Welcome back, boils and ghouls, to a very special edition of PAUL’S HORROR FLIX!  This week, you won’t have to venture to your local video store, or Amazon (or try to import something) to find the movies we’ll be chatting about – you just need to go to your local cinema!  That’s right, we’re discussing theatrical horror this week, with two very different, but still very horrific, movies!

• The Wolfman
• The Crazies

Check out the reviews after the jump, and start saving up money for the matinee!

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Hello there boils and ghouls!  It’s time for another wild and wacky version of PAUL’S MOTHER FRAKIN HORROR FLICKS!  Hell to the yes!  The excitement is boiling over isn’t it?  You’re just sitting there, laptop on the sink as you wait for the body in your bathtub to be eaten away by the battery acid, just DYING to know what movies we’re going to talk about this week.  Well, horror hounds, wonder no more, for today you get THREE horror reviews, of classic (coughmostlyshittycough) 80’s horror madness!

• Madman
• The Funhouse
• Happy Birthday to Me!

What are you waiting for?  A demonic incantation?  Continue reading after the jump!

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Come see it on the big screen!

If you’re in one of the lucky cities that Grindhouse Releasing has named for their EVIL DEAD theatrical tour!  There are special midnight screenings happening right now across the country, on a 35mm print, so you’re getting probably the ultimate theatrical representation of this cinematic classic.

I know I bag on Sam Raimi a lot (deservedly so), but I love all three of the EVIL DEAD flicks, and I’d love to check out one of these dates if I can swing it.  In fact, if you happen to live near Austin, they’re going to be showing a triple feature of all three EVIL DEAD flicks!

Check out all the info and tour dates here!

John Carpenter’s The Thing has built a cult following since its release in 1982.  The film is a horror classic, hitting all the right notes with its manipulation of paranoia, isolation, and the sense of the unknown.  It’s natural that a studio would want to come along and steal some of that glory once again.  Rather than remaking The Thing once again, the studio has opted for a prequel that hits many of the same notes as the first film…but delves further into the mythos of the creature.  Is the early script draft by Eric Heisserer a resounding love letter to John Carpenter or just another insult to a horror classic (I’m looking at you Rob Zombie)?  Find out inside.

Warning: SPOILER HEAVY!

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Another week, another all-new, all-awesome edition of PAUL’S HORROR FLIX!  As promised, I’m back with a double dose of horror this week, and I decided to step up my game a little bit – sure, last week’s Demonic Toys 2 and Road to L had a small droplet of the red stuff, but this week’s contenders poured on ample amounts of what we like to see in our horror flicks – chunky, gooey, dripping blood and guts!

The two contenders this week are Cabin Fever: The Director’s Cut, out now on blu-ray, and Doghouse (currently only available on import DVD).  How do they measure up?  Find out after the jump!

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Puppet Master: Axis of Evil

Check out the announcement from Charles Band himself!

HOW ARE ALL YOU DUDES DOING?!!!!!!!

FINALLY SOME FAR-OUT AND AWESOME NEWS!!!!

PUPPETMASTER: AXIS OF EVIL HAS A JUNE 15TH RELEASE DATE!!! AND WE WILL SOON ANNOUNCE SOME TOTALLY MIND-BENDING LIMITED EDITION GOODIES THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER EXCLUSIVELY AT FULLMOONDIRECT.COM AROUND THE MIDDLE OF MARCH. WE ARE TOTALLY EXCITED ABOUT HOW GREAT THE MOVIE IS TURNING OUT – AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERY FINAL FX SHOT IS AS GOOD AS WE CAN GET IT!!!!

SO STAY TUNED!

Check out the trailer for the film below!

Yes folks, after a brief hiatus (our winter finale was on December 29th…heh), we bring you the new season of PAUL’S HORROR FLIX!  What’s changed this time around?  Well, how about a weekly column (every Wednesday) where you get not one, but TWO horror reviews every week!  Check in every Wednesday for your weekly dose of horror goodness!

Today’s contenders?  Demonic Toys 2, the newest film from Full Moon Studios and the sequel to the original cult classic from the 90’s (with Tracy Scoggins), and Road to L, a mysterious, very hard to find Lovecraftian movie that’s garnered critical acclaim from other sites.

Reviews after the jump!

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Taking a bit of a cue from Rec (with a little bit of The Strangers mixed in), La Casa Muda (The Silent House) comes from Uruguay and attempts something entirely amazing – a horror movie done in one long 72-minute shot.  Bloody-Disgusting has the lowdown: “Laura and her father Wilson settle down in a cottage that seems to be off the beaten track in order to update it since its owner (will soon put the house up for sale. They will spend the night there in order to start the repairs the following morning. Everything seems to go smoothly until Laura hears a sound that comes from outside and gets louder and louder on the upper floor of the house. Wilson goes up to see what is going on while she remains downstairs on her own, waiting for her father to come down.”

Check out the trailer below!

So, according to Variety, television station AMC has greenlit the pilot for a TV show based on Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead comic book.  We’re huge fans of The Walking Dead here at IoM (we even got Marvel boy-Jonathan Landreth reading the book!), so of course that’s an exciting enough prospect.

Couple with it the fact that the pilot is set to be written and directed by director Frank Darabont, and you’ve got a recipe for damn fine television.  The last time Darabont took on a spooky tale, in Stephen King’s The Mist, we got one of the horror genre’s best films in years.  Here’s hoping he can bring the same quality to the small screen.

My vote for lead character Rick Grimes?  None other than the star of The Mist, Thomas Jane.  I mean, sure, he’s a big screen star, but he’s also done some small screen stuff with HBO’s Hung.  He could do another TV show, right?

My brother asked me today who I felt would make a good female lead for the upcoming The Thing prequel, and I admit I have a hard time coming up with a realistic response.  Kate Lloyd is “In her late 20s to early 30s, pretty, bright-eyed, intelligent, she’s a graduate of Columbia and a Ph.D. candidate in paleontology (the study of prehistoric life). On the recommendation of her friend Adam Goodman, Kate is tapped for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity by Dr. Sander Halvorson to join his research team in Antarctica, where an extraordinary discovery has been made. Upon arrival, Kate soon finds herself at odds with Halvorson about how best to proceed with the discovery — an alien spaceship with a mysterious and sinister frozen THING found nearby — specifically whether to transfer the specimen undisturbed to a more appropriate facility for analysis, or, per Halvorson’s wishes, to drill into the specimen’s ice encasement for a definitive tissue sample.” (Read more spoilerfic info at Spoiler TV)

The prequel to the thing looks to be taking place at the Norwegian camp that got all kinds of messed up before Kurt Russel and crew came across it in John Carpenter’s The Thing.  As we know, obviously, the “thing” is thawed out and starts laying the smackdown on some Norwegian ass.

So who would you suggest as a good female lead in this flick?  My vote?  Anna Torv, from Fringe.  Guess we’ll find out soon, as news seems to be coming out more frequently on the Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. production, due out (supposedly) later this year, but more than likely 2011.