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With the March 19th release date for Repo Men fast approaching, Universal has seen fit to kick the marketing up a notch for their Jude Law and Forest Whitaker-starring genre hybrid about a future in which life-saving organ transplants can be repossessed if a customer gets behind on their payments. Their campaign includes a run of posters advertising the fictional organ donation conglomerate, ominously titled The Union, and today the Moviefone network (of which Horror Squad is a part) has been given four of their artificial organ advertisements to unveil.

And, honestly, I do dig the mood they're going for here (I'm also a big fan of posters that don't actually have the film's title on it). It's clear from the trailer that Miguel Sapochnik's film had a twisted sense of humor, but these new posters, combined with the real website for the fake Union corporation, are sure driving that tongue deeper into the cheek. Check out the "Guys Won't Make Passes at Girls Who Wear Glasses" variant in full below and head over to Inside Movies, Cinematical and Sci-Fi Squad for the other three.

Oh, and if you're looking to make some cash, keep your eye out for an upcoming team up between Universal, Repo Men, and Wired that will give four lucky nomads a chance at $10,000 grand if they can stay hidden off the grid for about a month.

Yes, I'm excited. Yes, I know it's a remake. No, I don't care. It looks creepy. I want to see the Crazies. Bad. I like Timothy Olyphant, particularly from his turn in Deadwood, and while I'm certainly a fan of Romero's original, it never quite clicked with me like so much of his other work has. We've shown you trailers and explored the early viral websites they put out there (viral! *snicker*), but as the promotion machine amps up, I get more and more antsy to see this flick. This one looks like it earns it's 'R' rating. While that's not a prerequisite for a fine horror film, it sure as hell doesn't hurt when it's flagging the story of a town gone mad.

The mutants over at Dread Central have a plethora of new shots that lead me to believe that this will be a nice adrenaline-and-blood cocktail. Here's hoping! Click the pic to your right to take you over to Dread and get a gander at the rest of them.
And leap past the break to check out the trailer and lengthy synopsis.

Back in October we talked about 4th Reich, an upcoming Nazi zombie thriller directed by Shaun Robert Smith. Its combination of an impressive cast, including Sean Pertwee (Dog Soldiers, Event Horizon) and genre fav Tom Savini, as well as a historical basis had me sold from the beginning, though I was a bit wary due to the announcement that it was going to be filmed in 3-D. Despite this, most Nazi zombie films feature the undead hybrids in the modern age, and 4th Reich breaks from the mold, setting the film shortly after D-Day.

Since then we haven't heard anything new, but today Bloody Disgusting brought our attention a set of incredible production art and a full synopsis, courtesy of the 4th Reich official website.

"June 1944, after the glorious victory on D-day, the armies of the combined allied forces begin their long push to Berlin with the aim of bringing down Hitler and the despised Nazi regime of the Third Reich.

But buried deep in secret files German Reichstag, is the chilling reality of Hitler's plan to create an eternal living hell, The 4th Reich.

Dr. Joseph Mengele, Hitler's chief scientist, was charged with creating a new super army of invincible soldiers. A force that would never be beaten. His experiments and research at the death camps of Auschwitz, Belsen and Birkenau would create unspeakable evil.

A small brigade of soldiers from 3rd Infantry Division, under the command of the battle hardened Captain Bathurst embark on an ever darkening quest to liberate Europe. Fighting their way through the French countryside, villages and war ravaged towns. Each step discovering progressively strange battles and events until they reach an abandoned research facility where the true horror begins..."

A sample of the photos can be seen after the cut, while the rest can be found here.

Few things within the horror industry tend to get the hatred flowing within me, but rest assured if Alexandre Aja is mentioned my response will most like filled with vitriol and profanity. Save for the potential found scattered throughout Haute Tension, I have severe issues with everything he has every had his hand in. Despite this, however, I have high hopes for Piranha 3-D, the director's third foray into remake, and you only need to look at the behind-the-scenes stills to see why.

I'm fairly confident plot and acting will not be the film's strong points, but given a horror-comedy about millions of piranha going on a feeding frenzy, I'm not so sure those are the principal selling points. Judging by these photos, the film looks to be a wild ride of blood, violence and T 'n A, and despite my epic levels of pretentiousness, I'm really looking forward to this one. Maybe Aja's newest can change my opinion about him.

Thanks to Dread Central for the heads up, and check out the complete gallery of stills here. Piranha 3-D is set to hit theaters on April 16th.

I may not own very many posters, but I do love them. For all intents and purposes, a poster is the film equivalent of the book cover. It's both the first impression and the sales pitch; and whether we want to or not, we can (and often do) judge a movie by it's art work. Unfortunately, most marketing departments today have lost sight of the word art and have simply begun churning out posters that are mere works that function to announce the title and who is involved while visually saying very little about the film.

Obviously that wasn't always the case. With the intent of both honoring gems from the past and providing a source of inspiration for future poster designers, the design blog Hongkiat.com has kicked off an Evolution of Horror Movie Poster Designs gallery retrospective that reaches back to the first horror movie poster of all time ,Nosferatu, 1922. Needless to say, the posters from 2009 look a tad bit different than the treasures from 1922, but it's still fascinating to scroll through time and see how poster art has metamorphosed into what it is today.

So head on over to Hongkiat.com and give their collection a scroll. It may make you a little forlorn for a time gone by, but it's still an awesome little examination. Thanks to Horror Squad pal Q. Manning for the find.

As a male fan of horror, I am more than pleased that there is no shortage of attractive young ladies willing to cover themselves in blood and pose scantily clad all for the sake of fandom. Plus, given that that we're smack dab in the middle of the Halloween season, what better way to celebrate than twelve months of vintage-inspired pin-up girls paying homage to the walking dead?

The My Zombie Pin-Up calendar features twelve zombified models baring both skin and bone and doing so with style and panache. The photographs range from simply mild rotting flesh, as Miss July shows us, or full on "Holy crap, I think she's mutated," as Miss November so disturbingly portrays.

The make-up and level of detail on these women is fantastic, and due to a limited supply, they'll probably sell out incredibly quick. If you miss your chance to pick one up, why not go the extra mile and enter the contest for the 2011 edition? Full details on the contest can be found here, while photos of all the pin-ups with accompanying make-up and photography credits can be found on the website.

Nice to see some sexy undead chicks with some braaaaains.

When filmmakers are trying to get a production off the ground, the first thing they'll often do is create a piece of key sales art to entice investors. This is usually a rudimentary collage of cast names and some visual inkling of plot that is only ever intended to be seen by people with large checks to write in conference rooms at venues like the American Film Market or even the Cannes International Film Festival. I understand that this is not final artwork, that these Photoshop jobs are often created before a single frame of the movie is even filmed (and sometimes before a single word of the script is written). But that doesn't explain why all sales art looks like something that fell off of a Blockbuster shelf in 1996.

Now I don't go around collecting these digital bits of marketing minutia, though they do always stick with me (and never because I'm so impressed with the font choice), but when I saw the sales art for The Ward, John Carpenter's first return to feature film making since Ghosts of Mars, I decided to go round up some examples. The first one that came to mind was a dreadful bit of imagery intended to sell Bai Ling as some kind of a menacing mermaid in Hydrophobia 3D, but then I also remembered the Cannes promo art for Rambo V: The Savage Hunt, which looks like Sylvester Stallone overlayed atop the poster for Anaconda.

A few Google searches later and I had a handful of images that reinforced my suspicion that all sales art falls out of a wormhole to the mid-90s. So please, lets do a little experiment. Imagine that you have a couple million to spend on a film. Now scroll down and tell me if you see anything that could make you want to break out the checkbook and scrawl out a long chain of zeros.

How do you market one of the best horror movies of the year? With the best horror movie posters of the year, of course. We already laid eyes on the gorgeous, flaming-house one sheet for The House of the Devil back at the end August, but now that Magnet is gearing up Ti West's best film to date for its limited theatrical release at the end of October (it's already available via several Video On-Demand services), a few more posters have hit the Internet, each one captivating in its own way.

I'd say that I wish all horror movie posters were this good looking, but frankly I don't. Movies like Prom Night and The Stepfather don't deserve to have this kind of quality standing behind them. Let Hollywood stick to its generic, predictable Photoshop jobs; it just makes me appreciate artwork like this all the more.

Check out all of the posters below.

Horror Squad has received four exclusive images from Sorority Row (due in theaters on September 11), about a group of sorority sisters who try to cover up the death-by-prank of their fellow sister, but then find themselves being tracked by a serial killer. In addition to the images (which you can click through in the gallery below), Moviefone landed a bunch of behind-the-scenes videos which help introduce you to each girl in the film ... before, ya know, you watch them get brutally murdered in whatever creative way the filmmakers saw fit. (I'd personally like to see a sorority girl impaled with the Greek letters of her particular sorority -- how cool would that be?)

And speaking of girls, the film stars Briana Evigan, Leah Pipes, Rumer Willis, Jamie Chung, Audrina Patridge and more. Check out the new images below and watch the videos after the jump. Sorority Row slices her way into theaters on September 11.

Horror Squad just got our hands on a swath of exclusive images from the upcoming film After.Life, starring Liam Neeson, Christina Ricci, and Justin Long. The film, written by Paul and Agnieszka Wojtowicz Vosloo, tells the story of a woman (Ricci) drifting between her corporeal life and the after life while under the care of a funeral director (Neeson) who may or may not be intentionally trying to bury the poor woman alive.

Those details may seem vague at this point and you may never have heard of the writer/director Vosloo team, but considering the acting talent attracted to the material, I'm willing to plant After.Life firmly on my radar. If anything, the gallery bellow should help whet your appetite until more information bubbles to the surface. After. Life is currently in post-production and is due out in 2010. Special thanks to the mysterious source who passed along these images.