1. Monsterfest columnist Scott Sigler shares the two secret inspirations for his novel Infected: Misery and Evil Dead II. Hey, who wouldn't be inspired by Bruce Campbell?

2. Grady Hendrix goes to a midnight showing of The Ruins... and it gets under his skin.

3. Blogger Stacie Ponder waxes nostalgic for the made-for-TV terrors of the '70s and '80s in her Monsterfest column. But if you ask me, Lifetime's movies of the week are pretty damned scary.

4. Will Hollywood's favorite punching bag Lindsay Lohan take the lead in a remake of Suspiria? Probably not, but the rumor got our heart rates up this April Fools.

5. Who loves horror? Clueless songstress Jill Sobule, who says she gets her jollies watching Mia Farrow ravage raw meat. Yum.

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• Vampires is one of the hottest Facebook apps. Bite your friends and zombies to make vampire bucks.

• Yahoo Movies has some wild Hellboy 2 images. Photos 14, 15 and 16 are ones with scary monsters. Watch them try to destroy the world in the trailer.

• Julia Jones tells Fear.net, "I got beat up and my throat slit," in this summer's Hell Ride.

• Check out the trailer for the humorous vampire meets vampire hunters film, Nightlife, which premieres tonight in New York at the GenArt Fest.

• Variety says the female lead in the Friday the 13th remake is House on Haunted Hill's Amanda Righetti.

• Remember LonelyGirl15? She's back in an online horror series called Blood Cell, says Shock Till You Drop. This time, she deals with a Satanic cult.

• Did you know there's a sequel to Tom Cruise's War of the Worlds? War of the Worlds 2 -The Next Wave is going straight to DVD. This trailer gives you an idea of why.

• Horrorhead explores the dark side of science fiction with some scary photos to boot (Scarecrow is pictured). The thesis? Science is really scary.

• The Dead Space video game movie will be "Alien meets Doom in space," says Film Roman president Scott Greenberg.

• It'll be vampires versus zombies in Last Blood, inspired by the comic book. Says Variety, the bloodsuckers are good guys, protecting the earth's last surviving humans.

• After the Boxing Helena disaster, no one thought David Lynch's daughter would make another movie. But Jennifer Lynch is back with Surveillance, a serial killer film in which a child tries to help the FBI track down the murderer.

Continue reading "Horror Surfer: LonelyGirl's Return, War of the Worlds 2 Goes Straight to DVD" »

•Dennis Hopper just became the face of retirement planning for Ameriprise ( We just want good ol' Auto-Asphyxiating Dennis back!). At least his son, Henry Lee Hopper, is set to star in Wes Craven's new teen horror film, tentatively titled 25/8.

• Want some blood money? Audition for Sam Raimi's new reality show 13 and you could win $66,666. The deadline is April 13th. Get it? Deadline.

• Geeks of Doom has a new comic review: Morbid Myths Vol. 1: The Collection. Read it "close to the fireplace and preferably with a fierce wind whipping about outside."

• Dan Aykroyd believes in ghosts but he can't believe, "The Onion Head is now a cartoon star." Watch Making of the Real Ghostbusters.

Continue reading "Horror Surfer: Hopper Gets Old, Raimi Gets Real and Going Green Gets Scary" »

• I hope the art world has a strong stomach -- Clive Barker has a solo show opening at the Sloan Fine Art Gallery in New York City this spring, including conceptual sketches for his upcoming The Midnight Meat Train. Enjoy the foie gras!

• The Friday the 13th remake has found its Jason. I think I'd rather not know what that audition entailed.

• J-horror's dread of technology grows a little more credible as hackers infect computers with flashing animation viruses, inflicting epileptic attacks and migraines upon innocent web browsers.

• Does the idea of Jesus rising from the dead after three days strike anyone else as being a little Romero-esque? Ask the makers of 3 Days Later, a musical that gives Jesus Christ Superstar the zombie treatment.  So wrong, yet I can't look away...

• Horror bloggers 'fessing up about their guilty pleasures in the genre makes for entertaining public atonement. (Mine? I'll watch all of The Night of the Lepus to get to the part where the army of marauding giant bunnies hits those electrified train tracks.)