Warning: I'm keeping it vague, but there are things here that could be considered spoilers.

Minnesota's giant shrine to the gods of mass retail, the Mall of America, erupted into a 200-person melee last night. Thirty police stormed the premises, putting the entire mall on a temporary lockdown. The mallrats are rebelling!

Katie Roiphe—writer, daughter of Anne, white female, upper class, Brooklynite, pooh-poohs date rape, hates Gawker, hates your sex life, you know the one—had a very dramatic experience today. Very dramatic. It was... I don't even... just let me gather my nerves for a moment.

Here's a trailer for Shark Night 3D, which is a movie about a shark, that was filmed in 3D. I'm not really sure what part is the "night" part, but there's definitely a shark, that lives in a lake.

A judge in Massachusetts ruled yesterday that a jury in a manslaughter case can be shown a video of an eight year-old boy accidentally shooting himself to death with an Uzi at a gun show. Jesus. Christ. It gets worse.

Last night's movie-length premiere of AMC's new comic-based series The Walking Dead came freighted with, at least for us, a lot of giddy expectation. Did it deliver? We say yes, in spades.

Infamous spoiler-mongers, the Fine Brothers, just released another one of their helpful (if you hate surprises) videos. Just in time for Halloween, watch as Benny and Rafi spoil the endings of 100 different horror movies—all in five minutes!

Ute Linhart (pictured) was waiting in the 28th street R train station platform Wednesday night when a crazy man pushed her into the path of an oncoming train. She suffered serious injuries, but survived. Is this good PR, or what?

At least, that's what I assume is happening in this still image provided by CBS, in which the boy wonder touches a "corpse." His look of horror is so intense, you'd think his voice just cracked for the first time.

An 80s' girl band's parent-free overnight frolic turns deadly when nightmarish memories (this is the sequel) turn real, and the rockabilly Driller Killer picks off the girls and their boyfriends. There's tits! there's gore! the killer wears a fringe jacket!

Scary scenes always happen in the bathroom, so it's fitting that the murderous male characters constantly show up in the reflection of the medicine cabinet. Rich from FourFour put this supercut of scary mirror moments together for all to enjoy.

Britain isn't fooling around when it comes to texting while behind the wheel, and a recent PSA attempts to — and does! — drive that point home.

Caroline McCarthy hears a rumor that Zombiecon—the annual New York City "flash mob" that foolishly exalts the greatest menace facing the civilization, the flesh-eating undead—may have a Wall St. theme this year! Because, you know, vast stretches of way-lower Broadway are now hideous, ghoul-filled wastelands, replete with the moaning and lumbering reanimated corpses of various Lehman Brothers and Merrill Lynch employees. So yeah, it's a fun idea—bloody blue Oxfords, stock ticker tape spilling out of abdomens like guts—but it's also dangerous, because, you know, we don't want to be the city that cried "zombie" for when the real war comes. Ah well. What would your Wall Street Zombie costume be?

All this talk about sleepaway camp and the Cropsy Horror has me thinking about scary, scary movies. So, what scenes scared the everloving crap out of you? Here's one that totally did me damage as a youngin. Now show us yours!

This can't possibly end well. [HuffPo]

A remake of the 1974 splatter classic It's Alive-in which a cuddly widdle baby eats everyone!-is coming soon. The trailer was just released at Cannes, so now it's on YouTube, so now it's here. Yay!

OK, so is anyone as creeped out by this trailer for The Strangers as I was? It looks a bit like that Luke Wilson/Kate Beckinsale movie Vacancy, which was actually pretty darn scurrry.

Compounding (and maybe even stealing) our acute grief at the news of Short Circuit Redux, LA Times columnist Jay Fernandez today mulls over the pandemic of horror glutting the marketplace. With this week's release of Prom Night leading the way, Fernandez counts more than a dozen do-overs en route to theaters, including the certain evisceration of classics like Friday the 13th, The Birds and Near Dark; a Stanford professor deigns to comment that audiences can't be bothered to think and dread at the same time, so they take comfort in the familiar. Kind of like Fernandez himself, in a way, who latched on to our Short Circuit distress by reworking our "End of Ideas" tag for a lede ("Smell that? It's the decay of original ideas"), citing stars Steve Guttenberg and Ally Sheedy being "at the height of their powers" (we said they were "in top form") and hitting the 1986 original's IMDB Quotes page to flesh out our mutual concern over Fisher Stevens' garish Indian stereotype. We feel your pain, Jay — but you already knew that, didn't you? [LAT]

I don't know why it took LA Weekly so long to get around to filing the definitive coverage of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion/panel discussion at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, and I don't care. Know why? Cause it's Buffy, mofos! What was shooting "Once More Feeling"-you know, "The Musical Episode"-like? "'I'm gonna go with fun,' says series creator Joss Whedon." He talks just like Xander! "'You guys are remembering this differently,' says James Marsters, who played Spike, the tormented vampire in love with Buffy. 'It was total terror from the cast.'" Love it! But what are their favorite things?