Archive for November, 2008

Genre Vets Praise Zombies That Ate the World

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

George Romero and Tobe Hooper, no strangers to the undead, are giving a big thumbs up to Devil's Due Publishing's forthcoming comic book title The Zombies That Ate the World , as seen in the ad below. The monthly series kicks off for the first time in the ...

Revisit the Dylan Dog Case Files

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

With the advent of Kevin Munroe's Dead of Night , a live-action Dylan Dog film, Dark Horse Comics is reintroducing Tiziano Sclavi's popular Italian pulp hero to American readers next year. The publisher has announced The Dylan Dog Case Files , a 680-page trade paperback collecting the translated ...

Update: Bloody Valentine Fans Get the DVD They Want

Saturday, November 29th, 2008

Update: For those who doubted, here's confirmation via the ad below. You can watch the deleted scenes one of two ways: Incorporated into the film, or, as a separate bonus feature with intros. There's been a lot of speculation regarding Lionsgate's upcoming special edition DVD release of the original ...

New Moon Lensing in March

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Ryan Seacrest, a name we never thought we'd ever mention here on Shock, chatted it up with Twilight star Kristen Stewart who told KiisFM that the inevitable sequel, New Moon , begins shooting in March. Summit Entertainment officially greenlit the sequel last week. "A lot of ...

Mum & Dad Are Coming to the U.S.

Friday, November 28th, 2008

Opening on December 26th in the UK, Mum & Dad is taking a leap across the pond next year for a U.S. release. ShockTillYouDrop.com has learned distributor Revolver Entertainment has its eyes set on a May 9th release. Whether it will be a limited theatrical run ...

Chris Smith Taking Over Black Death

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Director Geoff Sax is out and Christopher Smith is in on Black Death , a film reported at the beginning of the year and starring Lena Headey, Sean Bean and Rupert Friend. Smith's credits include Creep and Severance . He recently wrapped the thriller ...

Twilight ’s Gathegi on Bloody Valentine

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Edi Gathegi vamps out in Twilight but in My Bloody Valentine 3D , the actors tells ShockTillYouDrop.com he's "Deputy Martin, the deputy to Kerr Smith's [Sheriff Palmer]." The actor, who first appeared in Crank and later, James Wan's Death Sentence , says ...

Details and Pics from X-Cross

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Battle Royale 2 helmer Kenta Fukasaku has conjured up a bizarre horror-comedy entitled X-Cross (or, "criss-cross" but not in the "wearing your jeans backwards sorta way") that has landed on our radar. Based on the hit novel by Nobuyuki Joko and scripted by Tetsuya ...

Petty Talks Faces of Death Feature Film

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

Not a huge update, still it's worth noting that progress has been made since director J.T. Petty committed to a Faces of Death film some time ago for Rogue Pictures. Petty, whose picture The Burrowers is finally coming to DVD in April, recently told Fangoria ...

Image to Debut Johnny Monster

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

This February, the world's most popular monster hunter gets a three-issue comic book mini-series of his own in Image Comics Shadowline's Johnny Monster . Johnny Monster made himself a household name by hunting the monsters who stalk the Earth. However, nobody knows he was raised by the same monsters ...