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Shakespeare-ian serial killer in "Two: Thirteen"

"Meet the Fockers" star Teri Polo is joining Dwight Yoakam, Mark Pellegrino, Mark Thompson and Kevin Pollak in the indie thriller Two: Thirteen.

Polo stars as a detective overseeing the investigation of a serial killer with a love of Shakespeare. Thompson plays a police profiler who has returned from psychiatric leave and gets drawn into the case. Pellegrino plays a target of the killer, and Yoakam plays a colorful club owner who becomes a source during the investigation. Pollak has a supporting role as the psychiatrist who treats Thompson's character.

Thompson wrote the screenplay for the thriller, which director Charles Adelman is shooting in Los Angeles.



Fox Announces Halloween Double-Feature Madness

Get ready for Halloween madness from Fox Home Entertainment. Today Fox announced a slew of new double-feature DVDs for September 11th, including the long awaited original Tales from the Crypt from 1972!

COMING TO DVD SEPTEMBER 11:

- Tales from the Crypt ('72) / Vault of Horror ('73)
- Chosen Survivors / The Earth Dies Screaming
- Devils of Darkness / Witchcraft
- Blueprint for Murder / Man in the Attic
- Gorilla at Large / Mystery at Monster Island
- The House on Skull Mountain / The Mephisto Waltz

In addition, Fox will re-issue the original 'The Fly' and 'Return of the Fly' in "The Fly Classic Collection", which also features 'Curse of the Fly's' home video premiere.



Fans of the Obscure 100 list Take Note - Witchfinder General on DVD

If you've been waiting for MGM Home Entertainment's release of Witchfinder General on DVD September 11, producer Philip Waddilove has confirmed that the movie will not only be presented as Michael Reeves’ Director Cut, but will also contain the original music score by Paul Ferris which was removed from all previous home video versions in the U.S.

For this DVD, Waddilove has also just recorded an audio commentary along with star Ian Ogilvy, and an additional supplement will be a collection of Waddilove's personal stills, taken on the set.



"Cujo" Special Edition DVD is going to be Widescreen?

Lionsgate Home Entertainment still has the rights to Stephen King's Cujo and they plan to release a new special edition on September 25th.

The disc arrives with a fullscreen transfer, a Dolby Digital 2.0 track, an audio commentary by director Lewis Teague and "Dog Days: The Making of Cujo," a documentary featuring all-new interviews with Teague, Dee Wallace, Dan Pintauro, producers Daniel H. Blatt and Robert Singer, King biographer Douglas E. Winter and others.

The doc is split into three parts (PART 1: The novel by Stephen King, how director Lewis Teague got involved, the screenplay adaptation, the casting, the locations, expressing a boy's fears visually, the challenging filming conditions. PART 2: Filming with the dogs, the inventive way of choreographing the attacks, working with the actors, finding the right ending for the film. PART 3: The editing, the scoring, the sneak previews, Cujo 24 years later...).

Just in case you didnt know about the film, a friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.

Expected to Retail at $19.98.



J.J.Abrams bringing a Giant Monster from "Cloverfield"

In the midst of dissolving news that J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias, Mission Impossible: III) is involved in the new Star Trek movie, news comes in on a super secret project entitled "Cloverfield", which is being referred to internally as "The Parasite."

Word from inside the company is that the film is a giant monster movie!

The scooper writes that "as I understand it, most of the film is going to be shot using home video cameras, as if from the point of view of real people who are experiencing an attack on New York."



Stephen King Gives "1408" a Big Thumbs-Up

From Stephen King's official website (stephenking.com):

"It's a pleasure to be able to recommend '1408,' the Dimension Pictures adaptation of my story.

It stars John Cusack and opens this Friday.

This is a genuinely disquieting movie--the damn thing gets under your skin and just CRAWLS there.

For one thing, what could be more terrifying than a man haunted by The Carpenters' "We've Only Just Begun?" I doubt if you'll hear much screaming in the theater (I could be wrong about that), but a lot of people are going to be sleeping with the lights on when it's over."

CHECK OUT 1408 COME FRIDAY!



(References - bloody-disgusting.com, stephenking.com, hollywoodreporter.com, dvddrive-in.com, aintitcool.com, davisdvd.com, moviehole.net)