The Queen Mary’s annual Dark Harbor event is well underway in Long Beach, CA and to experience its horrors is to do Halloween right. Set a landlubbing foot on the dockyards and be swarmed by ghoulish seafaring monsters and the tormented souls of drowned or murdered sailors.

But, that’s just the candy-coated surface. Sure, it’s fun and the actors portraying the undead this year are beyond topnotch—dedicated to scaring the hell out of guests, yet friendly enough to patiently pose for a photo immediately afterwards (they don’t seem to mind you crapped your pants).

There’s also a new Voodoo Village set to a New Orleans backdrop and run by a Voodoo Priestess and her slaves. The maze in the village is pretty cinematic with rays of light shining in, piercing an otherwise dark world of black magic and sacrifice. Those who survive can also bare witness to the town’s impressive fire breathers.

Clowns run amok at the Circus maze and sideshow freaks roam the corners and host their very own Freakshow attraction. It’s fun stuff packed with genuine surprises.

BUT… what makes Dark Harbor unique and gives it an edge above all other Halloween haunts is the Queen Mary ship itself. Forget that it’s a haunt and there are numerous creeps hiding in the shadows ready to pounce on guests, the ship is just frightening! Three mazes are set in the ship: B340, Soulmate, and Submerged.

These mazes are absolutely terrifying. Navigating through each of its narrow corridors, engine rooms, and hulls in pitch black darkness really takes one out of the make-believe world. This is a real ship! B340 is a new maze and is so dark anxiety builds quickly, making one jump at the slightest noise.

B340 is a room haunted by Samuel the Savage, a passenger on the Queen Mary who was isolated in the room after a violent outburst. He was later found dead. According to Queen Mary lore, the room is so consumed by paranormal activity it remains unused to this day.

Soulmate is actually a very beautifully constructed new maze also set on board the ship. It tells the story of Graceful Gale, a doomed debutant who vanished from the ship in 1939 under mysterious circumstances. She haunts the Queen Mary in search of her true love. Keep an eye out for the Eyes Wide Shut room and Gale, who is one of the haunt’s most aggressive ghosts (she followed a woman into the restroom!).

Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor is not to be missed. The haunt only gets better each year. The event runs through Nov. 2. Get tickets and more info here.

Stuart Gordon’s “Re-Animator: The Musical” has officially opened and runs at the Steve Allen Theater in Hollywood, CA Oct. 17 through Nov. 2, Fridays through Sundays. The show returns with infectious new musical numbers and all the twisted whimsy that made its original 2011 run a multi award-winning success.

Adapted from Gordon’s beloved 1985 film, the production follows the grisly havoc caused by med school students Herbert West and Dan Cain after they set out to reanimate human corpses. Graham Skipper reprises the role of West. Jesse Merlin returns as West’s nemesis and plagiarist Dr. Hill. If you saw the show’s original run, you know this insanely talented duo are reason enough to grab a seat.

Tickets are available here. If in Los Angeles, DO NOT MISS IT! Read our review of musical’s original run here.

Alexandra Breckenridge is set to join AMC’s “The Walking Dead” as a recurring during the show’s recently launched fifth season and with an option to become a series regular in the sixth season, for which it has already been renewed.

Not much has been revealed about the character Breckenridge will play, but it’s pretty safe to assume it will be an attractive one. Breckenridge is no stranger to TV, having recurred on shows “The Dirt” and “Life Unexpected,” and voice acting on “Family Guy.”

Horror fans and people with penises will know Breckenridge best, however, for her portrayal of a sexy ghost maid on season one of FX’s anthology series “American Horror Story.” She’s also guest starred on HBO’s vampire soap “True Blood”

Twilight star Ashley Greene is set to join Pierce Brosnan in producer Aaron Kaufman’s (Sin City, Machete) directorial debut Urge. Green plays Theresa, who during an island getaway with friends discovers a designer drug that causes users to act out on their urges.

Kaufman said:

Ashley Greene brings the gravitas and intensity that the role of Theresa demands. I am very excited to collaborate with her.

Yes, you just read that.

Greene is coming off the Joe Dante horror-comedy Burying the Ex and Dark Castle’s not-so-super-natural flop The Apparition. She is best known for her role as Edward’s adopted little sister, Alice Cullen, in Summit Entertainment’s Twilight Saga.

If you were part of the 17 million plus viewers who tuned in for the season five premiere of AMC’s “The Walking Dead,” chances are your mind is still blown by what you saw. Suspenseful, gruesome, and emotionally gripping, the show was everything fans could hope for.

To keep the excitement going, AMC has released a six-minute behind-the-scenes featurette of it’s season five premiere “No Sanctuary.” It’s pretty awesome stuff, but we’ll keep all spoilers close to the chest, so watch for yourselves below.

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The evil bastards at Grindhouse Releasing ripped open old wounds this year with the Blu-ray release of Ruggero Deodato’s contemptible (so say sensitive souls) classic Cannibal Holocaust. While topping the sales charts, the definitive 2-disc set also rekindled hatred from those appalled by the film’s violence, gore, and real animal slaughter.

Grindhouse Releasing was publicly denounced for the release by enraged movie critics and bloggers, and animal lovers, accusing the company of pandering to closeted sociopaths for the sake of making a buck. Now Grindhouse Releasing responds to its detractors by presenting Cannibal Holocaust on the big screen in all it’s offending glory… so, yeah, fuck you if it ain’t your cup of turtle soup.

To view a complete list of showings, visit the Grindhouse Releasing website. The Cannibal Holocaust Blu-ray can be purchased on Amazon.com, Diabolik DVD, and other retailers.

From the press release:

Grindhouse Releasing brings director Ruggero Deodato’s notorious horror classic CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST back to the big screen starting this weekend at Landmark Theatres across the United States.

CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST tells the story of four documentary filmmakers who experience brutal death at the hands of a savage South American tribe of flesh-eaters. The film is so intense, so graphic and so unflinching in its realism that the director and producer of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST were arrested on its original release and the film was seized.

CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST stars Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi and Carl Gabriel Yorke. Moviegoers are warned: This is the original, uncut version of CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST and its strong content may upset some viewers.

10/10/2014 – Landmark Uptown, Minneapolis, MN

10/10/2014 – Landmark Ritz Bourse, Philadelphia, PA

10/11/2014 – Landmark Uptown, Minneapolis, MN

10/11/2014 – Landmark Ritz Bourse, Philadelphia, PA

10/17/2014 – Landmark Esquire, Denver

10/17/2014 – Landmark Tivoli, St. Louis

10/17/2014 – Landmark Main Art, Detroit

10/18/2014 – Landmark Esquire, Denver

10/18/2014 – Landmark Tivoli, St. Louis

10/18/2014 – Landmark Main Art, Detroit

10/24/2014 – Landmark E Street Cinema, Washington DC

10/24/2014 – Landmark Inwood, Dallas

10/24/2014 – Landmark Sunshine, NYC

10/25/2014 – Landmark E Street Cinema, Washington DC

10/25/2014 – Landmark Inwood, Dallas

10/25/2014 – Landmark Sunshine, NYC

11/14/2014 – Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA

Disney has released a trailer for its Brad Bird (Ratatouille, MI: Ghost Protocol) directed sci-fi adventure Tomorrowland, starring George Clooney (From Dusk Till Dawn) and Britt Robertson (pictured). Penned by Bird and Damon Lindelof (“LOST”), the film stars Robertson as a mopey teen who finds a time portal.

The official synopsis reads:

Bound by a shared destiny, a bright, optimistic teen bursting with scientific curiosity and a former boy-genius inventor jaded by disillusionment embark on a danger-filled mission to unearth the secrets of an enigmatic place somewhere in time and space that exists in their collective memory as Tomorrowland.

Robertson currently stars on the CBS summer series “Under the Dome.” Her horror creds include the canceled CW series “The Secret Circle,” the 2009 supernatural teen thriller From Within, and Wes Craven’s 2011 sequel Scream IV.

Tomorrowland is based on the futuristic theme land found at Disney theme parks. It arrives in theaters May 22, 2015.

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Writer and director Bryan Bertino terrified us six-years ago with his feature film debut The Strangers. Since then, any unexpected knock on the door has been cause of anxiety. As far as Clatto is concerned, The Strangers is the most frightening home invasion film ever lensed.

Now, Bertino is back with another home-based frightener called Mockingbird. This time out, three families are in danger when they each receive a camcorder with instructions to record the events some madman has planned or… be killed. The film is a Blumhouse and Universal release, and is available now on VOD.

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If you’ve seen Meghan Ory playing a scantly clad, grownup version of Little Red Riding Hood on ABC’s “Once Upon Time,” chances are you’ve been licking your chops to see more of the brunette stunner. It’s time to thank your lucky stars, your wish is coming true!

Ory is set to star in Sony and Legendary Entertainment ‘s Dead Rising: Watchtower, its upcoming adaptation of the successful Capcom video game about survivors trying to live through a zombie apocalypse. No word on Ory’s role, but here’s hoping the film employs her “Once Upon a Time” wardrobe people.

Deadline reports Leprechaun: Origins director Zach Lipovsky is helming the picture from a script by Mortal Kombat: Legacy producer Tim Carter. The film is the first project produced under Legendary’s Digital Media division and will be released on Sony’s digital platform Crackle.

Dead Rising: Watchtower is currently shooting in Vancouver. Starring alongside Ory are Jesse Metcalfe (“Desperate Housewives”), Virginia Madsen (“Witches of East End”), and Dennis Haysbert (Sin City: A Dame to Kill For).

Katie Cassidy goes topless and Ashlynn Yennie goes totally nude in XLrator Media’s The Scribbler, arriving on DVD and Blu-ray Oct. 21. Reviews for the film haven’t been very good, but we’re pretty sure it’ll get thumbs—and other things (we mean penises)—up from Clatto readers.

Directed by John Suits and written by Daniel Schaffer, who adapts the story from his 2006 graphic novel, The Scribbler stars Cassidy as a woman risking her sanity with an experimental machine designed to eliminate her multiple personalities. Yennie plays an unstable woman with a fear of clothes.

Ashlynn Yennie afraid of clothes in Scribbler

Cassidy currently stars as Dinah “Laurel” Lance, aka Black Canary, on The CW’s “Arrow.” Her horror creds include Platinum Dunes’ A Nightmare On Elm Street, Dimension’s Black Christmas, Screen Gems’ When a Stranger Calls and the short-lived CBS mystery series “Harper’s Island.”

Yennie is best known for her role in Tom Six’s demented cult classic The Human Centipede and its even more outrageous sequel The Human Centipede: Full Sequence. In addition to The Scribbler, she’s also got Adam Gierasch’s Fractured (previously titled Schism) coming up… and, yes, she’s naked there too!