Some awesome new trailers

Stand really still in the desert night, and you just might hear "Project Greenlight" and horror fans rejoicing around the world. You guessed it, the Feast trailer has snuck its way under the Internet. For those who don't know, "Project Greenlight" (or "PGL") is a show where amateur screenwriters and directors audition for positions to have their film made by a major studio with the whole production process being documented for a reality TV show. The latest film from the project is Feast, a supposedly tongue-in-cheek horror movie about, you probably can guess, monsters. The entire thing sounds like a semi-remake of the best movie about criminals being attacked by vampires in a Mexican strip club ever: From Dusk Till Dawn, which if you haven't seen it, bookmark this page and then go to the video store and rent it, but do yourself a favor and be sure to pick up a bottle of Jack Daniel's and a few friends on the way home.

Anyways, back to Feast. Catch the trailer at IGN and let me know what you think. Personally, I don't think that it comes across as tongue-in-cheek as I had hoped, but if it takes itself half as lightly as Snakes on a Plane, I'll be happy. Fingers crossed that it turns out as funny, scary and disturbingly violent as the trailer looks.

Not exactly horror, but Guillermo del Toro's latest trailer is online. Del Toro, as most of you will know, is the brilliant director of Hellboy (a.k.a. the best comic book film of all-time) and Blade II, but more important, he made the incredible Spanish-language horror flick The Devil's Backbone. The latter film, while not well known, demonstrates del Toro's awe-inspiring ability to create intensity and suspense while slowly unraveling a complicated, meaningful story. Shyamalan's got nothing on this guy!

Pan's Labyrinth looks to be a dark fantasy story that we've all seen before, but never like this. The film is already rated R by the MPAA for "graphic violence and some language," which means I'm stoked. Pan's Labyrinth debuts Dec. 29, so it looks as if we're in store for some pseudo-horror fun, the perfect thing to wind down the "festive holiday season." This will be del Toro's first Spanish film since The Devil's Backbone.

Keep your eyes on the HorrorGeek, because later this week I'll have some reviews of the Masters of Horror DVDs.