If you had asked me about The Devil’s Carnival yesterday, I wouldn’t have known what you were talking about. I probably would have assumed it was a 70s exploitation flick that took place behind a patchwork tent where a woman gets raped in a pile of elephant dung and then seeks revenge (or something). But I would have been wrong. The movie is a new project from the overworked Darren Lynn Bousman, who has a full dance card but decided he wanted to put another record on. The teaser trailer for the movie is an extended, 11-minute-long shot of a woman (Emilie Autumn) going about her lingerie-clad business. It’s experimental, but it looks more like it was directed by Bela Tarr because it’s a lot of nothing. There are clever little notes that are struck with some cartoonish CGI, but mostly it’s a woman just hanging around doing nothing in particular. Now, that doesn’t mean the movie itself won’t be a hellish explosion of style. According to Shock Til You Drop, Bousman is collaborating again with Repo! writer Terrance Zdunich. Check it (and the poster) out for yourself:

For most of us, we look at a date like 11-11-11 and shrug it off while making a few jokes. Maybe we make a wish at 11:11 (and then again at 11:11pm). For Darren Lynn Bousman, numbers are enough to build a horror film on. 11-11-11 seems to reach back to those fantastic horror films like City of the Living Dead and Ghostbusters to use the mystical date in order to open up a mystical gate. What might come through is anyone’s guess. The teaser trailer is strong, though. It says very little about the plot, gives some spooky visuals, and definitely leaves you wanting more. Check it out for yourself:

In the web of steps to getting a movie made, making a proof of concept or teaser trailer or director’s test can be a crucial part as we all know. This isn’t what sells the movie to an audience, it’s what sells a movie to a potential foreign buyers. It needs to be a bit of a different animal. That being said, this particular promo for Darren Lynn Bousman’s Mother’s Day remake does seem eerily close to how the movie might be sold when trailer time rolls around. Make sure not to have any wire hangers around Rebbecca De Mornay.

The Saw and Repo! The Genetic Opera director gives us a few first looks at his brand new film, Mother’s Day. We almost light Reject HQ on fire. It’s a pretty normal Friday around here…

Give Darren Lynn Bousman the keys to the slaughterhouse and let him fill it with blood? Apparently one company intends to do so. And the world will be a better place for it.

As if you needed an excuse to dust off that VHS copy of Troma’s Mother’s Day this weekend, we’re getting word that a remake is brewing, and the mind behind Repo! is directing.

Our very own Ashley Demma has a geek-girl-gasm at her Chicago Repo viewing. Her words of advice to us all: If Repo! is coming to a city near you, go. Don’t think, just go.

Repo! The Genetic Opera stood out as one of the best films at this year’s Fantastic Fest, and we got a chance to sit down and talk with director Darren Lynn Bousman, writer/actor Terrance Zdunich, and music producer Joseph Bishara.

Paris Hilton may have finally found a role that fits her as well as that time when she got impaled by an ice pick. This time she’s singing and teaching kids about how to use drugs.

For years, musical film fans have waited for a film they could latch on to and call their own. Repo! The Genetic Opera is that film.

Does “Repo! The Genetic Opera” rock Robert Fure’s casbah or leave him bleeding a bathtub full of ice sans spleen? Only one way to find out.

Step into the mysterious, wonderful, and strangely colored world of “Repo! The Genetic Opera.”

If it’s Halloween… it must be SAW. Those words definitely ring true this Halloween Season. Unlike Halloween, Saw IV has allowed Jigsaw to rise from the dead and grace us with his delightfully deranged tests and traps during Halloween.

Ever since the first Saw cut into the American mainstream in 2004, it has been often imitated but rarely matched. The fourth installment of the series hits the theaters in time for Halloween, making a visit to the theater for more of Jigsaw’s antics a seasonal tradition for me.