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The Criterion Channel’s stellar offerings are continuing next month with a selection of new releases, retrospective, series, and more. Leading the pack is, of course, a horror lineup perfectly timed for Halloween, featuring ’70s classics and underseen gems, including Abel Ferrara’s The Driller Killer (pictured above), Tobe Hopper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, early films by David Cronenberg, Wes Craven, and Brian De Palma, Bill Gunn’s Ganja & Hess, and more.

Also of note is a New Korean Cinema retrospective, featuring a new introduction by critic Grady Hendrix and a conversation between directors Bong Joon Ho and Park Chan-wook, whose Barking Dogs Never Bite, The Host, Mother, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, and Lady Vengeance are part of the lineup, as well as Lee Myung-se’s Nowhere to Hide, and more titles to be announced. Bong’s short Influenza will also arrive, paired with Michael Haneke’s Caché.

We haveadded the trailer for Paramount Pictures upcoming horror thriller, 'TheCrazies'. A remake of the George A. Romero feature, the film starsTimothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell.Watch the trailer below;Remake of George Romero's 1973 movie.The story will be brought up-to-date with the original following the events in a small Pennsylvania town after a mishap with a biological weapon, leading to insanity, rioting and murder.

Overture Films is remaking George A. Romero’s classic horror film from 1973. The film is directed by Breck Eisner and stars Timothy Olyphant, Radha Mitchell, Joe Reegan, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson and Justin Welborn. The original film tells the story an accidental release of a military biological weapon in an American town, the effects of which are extreme violent insanity. So far it seems that the remake will be true to the original. The film is set to be released February 26, 2010. Check out this trailer for Romero’s version. Madness unleashed! Post from: Screamstress Post from: Screamstress...

Written by Matt Goldberg Director Breck Eisner Best known for his work on the 2005 Matthew McConaughey flick "Sahara", Breck Eisner is the first major player we meet when we arrive on the set and he makes sure he can talk to us while he's still energetic and clear-headed before the grueling and complicated shoot he has ahead of him that night. On approaching the remake and the fundamental changes to the story: “Any time you do a remake or a reimagining, you want to have target aspects of the movie that they didn’t have when they first made it. My theory is they should have something they couldn’t do the first time around that you could do differently. It’s not like you’re just redoing Psycho or redoing a perfect film. Romero obviously had limitations in terms of the budget. He had $275 grand to make the entire movie.

Danielle Panabaker ("Friday the 13th") and Joe Anderson ("Across the Universe") have joined Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell in "The Crazies." The horror is currently filming in Iowa and Georgaia Breck Eisner ("") directs the film which is a rebuff of the 1973 film by George A. Romero. The story tells of a water source that's been contanimated, leaving the residents of a small town in Kansas mentally insane.   Scott Kosar and Ray Wright adapt the screenplay based on the characters created by Romero. Participant Media co-finances the project.  ...

Danielle Panabaker ("Friday the 13th") and Joe Anderson ("Across the Universe") have joined Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell in "The Crazies." The horror is currently filming in Iowa and Georgaia Breck Eisner ("") directs the film which is a rebuff of the 1973 film by George A. Romero. The story tells of a water source that's been contanimated, leaving the residents of a small town in Kansas mentally insane. Scott Kosar and Ray Wright adapt the screenplay based on the characters created...

Danielle Panabaker ("Friday the 13th") and Joe Anderson ("Across the Universe") have joined Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell in "The Crazies." The horror is currently filming in Iowa and Georgaia Breck Eisner ("") directs the film which is a rebuff of the 1973 film by George A. Romero. The story tells of a water source that's been contanimated, leaving the residents of a small town in Kansas mentally insane. Scott Kosar and Ray Wright adapt the screenplay based on the characters created...

Brad Anderson is in negotiations to direct a remake of George A. Romero's The Crazies for Paramount Pictures. Michael Aguilar and Dean Georgaris of Paramount-based Penn Station are producing. Romero will serve as an executive producer on the update of his 1973 film, which was set in a Pennsylvania town where the military attempts to contain a killer man-made virus. Scott Kosar is writing. Ally Shearmur and Andrew Haas are overseeing for Paramount. Anderson's directing credits include The Machinist, which also was penned by Kosar and stars Christian Bale and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Anderson's other credits include Happy Accidents and episodes of TV's The Shield and The Wire. He is repped by Endeavor.