By Jennifer Olson, MoreHorror.com

The wildly successful film American Mary will be hitting DVD and Blu-ray shelves on June 18, 2013. Check out the full details below.

From The Press Release:
XLrator Media will be releasing AMERICAN MARY on DVD and BLU-RAY on June 18, 2013. The film is written and directed by Jen and Sylvia Soska aka "The Twisted Twins" and stars Katharine Isabelle.

Eli Roth and Clive Barker are huge fans of the twins and the horror community has deemed them the "Next Big Thing in Horror." AMERICAN MARY is a body-modification horror, revenge thriller and psycho-drama, distinguished by a riveting performance by Katharine Isabelle.

SYNOPSIS: “Twisted Twins” Jen and Sylvia Soska are back with their stunning follow-up to the indie hit Dead Hooker in a Trunk. AMERICAN MARY is the story of a medical student named Mary who is growing increasingly broke and disenchanted with medical school and the established doctors she once idolized. The allure of easy money sends a desperate Mary through the messy world of underground surgeries which leaves more marks on her than the so-called freakish clientele. Appearances are everything.

by David Harkness, MoreHorror.com

Following up on the success of the ABCs of Death anthology, Magnet Releasing in Association with Timpson Films and Drafthouse Films will be releasing ABCs OF DEATH 2.

Check out all the details from the official announcement below.

From The Press Release:
Producers Ant Timpson, Tim League, and the Wagner/Cuban Company’s Magnet Releasing announced today the production of ABCs OF DEATH 2, a high energy sequel to the 2012 anthology hit that delivers 26 new dark tales from the industry’s most celebrated genre directors. Taking all that was great from the first installment, ABCs OF DEATH 2 aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.

In a significant departure from the first installment, ABCs OF DEATH 2 is expanding beyond horror directors. The sequel’s new roster includes Goya Award winner Álex de la Iglesia (THE LAST CIRCUS, DAY OF THE BEAST); ROOM 237 mastermind Rodney Ascher; Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton; Filipino icon – and Director’s Fortnight inductee – Erik Matti (ON THE JOB, MAGIC TEMPLE); and the founder of Nigerian “Nollywood” cinema Lancelot Imasuen.

Additional confirmed filmmakers include Lithuania’s Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper (VANISHING WAVES), Japan’s arthouse provocateur Sion Sono (COLD FISH, SUICIDE CLUB), SPLICE and CUBE’s Vincenzo Natali, indie horror icon Larry Fessenden (THE LAST WINTER, HABIT), THE COLLECTION’s Marcus Dunstan, France’s Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo (INSIDE, LIVID), E.L. Katz (director of the SXSW breakout hit CHEAP THRILLS), twin auteurs Jen and Sylvia Soska (AMERICAN MARY, DEAD HOOKER IN A TRUNK), Israel’s Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado (RABIES, BIG BAD WOLVES), A LONELY PLACE TO DIE’s Julian Gilbey, Brazil’s most controversial filmmaker Dennison Ramalho (NINJAS and LOVE FOR MOTHER ONLY), THE LEGEND OF BEAVER DAM and the upcoming STAGEFRIGHT’s Jerome Sable, and animator Robert Morgan – creator of the BAFTA Award nominated short BOBBY YEAH.

By Terry Farmer, MoreHorror.com

The latest news from Hollywoodland is that two horror powerhouses – Seth Metoyer and Bill Obert Jr’s Dismal Productions and Maria Olsen’s MOnsterworks66 – have joined forces to bring their rabid horror fans Squeal: The Harvest, a dark and sordid feature that will leave audiences gasping and, yes, squealing!

Michael Hultquist (Arena, Victim) has written a cracker of a script exploring murder, mutilation and mayhem, and the cast will be headed by the ultra-creepy Oberst as Uncle Ollie.  Oberst is probably best known for winning a Daytime Emmy award for his role in the internet sensation Take This Lollipop, which was actually blocked on Facebook under suspicion of being a malicious app when it was first released.  His other on-screen horror triumphs include Children of Sorrow, Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies, The Shunning and Deadly Revisions.

Squeal will also feature Olsen in a supporting role, and horror fans will remember her from such films as Paranormal Activity 3, The Haunting of Whaley House and Vile.  She also had a brief role in Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem, which is still presently on the theatrical circuit. Squeal: The Harvest will be one of the, up till now, fairly rare projects that feature both Oberst and Olsen on the same screen.

Oberst and Olsen are also no strangers to producing, with Oberst producing the multiple-episode TV series Eye on Entertainment, which featured Dawna Lee Heising (who also plays a supporting role in Squeal as creepy 'Granny'), and MoreHorror in Hollywood.  Olsen’s producing credits include Brandon Scullion’s Live-In Fear, Way Down in Chinatown and Christopher Dye’s Something Sinister, which she co-produced with Iodine Sky Productions, Eric Michael Kochmer and Dyenamic Films respectively.

The third producer (who also happens to be the man behind the story) in the Squeal triumvirate is MoreHorror.com’s own Seth Metoyer who, at the time of writing, has exactly 13 – lucky for some! – producing credits to his name.  These include such awesome films as Deadly Revisions and Krampus: The Christmas Devil (both starring Oberst), Cell Count, Slink, Teacher's Day and Edward Payson’s The Cohasset Snuff Film, where Olsen played a memorable cameo.  It is also no coincidence that Metoyer is also Associate Producer on both Live-In Fear and Way Down in Chinatown.  Hollywood can sometimes be a very small town indeed.

by Shannon Hilson, MoreHorror.com

By now, I’ve really come to trust Showtime as a source for positively excellent shows because of how original they are and how wonderful the writing always is. This is even more the case when it comes to the shows they run that have been around a while and Dexter is without a doubt one of the best of those.

Sometimes I can’t believe that we’ve been faithful Dexter followers for seven years running… and not because of the way seven years can have a way of going by without a person even noticing. It’s because of the way this is still such a riveting, strong show after so long. Where so many shows start falling apart and missing the mark after this many seasons, Dexter has (so far) has consistently managed to deliver each and every time.

Season 7 opens where the previous season left off – with Dexter’s adopted sister Deb (Jennifer Carpenter) actually walking in him during a kill. As those who watched the last season will remember, Deb was already battling some very unsisterly feelings for Dexter (Michael C. Hall) and seriously considering the expression of those feelings, so… needless to say, fans were pretty darned curious where the show’s writers were going to take these characters next. I have to admit that I wasn’t completely sure this season wasn’t the one where the show would officially jump the shark. However, I was pleasantly surprised by the way this season actually turned out to be one of the show’s most riveting.

by David Harkness, Morehorror.com

In 1980 you may have been pleasantly mortified by Charles Kaufman’s Mother’s Day. In 1993 people everywhere were mesmerized by a simple weatherman who finds himself living the same day over and over again in Harold Ramis’Groundhog Day. In 1996, July 4th was given a new name in terror when aliens invaded the U.S. in Roland Emmerich’s Independence Day. In 2010 you may have cuddled up to Garry Marshall’s romantic comedy Valentine’s Day, or checked out Chris LaMartina’s President’s Day. In 2013, and for every year after, you will associate the holiday that falls annually on May 7th with the horrors, humor, and startling imagery of a high school educator gone mad in Jared Masters’ Teachers’ Day, a shocking, unexpected to-be hit holiday movie.

It was on May 7th, 2013, on Teachers’ Day, nationwide, that Frolic Pictures announced wrapping principle photography on its latest feature; Teachers’ Day (most of the shots were completed on May 1st, but director Jared Masters wanted to wait until it was actually Teachers’ Day to wrap, not only because it was good press, but mostly because he wanted genuine Teachers’ Day marquee footage of actual high schools in the Los Angeles area, but his lawyer is advising him not to use the footage, because it may put the certain school in a negative light, considering the nature of the film, and it’s already such a sensitive subject with all the news lately). But the good news is; Danika Galindo is in this movie, and after you witness the sheer awestruck, jaw-dropping beauty of the secret pearl of Simi Valley, it will be hard to imagine watching another film without her.

Reviewed by Jesse Miller, MoreHorror.com

You know that feeling where as soon as something ends, you want to watch it again with friends and family just to share it around? Or you envy others just because you wish you had a fresh mind to experience this special something again for the first time?
Well, John Dies at the End is that special something and if you’re anything like me and enjoy bizarre sci-fi horror-comedy, then you are going to absolutely love the heck out of this film.

John Dies at the End is based on the comic-horror novel by David Wong (a pseudonym for writer Jason Pargin) but I had not even heard of the novel so I had gone into this crazy and unfamiliar world absolutely blind.

Upon reflection, that is the best way to go into this flick, so I won’t bother to even try to describe this wacky plot because I strongly believe that if you’re thinking of taking a dive into this film, don’t read the book first because that’ll fill you in on what’s to come, where as the insane visuals and so forth will blow your mind as you shed light on the plot and the world of this film.

First things first, Director Don Coscarelli is back after a ten year absence from films - seven, if we include “Incident On and Off a Mountain Road” from the Masters Of Horror series – and with his return, he brings such a wonderful manic energy to this already quirky story and stamps every little detail and design with his unique and wonderful voice throughout.

The story is wonderfully absurd and absolutely hilarious and although it’s full to the brim of all these ideas and all over the place, it never becomes a mess because somehow, someway – everything just works so well here to create an original, exciting ride and at the end of the day, it has something really intriguing to say about perception and reality.

Okay, so some gags here or there might seem a little juvenile but they come out of nowhere and without warning and they work so well in this universe that you can’t help but laugh at the absurdity and go along for this wacky ride.

But of course, the story can only take you so far, you’ve got to cook up a script and a cast that can pull it off and I just have to say, the script is just terrific and the cast are absolutely fantastic in their roles here, from the two leads Chase Williamson as David and Rob Mayes as John, who have terrific comic timing and charisma – better yet, they hit every beat and note wonderfully.

Reviewed by Matt Boiselle, MoreHorror.com

How many ways can you find to describe a turd of a movie ? Does the idea of someone that obviously feels its audience must be completely devoid of common sense annoy you as an avid horror movie fan ? Is there a place for a movie that has done nothing other than piggyback itself on the shoulders of a classic title, for no other reason than getting its name out there in the vast annals of the zombie cinematic catalog ? If you for no good reason want to waste 85 minutes of your time, please feel free to get your mitts on Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection, and then shame yourself for doing so.

I tried to stay away from all advanced press about this movie before its release so that I wouldn't have been swayed into not checking it out....now I wish I had done a little bit of legwork before renting this total waste of time. At first glance, we have the makings of a very low budget film, almost as if someone enabled a movie-making App on their IPhone and shot away, attempting to install some grain into the celluloid in order to make it look as if it was filmed many years ago....colossal fail #1. Secondly, anyone that has been exposed to the zombie phenomenon could tell you that if a member of your family has been bitten, they are pretty much as good as dead - now I know that a certain level of grief could set in...but the last thing that should be done is to run the person a warm bath, cradle them in your arms, with their teeth aimed directly at your jugular, telling them "it's all going to be okay"...catastrophic mistake #2.

by David Harkness, MoreHorror.com

To celebrate today's DVD and Digital Download release of The Wicked (review), Image Entertainment has kindly allowed us to give away two copies of the DVD.

To enter, simply email thewickedgiveaway[at]morehorror.com with the subject line The Wicked Giveaway. In the email, simply include your full name and physical mailing address. You must be 18 to enter and live in the U.S. Sorry, no PO Boxes. Good luck!

SYNOPSIS:
A group of curious teenagers decide to seek out their town’s local legend and go on the hunt for a child-eating witch, not realizing they could be her next meal! Directed by Peter Winther, the film stars Devon Werkheiser (Beneath the Darkness), Justin Deeley (90210), Nicole Forester (The Double), and Cassie Keller (A Very Harold and Kumar 3D Christmas). The DVD release is set for April 30th. THE WICKED will also be available via digital download.

Local stories warn that deep in the woods, a witch with a ravenous hunger feeds on the flesh of the young. In an abandoned house in the woods, she hunts her victims…and if you try to enter, you'll never see daylight again. When another child goes missing, a group of local teenagers decide to find out if the urban legend is true.

Reviewed by Chris Wright, MoreHorror.com

'Demons 2' (1986) Review
Directed By: Lamberto Bava
Written By: Dario Argento, Lamberto Bava, Franco Ferrini, Dardano Sacchetti

Starring: David Edwin Knight (George), Nancy Brilli (Hannah), Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni (Sally Day), Bobby Rhodes (Hank), Asia Argento (Ingrid Haller), Virginia Bryant (Mary the Prostitute), Anita Bartolucci (Woman with Dog), Antonio Cantafora (Ingrid’s Father), Luisa Passega (Helga), Davide Marotta (Demon Tommy), Marco Vivio (Tommy), Michele Mirabella (Hooker’s Client), Lorenzo Gioielli (Jake), Lino Salemme (Security Guard), Maria Chiara Sasso (Ulla)

If you feel Demons (1985) was a good movie, you will certainly be entertained by its sequel. “Demons 2” is just as over the top as the original with plenty of gore and thrills. Lamberto Bava does a good job carrying a similar plot over from the first film in a slightly different setting for this one. Argento and Bava make a good film duo and I wish they had done more movies together.

The plot is a group of people are having a party in a 12 story high rise apartment building when demons infest the entire building turning people in to demons along the way. The demons begin to enter the apartment building through a television. Similar to the first film, the plot doesn’t make too much sense overall. Despite the lack of sense, viewers won’t be disappointed because the carnage and blood bath more than makes up for it.

The characters in this particular film are campier than its predecessor. They are all fairly likable though not a single one will stand out throughout the movie. The fast pace and the atmosphere keep the movie moving so it is rather difficult to get bored during it. If I had to pay attention to it, the acting would be sub par half the time.

Reviewed by Matt Boiselle, MoreHorror.com

The strikeout with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth with your team down by a run....a dropped TD pass in the end zone that could have sealed a Super Bowl win....or that punch that missed a bully's face, in order to get him off of your back for good....these scenarios are called "missed opportunities" - like things we wish we had said, or done, or basically just acted upon in order to make a certain situation better. There isn't a better way to categorize 13 Eerie other than a "missed opportunity".

Upon initially viewing the trailer online my interest was peaked - zombies created by biologic testing hunting down future forensic students on a training exercise ? I'm in ! - So I plunked down 10 bucks at my local Wal-Mart and strolled off thinking I was in for something special........not quite. The only thing interesting thing was the look of disgust that the haggish looking cashier gave the DVD cover when she rung it up....lady, you have NO idea.

The premise of the movie is as previously stated - 6 future FBI forensic undergrads are brought to a remote island for a "training exercise", where they are to examine multiple crime scenes, complete with decomposing bodies that were supplied by our friends at the U.S. Government. Evidence is to be collected, with absolutely NO risking of anyone contaminating each crime scene. Suffice to say, things take a downward spin when some unknown toxic sludge is spilled about by a less than careful bus driver (and class cook), which results in the "dead" bodies coming back to life (including some jacked up steroid looking prisoners).