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	Please don't hesitate to call on us if you have any questions and/or suggestions about the...accommodations. Really Scary Archives 10.05.01 Photos from The Devil's Backbone UpcomingMovies.com has some fantastic shots from Guillermo del Toro's The Devil's Backbone. If these pics are any indication, this movie is gonna be creepy as hell. Go take a look! Halloween Horror Nights XI Details Universal Studios has released the details for its Halloween Horror Nights XI running Oct. 5-7, Oct. 11-13, Oct. 17-21, Oct. 25- 28, Oct. 30-31 and Nov. 2-3. Beginning at 7 p.m. on these 19 evenings, the five new haunted houses featured in Halloween Horror Nights XI are: Run - In this fastest-paced haunted house, guests thrown into a diabolical type of game-show, an environment of non-stop motion, as they are feverishly urged through mysterious hallways by gigantic Gameskeepers. Freaks and maniacs menace the guests with chainsaws, and in order to escape the horror, guests must literally run through a series of dark, winding corridors of padded walls and chain link fencing, with hardly a chance to catch their breath, let alone scream. The Mummy Returns: The Curse Continues - The Universal Pictures film comes to Halloween Horror Nights in a cobweb-strewn maze of tomblike corridors, dark caverns and a collapsing ancient temple, where danger lurks in every step. The mummy of the evil Egyptian priest has arisen from his tomb and calls his minions to stop the visitors from escaping. Pitch Black - A mysterious zone of darkness has appeared over the Uneeda Medical Supply Warehouse, causing bizarre, atmospheric disturbances, throwing the area into complete darkness. A government research team has disappeared into this gloom and subsequent visitors become totally immersed in the dark, moving through a completely tactile experience, being confronted by the fearsome, glowing faces of the warehouse's strange inhabitants. Scary Tales - An abandoned carnival dark ride becomes a nightmarish fantasy world that has no happy ending. Characters from classic fairy tales come to life and are transformed into grotesque ghouls. Superstitions - The recently discovered warehouse of archeologist Theodore Raven, an expert in the occult and supernatural, is the setting for this terrifying haunted house filled with ancient relics and urban legends. Guests encounter every superstition imaginable, from broken mirrors to black cats, as they plunge deeper and deeper into a superstitious nightmare. Check www.halloweenhorrornights.com for more information. Neil Gaiman Finishes Up Coraline Neil Gaiman told CNN during a recent interview that he's already completed his next work. "The next big project after 'American Gods' is already written," he said. "This is more or less a first in my lifetime, being a book ahead. It's a children's book. It's called 'Coraline' (CORAL-line), and it's a novel for strange little girls of all ages and genders. Me and Lewis Carroll. Kids think it's an adventure story and really cool. Adults get nightmares -- my agent and my editor -- said, 'This is much too spooky for kids.'" Check out the transcript for an online chat Gaiman had with CNN and fans. Attention Dallas Fort Worth Area Really Scaryites Jonathon dropped us a line and wanted to invite all the Really Scary readers in the Dallas Fort Worth area to give him a visit at the Dungeon Of Doom haunted house at the Arlington Museum of Art in Arlington Texas. Open Fri and Sat all month long plus the Mon-Wed of Halloween. Visit www.dungeonofdoom.com for more details. All proceeds go to the Arlington Kids Art programs. Now get out there and pass along a Really Scary hello to Jonathon for us! 10.04.01 Free Halloween Anthology for Download! Stealth Press is continuing to giveaway some of the coolest e-books for free and this month they've got a great one for us! All Hallows-E: Halloween Tales from Seven Masters of Terror is a free downloadable PDF e-book and includes some of the best Halloween Stories ever written: Ray Bradbury's "THE OCTOBER GAME" F. Paul Wilson's "THE NOVEMBER GAME" Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's "DISTURB NOT MY SLUMBERING FAIR" John Shirley's "THE MASK GAME" William F. Nolan's "THE HALLOWEEN MAN" Al Sarrantonio's "PUMPKIN HEAD" Peter Straub's "PORK PIE HAT" Click here to get it! 10.03.01 Help usss, helppp ussss - said in best teeny Vincent Price voice We finally got off our lazy butts and put together a standard size banner. We'd love to trade links with all you site owners out there. Click here to nab our banner and add it to your links page, home page, whatever. Please take this image and put it on your site. But please don't just link to the image, pull it down. Our bandwidth costs are killing us. And if'n you aren't already featured on our links page, just shoot us an e-mail at support@reallyscary.com and show us where you put our banner and we'll add you to ours. Quid pro quo Clarice... The Bentmen Providing Soundtrack for Astro-Zombies We just got a super cool e-mail from Frank Coleman of The Bentmen. The Bentmen are doing the soundtrack for Ted V. Mikels' next film, Mark of the Astro-Zombies and has a musical tribute to The Corpse Grinders included in the DVD just released from Image. Here's the whole shabang: Hi there: Your site is beautifully designed and truly marvelous in it's scope. Keep up the great work. It is with great pleasure that today I am announcing the unveiling of The BENTMEN Corpse Grinders DVD Commentary Site: http://www.bentmen.com/cg-album/ Here's the scoop: My band, the aforementioned BENTMEN, struck a deal with Ted V. Mikels whereby we'd do the soundtrack for his next film, MARK OF THE ASTRO-ZOMBIES, in exchange for putting one of our videos on the Corpse Grinders DVD. Accordingly, we decided to make a full-blown musical tribute to The Corpse Grinders, and sure enough, it's included on the just-released disc from Image. We originally recorded a commentary track for the DVD and were going to include it, but the video is only three minutes long, and it was just ridiculous trying to say anything worthwhile in that short a time. So we've decided to mimic the multi-track audio options on a typical DVD on our website. There's three tracks: production-related, technical and aesthetic, and it is our fervent hope that you will have as much fun reading about it as we had making it. And of course, while you're there, you might want to check out some of our other BENTMEN MP3s & videos. This band is NUTS! So there you have it. We're going to play at some of the horror/sci-fi conventions next year, so perhaps we'll see you there. Thanks again -- and enjoy! best, FBC DVD Maniacs Contest! One of our illustrious GenreNet partners-in-horror, DVD Maniacs, has just hit a very cool milestone: their 400th review with Dario Argento's Nonhosonno/Sleepless. To help mark this occasion they're hosting a contest for best DVD review. The winner will receive DVDs of The Kingdom I and II, courtesy of Poker Industries. This competition is open to anyone who registers with the DVD Maniacs forum using their real name; full details are available at DVD Maniacs. American Rumble Wins Award & London Screening Set American Rumble, the concert film/documentary on the Psychobilly movement, and filmmakers Pamela Theodotou and Kris Wetherholt, won the Independent Spirit Award at the Planet Indie Film Festival during its closing ceremonies Sept. 15. The Planet Indie Film Festival, organized by founders Brian Frank and Andrew Humeniuk, has run for the last four years concurrently with the Toronto International Film Festival and is recognized as TIFF's independent alternative, sponsored in part by the Slamdance Film Festival and the Independent Film Channel (IFC). The next screening will be in London, UK at The Lux Centre Oct. 27, followed by an official Halloween afterparty at the infamous Dublin Castle for film and music audiences. Bands from the film, The Caravans, The Hangmen, and Cult of the Psychic Fetus, will be performing starting at 10 p.m., followed by another late night celebration at The Slimelight where Rumble film host Reverend Doom and Cult of the Psychic Fetus will also be making an official appearance. Shriekfest Horror Fest Open for Submissions The Shriekfest Horror Film Festival and Screenplay Competition is set for Oct. 27-28 at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood. They're currently accepting submissions. For tickets or entry forms check out www.shriekfest.com. Halloween 8 Dictorer Featured on Upcoming Exposure Halloween 8 director Rick Rosenthal was recently interviewed by the Sci-Fi Channel for an upcoming edition of their short-film showcase Exposure. Rick Rosenthal's film The Obit Guy, along with interview clips, will air on the Sci-Fi channel Oct. 14 at 12 a.m. ET. Rosenthal's film will be the second shown that evening. Ninth Gate Screenwriter Set to Direct Sequel According to the Hollywood Reporter (via Cinescape), a sequel to Roman Polanski's The Ninth Gate is in the works. Scribe Enrique Urbizu, who wrote the first film's script with John Brownjohn and Polanski, is attached to do the same for the second film, called The Devil's Beauty. He will also direct. Alone in the Dark Getting Movie Treatment Corona reports Infogrames popular Alone in the Dark video game series is set to become a movie franchise. The pitch was just acquired by Dimension Films, the genre specialist division of Miramax (Scream trilogy). Dimension's Bob Weinstein and Andrew Rona will serve as producers on the film along with Angry Films' Don Murphy and Rick Benattar. Screenwriter Hans Rodionoff (Man-Thing) pitched his idea for the movie's storyline and will now write the screenplay for the film. Corona's scooper only got a brief chunk of Rodionoff's idea for an Alone in the Dark movie: It's about a pair of supernatural investigators who are stranded on an island haunted by ghoulish creatures that live in the shadows. That sounds very similar to the synopsis given on the official website for Alone in the Dark: The New Nightmare, the latest chapter in the game franchise. See for yourself: "From the moment Edward Carnby and Aline Cedrac set foot on Shadow Island, they confronted by mysterious, evil creatures intent on thwarting their progress to recover 3 ancient tablets believed to hold the secret key to some incredible menacing phenomena. Fears threaten from every corner. The slightest shadow could be hiding deep secrets, or concealing worse nightmares..." 10.02.01 Barker Signing Latest Book Clive Barker will sign copies of his book, Coldheart Canyon: A Hollywood Ghost Story, at 7:30 p.m., Oct. 8 at Bookstar, Studio City Theatre, 12136 Ventura Blvd. in Studio City, Calif. For more information, call (818) 505-9528. Heath Ledger Signs On for Sin Eater Zen reports Heath Ledger is set to reunite with A Knight's Tale director Brian Helgeland on the Fox supernatural thriller Sin Eater. Ledger will play a young priest aiding a female detective in pursuit of a person promising people absolution by literally eating their sins. Boogeyman Features Horror Classic Lineup Boogeyman gets released this week and is the first DVD from Flixmix, who combine classic movie scenes from film favorites into one ultimate collection. Featured are scenes from films including Texas Chainsaw Massacre, I Know What You Did Last Summer, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, Halloween, Hellraiser, Psycho, Child's Play 2, Candyman, Wishmaster and Leprechaun. The DVD includes a handful of extras including trivia and audio commentary from Robert Englund. Mad Max & Buckaroo Banzai DVD Releases Set MGM Home Entertainment has scheduled DVD releases of Mad Max and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai for January 14. Zen reports both are getting the Special Edition treatment: MAD MAX includes over two hours of bonus material including a documentary and audio commentary, and features Mel Gibson's original audio track instead of the dubbed American version we've been stuck with all these years. BUCKAROO BANZAI includes a rare prologue sequence starring Jamie Lee Curtis, never-before-seen deleted scenes restored with director's commentary, and a "making of" documentary with stars Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Jeff Goldblum, Ellen Barkin, and Christopher Lloyd. It's also the first MGM release to include NOUN-enhanced interactive technology, allowing viewers extras like behind-the-scene facts, and a Gamma Zoom Composer feature enabling you to view pre-selected close-up zooms of interesting scene elements. Dinotopia May Get Series? Variety reports (via Zen) ABC is in negotiations to make a 22-episode commitment to an hour-long Dinotopia series from Hallmark Entertainment. The network is already set to air a six-hour miniseries based on the James Gurney's books about intelligent dinosaurs co-existing with humans in May. Buffy Premieres Tonight on UPN Buffy the Vampire Slayer makes its UPN premiere tonight with a two-hour episode starting at 8 p.m. ET. The episode finds Buffy's friends trying to defend Sunnydale without her help since she died in last season's cliffhanger, while Giles so racked with guilt that he starts to contemplate returning home to England. Wrightson Providing Art for King's Latest StephenKingNews.com reports Cemetery Dance will be publishing the limited edition of King's next novel, FROM A BUICK 8, and the legendary Bernie Wrightson (who did the artwork for King's Silver Bullet) will be creating the artwork. Click here for the complete archives.

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