Halloween Horror Nights: Carnival of Carnage

UNIVERSAL ORLANDO UNLEASHES THE LARGEST AND MOST INTENSE HALLOWEEN HORROR NIGHTS IN ITS HISTORY

NEW LINE CINEMA’S FREDDY KRUEGER, JASON AND LEATHERFACETO BE FEATURED IN JACK’S CARNIVAL OF CARNAGE

The cool October winds send a shiver down the spine. Jack, Clown Prince of Halloween, grins maniacally from the center of a giant Ferris wheel, beckoning you into his Carnival of Carnage – home to this year’s Halloween Horror Nights event. Once inside, you realize all is not right: curiosity becomes panic becomes fear becomes physical and psychological terror.

This year, Halloween Horror Nights 17 transforms into the most extreme, fear-filled event in its history with “Carnival of Carnage.” With its leading cast of modern day horror icons, guests will come face-to-face with New Line Cinema’s Freddy Krueger, Jason and Leatherface for the first time ever – and they will find the fear so real they will wish it were just a movie.

The Carnival of Carnage is so unprecedented that Universal Orlando is creating more haunted houses, more Halloween-themed shows -- and adding more event nights -- than ever before. And, of course, every carnival needs a clown. And when it comes to clowns, there is only one that is maniacal and twisted enough to be Ringmaster for the Carnival of Carnage. That would be Jack.

“This year, they’ve given me the show,” said Jack. “Fools! Wait ‘till you see what I’ve brought you! I’ll take you places you never knew you could go! They say show business is in the blood – but is it my blood or your’s?”

Halloween Horror Nights runs 23 nights this year and features eight all-new haunted houses – three of which are created around New Line’s Freddy Krueger, Jason and Leatherface. There will also be four new shows – more than ever before – including a show dedicated to Jack along with an even more excellent and irreverent version of “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure.”“Our goal this year has been to set a new standard for horror – to create an event that will haunt you forever,” said Jim Timon, senior vice president of entertainment for Universal Orlando Resort. “We will put you in the same environment as world-class horror icons, we will exploit every weakness we can find – and we will not let you go until we’re done with you.”

EIGHT HAUNTED HOUSES:

A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dreamwalkers – Stepping through the door of 1428 Elm Street, this suburban residence will bring guests face-to-face with the nightmare man himself, Freddy Krueger. Trapped in a walking dream state, guests will join Freddy’s victims as they relive their most vicious nightmares.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Flesh Wounds – Guests find themselves trapped inside the Hewitt family home. Terror awaits them at every corner as they realize they are hunted by chainsaw- wielding maniac Leatherface, and his family of freaks.

Friday the 13th: Camp Blood – Visitors take a tour of the abandoned remains of Camp Crystal Lake – the slay grounds of Jason Voorhees. There has not been an incident here for years, and Jason has seemingly disappeared. However, under the bright moon there seems to be something moving in the woods...

The Thing: Assimilation – This house celebrates the 25th Anniversary of John Carpenter’s horror/sci-fi classic with a sequel set 25 years after the incident at Outpost 31. Guests enter Outpost 3113, a research hub housing the government’s most classified projects. When a containment unit containing bio-hazardous evidence from Outpost 31 unexpectedly opens, someThing is let loose.

Dead Silence: The Curse of Mary Shaw – Based on the Universal horror film, the theatre space of the vengeful Mary Shaw is brought to life. The tortured ghost of the evil ventriloquist searches for fresh victims to create the perfect doll while an army of sinister puppets terrify guests.

Psychoscareapy: Home for the Holidays – Visions of sugarplums turn into horrific holiday nightmares for citizens living in Shadybrook Estates when a transport bus containing the most crazed residents of the now infamous local hospital overturns near their beloved neighborhood. Clawing their way out of the twisted wreckage, these crazed overachievers have come home for the holidays and their victims will hopefully be given the greatest gift of all…a quick death.

Vampyr: Blood Bath – In the dead of night, creatures of the netherworld gather at Club Vampyr. Located inside an abandoned industrial building, Club Vampyr has everything one would need to paint the town red, blood red, that is.

Jack’s Funhouse in Clown-O-Vision – Guests enter this Jack’d up funhouse that throws them laughing and screaming into an oversaturated world of color that appears to leap out at them. Winding twists and turns lead visitors on a seemingly unending maze featuring more crazed clowns than they could ever imagine. And before it’s all said and done…guests will know Jack!

SHOWS INCLUDE:

Jack’s Carnival Of Carnage – Join the clown master of the macabre and his assistants, Tiny and Chance, as they bring guests a terror-filled show. Hapless “contestants” take a chance and pick a card… Will they have the guts to survive Jack’s torturous, ultra-gory carnival games?

Freak Show – Jack’s Carnival of Carnage just wouldn’t be complete without a freak show. Guests will witness the gut-wrenching entertainment of the Enigma – a tattooed performer whose body is a canvas of torture. The most amazing and ghastly national acts will come together with one goal – to make guests squirm with excitement and repulsion.

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure – Bill S Preston Esq and Ted Theodore Logan return with an especially excellent Halloween adventure featuring a who’s who of notorious celebrity guest stars.

Halloween Horror Nights will run from September 28-29 through October 4-7, 11-14, 18-21, 24-28, and Oct.31-Nov. 3. Advance tickets and vacation packages are on sale now.

Halloween Horror Nights is a special ticket event and is $64.95 plus tax. Florida residents can save up to $30 off the full admission price of Halloween Horror Nights 17 tickets. For more information on discounts and travel packages, or to purchase tickets, guests may call 407-224-5500 or visit the event’s website at http://www.halloweenhorrornights.com/.

Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer Trailer

The trailer for Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer just showed up on the film’s production company website. Click the link above to check it out and click here to visit the website.

- The Monster

No one would ever believe what happened the night Jack Brooks witnessed the brutal murder of his family. His life destroyed, all he has left is an unquenchable fury he's now fighting to control. Now the local plumber, Jack continuously struggles with his memories as his life becomes a downward spiral until his girlfriend Eve convinces him to attend night classes. Little does he know that in that dank, tiresome classroom, his destiny awaits. Evil awakens as Jack unknowingly disturbs the grounds surrounding Professor Crowley 's dilapidated old home. Lured by this ancient demonic power, Crowley discovers a monstrous black heart that quickly forces its way into him. Possessed by the heart now beating in his chest, the Professor starts a slow, gruesome, transformation... One night, as Crowley bursts into a creature of legends, Jack finally discovers the true purpose of his rage as he attempts to save the lives of his classmates and learns that you can't run from your past.

Keanu Reeves to Play Klaatu in 'Earth Stood Still' Remake

From Variety:

Twentieth Century Fox has set Keanu Reeves to star in "The Day the Earth Stood Still," its re-imagining of the 1951 Robert Wise-directed sci-fi classic.

Reeves committed over the weekend to play Klaatu, a humanoid alien who arrives on Earth accompanied by an indestructible, heavily armed robot and a warning to world leaders that their continued aggression will lead to annihilation by species watching from afar.

Erwin Stoff is producing, with Scott Derrickson ("The Exorcism of Emily Rose") directing from a script by David Scarpa. Reeves' commitment puts the picture on track for a late fall or early 2008 production start. Studio sees it as a tentpole.

The Klaatu role was originated by Michael Rennie. The 1951 film's premise, a response to the rise of the Cold War after WWII, is being updated, and the film will use advances in visual effects.

- The Monster

Flight of the Living Dead DVD Giveaway!

Monsters A Go-Go has THREE Flight of the Living Dead DVDs to Giveaway! Click on over to the main Monsters A Go-Go website for more details!

Other lucky winners will recieve a "Horror Ball" (squishy bloody skulls).

Good luck!

- The Monster

Show Me Your Halloween Contest

One lucky winner will be selected to win a SCREENING of Halloween, in your own town with 20 of your friends, as well as a Rob Zombie Fan pack (Limited Edition Halloween T-Shirt, 4 CD's Devil's Rejects DVD, House of 1000 Courpses DVD).

4 Lucky runner-up's will receive the limited Edition t-shirt and the Rob Zombie DVD's.

All you have to do it click here and send in a photo that depicts your take on the series for a chance to win.

Good luck!

- The Monster

Behind the Mask 2 News

From Bloody Good Horror:

Bloody Good Horror was able to get some information from script writer David J. Steive.

"...and I do have a framework in mind. It does involve what Leslie would do next. He's only just begun to execute (pun intended) his master plan on Glen Echo. This was his opening salvo in what he aspires to be a lifelong passion project. He's succeeded in the first phases, setting up his legend and pulling off The Boy's return. Now he'd want to cash in on that in the following years, to create a larger mythology. This was only the beginning, and he would only get better, bigger, more terrifying as he learned and pushed himself. I think there's a ton of material left to explore in that, and self-referential aspects of the genre left to showcase. Just on some of the stuff that got cut from THIS film, we'd probably be halfway or a third of the way to a finished script!"

Vist the office website of Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon here and go out and rent this movie tonight.

- The Monster

Bruce Dickinson-penned Chemical Wedding starts shooting

Screen Daily reported that Chemical Wedding, a supernatural horror film scripted by Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson, is finally rolling under the direction of Julian Doyle, editor of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil and Time Bandits. Produced by London-based Focus Films, the movie stars Simon Callow as a Cambridge professor who becomes a reincarnation of notorious occultist Aleister Crowley (a role that, at various points, Malcolm McDowell and Roger Daltrey were said to be attached to); John (Mirrors) Shrapnel, Kal Weber, Terence Bayler and Geoff Breton also star. Dickinson, who released the pictured solo album of the same title in 1998, will also provide the film’s soundtrack.

- The Monster

Rob Zombie's Halloween - New Trailer

This new trailer for Rob Zombie's Halloween came out last week. Here another look at it.

Rob Zombie's Halloween comes to theaters August 31st. Visit the website here for more news and information.

Enjoy the horror...
- The Monster

Lost Boys 2 Casting News - The Two Coreys Return?

From Shock Till You Drop:

ShockTillYouDrop.com has exclusively learned from an anonymous source that the vampire-slayin' Frog Bros. - Feldman and Jamison Newlander - are indeed returning for the next "Lost" adventure...and so is Corey Haim, reprising his role as Sam Emerson.

Lensing begins, with P.J. Pesce (From Dusk Till Dawn 3) at the helm, a week from Monday.

On the newcomer tip, we've also been informed Angus Sutherland - Keifer's half-brother (and son of Donald Sutherland and Francine Racette) - will star as this film's big bad vamp.

Tad Hilgenbrink (next seen in the upcoming Amusement) and Autumn Reeser ("The O.C.") have been cast as the leads.

Warner's direct-to-video sequel, The Lost Boys: The Tribe, will revolve around surfing vampires in Southern California.

- The Monster

MGM Midnite Movies Coming September 11

Head on over to the DVD Drive-In and check out the latest covers of the new sets of MGM Midnite Movies.

MGM's batch of new Midnite Movies double features have now been confirmed for a September 11, making this one of the biggest Septembers for classic horror/sci-fi DVD releases ever! The following four double features have been confirmed: RETURN OF DRACULA/THE VAMPIRE, PHANTOM FROM 10,000 LEAGUES/THE BEAST WITH A MILLION EYES, THE BEAST WITHIN/THE BAT PEOPLE and KONGA/YONGARY, MONSTER FROM THE DEEP.

DVD Drive-In has added the covers for these to their MGM/Fox Halloween page, you can check them out here. You'll also find some additional art there for MGM's upcoming Vincent Price and Roger Corman box sets as well as covers to the DVD release of THE BURNING, SCARECROWS and more!

Enjoy the horror...

- The Monster

Resident Evil: Extinction Convoy Game

Resident Evil: Extinction Convoy Game

“The world as we know it, no longer exists. The Earth now belongs to the Undead. The key to survival in this new world is to keep moving...”

A small resistance survives by scavenging abandoned towns for whatever fuel is still left. With all of the surrounding cities sucked dry of fuel, your only chance of reaching Alaska (and finding other survivors) is to scour Las Vegas for any remaining fuel.

Choose your convoy vehicles and make your way through Las Vegas in search of survivors and fuel. In each level you will be given a mission that describes where you must drive your convoy. Once you’ve reached the mission point, use the weapons you’ve collected to defend your convoy against blood thirsty zombies.

Resident Evil: Extinction comes to theaters 9-21-07, but you can play the Convoy Game online now!

Enjoy the horror...

- The Monster