You wouldn't go into a diner named "Joe's Eats" expecting a meal of grilled unagi served with caviar. Similarly, you probably wouldn't pick up a manhwa called Devil'sBride expecting something deep and revolutionary. Good call. Se-Young Kim's ad...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Se-Young KimTranslated by:Hyung Joo KimAdapted by:Lorelei LairdWhat They SayAfter many years of living alone in a deep forest, the devil has gotten lonely and decides to build himself a bride! Slowly he builds his ideal mate f...
1998`s RETURN OF THE WOLF MAN (Berkley Boulevard, New York, October 1998, 339 pp., $6.99) by horror movie historian Jeff Rovin (VESPERS) saw the welcome return of the classic horror movie monsters of Universal Studios: the Wolf Man, the Frankenstein Monst...
Does anybody else feel that Satanism is overkill? Look, you’ve got this perfectly good atheism in which you don’t have to do anything but not believe in God, so why bother with the backbreaking labor involved in “worshiping the lord Lucifer”? Worse with S...
Veteran actor Charles Gray passed away on Tuesday at the age of 71, according to his agent. The actor specialized in smooth, suave, but dangerous characters. He was perhaps most well known to genre fans for his work as the Criminologist in THE ROCKY HORRO...
While the first installment in this column’s new weekly format may have been a little lackluster in terms of exciting releases, things pick up a bit on this second Tuesday in August. The big news is on the Direct-to-video (DTV) front. It appears DTV is ...
...ited. THE DEVIL'SBRIDE/THE DEVIL'S OWN/THE EYES OF THE MUMMY/I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE/CAT PEOPLE/THE CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE/THE CASE OF THE BLACK CAT (8 pm, TCM) Sweet horror, oh how I love thee. BTW you know where to put AMC. ALIAS (9 pm, ABC) When Ma...
In Part One of our interview with the unrivalled horror icon Christopher Lee, the actor recalled his early years in the horror genre and explained his abhorrence for the phrase `horror film.` In Part Two, we learned why he decided to get involved in Tim ...
The Devil Rides Out (1968, originally released in the U.S. as The Devil’s Bride) was the last gasp of the classic Hammer Horror style. The studio would certainly go on to produce a handful of good, even great, films over the next few years, but the old id...
We've got a huge list this week so let's get right to the Prize Closet. We have 2 copies of FAILURE TO LAUNCH for you, courtesy of Paramount. To enter, send one email containing your name and mailing address to psycho@psychotronic.info with the word "FAIL...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mi-Kyung YunTranslated by:Heejeong HaasAdapted by:Philip SimonWhat They SayWhen Soah\'s impoverished, desperate village decides to sacrifice her to the Water God Habaek to end a long drought, they believe that drowning one bea...
After setting comic store shelves on fire with their G.I. JOE comic book series, Devil's Due Publishing is being primed to enter the big leagues and launch their own superhero line of books. The company announced that it will unveil the lineup of its Afte...
McFarlane Toys has won the master toy license for Warner Bros. upcoming stop-motion, animated feature CORPSE BRIDE. As it did with the SHREK license, McFarlane Toys will create a wide assortment of products for the film including action figures, PVCs, plu...
What They SayA musician inherits a haunted violin, and his skills increase to superhuman levels! Detective Tsuzuki is called to investigate, but before he can vanquish the demon, he himself is possessed. Now, it’s up to his brash young partner to so...
Gentle Giant has released an image of the upcoming Corpse Bride statue. The figure stands 11 and ½ inches tall.In addition, Gentle Giant will also offer Scraps the dog and Maggot in statue format. And for those who are fans of the Bust-Up line, Gentle Gia...
Devil's Due has acquired the rights to publish future comics based on the murderous doll Chucky.The press release:Something has moved in with Devil's Due Publishing, Inc., and that something is terror! The ink is dry on a licensing agreement between Devil...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Story: Etsuko Ikeda / Art: Yuho AshibeTranslated by:Sahe KawaharaAdapted by:What They SayContinuing his search for a bride, Deimos stumbles across an underground palace whose female soveriegn is also a demon. The new demon tak...
Though not exactly coming to a conclusion, Mistreated Bride does work through a rather different bride this time around.What They SayMitsuko can no longer do without her secret new lover, Kouji. However, after Kouji reveals his feelings to his stepmother ...
Wow, this is one of those week’s when the column is just loaded. Onward!
SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEK
This month is definitely John Wayne month, with several packages being released in honor of the 100th anniversary of his birth over the next few ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Story: Etsuko Ikeda / Art: Yuho AshibeTranslated by:Sahe KawaharaAdapted by:What They SayThis is a dark and brooding yet tantalizing anthology filled with passion, mystery, despair and one lovesick Demon. Long ago, a brother a...
Natalie Portman (STAR WARS: EPISODE II - ATTACK OF THE CLONES) has signed on board 20th Century Fox's budding BRIDE WORE BLACK project.According to Variety, the supernatural romantic comedy will tell the story of a young man who attends the wedding of an ...
Tim Burton will produce THE CORPSE BRIDE, a new stop-motion animated movie in development at Warner Bros. Portland, Oregon-based Vinton Studios will also produce the project, set to begin filming this November in London, England.Based on a 19th century E...
Tom Cruise's production company has bought the movie rights to a new novel, hoping to turn it into a feature film. Christopher Reich's novel THE DEVIL'S BANKER is the property in question, a thriller about a female undercover British spy and an American c...
"Warning: Hottie Harem Sci-Fi Comedic Frolics Contained Herein!" " theOtaku.com
HOUSTON, March 5, 2007 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased to bring you the first volume of the third season of UFO Ultram...
What They SayA group of friends are stranded on a mysterious island. A series of strange events transpires, and they find their sexual desires awakened in extreme ways. They set about to solve the mystery of the island before a flock of devils descend to ...
According to the Hollywood Reporter, Devil's Due Publishing has optioned film, television and merchandising rights to R.A. Salvatore's fantasy novel DemonWars.The stories take place in the world of Corona, a realm of magic and fantasy where organized reli...
This Friday, Rob Zombie's follow up to HOUSE OF A 1000 CORPSES, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS hits theaters. The film takes place a few weeks after the events depicted in CORPSES as the Firefly family is forced on the lam after a bloody showdown at their home. With...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mi-Kyung YunTranslated by:Heejeong HaasAdapted by:N/AWhat They SayHabaek, the mysterious Water God, is cursed to live his days in the form of a little boy while he turns back to his true adult self at night. His new human brid...
It is the weekend, and that means we need to get some hentai up on the page here. Our first hentai of the weekend is SoftCel\'s 08/12/2003 release of their catalog title Elven Bride.
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:MarleyTranslated by:N/AAdapted by:What They SayBorn into a shaman family, Sunbi has inherited the power to see and communicate with spirits just like her grandmother, a notable shaman and savior of their little fishing village...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:MarleyTranslated by:Michael TanAdapted by:Michael TanWhat They SayWith her grandmother gone, Sunbi experiences the twin pains of loss and loneliness. The daily challenges of living with her father\'s unfamiliar family, while c...
Asian horror has been rediscovered by Westerners in a big way in the past few years, but this release in the "Eastern Horrors" series is not representative of the much higher quality Japanese and Korean films one usually associates with this category. Far...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Story: Etsuko Ikeda / Art: Yuho AshibeTranslated by:Sahe KawaharaAdapted by:What They SayDuring the New Year period, Minako takes Hagoita to a play. Accidentally he discovers one of the actresses has a dormant ghost name Osich...
According to Newsarama, Devil's Due publishing has acquired the rights to the comic book Sheena: Queen of the Jungle.“Sheena is arguably the first female super-hero, predating even Wonder Woman," said Devil’s Due President Josh Blaylock.&...
Hitting up another title in the small pile of adult shows we have to work through, we\'ve got a look at the 03/21/2006 release of Mistreated Bride Vol. #1 from JapanAnime.
Did you ever wonder what happened to the Sawyer family following THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE? I mean, the sequel shows us certain members of the psychotic cannibal clan set up in another location with a few new relatives thrown in, but we're not sure exa...
Natasha Lyonne (AMERICAN PIE, DETROIT ROCK CITY) has joined the cast of THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, the sequel to HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES tha Rob Zombie is about to start filming. According to Zombie via his official website, Lyonne will play Candy, a STAR WARS ob...
What They SayMitsuko no longer lives the same life she did before. Now her days are filled with forbidden lust and sexual cravings for her step-father and step-brother. But that\'s not the only secret within the Takayanagi residence. Mitsuko\'s step-fathe...
THE PRINCESS BRIDE is truly a modern day fairy tale. But this is also a slightly bent fairy tale. THE PRINCESS BRIDE started out as a book written by William Goldman in the early 1970’s, a book that actually says it was written by S. Morgenstern and edite...
Both horrific online outlets Creature Corner and Bloody Disgusting are reporting that Kane Hodder has joined the crew of THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, Rob Zombie's sequel to HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES. As every horror fan knows, Hodder played masked maniac Jason Voorhe...
What They SayMitsuko has always lived a simple life as a housewife, but things changed once she moved away from Tokyo to live with her husband\'s family. She never thought doing a small \"favor\" for her husband\'s father would lead into a world full of l...
What They SayMixed marriages are a tricky thing, so when the human Kenji and Milfa, an elf, get married, the course of true love does not run smoothly... especially when it turns out that there�s a certain difference in plumbing that makes it almost imp...
Coming Soon was provided links to the new teaser trailer for Rob Zombie's follow-up to HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS. Picking up the story where HOUSE left off, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS follows the cross-country chase by Sheriff Wydell (William F...
FilmDeCulte is offering two images of French teaser posters for HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE. Click here to see the images.Moviefone has a series of exclusive clips from SERENITY. Click here to view.Also, Moviefone is offering an exclusive first lo...
McFarlane Toys is releasing a second series of CORPSE BRIDE action figures. Some favorite characters are returning in all-new incarnations, and some new characters will be making their McFarlane CORPSE BRIDE debuts.Series #2 will include:6-INCH ACTION FI...
The last thing Rob Zombie thought he would be doing was a House of 1000 Corpses sequel. Instead of fighting it, he embraced it and ended up with The Devil's Rejects a movie he feels is a traditional follow-up in spirit but can also hold together as its o...
With the news that Dreamwave Productions is now out of business, talk has begun concerning where (if anywhere) a new TRANSFORMERS comic book would be published. According to one of our scoopers named Tony (and also reported today in the weekly Lying in th...
McFarlane Toys will put a chill in the air this fall by creating many products from Tim Burton's much-anticipated film, CORPSE BRIDE. The story centers on Victor, a fidgeting groom who is taken from his own wedding and married to a Corpse Bride in the und...
Hoping that audiences will still find interest in new updates to its classic movie monsters, Universal Pictures has asked for a remake of THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN. AMERICAN SPLENDOR team Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman are in negotiations to wri...
Tim Burton has reached for his phone and called best pal Johnny Depp once again. The reason? Why, for a role in a new film of course!Depp has agreed to lend his voice to THE CORPSE BRIDE, the upcoming stop-motion animated film that Burton is co-directing ...
We usually don't cover birthday announcements in this column. It's not that we're party poopers it's just that birthdays remind us that we're all inevitably sliding down a rough incline toward death. But we thought we'd make an exception in this case. La...
In 2001 the Dabel Brothers founded a publishing company in search of a niche. Under the name “Roaring Studios” Ernst, Les, Pascal and David Dabel took their love of comics and fantasy to a new height, capitalizing on the vacancy of book-to-com...
Cinescape soundtrack columnist Randall Larson's interview with Tyler Bates on his score for Rod Zombie's THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, has been posted at the iF Magazine web site. Bates, who started out a few years ago scoring such low-budget sci-fi thrillers as P...
VIDEO NEWSWhile we're all waiting for Quentin Tarantino to finally start production on his too long awaited new film, KILL BILL, we will at least be able to console ourselves with the re-releases of his ground-breaking, trend setting previous efforts. Up ...
We have a new release from the folks at Unearthed this week which points out the increasing aura of paranoia and suppression in this country (and Canada). The label has specialized in bringing extremely gory foreign horror films into the USA legally, but ...
Regarded by many as the greatest horror film ever made, director James Whale’s sequel to FRANKENSTEIN (#16 on our list) was for many years a complete anomaly in the genre: a big-budget film from a major studio, helmed by their top director working at the ...
In 1985, producer Satoru Ogura and horror manga artist Hideshi Hino designed a film calculated to give fans of intensely graphic horror films something that truly delivered the goods. The basic premise is the same one that briefly made American production...
Sideshow has released images from their coming 12" line of figures based on the classic Universal horror film BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN.The figures are of the title character and the monster, as played by Elsa Lanchester and Boris Karloff, respectively. Both ...
Paganistic villages can be precarious places for beautiful young women to live, since appeasing gods often involves their sacrifice. Bride of the Water God begins in a village ravaged by years of a severe drought whose residents resort to sacrificin...
Actress Rosario Dawson has been cast as Alexander the Great's wife in Oliver Stone's ALEXANDER. The daughter of the King of Balkh, which is now known to the world as the country of Afghanistan, Roxanne married the legendary conqueror after he captured her...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hinako TakanagaTranslated by:Leona WongAdapted by:N/AWhat They SayThe chaste priest Mauro finds a boy in his church named Raoul. On his head are curled horns, and a long black tail... c-could this be a demon?! And on top of th...
What They Say:In this scandalous final installment of Mistreated Bride…Mitsuko and Sumie are both now having an affair with Kouji, Sumie’s Step-son. But they aren’t the only ones in the family filled with lust for him. Kaoru, Kouji&rsqu...
One of the more underrated titles running around in the manga world these days is from ComicsOne. Mike Dungan\'s continuing his look at the series with a review of the November 2002 release of Bride of Deimos Vol. #2 (of 17).
Sakura\'s taking a look at a relatively recent new series from Dark Horse with their October 2007 release of Bride of the Water God Vol. #1, an ongoing series by Mi-Kyung Yun.
What They SaySanshiro is only a servent\'s child, but he loves the daughter of his Master, Momoyo. All he can do is watch Momoyo from a hole in the cealing and count down the days until her fiancee, Yoichiro, returns from England to take her away forever....
It's been quite a long time since it was circulated that a definitive extended edition of Kill Bill would be coming to Dvd shelves. Back after the original releases of Kill Bill Vol.1 and Kill Bill Vol.2, director Tarantino stated that there will be ...
Doubling up again today, we\'ve first got a review of a series that\'s very underrated - so much so that it\'s been canceled nearly halfway through its release run due to the low sales and previous volumes are disappearing from retailers, likely never to ...
While not a sequel in narrative terms, TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE feels somewhat of a piece with 1993's TIM BURTON'S THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. For one thing, it's the same sort of satisfyingly solid-looking stop-motion animation style. For another, i...
So, I came to this series very late, but after watching a few episodes last week I DVR’d the marathon of the entire eight seasons Sunday and planned to go back and watch them along with the season finale. Here’s what happened, I ended up ...
Maybe all the campaigning by TRU CALLING fans worked out after all. This week Eliza Dushku and Jason Priestly return to the small screen in all their corpse-assisting, day-reliving glory. Then again, maybe not, since it's only back to burn off the remaini...
Science fiction, fantasy, and horror were once considered cult genres of interest only to a select few, but that changed in 1977 with STAR WARS. The blockbuster mentality engendered by that film continued throughout the ‘80s and reached even larger propor...
VIDEO NEWSThe creative talents within the film business have always had a bit of a love/hate relationship with the machinations of the industry itself. Many films have been made about just how sordid, perverse and stupid the film business really is, and o...
PRIZE CLOSET: We have 5 copies of X-FILES MYTHOLOGY Volume 4: Super Soldiers courtesy of Fox for lucky readers that send an email containing their name and address to psycho@psychotronic.info with "X-FILES SUPER" in the subject line. We also have a couple...
A handful of DVD labels specialize in multi-film budget packages, and this week we've listed a bunch of new ones from a label that relies on them almost exclusively, Mill Creek (formerly Treeline), and their new Pendulum imprint, which features more recen...
Diamond Comics has announced the upcoming availability of Japanese imported collection dolls for THE CORPSE BRIDE. This new series of movie-accurate collection dolls include: Skeleton Boy & Girl 2-Pack (6" & 6.5" respectively) Pastor Galswells (23...
I just got a sneak peak at the Networks new Fall schedules and there’s good news. Some great shows have left the air, good shows have been cancelled, and from the descriptions of the new shows premiering, I’ll have PLENTY of time to catch up on my DVD wat...
What They SayChrono and Rosette are back, and there’s a whole new legion of the damned out to get them! But this time they’ve got a little help in giving the devils hell, as Azmaria and a new demon hunter join in the fight. Unfortunately, th...
Fans of obscure cinema have had much to rejoice about since Mike Vraney started his beloved Something Weird Video label. Since the company's inception in the early '90s, Mr. Vraney has been responsible for bringing, and in many cases saving, delightful ge...
This month you can see the Colin Farrell meets the American aborigines movie THE NEW WORLD on DVD but you won't be able to smell him. Not so in Japan. Last year, showmen in Japan revived Mike Todd Jr.'s old Smell-O-Vision idea in two theaters when they r...
I received a special invitation in my mailbox this week. It's not exactly on topic as concerns DVDs, but it might pertain to DVD recorders or more specifically, the new HD format recorders - and material you can collect for same. Anyway, it gives me a ch...
Apple has posted the trailer for TIM BURTON'S CORPSE BRIDE on their website. Available in four different viewing sizes, the trailer gives us our first true look at this gothic stop-motion animation film.Directed by Henry Selick (THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRIS...
English writer Jane Austen probably never imagined her 18th-century novel PRIDE AND PREJUDICE as the basis of a musical set in 2005 Amritsar, India and Los Angeles, California (with a couple of stops in London). However, it turns out that the novel's conc...
Fans of THE ATOMIC CAFÉ should flip their lids at this delightful time capsule from Something Weird Video highlighting the golden days of nuclear holocaust paranoia. Chock full of extras and two features, it will leave you with flash burns and residual ra...
This follow-up to the 1997 American Movie Classics monster clip show, MONSTER MANIA, not surprisingly focuses on the weaker sex of the monster worldthough using the word "weaker" might be a bit misleading in this case. BRIDE OF MONSTER MANIA offers an hou...
Hello Maniacs and welcome to this week’s hootenanny of science fiction and fantasy skullduggery. Though I try to pace content on these columns as best I can, sometimes the publishing side of the business just doesn’t want to oblige. After seve...
At 52, Mie Hama is still an incredibly sexy woman. The former `Bond girl` arrived for our interview wearing a tight leather miniskirt, and she appeared remarkably youthful for a woman whom most American viewers have not seen for 30 years. Nevertheless, sh...
Director Ronnie Yu`s beautifully made tale is based on cult martial arts novelist Jin Yong`s famous Chinese fable about rival Ming Dynasty clans and a forbidden love affair between a swordsman and a `wolf girl` who possesses supernatural powers. In order...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mori KotaroTranslated by:Misato SakamotoAdapted by:What They SayMeet Pam Akumachi, an energetic 13-year-old junior high student who has just turned into ...a little devil! One day, when Pam and her friends try to summon the \"...
Director/writer Quentin Tarantino brings his loving, epic homage to/recreation of low-budget exploitation movies of yore to a suitably sweeping climax in KILL BILL VOL. 2. After all the frenetic, deliberately over the top action of KILL BILL VOL. 1, it's ...
What They SayRegaining his memory of the past and his true identity, Ryo determines to fight as the Demon Lord Dante. As the showdown approaches, Saeko, who turns into Medusa, enters the devildom on her mission to release the Great Demon from his seal. ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSLike its first volume, the soundtrack to KILL BILL Vol. 2, released last week by Maverick (48676-2) is an effectively eclectic collection of diverse music from a wide variety of different sources. Three choice bits of dialog fro...
What They SaySeventy years ago, Tokyo was plagued by a mysterious string of murders. Beautiful young women were found dead, their bodies dried up. It began when Miho, a college girl, discovered that a stranger is stalking her. Meanwhile, as her best fri...
What They SayThe sex-changing antics of Ranma 1/2 were never more hilarious! Ranma 1/2 Movie Box Set contains both theatrical released films on 1 DVD.The Review!A double shot of martial arts mayhem only comes with one barrel partially loaded.
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What They SayDeath has nine lives...
In the Edo era of Japan, as cultural arts, modern science, and technology flourished, so too did the practice of mystical arts, as humanity faced the perils of the supernatural!
In a village, at an old samurai reside...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Son Hee-JoonTranslated by:Sarah KimAdapted by:What They SaySang is a fearlessly spunky young girl in search of the Demon School Hades. Fortunately for her, she comes across a group of misfit monsters that are ditching class fr...
Gentle Giant Studios has released images of their upcoming CORPSE BRIDE Victor statue.The staute recreates the moment when Victor first "proposes" to the deceased bride herself and places the wedding ring for his bride-to-be onto the Corpse Bride, mistaki...
NECA has released images of the upcoming Beatrix and Elle figures in the KILL BILL Series 2. Here is NECA's breakdown of the characters: Beatrix Kiddo AKA The Bride AKA Black Mamba Former Member of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. Former lover of Bil...
For many a horror fan, Halloween is amateur night, when the whole world wants to party in the graveyard we live in. But the holiday has its distinct advantages, and pretty high on the list is the accessibility of horror movies on TV. In between parties an...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hiromu ArakawaTranslated by:Akira WatanabeAdapted by:What They SayWhere did Alphonse Elric go during the few short minutes he was wiped from existence, body and soul? From a secret lair in the city of Dublith, a group of outca...
For many, three is a mystical number reflecting symmetry and balance. The number three is also closely tied to ancient ritual and magic, so what better number to herald the return of the supernatural Shape and his unending reign of Samhain-inspired terror...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Available as a Region-3 DVD from Hong Kong, Jingle Ma's 2004 superhero spectacular, SILVER HAWK (FEI YING), stars Michele Yeoh as a crime fighting martial arts heroine hiding from a painful past and hoping the attentions of a w...
I left my first experience at San Diego Comic Con behind a bit sadly. Aside from a few awkward moments with editors and comics professionals (never underestimate my ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time), I had a great time and will likely retu...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS While the song soundtrack for Bruce Hunt's underground horrorshow, THE CAVE, is also on Lakeshore Records, I suggest you pass it by and grab the true score soundtrack instead. The sinewy orchestral strands that open the Johnny ...
On September 26th, Anchor Bay Entertainment and Manga Entertainment release Tactics: Volume 2 on DVD, featuring episodes 6-10 of the remarkable anime series. The continuing saga of supernatural detective Kantaro Ichinomiya and his "Demon Eating"goblin par...
What They SayIn order to separate Yuri from Wolfram, Stoffel introduces an eligible girl for Yuri to marry! But the bride-to-be shocks everyone by claiming she is really Wolfram\'s fiancee and she challenges Yuri to a duel. Then, Dunheely Weller\'s past i...
What They SayFeudal Japan - A time of danger, intrigue and deception. Jubei is a masterless ninja who travels the land alone, hiring his services to those with gold... or a worthy cause. His fearsome abilities have served him well, but a hideous plot to o...
MELBOURNE, Friday, 6 May 2005 - From Rumiko Takahashi, the creator of INUYASHA, comes the long requested fan favourite; RANMA «. Enjoyed by fans all over the world, RANMA « is now finally making its way onto DVD for the first time in Australia! See what f...
HOUSTON, May 2, 2007 "ADV Films, the number one producer-distributor of anime outside of Japan, is pleased to bring you both seasons one and two of the sci-fi hit Gravion, as well as the season three, volume two release of UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie: Bride...
DAY ONE: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6The first ever New York Anime Film Festival started ominously enough. The opening night was set in the city`s Japan House, a center dedicated to Sino-American cross-cultural exchange located within eyesight of the United Nations....
What They SayEchoing the whimsical mood of the animated series, this collection takes some of the most playful vocals from the OVAs and tosses them together. Revisit a future of fast paced fun with both memorable versions of Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko\'...
(Rob Zombie's THE DEVIL'S REJECTS was released on DVD last week.) Yeah, I know I sound like Norma Desmond whining in the film Sunset Blvd. pining for the glory days of silent pictures. But seriously where have all the great faces gone? I'll tell ya where ...
Having already evaluated the best fantasy soundtracks of 1999 and assessed the best fantasy scores of the 1990, it’s time to cast an ear back over the last hundred years of fantasy, horror, and science fiction film music. Which scores were the trendsetter...
While the Rom action figure couldn't generate much more buzz than his comic series, the Micronauts were another story. Not only did they spawn a successful comic series that got reprinted twice in the '80s, they also almost had their own syndicated animat...
For those of us who experienced the '80s the first time around, the recent successful returns of comic series such as TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE makes it feel like Christmas all year round. Following the recent news that THUNDERCATS will soon experience a ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS With his distinctive violin writing and his flair for fluidly atmospheric and scarily weaving scores, Pino Donaggio was the horror score maestro during the 1970s, providing such now classic scores as DON'T LOOK NOW, CARRIE, DRE...
After the cult movie success of RE-ANIMATOR, a somewhat surprised Jeffrey Combs found himself embarking on a career making horror movies, often with some of the same cast and crew. He says, `FROM BEYOND [1986] was the same sort of artistic group, same pro...
What They SayGram\'s pendant has unlocked the secret that leads to the mythical treasure of the original Mars settlers. Before they can begin, they\'ll have to shake off the Earth Forces who have them cornered. The crew will also have to contend with a re...
What They SayEpisode 7: Trunks, the Bride
The Saiyans arrive on a peaceful planet with one very large problem. The monster Zoonama has the incredible ability to produce earthquakes by merely shaking his gigantic whiskers! Now the monster is demanding a b...
What They SayCarrera, Rati and Mercedes are three succubae demons who will grant any wish in exchange for a soul. Ogawa uses a summoning spell to gain vengeance, but when he sees the sexy Carrera, he gets a better idea for a wish.
An army of beautiful a...
What They SayAlimony Hunter: When sexy, young Jun runs meets the busty Chizuru, she sees an opportunity for one hot night! Plus Chizuru's got a cute stepson that may serve as a dessert for her main course!
Seek: When rescuing a princess doesn't provid...
With films like CRONOS, MIMIC and the upcoming BLADE 2 under his belt, director Guillermo Del Toro has developed a unique resume for himself. In the first part of CINESCAPE's interview with Del Toro, the filmmaker explained that his new film THE DEVIL'S B...
What They SayRike, a real dragon knight, leaves his lover so that he can quest for his very own dragon. When he discovers the dragon, Karin, he finds that she is not only a giant fire-breathing lizard, but she also has the power to transform into a beaut...
Director Guillermo Del Toro has tackled unconventional predation in his debut feature CRONOS, dangerously adaptive insects in MIMIC and is in post-production on the vampire-counterculture-Wesley Snipes starrer BLADE 2. His new film, THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE, ...
Yen Press is a publisher that's hard for a manga fan not to take notice of. Their lineup is small but diverse, their presentation is excellent, and they've even earned themselves prestige points by putting out With the Light and rescuing One Thousand and ...
Last time, Josh Blaylock outlined the birth of the new MICRONAUTS comic book series from Devil's Due Publishing. Now he tells us what we will and won't see in this title...While the Micronauts license holder, Global Icons, gave Devil's Due a lot of freedo...
What They SayFrom famed adult comic artist Hiroyuki Utatane come four of the most erotic, the most exotic, the most unusual and just downright odd stories ever animated.
To start with, there\'s an extremely unusual three-for-all in which not everyone is...
What They SayMeet Rin, a normal high school guy who is the envy of every other man in town. You see, he\'s lucky enough to live with and be pampered by the sweet, beautiful K\'de. It\'s just a day like any other when two new transfer students show up in c...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Sumthing Else (SE-2017-2) has released Jack Wall's rich score to the xbox video game, Jade Empire, on CD. The score, an impressive intermingling of orchestral samples and acoustic Chinese instruments, layers a pleasing pattern ...
What They SayFasten your seatbelts and hold on tight because there\'s a new Love Angel in town, and she\'s seeing red. Scarlet, that is, and she\'s ready to kick some serious devil butt! Let\'s just hope the other Love Angels can teach her a little tender...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mori KotaroTranslated by:Misato SakamotoAdapted by:Ailen LujoWhat They SayPam and the other devil interns have exams coming up, which means crunch time for Pam who\'s still having \"flying\" difficulties. In order to step clos...
NEW YORK, NY (November 12, 2007) – Yen Press, an imprint of Hachette Book Group USA that is dedicated to graphic novels, will publish its first BL (Boys Love) romances that feature adult males starting in Fall 2008. Obtained from the Japanese publis...
What They SayHis name is Dante. Half demon and half human, he is charged with ridding the world of the demons that plague it...for the right price. The doors to his business, Devil May Cry, are always open to those with money in pocket, and occasionally...
There were a lot of great entries, but Stephen Smith's defense of MALLRATS was judged to be the most concise, to the point, and in keeping with the Essence of Smith. Plus, his name is Smith, thereby fuelling several conspiracy theories if I pick him, so h...
What They SayThe action Anime series Chrono Crusade imagines the 1920s as a hotbed of jazz, speakeasies, flappers, and...wealthy socialites, who dabble in the black arts and unleash a horde of demons upon the world! The only person who can stop the unholy...
What They SayYuri, Geezer and Gwendal are faced with difficult decisions, while all under the duress of the looming war and the frightening realities it presents for the fate of the entire real devil\'s kingdom. Yuri tries to understand the origin of Hub...
What They SayThe secret organization \"D\" employs the Four Demon Kings and the man-made monster, SX, to massacre numerous innocent people to implant horror and loathing toward demons into people\'s minds. Seeing the organization\'s atrocious deeds in the...
What They SayThe year is 1928. Jazz is hot, bootleg liquor is king and the idle rich of a nation have discovered a horrifying new past time: summoning demons! To combat this growing threat, a new order of Holy Warriors has arisen. This is the story of Si...
What They SayThe Game was only Half the Story.
Now you can step deeper inside the bloody truth behind Dante\'s most dangerous missions. And these cases are even more lead-filled and blood-drenched than the last.
There\'s the demonic face behind the Ma...
They were never the phenomenon that the Real American Heroes were, nor were they as popular as those transforming robots that boasted that they were "More Than Meets the Eye." But for some, the Micronauts are another fondly remembered ingredient in the ul...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ryo TakagiTranslated by:Christine SchillingAdapted by:Brynne ChandlerWhat They SayRion believes with all her heart that grown men are devils! Just when she\'s found the boy of her dreams, her father presents her with three di...
News from the High Definition DVD front: Microsoft released an HD-DVD player add-on for its Xbox 360 game console last November. But the big news is that some cyber geeks are reporting that they’ve figured out a hack so the thing works when hooke...
Greetings, Comicscape faithful, and welcome to another exciting Wednesday morning. I trust you’ll all walk into your neighborhood comic shops later today – if you already haven’t – and walk out a few dollars poorer, but, I...
Everyone makes the innocent mistake of renting what they think is a riveting drama about a pizza delivery man, only to find out--gasp--the pizza premise is actually a thin veil for what is actually a porno tape. At least, that's the excuse mother...
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Welcome to another week of the Countdown, where time is ticking down but we are too busy to notice because of all the games we play. This week spring break seems all but dead, which will allow us to catch up on a few of the titles that came out recentl...
Although American publishers have no problem churning out movie novelizations on time and en masse, some great genre literature is falling through the cracks, getting too little publicity or attention to garner the widespread praise it rightfully dese...
Now both animation innovators Joseph Barbera and his partner William Hanna are dead, and last week a key creative force in their studio followed them into the Great Beyond. January 15 marked the passing of Iwao Takamoto, a character designer responsib...
Our first month of Star Spotlight is now coming to an end, fellow Maniacs. We began our inaugural column with one man who turned the filmmaking industry on their heels, George Lucas. We continued to one of my personal favorites, the legendary director ...
Its fans are among the most loyal and most rabid in the music industry, and it has survived nearly forty years by having the uncanny ability to constantly re-invent itself…it is Heavy Metal. Metal: The Definitive Guide is no mere hyperbole...
Before Sam was murdered he told Molly he'd love and protect her forever. This week our Prize Closet contains 2 copies of Ghost: Special Edition. To be eligible to win one, just send an email to which includes your name and address to DVD Shopping Lis...
Warner Home Video and Amazon.com have announced the wionners of their "DVD Decision" promotion for 2006. The 10 movies that received the most online votes will be released by Warner Home Video in two waves. THE ILLUSTRATED MAN, THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN, PR...
Slim-pickings this week for sci fi and fantasy releases with only a handful of paperbacks and one hardcover hitting the shelves today. Night Shade Books releases the second Inspector Chen novel with the highly-anticipated The Demon And The City while Phi...
The Flashback Weekend Horror Convention & Drive-In continues to offer innovative convention ideas with their fifth annual show this year on July 28-30. To celebrate the first convention appearance of instant cult star Brabara Nedeljakova who played the f...
Lately, I've heard a lot of complaints about the current direction of the horror genre. I never thought I'd see the day when scary movies were thought to be going too far, especially because horrific tales have been with us since the beginning of time. W...
La-La Land Records presents the first ever Fangoria Weekend of Horrors "Maestros Of Horror" Composer Panel this Saturday, May 19, 2007 at the Burbank Airport Marriott Hotel.
Horror film composers take questions directly from the f...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Scheduled for release on September 5th from Lakeshore Records, the soundtrack to JET LI'S FEARLESS is a massive action/adventure score from the composer of HOUSE OF FLYING DAGGERS and Kar Wai Wong luxurious drama, 2046, Shigeru...
The format war between the two competing formats of high definition video software, HD DVD and Blu-Ray, is in full swing. Both formats have their first generation players out along with several discs. The two camps, Blu-Ray, backed by Sony, and HD DVD, ...
Universal Studios was the House of Horror during the 1930s, but they weren�t the only studio to produce tales of terror. Following the success of DRACULA and FRANKENSTEIN, MGM tried to get in on the action with a commitment to shock aimed at reprising ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Steve Jablonsky reprises his dark ambiances from the 2003 remake of THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE with an equally brooding and disconsolate score for THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING. Directed by Jonathan Liebesman (DA...
While visiting my local Post Office to send out packages from our Prize Closetr recently, I was surprised to find a new item available at the counter. DVDs! The U.S. Postal Inspection Service produced a series of public service films in the style of TV cr...
Don't get me started on a rant about all the Christmas DVDs coming out already or the fact that most of them are just repackaged versions of stuff that came out last year. Just don't. That doesn't mean I'm not in the Spirit of Giving. In our Prize Closet...
Part fantasy epic, part boy-and-his-dog-er-dragon story, Eragon represents a series of elements that have never been combined in quite this way before onscreen. On the one hand, director Stefen Fangmeier and writer Peter Buchman try so hard to stick to...
Sidestepping inconvenient historical details and unburdened by factual evidence, director Bruce Burgess, whose prior directorial masterpieces include Dreamland: Area 51, The Bermuda Triangle Solved? and Bigfootville, takes a running le...
When Hellboy II: The Golden Army marches into theaters on July 11, it will have more in common with fairy tales and bedtime stories than with big, green, angry men or men in iron suits. Hellboy II packs a huge modern summer wallop while keeping a foot fir...
There’s a lot wrong with this episode, let’s get that said right away. There’s a big mislead in this episode that is built on poor character development. If you’re secretly a serial killer, would you really be scared of y...
There’s no keeping this image under wraps as it takes up an entire wall of a building. This painting depicts the entire planet blowing up - quite a leap from the last mass destruction painting that just showed New York City blowing up. This is a ver...
First there was the CGI-animated television spin-off ROUGHNECKS, then the financially crippled DVD sequel STARSHIP TROOPERS 2: HERO OF THE FEDERATION. A smattering of comic and game adaptations, including Markosia’s steady stream of graphic noveliza...
The Central Park Media folks have gotten their March solicitations set up today, which means March is a very good month for a certain group of fans:Revolutionary Girl Utena Vol. #5: Darkness Beckoning - 75 minutes - $29.98 - 03/11/2003
Descendants of Dark...
Release weeks don\'t get much bigger than this, so there\'s pretty much something for everyone here:
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Cardcaptors Sakura Vol. #14
Pioneer Animatio...
The Kitty releases for April and May are now up with details at Right Stuf:Angelium - 60 minutes - $29.95 - 04/26/2005Kizuna: Much Ado About Nothing - 45 minutes - $29.95 - 05/31/2005Kyakki: The Secret of Devil\'s Island - 90 minutes - $29.95 - 04/12/2005...
Posted by Derek Janssen on our forums but originally from the very resourceful folks at nausicaa.net, the Porco Rosso dub has been set for the region 1 release. With John Lasseter as the executive producer and Tony Bancroft doing the direction, here\'s wh...
Some new bundles are up as well as some sweet prices on hentai and discounts on seasonal box sets:New Right Stuf Specials are posted!
Slogging back from AX,
I managed to get stuck overnight in Denver for a night. So... I slogged
through the mountain of e...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONDisney will release the soundtrack to its Summer CGI animated feature, CARS, on June 6th. The CD includes the obligatory assemblage of pop songs (new tunes by Sheryl Crow, James Taylor, Brad Paisley; new recordings of road classi...
BET just held its upfronts announcing its 2008-2009 shows and there’s one for the comic book fans! The Marvel Comics character Black Panther will be getting his own animated series for the network. Black Panther has never been a major character in t...
His name, his face, and his voice are synonymous with Horror, however Vincent Price began his career on Broadway, but where it would end was far cry different then he could have ever predicted. Vincent Price would go on to become the Master of the Ma...
Long before The Justice League animated series on the Cartoon Network there was the Super Friends on Saturday Morning TV. Premiering in 1973, the Super Friends went through various incarnations over the years until the final season during 1985 &ndash...
Actor Danny Trejo had some interesting things to say to Fangoria over his role in Halloween and his Grindhouse faux trailer, Machete. Obviously, Grindhouse failed at the box office but that's not stopping rumors for future projects relating to the Ta...
In our DVD Shopping List Prize Closet this week we have some terrific classic Hong Kong action titles, courtesy of Dragon Dynasty. Two winners will get both Shanghai Express and Above the Law, and all you have to do to win is send an email which includes ...
There's been a few changes to the DVD release of HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX by Warner Bros Home Video. One of those changes is the additional/deleted scenes which was originally listed as 10 minutes of footage not seen in the theatrical ver...
Coming soon to your TV: your cut of your favorite film. And why not? Seriously Mania readers, with studios releasing all the different versions of films in “Special Editions”, “Director’s Cuts”, “Extended/ Unr...
A host of provocative directors, actors and writers - including award-winning directors John Landis ("An American Werewolf in London"), Darren Bousman ("Saw II, III and IV"), Ronny Yu ("Freddy vs. Jason," "Bride of Chuck...
The New Year is officially here, and with it a new crop of science fiction, fantasy, and horror literature is beginning to spring up from the fertile minds of genre authors everywhere. But though 2008 is the year of the new, some authors from the past, ...