CHEAP THRILLS, a darkly comedic horror film, reunites THE INNKEEPERS’ Pat Healy and Sara Paxton in a tale about how, well, cheap we are. “Recently fired and facing eviction, Craig has his life turned upside down when he meets a wealthy couple who offer a path to financial security... but at a price.”

Deadline reports Drafthouse will release the film theatrically, but no projected date as of yet.

For more on CHEAP THRILLS read our glowing review and see our talk with producer Travis Stevens

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Meanwhile, Shock Till You Drop is currently entrenched in interviews for the film, which means speaking with original deadites Rob Tapert and Bruce Campbell, who along with Sam Raimi produced the remake. Tapert went ahead and commented on the recent talk of Raimi returning to the original franchise, explaining—suprisingly—"That would be ARMY OF DARKNESS 2. Everybody calls it EVIL DEAD 4, but ARMY OF DARKNESS wasn't called EVIL DEAD anywhere except by the fans."

Campbell, keeping expectations tempered commented on his return and another DEAD film, by saying "Sam threatens this every six months...They were a nightmare to make, very difficult, but they lasted the test of time, so he's not going to let that go, and I'm never going to say 'no.' It'll be me and a walker fighting some other old guy. But that's what he does and who knows? It may happen."

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Featuring contributions from Adam Wingard Simon Barrett (YOU’RE NEXT), Eduardo Sanchez Gregg Hale (THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT), Gareth Evans Timo Tjahjanto (THE RAID and MACABRE, respectively) and HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN’S Jason Eisener, V/H/S/2 sees “two private investigators, searching for a missing student, break into his abandoned house and find another collection of mysterious VHS tapes. In viewing the horrific contents of each cassette, they realize there may be terrifying motives behind the student’s disappearance.”

The film, which I reviewed here, is great stuff, with Evans & Tjahjanto’s “Safe Haven” (previewed here) being a transcendent stand out. Their short goes wild, wild places that satisfy those looking for an uncomfortable fright, as well as blood soaked insanity.

Arrow reports Magnolia Pictures will release V/H/S 2 June 6 on VOD with a theatrical to follow on July 12. The film also plays this week’s SXSW down in Austin, and hits the East Coast in April at the Tribeca Film Festival (see our talk with Tribeca Midnight programmer Cara Cusumano here).

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As Weinsteins dropped it, Senator Entertainment seemed to swoop in until they dissolved prior to release. Radius co-president Tom Quinn tells Deadline, “It is one of my favorite horror films I’ve seen in the last decade, and if I could have afforded it at Magnolia, I would have bought it then. We were finally able to untangle the film’s rights at a time when a multi-platform release makes perfect sense for a film like this. Jonathan’s film WARM BODIES has grossed over $60 million, and to me this movie surpasses what is available to us on the open market.”

MANDY LANE stars Heard as the titular object of everyone's high school affections. Pure and on a pedestal, she heads on a weekend getaway that sees the classmates who surround her have their lives cut short. Radius' plans for the film include the now popular VOD and limited theatrical release with the "top 50 markets" targeted for the latter. 

Despite being available for those with region-free players, it's been years since I've seen the film and am very much looking forward to seeing its proper stateside release and promptly rediscovering. Levine, of course, has since gone on to the great THE WACKNESS and last month's WARM BODIES,

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"Though his work environment is tightly monitored, Syd manages to sneak viruses out of the office and retool them on his personal console for his lucrative sideline supplying the black-market disease trade. When Syd is tasked by his employer to collect a virus from starlet Hannah Geist (Sarah Gadon), he is unable to resist the temptation to get closer to one of his own personal celebrity obsessions. Injecting the virus into his own bloodstream, Syd is launched down a dangerous path—and the stakes are raised even higher when he learns that Hannah's illness is potentially fatal."

The journey Syd finds himself on is an often dizzying, original one that certainly recalls the best of the director's father's work, and introduces a stylistic new voice interested in going way-out places. For more on the film, see Chris Alexander's review, and look out for FANGORIA #323 (on sale next month) for an exclusive talk with Cronenberg. ANTIVIRAL hits VOD and limited theatrical release April 12, 2013

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[REC] 2, if you’ll remember concluded with the reveal that the entirely lovable heroine put through so much hell, is now an agent of it. After a legendary scene of serpent transfer (it freaked me out, endlessly) it seems Angela (Manuela Velasco), “the young television reporter who entered the building with the firemen, manages to make it out alive. But what the soldiers don’t know is that she carries the seed of the strange infection. She is to be taken to a provisional quarantine facility, a high-security installation where she will have to stay in isolation for several days. An old oil tanker, miles off shore and surrounded by water on all sides, has been especially equipped for the quarantine.“

These teaser posters are stamped with 2013. [REC] 4: APOCALYPSE was still in preproduction when we last spoke to director Jaume Balagueró (he and Paco Plaza have decided to helm the last two sequels separately), so when the film does hit, it will likely be later this year. Are you excited to see how it all wraps up? Are you hoping for a sterner tone than GENESIS? [h/t BD]

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That film, co-written and produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE's Tobe Hooper is a cinematic treasure, which has forever made it target for redo. It saw picturesque family the Freelings (led by Craig T. Nelson and JoBeth Williams) truly understand the horrors of suburban development through menacing spectral activity atop a covered Indian burial ground.

A host of writers including SINISTER's Scott Derrickson, David Lindsay-Abaire and THE POSESSION's Juliet Snowden & Stiles White have previously worked on drafts of a new version (there was once even speculation Sam Raimi could take it on), but Deadline revealed little else aside from Kenan's involvement, so whether a pre-existing script or entirely new one will be used is unknown. Also unknown, the film's goals. Kenan is arguably a director of younger-aged fare. While most parents wouldn't be uncomfortable letting their newly teenaged spawn watch the often fun, but frightening original, it does remain particularly layered, and frankly, great. Will Kenan make a jump and shoot for such, or just aim lower?

SNAP finds "Jim, a painfully shy, socially awkward music savant's inner demons get stirred up when he develops an obsession with Wendy, a young clinical social worker, who is drawn to Jim by her naïve desire to save people. His fixation grows more menacing after she rejects his romantic advances and Wendy is forced to seek out the counsel of her mentor, Kevin. Together they attempt to unravel the secrets of Jim's inner torment before it spirals out of control."

Starring Jake Hoffman, Nikki Reed (TWILIGHT), Scott Bakula (!) and no stranger to the pages of Fango, Thomas Dekker, SNAP will host its world premiere at this week's SXSW. We'll be on hand to hopefully catch an entrancing thriller. 

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In what could be their strongest s slate yet, Tribeca sees the return of Keshales and Papushado, who brought the world premiere of their darkly hilarious RABIES to the fest two years ago and took off greatly from there. Of course, that would lead us to question which of the more unknown selections could break out come May: New Zealand cannibal comedy FRESH MEAT? Mad Scientist cyborg story THE MACHINE? “We’re really excited about that, first of all. RABIES was something we kind of discovered and launched and we are so proud of them; to be able to bring them back in Spotlight with this bigger film is very triumphant for all of us,” the programmer says. “It’s always hard to predict what’s

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A tale of death, class divides, gypsies and seemingly werewolves, HEMLOCK GROVE (based on the novel from Brian McGreevy) revolves around the murder of a young girl in a ravaged Pennsylvania steel town, where suspicions rise that the culprit might not be human—and may have escaped from a nearby biotech facility. TWIN PEAKS has been cited as parallel and influence and its previous trailer certainly holds to strange, illicit happenings around a small town, that reach far beyond mere murder.

Famke Janssen, Dougray Scott, Lily Taylor, Bill Skarsgård and Landon Liboiron star. The Roth-directed pilot, as well as the other twelve episodes of HEMLOCK GROVE all premiere on Netflix April 19. [EW premiered]

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Each horrifyingly beautiful print is unique, signed and numbered–and, of course, painted with Castiglia’s own blood. Groovy! The Giclée prints are museum quality, archival prints on Somerset Velvet paper (100 percent cotton rag), printed using a Canon IPF 9100 with Lucia pigmented inks (rated not to fade for at least 100 years). This is a rare opportunity for any collector who might be interested in a piece embellished by Castiglia at a more affordable price.

The prints that Castiglia has made available are:

THE SLEEP–24″ x 32″ hand-painted, limited edition of 16–$900

LAURA–16″ x 24″–$800

FEEDING–16″ x 24″ hand-painted, limited edition of 16–$800

Prints of THE SLEEP and/or LAURA are available for purchase exclusively here. Prints of FEEDING are available directly here. Tell ’em Fango sent ya.

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OOGA BOOGA, starring Karen Black and Stacy Keach, joins the roster March 12 and follows the murder of an innocent African-American medical student whose soul is transferred into the body of an obscure toy, eventually extracting his revenge by killing racists in the city.

To get GrindhouseFlix for yourself and all pertinent devices, head to its official site,

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Kieren Walker, our undead protagonist, or rotter as they seem to be called here, is heading home. Some think he’s still the same, others see a real monster. Either way, it seems odd it’s taken this long to start popularizing telling tales of what it’s like after the initial apocalypse on screen, but IN THE FLESH certainly looks a good way to get it going. The series premieres Sunday, March 17 on BBC Three, and hopefully won’t take a great deal of time getting stateside.

For much, visit its official site. 

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