We know many of you have been waiting patiently for your chance to get a DVD of Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale in your holiday stocking. You might want to check your trick or treat bag first. Better watch out: Santa’s coming early this year!

Sometimes there's so much going on that news on some of the smaller films headed our way can fall between the cracks. Good thing for you we're always there to probe said cracks. Man, all of a sudden that sounded kind of gross.

Citing the growth potential and rabid fanbase, Well Go USA has nabbed the rights to five titles from Nikkatsu Corporation's Sushi Typhoon label. Well Go USA is now the proud owner of Mutant Girls Squad, Helldriver, Yakuza Weapon, Deadball and Karate-Robo Zaborgar. A thorough and descriptive list to say the least.

We've been hearing a lot lately about Monsterverse's upcoming graphic novel series Flesh and Blood (look for it around Halloween of this year), and today Dan Brereton's cover art for Volume 1 was revealed. Dig it!

And word has come of another genre-related comic series that's making its debut at this week's San Diego Comic-Con, this one entitled Pariah from the mind of Aron Warner, who is just coming off of Cirque 3D with James Cameron and whose Strange Weather Films is producing the Beasts of Burden film adaptation with Dark Horse Entertainment.

A while back we told you about FEARnet launching a new series of horror comedies under the "Twisted Comedy" banner, and now we have sneak peeks at two of the shows the network will be premiering on August 2nd: Canadian fave "Todd & the Book of Pure Evil" and "Psychoville" from the UK.

Any good businessman knows to strike while the iron is hot, and it'll never be hotter than it is right now for Cowboys and Aliens co-writer Andrew Foley. With the film version of the graphic novel he co-wrote with Fred van Lente being the talk of Hollywood and opening in less than two weeks, Foley today announced the release of his newest graphic novel Done to Death.

Oh, how we love when a new Criterion Collection Blu-ray release comes our way. Simply put, these discs are the gold standard in home video releases, and two true classics are set to make their debut this October. First on October 18th we'll see Kaneto Shindo's Kuroneko. Synopsis

One flick we've been keeping our eyes on for a while now, Donner Pass, has finally reached completion, and we've got the early word and some brand new eye candy for you horror lovin' cats! Dig it!

Scream of the Banshee, the latest creature-feature offering from the After Dark Originals brand, comes to DVD and Blu-ray in the UK on 25 July, and to mark the release, we have three Blu-rays to give away!

Here's the thing ... when Sigourney Weaver says that she wants to continue fighting aliens, you let her continue to fight aliens. You don't think about it. You don't mull over the details. You hand her a pen and a contract and ask her to please sign. In a perfect world, kids!

As a full-blown haunted attraction junkie, I've spent years covering every October-themed event Los Angeles has to offer. One of the best of the bunch was last year's "LA Haunted Hayride", and the twisted minds behind it are returning with an attraction that, truth be told, even I'm a little scared to go on.

One of the most entertaining cinéma-vérité style flicks we've seen all year, The Vicious Brothers' “Grave Encounters” (review here), is getting itself a limited theatrical release; and to celebrate, a new trailer and one-sheet have begun haunting the interwebs!

With all the Comic-Con news filling up our home page, you'd think there's nothing else going on in the world of genre filmmaking, but of course there is, and we're doing our best to bring you all the news that's out there -- even if it's as depressing as this latest story.

Dark Horse Comics has informed us that at 7:30 pm on Preview Night (July 20th) of the San Diego Comic-Con, they will be announcing not one, not even two, but three brand new projects that promise to be among the biggest publishing announcements at the show. And now they've provided teaser images of all three to really get the juices flowing!