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Giving horror fans enough nightmare fuel to last them until next Halloween, Channel Zero: Candle Cove has cranked up the fright factor to eleven over its first four episodes. Over the past couple of weeks, Daily Dead, along with other journalists, had the opportunity to take part in conference calls with showrunner Nick Antosca, who discussed adapting Kris Straub's unsettling creepypasta, how the show found a home at Syfy, getting Greg Nicotero's help in designing the look of The Tooth Child, and what to expect in season 2, which will focus on Brian Russell's NoEnd House.

Nick Antosca on which puppet-like character scared him growing up and having Don Mancini (Child's Play films) in the writers' room for Candle Cove:

When I was a kid, they used to play that [Child's Play] on USA all the time. I remember seeing Child’s Play 2 and Chucky killing the teacher,...

Hannibal may have aired its series finale on NBC tonight, but that doesn’t mean executive producer Bryan Fuller is done telling the story of the cannibalistic Dr. Lecter and his friends, frenemies and potential “dinner dates.”

“It’s not over until I’m dead, as far as I’m concerned,” Fuller says of his dream to continue this particular yarn — either through a fourth season on a new network, or (more likely) via a big-screen spinoff.

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“The fans are going to have to be very patient. It’s...

In Fango #302, currently on sale, we present an interview with François Dagenais, the Canadian makeup FX maestro who has created ghastly illusions for George A. Romero’s recent Dead films, the upcoming Mother’S Day remake and, most notably the Saw sequels. Therein we present some exclusive photos of Dagenais’ nasty handiwork from the Jigsaw franchise, and if you click past the jump, you can see more Fango-only pics of grisly gags from Saw II, Saw III, Saw IV and Saw VI!

Has there ever been a movie franchise as user-friendly as the “Saw” films? “Saw VI,” the latest installment, may have a new director (Kevin Greutert), but the writers Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton, collaborating on their third consecutive “Saw,” make sure that it’s as customer-service-oriented as ever.

Somewhere within the Saw universe’s ridiculously convoluted back story is a film showing how the dying “Jigsaw Killer” John Kramer (Tobin Bell) won the lottery, set up corporate offices, and hired legions of worker elves to build a “torture district” the size of Disneyland. It would be a helluva lot more entertaining than watching his uber-secret second protégé (Mandylor, Mandylor, Costas Mandylor) tiptoe around the events of the previous films, which was all that the abysmal Saw V really had to offer…read more [DreadCentral]

I really don’t want to talk about the plot, because if you’ve seen a few of these films,...

Since Saw has become the 21st century’s Friday The 13th—an unstoppable once-a-year franchise with a signature villain—it only makes sense that in both cases, the sixth entry has proven to be surprisingly better than expected. Not that Saw VI takes the series into any surprising new directions, nor does it make much that’s fresh out of the saga’s stock ingredients. Yet it stacks up as a scarier and more satisfying viewing experience than the last few sequels.

Whether it’s due to the way director Kevin Greutert (the longtime Saw editor making his debut at the helm) and returning VI and V scripters Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan spin their narrative, or maybe the fact that I’m just getting soft, the nagging issues that have plagued all the previous movies didn’t nag quite so much this time. It remains thoroughly implausible that Hoffman...

Walking into the Prairie Production Centre, the cavernous Winnipeg studio in which Darren Lynn Bousman’s Mother’S Day is being shot, is like walking into a Home Show exhibit gone terribly, terribly wrong. Tasteful upscale house interiors, courtesy of Saw V/VI production designer Anthony Ianni, initially suggest model McMansions erected for moneyed buyers, but closer inspection reveals it must surely be the maid’s day off. Blood is smeared across windows, splattered on doors, pooled in seat cushions and artfully dribbled and drabbled over the pool table, the fully stocked bar and the framed Village People album covers hanging on the wall.

Mother’S Day is, in name at least, a remake of the 1980 shocker directed by Charles Kaufman (brother of Troma-meister Lloyd), which at first glance seemed like just another entry in the stalk-‘n-slash/holiday sweepstakes. In fact, it was more of a low-budget cross between...

Survival of the Dead Directed by George A. Romero George A. Romero. the undisputed king of socially relevant zombiedom. delivers his sixth entry into his Dead series with Survival of the Dead. Unlike Land of the Dead. set several years after the dead first began to rise up and eat the living, Survival opens a few days after the outbreak. The film follows a band of rogue soldiers looking for safe haven in the wake of a worldwide zombie apocalypse . Their journey finds them at Plum Island, where they walk right into the middle of a decade-long feud between two bitter Irish families. On one side you have the Muldoons, who believe the dead should be saved in hopes of finding a cure and on the other side, the O'Flynn family, who believe the dead should remain dead. With Survival of the Dead, Romero attempts a return to form for his decade-defining zombie movies,...

To call George A. Romero’s latest zombie thriller a horror movie is only half right. Certainly, this sixth entry in his 40-year-old series details what happens when the dead return, armed with a blind instinct to rip the soft parts of the living to shreds—but, as any serious scholar of these pictures knows, none of Romero’s Dead films are alike.

The first was a gritty, black-and-white exercise in nihilistic nightmare logic; the second, a day-glo action/satire epic with a brash, bass-heavy prog-rock score courtesy of Italian supergroup Goblin. The third entry trapped its characters in a profane, sexist ticking-time-bomb tomb, mining claustrophobia to sweaty effect while the zombie dregs bit at their doors. The higher-budgeted fourth feature detailed the effects of capitalists foolishly trying to use commerce to control the corpse problem, and the fifth was a low-budget, experimental musing on media manipulation.

Which brings us...

Part Two of the Survival of the Dead video series Sarge Speaks just popped up online featuring Alan Van Sprang as Sarge, in character and talking apocalypse. Suit up, soldier.

For more visit the official Survival of the Dead MySpace page! If you're on Twitter, you'll want to follow @OfficialRomero to stay up-to-date on all things Dead. Even the filmmakers themselves will chime in about the latest developments in getting the film ready for release. Among the cast and crew who will be posting are actors Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Kathleen Munroe, Devon Bostick, Richard Fitzpatrick, and Eric Woolfe; editor Michael Doherty; stunt coordinator Matt Birman; VFX supervisor Colin Davies; SFX makeup creator Francois Dagenais; costume designer Alex Kavanagh; Epk producer Michael Felsher – and George A. Romero himself! Fans will recognize these “official” tweets as they will end with the person’s initials: Avs, Kw, Km, Db, Rf, EW,...

I can pretty much guarantee that no one is more stoked for the release of George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead than I am. Being a zombie for the master? It just doesn't get much better. To help you get just as excited, a new video has debuted on the official Survival of the Dead MySpace page!

This latest video (which you can watch below) features Alan Van Sprang as Sarge, in character and talking zombies. You'll note this is part one of two so look for another installment soon. If we're lucky, maybe we'll get an assortment of teaser goodies coming our way. When we know, you'll know!

If you're on Twitter, you'll want to follow @OfficialRomero to stay up-to-date on all things Dead. Even the filmmakers themselves will chime in about the latest developments in getting the film ready for release. Among the cast and crew...

Now that George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead is just a few short weeks away from premiering at film festivals in Venice, Toronto, and Austin, we expect more and more info will begin coming in, and today there's both a behind-the-scenes sneak peek courtesy of MySpace and a new still from Fangoria.

The MySpace video is accompanied by the following note from George himself and a slew of other new pics you can see here.

Hi guys,

Some of you have been asking about the title of my new film. I called it "Survival of the Dead" because it's about a group of people who escape to a place they think is safe - an island where they hope to survive the war between the living and the dead.

That's how the story begins. By the end, something happens that makes the word "survival" take on a whole new meaning.

Gotcha! Fangoria.com nabbed this exclusive photo (see it full size after the jump) from George A. Romero’s Survival Of The Dead, the sixth entry in the horror great’s enduring zombie saga. And that’s not all… Ever since the announcement of the title for Romero’s latest film, fans have been clamoring for up-to-the-minute information and feedback. And Fango can now tell you that Artfire Films and Romero-Grunwald Productions officially launch the Survival Of The Dead Twitter page today to meet the unprecedented devotee demand regarding the next chapter in the legendary director’s undead series.

On the official Twitter page—www.twitter.com/OfficialRomero—fans will not only be able to “tweet” about the latest information and news about the movie, but even the filmmakers themselves will chime in about current developments in getting the film ready for release. Among the cast and crew who will...

Deep in the darkest heart of rural Ancaster, just on the outskirts of Hamilton, Ontario, hordes of hungry cannibal corpses are bursting from the confines of a barnyard prison and shambling toward anything with a heartbeat. Around them, panic-stricken horses whinny and flee while Stetson-wearing cowboys and grizzled farmhands shoot Winchester rifles—aiming, of course, for the head. All the while, director George A. Romero stands by, grinning. See, this is the set of Romero’s latest—and, as of this writing, still officially untitled (though many sources currently list it as Island Of The Dead)—living-dead adventure, an action-oriented horror film that also functions as, believe it or not, a Western.

That’s right. A zombie Western.

Taking its cues from one of the director’s favorite vintage Hollywood oaters, William Wyler’s 1958 Gregory Peck/Charlton Heston vehicle The Big Country, Romero is fashioning a kind of mini-epic of modern-day zombie mayhem,...