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I’m swamped with life, and movies/TV that I Have to watch, so my recreational October horror movie consumption is taking a hit. Slow week, for me. Oh, well, soon Exhumed Films 24 Hour Horror-Thon will be upon us, and I will be inside of a theater with movies on-film playing continuously for 24 straight hours. That should even me out. We have a mixed bag this week, including the new episode of The Walking Dead, which I am told is being counted.

The Walking Dead – Season 5, episode 1 “No Sanctuary” Sunday, October 12th – 66 minutes – 2 pts

Love it or hate it, The Walking Dead is here to stay. I’m one of the ones that love it, and this episode was one of the best of the entire series. Tons of action, and formerly-weak characters being total badasses. They didn’t meander, or spend an entire season setting up how the group would escape Terminus.

Greetings my fellow Bidites. I stumbled onto what I believe is one of the best horror documentaries out there today, 2006's "Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher film". I felt a powerful need to share this with you guys. Every horror fan deserves to see this in depth documentary. I am sure a lot of you may have had the opportunity to view this piece of history already. Those of you that haven't had the entertaining pleasure of enjoyi…...

Our friends at Horror Channel have just sent us details of their latest themed “event” which will be slicing its way through their schedules every Friday night throughout October – Stalk and Slash Season. Yes, Horror channel are celebrating the slasher films, both classic and contemporary, as only they know how. From October 5th there will be four double-bills, headed up by four UK TV premieres; and as a huge slasher movie fan I’ll be tuning in for Every one!

Here’s the details:

Fri Oct 5th @ 22:55

The season kicks off with the premiere of Going To Pieces: The Rise And Fall Of The Slasher Film (2006) a documentary which features a host of genre legends including Wes Craven, Rob Zombie & John Carpenter, who take us on a journey to the darkest recesses of cinematic shock. This is followed at 00:40 by Black Christmas (1974). Bob Clark’s Sorority House horror classic,...

After watching the documentary Going To Pieces: The Rise And Fall Of The Slasher Film, it introduced me to all sorts of films I hadn’t seen. One of those was the original My Bloody Valentine, which I already watched this month for 31 Days. Another film I saw mentioned on there was the early 80’s exploitation film Pieces. I thought this looked like a sick puppy, and people like Eli Roth raved about it being a great film. This was another case of a film that I didn’t quite get to last year, so was it worth the wait?

Pieces is a pretty typical exploitation/grindhouse type of film, I think what elevates it above others is the kills. It really is mean spirited and it does not hold back, you want blood? This delivers, if you felt ripped off by the lack of chainsaw massacring from Tobe Hooper’s film,...

Much like with The House Of The Devil (2009), another film I did not get to with last years horror marathon was My Bloody Valentine (1981). Now I actually had no interest in seeing this film, however the documentary Going To Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film (2006) featured it and suddenly it had my attention. I naturally figured there was something substantial here since it had received the remake treatment, and in 3D no less. The remake was a fun film, and I actually didn’t mind the 3D, so in my head I assumed the original must be better. Wrong!

Yeah My Bloody Valentine (1981) is one of the rare films whose remake surpasses it, on every level. I really did not think much of this film, and I actually started to fall asleep a good 30 minutes in. It just wasn’t an interesting film, and I couldn’t...

Shooting wrapped yesterday on a new anthology film with some heavy genre names to its credit. The film is being co-produced by Severin Films. No word yet on a release date.

Severin Films and France’s Metaluna Productions today announced their international co-production of The Theatre Bizarre, a modern horror anthology inspired by the over-the-top shocks of Paris’ early 20th century ‘Theatre du Grand Guignol’. The feature will be comprised of six films by six cutting-edge genre directors enlisted from around the world and granted total creative freedom. The Theater Bizarre is executive produced by Daryl J. Tucker, and produced by Severin’s Carl Daft, David Gregory and John Cregan, Metaluna’s Fabrice Lambot, and Michael Ruggiero of Nightscape Entertainment. Production on Richard Stanley’s (Hardware) segment ‘The Mother Of Toads’ began 10/10/10 in Montségur in the French Pyrenees.

The project’s six filmmakers have all made at least one modestly...

A new anthology is on its way that's attracting not only a lot of indie talent but also a segment from none other than Richard Stanley (Hardware) and Tom Savini. Interested? We thought you would be. Dig on the details and early artwork.

From the Press Release

Severin Films and France's Metaluna Productions today announced their international co-production of The Theatre Bizarre, a modern horror anthology inspired by the over-the-top shocks of Paris' early 20th century 'Theatre du Grand Guignol'. The feature will be comprised of six films by six cutting-edge genre directors enlisted from around the world and granted total creative freedom. The Theater Bizarre is executive produced by Daryl J. Tucker, and produced by Severin's Carl Daft, David Gregory and John Cregan, Metaluna's Fabrice Lambot, and Michael Ruggiero of Nightscape Entertainment. Production on Richard Stanley's (Hardware) segment 'The Mother Of Toads' began 10/10/10 in Montségur in the French Pyrenees.

Dread caught up with Sarah Butler, star of Cinetel Film’s controversial I Spit on Your Grave, a week before the film’s September 29th Hollywood premiere (see our coverage of that here) to chat with her regarding her courageous turn as the survivor of a filmic, yet altogether brutal, gang-rape and the repercussions that follow.

A remake of the 1978 Meir Zarchi-directed film of the same name, the Steven R. Monroe-directed I Spit on Your Grave (review here) is being releasing unrated today (October 8th) in theaters across America courtesy of Anchor Bay Entertainment, a ballsy move indeed! As written by screenwriter and author Adam Rockoff (Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film), I Spit casts Butler as ‘Jennifer Hills,’ a novelist who rents a lakeside cabin in the deep South in order to concentrate on her literary pursuits and who subsequently and tragically...

With Cinetel Films’ remake of the infamous 1978 rape-revenge film I Spit on Your Grave hitting theaters unrated on October 8th courtesy of the rather ballsy Anchor Bay Entertainment, this writer hit the film's red carpet premiere last night in Hollywood, CA, and brought back some ocular candy as well as interviews with some of the principals...and a rather interesting bit of news.

Although I Spit is credited as being penned by one ‘Stuart Morse’, while speaking to friend Adam Rockoff (author of the erudite tome Going to Pieces: The Rise and Fall of the Slasher Film and screenwriter of the Fever Dreams’ flick Wicked Lake), we came to find that both are one and the same.

Said Rockoff, just to the side of the carpet melee, of the reason for his nom de plume in penning the Steven R. Monroe-directed film, “Basically when I wrote it, I was...

If it's Sunday, then that means its time for another Fangoria Week In Review. We're turning back the clock to look back on the past seven days of blood-soaked horror goodness.

We've got the entire week broken down by category so that you can catch up on anything you might've missed. It was an opinioned-filled week with blogs, event reports, and plenty of reviews including more Fall Frights - and the news continued to flow about the biggest event in Fango history - the Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors, which invades Las Vegas on Halloween Weekend!

Get caught up below the jump!

Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors: Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nv - 10/30-11/01/2009

Tickets are now available online through http://www.trinityofterrors.com and through Vegas.com. You may also order tickets from Vegas.com by phone - 1-888-las-vegas (527-8342) 24 hours a day.

Latest Trinity Updates:

Bruce Campbell comes to the Trinity Of Terrors!

In the spirit of Halloween '09, we're breaking out reviews (some new, some old) of some Fall Frights you may want to work into your monthly viewing.

Going To Pieces - Fangoria Archives: Originally Published 10/2006

When a documentary tackles a subject as specific, and with such specific appeal, as slasher films, the challenge lies in conveying that attraction to the unconverted while not simply feeding the fans a buffet they’ve already fully sampled. The Starz original Going To Pieces: The Rise And Fall Of The Slasher Film is more successful in offering devotees a gorenucopia of clips and talking heads (still attached to bodies) recounting the subgenre’s history than it likely will be in convincing non-fans that this grisly strain of cinema is a worthy one.

The hour-and-a-half show is based on Adam Rockoff’s book of the same title, which stands as the single best study of stalker cinema ever published.

Fangoria readers in the Los Angeles area have a chance to get their copies of Slaughter, Autopsy, and From Within (review here) signed tonight at Dark Delicacies in Burbank.

The From Within crew gave Fango the heads-up that stars Thomas Dekker (Laid To Rest, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) and Elizabeth Rice (Mad Men) are planning on joining them tonight, along with director Phedon Papamichael (Arcadia Lost), and writer Brad Keene (The Grudge 3). Full details after the jump.

The 8 Films To Die For signing begins at 7pm tonight, ar Dark Delicacies, 4213 W. Burbank, Burbank, CA 91505.

Also scheduled to appear:

From Slaughter - Writer/Director Stewart Hopewell (Going To Pieces: The Rise And Fall Of The Slasher Film), Craig Robert Young (Perkins 14, Charmed), Maxim Knight (How My Dad Killed Dracula), and Vance Daniels.

From Autopsy (see our review here) -  Writers Jace Anderson & Adam Gierasch (Night Of The Demons,...