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Zombie apocalypse and a brand new music video!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIXmg2akUOI[/youtube] The creative team from The ScareHouse (an elaborate haunted attraction in Pittsburgh: www.scarehouse.com ) decided to pay homage to our legacy of zombie carnage with a original music video. Music video by Best Friend Fight. Pittsburgh zombies run amok on a brain-eating rampage! Video presented and produced by The ScareHouse, Pittsburgh’s Ultimate haunted house. Choreography by Luanne O’Brien. Additional …

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‘DEAD MOON’ Comic: Joins Horror Vets Jason Craig, Tom Towles and Gia Nova

ANGRY ART PRESS Announces ‘DEAD MOON’ Comic: Project Joins Together Horror Vets Jason Craig, Tom Towles, Gia Nova and More  WARWICK, R.I., Aug. 27 /Angry Art Press/ — This week Angry Art Press released the first promotional art for “Dead Moon,” the premiere comic in a planned horror mini-series created/written by R.A. Dowaliby Jr., with co-writing credits from Jason Craig …

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Film Review: The Bisbee Cannibal Club (2010)

SYNOPSIS: Vegetarians are disappearing from the little town of Bisbee, AZ. When a group of locals discover that their secret hallucinatory cactus garden has been used as a human barbeque and burial site, the existance of Bisbee Cannibals becomes apparent. They form a vigilante gang to avenge their garden, perhaps save a vegetarian or two from being eaten, and have …

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Real Queens Of Scream

A Scream Queen is an actress who has become associated with horror films, either through an appearance in a notable entry in the genre, as a frequent victim, or through constant appearances as the female protagonist. She belongs to the Damsel-In-Distress family of fictional characters. Long before the term was invented, the Scream Queen has always been a classic figure …

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Ray Harryhausen

The most famous animated creature in film history was King Kong (1933), built and manipulated by Willis O’Brien. A decade later O’Brien was working on another giant ape movie called Mighty Joe Young (1946) and hired a young assistant, Ray Harryhausen. During the fifties it became clear that Harryhausen had inherited O’Brien’s mantle as the top stop-motion animator in the …

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The History of Scifi in Horror

Growing up in the 80’s for the most part, I found myself a Horror fan as much as the next kid. My best friend Wally and I joined a local movie-rental club; we would ride our bikes down to the movie place and rent every horror film the guy had. Being 13-14 it was great because he would let us …

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Film Review: 2012 – An Awakening (2009)

SYNOPSIS: The year 2012 is predicted to be one of great change in cultures spanning the globe. A 26,000 year alignment will occur on the 21 December 2012, will it be the end of the world or the end of time as we know it? REVIEW: We are living in a very unique time. Scientists and researchers of various levels …

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Film Review: Held Hostage (2009)

SYNOPSIS: What if the ultimate nightmare is just the beginning? After three masked gunman break into her home, bank manager Michelle Estey (Julie Benz, TV’s Dexter) and her young daughter are duct-taped with explosives and threatened with death unless Michelle cooperates in a daring bank heist. Terrified, Michelle agrees to their demands. She and her daughter are left unharmed, but …

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Film Review: Horror Collectors Set – Vol8 (4 film Set)

Serial killers and supernatural all rolled into one, this volume 8 from Echo Bridge Entertainment brings together 4 previous rentals under one roof with a nice collection of horror titles. Available at Walmart for under $10 (or less), this is a sure way to save some space on your movie shelf and get 4 cool films all at once. Highlights …

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Film Review: 63 Minutes Later (Tokyo Gore Police – spinoff) (2009)

(aka – 63-fun-go) SYNOPSIS: A mad scientist known as Key Man has created a rampaging virus that mutates unsuspecting humans into nightmarish abominations of nature, and in order to dispose of these repulsive monstrosities, the Tokyo police have created a special squad of fearless freak fighters. Chief among these brave officers is Ruka, a sword-swinging dealer of death who has …

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Interview: Ralph Baker as Deadly Earnest

Way back in the sixties, way before Elvira, a favourite amongst Australian students was Deadly Earnest, the television schlock horror host on the 0-10 Network. Late on Friday nights, the atrocious old science fiction and horror films became compulsory viewing, solely because of the gothic Master of Ceremonies. Actors portraying Deadly Earnest were: Ralph Baker (ATV-0 Melbourne); Ian Bannerman (TEN-10 …

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Film Review: Coming Soon (2008)

SYNOPSIS: A young projectionist, Chen, decides to illegally record a newly released horror movie. After falling asleep during the screening, he wakes to find that his co-conspirator has disappeared and left his camera behind. Suddenly, the horror movie that they were watching in the cinema starts to happen to them in real life. REVIEW: Director: Sophon Sakdapisit Cast: Chantawit Tanasaewe, …

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ASIAN SCREAM QUEENS: Jin-hie (Phone)

ABOUT: My name is Jin-hie, although some like to call me disturbed. I like to say I was passionate. I was a schoolgirl from South Korea who was madly in love with a man named Chang-hoon. We shared many special moments together, and he was especially fond of my piano playing. His favorite song was Moonlight Sonata! Even though Chang-hoon …

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The Asian Western

Last week celebrated the American DVD/Blu-ray release of Ji-woon Kim’s The Good, the Bad, the Weird. The film is more or less a remake of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western of a similar name involving three mercenaries in hot pursuit of buried treasure and get caught in the midst of a civil war. Here, it’s 1930s Manchuria and the Imperial Japanese …

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