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2 July 2008 1:03 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Wes Bentley, Kaitlin Doubleday, Mackenzie Rosman, Michael Madsen, Eric Roberts, Christa Campbell, Lydia Hull and Jeff Most are all set to topline Michael Staininger's Edgar Allen Poe's Ligeia. Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She's fighting a fatal illness and she will stop at nothing to defeat death, her one true enemy. She steals other people's souls and on her quest to immortality she tricks Jonathan into supporting her work, breaking him apart from his fiancé Rowena and pulling him into her dark, mysterious world. They settle down in an old manor by the Black Sea where Ligeia's everlasting presence slowly drives Jonathan to madness...

23 June 2008 10:15 AM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

Doug Bradley (whom most genre fans recognize as Pinhead from the Hellraiser franchise) unveiled the first episode of his new production companie's horror shorts series Spinechillers at this past weekend's Horrorhound convention in Pittsburgh, Pa. The first 17 minute episode titled The Outsider is based on the H.P. Lovecraft short story. A preview can be viewed on-line at This link! Bloody-Disgusting is reporting exclusively that the 2nd episode planned will be Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-tale Heart, while the third episode on queue is W.W. Jacobs' The Monkey's Paw.

Bradley explained the origins behind both his new production company Renegade Arts Entertainment Ltd, as well as the Spinechillers series on his official website DougBradley.com. Here's his statement:

"It's time to announce The Outsider.

To begin at the beginning: Since the turn of the year, I am a director of a new production company based in Brighton, called Renegade Arts Entertainment Ltd.

20 May 2008 1:14 PM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

A new indie horror flick, The Edge Of Reality, is now available over at Filmbaby, where you can also watch the trailer. The Edge Of Reality is a horror anthology inspired by TV shows like The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, Thriller, The Outer Limits, Tales from the Darkside and Tales from the Crypt. The first story Dead Man is based on a short story in the tradition of Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. It's about a dead man who won't rest until he exposes his killer. The second story The Maze is about a man who faces his own worst enemy... himself! The third story called The Quarry is based on a true story written by President Theodore Roosevelt. It's about an encounter with Bigfoot as told to the president by an old mountain man named Bauman.

17 April 2008 10:30 AM, PDT | From Studio Briefing | See recent Studio Briefing news

Hazel Court, an actress who made a career out of appearances in horror flicks in the 1950s and '60s, died Tuesday of a heart attack near Lake Tahoe, Ca at age 82. The English-born actress was perhaps best known for her role in Roger Corman's 1963 film The Raven, based on the Edgar Allan Poe poem, that also starred horror-film regulars Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre. In its obituary, the Associated Press observed that Corman directed her in five horror films. "Like other 'scream queens' of the era," the obituary noted, "Court often relied on her cleavage and her ability to shriek in fear and die horrible deaths for her roles."

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15 March 2008 3:06 AM, PDT | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Lena Headey (The Broken, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, 300) will join Brian Cox and Josh Lucas in Hyde Park's Tell-Tale, which will be helmed by Michael Cuesta, according to Comingsoon. Inspired by the classic Edgar Allan Poe story "The Tell-Tale Heart," the contemporized adaptation sees Lucas starring as a single father whose recently transplanted heart leads him on a frantic search to find the donor's killer before a similar fate. Shooting on the film is scheduled from mid-March to late April in Rhode Island.

5 articles from 2008