Here's our favorite demented heavy metal illustrator Mike Hrubovcak of Visualdarkness.com to tell us all about his latest designs for Dutch death grind band Inhume, which will launch a European tour on Halloween. Click "more" to see the merch Mike designed for their road trip: Read more...

It doesn't help that this large angular logo is pretty much black on black, but apparently these guys are so evil that only little shards of gray can enter their world. The logo is barbed and jagged, but it still seems kinda cartoonish to us -- like the cover of a '50s EC comic or something you might see on "Tales From the Crypt." We understand they're looking for a singer. Maybe the Cryptkeeper is free.

Here are your choices:

a) Serrated Cataracts   b) Sanguinary Cadavar   c) Splattered Entrails   d) Carcass

In an era of anime, computer generated effects and blockbusters like "Cars" and the "Shrek" franchise, rarely is a modern animated film a true work of art. Then there's "Renaissance" (Mirimax), a French animated movie crafted with vision, artistry and abundant creativity.

The sci-fi action flick was created in constrasty black & white with 40 actors, lots of CG animation and a groundbreaking film technique. The cast performed against a blue screen and were suited with black outfits with sensors that recorded their limb, face and eye movement. After a scene was shot, it was converted into stark, convincing looking 3D animation. Of course, such high-tech gizmodgery would be of little value if the plot wasn't solid; fortunately, "Renaissance" delivers on both ends.

The story takes place in 21st Century Paris in a society that's part "Blade Runner," part "Minority Report." At the outset, a genetic scientist working for a the Avalon Corporation -- a company that specializes in everlasting youth and beauty which has grown Microsoft-like in power -- is kidnapped. A supercop voiced by Daniel Craig ("Casino Royale") is assigned to track her down, but every turn seems like a dead end that brings with it a substantial body count. However, with the help of the scientist's sister, the policeman begins to discover clues leading to the kidnapper as well as the notion that if he doesn't succeed, the future of mankind could be in jeopardy.

Since all of the action in "Renaissance" is generated by live actors, the movie rarely feels like a cartoon. And the castmembers, which include the talents of Craig, Ramola Garai ("Nicholas Nickelby"), Jonathan Pryce ("Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy) and Ian Holm ("Lord of the Rings" trilogy) are in peak form throughout, keeping the movie exciting and believable. "Renaissance" is nothing short of a breathtaking breakthrough in movie magic.

The Hills Have Eyes (Fox) -- First the good news. The Hills Have Eyes 2 has absolutely nothing in common with Wes Craven’s astonishingly bad 1985 movie “The Hills Have Eyes Part II,” which was a loose follow-up to the original 1977 flick “The Hills Have Eyes.” Now the other news. It doesn’t live up to the horror and suspense of its 2006 predecessor. Not that it’s as bad as some critics would have you believe. There are several choice gory moments (anyone for brain-digging?) and some pretty cool tunnel sequences, but overall it’s a fairly uninspired cat-and-mouse chase – sort of an “Aliens” in the New Mexico desert. In the film, a rebellious group of National Guard rookies are assigned to bring supplies to a scientific team in the Hills, and, of course, unbeknownst to all the victims, the region is swarming with nuclear mutants who pick nearly everyone off one-by-one. But the bad guys aren’t just killing machines, they’re killing machines with a purpose – to repopulate their society, and to do this they need fertile women. That’s where the only real terror in the movie comes from, and while seeing female officers raped and dumped in a breeding pit is pretty horrific, it’s not enough to make the rest of "The Hills Have Eyes 2" anything more than an average, but entertaining kill-or-be-killed flick with some pretty cool effects.

Perfect Creature (Fox) – A clever spin on the tired vampire yarn, “Perfect Creature” depicts an alternate universe in which vampires are all members of the Brotherhood, a church whose members abide by a strict code of ethics and conduct. They're actually the good guys who protect normal people from deadly outbreaks of influenza. Nonetheless, the police and citizens live in fear of the fanged creatures, one of whom grows to despise the ungrateful common folk. And when the resentful vampire is stricken with influenza and becomes mentally unhinged, the powerful beast runs amuck and inflicts humans with his fatal disease. The rest of the brethren stage an organized manhunt, and, with the help of the local authorities, eventually catch up to the monster. But even when they do, it’s never clear whether they are powerful enough to cage the vampire’s hatred. Stylish, imaginative and thought provoking, “Perfect Creatures” injects the old vamp legend with some much needed fresh blood.

Crazy Legs Conti: Zen and the Art of Competitive Eating (Blue Underground) – He starts out adoring the bizarre world of competitive eating from afar, but Crazy Legs Conti’s hunger for the “sport” is to powerful for him to resist. So, he competes in an oyster eating contest in New Orleans and wins. From there, the oddball window washer, nude model, and sperm donor decides to become a professional competitive eater. However making it to the top of the sport is a lot harder than slurping down shellfish in the Big Easy. He’s got to train to achieve a Zen-like focus in order to stand up to champions like Eric 'Badlands' Booker and Ray 'the Bison' Meduna, let alone the legendary Takeru Kobayashi, who has inhaled 50 hot dogs with buns at the July 4 Nathan’s Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest. Fortunately, Conti is no master salesman or media whore and his commentary throughout the documentary is self-deprecating and kind of endearing.

Tales From The Crypt: The Complete Sixth Season (Warner Bros) -- The campy horror anthology “Tales From the Crypt” ran on HBO from 1989 to 1986. The seven-season run featured short stories pulled from the pages of 1950’s EC comics, with name actors in the lead roles and a ghoulish corpse named The Cryptkeeper as narrator. The stories on “Tales From the Crypt The Sixth Season” aren’t as creative or grisly as those from the first three seasons, but they’re still far better than those from most any other made-for-TV horror anthology. This triple-DVD features 15 sometimes spine-tingling episodes. Highlights include: “Doctor of Horror,” which stars Hank Azaria and Travis Tritt as security guards in cahoots with a demented doctor who believes he has discovered the secret to harvesting the soul; "Comes the Dawn" in which Michael Ironside and Bruce Payne play poachers in Alaska who confront vampires; and the standout “You, Murderer,” which was directed Robert Zemeckis and includes a computerized recreation of Humphrey Bogart playing a rogue criminal who, in order to flee his past, has a plastic surgeon turn him into a Bogart impersonator. The episode also features guest appearances by John Lithgow and Isabella Rossellini. Other episodes feature Benicio Del Toro, Rita Rudner, Catherine O’Hara, Shelley Hack, Isaac Hayes, and Richard Lewis.