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Zombie Comedy ‘One Cut Of The Dead!’ Gnaws It’s Way To Vancouver Film Festival

From September 27th to October 12th the Vancouver International Film Festival will be showcasing works from filmmakers around the world. Most of the films this year are documentaries dealing with issues in the modern world, fictionalized dramas, and of course avant-garde. I’m not sure how most of you (the readers) would be into that stuff but one film submission from Japan seems like something you would like! “Kamera Wo Tomeruna! (One Cut of the Dead!)” The film is a Gonzo-style comedy film, the kind of which Japan is known for. Gonzo comedy is over the top, extreme, and sometimes just so strange where you can’t help but laugh at how unreasonable it is. “One Cut of the Dead!” follows a film crew filming a low-budget cheesy zombie flick in a remote area in the mountains. While filming the production and actors encounter a hoard of REAL zombies who start to attack and feed on the crew, the director instead of

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Capt McNeely
Sep 10, 2018
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Fandemic Comic-Con Adds Three Stars To Guest List

As Fandemic Comic-Con approaches, a series of new guest announcements have been made to the already impressive roster of guests that will be in attendance this September. Don’t miss your chance to meet writer/director/actress Pollyanna McIntosh who is fighting the end of the world on AMC’s “The Walking Dead” as Jadis. Filipino Kali and Japanese sword fighting trained actor Gaku Space, star of”Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist”, will be there to sign be there. WWE Superstar Paige will be in attendance on Friday, September 14th only. Don’t miss your chance to get your autograph or picture with Paige, known for her goth look and badass moves. McIntosh, Space, and Paige join guests such as Norman Reedus, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Bruce Campbell, Chuck Norris, and many, many, many more. For a full list of celebrities and guests or to get your tickets please visit the Fandemic website. Don’t miss Fandemic on September 14, 15, 16th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 29, 2018
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FrightFest Unleashes Exclusive Poster For ‘The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot’

FrightFest has unleashed the exclusive poster for one of the best films of the year, The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot, ahead of its premiere. Sam Elliott (The Hero, A Star Is Born, Road House) stars as a legendary World War II veteran who many years ago assassinated Adolf Hitler – an incredible secret that he’s frustratingly unable to share with the world. One day, just as he’s coming to terms with rounding out his life, Calvin gets a visit from the FBI and The Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They need him to take out Bigfoot. This fantastic film marks the feature debut of writer/director Robert D. Krzykowski. The film’s visual effects by industry veteran Richard Yuricich (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner and celebrated two-time Academy Award Winner Douglas Trumbull (2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner), who also co-produced alongside the great John Sayles (Matewan, Eight Men Out) and Lucky McKee (May, The Woman).

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 24, 2018
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Fandemic Comic Con Adds Chuck Norris To Its Lineup

Fandemic Comic Con has just announced a new addition to their celebrity lineup, film and TV star Chuck Norris for a one day only appearance on Saturday, September 15, 2018. Norris is best known for his roles in films like Delta Force, Code of Silence, The Expendables 2 and of course his long-running series “Walker, Texas Ranger.” Norris is a successful actor, author, fitness guru, columnist, entrepreneur, Master Martial Artist and an internet legend thanks to his fan’s Paul Bunyan-type fictional “facts” of his exploits. He has also created a foundation close to his heart, KICKSTART KIDS to build strong moral character in our youth through martial arts training. As of today, the foundation serves over 9,000 at-risk youth on a daily basis as part of the daily school curriculum in middle schools, The program has graduated almost 90,000 kids. Their goal is to expand the program, www.kickstartkids.org, all over Texas and eventually nationwide. Fandemic Comic Con Tour will be

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 21, 2018
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Fractured Visions Film Festival (2018) Annouces Lineup

The Fractured Visions Film Festival has now announced the official selections for this year’s festival that happens September 29th and 30th in Tramshed Cardiff. Over the past 10 months, the festival “has been privileged to witness some of the finest examples of modern horror from across the world. But after a tough selection process with dozens of stunning submissions, the official selection for the 2018 Fractured Visions Film Festival has been made.” CHILDREN OF THE FALL (Israel) – UK Premiere – Rachel Strode, a young immigrant with a dark past, arrives in Israel during the Fall of 1973 to volunteer in a Kibbutz and to convert to Judaism. Soon, she realizes that the local Kibbutz members don’t take kindly to foreigners, and the evening of Yom Kippur (the most important holiday in the Jewish faith), brings a brutal threat to her and her fellow volunteers. What began as a fun celebration of youth quickly turns into a menacing and bloody

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 21, 2018
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Women In Horror Film Festival Announces Lineup For This October

This October The Women in Horror Film Festival returns to Atlanta to celebrate some of the most innovative female filmmakers in the genre. The film festival has announced the full lineup of films, screenplay contest finalists, and highlights what genre fans can expect, which you can read more about on their website and where you can also get your tickets. “WIHFF is proud to present the world premiere of the anthology BUGS: A TRILOGY, directed by Simone Kisiel. Other feature films include Brooklyn Ewing’s SHE WAS SO PRETTY: BE GOOD FOR GOODNESS SAKE, ECHOES OF FEAR (directed by Brian and Laurence Avenet-Bradley), Laura Sanchez Acosta’s RELICT: A MESOPOTAMIC TALE, Estelle Linden’s MIA and David & Rebekah McKendry’s anthology, ALL THE CREATURES WERE STIRRING.” Over 70 short films will screen throughout the weekend in addition to a live read of the short screenplay finalists and a panel on DIVERSITY & VISIBILITY featuring the incomparable TRINA PARKS and best selling horror author

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 19, 2018
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‘Vampyr’ To Be Made Into A TV Series

FOX21 and DONTNOD Entertainment have reached an agreement allowing FOX21 to make a television series based on the game, “Vampyr” that came out back in June. We believe it is a fantastic premise for a television show. This is a new and exciting way for fans of the game, as well as the uninitiated, to enter and engage with VAMPYR’S rich, deep story.” Says DONTNOD CEO Oskar Guilbert, “We cannot wait to see how the talented team at FOX21 will bring out the darkly atmospheric universe of our game into television.” We are delighted to partner with FOX21 for the adaptation of VAMPYR into a TV series. DONTNOD has created a uniquely dark, immersive world with deep narration, which has made VAMPYR already a modern video game classic.” Agrees Jurgen Goeldner, CEO of Focus Home Interactive. “Vampyr” follows the tale of Dr. Jonathan Reid who became a vampire during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 in which somehow many citizens

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Capt McNeely
Aug 17, 2018
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The Brooklyn Film Festival Announces First Wave Of Films

The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival returns to bring the best and most provocative of horror cinema to local screens and we’re thrilled to announce wave one of our programs today! Join them October 11th – 18th in venues across Brooklyn as they screen films from around the globe, along with their brand new HEAD TRIP block spotlighting films that push the boundaries and expectations of the horror genre as part of their most expansive and diverse curation yet. It’s an amazing time to love horror, with the genre being as diverse and challenging as it’s ever been, and our programming this year exemplifies the best of where the genre is currently at as well as the daring new directions in which it’s heading,” says Matt Barone, BHFF’s senior programmer. “Our mission remains to buck the genre’s conventions with forward-thinking films. Ranging from KNIFE + HEART’s modernization of classic slasher vibes to LUZ’s reinvention of exorcism tropes, not to mention TOWER.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 17, 2018
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FannibalFest Announces Special Guest Annabel De Vetten AKA “Annabel Lecter”

Annabel de Vetten, also known as “Annabel Lecter”, is cooking something up disturbing for FannibalFest this October. The trained chef, artist, and taxidermist created a ‘Hannibal & Bedelia’ wedding cake for the official media release event of the series’ third season, has made a name for herself by baking a long list of disturbing desserts, all of which look revoltingly realistic. As a big fan of the Thomas Harris novels and cinematic adaptations of the Hannibal character, she is quite enamored of the TV show. “I love how Hannibal is even more sophisticated, intelligent, and articulate than in the films,” she enthuses. “This makes him more unsettling than ever before.” During her panel at FannibalFest she will dig into the connections between food and death. De Vetten hopes attendees will enjoy not only the morbid and “murdery” factoids she presents but also her edible interpretations of some of her favorite scenes in the show. When asked what kind of cake

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 17, 2018
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Killer New Clip And Trailer Arrives For Punk Rock Horror The Ranger

Jenn Wexler makes her directorial debut with the punk rock horror The Ranger. Not only do we have the new teaser trailer to share with you, we have a rocking new clip. Wexler, the producer of Asensio’s 2017 SXSW Competition Winner Most Beautiful Island, Robert Mockler’s Like Me (2017), and Mickey Keating’s Psycopaths (2017), and Darling(2016), co-wrote The Ranger along with Giaco Furino, who also produced along with horror veteran Larry Fessenden, Heather Buckley, Ashleigh Snead, and Andrew van den Houten, Glass Eye Pix and Hood River Entertainment. In the film, “After a run-in with the cops at a punk show goes sideways, Chelsea (Chloe Levine, The Transfiguration) and her pals flee the city in search of a place to lay low. Running to the security of Chelsea’s old, abandoned family cabin in the woods, they fall under the watchful eye of an overzealous park ranger (Jeremy Holm, House of Cards who holds a secret from Chelsea’s past. Set to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 8, 2018

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Zombie Comedy ‘One Cut Of The Dead!’ Gnaws It’s Way To Vancouver Film Festival

From September 27th to October 12th the Vancouver International Film Festival will be showcasing works from filmmakers around the world. Most of the films this year are documentaries dealing with issues in the modern world, fictionalized dramas, and of course avant-garde. I’m not sure how most of you (the readers) would be into that stuff but one film submission from Japan seems like something you would like! “Kamera Wo Tomeruna! (One Cut of the Dead!)” The film is a Gonzo-style comedy film, the kind of which Japan is known for. Gonzo comedy is over the top, extreme, and sometimes just so strange where you can’t help but laugh at how unreasonable it is. “One Cut of the Dead!” follows a film crew filming a low-budget cheesy zombie flick in a remote area in the mountains. While filming the production and actors encounter a hoard of REAL zombies who start to attack and feed on the crew, the director instead of

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Sep 10, 2018
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Fandemic Comic-Con Adds Three Stars To Guest List

As Fandemic Comic-Con approaches, a series of new guest announcements have been made to the already impressive roster of guests that will be in attendance this September. Don’t miss your chance to meet writer/director/actress Pollyanna McIntosh who is fighting the end of the world on AMC’s “The Walking Dead” as Jadis. Filipino Kali and Japanese sword fighting trained actor Gaku Space, star of”Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist”, will be there to sign be there. WWE Superstar Paige will be in attendance on Friday, September 14th only. Don’t miss your chance to get your autograph or picture with Paige, known for her goth look and badass moves. McIntosh, Space, and Paige join guests such as Norman Reedus, Jeffery Dean Morgan, Bruce Campbell, Chuck Norris, and many, many, many more. For a full list of celebrities and guests or to get your tickets please visit the Fandemic website. Don’t miss Fandemic on September 14, 15, 16th.

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 29, 2018
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FrightFest Unleashes Exclusive Poster For ‘The Man Who Killed Hitler And Then The Bigfoot’

FrightFest has unleashed the exclusive poster for one of the best films of the year, The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot, ahead of its premiere. Sam Elliott (The Hero, A Star Is Born, Road House) stars as a legendary World War II veteran who many years ago assassinated Adolf Hitler – an incredible secret that he’s frustratingly unable to share with the world. One day, just as he’s coming to terms with rounding out his life, Calvin gets a visit from the FBI and The Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They need him to take out Bigfoot. This fantastic film marks the feature debut of writer/director Robert D. Krzykowski. The film’s visual effects by industry veteran Richard Yuricich (Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blade Runner and celebrated two-time Academy Award Winner Douglas Trumbull (2001: A Space Odyssey, Blade Runner), who also co-produced alongside the great John Sayles (Matewan, Eight Men Out) and Lucky McKee (May, The Woman).

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 24, 2018
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Fandemic Comic Con Adds Chuck Norris To Its Lineup

Fandemic Comic Con has just announced a new addition to their celebrity lineup, film and TV star Chuck Norris for a one day only appearance on Saturday, September 15, 2018. Norris is best known for his roles in films like Delta Force, Code of Silence, The Expendables 2 and of course his long-running series “Walker, Texas Ranger.” Norris is a successful actor, author, fitness guru, columnist, entrepreneur, Master Martial Artist and an internet legend thanks to his fan’s Paul Bunyan-type fictional “facts” of his exploits. He has also created a foundation close to his heart, KICKSTART KIDS to build strong moral character in our youth through martial arts training. As of today, the foundation serves over 9,000 at-risk youth on a daily basis as part of the daily school curriculum in middle schools, The program has graduated almost 90,000 kids. Their goal is to expand the program, www.kickstartkids.org, all over Texas and eventually nationwide. Fandemic Comic Con Tour will be

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 21, 2018
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Fractured Visions Film Festival (2018) Annouces Lineup

The Fractured Visions Film Festival has now announced the official selections for this year’s festival that happens September 29th and 30th in Tramshed Cardiff. Over the past 10 months, the festival “has been privileged to witness some of the finest examples of modern horror from across the world. But after a tough selection process with dozens of stunning submissions, the official selection for the 2018 Fractured Visions Film Festival has been made.” CHILDREN OF THE FALL (Israel) – UK Premiere – Rachel Strode, a young immigrant with a dark past, arrives in Israel during the Fall of 1973 to volunteer in a Kibbutz and to convert to Judaism. Soon, she realizes that the local Kibbutz members don’t take kindly to foreigners, and the evening of Yom Kippur (the most important holiday in the Jewish faith), brings a brutal threat to her and her fellow volunteers. What began as a fun celebration of youth quickly turns into a menacing and bloody

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 21, 2018
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Women In Horror Film Festival Announces Lineup For This October

This October The Women in Horror Film Festival returns to Atlanta to celebrate some of the most innovative female filmmakers in the genre. The film festival has announced the full lineup of films, screenplay contest finalists, and highlights what genre fans can expect, which you can read more about on their website and where you can also get your tickets. “WIHFF is proud to present the world premiere of the anthology BUGS: A TRILOGY, directed by Simone Kisiel. Other feature films include Brooklyn Ewing’s SHE WAS SO PRETTY: BE GOOD FOR GOODNESS SAKE, ECHOES OF FEAR (directed by Brian and Laurence Avenet-Bradley), Laura Sanchez Acosta’s RELICT: A MESOPOTAMIC TALE, Estelle Linden’s MIA and David & Rebekah McKendry’s anthology, ALL THE CREATURES WERE STIRRING.” Over 70 short films will screen throughout the weekend in addition to a live read of the short screenplay finalists and a panel on DIVERSITY & VISIBILITY featuring the incomparable TRINA PARKS and best selling horror author

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 19, 2018
Horror Fuel

‘Vampyr’ To Be Made Into A TV Series

FOX21 and DONTNOD Entertainment have reached an agreement allowing FOX21 to make a television series based on the game, “Vampyr” that came out back in June. We believe it is a fantastic premise for a television show. This is a new and exciting way for fans of the game, as well as the uninitiated, to enter and engage with VAMPYR’S rich, deep story.” Says DONTNOD CEO Oskar Guilbert, “We cannot wait to see how the talented team at FOX21 will bring out the darkly atmospheric universe of our game into television.” We are delighted to partner with FOX21 for the adaptation of VAMPYR into a TV series. DONTNOD has created a uniquely dark, immersive world with deep narration, which has made VAMPYR already a modern video game classic.” Agrees Jurgen Goeldner, CEO of Focus Home Interactive. “Vampyr” follows the tale of Dr. Jonathan Reid who became a vampire during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918 in which somehow many citizens

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Aug 17, 2018
Horror Fuel

The Brooklyn Film Festival Announces First Wave Of Films

The Brooklyn Horror Film Festival returns to bring the best and most provocative of horror cinema to local screens and we’re thrilled to announce wave one of our programs today! Join them October 11th – 18th in venues across Brooklyn as they screen films from around the globe, along with their brand new HEAD TRIP block spotlighting films that push the boundaries and expectations of the horror genre as part of their most expansive and diverse curation yet. It’s an amazing time to love horror, with the genre being as diverse and challenging as it’s ever been, and our programming this year exemplifies the best of where the genre is currently at as well as the daring new directions in which it’s heading,” says Matt Barone, BHFF’s senior programmer. “Our mission remains to buck the genre’s conventions with forward-thinking films. Ranging from KNIFE + HEART’s modernization of classic slasher vibes to LUZ’s reinvention of exorcism tropes, not to mention TOWER.

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 17, 2018
Horror Fuel

FannibalFest Announces Special Guest Annabel De Vetten AKA “Annabel Lecter”

Annabel de Vetten, also known as “Annabel Lecter”, is cooking something up disturbing for FannibalFest this October. The trained chef, artist, and taxidermist created a ‘Hannibal & Bedelia’ wedding cake for the official media release event of the series’ third season, has made a name for herself by baking a long list of disturbing desserts, all of which look revoltingly realistic. As a big fan of the Thomas Harris novels and cinematic adaptations of the Hannibal character, she is quite enamored of the TV show. “I love how Hannibal is even more sophisticated, intelligent, and articulate than in the films,” she enthuses. “This makes him more unsettling than ever before.” During her panel at FannibalFest she will dig into the connections between food and death. De Vetten hopes attendees will enjoy not only the morbid and “murdery” factoids she presents but also her edible interpretations of some of her favorite scenes in the show. When asked what kind of cake

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 17, 2018
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Killer New Clip And Trailer Arrives For Punk Rock Horror The Ranger

Jenn Wexler makes her directorial debut with the punk rock horror The Ranger. Not only do we have the new teaser trailer to share with you, we have a rocking new clip. Wexler, the producer of Asensio’s 2017 SXSW Competition Winner Most Beautiful Island, Robert Mockler’s Like Me (2017), and Mickey Keating’s Psycopaths (2017), and Darling(2016), co-wrote The Ranger along with Giaco Furino, who also produced along with horror veteran Larry Fessenden, Heather Buckley, Ashleigh Snead, and Andrew van den Houten, Glass Eye Pix and Hood River Entertainment. In the film, “After a run-in with the cops at a punk show goes sideways, Chelsea (Chloe Levine, The Transfiguration) and her pals flee the city in search of a place to lay low. Running to the security of Chelsea’s old, abandoned family cabin in the woods, they fall under the watchful eye of an overzealous park ranger (Jeremy Holm, House of Cards who holds a secret from Chelsea’s past. Set to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 8, 2018
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