Seeing that it's Friday the 13th, we're especially thrilled to offer an exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpse into the harrowing horror film "The Midnight Meat Train," which comes out on DVD February 17. Click "more" to watch. Read more...

We can think of no better way to cap off our Halloween coverage than to slash into the latest DVD installment of "Horror Pain Gore Death." The fourth volume of the series features scenes from various gore movies, including "Opera," "Nekromantik 2" and "Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers" edited to soundtracks by thrash and death metal bands including Massacre, Benediction, Forbidden, Nuclear Assault and Destruction. Click "more" to watch scenes from "Mad Butcher" atop Destruction's "Mad Butcher"; "Nightmare City" edited to "Nuclear Assault's "Radiation Sickness"; and "Deliria" alongside Num Skull's "Off With Your Head." Happy Halloween!!! Read more...

Hollywood director Darren Lynn Bousman has especially good reason to love Halloween. His past three movies, "Saw II," "Saw III" and "Saw IV" opened on All Hallows Eve and debuted at number one, he got engaged in mid-October as the pagan holiday approached and his new movie, "Repo! The Genetic Opera," debuts the week after Halloween.

Unlike the vicious boobytrap deathfests of the "Saw" series, "Repo!" is a mindwarped flick that combines graphic violence with a campy storyline, resulting in a rock n' roll musical that's part "Ichi the Killer" (Takashi Miike), part "Rocky Horror Picture Show." In the movie, people are dying from an epidemic of organ failures and a ruthless multi-billion dollar biotech company, GeneCo, discovers a way to benefit from the suffering by conducting organ transplants en-masse. If you think the current housing crisis is bad, picture a similar scenario with patients who default on their organ loans. And when the "organ repo men" drop in to extract what isn't paid for, things really get messy.

Throw in an insane ensemble cast that includes Broadway star Sarah Brightman ("The Phantom of the Opera"), Paris Hilton, Skinny Puppy singer Nivek Ogre, and veteran horror actor Bill Moseley ("House of 1000 Corpses," "The Devil's Rejects," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2") and mix with absinthe until everything takes on a incandescent glow, and the absurd vision of "Repo!" starts to take form.

During our Halloween podcast interview, Bousman talks about why he turned down "Saw V" to direct "Repo!"; how he picked the cast; what happens when you put Paris Hilton in the same room with Ogre; what caused the actors to burst out in tears on set; and the headbanging soundtrack, which was performed by members of Korn, Filter, Slipknot and others.

Bousman also discusses how he got into horror, how a script he wrote earned him the "Saw II" gig, the value of plot over splatter, how far is too far when it comes to graphic violence, true crime exploitation movies like "Faces of Death" and "Traces of Death," why his "Saw" party was raided by a SWAT team and the influence of directors like Takashi Miike, Ruggero Deodato and Dario Argento. Fasten your straitjacket and click "more" to stream or download the bloodcurdling podcast. Read more...

One thing you can probably say about black metal is there has never been a band whose singer left to pursue a career in religion. The same can't be said for Christian death metal, as With Blood Comes Cleasing discovered a few days ago when singer Dean Atkinson stepped down "to pursue things in the ministry field" in Chicago with his wife, read a post on the band's MySpace. Read more...

The first (and only) time I was ever slapped by a date was in high school, when I took a girl to see this grisly, comedic horror film (I even paid for her ticket). Needless to say, there was no end-of-night sex, but the palm-to-cheek contact didn't come immediately after we left the theater. It arrived the next day in the school cafeteria when she was still queasy from the memory, and could hardly even eat her carrot sticks and tofu, and I referenced a particularly gruesome scene that involved an intimate sex act and a severed head -- THWACK!!

For that reason alone, director Stuart Gordon and producer Brian Yunza's "Re-Animator" will hold a warm place in my catalog of traumatic memories forevermore. Of course, it also happens to be, as Entertainment Weekly once wrote, "One of the greatest horror movies ever made."

Based on a story by H.P. Lovecraft, "Re-Animator" is about Swiss scientist, Herbert West, who invents a green fluid that brings dead tissue back to life. When his professor in Europe dies from mysterious circumstances, West relocates to the States and winds up at Miskatonic University, where he introduces a fellow graduate student, Dan Cain, to his miraculous, and deadly, discovery.

West starts by experimenting on a dead cat, which becomes more spastic than our obese pet Frisky when she's tripping on catnip. But West needs bigger, more developed subjects and soon winds up in a hospital morgue injecting his solution into anything that doesn't breathe.

Naturally, there's a price to pay for such Godlike arrogance, and Cain, his fiancee Megan Halsey and West are soon up to their necks in green goo and fighting for their survival.

The two-disc special edition of "Re-Animator" includes audio commentary from Gordon, Yuzna and the cast, as well as the 70-minute documentary "Re-Animator Resurrects."

For a preview of "Re-Animator," click here.