Laugh-at-the-Law Productions & ShockStar Studios to produce motion picture based on North East Ohio Legend.

“Welcome to Cretonville: Legend of the Melonheads” Lake County, OH productions company, Laugh-at-the-Law Productions Ltd. announced that it will go forward with it’s second feature movie. This one will be based on the Melonheads, a local legend about deformed, murderous creatures who inhabit the woods in the Kirtland, OH area.

“We have wanted to do this movie for awhile. Everybody in Lake and surrounding counties have grown up on stories of the Melonheads. We will be taking several versions of the legend and combining them into a TRUE horror movie, with slasher elements.”

Written and Directed by Brian C Lawlor, this is the second feature in a series titled: the Dark Ritual Series.

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Looks like Fangoria got some pictures from the new Indie flick called Socket. Check out the plot synopsis and the trailer links below.

Synopsis
The film is about a surgeon who is struck by lightning and winds up recovering in his own hospital. There he meets an intern named Craig, who suffered the same natural accident and has developed an appetite for electrical voltage ,and Bill finds he has the same craving. Craig introduces him to an underground group of people who all share this addiction, and Bill comes up with a method of inserting electric sockets and prongs into the members’ wrists so they can "juice up". But after Bill accidentally discovers that he can mainline electricity from living people, he becomes hooked on absorbing this particular kind of power.

If any of you are homophobic in any sort of way (which I would think you are not this day and age) then you might want to stear clear of the trailer.

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Washington, DC (PRWEB) February 27, 2007 — The 9th Annual DC Independent Film Festival (DCIFF) opens Thursday, March 1 with a special tribute to Academy Award Winner Executive Producer John Daly ("Terminator", "Platoon", "The Last Emperor"). Daly will be presented a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the film industry.

In a move to embrace the film industry’s growing interest in fighting global warming, DCIFF is holding all festival activities at one location, accessible by metro, the DC Moving Image Center on the campus of the University of the District of Columbia, 4200 Connecticut Avenue, Auditorium 46. In keeping with one of this year’s festival themes, "Going Green" to advocate carbon-neutral filmmaking, festival organizers are encouraging attendees to help reduce carbon dioxide emissions by riding metro to the event.

One of the premiere festivals for indie films on the East Coast, DCIFF runs 11 days, exhibits over 140 films (features, shorts, animations, documentaries and student) from around the world and features 30 themed film showcases. This year’s showcase themes include Inside Politics/Human Right, Going Green, Black Filmmakers, Cine Latino, Women’s Day, Asian, Life’s Curve Balls, Mediterranean, European, Africa, Jewish, Scary Movies, and Reality Bites/Documentaries, among others. A fifth of the films to be screened are by local DC metro area filmmakers. For some entries, this will be a world premiere. Others have won awards in festivals around the world.

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The Eerie Horror Film Festival has officially opened its call for entries and is currently seeking film, screenplay and video game submissions from all over the world!

If you have a horror, science fiction or suspense themed project, we want to see it !
Filmmakers and Video Game developers take note! The next deadline dates are fast approaching! Save money by entering now.
Video Games should be postmarked by March 1st and Films by March 6th to take advantage of these savings!

Our 2007 guests include Adrienne Barbeau ("The Fog", "Escape from New York", "Swamp Thing"), Dee Wallace Stone ("The Howling", "Cujo", "E.T."), Ken Foree ("Dawn of the Dead", "The Devil’s Rejects"), Leonard Lies ("Dawn of the Dead") and others to be announced in the near future!

The 4th Annual Eerie Horror Film Festival takes place October 10 - 14, 2007 at the Erie Playhouse (13th W. 10th St, Erie, Pa. 16501).
Join us for five solid days of independent horror, science fiction and suspense films!

Submission categories for the 2007 Eerie Horror Film Festival Competition includes:

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Las Vegas (PRWEB) February 26, 2007 — While bigger stars and budgets usually mean box office success and Oscars for Hollywood, PollyStaffle.com chose to honor a low budget film that grossed a little over a million dollars as David Slade’s directorial debut "Hard Candy" was named ‘Best Movie’ with the announcement of the 2007 Polished Apple Awards.

Starring Patrick Wilson and Ellen Page, "Hard Candy" deals with the sensitive topics of pedophilia, revenge killing and internet predators. It does so with no clear cut villain or hero.

"The movie was essentially two people in one room," PollyStaffle.com senior editor Chad Freeman said. "It has no CGI special effects, no big explosions, no nudity and very little blood. But what it does offer is a lot to think about and an extremely intense cinematic experience without being completely humorless, as it easily could have been. ‘Hard Candy’ has been the frontrunner for the Pollies since its theatrical run in April, and ultimately nothing could top it."

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The New York International Independent Film and Video Festival (NYIIFVF) proudly return to Los Angeles, March 1-8, for its bi-annual showcase of the latest independent films from around the globe. The NYIIFVF begins its celebrations along with The New York International Art Festival (NYIAF) with a film/art market and networking party at the Grand Ballroom in the Bel Age Hotel on March 1st from 8pm-Midnight. Film screenings will take place exclusively at the legendary Laemmle Sunset 5 Theatre, located in the heart of the sunset strip in West Hollywood from March 2-8. Celebrities expected throughout the 8-day extravaganza of films and parties include actress Brittany Daniels (Basketball Diaries), Ted Lange (Loveboat) and talented character actor Burt Young (Rocky Balboa) who will be unveiling his artwork.

NYIIFVF, known as "the voice of independent film," will showcase 100 films from more than 15 countries and will host filmmakers, delegates, press, distributors, indie film lovers and celebrities. NYIIFVF, passionate about exposing the work of emerging filmmakers from all over the globe, is "the place to have your projects seen and reviewed by the best of the best", comments editor Dave Sardella (Micro Cinema Magazine). "This world-renowned festival can be the launching pad to a successful career for aspiring directors, producers, and musicians."

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In an opening sequence reminiscent of (and indeed homage to) Mario Bava’s La Maschera del Demonio, we see a coach ride into remote mist laden woodland, carrying two elder gentlemen and a young woman passenger (Julissa del Llano - later seen alongside Karloff in La Muerte Viviente and The Fear Chamber). The coach is met in the road by the eerie figure of a hollow eyed, raven haired woman, swathed in black and flanked by three large Great Dane hounds.

As the coach comes to a halt, the woman, Selma (Rita Macedo), orders her accompanying henchman, Juan (Carlos López Moctezuma later seen in La Horripilante Bestia Humana), to kill the coach driver and sets loose the hounds to ravage the passengers, the runaway coach crushing the female passenger under wheel.

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Ok, I have finally seen the unrated version of Nick Palumbo’s MURDER SET PIECES and can somewhat understand the outrage that people have felt because of this movie’s brutal and very graphic content. There are two sides to this movie. Either you support it or you try and tear it up with bad press and negative reviews. I honestly have to say that I fall on the supporters’ side and sincerely agree that Hollywood has totally glamorized serial killers and the mass destruction that they cause. Films like NATURAL BORN KILLERS have turned the tables and have made hideous crimes become this twisted freak show to follow and cheer on the killers as they savagely murder each victim. In the marketplace, there are everything from serial killers t-shirts and calendars to buttons and coffee mugs that you can buy, wear proudly and drink from to display your favorite serial killer and their despicable acts. But is this ok?

The movie MURDER SET PIECES puts the fear back in you and reminds you that these very real human victims are dying - and it’s painful, it’s final, and they don’t get up and walk away after the scene is over. They’re fuckin’ really dead. The film shows the viewer the work of a Vegas serial killer. You see the rage, you see rape, you see total mutilation and then you see another almost never touched taboo: kids. Kids get hurt too, just like in real life. I am sorry, but this no-holds-barred movie reminds us of things that are usually out of sight and out of mind. It’s about time someone put the HORROR back in movies to give people a nice slap back to reality that this shit really happens. People need to keep their guards up and not be so trusting and naive of others. Not all killers foam at the mouth and most do not visibly stand out like a sore thumb in a crowd.

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The fascination with the subject matter of "pornographic" death on film and the concept of "snuff" movies is something that since it's coined phrase in the 1970's has seeped beyond the realms of horror cinema and anti-porn feminist fairytales, to become the stuff of everyday urban legend.

From Michael Powell's 1960 classic, Peeping Tom, or the numerous Mondo movies of the 1960's, through American Grindhouse pics such as Snuff or Last House on a Dead End Street, to the infamous Italian exploitation movies Cannibal Holocaust and Emanuelle in America. Building underground notoriety with Japan's Guinea Pig: Devil's Experiment and Flower of Flesh & Blood, to more widely seen films such as Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and mainstream efforts such as Paul Schrader's Hardcore and Joel Schumacher's 8mm, through European films like Man Bite's Dog, Tesis and Britain's The Last Horror Movie, followed by more recent "extreme" indie films such as Fred Vogel's August Underground and Mordum, or Japan's Psycho: The Snuff Reels and Muzan-e, "Snuff" is a topic that has often reared its ugly head and refuses to go away.

The latest entry into this cinematic realm is Director / Writer / Producer / Actor, Shane Ryan's Amateur Porn Star Killer. A film that although having a provocative and by the throat exploitation title, isn't truly a work of out and out exploitation cinema, nor it doesn't fall comfortably into the bracket of horror, although undoubtedly it will be horror & exploitation film fans that will check it out first.

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We have a new interview for all you freaks!! We check in to see how SIKO MIKE is doing with his new film currently in the beginning stages, Cannibal Farm.

Cannibal Farm is a splatstick disgusting gorefest that brings back the horror and insanity from films such as TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE,BLOOD FEAST,TWO-THOUSAND MANIACS,and THE HILLS HAVE EYES. This film is about 8 college friends on their way to country fest in Nashville Tennessee when they accidentally take a detour down a dirt country road in Greensboro North Carolina where a young country boy on a motorcycle flys out in front of them leaving a horrifying accident.

Read more about the film and check out the interview below

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Everyone love a little bit of gore in the morning. Heres the Clip of the Day!

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Variety reports that “Saw 2″ and “Saw 3″ director Darren Lynn Bousman will work with Lionsgate Pictures once again on “Repo! The Genetic Opera.” The film is based on an original story by co-composers and screenwriters Terrance Zdunich and Darren Smith.

According to the trade, the story takes place in the future when an epidemic of organ failures has taken over the planet and scientists gear for a massive organ harvest. A biotech giant comes up with easy organ payment plans, but all financed organs are subject to legal default, including repossession at the hands of repo men.

Today, Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures announced today that Darren Lynn Bousman (“Saw II” and “Saw III”) is back to direct “Saw IV”. Aussies James Wan and Leigh Whannell will merely be executive producers on the next chapter.

“Saw IV” is slated to begin shooting April 16 for six weeks and will be released domestically and internationally October 26, 2007.

Added Bousman, “It’s not often that a filmmaker is given the opportunity to follow a genuinely compelling character through two films, much less three. So I’m very excited about picking up the reins on ‘Saw IV,’ and delving even deeper into the Jigsaw legend.”

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Anchor Bay Entertainment will re-release the original Phantasm on April 10th. The horror film arrives as part of the “Anchor Bay Collection” with a new anamorphic widescreen transfer, DTS 5.1, Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo audio tracks.

Extras include an audio commentary with director Don Coscarelli and stars Michael Baldwin, Angus Scrimm and Bill Thornbury, deleted scenes, the 2005 feature-length documentary “Phantasmagoria,” behind-the-scenes and “Actors Having A Ball” featurettes, 1979 promotional interviews, 1989 Angus Scrimm Convention Appearance, trailers and TV spots, including a 1988 Fangoria TV commercial.

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The green fluorescent hypodermic. The headless corpse fumbling for its head. A naked damsel in distress. What happens when you mix all these elements together with the horrific imagination of H.P. Lovecraft and the terrifying visions of Director Stuart Gordon? Anchor Bay Entertainment, a leading provider of horror entertainment programming, announces the return of one of the seminal horror films of the 1980’s with the March 20, 2007 release of the H.P. Lovecraft’s Re-Animator 2-disc Limited Edition DVD. The release also inaugurates the “Anchor Bay Collection” brand, a label specially created to present ultimate DVD editions of Anchor Bay’s classic library titles.

The H.P. Lovecraft’s Re-Animator Limited Edition DVD is housed in a compelling package with newly created artwork and contains a collectible “Re-Animator” syringe-shaped highlighter! Only 50,000 copies will be run and when they’re gone, we can’t “reanimate” them! SRP is $24.98 and pre-book is February 7th.

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