finally, there's news. DreadCentral.com is reporting that Starz Entertainment (you may remember them more fondly as Anchor Bay Entertainment, once upon a time) has acquired Unholy and will be putting it on DVD on September 4, 2007. Special features are still to be announced (and, in fact, Starz has yet to officially release anything). For more information on the movie, visit the official website.

Welcome to Haunted Newsreel's DVD Preview for April. This edition is sponsored by Anchor Bay Entertainment's upcoming discs for Dead and Deader, Masters of Horror: Family, Noein: Volume 3, and their theatrical release Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon. (read more...)

Welcome to what I now expect to be a monthly feature: Haunted Newsreel's DVD Preview. Our March edition is sponsored by Anchor Bay Entertainment's upcoming discs for Death Row, Masters of Horror: Pro-Life, Re-Animator, and Tokko.(read more...)

Welcome to a special edition of the Haunted Newsreel, sponsored (for we must all eat) by Anchor Bay Entertainment's upcoming discs for Masters of Horror: Pelts, Devil's Den, and Night of the Living Dorks. In this installment, we'll be dishing information on the joyful cornucopia of Region 1 DVD releases heading down the pike in February 2007.(read more...)

Yes, the Haunted Newsreel is back for a one-shot look at the news and highlights of San Diego Comic-Con 2006. This week, we'll be looking at Skinwalkers, Grind House, The Reaping, Pan's Labyrinth, The Wicker Man, Snoop Dogg's Hood of Horror, and, oh yes, Snakes on a Plane.

The Con:

The 2006 San Diego Comic-Con was held from July 20th to July 23rd at the San Diego Convention Center in sunny Southern California. Each year, tens of thousands attend, and 2006 was no exception. The Fire Marshal actually shut down onsite registration on Saturday because there were simply too many people in the building (online registration had been disabled the previous night).(read more...)

Audition is genius director Takashi Miike's most popular film (and really, the film that made his name known in America). Lion's Gate apparently has the rights to the film (as opposed to Ventura Distribution, who previously released the film on DVD in America), and as a result are going to release an all-new DVD full of…yep, you guessed it: special features! Lion's Gate's Audition will include the following:

· Theatrical trailers
· Director Interview
· Select scene Director commentary
· Director introduction
· Director Biography/filmography
· Photo gallery
· Liner notes
· Bravo's 100 Scariest Movie Moments segment
· Ryu Murakama Interview
· Widescreen (1.85:1)
· New transfer with removable English subtitles
· Japanese 5.1 Dolby Digital surround

Mmm…DVD bonus material…(read more...)

Come on, you thought that the 30th anniversary of Spielberg's aquatic terror masterpiece was going to go unnoticed? Yes, that's right-a new 30th Anniversary Edition DVD of Jaws has been announced, along with what the 30th Anniversary moniker will bring to the disc. Observe the special feature specs:

--Deleted scenes and outtakes
--Making of Jaws featurette
--Shark Facts
--Storyboards
--Production photos
--Feature on the marketing of Jaws
--Feature on the world's reaction to the film

Obviously, it'll be the ultimate DVD for the Jaws, Spielberg, and/or great movie completist when it is gracefully placed on store shelves this June 14th. I know it'll be on my wish list.

The immensely cult-tastic HBO series "Tales from the Crypt," years and years after running its course (no new episodes have been produced since 1996), is finally, to the delight of many fans, arriving on a 2-disc DVD set starting with Season One (six episodes) on July 12th, and will run for just about $26.98.(read more...)

For those that don't know, Xombie is an incredibly cool web cartoon about a smarter-than-your-average-zombie zombie that protects a little girl from oncoming hordes of the lesser-in-intelligence undead. If you haven't seen it yet, check it out at http://www.xombified.com . Ok, it's a cool web cartoon-that's all fine and dandy.(read more...)

Certainly the best news of the last two weeks for me has been the following: The Manson Family is arriving on a 2-disc DVD set on April 26th. For those that haven't heard, The Manson Family is supposedly one of the most disturbing portrayals of Charles Manson's murders ever filmed, and has been in production for fifteen years (!!!!). That and the soundtrack totally rips, as it features an entire catalog of Phil Anselmo-related bands such as Superjoint Ritual and Necrophagia.(read more...)