Those rumours that the new Friday the 13th movie could go the found footage route might be true as word has it V/H/S and The Signal co-director David Bruckner is in talks to direct the next instalment in the famed horror franchise. Bruckner wrote and directed the Amateur Night segment for V/H/S. His story involved three guys who bring a mysterious girl back to their hotel room, with terrifying results.

And somewhere, in the state of Florida , Jeb Bush is eating a live puppy. That's how I feel about a remake of Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds . I know I've said each remake should be judged on its own terms, but remaking The Birds is as stupid an idea as remaking Psycho , and look how that turned out. Some movies should be left alone, and The Birds is one of them.

Universal Studios has released the plot crunch for Platinum Dunes and Blumhouse Productions' thriller The Purge. We haven't talked about the project at all here on the site, so seems like a good time to start. Here we go: In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity — including murder — becomes legal. The police can’t be called. Hospitals suspend help. It’s one night when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking. When an intruder breaks into James Sandin’s gated community during the yearly lockdown, he begins a sequence of events that threatens to tear a family apart. Now, it is up to James, his wife, Mary, and their kids to make it through the night without turning into the monsters from w...