We're back with another installment of Radio 66.6! This week features the latest news, music, videos and tour dates from the likes of Black Sabbath, Attack Attack!, Alice In Chains, Philip Anselmo, 30 Seconds to Mars, Tesseract, Jane's Addition, Andrew W.K. and more.

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NEWS
Pantera and Down frontman Philip Anselmo will release his first solo album, Walk Through Exits Only, on July 16 via his own Housecore Records.

Attack Attack! are breaking up following their upcoming tour. Read a statement from the band here.

Travis Orbin (ex-Periphery) has joined Darkest Hour on drums. The band is currently in the studio working on a new album.

MUSIC
Listen to Black Sabbath's new single, "God Is Dead?," here. It's the first song released from 13, which is due out June 11th and marks their first new album with Ozzy Osbourne on vocals in 35 years.

Listen to a new Tesseract song titled "Of Mind - Nocturne" here. Altered State comes out on May 28th via Century Media Records.

VIDEOS
Watch 30 Seconds to Mars' music video for "Up In the Air" here. Their new album, Love Faith Lust + Dreams, comes out May 21st.

Watch Heaven Shall Burn's music video for "Hunters Will Be Hunted" here. Their new album, Veto, is out next week on Century Media Records.

Watch Health's music video for "Die Slow." here. It features footage from the film Wasted on the Young, which hits DVD this week.

Watch Andrew W.K.'s full set from his recent solo show in Providence here.

TOURS
The 2013 Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival will feature Alice In Chains, Jane's Addition, Coheed and Cambria, Circa Survive and more. The full line-up and tour dates can be found here.

Be sure to check back every Monday for the latest music news!

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Around these parts we're pretty big fans of the flick Pontypool, and any time word of another project from the minds of the lunatics behind it comes our way, we sit up and pay attention. You should too!

From the Press Release:
Foresight Features, the studio behind Monster Brawl and Exit Humanity, has teamed up with acclaimed writer Tony Burgess (Pontypool) for a 1950's style throwback entitled Hellmouth. Directed by John Geddes (Exit Humanity), the film stars Stephen McHattie (Pontypool, The Watchmen) as Charlie Baker, a dying gravekeeper who’s forced to take one final job. The film also features an eclectic cast including female lead Siobhan Murphy, Julian Richings, Boyd Banks, the star of Exit Humanity, Mark Gibson, and some iconic cameos including Bruce McDonald (Pontypool). An ode to classic horror and fantasy, Hellmouth is a VFX spectacle that chronicles Charlie Baker's dark descent through Gothic landscapes, demonic worlds, and medieval realms as he journeys to discover the secret behind a mysterious cemetery.

"I wanted to create a story-driven film with fantasy and horror combined. Something that was directly inspired by the era of Hitchcock and even Ed Wood. Working with a writer like Tony Burgess was a pleasure as we both love the simplicity in many of the old classic films of the 50's and 60's, and even earlier in films like Nosferatu and Faust. We worked really hard to make Hellmouth something fresh." - Director, John Geddes

The Visual Effects Supervisor and Lead Artist roles are helmed by Toronto's Nick Flook, who has assembled a team of A-list artists who are working around the clock to complete the hefty workload.

"The imagery and style of this film is exactly the type of endless creative opportunity I’ve been wanting to work on for a long time. Dark and moody with dashes of wild fantasy, I can’t think of any artist that wouldn’t want to work on something this cool." - VFX Supervisor, Nick Flook

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Eli Roth's series for Netflix, "Hemlock Grove," has been met with quite an unbalanced reaction from fans. Honestly, we've seen everything from "it sucks" to "it's awesome" so at the very least it has people talking, and that's always a good thing. However, it also has them watching.

According to Deadline, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings told analysts today that "Hemlock Grove" is “getting viewed by even more subscribers in its first couple of days” than the highly praised "House of Cards" was in February. Yep, horror is indeed a mighty muscle. Our review will be coming as soon as we weed through every episode. In the interim tell us what you think below.

From executive producer Eli Roth and developed by Brian McGreevy (who wrote the novel on which it's based) and Lee Shipman, "Hemlock Grove" stars Famke Janssen, Dougray Scott, Bill Skarsgård, Landon Liboiron, Penelope Mitchell, and Freya Tingley.

Synopsis:
"Hemlock Grove" is a riveting 13-episode (1 hour each) murder mystery that revolves around the residents of a former Pennsylvania steel town. When 17-year-old Brooke Bluebell is brutally murdered, any of Hemlock’s peculiar inhabitants – or killer creatures – could be suspects. Through the investigation the town’s seamier side is exposed, revealing nothing is what it seems. Beautiful, terrifying, and graphic, "Hemlock Grove" is unlike anything else in its genre.

All 13 episodes of Season 1 are available exclusively on Netflix right now. For more info be sure to "like" "Hemlock Grove" on Facebook, and follow "Hemlock Grove" on Twitter.

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Heading at you like a speeding bullet to the head of some giant evil mutant beast are three new stills from Dark Sky Film's DVD release of Manborg. What the hell is Manborg, you ask? It's just a little flick that should be at the top of your must watch list!

Synopsis:
The forces of Hell have risen to the surface of the Earth to wreak unspeakable havoc on humanity, and it will take a real superhuman to save the world. Or at least Manborg - a spectacular creature of the future and the hero of MANBORG, the cult favorite sci-fi/fantasy homage coming to select theaters and DVD on April 30, 2013, from Dark Sky Films.

The armies of Hell have taken over the Earth, and all that stands in the way of the villainous Count Draculon and humanity's total extinction is a motley crew of misfits led by the mighty Manborg: a warrior who's half-man, half-machine but all hero.

Once a young soldier killed during the first war against Hell, Manborg (Matthew Kennedy, Lazer Ghosts 2) reawakens in the future, rebuilt as a walking weapon and mankind's last hope. Struggling to learn the secret of his origins, Manborg unwittingly befriends a post-apocalyptic Australian punker (Conor Sweeney, Heart of Karl), a knife-wielding vixen (Meredith Sweeney, Father's Day), and a kung fu master (dubbed by Kyle Herbert of DRAGON BALL Z, STREET FIGHTER) before finally squaring off against Count Draculon (Adam Brooks, Father's Day) in a desperate and bloody bid to take back the Earth.

This campy, comedic action flick, which Variety called "enjoyably ridiculous," is also an affectionate and clever tribute to fan favorite '80s films and video games like The Terminator, RoboCop, and Mortal Kombat.

MANBORG is a tour de force for writer-director-editor-makeup artist Steven Kostanski, whose credits include the horror hit Silent Hill and Guillermo del Toro's forthcoming sci-fi adventure Pacific Rim. This lo-fi sci-fi epic from infamous filmmaking collective Astron-6 (Father's Day) was met with an uproariously enthusiastic reception from audiences. Executive produced by TIFF Midnight Madness guru Colin Geddes (Ultra 8 Pictures) and Toronto After Dark's Peter Kupowsky, MANBORG celebrated its world premiere at Austin's 2011 Fantastic Fest and also impressed fans at the Toronto After Dark Film Festival and Fantasia. It has played more than 30 major film festivals worldwide including Whistler, Lund in Sweden, Boston Underground, U.K. Sci-Fi, and Neuchatel in Switzerland.

Special Features:

Finally some of the demons mentioned in the title of Starz's "Da Vinci's Demons" rear their ugly heads in this Friday's Episode 1.03, "The Prisoner," and we have a preview of what's coming.

While the da Vinci depicted in the history books was renowned for his works of art and inventions that included the calculator, army tank, diving suit, solar power, and many more, “Da Vinci’s Demon’s” depicts a 25-year-old da Vinci (portrayed by Tom Riley) on the cusp of greatness, with intellect and talents that are almost superhuman. In the series he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time, tortured by his unsurpassed intellect. He begins to not only see the future, but invent it.

The series also stars Laura Haddock, who plays Lucrezia Donati, a celebrated beauty with obscure motives; Elliot Cowan, who plays the shrewd de facto ruler of Florence, Lorenzo Medici; Lara Pulver, who plays his wife, Clarice Orsini; and Blake Ritson as Pope Sixtus’ ruthless bastard son, Count Riario. David S. Goyer served as showrunner.

“Da Vinci’s Demons” airs Friday nights at 9pm ET/PT on Starz.

Episode 1.03 - "The Prisoner" (4/26/13 air date):
Riario (Blake Ritson) discusses his defeat with the Pope (James Faulkner) and a mysterious prisoner. An outbreak of demonic possession at a convent is blamed on the Medicis, but Leonardo (Tom Riley) searches for a rational explanation.

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Well, here's a real kick in the pants. Fans of Texas Chainsaw 3D are bound to be seething with lots of online angst at this latest news story. If you want to see Texas Chainsaw 3D unrated, you're gonna have to settle for Digital Download ONLY.

Yep, it doesn't matter if you buy the Blu-ray, the DVD, or whatever. The only way you're going to see this film in its unedited form is via digital download. This first was brought to our attention by DC reader Chris E, who pointed us to the official Texas Chainsaw 3D Facebook page, where the following message was printed... "The torture is waiting... In 2 WEEKS, Texas Chainsaw is served early and UNRATED on digital download. Pre-order now on iTunes. "

We did some digging, sent a few emails, and it turns out that is exactly the case. That being said... What do you cats think?

From the Press Release
The pulse-pounding horror film Texas Chainsaw arrives on 3D/2D Blu-ray Disc (plus Digital Copy and Ultraviolet), DVD (plus Digital Copy and Ultraviolet), Video on Demand and Pay-Per-View on May 14th from Lionsgate Home Entertainment. Texas Chainsaw will also be available for Digital Download on April 30th, two weeks prior to the Blu-ray, DVD and Video on Demand release. The film stars Alexandra Daddario (Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief), Dan Yeager (Metal Heads), Tremaine 'Trey Songz' Neverson (GRAMMY® nominated R&B International superstar), Tania Raymonde (TV's "Malcolm in the Middle," TV's "Lost"), Shaun Sipos (The Grudge 2, Final Destination 2), Keram Malicki-Sanchez (American History X), James MacDonald (Phone Booth), Thom Barry (TV's "Cold Case"), Paul Rae (True Grit) and Richard Riehle (Office Space). Also featuring special appearances from four beloved cast members from previous installments of the franchise: Gunnar Hansen (the original Leatherface), Marilyn Burns, John Dugan and Bill Moseley, Texas Chainsaw carries on the legacy of the shocking film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 39 years later.

Texas Chainsaw continues the legendary story of the homicidal Sawyer family, picking up where Tobe Hooper's 1974 horror classic left off. In Newt, Texas, people have been going missing without a trace for decades. Years later and hundreds of miles away from the original massacre, a young girl, Heather (Daddario), discovers that she has inherited a sprawling Texas estate from an unknown grandmother. To claim her estate, Heather goes on a road trip with her friends to Newt but learns that wealth comes at a price when she discovers the horror that waits in the cellar of her new mansion.

The Blu-ray and DVD features extensive bonus materials including audio commentaries, a look back at the history of the Texas Chainsaw series, exclusive interviews with the film's director, producer and writers, plus multiple behind-the-scenes featurettes. Texas Chainsaw will be available on Blu-ray Disc and DVD for the suggested retail price of $39.99 and $29.95, respectively.

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If you're in the UK and enjoyed the joint-cracking demonic contortionism of Daniel Stamm's original The Last Exorcism, then you'll be delighted to know you can experience more of the story this June 7th, as The Last Exorcism Part II lands in cinemas courtesy of Studio Canal.

Check out the quad poster and new trailer below!

Synopsis:
Deep in rural Louisiana, Nell Sweetzer awakens from an horrific chain of events with no recollection of what went before. Unable to remember her terrifying exorcism, and with the footage from her ordeal making its way out into the world, she is forced to confront the return of the demonic evil that seeks to consume her; this time it doesn’t intend to fail.

Produced by acclaimed horror director Eli Roth, the chilling sequel to the No. 1 box office hit The Last Exorcism is directed by award-winning Ed Gass-Donnelly and sees Independent Spirit Award nominee Ashley Bell reprise her acclaimed role as the troubled and tortured Nell.

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Word has just come that we're all going to be waiting a little bit longer to see The Purge as the flick's release has been bumped by a week from May 31st to June 7th. Read on for more details.

Directed by James DeMonaco (writer of Assault on Precinct 13 and The Negotiator), The Purge is produced by Jason Blum of Blumhouse (Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Sinister) and Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form (The Amityville Horror, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) as well as Sébastien Kurt Lemercier (Assault on Precinct 13). It stars Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, and Adelaide Kane.

Again, look for it in theatres on June 7th.

Synopsis
In an America wracked by crime, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity—including murder—is legal. The police can’t be called. Hospitals suspend help. It is one night when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking.

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With the quality of "The Vampire Diaries" taking a real nosedive this season, we're hoping its potential spinoff "The Originals" can reclaim some of its past glory. Check out a sneak peek of "TVD" Episode 4.20 featuring fan favorites Klaus and Elijah.

"The Vampire Diaries" Episode 4.20 - "The Originals" (airs 4/25/13)
KLAUS RETURNS TO HIS PAST IN NEW ORLEANS — Acting on a mysterious tip that a plot is brewing against him in New Orleans, Klaus (Joseph Morgan) makes a trip to the town he and his family helped build. Klaus’ questions lead him to a reunion with his former protégé, Marcel (guest star Charles Michael Davis), a charismatic vampire who has total control over the human and supernatural inhabitants of New Orleans.

Determined to help his brother find redemption, Elijah (Daniel Gillies) follows Klaus and soon learns that Hayley (guest star Phoebe Tonkin) has also come to the French Quarter searching for clues to her family history and has fallen into the hands of a powerful witch named Sophie (guest star Daniella Pineda).

Related Story: First Look Photos and More Details on "The Vampire Diaries" Spinoff "The Originals"

Meanwhile, in Mystic Falls, Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) continue with their plan for Elena (Nina Dobrev), while Katherine (Nina Dobrev) reveals a surprising vulnerability to Rebekah (Claire Holt) and asks her to deliver a message. Chris Grismer directed the episode written by Julie Plec.

For more visit "The Vampire Diaries" on CWTV.com, "like" "The Vampire Diaries" on Facebook, and follow "The Vampire Diaries" on Twitter.

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HBO is kicking off another #WaitingSucks campaign for the upcoming Season 6 of "True Blood," and first out of the gate is a new behind-the-scenes video featuring Ryan Kwanten as Jason Stackhouse.

Guest stars announced thus far include Rutger Hauer as a mysterious figure with deep ties to Sookie (Anna Paquin) and Jason (Ryan Kwanten), Arliss Howard as Louisiana Governor Truman Burrell, Jurnee Smollett-Bell as do-gooder Nicole, Karolina Wydra as Violet, a strong, sexy, possibly dangerous vamp, Luke Grimes as a circa ’70s-made vamp who is smart, spiritual, and emotionally deeper than any other bloodsucker we’ve seen before, and Amelia Rose Blaire as Howard’s onscreen daughter.

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Season 6 kicks off June 16th. For more info visit "True Blood" on HBO.com, "like" "True Blood" on Facebook, and jump in on the Twitter conversations here using the hashtag #trueblood.

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Let's be honest... should a group of gigantic creatures immediately start laying waste to the planet, you'd want someone to be ready and waiting to do something about it, right? Well, rest easy, kids. We are covered!

Look for Pacific Rim, directed by Guillermo del Toro, in theatres July 12th of 2013. Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Ron Perlman, Rinko Kikuchi, Max Martini, Rob Kazinsky, Clifton Collins, Jr., and Diego Klattenhoff star.

Synopsis
From acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ epic sci-fi action adventure Pacific Rim.

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When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes--a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)--who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

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Now that director Rob Zombie's latest piece of satanic panic trippyness, The Lords of Salem (UK DVD review), is officially laying its curse on UK DVD shelves courtesy of Momentum Pictures, in celebration we have an exclusive new clip to feast your eyes on... if you dare!

Synopsis:

A former drug user, Heidi is now clean and works as a rock DJ at the local radio station along with fellow DJs, Herman Whitey Salvador and Herman Jackson. Following one of their regular evening shows, Heidi receives a square wooden box containing a vinyl record; the only indication as to its origin is a note proclaiming “A gift from the Lords.” Assuming it is merely a PR stunt by an ambitious band, Heidi gives the record a spin and immediately begins to experience bizarre flashbacks to a past, long-forgotten trauma triggered by the haunting sounds contained on the record.

Should you want to test the structural stability of your home against blaring resonance, The Lords of Salem official soundtrack is also currently available in the UK.

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In honor of CLONED: The Recreator Chronicles duplicating itself on DVD and VOD everywhere tomorrow, April 23rd, we have a new clip for you to sample. Or is it the perfect duplicate of a clip that was once new, but now is new again. There. Just blew your mind, right?

Directed by Gregory Orr, CLONED: The Recreator Chronicles stars Stella Maeve, Alexander Nifong, Jamal Mallory-McCree, John de Lancie, and Laura Moss. For more info keep an eye on the official CLONED: The Recreator Chronicles Facebook page.

Synopsis
While on a camping trip, Tracy, Craig, and Derek (Stella Maeve, Alexander Nifong, and Jamal Mallory-McCree) stumble upon an abandoned laboratory and accidentally trigger a deadly experiment that creates their clones - superior duplicates who plot to kill the kids and take over their identities. Trapped by their captors, the teenagers discover they are no match for their physically stronger, faster, better selves. Their only hope is to unlock the secrets of the Recreator - the scientist behind the experiments - and escape with their lives before they are replaced.

As the opening chapter in a sci-fi franchise about identity and the threat of replacement, CLONED is a film rooted in science-fiction realism and psychological terror that merges the anxious paranoia of Invasion of the Body Snatchers with the teenage angst of the Twilight series.

Starring Stella Maeve (TV's "Golden Boy" and "Gossip Girl," The Runaways) as Tracy Bernstein, a small-town girl with big-city ambitions; John de Lancie (TV's "Star Trek: The Next Generation") as Dr. Frank Miller, a man with a secret who threatens Tracy and her friends during a camping trip on his private island; Alexander Nifong (TV's "Glee" and "Pretty Little Liars") as Tracy's boyfriend, Craig; and Jamal Mallory-McCree (We Need to Talk About Kevin) as Derek, the third member of their group.

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Antiviral, writer-director Brandon Cronenberg’s debut feature, posits a future in which celebrity culture has mutated to an extreme that is at once a high-tech and a profoundly intimate nightmare.

It is also a return to the themes of body horror as ushered into light so many years ago by his father, David Cronenberg. There is something of Shivers and Crimes of the Future certainly in the subject matter explored, but from a different generational perspective, with different eyes and hands creating this not-too-distant future state as either a warning or a certain prediction. Cronenberg recently sat down with Dread Central to offer some remarks on the filmmaking process and the origin of the film's themes and subtext.

The genesis of Antiviral was brought on by a real-life circumstance of the writer-director. “Well, I was sick,” Cronenberg remembers. “It was the beginning of film school, 2004, and I was obsessing over the physicality of my illness and the fact that I had something physically in my body that had come from someone else’s body and how that was an intimate thing if you think about it that way. I was trying to think of a character who would see disease as something intimate, and a celebrity-obsessed fan might reasonably see disease desirable if it came from somebody they were obsessed with and want that disease as a way of being physically connected to them. So it kind of developed into a metaphor. I thought it was an interesting frame to talk about that culture. Once I started thinking about celebrity-obsessed fans wanting diseases, it kind of shifted into that kind of discussion of that culture.”

That dystopian culture is not quite so far off as one might prefer to think Cronenberg reports. “The technology is a real thing...You could, so easily, take a cell off of Britney Spears and grow it, so it’s a small step to imagine—for all I know, someone’s tried to do this for kicks already. And I just liked the idea of celebrity consumption being literal consumption.” The ritually cannibalistic, transubstantiative aspects of Antiviral’s central conceit suggest themes beyond merely the technological and the physical. “Celebrity obsession relates to religion. You look at sainthood; it’s the same thing in a way, the way people are elevated almost to the status of gods, and the repetition of images and the physical fetishism of the relics and people claiming to have finger bones from such and such saint...”

Antiviral’s lead, Caleb Landry Jones, gives a striking performance as an increasingly desperate man seeking to solve a mystery and to save his own life. Cronenberg is effusive about his lead actor: “I can’t say enough good things about him. His agent had worked with my producer on a past film, and when we were searching around for people, he said, 'Oh, hey, why don’t you take a look at Caleb?' And so we saw a bunch of clips from things that he’d been in, an audition he’d done for another film. He’s just so exciting. He’s just one of those actors that have that special something and you look at him and he’s immediately interesting. Even if he’s doing something totally mundane, he somehow turns it into something interesting, and so we wanted him.”

According to the director, Jones’ acting is informed by the actor’s passionate love for film, especially German Expressionist and comedies from the early days of cinema: “He consumes films at a huge rate. He’s way more knowledgeable about film than I am, and he’s ten years younger than me. So he’s coming from a place where he does a lot of that old silent film thing. You can see it in his acting; he’s a very physical actor. Directing him, we talked a lot before we started shooting about the character, and he’s very dedicated and would read and re-read the script and catch things that even I’d forgotten about!”

“For example, there’s one shot, I remember, we were about halfway through the shooting, and after we did the take, he said, ‘Brandon did you like the word I chose? What do you think about me twitching my eye on that word?’ And I was like, first of all it was a wide shot, so I didn’t see that his eye twitched, but I didn’t realize... I mean, as we went on, I realized just how much control over his body that he had. He was picking points in the dialogue to have this little tic and so he had a very detailed technique to take his acting to a strange and wonderful degree. It made it easy to work with him because he just gave me tons of stuff. I would say a little, 'Do this, do that,' give him a little direction between takes, but it wasn’t like I had to draw this performance out of him or anything. He’s just really good.”

Cronenberg’s stimulating collaborative experience didn’t just involve those in front of the camera but also included those behind the lens. Like his director father, David, Brandon prefers to keep the shooting process fresh and improvisatory, which makes maintaining a clear connection with his crew essential. “I never storyboard because I don’t like to have that specific an idea before I get there because I feel like it’s more fun to find it. Also once sometimes you have an idea and then you get there and when you’re with the actors and the sets, it changes everything anyway... [Cinematographer] Karim Hussain came into town like a month before pre-production, and we meticulously went through the script and created a very theoretical shot list because we had no actors or anything, but it was just a way of creating the rules, and we were discussing how and what we wanted to do with it. So we had this general idea, and every night we would have dinner with Karim and [First Assistant Director] Rob Cotterill, and I would say, 'Here are the shots that I’m kind of thinking of,' and ask if they had any better ideas that they wanted to add.”

Cronenberg finds his collaborators to be a vital resource not only for creative ideas, but also for practical ones: “I mean, I think you need a strong sense of what you’re going to do, but at the end of the day it’s about making the film as good as possible, and if you’re working with good people, sometimes they come with great ideas and you should be open to that. Or there were practical things. I would say, ‘Let’s do fifty shots,’ and Rob would say, ‘Um, we’re going to run out of time so why don’t we prioritize and…’ We referred to Rob as ‘The Adult’ because he understands adult things like that.”

DP Hussain played an essential role in achieving the distinctive look of Antiviral: “He’s a better made Swiss Army knife of cinematographers...He’s technically very skilled so there’s no problem there, but he also strikes a good balance where he has his own good ideas but uses them to support your ideas. He gets very quickly, in my experience, what I was talking about, and it was like, 'Oh, okay, here are all these other amazing ideas that are linked to that aesthetic and stuff that we can talk about.' So he was just a great collaborator. He wasn’t a passive technician, but at the same time he wasn’t overbearing and trying to impose his own will.”

With Antiviral Cronenberg establishes himself as a challenging and provocative new writer-director, one interested in using the medium to explore uncomfortable social and psychological terrain. “I wanted to become a filmmaker partly because I needed a job. I didn’t know what to do with myself. I was writing and drawing. I wanted to be a visual artist. And I wanted to write novels and be a musician, and at a certain point I realized that was a very bad approach because you can’t get good at all of that stuff so I thought that film would be a good way to collect all of that. So I went to film school.”

“I think that there’s part of film, and the making of film, that reflects what we do in our day-to-day lives that we take these various experiences and we sew them together into narratives and we see causality in the world, but we’re not really seeing causality directly; it’s all in our heads. And that I find really interesting—that if you take two images, which are shot at different times, and are actual documents, because, even when you’re not making a documentary, every time you’re filming something, you’re documenting it. And the fact that you can cut those documented moments together and they connect to each other and the mind fuses them into some kind of causal narrative is pretty interesting to me. So I’m interested in the fact that it’s an art form based on the play of documented moments in order to trick the mind.”

Antiviral (review here) stars Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon, Malcolm McDowell, Douglas Smith, Matt Watts, and James Cade.

Synopsis
Antiviral follows Syd March, an employee at a clinic that sells injections of live viruses harvested from sick celebrities to obsessed fans. Biological communion - for a price. Syd also supplies illegal samples of these viruses to piracy groups, smuggling them from the clinic in his own body. When he becomes infected with the disease that kills super sensation Hannah Geist, Syd becomes a target for collectors and rabid fans. He must unravel the mystery surrounding her death before he suffers the same fate.

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More casting news has hit the interwebs for the long talked about flick Solace as Seven Psychopaths' Abbie Cornish has joined the previously announced Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Anthony Hopkins, and Colin Farrell.

Afonso Poyart (Two Rabbits) will direct the production, which is on schedule to begin in May. Solace was written by Sean Bailey (currently president of production at Disney), Ted Griffin, James Vanderbilt, and Peter Morgan. It originated at New Line but never came together so producers Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson, and Matthias Emcke got it back and obtained financing through Claudia Blumheuber’s Silver Reel.

The story centers on a former doctor with psychic abilities (Hopkins) who is drawn into a serial-killer case, only to find that the killer (Farrell) is a psychic as well - so the two men can detect each other's moves. Morgan is playing a veteran FBI agent heading the investigation of a series of grisly murders. He recruits Hopkins' character to help catch the killer.

Look for more soon.

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We're breaking away from our usual horror coverage for a bit, hoping to help out a friend and colleague. Ed Douglas has been a strong voice in the online film community for quite a few years now. He gave of himself and his insight freely, and now is the time to give something back.

Recently Ed fell ill while covering CinemaCon in Las Vegas for ComingSoon.net. As of this writing he is in the hospital battling acute leukemia and has no health insurance. Please join us and show your support as he battles against cancer!

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Two new official stills from the upcoming remake of the Stephen King classic tale of Carrie have arrived, and they're home to one big bad mama. Check out the goodies right here, and whatever you do... don't laugh at this chick!

Look for Kim Peirce's Carrie in theatres on October 18th. For more information visit WhatHappenedToCarrie.com! If you're SUPER brave, you can even give the White residence a call at 207-404-2604.

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Synopsis:
A reimagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White (Chloë Grace Moretz), a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Julianne Moore), who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom.

The quiet suburb of Chamberlain, Maine, is home to the deeply religious and conservative Margaret White (Moore) and her daughter, Carrie (Moretz). Carrie is a sweet but meek outcast whom Margaret has sheltered from society. Gym teacher Miss Desjardin (Judy Greer) tries in vain to protect Carrie from local mean girls led by the popular and haughty Chris Hargenson (Portia Doubleday, Youth in Revolt), but only Chris’ best friend, Sue Snell (Gabriella Wilde, The Three Musketeers), regrets their actions. In an effort to make amends, Sue asks her boyfriend, high school heartthrob Tommy Ross (newcomer Ansel Elgort), to take Carrie to prom. Pushed to the limit by her peers at the dance, Carrie unleashes telekinetic havoc. Brian De Palma’s 1976 film version of CARRIE earned Oscar nominations for stars Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie.

MGM and Screen Gems’ CARRIE is directed by Kim Peirce and produced by Kevin Misher (Public Enemies). J. Miles Dale (The Vow) serves as executive producer, and Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa (Big Love) wrote the script from King’s original story. CARRIE’s creative team includes Director of Photography Steve Yedlin (Looper), Production Designer Carol Spier (Eastern Promises), Costume Designer Luis Sequeira (The Thing), and Editor Lee Percy (Boys Don’t Cry).

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again... Oh, what a lovely world we live in when the 1977 shlock classic The Incredible Melting Man can see the light of day on Blu-ray. The Scream Factory has finally announced a release date for this gooey sequel!

From the Press Release
The SCREAM FACTORY invites collectors to dive into 70s gooey cult classic THE INCREDIBLE MELTING MAN, debuting on Blu-ray for the first time on July 30, 2013. Featuring “excellent makeup effects” (Leonard Maltin) from six-time Best Makeup Oscar® winner Rick Baker (An American Werewolf In London, Ed Wood, Men In Black) and written and directed by William Sachs (Galaxina, Exterminator 2), The Incredible Melting Man delivers the gelatinous goods while humanizing a character rapidly losing his humanity. In short: It’s bloody good! The Blu-ray is priced to own at $19.97 SRP.

Special features to be announced.

Synopsis
He was once the hero… now he’s the hunted! Colonel Steve West has just returned from an incredible history-making flight to Saturn when he is hospitalized with an ailment that baffles the entire medical community. His flesh is melting, and to stay alive he must consume human flesh and blood. The infected Colonel West escapes from the doctors’ supervision and hides in the surrounding community where he begins to hunt for human flesh. Who can stop the Incredible Melting Man?

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Here to kick off your work week is an update on the CineTel Films-produced rape 'n revenge flick I Spit on Your Grave Too.

Chatting this morning with director Steven R. Monroe (who is currently wrapping up the film's final edit), he confirmed for us that relative newcomer and actress Jemma Dallender (pictured) is portraying the flick's lead character of "Katie," a Midwest transplant who, upon arriving to New York City with dreams of a modeling career, finds herself abducted to a foreign country. Actors Joe Absolom ("Hatfields & McCoys"), Aleksandar Aleksiev and Yavor Baharov portray her abductors/rapists.

Written by Neil Elman and Thomas Fenton, I Spit on Your Grave Too is slated for a 2013 release via Anchor Bay Entertainment.

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Alrighty, kids. We're gonna be heading back to Antonio Bay in style with the Scream Factory's upcoming stellar release of John Carpenter's The Fog. Read on to find out what special features will be included once Blake and his ghostly cohorts blow in.

From the Press Release
This summer, blood-curdling terror awaits loyal fans and movie collectors as SCREAM FACTORY™ is proud to present the iconic 1980 supernatural thriller THE FOG Collector’s Edition Blu-ray™ and DVD on July 30, 2013. Directed by legendary filmmaker John Carpenter (Halloween, The Thing), this spooky and atmospheric tale of a Northern California coastal town under siege by dead souls back for revenge is highly regarded by both fans and critics as one of the true classics of the horror genre. Boasting an all-star cast that includes Adrienne Barbeau (Creepshow), Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies), Janet Leigh (Psycho), Tom Atkins (Halloween III), John Houseman (The Paper Chase), and Hal Holbrook (Lincoln), THE FOG is a nail-biting ghost story experience that you will never forget!

For the first time on Blu-ray, this definitive collector’s edition home entertainment release of THE FOG features a new transfer of the film supervised by Oscar®-nominated cinematographer Dean Cundey (Jurassic Park, Back to the Future). Presented in anamorphic widescreen, THE FOG Collector’s Edition is packed with bonus content, a collectible cover featuring newly rendered retro-style artwork and a reversible wrap with original theatrical key art! THE FOG Collector’s Edition Blu-ray has a suggested retail price of $29.93 and $19.93 for the DVD.

***Avid fans and collectors please take note: those who order THE FOG Collector’s Edition from ScreamfactoryDVD.com will receive the exclusive 18”x24” poster featuring the newly commissioned artwork! Only 500 posters will be printed, so these are only available while supplies last.***

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