NBC's FEAR ITSELF, the horror anthology by the makers of MASTERS OF HORROR, airs a new episode tonight, written and directed by John Landis.

Tonight's episode deals with a bride to be's fears on the eve of her wedding.

If you've missed earlier episodes, check here for full episodes streaming online for free.

Bloody Disgusting is reporting that After Dark Films is ready to go with their third BUTTERFLY EFFECT movie. They say that Anthony Leonardi, a short film director, will head up the project.

The script is by Holly Brinx, and entails a young man who discovers he's heir to the Effect power, and the serial killer he unleashes as a consequence.

Source: BD Horror News - Director for Third 'Butterfly Effect'!

Kate Mulgrew is joining the Broadway production of "Equus," which stars HARRY POTTER's Daniel Radcliffe. "Equus" is the Peter Shaffer play about a disturbed young man who blinds a stable of horses after a particularly unsettling event.

The play has been a career (re)defining role for Radcliffe. The nudity, swearing, smoking and sheer acting skill displayed by the young actor has moved him out of the "lucky kid" category and into the ranks of serious acting.

Mulgrew is well known for her role as Captain Janeway on VOYAGER. She also has a long career as a stage actress, winning awards for her performances in "Iphigenia 2.0", "Tea at Five" and "Our Leading Lady."

Source: Mulgrew To Join Daniel Radcliffe In Equus On Broadway | TrekMovie.com

BloodyDisgusting.Com is reporting that their sources have confirmed that Eli Roth, director of the blood-soaked horror features HOSTEL and HOSTEL II will not be stepping in to write and direct part II.

While a 3rd film in the successful franchise is in the development stage, another, at this time unknown director will take over the creative duties.

Source:  BD Horror News - New Torture in 'Hostel: Part III'

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Chain-sawing a movie one.

Len Wiseman, monster director behind the UNDERWORLD franchise of Vampires vs. Werewolves, has signed on to bring GEARS OF WAR, the uber successful video game to the big screen.

GEARS is about the war for survival between human colonists on a distant planet and the alien race, the Locust, planetary natives who lives deep below ground, who are on the verge of wiping them out.

One iconic feature of the video game are the "chainsaw bayonets" that allow players to shred the alien Locust gut to gob. No word if that will make the translation to the big screen.

GEARS OF WAR 2, the sequel to the first game, hits shelves later this year.

Source: Scifi Wire

Chainsaw Destruction Below: 

AICN is reporting that Stan Winston, the fantastic designer and creator of numerous aliens, androids and other alternative beasties, has died of cancer. 

Source: Ain't It Cool News: Rest In Peace Stan Winston.

FedCon USA, the Dallas the spinoff of the highly successful FedCon Germany convention experience, blew up over the weekend. After less than 24 hours, in the middle of a Question and Answer session with visiting talent, the plug was pulled on the entire event, leaving people out cash and time, and talent highly, highly pissed.

The event was organized by Tim Brazeal who gained a great deal of notoriety several years ago through his efforts to "save" STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE, through supposedly raising several million dollars from fans and enlisting the aide of a Canadian production company, negotiating with Paramount for a co-production deal. It was eventually revealed that Tims statement's were false: the money was merely pledged from fans, there was no Canadian company, and the negotiations with Paramount amounted to an after-hours phone call with a tired executive who made the mistake of answering his phone.

Currently, there are rounds and rounds of accusations and recriminations being flung on the FedCon:Dallas forums. It's come to light that Brazeal didn't have the full backing of the parent FedCon, they'd pulled their support, but not their name, earlier this year. Aaron Douglas , Chief Tyrol on BSG, had endless promises made and pulled to him by the FedCon staff -- the poor guy was standing in the airport on Friday night waiting for a ticket to arrive to get him to the event but it never came. James Callis, Baltar on BSG is also highly peeved at the German FedCon organization for failing to disclose their doubts.

The one hands down hero in all of this is John Billingsley, who played Doctor Flox on ENTERPRISE. To an attendee, he and his wife were described as going out of their way to show fans an excellent time, to get to the bottom of problems at the event, and to take an initiative of helping guests to get their money back.

It seems that while Trek can breed overzealous self-promotors it also gives us fantastic heroes as well.

More About the Mess: SyFy Portal

The New York Times takes on WHO's Russell T Davies in a rather cool article.  

Here's an excerpt: 

RUSSELL T DAVIES, perhaps the most admired writer and producer working in British television drama, was once confronted at a wedding by a fellow guest bristling with indignation about a scene in Mr. Davies's hugely successful, family-friendly science fiction series, "Doctor Who." In the scene Capt. Jack Harkness, a swaggering intergalactic hero who exuberantly lusts after both men and women, plants quick kisses on the mouths of both the title character and the title character's female sidekick as they face imminent death. (Everyone survives.)

Mr. Davies's first instinct - as a reasonable person, as a happily gay man - was to be relaxed and placatory, he said. But something snapped.

"I was standing there saying, ‘You're a bad mother, and your children will either grow up to be lesbians, or they will be taken into care because they've been badly raised,' " he recalled in a recent interview near the "Doctor Who" set. He began to chuckle. " ‘You are ignorant, and you're bringing up your children in ignorance, and that will backfire on you.' "

Additionally, it's been announced that Davies will receive an OBE from the Queen later this year. An "OBE" is one of the highest civilian honors that the government can bestow. 

Lionsgate's released the latest trailer for the upcoming PUNISHER:WAR ZONE movie.  It's full of the typical blood, guts, bullets, and bombs one expects from the hard charging Frank Castle, slayer of evil-doers everywhere. 

Waging his one-man war on the world of organized crime, ruthless vigilante-hero Frank Castle sets his sights on overeager mob boss Billy Russoti. After Russoti is left horribly disfigured by Castle, he sets out for vengeance under his new alias: Jigsaw. With the "Punisher Task Force" hot on his trail and the FBI unable to take Jigsaw in, Frank must stand up to the formidable army that Jigsaw has recruited before more of his evil deeds go unpunished.

Starring Ray Stevenson (HBO's "Rome") as Punisher, PUNISHER: WAR ZONE is directed by Lexi Alexander and produced by Gale Anne Hurd and Ari Arad. The film's executive producers are Kevin Feige, Ogden Gavanski, Oliver Hengst and Jeremy Latcham. 

Check out the trailer below: 

GONE is the new book from HarperTeen about what happens when everyone over the age of 14 disappears in a flash.

Like a darker version of New Zealand's teen TV series THE TRIBE, GONE has the added twist that the surviving teens discover that some of them are developing new talents-unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers-that grow stronger by the day.

And unfortunately, not all the kids with these new-found powers are good...

Harper has created a trailer for the series, embedded below. The books are by Michael Grant, cocreator and coauthor of the awesomely cool ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD series.

The book is out June 24th.

Dr. R. Elisabeth Cornwell at UCCS university is conducting an-online survey about the similarities and differences in beliefs and experiences between the religious and the non-religious.

If you are interested in participating in the anonymous survey, click over here: click over here and have at it!

From your friends at Lionsgate and the producers of SAW, they bring you the new, gory, direct-to-the-web series called "VLOG."

Apparently it's about a woman's on-line diary and the death -- the very bloody death -- it causes her friends.

Check it out here:VLOG

According to industry magazine The Hollywood Reporter: 

"Horror films have dominated the pop culture landscape for decades and along the way have produced some of the biggest names in Hollywood," said Jeff Olde, VH1's executive vp original programming and production.

The series, consisting of eight hourlong episodes, is set to premiere in the fall.

Said Kevin Beggs, Lionsgate's president of TV programming and production, "VH1 has had a tremendous track record in launching alternative programming that captures viewers' imaginations -- it's the perfect home for 'Scream Queens.' "

Mike Paseornek, Lionsgate's president of production, added that "discovering new talent is always exciting."

 

Exec producers are Joke Fincioen and Biagio Messina for Joke Prods. and Jim Ackerman, Dave Hamilton and Jeff Olde for VH1.

We mentioned episode one of the web only sci-fi series IQ-145 a few weeks back.

Starring is-he-or-isn't-he Thomas Dekker, IQ-145 chronicles the adventures of a young man searching for answers in the death of his scientist father. Along the way, he's shocked to discover that he just might be his father's last, greatest experiment.

The second episode in that series is up and available on their website.

Below is an interview with series star Dekker (and the on-going SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES on Fox) about IQ-145.

doorQ.com will make no comment about the butch tattoo on Dekker's arm.