Old news (May - Agust 2009) 31st August 2009
New drama explores Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
James Price of Pixie Films dropped me a line about his debut feature Shell Shock which was screened at the London Independent Film Festival earlier this year. "Shell Shock tells the story of an ex-serviceman who we find wandering the neon streets of Tokyo. After receiving an honourable discharge, and a medal for gallantry, he attempts to find peace in an alien land, far from the horrors of war. With many of our Armed Forces returning from Iraq, and serving in Afghanistan, it is a current and relevant topic that seeks to highlight Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a condition that robs the sufferers and their families of a normal life.” Shell Shock stars Robert Whitelock (The Haunted Airman, Ghostboat, Colditz) and is currently making the rounds of other festivals. 31st August 2009
DVD collection seeks horror shorts
PR: The Nightmare Collection is nearing completion on a follow-up to its popular Indie horror shorts compilation series which saw Volume 1 hit the market to positive reviews. The DVD is a collection of some of the best horror shorts from around the world. They are introduced by a unique character called, Necro Nancy, played by the talented and beautiful actress/model Krista Grotte. The Nightmare Collection Volume 1 DVD easily brought plenty of bang for the buck to the table as not only did it house almost two hours of horror shorts alone, but each film had a slew of additional materials such as Audio Commentary, Photo Galleries, Behind the Scenes Footage and so much more. There was also some Necro Nancy Behind the Scenes material including a prequel comic that told the story of how her character came to be and left off where the DVD picks up. Enigma Films is well into production with Volume 2 and looks to take the series to a whole new level. This time out Nancy is hitting the road with each scene providing a new location, set up and victim. A couple of the horror shorts to be included on the upcoming DVD are already being secured but Enigma Films is looking for a couple more films to add to the mix. If you have a quality horror short you'd like to have included on The Nightmare Collection Volume 2 DVD, or know of one you think would be a great fit, then you need to contact Rick Danford at rick@enigma-films.com as soon as possible. The Nightmare Collection series is a wonderful way to get you and your film the exposure you need as well as allow you to bring the whole film experience to life with added features for each film. For more information on the Nightmare Collection series make sure to check out the Official web site at www.nightmarecollection.com.  31st August 2009
British vampire film Dead Cert set to shoot
Producer Jonathan Sothcott sent me this groovy advance poster for Dead Cert, his forthcoming vampire film which he describes as “a modern version of Dracula.” Directed by Steve Lawson (not this one), the film is set to star Craig Fairbrass (Proteus, Darklands), Billy Murray (Doghouse), Coralie Rose (who was in a Sea of Souls two-parter), Phil Davis (Alien3, Howling 5), Lisa McAllister (Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes), Calum McNab and Jennifer Matter.
Sothcott’s Black and Blue Films is turning into a regular movie factory. Already completed are Lawson’s film-making mockumentary Just for the Record (with McAllister, Murray, Davis, McNab, Danny Dyer, Craig Fairbrass, Colin Salmon, Steven Berkoff, Sean Pertwee, Triana Terry and Rik Mayall) and Martin Kemp-directed video nasty remake Expose (with Matter, Murray, Salmon, Terry, Jane March and Linda Hayden). Lined up to shoot after Dead Cert is zombie epic The Devil’s Playground (with Fairbrass, McAllister, Berkoff, Dyer and Murray). Both films will feature make-up effects by Neill Gorton. Sothcott is also prepping Gunned Down (with Fairbrass, Dyer, Murray and Berkoff) and The Manor (with Fairbrass, Dyer, Pertwee, Terry and Murray). It’s quite a rep company he’s got going there! 31st August 2009
Kung Fu Flid on DVD (sort of)
Kung Fu Flid is getting a proper UK release, although the title has been changed to the more politically correct Unarmed but Dangerous. The publicity calls the film “a brand new indie Britflick that mixes violent martial arts action with the brutal gangster movie conventions of Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels and The Long Good Friday” and “an uncompromisingly violent action-thriller that never pulls its punches, especially in its depiction of bloody combat and torture, and featuring an action hero unlike any other.” Released on 21st September by Anchor Bay, the DVD costs £12.99 (although Amazon has it for eight quid) and includes a Making Of featurette. “The maddest film I have ever seen,” says professional geezer Danny Dyer, “it’s the business!” 31st August 2009
More Hammer guests at FFF
Two Hammer veterans have been added to the guest line-up at the Festival of Fantastic Films. John Carson was in Taste the Blood of Dracula, Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter and Plague of the Zombies (and The Night Caller!). John Hough directed Twins of Evil - as well as The Legend of Hell House, Watcher in the Woods and the two original Witch Mountain films. The 20th FFF runs over 16th-18th October 2009 in Manchester - don’t miss it. 27th August 2009
Brain Damage brings Prey for the Beast to UK!
Brett Kelly’s monster movie Prey for the Beast is to get a UK release in a few weeks as part of the first batch of films from Brain Damage UK. Six titles currently available in the States on Darrin Ramage’s eclectic DVD label will hit UK shops on 21st September, priced at an incredible £2.99. (Rather brilliantly, Amazon is offering them at a massively discounted £2.98!) The other titles are Sean Tretta’s Death of a Ghost Hunter, Stefan Peczelt and Elmar Weihsmann’s Silent Blood Night, Steve Franke’s Serum, Ryan Badalamenti’s Secrets of the Clown and Francis Xavier DeGennaro’s Torture Me No More. It takes a label like Brain Damage to come up with five titles that even I have never heard of!   
  
27th August 2009
Conor Timmis in HP Lovecraft feature
Conor Timmis dropped me a line to let me know a little - just a little - about his latest acting role: “I'm thrilled to announce that i've scored a bit part in the HP Lovecraft Historical Society’s highly anticipated Lovecraft feature The Whisperer in Darkness. Under a confidentiality agreement so that's all I can say. They have set up a production blog here.” The HPLHS are the folks who made that critically acclaimed silent version of The Call of Cthulhu a few years back. Whisperer will be similarly antique-looking but in sound and ‘Mythoscope’! There’s a trailer on YouTube. 27th August 2009
Ghost Keeper director blogs new film
Jim Makichuk (Ghost Keeper) is developing a new film, Travel Day, and he has started documenting the long, laborious process on his new blog. Jim plans to produce with hot talent Shirley Petchprapa directing (here's her website). Take a look at Jim’s blog and leave a comment. Here’s the synopsis: Travel Day is the story of an ageing actress who was once one of the many sex symbols of the late 60's and early 70's and is now relegated to smaller roles. The premise of the screenplay is a "travel day", that time given to actors and crew to reach a distant location. The story focuses on one such day that began with our ageing star reluctantly travelling with a bit-part actor and a teamster driver in a large 15 passenger van heading to a location in a remote area far from any city. The odd couple threesome have little to say to each other and in some ways, worlds apart. The star clings onto her gift basket and wine and offers nothing in the way of conversation. Then they meet a young girl, hitchhiking in a frozen wilderness. 27th August 2009
Psychosomatic director starts work on Masterpiece!
News from Feral Generation producer Neil Jones: “Burn Hand Film Productions latest feature Masterpiece is currently being filmed in South Wales. Written and Directed by Barry film-maker Andrew C Tanner, Masterpiece is the tale of Martin, a struggling writer who starts writing his first novel. However his Masterpiece leads him and those around him down a path of darkness, despair and violence. His Masterpiece could make him, or ultimately break him. This is Tanner’s second feature, his first was the critically acclaimed Psychosomatic. Producing is Neil Jones and the film stars Mark Paul Wake (Mr Self Destruct), Sarah-Louise Tyler (High Stakes, Dreaming of Screaming) and Satellite City’s Boyd Clack. The film is on course for a release in 2010." 27th August 2009
Stuck! sneak preview in Oslo
Steve Balderson's superb new women-in-prison film Stuck! will have a sneak preview screening at Skeive Filmer in Oslo, Norway, on Sunday 27th September at 7pm. Skeive Filmer is of course the 19th Oslo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Details of the actual world premiere will be announced on 1st September. 18th August 2009
Danny Draven’s how-to book
The latest project from Danny Draven (Ghost Month) isn’t a movie, it’s a book on making movies - The Filmmaker's Book of the Dead: How to Make Your Own Heart Racing Horror Film. Draven has directed six features including Hell Asylum and DeathBed and he’s been an editor on numerous others. His new book, to be published by Focal Press in January 2010, has an introduction by Charles Band and includes, as well as Danny’s insights, tips from the likes of Stuart Gordon, Tom Savini, Lloyd Kaufman, Robert Kurtzman, David DeCoteau, Debbie Rochon and many other horror movie luminaries. From the history of horror and the technique of the scare to pre-production and distribution, this complete, full-color guide to horror filmmaking uncovers all the insider secrets for creating your own successful movie. Sharing his personal filmmaking experience, Draven reveals how to create a spine-tingling horror film from start to finish. You'll not only discover how to craft the story, but also how to master using production techniques, music, lighting and editing to thrill audiences. Straight-from-the-set tips will help you avoid common filmmaking pitfalls, and extensive information on marketing and distribution will show you how to get your film out to the public. An accompanying website will feature: - Behind-the-scenes footage from Ghost Month, Cryptz, Darkwalker and Deathbed
- A collection of independent horror film trailers
- Sample scripts, schedules and agreements
- Classic behind-the-scenes footage from Puppetmaster, Blood Dolls, Dead Hate the Living and more courtesy of Full Moon Features
- Listing of horror film festivals and distributors
The Filmmaker's Book of the Dead is available for pre-order from Amazon for a kibblesworth under thirty bucks. 
18th August 2009
Summer Scars UK DVD
Julian Richards' coming-of-age thriller Summer Scars comes to DVD in the UK on 28th September, courtesy of Soda Pictures. Amazon has the disc on pre-order for nine quid. The film has also been released in Germany, Spain, the USA and Thailand. 4th August 2009
BDT poster!
Check it out: the first poster for Bordello Death Tales, the absolutely most eagerly awaited British horror film this year. As first announced last October, this is an anthology of three shorts directed by Pat Higgins (The Devil’s Music, KillerKiller), Alan Ronald (Jesus vs the Messiah) and Jim Eaves (The Witches Hammer, Bane). The stellar cast includes Higgins regular Cy Henty, Eleanor James (Colour from the Dark, HellBride), Julian Lamoral-Roberts (who was in Johannes Roberts’ disturbing F), Danielle Laws (who was in both Lesbian Vampire Killers and Doghouse!), Nick Rendell (Sudden Fury, A Day of Violence), Natalie Milner (HellBride), Fay Baker and Stuart Gregory. This absolutely terrific poster was designed by Dave Birch. 
4th August 2009
Live Evil theatrical release
Slime City Massacre star Lee Perkins reports on a couple of his other films: “Monogram Releasing is sending Live Evil out on a limited theatrical release on 300 screens in select markets starting Friday, September 18th, 2009. This will be followed by a DVD release on Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 along with a VOD release that same day. Also Anchor Bay is releasing Edges of Darkness on DVD on Sept. 22nd, 2009. The film had its UK TV premiere late last year on Zone Horror and there are different posters flying around. ‘So many zombies...so little time!’ is a new tag line that kind of sums up this fun pic.” 4th August 2009
Slime City Massacre wraps
Production has wrapped on Greg Lamberson’s Slime City Massacre. The film shot for 19 days at various locations in Buffalo, New York, including an abandoned postal facility adjacent to the dormant Central Terminal Station. The film stars Jennifer Bihl, horror author Kealan Patrick Burke, Debbie Rochon, Lee Perkins, and Slime City veterans Robert C Sabin, Mary Bogle, TJ Merrick, and Dick Biel. Brooke Lewis and Tommy Sweeney provide additional support. Slime City Massacre is set in the ruins of midtown Manhattan seven years after a dirty bomb decimates the financial district. Four squatters discover a supply of ‘Himalayan yogurt and ‘Zachary Devon’s Home Brewed Elixir.’ The concoctions turn each survivor into a slime oozing monster compelled to murder as they are possessed by the spirits of cultists who committed suicide decades earlier. Sabin appears as Zachary in flashbacks and Bogle returns as her Slime character, now called ‘Swan.’ “Slime City Massacre is loaded with old school latex effects and newfangled CGI,” Lamberson says, “although the SFX crew used silicone, not latex. There’s a lot of action and gore, and references to other 1980s splatter flicks abound. Lloyd Kaufman and Roy Frumkes generously flew here on their own dime to participate. Lloyd has a cameo at the beginning of the film which should get things off to a good start, and Roy has a more substantial role as a greedy developer who hires mercenaries to wipe out the homeless people in Slime City.” Phil Gallo, who composed the score for Mother’s Day, will now edit the film, which will be scored by the composer known as Mars. Giasone and Marcy Italiano, who created the Gruesome CD based on Lamberson’s novel Johnny Gruesome, are recording a theme song. RJ Sevin and Arick Sczymecki are handling CGI. And Stephen Romano (Shock Festival) is creating the visuals for the title sequence. Lamberson, whose novel Personal Demons will be out in paperback come October 1st, plans to complete the film by the end of this year. Lee Perkins sent me these photos of himself, pre- and post-slime and also a YouTube link to an interview he did on set.  
4th August 2009
3D Nosferatu premieres at Whitby Stoker fest
The Creative Cow website has a load of articles about 3D stuff, including a feature by Chris Heuer on how he turned the 1922 classic Nosferatu into his new 3D opus Orlok the Vampire. The film has been re-edited by director Keith Carter with a new score and sound effects while Heuer has actually rotoscoped key scenes by hand to produce the 3D image. The DVD will include two pairs of glasses and will have an introduction by Lloyd Kaufman but before then you can see the film’s world premiere at the Bram Stoker Film Festival in Whitby in October. The festival also screens Colour from the Dark and the world premiere of Brett Anstey’s Damned by Dawn. 4th August 2009
Peter and Nanna
Jack Doyle sent me a link to the trailer for Peter and Nanna, a 50-minute black comedy which he shot in Stockport: “We had the one and only screening of it in Manchester last year and Eileen Daly came up to sing a few songs before the screening.” Jack has now directed a couple of music videos for top beat combo ‘Eileen Daly and the Courtesans’ which will be online shortly. 23rd July 2009
New Steve Balderson trailer
Check out the brand new trailer for Stuck!, Steve Balderson’s forthcoming WIP movie. This looks like a departure for Steve but I’m not expecting it to be anything less than great. Stuck! is director Steve Balderson’s homage to film noir women-in-prison films. Faithfully re-producing the genre with a modern, tongue-in-cheek twist, expect all the hallmarks of a classic prison movie complete with a wrongly accused heroine, hard boiled dames, diabolical alliances, forbidden love, cat-fighting cuties, a sadistic warden, and corrupt prison guards. Stuck! stars Karen Black, Mink Stole, Susan Traylor, Jane Wiedlin, Stacy Cunningham, Starina Johnson and Pleasant Gehman. It’s the story of Daisy, an innocent young woman framed for killing her mother. Condemned by the press and the public, Daisy is found guilty of murder and sentenced to die by hanging. This jazzy, finger-snapping, broads-behind-bars film is a throwback to another era, with terse Tennessee Williams-style verbal sparring, non-stop action and enough bad-girl jailhouse hi-jinks to make the audience lose the distinction between good and evil. Watch exclusive video blogs, check out the bra of the month, and see the first images from the set at www.STUCKnoir.com 23rd July 2009
Doghouse in DeathRay
The current issue of DeathRay (issue 20, with Harry Potter on the cover) includes my four-page feature on Doghouse in which I interview Jake West and Emily Booth. 23rd July 2009
Jim Haggerty films released by Tempe
On 22nd September, Tempe release two films directed by Jim Haggerty (I Dream of Dracula, The Slasher): Grave Danger: Beautiful and perky Becky is home alone one dark night watching horror movies on TV when she becomes the victim of a madman terrorizing her with frightening phone calls. Soon, Becky is embroiled in a deadly game of one-upmanship as she and the caller trade titillating and terrifying tales of voodoo-possessed housewives, deadly ventriloquist dummies and omni-present watchers. Cathy St. George (Playboy Video Playmate Review 2), Vic Martino (The Sopranos) and Kaye Bramblett (Squeeze Play) star in a chilling, sexy and darkly comic anthology from underground horror maven Jim Haggerty! Witchmaster General: Phil Lewis of the legendary rock band L.A. Guns plays the charming but menacing Dr. Phineas Gorgon, an evil witch-doctor who uses his wicked powers - as well as his close relationship with Satan himself - in terrifying murder-for-hire schemes. Unfaithful wives, disloyal friends, a double-crossing boss... they can all go away for just the price of your soul! Scream queen Suzi Lorraine (Spiderbabe), Vic Martino (The Sopranos) and centerfold Colleen Marie (Playboy Video Playmate Calendar 2005) star in this titillating and terrifying tale of the supernatural from director Jim Haggerty! 23rd July 2009
First FFF films announced
The Festival of Fantastic Films has confirmed the first batch of new films to be shown at this year’s FFF. Titles include the UK premier of Night of the Living Dead 3D, acclaimed German movie Virus Undead, Japanese splatterfest Meatball Machine and a double bill of Coffin Joe movies: At Midnight I Will Take Your Soul and Embodiment Of Evil. The festival runs over 16th-18th October in Manchester. 23rd July 2009
I Spit on Your Rave
I don’t profess to understand this. I Spit on Your Rave is, apparently, “a mockumentary by director Chris Boyle about the first post-apocalypse zombie music festival” currently being produced by Film4 and Warp Films. They want to film a scene at something called The Big Chill which must be some sort of pop festival, featuring the bloke out of The Mighty Boosh and lots of extras, all in zombie make-up. I’m at least twenty years too old to understand anything in the press release except the word ‘zombie’ but if this makes any sense to you, find out more here. Oh, it’s on 6th August. 11th July 2009
Damned by Dawn - at last!
Damned by Dawn, the long-awaited debut feature from Aussie film-maker Brett Anstey, has its world premiere in Melbourne on 12th August. It’s at ACMI Cinema 2, Federation Square; doors open 7.30pm for a 7.45pm kick-off; and it’s free! You can find out all about the movie at www.damnedbydawnmovie.com and you can watch the absolutely terrific trailer on YouTube. I’m really excited about this one. 11th July 2009
Gorezone weekender films announced
The Gorezone Magazine International Film Festival runs in London over 31st October and 1st November, hosted by Suzi Lorraine and the ubiquitous Emily Booth. Films lined up include Michael Emanuel’s Maneater, Jack Messit’s Midnight Movie, Geoff Klein’s Bikini Girls on Ice, Sean Cain’s Silent Night Zombie Night, Timothy Gates’ Dog, Chad Ferrin’s Someone’s Knocking at the Door, Craig McMahon’s The Crypt, Andrew van den Houten’s Offspring, David Gregory’s Plague Town, Nicholas Carpenter’s The Telling, Brian Pulido’s The Graves, Sofian Khan’s Holocaust Holocaust and Hyung-gon Lee’s The Fox Family. Messit, Gates, Klein, and Khan will all be in attendance along with assorted cast members. Other highlights include (ahem): “Russel Brands Ex- Georgina Baillie and her Satanic Sluts hit the stage Halloween to break in the Demon spirits to Marilyn Manson's 'Sweet Dreams' as performed on the Britney Spears 'Circus Tour'. and (ahem) “Music Video babe Zara Phythian whose featured on the new Dtox music video is to perform an all out action fight scene in a Bikini while fighting off 12 zombies to Tatu's latest track 'Snowfalls (Pouring snow)'.” Get yer tickets here. 11th July 2009
Lindenmuth and Kelly team up for vampire film
Kevin J Lindenmuth tells me he has written a vampire script for the recently married Brett Kelly which goes into production in August. It’s called Blood Red Moon and Kevin sums it up as “sort of a spoof of Twilight, with its own twist.” 11th July 2009
Cushing’s The Lost online
Neil Jones’ film The Lost is sort of Peter Cushing’s last credit in that it uses (with permission) an audio recording of a poem that he did in his later years. If you want to check it out, Neil has made the film available as a free stream on Vimeo - but just for July. 5th July 2009
Director seeks American-looking beach house in England
Tristan Versluis is gearing up to direct his first feature this summer and he’s looking for a suitable location somewhere on the coast. Tristan says: “This would be an American looking beach house along the coastline of England. Either along the cliffs or right on the beach itself. I’m looking for something that is not English in its style of build, a small house/hut/beach house that could pass as being American. But it needs to be a small isolated style holiday cabin, not a fancy LA style beach house.” If you can offer a suitable building or know of one whose owners might be amenable to letting Tris film there, contact him at trissirt@mac.com. (And he assures me that he will complete his long-awaited short film Pixel before starting production on the feature.) 5th July 2009
Action flicks and seminar in Notting Hill
Radius Pictures have two pictures playing at the Notting Hill Film Festival which starts this week. Bodyguard: A New Beginning is on at 7pm on Friday 10th July, Underground is on at 7.30pm on Saturday 11th July and both have several repeats screenings. In addition, the guys from the Action Extreme DVD label which distributes both titles will be presenting a seminar on ‘How to Make a Fight Film’ at 10.30am on Saturday 11th July “with a host of fight co-ordinators and actors showing the tricks of the trade “ The festival also features screenings of Summer Scars and Johnny Kevorkian’s The Disappeared. 5th July 2009
FrightFest films announced
Best Worst Movie and Colin are among the panoply of films from around the world screening at this year’s Film4 Frightfest. The former is the documentary’s UK premiere and represents, I believe, the public’s first ever chance to see Yours Truly on the big screen! World premieres include Christopher Smith’s Triangle, Federico Zampaglione’s Shadow, Tom Six’s The Human Centipede (First Sequence), Rupert Glasson’s Coffin Rock, Adam Gierasch’s remake of Night of the Demons, Warren A Speed and Steve O’Brien’s Zombie Women of Satan, Jon Harris’ The Descent: Part 2, Dominic Perez’s Evil Things, Andrew Miles’ Fragment, Joseph Rusnak’s remake of It’s Alive, Paul Davis’ documentary Beware the Moon: Remembering An American Werewolf in London and a brand new, digitally restored print of AAWIL itself. UK premieres include Dave Parker’s The Hills Run Red, Kyle Rankin’s Infestation (starring Brooke Nevin!), the MO Brothers’ Macabre, Lee Demabre’s Smash Cut, Gabe Ibanez’s Hierro, Niels Arden Oplev’s Millennium: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Michael Dougherty’s Trick ‘r Treat, Yoshihiro Nishimura and Naoyuki Tomomatsu’s Vampire Girl vs Frankenstein Girl, Tommy Wirkola’s Dead Snow, Clive Barker’s Dread, Ti West’s The House of the Devil, Christian Alvert’s Case 39, Philip Ridley’s Heartless, Sean Donnelly’s I Think We’re Alone Now and Pierre Laffargue’s Black. Other films screening include Steven Kastissios’ The Horseman, Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher’s The Horde, Dario Argento’s Giallo, Glenn McQuaid’s I Sell the Dead - starring Larry Fessenden and Angus Scrimm - and Bruce McDonald’s Pontypool. 29th June 2009
Doghouse screening, Q&A and piss-up
If you haven’t yet seen Doghouse (or even if you have), you can catch a special screening at the Prince Charles Cinema off Leicester Square this Thursday 2nd July at 6.20pm. Jake West will introduce the film and will take part in a Q&A afterwards with founder of Frightfest Paul McEvoy. Tickets are just a fiver (or £3.50 if you’re a ‘member’ of the cinema). And afterwards, everyone will pile over to the Phoenix Artist Club on Charing Cross Road which is open until 2am! 29th June 2009
Ghost Month DVD signing
Danny Draven’s Ghost Month is released on R1 DVD on 21st July and if you can wait until 1st August there’s a signing event at Dark Delicacies in Burbank. Danny will be there along with Jojo Draven (producer/composer/wife) plus actors Marina Resa, Rick Irvin, Akiko Shima and Jerod Edington. Dark Delicacies is at 4213 W. Burbank and the signing kicks off at 2pm. 29th June 2009
Simon Rumley shooting new feature
My old mate Simon Rumley (Strong Language, The Living and the Dead) dropped me a line to announce that he is currently shooting his new feature in Austin, Texas of all places. Red, White and Blue is described as a ‘slacker revenge movie’ and is executive produced by Tim League, co-director of Fantastic Fest where The Living and the Dead won five awards last year. Erica (Amanda Fuller, who was in a Frankenstein video game and two episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) lives rent-free in the local co-op, but spends her nights trawling the bars and beds of Austin. Damaged, emotionally withdrawn, never really connecting with anyone, and sleeping with multiple men is just what she does… until she meets the older and mysterious Nate (Noah Taylor: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, both Lara Croft films), working in a hardware store, but with an “honorable discharge” from Iraq. Despite his quiet air of danger, Nate’s the only guy who doesn’t seem to want to get her into bed at the first opportunity, and the two form a hesitant bond. But one of Erica’s casual sexual encounters is about to bite back. Franki (Marc Senter: Timecop 2, The Lost) is a young, hot-headed wannabe rock star trying to make it big. Looking after a sick mother and estranged from his longterm girlfriend, he “shared” Erica with his buddies one drunken evening. Discovering that he is HIV Positive throws his already crazy world into a spin, and in Franki’s eyes there is only one person to blame… An unashamedly tough and uncompromising movie, Red White and Blue is a fearlessly frank, gut-wrenching romance and a merciless exploration of the futility of violence. The producer is Bob Portal (In a Dark Place, Beowulf and Grendel) and Adam Goldworm (Masters of Horror, Fear Itself) is the other execprod, with Milton Kam as DP and Rob Hall editing. 29th June 2009
Pop Skull pops onto DVD
Pop Skull is an award-winning psychological ghost film directed by Adam Wingard (Home Sick, Paradox Mary) which has been a big hit at festivals and finally comes to R1 DVD on 28th July. It stars Brandon Carroll (Dead Clowns) and Jeff Dylan Graham (Bryan Loves You, Dead and Rotting, Dorm of the Dead). A screener is on its way to me. In the meantime, you can find out more and watch a trailer on the website and pre-order the film from Amazon. 29th June 2009
Underground and Bodyguard now on DVD
Underground, the British martial arts feature which I mentioned last month is now available (from Amazon and other places). So is another feature from the same people, Bodyguard: A New Beginning. Also directed by Chee Keong Cheung, this UK/HK production stars Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Elektra, Planet of the Apes remake), Richard Ng (Expresso, Red Dwarf: Back to Earth), Stephanie Langton and Mark Strange. Here’s the Amazon link. A review of Underground is on the way. 23rd June 2009
Lynch’s Surveillance on R2 DVD
PR: Surveillance, starring Bill Pullman (Independence Day, The Grudge) and Julia Ormond (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Sabrina) is a taught thriller set in the Santa Fe desert directed by Jennifer Lynch and executive produced by David Lynch. The film marks the long awaited return to the big screen for this definitive filmmaker who in this, her second feature, has crafted a stunningly detailed story told from the perspectives of three witnesses. In pure Lynch fashion however, nothing is as it seems... Synopsis: It’s been a hell of a day on the highway. When Federal Officers Elizabeth Anderson (Julia Ormond) and Sam Hallaway (Bill Pullman) arrive at Captain Billing’s office, they have three sets of stories to figure out and a string of vicious murders to consider. One zealot cop, a strung out junkie and an eight year old girl all sit in testimony to the roadside rampage, but as the Feds begin to expose the fragile little details each witness conceals so carefully with a well practiced lie, they soon discover that uncovering ‘the truth’ can come at a very big cost... The DVD has deleted scenes and an alternate ending. The film also features French Stewart (Third Rock from the Sun, Magic Island) and the great MIchael Ironside. It has an RRP of £15.99 but Amazon have it for nine quid. Find out more at www.surveillancefilm.co.uk. 22nd June 2009
Brass Ring and Making Sinema
Tempe’s latest announced DVD is The Brass Ring, a feature-length documentary about a group of completely inexperienced film-makers trying to shoot a zombie epic for $8,000. From what I can gather, this is real, not a mockumentary. The publicity doesn’t mention what the actual zombie film was but the same film-makers were behind something called Dead Life so I suppose it’s that. Tempe are also including The Brass Ring in a 10-disc box set entitled Making Sinema. The other contents of this pack include Shock Cinema Vols. 1-4, Something to Scream About, Bloodletting Special Edition, Beer Drinkers in Space and and Keep Drinking, Men! The Story of Beer Drinkers in Space! Both items will be released on 25th August. The Brass Ring has an RRP of $14.99 but as the 10-disc package is only five bucks more than that, you might as well splash out on the whole set. 22nd June 2009
Miscellaneous YouTube treats
Emiliano Ranzani has cut a trailer for his film Langliena, which you can now watch on YouTube. The Planet director Mark Stirton has uploaded his showreel too. 22nd June 2009
Caesar and Otto’s Summer Camp Massacre
How can you not want to watch a film called that? It’s the latest feature from Dave Campfield and is a riotous spoof of Sleepaway Camp and it associated subgenre of serial killer/summer camp horror movies. As well as Dave himself, the film stars Felissa Rose who was in the original Sleepaway Camp and also Dave’s earlier feature Under Surveillance. Plus Deron Miller who, along with Rose, was in last year’s belated sequel Return to Sleepaway Camp. Also, because it’s a tradition or an old charter or something, Joe Estevez and Brinke Stevens. You can see the trailer here and watch a short clip here. 22nd June 2009
Lots of fab Alien stuff
A film like Alien would generally be too big and mainstream to feature much on this site but I’m indebted to my old pal Jon Sorensen, who worked on the film’s special effects, for alerting me to a brand new on-line documentary. Alien Makers is 80 minutes long and is built around interviews with Jon, Bill Pearson, Martin Bower and a bunch of other FX blokes who worked on the models for Alien (as did the documentary’s director Dennis Lowe). It includes lots of great behind-the-scenes photos and you can study a ton more photos in several galleries on Dennis Lowe’s website. Jon Sorensen additionally reports that some of his photos are being used by Fox for a 30th anniversary Blu-Ray edition of Alien coming out later this year and that work is currently underway on restoring the seven-foot model of the Nostromo which has spent most of the past three decades outside under a tarpaulin. Finally, Jon - who directed the 1999 British sci-fi film Alien Blood and is also a composer - has recorded his own suite of music inspired by the Franchise. You can download Jon’s album Alien 5 from his website. 22nd June 2009
Just for the Record, it’s not that Steve Lawson
Just for the Record is the latest entry in the surprisingly crowded subgenre of ‘British independent feature films which are mockumentaries about the making of a British independent feature film’ (see also Take Me to Your Leader and Hardcore: A Poke into the Adult Film Orifice). This one has been produced by the very busy Jonathan Sothcott (Expose remake, Wishbaby) and directed by Steve Lawson - but it’s not my mate Steve Lawson, director of Insiders and The Silencer. This Steve Lawson (or Steven Lawson as the IMDB calls him, which is less confusing) is a producer/actor with credits including Jack Said and The Rapture. What is remarkable about Just for the Record is the all-star cast which includes Danny Dyer, Rik Mayall, Craig Fairbrass, Sean Pertwee and Lisa McAllister from Pumpkinhead: Ashes to Ashes, plus Starsky and Hutch legend David Soul, Playboy model Victoria Silvstedt and serious theatre bloke Steven Berkoff. You can check out the trailer here. 22nd June 2009
Take Me to Your Leader trade screening
Take Me to Your Leader will be screened at the NFT in London on 30th June. However, this is part of the London UK Film Focus, an industry event, so it’s not open to the public. But if you’re in the industry and fancy watching a very enjoyable, very British comedy, secure yourself an invite by contacting Helena Mackenzie at Film London on 020 7613 7676 or helena.mackenzie@filmlondon.org.uk 16th June 2009
Colour from the Dark plays Bram Stoker Fest
The Bram Stoker Film Festival taking place in Whitby in October has announced some of the films that will be screened, including Ivan Zuccon’s magnificent Lovecraft adaptation Colour from the Dark. Also lined up are the Michael Bayley Hughes’ documentary Dracula: The Vampire and the Voivode, bonkers Japanese thing Exte: Hair Extensions, Sky Soleil’s How My Dad Killed Dracula and animation genius Bill Plympton’s Idiots and Angels. World premieres include Brett Anstey’s Damned by Dawn, Catherine Taylor’s British vampire flick Temptation and Orlok the Vampire, a 3D version of FW Murnau’s Nosferatu! 16th June 2009
Scottish revenge thriller premieres in Edinburgh
Crying with Laughter is an “Edinburgh-set revenge thriller” which has its world premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival this Sunday 21st June. It has been written and directed by Justin Molotnikov who has helmed episodes of superior kid-shows My Parents are Aliens and Shoebox Zoo. The cast includes Micaiah Dring (Mum and Dad) and Jo Hartley (Dead Man’s Shoes). Joey Frisk is a stand-up comic whose life has just stopped being funny. In the most important week of his career, with an American talent scout flying in to Edinburgh to check out his act, his life begins to unravel. Already struggling with an addiction to cocaine, he’s barely able to cope with the responsibilities he shares with his ex-wife Karen when it comes to looking after their young daughter, Amy. When his landlord promises to evict him for not paying his rent, Joey retaliates that night during his act, threatening to kill the man in front of a captive audience. Things spiral out of control when Joey wakes up the next day and is arrested for Grievous Bodily Harm. His landlord is in hospital with a fractured skull and the police have witnesses as to Joey’s abusive threats. To make matters worse, Joey has no memory of what happened. Looking for help, he turns to Frank Archer, a former friend who has recently walked back into his life. Together at military school 25 years earlier, Frank is keen that he and Joey get reacquainted and offers to take him into the home he shares with his much-younger girlfriend Colette. But as Joey finds out, friendship is the last thing on Frank’s mind. You can catch the film at 8pm in Filmhouse 1 or a second screening on Friday 26th June, 9.30pm in Filmhouse 3. 16th June 2009
Psychosomatic Masterpiece!
Andrew Tanner dropped me a line to let me know that his debut feature Psychosomatic is doing well on the festival circuit. It has been nominated for the Best Young Film-Maker award at the Swansea Life Film Festival and for both Best Feature UK and Best Horror/Suspense at the British Film Festival Los Angeles. It has also been selected for the Thailand Film Festival. A screener of Psychosomatic is in my TBW pile and a review will appear here soon. Not one to rest on his laurels, Andrew plans to shoot his second feature Masterpiece this August. Here’s the poster. 
16th June 2009
Langliena in Philadelphia
Emiliano Ranzani’s terrific short Langliena plays the Terror Film Festival in Philadelphia in October. Among the dozens of other films lined up are The Scar Crow, Tom Savini/Ingrid PItt starrer Sea of Dust, brilliantly titled Finnish feature Black Blooded Brides of Satan and a half-hour Australian short that I absolutely have to see: Korean Zombie Siege. 8th June 2009
Bubbling Under - great new online short
Matt Compton let me know about his new short Bubbling Under, which is now available to view on-line. It’s a creepy, eight-minute piece with a good cast, nice production values, a sharp script and a superb trick shot towards the end that will have you pressing rewind to check it again. Bubbling Under was produced by Ben Williams who also produced My Name is Sarah Hayward and indeed that film’s director Josh O’Brien helped out as gaffer and sound designer on this one. The cast includes Axelle Carolyn (I Love You, Blood + Roses), Annette Kellow (NightDragon, The Magic), Kelly Downe and Mark Duncan. Watch (and vote for) the film here. 8th June 2009
Acefest 2009 reveals film line-up
Acefest 2009 is a two-day festival at Tribeca Cinemas in Downtown Manhattan over 10th-11th July. Features screening include Brant Sersen’s Splinterheads, Tony Zierra’s My Big Break and Barra Grant’s Love Hurts. More details at the festival website. 8th June 2009
Night Before the Wedding - trailer and premiere details
David Branin dropped me a line to say that his drama Night Before the Wedding is now complete. The film’s website has been revamped and there is a new trailer online. Coming as a surprise to no one, straight-laced William Shay is tying the knot. In fact, he's getting married in less than 24 hours. Yet unbeknownst to him, his closest, inscrutable friend, Bronco, has planned a surprise bachelor party for the soon-to-be-husband and all their mutual friends. The rowdy guys know Bronco has something special brewing, but quickly become unsavory when he refuses to show his cards, banning all alcohol consumption until Will arrives. After best man Bobby DeMayo lures Will to the party, William expects to give his greetings, and return home to his parents to have a quiet evening before the ceremony. But before he realizes it, he has given everyone an impromptu speech, had a few drinks, and is slowly seduced into partying. In the midst of all the fun, Will realizes how happy he is to be with his best friends. But the gamechanger comes in the form of two real-life porn stars and their eccentric boss, who show up ready to put on a show. With seduction in the air, Will somehow finds himself alone in a bedroom with porn star, Melissa Mercury. What happens next, no one would have ever fathomed, including Will. The film’s cast includes Gregor Collins (The Witch’s Sabbath, Creepies 2), Johnny Giordano and John Keating. The premiere will be on 11th August at Sunset Laemmle 5 in West Hollywood.  5th June 2009
Loads of Doghouse news!
Just over a week till Doghouse is released in the UK. I was invited to a press screening last week but couldn’t make it. However, the reviews from those who did are very positive:
- “A fast, frenzied and fun British zom-com ... with moments of comic genius” - Rosie Fletcher, SFX
- “A smart comedy-horror that’s a break thru” - Kim Newman, Venue
- “Gory, laugh-out-loud horror comedy” Nigel Floyd, Filmstar
- “Gory, funny, nicely acted and a terrific slant on zombie movies. Think a stilletto heeled Shaun of the Dead.” - Alan Jones
The next issue of Gorezone, on sale 9th June, has lots of coverage including interviews with Jake West, Emily Booth and Danny Dyer, and is available with two different covers. Choose from Emily as the Snipper or Tree Carr as Julie. I have recorded big interviews with Jake, Emily and FX chap Karl Derrick. The Jake and Emily chats will be in the next-but-one issue of DeathRay, published on 16th July, and the Karl interview will be in the mag when Doghouse eventually hits DVD. As a publicity stunt, there’s a zombie walk in London this Sunday (7th June) for zombirds and tranny zombies - see JakeWest.com for details. Or you could stay at home and catch Noel Clarke on T4 the same day. Or you could watch him on GMTV on Friday morning (probably between 8.00am and 8.45am). There should also be interviews with Noel in the Grauniad and the Indie. Speaking of interviews, I have updated the Jake West interviews page with some more links (plus the two Gorezone covers). And finally you can watch the first ten minutes of the film over on EmpireOnline - although there aren’t any zombirds in there of course. 27th May 2009
Amy Lynn Best’s Splatter Movie comes to DVD
PR: Happy Cloud Pictures is pleased to announce that its fourth feature Splatter Movie: The Director’s Cut celebrated its official DVD release in April 2009. As detailed in Fangoria, Splatter Movie is surreal and off-beat ‘documentary’ about the making of a slasher movie called Tessaract (which, in turn, is about a group of filmmakers shooting a movie called Splatter Movie) whose cast and crew is being stalked by a killer masquerading as the film’s fictional killer. Written by Mike Watt and directed by and starring Amy Lynn Best, Splatter Movie quickly spirals into bizarre territory as the line between film and reality blurs - then disappears entirely! Splatter Movie: The Director’s Cut stars Tom (The Evil Dead) Sullivan, Debbie (Nowhere Man) Rochon, Sofiya (A Feast of Flesh) Smirnova, Elske (Poultrygeist) McCain, Rachelle (Jess Franco’s Take-Away Spirit) and Nikki (Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnation) McCrae. The movie features the song ‘Spot the Psycho’ by Cornbugs, featuring vocals by Choptop (aka Bill (Repo: The Genetic Opera) Moseley). The official DVD release comes loaded with a companion film, deleted scenes and more. This release also marks the debut of Happy Cloud Pictures’ own distribution arm, bringing the DVD straight to the consumer and eliminating the red tape. Splatter Movie: The Director’s Cut costs $19.95, but to commemorate the event, HCP is offering $10 off the official copy to anyone who bought the previous ‘work-in-progress’ DVD-R release online or at past conventions. To coincide with this auspicious release, Happy Cloud Pictures also released a companion screenplay annotated and illustrated, available separately, detailed with numerous behind-the-scenes photos and details about the production from Best and Watt. This handsome collector’s book will be available for a limited time and offered autographed through the HCP website. 20th May 2009
More names for Manchester FFF
The Festival of Fantastic Films has announced its guest line-up for 2009. As well as the previously announced Jenny Hanley (I’ll be interviewing Jenny, hopefully) and director Robert Fuest, the line-up now includes composer John Scott (something of a festival regular), actor Derren Nesbitt (Burke and Hare), actor Ian McCulloch (Zombie Flesh Eaters, Survivors) and - fingers crossed - Emily Booth. The festival runs 16th-18th October 2009 in Manchester, as usual. Indie film-makers looking for a UK screening should contact Gil Lane-Young about submitting a feature or short to the FFF. 20th May 2009
Ban this sick zombie filth!
There was a headline in my wife’s Daily Mail about a British film at Cannes that cost only £45 to make (no mention of filth or banning - I’m just playing stereotypes). The cheapo epic in question turns out to be top-notch zombie feature Colin. The online version of this great article is even longer and has loads of cool photos. 20th May 2009
Underground, overground
Underground is a low budget, British, independent, martial arts action film, released on DVD this week. Shot around the North West of England and London, the film follows the story of twelve fighters who compete in an illegal underground tournament for the prize of £500,000. The fighters come from a variety of backgrounds, each hand-picked for a gruelling no-holds barred competition which pushes each fighter to their limits. Each fighter has their own reason for competing and each give everything they have to take the prize... but there can be only one winner! Written, produced and directed by Chee Keong Cheung, the film stars Mark Strange (The Medallion), three times World Kickboxing Champion Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah (Left for Dead), Red Dwarf’s Danny John-Jules, EastEnders’ Leonard Fenton (recently in The Zombie Diaries) and Sophie Linfield (who was in Paul McGann-starring Matthew Lewis adaptation The Final Temptation). Several other cast members were variously (and not unexpectedly) in Left for Dead, Ten Dead Men, Intergalactic Combat and The Silencer. Underground is available from Amazon for a tenner. 14th May 2009
Free horror screenings in five UK cities, starts tomorrow
Last month I ran a story about Metrodome releasing Ron Jeremy starrer One Eyed Monster and Trent Haaga-scripted Dead Girl. Now, Metrodome have teamed up with Vue Cinemas to present free - free! - big-screen presentations of those films (and others) in five British cities. They’re calling it ‘Credit Crunch Cinema’. You can catch One Eyed Monster tomorrow (Friday 15th May) and Dead Girl (sponsored by Kerrang!) on Friday 5th June. Inbetween, Norwegian 1970s-style slasher Manhunt aka Rovdyr will be screened on Friday 22nd May. Each film is released on DVD the subsequent Monday. The cinemas participating are Vue West End, Vue Cambridge, Vue Edinburgh Omni, Vue Manchester Lowry and Vue Bristol Cribbs Causeway. All films are certificate 18 and you can get your free tickets by e-mailing creditcrunch@metrodomegroup.com 14th May 2009
Scar Crow US premiere
The Scar Crow will receive its US premiere at the Dances With Film Festival in Hollywood on 10th June 2009. The screening is at Leammle’s Sunset 5 Cinema on Sunset Boulevard at 9.30pm. 14th May 2009
MJS mentioned in Variety!
Check out this great review of Best Worst Movie in Variety - pay particular attention to the penultimate paragraph. Fame at last! 14th May 2009
Summer Scars on the big screen
Julian Richards sent me details of the limited theatrical release of Summer Scars, which will be at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London over 6th-10th June. It’s screening at 3pm on Saturday and Sunday, 8.30pm on Monday and 6.30pm on Tuesday and Wednesday. The BBFC have given it a 15 certificate. 14th May 2009
Ghost Month DVD
Danny Draven’s terrific Asian-influenced movie Ghost Month finally comes to DVD (and Blu-Ray) on 21st July 2009. The disc includes an interview with Danny, a Making Of, a cast commentary, blooper reel and stills gallery. You can pre-order it from Amazon. 14th May 2009
Fantastic Films Weekend 2009
The 8th Fantastic Films Weekend at the National Media Museum, Bradford has some great films lined up. A detailed programme is due any day now but I can confirm that the line-up includes Ironwerks and (although it’s not listed on the FFW site yet) The Scar Crow. Also on show will be a short, German, animated version of The Tell-Tale Heart, the 1931 Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the 2005 silent version of Call of Cthulhu, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, the 1980 Flash Gordon introduced by Mike Hodges and Zone of the Dead, a Serbian zombie feature starring Ken Foree! The Fantastic Films Weekend runs over 12th-14th June 2009. 5th May 2009
Dead Wood US DVD
David Bryant’s Dead Wood comes to R1 DVD on 7th July via Lion’s Gate. It’s available now for pre-order on Amazon. 5th May 2009
Derby Quad event: MJS on Robert Stevenson
In mid-June I will be speaking at Derby Quad about one of my pet subjects, forgotten British director Robert Stevenson. Born in Buxton, Derbyshire in 1905, Stevenson directed some terrific British films including Karloff’s The Man Who Changed His Mind before moving to Hollywood in 1939. And by the mid-1970s he was the most commercially successful film director of all time! The reason you’ve never heard of him is because his mega-hit pictures weren’t branded ‘a Robert Stevenson film’ but ‘a Walt Disney film’. Most of the Disney live-action films of the 1960s and 1970s were directed by Stevenson: Bedknobs and Broomsticks, That Darn Cat, Blackbeard’s Ghost, not forgetting Mary Poppins. In terms of cumulative box-office, no-one could touch him until the likes of Spielberg and Lucas came along. Quad are having a weekend of films celebrating Englishness which will include a triple-tribute to local lad Stevenson: Mary Poppins, the 1937 King Solomon’s Mines (starring Paul Robeson) and a half-hour talk by Yours Truly. More details when I get them. 5th May 2009
This is String
SF author Molly Brown is an old pal and has sent me a YouTube link to This is... String, a fun little bit of science fiction (with zombies) which she wrote and appears in. This was made for the Sci-Fi London 48-hour film challenge. There’s a short behind-the-scenes montage on YouTube too. 5th May 2009
A Day of Violence poster
Darren Ward (Sudden Fury) reports that his long-awaited A Day of Violence is in the final stages of post-production ready for its Cannes debut. Darren sent me the UK quad and - how cool is this? - it’s been painted by legendary poster artist Graham Humphreys, famous for the likes of The Evil Dead and A Nightmare on Elm Street. Here’s the ADOV synopsis: Mitchell Parker lies dead on a morgue slab. In life, Mitchell served the low ranks of debt collectors, surrounded by all of the filth and scum that the world had to offer. He thought his luck was in - when on a routine collection he stumbles across £100,000 cash hidden in the flat of one of his clients - a deadly mistake which could cost him his life. A dark and haunted past hangs over Mitchell's head, and one that will ultimately lead him on a journey of murder, redemption and sacrifice. Hunted by a ruthless gang for the stolen money, he must evade capture and rid himself of his demons once and for all. Written and directed by Darren Ward, A Day of Violence is undoubtedly one of the most uncompromising and gritty features to emerge from the UK in 25 years.Influenced by British and Italian violent crime thrillers of the '70s, and with parallels to The Long Good Friday and Lucio Fulci's The Smuggler (Luca il Contrabbandiere) it weaves a dark tale of violence, life and death in the underworld. Featuring infamous Italian horror icon and star of some of the most notorious Italian horror classics ever unleashed (House on the Edge of the Park, Cannibal Apocalypse, Cannibal Ferox) - John Morghen (Giovanni Lombardo Radice). Searing with force, and charged with unflinching horror - A Day of Violence is here... More at the Giallo Films website. 5th May 2009
Merantau trailer
Not many film-makers would follow a gritty Cardiff-set drama about snuff films with an martial arts film set on the streets of Jakarta but that’s what Gareth Evans (Footsteps) has done. The trailer for Merantau is now available to view in hi-def and standard. Plus there are stills and posters on the movie’s website. A reel of action scenes will screen at Cannes and the film is expected to be completed by August. 5th May 2009
Wiffle Lever to Full
My mate Bob Fischer’s book about the year he spent going to strange sci-fi conventions is now available in paperback. The cover price is £8.99 but Amazon has it for £6.74. 5th May 2009
Perkins and Rochon in Slime City sequel
Lee Perkins tells me that he has joined the cast of Slime City Massacre, Gregory Lamberson’s sequel to his 1988 cult midnight film Slime City, which shoots in Buffalo this July. In Slime City Massacre, Perkins will play one of four squatters trying to survive in New York City after a terrorist attack brings down the financial system. The squatters discover a supply of strange wine in the ruins of a soup kitchen which turns them into hideous slime creatures driven to murderous acts. The other squatters are played by Debbie Rochon, acclaimed horror author Kealan Patrick Burke and newcomer Jennifer Bihl. Robert Sabin and Mary Bogle return from the original film, Brooke Lewis appears in several flashbacks, and filmmaker Roy (Street Trash) Frumkes has a role as a greedy developer. Lamberson is the screenwriter and director of Slime City Massacre, which is being produced by Marc Makowski, who co-produced the original; horror writer John Maclay; Tommy Sweeney, who starred in Lamberson’s Undying Love, and actress Lewis. Find out more at www.slimeguy.com 5th May 2009
Zombie Marriage Counselling on MySpace
Alex Ferrari (Broken) tells me: “Mad TV Vet Jill-Michele Meleán, Comedy Store regular Lance Patrick, DP Ricardo Gale and I have launched a new Comedy Channel in partnership with MySpace.com called www.imreallyfunny.com and we will have new hilarious short films every week. The first episode is called Zombie Marriage Counselling: I’m a Lesbian. Watch Gary and Tammy as they work through 200 year old issues in the first episode of this hilarious new series only on MySpace! It stars Jill-Michele Meleán (Mad TV, Reno 911), Jenica Bergere (Drew Carey, Superhero Movie), Sandra Valls (Latin Divas of Comedy), and Lance Patrick (The Comedy Store). There will be new Zombie Episodes coming out each week which will follow the plight of the Zombie in today's modern age." 4th May 2009
Malaysian zombies come to London!
The Terracotta Far East Film Festival runs at the Prince Charles Cinema in London over 21st-24th May 2009. There are 13 features screening, several of them UK premieres, from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Japan and Korea. But my instant favourite, which I would love to see, is Zombies from Banana Village, the first Malaysian zombie comedy! Full details at www.terracottafestival.com - Old news (Jan-Apr 2009)
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