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Zombies Find The Cure
Wednesday | December 03rd, 2008 | 7:31 am | Posted by BrianK | No Comments
Zombie Extras Respond to The Cure By Brian Kirst. Photos by Coye Vega.
“Any excuse to be a zombie is a good one!” – Nora O’Sullivan
On Sunday, November 23rd, steps away from Chicago’s historic Hideout on Wabansia, the undead walked again! Shout outs on Facebook and Craig’s List brought between 20 and 30 joyous horror lovers together to help liven up (as the walking dead) film student Aaron Willett’s The Cure.
In attendance were Willett’s friends, fellow students, random zombie lovers and…
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Brian Defferding - Deathly Deftoons Deals!
Monday | December 01st, 2008 | 6:31 am | Posted by BrianK | No Comments
Brian Defferding and Deftoons: Getting Schooled in Devilish Holiday Deals. By Brian Kirst
www.deftoons.com
For all you fans of the intriguing, artful horror comic School featuring Lindsay, the coolest female to ever dominate jaggedly haunted cartoon-ville, creator-illustrator Brian Defferding has a sweet deal going down. He is selling 16’’ by 20’’ prints of School characters and scenes on high quality paper with black matting on manilla board – just in time for stocking stuffing! Defferding has created eight spooky scenes (a couple featured…
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REVIEW: [REC] (2007)
Saturday | November 29th, 2008 | 11:42 am | Posted by ShuTang | No Comments
[REC] (2007): Reviewed by BRYAN SCHUESSER
Directors Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza made a Spanish film in the style that The Blair Witch Project, Cloverfield, and Quarantine (which is the U.S. remake of the film in review). All three of the aforementioned films made me nauseous. The shaky camera and in-focus/out-of-focus lensing drove me nuts, gave me a headache, and forced me to take “breaks” during the viewing of all three films. Now, with that viewpoint in mind, I still liked [REC] immensely. I…
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Sci-Fi Remakes Coming
Wednesday | November 26th, 2008 | 7:38 am | Posted by DrGore | 1 Comment
Hollywood, Back to the Future: Top filmmakers have already dipped into the sci-fi vault for 21st century remakes of “The War of the Worlds,” “The Planet of the Apes” and the upcoming “The Day the Earth Stood Still,” so what’s next on the revival list? Plenty. Here’s a list of a dozen remakes and revival projects now at various stages in the studio pipeline.
“When Worlds Collide”
Steven Spielberg is one of the producers and Stephen Sommers (“The Mummy,” “Van Helsing”), infamous…
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The Angry Sea
Monday | November 24th, 2008 | 12:22 pm | Posted by DrGore | No Comments
So, lets put the creepy and scary back into horror huh!
Check out this trailer for The Angry Sea. Its a dark and rather creepy tale of some people on a ship in the 1800’s. Further more this is an indie flick, but from the looks of the trailer, the production value is top notch. Even with a limited budget, and limited resources, Keith Wong and his crew have put together a supernatural flick that is believable.
Check out the film synopsis,…
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Go Green With Dr. Gangrene
Monday | November 24th, 2008 | 10:15 am | Posted by DrGore | No Comments
New Valiant Nominated For An Emmy
Cameron McCasland Gets A Nod For Writing
Nashville, TN (11.21.08) New Valiant Productions “Trash Day Of The Dead” from the “Go Green With Dr. Gangrene” campaign has been nominated for an Emmy by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, at the 23rd Annual Midsouth Emmy Awards.
“Trash Day Of The Dead” Writer & Director Cameron McCasland was nominated for writing in the “Advanced Media Writing” category announced earlier this evening at The BMI headquarters on…
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Sweet Sister
Monday | November 24th, 2008 | 7:36 am | Posted by DrGore | No Comments
ARCHSTONE PICTURES, with offices in Los Angeles, California, and Austin, Texas, in association with Austin, Texas-based DREAMSTREAM ENTERTAINMENT, announce the start of pre-production the film, “Sweet Sister”.
Principle photography is scheduled to begin mid winter. The psychological thriller will be filmed on location in Austin, TX, and Los Angeles, CA.
Austin resident Michael Slifkin is slated to produce the feature along with Los Angeles based producer Scott Martin. Screenwriting team Dan’l Terry and Randi Leigh Potenzo of Austin are slated to direct.…
