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Horror buffs beware! A new production company has been formed by a couple of the most influential minds in the entertainment industry.

There was a time when horror movies were fun. They were full of dark scenes and built suspense and the directors remembered some standards set by the greats of the horror genre in years past.

I'm not going to lie, I typically hate box sets. They're more often than not, a dumping ground for DVD's that have spent one too many years collecting dust in some old warehouse that their distributers are just a little too eager to get off the shelves.

Despite its low budget, a mostly then no name cast, and age many fans out there still find John Carpenter's original masterpiece Halloween to be one of the best film's our genre has ever seen and we completely agree.

Hey folks, Harry here with a couple of things of note. Earlier tonight - a friend and semi-delusional dwarf - sent me the following video: After watching that I was thrilled! I mean... holy shit that's a talented crazy awesome guy! I love the LEDs that are there for no other reason other than to just be badass.

By that, of course, I mean the John Carpenter film . Seattle-based Parallax View has begun performing, under the editorship of Sean Axmaker , an invaluable service to film scholarship: publishing the entire back catalog of Movietone News on the web.

With everyone gearing up for Halloween tomorrow, this gothy disco track from Chicago's Gatekeeper is perfect for getting into the spook-tacular spirit.

Asian-American Actresses Portrayed Rival Soap Opera Actresses in Television Series Written, Directed and Produced by John C. Alsedek HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA, October 28, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Dawna Lee Heising and Joycelyne Lew of "Eye on Entertainment" on Time Warner Cable will be starring in the October 30 episode of the horror anthology series ...

Now that you have a big-screen TV and a Blu-ray DVD player, this could be a great weekend to revisit some of Hollywood's best horror flicks in gory high definition.

Though it might be a cliche, I always enjoy watching John Carpenter's Halloween on Halloween, but over the past few years, I find myself popping in Neil Marshall's The Descent without fail.

Horror movies can be frightful -- in a bad way. They can be frightful as in ... really not scary.

Creepy, crazy, scary and funny, Michael Dougherty's Trick 'r Treat re-invigorates the Halloween horror season.

Movie buffs act like they own Halloween. If you want to properly enjoy Oct. 31, they'll tell you, then watch some horror movies.

The children of the night ... what music they make. They aren't alone. From Alien Sex Fiend to The Zombies, almost every band has a scary-good Halloween song.

Those who dare can tour the Mausoleum of Terror and mingle with some creepy characters at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee.

While my personal Halloween ritual consists only of revisiting John Carpenter's original 'Halloween' , 'The Rocky Horror Show' and its celluloid step-child, 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show' have captured a massive cult following.

How else can you explain the fact that two years down the road from our first staffer survey of all-time favorite Halloween horror movies, several of the same titles remain on the list? A total of 10 fearful souls here in the office participated in this year's survey, with the results demonstrating a spooky trend: M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth ...

My favorite thing to do on Halloween is go out to see a scary movie. It's a tradition that started in the basement of my house in Doraville during those years when I was too old to go trick-or-treating but wasn't old enough to get into R-rated movies.

Given man's unwavering fascination with woman, it's no surprise that the female star acts as the anchor to a dominant portion of horror pictures.

Apart from the stray slasher flick, Halloween is traditionally a dead spot on the Hollywood calendar.