Queen of the Damned

For the past fifteen years, Static-x has been delivering their crushing brand of industrial metal (self-dubbed "evil disco") to the masses. On March 17th, the band will release Cult Of Static, their sixth studio album, coming on the eve of the tenth anniversary of their platinum-selling debut, Wisconsin Death Trip.  Last night, Fango caught up with bassist Tony Campos, who along with frontman Wayne Static, has been in the band since the beginning. What followed was a conversation about the band, their new album, and their long-running connections to the horror genre.
James Zahn: So you've got Cult Of Static being released almost 10 years to the date that Wisconsin Death Trip (released March 23, 1999) came out. How do you feel Static-x has evolved over the course of the past decade?
Tony Campos: It's weird, ya know? We did some experimenting on the third and fourth albums, and then went

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• After long being announced as a theatrical title from the Yari Film Group, whose distribution arm recently filed for bankruptcy, the Sarah Michelle Gellar-starring supernatural film Possession is going straight to disc instead. Fox Home Entertainment will release May 12, and art and specs have recently appeared.
The movie will be presented on DVD and Blu-ray in anamorphic 2.40:1 widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, accompanied by:
• Making-of featurette • Four deleted and alternate scenes • Alternate ending • Theatrical trailer
Retail price is $22.98 for the DVD, $29.99 for the Blu-ray. In the film, a remake of the Korean Jungdok (Addicted) directed by Joel Bergvall and Simon Sandquist from a script by Queen Of The Damned’S Michael Petroni, Gellar plays a woman whose husband Ryan and ne’er-do-well brother-in-law Roman are involved in a horrible car crash. When Roman awakens, he seems to be possessed by Ryan’s spirit. Pushing Daisies’ Lee Pace, Michael Landes,

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Variety reports that Mikael Hafstrom (pictured below), who directed the Stephen King-based hit 1408, will next helm another supernatural thriller with a literary source. He’s been attached to Last Rite, a Contrafilm project to be produced by Beau Flynn, Tripp Vinson and Christy Fletcher.
The movie is based on the non-fiction book The Rite: The Making Of A Modern Exorcist by Matt Baglio, published this past month by Doubleday. It focuses on a seminary student who is selected to be part of a new exorcism course at a Vatican-affiliated university; in the process of confronting the devil’s influence, he realizes his true faith. The script is by Michael Petroni, whose credits include Queen Of The Damned and this May’s Sarah Michelle Gellar-starring DVD release Possession.

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