TV Horror

Check out what are actually some freaky moments from the second season of Ghost Whisperer, The WB TV show starring Jennifer Love Hewitt in which she plays a medium with a wacky love life! Horror for women, you know.

Also, there's an online Ghost Whisperer game called Melinda’s Haunted Closet. Step into Melinda Gordon's world by interacting with her haunted closet — check out her clothes, shoes and accessories. No bothersome action at all, and no math! Beware, though, some items have ghosts attached to them...

Starz Inside: Zombiemania, directed by Donna Davies and produced by Kimberlee Mctaggert (the team behind Pretty Bloody) premieres tomonight, Tuesday, October 13 at 10:00 p.m. on Starz! This documentary is a fun look at the Zombie craze around the world.

Featuring clips from a vast library of Zombie films and Zombie experts, including the “grandfather of Zombie films” George A. Romero and best-selling author Max Brooks, it traces the evolution of the Zombie from its roots in African folklore and Haitian Voodoo to its current role as pop culture icon. Watch the trailer, and then watch tonight...

Remember when we told you about Jennifer Thym's Hong Kong fantasy/sci-fi thriller web series Lumina? Well, the series, written and directed by Thym, has just been signed by American Web TV Channel KoldCast.

“This past week has been amazing,” says Lumina writer and director Jennifer Thym. “... I'm so excited that Lumina is now on their slate - it's a big step for a new Hong Kong production like ours!"

Marti Resteghini, VP, Network Programming at KoldCast TV, says that KoldCast has been looking for a special series with which to launch its new International channel. “Lumina is a thrilling fairytale about love, longing and greed...

The 2009 Spike TV Scream Awards will air on Spike Oct. 27th, 2009 at 10PM/9C, and you have a vote in who gets an award. Pretty/Scary is on the nomination committee, so while we tried to get the most deserving women on the voting ballot, not one female any category except as 'actress'. That's right, not even Catherine Hardwicke made it into Best Director for Twilight, but Michael Bay did for Transformers 2.

In any case, there are a few cool nominees that we're excited about...

Well, fuck me gently with a chainsaw. The 1989 Christian Slater/Winona Ryder/Shannen Doherty masterpiece of teen black comedy, murder, cliques, and morbidity Heathers is becoming a Fox TV series.

TV writer Mark Rizzo and producer Jenny Bicks (Sex in the City, Men in Trees) are in charge of the adaptation, which worries me, because of Sex in the City and Men in Trees being awful shows in which women are vapid innocent idiots and men are idealized as saviors of the middle-aged single gal. Anyway, this is about teenagers. So thankfully Diablo Cody is not involved...

The Sundance Channel's Asia Extreme minisite, launched earlier this month, showcases the work of a new wave of innovative filmmakers who are reinvigorating the world of horror genre movies.

While you're there, check out web series The Captive - a 12 episode thriller created by Karin Diann Williams, with Stuart Hynson Culpepper, and and starring Mad Men's Michael Gladis (best known as the pipe-smoking ad man Paul Kinsey ). It follows an unsuspecting twenty-something who is spirited away to the depths of a secret prison, where he faces a brutal interrogation and attempts to escape with the help of a seductive Trustee...

Casting for season two of VH1’s Scream Queens is on. The show is looking for great actresses willing to embarass themselves, get nude, be made fun of, and compete for a role in a major theatrically-released Lionsgate horror film. Just make sure you're beautiful, confident, tenacious, uninhibited and ready for stardom and will stop at nothing to get it. And between 21-30 (no old chicks.)

Season 1 featured James Gunn (Slither, Tromeo and Juliet) as a host along with Shawnee Smith (Amanda from the Saw franchise). Undoubtedly, the first episode will be the best when we see nervous attention whores being humilated onscreen. Welcome to low budget horror, gals! Get used to it. Info below...

By Paula Haifley

I’ve never been scolded by a famous TV actress before, let alone one with twinkling blue eyes, a devilish grin, and a reputation for on-screen butt kicking as Xena, Warrior Princess. When Lucy Lawless, one of the stars of the upcoming TV series Spartacus: Blood and Sand, teasingly gave me a hard time for not speaking up much during the press conference for her show at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con, it did make me ask more questions. I guess it’s that commanding personality that serves her well in her role as a powerful, manipulative Roman wife on the show...

At the San Diego Comic Con, Battlestar Galactica and Caprica series writer Jane Espenson called her script for the Battlestar Galactica continuation film The Plan "a puzzle," because it retells much of the BSG mythology from the Cylon point of view, strictly adhering to the canonical timeline while still telling an entertaining, darkly humorous tale. In a nutshell, said Espenson, we fans can expect The Plan to be about "what happened on the other side of that door after Starbuck walks through." The Plan director Edward James Olmos, meanwhile, said simply, "You will freak out."...

Lucy Lawless (Xena, Battlestar Galactica) returns to TV with a new series from Sam Raimi called Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Debuting January 2010, the historical fantasy series stars Lucy Lawless in the pivotal role of 'Lucretia'. In a passionate and ambitious partnership with her husband Batiatus (John Hannah), she supports his every move as he maneuvers their way back from near financial ruin. Lawless parallels their relationship with Shakespeare’s Macbeth, “They’re a team; they have a great relationship. He’s the brains and she shores up his confidence; she supports her man."

We've got the trailer, and its pretty awesome. Dark, intense, gory, sexy, and hardcore violent, the series was inspired by the actual slave of the Roman Republic who in 73 BC led a slave revolt that grew to more than 120,000 fighters...