Oddity Cinema

Festival of Fear Coming Soon

Rue Morgue’s FESTIVAL OF FEAR, Canada’s number 1 horror convention, is getting ready to crawl its way into Toronto once again. This year, FoF will take place from August 28th until the 30th at the Metro Toronto Convention Center. Guests include Bruce Campbell, Roger Corman, Udo Kier, Barbara Steele, Tom Savini and many more. For complete [...]

James Wan to Direct CASTLEVANIA Adaptation

James Wan, creator of SAW and DEAD SILENCE, has signed on to writer and direct CASTLEVANIA, an adaptation of the highly successful video games franchise. The project is still in the beginning stages so not much information has yet to be released. Keep an eye out for this one.

Toronto After Dark 2009 Line-Up

Toronto After Dark is here again and their line-up, like always, is top notch. This year they have the Canadian Premiere of the Sundance Film Festival hit blaxplotiation action comedy BLACK DYNAMITE, the World Premiere of a wildly eccentric new vampire movie from Romania called STRIGOI and so much more! Check out a full listing [...]

Deep Red Film Festival

We are proud to present the first annual Deep Red International Festival of Fantastic Film (DRIFFF) which will take place at the Clinton Street Theater in Portland, Oregon on April 24th & 25th and at the Grand Illusion Cinema in Seattle, Washington on May 8th & 9th. We have a great lineup of films, including [...]

Week of April 6th – Frankenhooker

The Frankenstein legend gets stitched up by the makers of Basket Case and Brain Damage in this outrageous horror comedy. When his pretty fiancée “goes to pieces” under the blades of a runaway lawnmower, aspiring mad scientist Jeffrey Franken hatches an unorthodox scheme to bring his beloved back to life. He reassembles his girlfriend from [...]

Week of March 30th – Cold Prey

Five teenage snowboarders are forced to spend the night in a mysteriously abandoned ski lodge. Except somebody – or something – already lives there. It is huge, savage and unstoppable… and now it’s angry. But if you think this is going to be the usual ‘trapped teens stalked by a maniac’ movie, you’re dead wrong: [...]

Week of March 23rd – Simon: King of the Witches

Simon Sinestrari is a warlock. Though he lives in a storm drain and sometimes talks to trees, he’s the real deal, no smoke and mirrors. Deadly serious about his craft, he despises falsehoods and misconceptions toward his witchy profession. And as for those who don t believe… After being picked up for vagrancy, Simon spends a [...]

Week of March 16th – Kill Baby, Kill

A doctor, investigating a young woman’s apparent suicide in a Balkan village, discovers the locals believe the ghost of a baron’s daughter is responsible. The victims in the small Transylvanian village are being found dead with gold coins planted in their hearts. Director Mario Bava’s chiller stars G. Rossi Stuart and Erika Blanc. This moody [...]

Week of March 9th – Bollywood Horror Collection Vol. 1

Bandh Darwaza (1990) Bandh Darwaza is the Indian version of Dracula. A childless woman visits the lair of an evil magician in order that she may conceive. When she gives birth to a baby girl, the magician demands she hand her over. She refuses and has the magician killed. Years later he is revived as a [...]

Long Pig review

Long, Tedious and Awful Because I don’t even care enough to summarize LONG PIG myself, here’s the synopsis off the website: “For more than 100 years, Halloween night has traditionally been the night that America’s “cannibal elite” feast on LONG PIG. These human predators are not some pack of in-bred, toothless, backwood hermits, nor are they deranged [...]

MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D Coming to DVD & Blu-Ray

Just came across the DVD artwork for Lionsgate’s upcoming release of MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D. If you missed it in theatres, you can still experience the third dimension in the privacy of your own home with the included 3D glasses. The film will be presented in both 2D and 3D version. I just watched FRIDAY [...]

Lineup for Danger After Dark 2009

The Danger After Dark section of this years Philadelphia Film Festival has just announced its lineup. The festival takes place March 26 until the 6th of April. I SELL THE DEAD (USA, 2008) Directed by Glenn McQuaid. Starring Dominic Monahan, Larry Fessenden, Ron Perlman, Angus Scrimm. Vampires, ghouls and vicious rivalries are just part of the fantastical [...]

Poster for Remake of George Romero’s THE CRAZIES

Around and around we go on the remake merry-go-round. Next up is George A. Romero’s THE CRAZIES. Directed by Breck Eisner, best known for the Matthew McConaughey flop SAHARA, the remake will star Timothy Olyphant (DEADWOOD, DREAMCATCHER), Radha Mitchell (PITCH BLACK, ROGUE), Joe Anderson (THE RUINS) and Danielle Panabaker (FRIDAY THE 13TH – 2009). Here [...]

Pandorum trailer

From the producers of the Resident Evil film franchise comes Pandorum, a terrifying thriller in which two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they’ve been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they’re actually not alone — and the reality of their [...]

Rat Scratch Fever trailer

Brought back from space, an army of giant, mutant rats causes death and destruction for Los Angeles and the world. New monster movie from Jeff Leroy

I Know How Many Run You Scored Last Summer trailer

In the heady Australian summer of ‘89 a young cricketer is hospitalized by his bullying teammates. 20 years later he returns to his homeland to wreak his bloody revenge. Scotland Yard hotshot Kim Reynolds arrives in Sydney to assist New South Wales Detectives Gary Chance and Shane Scott in the hunt for the serial killer [...]

Poster for Clive Barker’s BOOKS OF BLOOD

I am a huge fan of Clive Barker’s Books of Blood and though I didn’t enjoy MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN, I am looking forward to DREAD and this one. The poster looks cool to me. Can’t wait to see a trailer.

Site for LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT Remake and Wes Craven

If you are looking forward to the remake of LAST HOUSE ON THE LEFT or are a fan of Wes Craven, you should check out a site that has just gone to promote the film. It has videos, pictures and interviews about the movie and Craven’s career. Check it out at http://www.wescravenslegacy.com/ .

The Haunting in Connecticut trailer

Based on a chilling true story, Lionsgate’s THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT charts one family’s terrifying, real-life encounter with the dark forces of the supernatural. When the Campbell family moves to upstate Connecticut, they soon learn that their charming Victorian home has a disturbing history: not only was the house a transformed funeral parlor where inconceivable [...]

Creepy Animated Poster for THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT

I just received this from the folks behind THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT. I love how companies are now really starting to take advantage of what they can do online to help promote their movies. The film stars Virginia Madsen, Kyle Gallner, Elias Koteas, Amanda Crew and Martin Donovan and hits theatres on March 27th. Here’s a [...]