An international trailer has gone online for Devil Inside writer/director William Brent Bell’s new found-footage frightener Wer. Penned by Bell and Devil Inside co-writer Matthew Peterman, the film stars “Criminal Minds” alumna A.J. Cook as a defense attorney whose client is a werewolf and up on murder charges.

Cook is best known for her role as Special Agent Jennifer “J.J.” Jareau on the CBS crime-drama “Criminal Minds.” She can also be seen in Final Destination 2, Ripper, Wishmaster 3: Beyond the Gates of Hell, The House Next Door and director Darren Lynn Bousman’s “Mother’s Day” remake.

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Comparing Halloween haunts to Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare is like comparing apples to apples with razor blades. Zombie’s inaugural haunt and concert event is more of a Lollapalooza type deal with less hippies and more hellbillies. Held at the Fairplex in Pomona every Thursday-Sunday now until Nov. 2, the event is a great Halloween destination for friends to hang out, drink, and groove.

Every night features genre-specific musical acts (metal, alternative rock, electronic dance, Latin, etc), freak shows, and an outdoor movie theater showing classic fright flicks. The night my wife, Mrs. Muertos, and I attended (Oct. 19) featured performances on stage by punk rock heroes The Vandals, TSOL, and the Dickies.

Though it’d been awhile since the little lady and I had pogoed and moshed the night away, we were there for the haunt; to experience the “bonechilling” mazes inspired by three of Zombie’s films: The Lords of Salem Total Blackout, The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto, and Haunt of a 1,000 Corpses.

First up was The Lords of Salem Blackout, where thick black hoods were thrown over our heads before we were sent off to navigate a narrow and winding maze. Along the way the floor shifted beneath our feet and light shocks of electricity buzzed our hands as we felt our way through the darkness (apologies to guards we may have groped).

It’s was a disturbing experience, one that made us anxious to see where the trail would end and what horrors we’d face once the hoods came off. When that moment arrived, we found ourselves at… the next maze. That was it for the first. It was over. Now, I get it. It’s called LoS Blackout. But, it feels like a cheat, especially considering the film’s warped and inspired imagery. Chalk it up to missed opportunity.

The Haunted World of El Superbeasto is 3D, fluorescent painted fun. It’s the raunchier of the three mazes, but not as sleazy as the animated feature it’s based on. Except for the vaginal entrance, which one must push through pink, squishy walls (genius!), the majority of obscenities are spray painted on the walls. There are a couple of dildo-wielding Superbeastos, but not nearly enough bra-busting Suzi-X’s.

Haunt of a 1,000 Corpses rounds out the mazes with a display of hillbilly horror and animatronic beasts. Captain Spaulding marked our foreheads with a sign to let his minions know we were lambs to the slaughter. Poked and pushed through the maze by insult-hurling inbreds and necrophiliacs, we witnessed a variety of backwoods terror, including a Charlie Manson-like family murder and a violent suicide.

Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare is on its last severed leg (it ends Nov. 2). While not as shocking as hyped, it is a fun way to spend Halloween. To purchase tickets and for complete event details, visit www.greatamericannightmare.com.

Horror icon Clive Barker is set to write the Hellraiser remake for Dimension Films. Barker made the announcement today on his Facebook page. In addition to promising an “even darker” film than the 1987 original, Barker revealed that Doug Bradley will reprise his role as Pinhead.

Barker wrote:

A few weeks ago I had a very productive meeting with Bob Weinstein of Dimension Pictures,in the course of which I pitched a remake of the first HELLRAISER film.

The idea of my coming back to the original film and telling the story with a fresh intensity-honoring the structure and the designs from the first incarnation but hopefully creating an even darker and richer film-was attractive to Dimension.

Today I have officially been invited to write the script based upon that pitch.What can I tell you about it?Well, it will not be a film awash with CGI. I remain as passionate about the power of practical make-up effects as I was when I wrote and directed the first HELLRAISER.

Of course the best make-up in the world loses force if not inhabited by a first-rate actor. I told the Dimension team that in my opinion there could never be a Pinhead without Doug Bradley,and much to my delight Bob Weinstein agreed.

Barker is, of course, the author of such horror classics as “The Hellbound Heart,” the novella that inspired Hellraiser, “Damnnation Game,” “Weaveworld,” “The Thief of Always,” “Imagica,” “Cabal,” on which the 1990 film Nightbreed was based on, and “The Books of Blood” anthologies.

On the big screen, he’s written, directed and/or produced the must-see frighteners Dread, Midnight Meat Train, Book of Blood, Lord of Illusions, Rawhead Rex, Nightbreed, Candyman and Hellraiser I-III. The original Hellraiser film is the only one in the franchise directed by Barker, who regrettably sold the rights to the Hellraiser universe before its release in 1987.

Twentieth Century Fox has released a creepy-cool trailer for Devil’s Due, a found-footage thriller from V/H/S directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett. The film stars Allison Miller (“Terra Nova”) and Zach Gilford (“Friday Night Lights”) as newlyweds faced with their first pregnancy.

While the thoughts of changing dirty diapers and saving money for a college fund instead of a new gaming console are terrifying enough, these parents-to-be soon discover that the bun in their oven may actually belong to Beelzebub.

Devil’s Due arrives in theaters on Jan. 17, 2014.

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Ellen Page (Inception) and Evan Rachel Wood (pictured) are set to star in Into the Forest, an adaptation of author Jean Hegland’s post apocalyptic novel about two teen sisters living together far away from society in the Northern California forest when doomsday arrives.

Page and Wood will play the sisters faced with the horrifying reality that war overseas and political upheaval at home have led to the collapse of civilization, forcing people to live without resources such as electricity and gas. The film is directed and written for the screen by Patricia Rozema (Mansfield Park).

Page, who also serves as a producer on the film, is coming off voicing the PS3 sci-fi game Beyond: Two Souls. She stars in Bryan Singer’s upcoming X-Men: Days of Future Past, reprising her role as mutant Kitty Pryde. Wood’s horror creds include stints on “True Blood” and the tragically short-lived ’90s series “American Gothic.”

A trailer has gone online for writer and director Greg Mclean’s Wolf Creek 2, a sequel to his 2005 slasher about a sadistic bushman in the Australian outback who tortures and slaughters unsuspecting travelers. John Jarratt once again reprises his role as the film’s baddie Mick Taylor.

Wolf Creek 2 finds Mick Taylor hunting down a new group of backpackers to torment and dismember. Roadshow Films will release the film in Australia on Feb. 20, 2014. The film has yet to acquire U.S. distribution.

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Bruce Campbell, iconic star of Sam Raimi’s original Evil Dead trilogy, confirmed at the Wizard World Nashville Comic Con on Friday that there will be a sequel to Army of Darkness and that he will return to play beloved antihero Ash Williams.

Campbell spilled the groovy news when a fan pointed out that many people would love to see a sequel to Army of Darkness, the third entry in the Evil Dead franchise.

Campbell said:

The last one was twenty-two years ago. I just haven’t been racing to do it. Sam Raimi is just a little bit busy making the biggest movies in Hollywood. I use to be busy. Now I’m not. That’s why I’m here.

Ash would have to stop occasionally from chasing some deadite to catch his breath. Maybe we could do that, I guess. That would be exciting. Fight in a walker. That would be alright. Hit them with my cane. Fake them out, have a fake heart attack, distract a zombie. I like it.

Alright sir, the answer is yes.

IFC Midnight has acquired the U.S. rights to Dallas Hallam and Patrick Horvath’s The Pact 2, a sequel to Nicholas McCarthy’s 2012 cult hit, starring Caity Lotz as a woman tormented by the Judas Killer, a serial murderer hiding inside the walls of her childhood home.

The Pact 2 picks up weeks after the events of the original film. Camilla Ludington toplines the film as June Abbott, an L.A. woman haunted by a string of violent dreams in which she sees people slaughtered through the eyes of a Judas copycat killer.

Luddington is coming off the ninth season of ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy.” The British stunner broke big in 2012 with roles on HBO’s vampire soap “True Blood” and Showtime’s “Californication,” in which she nude-fully played a nanny and aspiring actress willing to sleep her way into Hollywood.

Weirdsmobile Productions has released a trailer for Chastity Bites, a horror-comedy that finds notorious Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory employed as a high school abstinence teacher for girls. Plotting to drain the blood of her virgin class to use as an aging remedy, her only obstacle is a suspicious blogger.

Chastity Bites stars stunner Louise Griffiths (Revenant) as Bathory, Allison Scagliotti (“Warehouse 13”) as high school blogger Leah, and Francia Raisa (“The Secret Life of the American Teenager”) as her BFF Katharine. The film is available on VOD on Nov.1 and arrives on DVD in February.

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A red band trailer (boobies!) has gone online for Magnet Releasing Here Comes the Devil, a supernatural thriller from Spanish filmmaker Adrián García Bogliano (Penumbra, Cold Sweat). The film marks the feature film debut of Mexican singer Laura Caro.

Here Comes the Devil tells the story of parents whose young children go missing while exploring caves in Tijuana during a family trip. When the kids are found the next day, their aloof behavior suggest they’ve been molested by… SATAN!

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