• Darren Lynn Bousman is worried about his new film Repo: The Genetic Opera. "I think right now, the problem with this movie is that people are thinking of it as meat and potatoes. It's not. It's sushi."  

• In case you missed it: Cookie Monster Searches Deep Within Himself and Asks: Is Me Really Monster?

•The role of slasher mom Pamela Voorhees has been cast. Nana Visitor (she usually does scifi) told ScreenGeeks she'll play the part in the Friday the 13th remake.

•Evil Dead: The Musical, based on Sam Raimi's films, didn't do well in New York but it's killing in South Korea.

• Thursday is Thriller, Thriller Night. The Tribeca Film Festival is celebrating the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson's epic music video . It might be the best film John Landis ever made.

Perhaps the most fitting thing a horror website can do is die and then spring back to life. Such was the fate of Bloody Good Horror, which began as a small hand-coded HTML site back in 2001, says editor Eric Newell. "My life caught up with me and I wasn't able to keep up with the daily work (let alone bandwidth costs) so we shut our doors and took the site down," he says, "We had already accomplished more at that point than I thought we ever would, so I figured I would never really be talking about it again."

A writing gig at Horror Hound changed all of that; newly emboldened by the experience, Newell and his brother Mark (the site's web developer) assembled a cadre of other writers and shocked new life into the limbs of their discarded site, creating a place where news, reviews, and podcasts could coexist peacefully under one sleekly designed roof. That design is itself quite a departure from the aggressively obnoxious look that many horror sites still cling to. "That has been Mark's pet peeve from day one," says Newell. "The generally concise layout, combined with the white background (another oddity in the horror community) is what makes us unique. That, and of course when you go to the site there's a headless corpse grasping at you... that seems to get people's attention also."

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• Watch out, warns Cinematical, that DVD version of the fantastic French slasher film Inside that you picked up at Blockbuster might be the wimpy "rated R" version -- with eight minutes of gory thrills snipped out.

• Lost Ray Harryhausen footage? No, it's a real bird that keeps itself fully plucked due to an unfortunate malady. Sort of cuddly in a leathery, scuttling way, don't you think?

• Rest in peace, Grampa. Texas Chainsaw Massacre II's Ken Evert passed away this month. Just 56 years old, Evert was a Vietnam veteran in addition to being a beloved character actor.

• Run, it's the Blob! Oh wait, it's just the city of Miami flooding its streets with millions of gallons of foam. (Video here.)

• Meagan Good has decided to become the next starlet to be sawed (Sawn? Seen?), joining the cast of Saw 5