Fangoria just uploaded the back of the one-sheet for Creature of Darkness (formerly called the far-less-horrific Hunter's Moon). If you squint really hard to read the text, you'll find that the movie actually has an imaginative plot: A boy's nightmares become reality when he embarks upon a road trip. He meets the Catcher, "a skilled and brutal collector of human species for alien science." The Catcher looks like something between E.T. and an anorexic bird of prey. The upshot? It looks like the nature of the ugly character may be strong enough to spawn a sequel or two.

Getting the indie film to this stage has been a trial: The primary financier of the film, a $111 million Powerball lottery winner named Andrew 'Jack' Whittaker, became embroiled in a number of lawsuits and a divorce. According to the filmmmakers (via Fangoria), that divorce stopped the film, which began shooting in 2005. Whittaker was able to provide the rest of the funding for post-production, and the film is now " steamrolling toward the finish line."

For the last year or so, Electronic Arts has been touting its upcoming scifi horror game, Dead Space. The console game about a spaceship that's taken over by creepy aliens called Necromorphs will be one of the best games of the year when it's released this fall, says EA. Starz Media must have believed the hype because the game will now be an animated movie as well. 

Reports Variety, "Starz' Film Roman unit is producing a film that serves as a prequel to the game, picking up where a comic that is being made by Image Comics leaves off." It makes more sense to create an animated feature out of Dead Space than it does to make a live action movie: The Dead Space graphics are so incredibly detailed, a movie would require a budget of $100 million or more to pull off that kind of realism.