Not exactly horror/sci-fi news, but we'll venture into other cool news from time to time and we know many of you are excited about seeing The Dark Knight Rises. In case you missed it, a viral campaign has started for the new movie, similar the Joker reveal in The Dark Knight campaign.

The official website for The Dark Knight Rises opened today with a chanting audio file. After fans went through the audio, they grabbed a Twitter hash tag and unlocked the first photo of Tom Hardy as Bane by re-tweeting a page link.

The Dark Knight Rises is currently filming and will be released on July 20, 2012. The film stars Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gary Oldman, Anne Hathaway and Michael Caine.

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