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In Rabies fate drops some strangers in the middle of a rural area where a madman stalks them and brings out some interesting levels of unnerving clashes.

I’ve got to be completely honest: I can’t, off the top of my head think of an Israeli horror production that I’ve seen. I could be way off base, or simply forgetting something here, but Israel doesn’t seem to typically pump out genre flicks, at least not features that earn any significant US release.

A new creature feature Night Wolf is coming to the U.S.  The film was previously released in the UK under the title 13 Hours.

Lionsgate will release Night Wolf on DVD April 24, 2012 and stars  Gemma Atkinson, Tom Felton, Joshua Bowman and Gabriel Thomson.

Entertainment Weekly just released four new images from the upcoming horror movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, which is based on the book of the same name by Seth Grahame-Smith. 

The images below show Abe in his younger years, then as the bearded iconic President we see in most photos of Abraham Lincoln.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter will be shown in theaters in 2D and 3D on June 22, 2012.

A member of the Roamers and Lurkers forum a site about The Walking Dead, had a post from a person claiming to be part of The Walking Dead crew and has possibly spilled the beans on the show.  The post appears to be taken off the site.

Alert Spilers!
Warning: Potential The Walking Dead season 2 spoiler!

Holliston comes from the minds of Adam Green (Hatchet, Hatchet 2, Frozen) and Joe Lynch (Knights of Baddassdom, Wrong Turn 2).  The twisted comedy will be on FEARnet television Tuesday, April 3, 2012 at 10:30pm ET.  Take a look at the first video clip from Holliston inside.

By now you've likely heard that this past weekend, actor Bill Hinzman passed away at age 75. I'm not so good at writing obituaries and things of the sort- I'd give that honor to Arbogast...but I'll just have to imagine what he would have written since the bastard recently closed up shop for good.

Like most horror fans, I've got a little Bill Hinzman at a convention story. And like most horror fans who have a little Bill Hinzman at a convention story, it took place in George Romero's most famous stomping grounds, the outskirts of Pittsburgh.

You know, I shouldn't build it up that much because to tell it, it doesn't seem like such a great tale, but oh well. Told you I'm not so good at this!

Anyway, I was standing and talking with John Russo, the man who co-wrote Romero's Night of the Living Dead. He had some pictures- trading cards, maybe?- from the NotLD and they were in color. I couldn't get over it, seeing all those familiar faces, humans and ghouls alike, like I'd never seen them before. I know there's a colorized version of the film floating around out there, but it's never appealed to me. The behind the scenes stuff, though, I was eating it up.

Then someone came and stood next to me. I figured it was just another fan waiting his or her turn, but then the person leaned over a bit and quietly said, "I was the first zombie." I turned, and it was Bill Hinzman...and let me tell you, it was not at all obnoxious. It sounds as if it might have been, like the equivalent of someone laughing so loudly in that way that lets you know he or she is an actor- but it wasn't. When I turned , he was just beaming, an adorable old dude in glasses. I'm sure he loved the attention and the "Oh my God, you are the first zombie!" I gave him, but after a moment, when he and Russo and I were talking and then oh, Russ Streiner came over and across the way were Karl Hardman and Marilyn Eastman and I was suddenly kind of surrounded by horror movie royalty and they were a gang, it felt like, both then and nearly 40 years prior, and it was just the best.

Bill Hinzman's death has affected me more than I could have thought it would- not that I ever sat around thinking about it much, mind you. But it's made me realize (or possibly just remember) how much Night of the Living Dead means to me as a horror fan. I wrote about it- and Barbra in particular- in this post (spurred on by Arbogast...damn you, man!), and I can't see a reason to try to say it any better than I did then:

Let me say right upfront: I adore this film. It's in my Top Ten or whatever number would actually make up the list of my all-time favorite horror movies. I think it's an absolute masterpiece of genre filmmaking, and in my opinion it's on the short list of Romero's best (the others being Dawn of the Dead and Creepshow, although my soft spot for Creepshow is so soft that I have no idea whether or not it's actually a good movie, you know?). Night of the Living Dead is all shock and far gorier than you remember it being; it's all exquisite lighting and camera angles; it's all horror with a bit of rotting meat on its bones, terrifying in its simplicity. Somehow, this film is one of the very few that I can always manage to watch with the mindset of the era in which it was made, and perhaps that's why it's one of my favorites, why it never fails to work for me, why I still get scared.

While Hinzman wasn't really the first zombie, he was totally the first zombie, and even if my adoration-colored glasses at that convention wouldn't let me see a plain old boast as a boast...well, he deserved to boast, dammit. So tonight I'm going to pop in the restored and re-mastered edition (finally got it!), turn off the lights, and raise a glass (of water, it's all I have in the house) to the first zombie. Rest in Peace, Bill Hinzman. Thanks for all the scares (and the conversation).

Robert Rodriguez is teaming with producer Alexander Rodnyansky to hatch a sequel to the 2010 action film Machete. Titled Machete Kills, the film is the second in a planned trilogy.

Machete Kills was teased during the closing credits of Machete, and Danny Trejo will return in the lead role.

Dazed and Confused and co-host, The Mistress of Oppression, are back with a brand new episode of The Ball and Chain Show. It’s been nearly a month since the B&C crew hit you with their trademark drunken banter, but rest assured, time is being made up for with this latest podcast installment, which features an extended interview with prolific special effects expert, Robert Kurtzman, formerly of KNB EFX.

“The fifth episode of The Ball and Chain Show is dedicated to living special effects guru, Robert Kurtzman. If the name is somehow unfamiliar to you, he’s one of the key masterminds behind the FX work in such noteworthy genre efforts as In the Mouth of Madness, From Dusk till Dawn and Evil Dead 2, as well as the director of the cult classic, Wishmaster. And believe me: that’s only scratching the surface.


Dazed and Confused and co-host, The Mistress of Oppression, are back with a brand new episode of The Ball and Chain Show. It’s been nearly a month since the B&C crew hit you with their trademark drunken banter, but rest assured, time is being made up for with this latest podcast installment, which features an extended interview with prolific special effects expert, Robert Kurtzman, formerly of KNB EFX.

“The fifth episode of The Ball and Chain Show is dedicated to living special effects guru, Robert Kurtzman. If the name is somehow unfamiliar to you, he’s one of the key masterminds behind the FX work in such noteworthy genre efforts as In the Mouth of Madness, From Dusk till Dawn and Evil Dead 2, as well as the director of the cult classic, Wishmaster. And believe me: that’s only scratching the surface.


If you’re a convention fanatic hell bent on catching every horror con possible this year, it’s time to reserve a few extra days off, as the good folks behind the 7th annual FREAK SHOW Horror Film Festival have just unveiled their 2012 schedule. Filmmakers take note as well: submissions are now being accepted.

This year the action emanates from Orlando, Florida on Halloween weekend, October 26-28. While that leaves fans and filmmakers a full eight months advance notice, this year there are some changes that could prompt a significant influx of traffic, so you may want to get your plans brewing prematurely.

Audi decided to take aim at the undead during it's Super Bowl commercial called 'Vampire Party'.  Vampires are hot right now and is Twilight so Audi decided to go with a anti-Twilight inspired commercial.  Now I want to buy an Audi just because they're apparently anti-Twilight. haha

The Twilight inspired ad features a bunch of kids that could never afford an Audi, sitting around a fire looking young and fun. 

Two new clips have been released for the horror movie Playback which is available now on VOD and will be in theaters on March 9, 2012 from Magnet Releasing.  Playback is about a group of high school students who investigate their towns infamous past and unwittingly unlock an even darker secret. Now, an evil spirit has been awakened and will stop at nothing to find his true heir.

We will be posting a review of Playback this week.

The Divide had a very limited theatrical release and chances are you have not seen yet.  The good news is Anchor Bay is going to release The Divide on DVD and Blu-ray on April 17, 2012.


The Divide explores the horror of human beings unfettered by laws or social norms of morality in a world ravaged by nuclear holocaust.  The end of the world in The Divide is not heroic, but rather dismal from beginning to end.

Tomorrow is the premiere of ABC's new horror television show The River.  Oren Peli the director of Paranormal Activity created the lasted horror entry The River.

The River is about bout the crew of a state-of-the-art research vessel on a quest to find a missing TV explorer in the Amazon.  The show will have it's 2 hour debut on February 7, 2012 at 9pm and will consist of 6 episodes.

Today we have a first look at Bait 3D that is due to theaters sometime in 2012-2013.  Bait 3D's story is about when freak tsunami traps shoppers at a coastal Australian supermarket inside the building ... along with a pack of tiger sharks.

Take a look at the early sales trailer and behind the scenes photo below.  Let's hope this one is better than Shark Night 3D.