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Thanks to the Big Server Crash of ‘10, I lost all of my files(not just this site either). Luckily the databases remained unharmed. So we are back in this bastardized form for right now, until I have the time to rebuild the site properly(I’ll start after Dark Woods in Kentucky). We are glad to be back. At least you can read the fucker now.

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Gross Movie Reviews #184

By Tim Gross

The Vindicator (VHS) – Pam Grier stars as a mercenary named ‘Hunter’ who must track down an unstoppable man in a new space aged suit made for Mars but it was going to be used as a high tech weapon. A scientist gets burned badly becomes apart of the experiment of wearing the suit where if anybody comes near him he kills. Cheesy as hell, but as usual a fun and forgotten 80’s flick that I give 2 stars.

Black Swarm (DVD) – Robert Englund stars as a scientist who might be a small town’s only hope for a genetically engineered bee that is killing the townsfolk! I give it 2 stars.

Beauty and the Beasts: A Dark Tale (DVD/SyFy Channel) – Another updated version of ‘Beauty and the Beast’. Estella Warren, who stars as ‘Belle’ or the beast’s love interest is pretty much a sure sign the movie will suck. Honestly, can you name a good movie with her starring in it? She is the male version of Jerry O’Connell. You see his name on the film you are usually walking away before you witness more stupidity. The movie is just your average SyFy Channel film that doesn’t leave you drooling for more but this doesn’t put you into a coma of horribleness and make you want to commit suicide… I say wait for the sequel as I give it 1 ½ stars.

A Dangerous Man (DVD) – Already Steven Seagal’s second film of 2010 and he is still kicking ass. Seagal stars as a retired army special forces solider who gets wrongly blamed for a death of a carjacker who tried to carjack his wife. Seagal spends six years in jail and is let go on the count of DNA evidence and begins to cause havoc not long after most likely to make up for lost time and his wife leaving him. The film isn’t as strong as his last few direct-to-video movies but this is the return of ‘mean-Seagal’? Where Seagal is just fucking people up and killing them for no apparent reason at times when in the past he usually just injury’s the villains. I haven’t seen this much ass kicking since the ‘Under Siege’ days. I give the film 2 stars.

Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever (DVD) – The movie picks up only days after the first film’s events following the trucks of bottled water and where it goes as it becomes apparent the center of attention for the film is going to be a school prom where the infected water is going. Once the infected water is drank by most of the high school its up to a high school nerd and his wanna be girlfriend to try and escape and found someone to tell as the school and the town is being killed off by people in Hazmat suits and for no given reason who, what, or why… The film does have its delightful gore moments but I felt the sequel could have gone in some many directions and this one wasn’t it! Maybe it’s just me? I have already gotten some comments and e-mails through Myspace and Facebook wondering how I could say something bad about the film but shit when it comes down to it, the film is uneventful and sucks zoo animal cock! I loved the first film and thought the sequel can only be better but instead it just looks like a mish mash combo of “Dance of the Dead”, “The Crazies” (the original for the dumb people out there), and pick your latest running zombie flick! Yeah they kept an original character or two but for the buildup of a non-Eli Roth sequel it came off worse than a limp dick on prom night. I give the film 1 star.

Creature of Darkness (DVD) – A horrible ‘alien attacks college-something kids on a camping trip’ film. If there is such a thing as a ‘cookie-cutter’ alien attacks film, this nails it on the head with its supposedly multi-racial cast and the main reason the alien is attacking to begin with. Oh, and don’t let me forget who also got casted into the film: Devon “I look drugged up and bloated but haven’t done any good or notable film since Final Destination” Sawa and one of Joey Lawrence’s younger clones who wants you to remember he has a career after Disney channel reruns! Exciting! If you consider being forced into a two week coma by the boredom this film causes. Feeling stupid and retarded, go rent this film as I give it 0 stars and is available through www.mtivideo.com .

  Any comments or questions please send to: GrossMovieReview@aol.com or www.myspace.com/slasherfilmfan . If you want to help support my movie habits please buy a book for the love of god. Also you can purchase any of my five “Gross Movie Reviews” books at www.lulu.com. You can also find other shit from me at www.bastardsofhorror.com and in the movie review section of the past issues of Ultra Violent magazine (www.uvmagazine.com). Remember folks always support your local independent movie theater (unless you are banned for some stupid reason), independent video store, and independent filmmakers! It will keep horror alive………

If interested in purchasing a copy of my books, just go to www.lulu.com or www.amazon.com and search for Gross Movie Reviews!

Hey horror fans come by my table at the Dark Woods Con in Kentucky, March 5-7^th, 2010 and share a beer. Tiffany Shepis, Michael Berryman, Ari Lehman, the fine gentlemen of Dead Pit, among others will be there also… For details check out www.darkwoodscon.com .

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Gross Movie Reviews #182

By Tim Gross

Wizards (DVD) – Another animated feature from Ralph Bakshi. Made in 1977, and mostly known for his fantasy animation and his other animated feature “Fire and Ice” from the early 80s that was finally released on DVD last year. This animated feature is rich in the storyline of good vs. evil (aka Avatar vs. Blackwolf or brother vs. brother) and takes place many years after the world has been ravaged with nuclear war and has pretty much wiped out all humankind. It’s up to a small elf-like wizard (Avatar) to stop his Skeletor-like brother (Blackwolf) from sending the world in total darkness with the use of weapons from the past and Hitler/Nazi memorabilia. Odd but intriguing film that most likely was made because of the popularity of Sci-fi/fantasy at the time and pot smokers! Give it a chance as I give it 2 stars.

Universal Soldier: Regeneration (DVD) – It has been years since the last sequel to the “Universal Soldier” soldier that got minimal praise. So why a return to this franchise for Jean-Claude? Most likely needing money and the success of his critically acclaimed French feature “JCVD” that surprised audiences last year. But this isn’t any ordinary action sequel it is a kick ass sequel! Years have past since the Universal Soldier program failed and Jean-Claude Van Damme has been working with a certain doctor to maybe regain a life he might have had once but still has nightmares of the past. But good old JCVD is needed again by the government since a Russian version of the program but updated, has helped a renegade scientist take over Chernobyl and threaten to blow up one of the reactors to poison the world. The updated Russian version is played by a MMA veteran who just fucks people up in this flick. He cannot be stop by the top soldiers of the world so the government brings back JCVD to kick ass. But of course the evil scientist has a back up plan and that is Dolph F’N Lundgren! He only has about 15 minutes of screen time but the fight between the MMA fighter, JCVD, and Dolph is awesome fucking fight-action fun! This isn’t your usual you know Van Damme will go unscratched! It becomes my man Van Damme gets his ass kick which makes the film a hell of lot more fun as he believes he is unstoppable until the new improved Universal Soldier is wiping the floor with him. Shit! This action film fuckin rocks and will be loved by all Van Damme fans! I give it 3 stars.

Zone 39 (DVD) – An Australian future flick made in the mid-90s about a man who has lost his wife and child and becomes isolated at a border patrol post to protect the free land. As the man slowly goes insane the people he keeps killing to protect the border are trying to run across for a good reason as he believes he has found a cover up about a chemical spill in main city’s water supply. I give it 2 stars.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Season Four (DVD) – Bust out the pot and booze as the misadventures of Frylock, Shake, Meatwad, and Karl continues… The whole season is based around the two space invader aliens that people the finger and the other two aliens who dropped out of college to just hang out in space. This season features the likes of a ‘death Atari’ game, Carl losing his skin to an internet portal, Carl calling his classmates from high school twenty years ago so he can jerk off, and Shake trying to keep Meatwad in the microwave to reach the world record. Bizarre, but fun shit, especially drunk or high or both. I give it 3 stars.

Emanuelle in America (DVD) – Wow, was this a fucked up and bizarre film! If you grew up in the 80s, boy or girl, your ass tried to catch one the famous Emanuelle flicks on Skinamax just to see what all the fuss was about. Shit it was like porn, but only you knew about it! Well, this flick picks up in 1976, where Emanuelle is a photographer and reporter as she decides after taking pictures of nude woman all day and banging her ugly 70s boyfriend she is going to do a story about the high class of people of the world in Rome in how they live and have sex. This is where the film turns from softcore to hardcore to crazy and bizarre. And yes, this unrated film has penetration and animal sex (sort of), hard to explain but needed to be seen! Looking for an off the wall exploitation film? You have found it in “Emanuelle in America” as I give it 3 ½ stars. The film stars Laura Gemser as Emanuelle and the director of the film is the famous Joe D’Amato.

Frontier(s) (DVD) – The film was once suppose to be apart of the 2007 After Dark Horrorfest but for its graphic nature and what was said about it before it hit America it was released separately. This unrated French film kicks the “Saw” and “Hostel” franchises right in the fuckin nads as this film goes for the throat and rips it out. Four men and a woman just stole a shitload of cash during a riot in Paris and making their way to Holland. One man is shot and needs medical attention so his sister and her ex-boyfriend drop him off at a hospital and are going to meet the other two men at an out of the way hostel to split the money and make for Holland. One problem is the hostel has a strange way treating the people who stay there. The film runs a little slow until the two men who arrive at the hostel first come face to face with an unrelenting horror that cannot be described easily! The film is just fucked up, bloody, brutal, gory, and just fucking oozes of horror awesomeness as its like French version of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” and “House of 1000 Corpses” but smashed together into a bloody goodness mess! This film does not disappoint as I give it 4 stars.

Slaughter (DVD) – A boring and uneventful entry into the 2009 After Dark Horrorfest about a young woman running from her past because of an abusive boyfriend and finds a younger woman who has her own set of issues with men. Together they become close and live together on a farm where strange things happen in a slaughterhouse. The film wasn’t a complete utter piece of shit but there were better films in the Horrorfest. I give it 1 ½ stars.

Autopsy (DVD) – An excellent entry in the 2009 After Dark Horrorfest that is a fun thrill ride into what happens if you drink and drive in a deserted part of Louisiana. Four friends partying a little too much at Mardi Gras have an accident on a back road of Louisiana only to be picked up by paramedics shortly after. With broken cell phones and not sure if they are injured and killed a man in a hospital gown they go with the paramedics to be checked out. They arrive at Mercy Hospital, a strange, eerie, and empty hospital to meet their doctor played by perfectly by genre veteran Robert Patrick. One by one they go to exam rooms to be checked out only to not return as the evil doctor is performing experiments in hopes of curing his dying wife! Not often do you get a creepy and cool horror flick these days that keep it simple but make an effective little scary horror flick. This film is enjoyable entry into the After Dark Horrorfest and a must own. Don’t forget to notice the nurse/assistant to Robert Patrick played by none other than Jennette Goldstein! I give this flick 3 stars.

Transmorphers: Fall of Man (DVD/SyFy Channel) – A crappy rip off of “Transformers” and a couple other big budget pieces of shit that stars the older but cute Jennifer Rubin who is best known for her roles in “Nightmare on Elm St. Part 3: Dream Warriors” and “Bad Dreams”. If it wasn’t for Jennifer I would use the film as a shitwipe or a coaster! I give it ½ star.

Terminators (DVD) – Oh the horror!!! I would rather cut off my own penis, fry it up in a pan, and eat it than watch this so-called shitfest again. I give it nothing…

Any comments or questions please send to: GrossMovieReview@aol.com or www.myspace.com/slasherfilmfan . If you want to help support my movie habits please buy a book for the love of god. Also you can purchase any of my five “Gross Movie Reviews” books at www.lulu.com. You can also find other shit from me at www.bastardsofhorror.com and in the movie review section of the past issues of Ultra Violent magazine (www.uvmagazine.com). Remember folks always support your local independent movie theater (unless you are banned for some stupid reason), independent video store, and independent filmmakers! It will keep horror alive………

If interested in purchasing a copy of my books, just go to www.lulu.com or www.amazon.com and search for Gross Movie Reviews!

Hey horror fans come by my table at the Dark Woods Con in Kentucky, March 5-7^th, 2010 and share a beer. Tiffany Shepis, Michael Berryman, Ari Lehman, the fine gentlemen of Dead Pit, among others will be there also… For details check out www.darkwoodscon.com .

Gross Movie Reviews #183

By Tim Gross

Antibodies (DVD) – A German serial killer film that has English subtitles and is a very excellent thriller that just sucks you into the story that you think you have seen before and know whats going on but you don’t. The film is a combo of “Seven”, “Kiss the Girls”, “Silence of the Lambs”, and possible one or two others I might have forgotten. The film opens with an older woman in the bottom floor of an apartment building complaining about noise or screaming coming from the top floor apartment. Two officers investigate and they just happen to knock on the wrong door as this door belongs to a man who is painting on his apartment walls with his victim’s blood and he is buck naked! One officer gets shot through the door and is killed and back up is called in. The naked man happens to be a serial killer of 13 male victims. All 13 were male and 12 years old also. And he jumps through the doorway with a victim’s body to distract the officers and try to make his way to the street to run. But along the way he jumps through a window and lands on the asphalt only to paralyze himself from the waist and almost get away trying to crawl away. This all takes place in the first ten minutes of the film with the next two intense hours of the serial killer refusing to talk to anybody except this small town constable where a death of a 12 year old girl has gone unsolved and cold in his small town and he believes the serial killer did it but just cannot prove it. It has your usual interesting twists and turns but an ending that you thought you seen coming but didn’t as it is set up very cleverly. I give this overseas killer thriller 4 stars. Be warned there is some male full frontal nudity!

Tokyo Zombie (DVD) – A Japanese zombie flick that starts off great with two guys who work together, but mostly slack off to practice martial arts only to kill their so-called supervisor by accident. So they take him to the ‘black mountain’ where people dump their garbage and dead things only for them to come back to life because of the toxic waste dumped there. It begins with a woman poking her head through the dirt to bite off this man’s penis and that is when it goes downhill. The zombie film goes for a slapstick comedy film about two guys who become close friends and fails to translate in the US as a good zombie film. The problem is too is that there have been quite a few masterpiece zombie flicks that have rolled out of Japan and any Japanese zombie film has a lot to live up too. This one I would avoid but if you wanna be more bored than watching “The Notebook” with your girlfriend go rent it. I give it 1 star.

The Curse (VHS) – Wil Wheaton is a young teenager stuck on a farm in the mid to late 80’s where nothing happens until a meteor lands near the farm. A local doctor declares it just a big ball of ice from an airliner. Meanwhile, a surveyor (played by John Schneider)  for the Tennessee Valley comes by and is sidetracked by a slimy real estate agent trying to get on the action and doesn’t allow him to see where the meteor fell. The ice ball melts and infects the water supply and killing the crops and changing Wheaton’s family into some hideous freaks. A forgettable film for most but something horror fans should try and revisit. I believe the first and second “Curse” is on DVD now with the third in limbo. The film is based on a H.P. Lovecraft story. I give it 2 stars.

The Wind (VHS) – Its 1986 and the beautiful Meg Foster plays a writer who goes to an abandon building in an empty foreign village to write her latest mystery novel. Problem her landlord dies the very next day and there is only her and the caretaker. Not a great thriller but it does have the talented Meg Foster along with Wings Hauser and Steve Railsback. I give it 1 ½ stars.

Sweet Evil (VHS) – The very sultry and hot looking Bridgette Wilson wants a family bad. Ever since her parents died in a vicious car accident with trapped in their automobile people have a tendency of dying around her. She wants a family so bad that she finds a couple who cannot have kids but seek out a doctor for their final try and she convinces the doctor to become the surrogate mother for the couple after she bangs the shit out of the doctor. Of course people are getting mysteriously hurt and the couple is not liking what she is doing while carrying the baby only to have an ending you see coming after the wife visits Bridgette’s aunt. Most likely you missed it when it came out in the mid-90’s direct-to-video or like me you were most likely touching yourself when you seen her in Mortal Kombat video game adaptation film! I give it 1 ½ stars mostly just for Bridgette Wilson…

Hobbs End (VHS) – Cerina Vincent’s older look-a-like from the 90’s stars in this horrible piece of shit that has one of those box covers from the 80’s that lies to you about what is actually in the movie. Like a good film for instance! I give this crap 0 stars!

 The Land that Time Forgot (DVD/SyFy Channel/remake) – C. Thomas Howell stars and directs the film about a group of friends who traveling on a boat during a storm go through a rip through time and land on an island where the dinosaurs roam and its millions of years in the past! No Rutger Hauer… No Wolverines scream… But I got to give him credit for still plugging away at an acting career. I give it 1 ½ stars.

 Any comments or questions please send to: GrossMovieReview@aol.com or www.myspace.com/slasherfilmfan . If you want to help support my movie habits please buy a book for the love of god. Also you can purchase any of my five “Gross Movie Reviews” books at www.lulu.com. You can also find other shit from me at www.bastardsofhorror.com and in the movie review section of the past issues of Ultra Violent magazine (www.uvmagazine.com). Remember folks always support your local independent movie theater (unless you are banned for some stupid reason), independent video store, and independent filmmakers! It will keep horror alive………

If interested in purchasing a copy of my books, just go to www.lulu.com or www.amazon.com and search for Gross Movie Reviews!

Hey horror fans come by my table at the Dark Woods Con in Kentucky, March 5-7^th, 2010 and share a beer. Tiffany Shepis, Michael Berryman, Ari Lehman, the fine gentlemen of Dead Pit, among others will be there also… For details check out www.darkwoodscon.com .

Hello horror fans,

Here are some updates on the Horror Realm™ front:

·         The Cara Gasper Memorial Art Auction that was to have taken place today has been postponed. The weather forecast here in Pittsburgh is uncertain and constantly changing for today, so we have decided to postpone the art auction until next Saturday, March 6.  Same time (7 PM to 10 PM) and location (Human Production Gallery in Bethel Park).  We apologize for any inconvenience and for the short notice. The safety of our patrons is a top priority.

·         Horror Realm™, Pittsburgh’s modern horror convention, has been honored with a nomination for Best Convention of 2009 by the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards.  The Rondos are fan based, with nominations and votes coming from horror fans, pros and enthusiasts.  The Classic Horror Film Board has been honoring excellence in the horror genre through the Rondos since 2002.  Voting continues through April 3; ballots are available at www.rondoaward.com.

·         Horror Realm™ offers an eclectic guest lineup for horror fans, including the addition of:

o        Three’s Company cast members Priscilla Barnes and Joyce DeWitt.  Barnes is best known to horror fans for her role in the 2005 Rob Zombie film, The Devil’s Rejects.

o        Gary Streiner, one of the ten original investors in the seminal horror film Night of the Living Dead.  Streiner was also sound engineer for the film and founder of the Living Dead Festival.

o        Mike Gornic, who was director of photography for the George Romero films Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, Knightriders and Creepshow.  He also directed the film Creepshow II.

o        Terri Susan Smith was the lead female actress in the cult film Basket Case.  Today, Terri is better known as gypsy artist Ahu Smith, who creates sacred healing Bowls of Empowerment.

o        Mark Tierno will make his first ever convention appearance at Horror Realm™.  Tierno is a voice-over artist and comedian best known for his role as the zombie “Beef Treats” in the film Day of the Dead.

o        Monique Dupree, a scream queen, alternative model and singer with more than 50 films to her credit.

o        Mark Cray, an independent actor best known for roles in The Grindhouse Massacre and The Horror Convention Massacre.

o        Dawn of the Dead alums Sharon Ceccatti-Hill, Tony Buba and Joe Shelby.

·         The convention welcomes the Pittsburgh Film Worker Awards as part of its film program.  The awards honor work in independent feature length as well as short horror films with a “Creatch” award.  The competition will include a short film festival.  For more information, visit www.pfwa.com.

·         The Horror Realm™ film program will also feature a screening of Night of the Living Dead Reanimated, a video based art show in which artists from around the world were invited to select scenes from the original film and make them their own.  Details on the project can be found at www.notldr.com.

·         Don’t miss the Horror Realm™ Independent Grindhouse on March 13 at The Oaks Theater!  Details at our web site.

For details on the convention and its events, including exhibitor and sponsor rates, schedule, guests, advance ticket purchase and hotel reservations, please visit www.horrorrealmcon.com or email info@horrorrealmcon.com.  

Thanks!

Miss Dee

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FINALLY SOME FAR-OUT AND AWESOME NEWS!!!!

PUPPETMASTER: AXIS OF EVIL HAS A JUNE 15^TH RELEASE DATE!!! AND WE WILL SOON ANNOUNCE SOME TOTALLY MIND-BENDING LIMITED EDITION GOODIES THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER EXCLUSIVELY AT FULLMOONDIRECT.COM AROUND THE MIDDLE OF MARCH. WE ARE TOTALLY EXCITED ABOUT HOW GREAT THE MOVIE IS TURNING OUT – AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERY FINAL FX SHOT IS AS GOOD AS WE CAN GET IT!!!!

SO STAY TUNED!

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Nominees have been announced for the EIGHTH Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror awards, recognizing the best in monster research, creativity and film preservation.  Horror Realm is honored to be included among the nominees for Best Convention of 2009.

These awards are by fans, for fans. Every Rondo nominee below is being recognized for a significant achievement in the genre during the year of 2009. So take a look at the ballot at the Rondo web site (www.rondoaward.com) and please let the nominees know how much we appreciate their work by voting.  Ballots will be accepted through April 3. 

Gutmuncher.com New SHOW/INTERVIEW up NOW!!!!

“Jason Rutherford, director of the upcoming documentary on grindhouse films Masters of the Grind, joins John and Ed for an interview.  Then John and Ed review 3 classic Bava flicks from the 60s, The Girl that Knew too Much, Black Sabbath, and Black Sunday.  Also the latest member of the Gutmunchers family Jerry Horror reports in for his very first segment on the show!”

Happy Cloud Pictures is proud to announce the release of

The Resurrection Game 10^th Anniversary DVD!

                After ten long years of false-starts and works-in-progress, PA-based Happy Cloud Pictures has finally completed the official DVD of their 16mm “zombie-noir”, The Resurrection Game, just in time for the movie’s 10^th Anniversary.

                Referred to as “ultra-rare” (which is an understatement) by Stoker-Winning writer Jonathan Maberry, The Resurrection Game is set in the years following an undead outbreak, where the constant presence of zombies is just another daily nuisance. When a private detective teams up with a scientist and a pair of colorful zombie exterminators, he uncovers a dark conspiracy so far-reaching that the walking dead are the least of the problems. The movie stars Ray Yeo (One of the Living), Amy Lynn Best (Splatter Movie: The Director’s Cut), Bill Homan (Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnation), Francis Veltri (Severe Injuries) andKristen Pfeifer (Biophage), with special appearances by Jasi Cotton Lanier (Alice in Wonderland) and Debbie Rochon (Colour from the Dark).

            Beset with numerous problems during its long post-production, The Resurrection Game will finally be available to the public in its final form on April 30, 2010. “We went back to the original neg-to-DV transfer,” says writer/director Mike Watt (A Feast of Flesh, Demon Divas and the Lanes of Damnation), “and discovered that a lot of the digital ‘archiving’ glitches were present from the outset. We still cleaned it up to the best of our ability, with a new color correction pass and a new audio mix taken from the original on-set ¼” recordings, professional digital compression and the whole nine yards. It looks better than ever and the 16mm colors really pop on this transfer.”

            The anniversary DVD comes with motion menus hosted by everyone’s favorite undead pitch-man, Necro-Phil, two audio commentaries—one solo track from the director and one featuring the producer trio of Best, Watt and Homan—and a brand new 40-minute documentary about the long journey getting from 2000 to today, featuring interviews with fellow artists Scooter McCrae (Shatter Dead), Alan Rowe Kelly (The Blood Shed), Lloyd Kaufman (Poultrygeist), Michael Gingold (Fangoria Magazine managing editor), Patrick Desmond (The Absence of Light) and many more. The documentary also includes some never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage and rushes.

     “While Amy, Jeff Waltrowski (Project: Valkyrie), Henrique Couto (Faces of Schlock) and I were archiving sixty or so hours of VHS footage shot on set, we discovered a number of tapes that we hadn’t seen since the day we’d shot them, including snippets of things that were originally meant for the final cut that got lost along the way. So it was fun to see that stuff again.”

     Covered in such publications as Jamie Russell’s Book of the Dead, Zombiemania, Zombie CSU, The Dark Side, Rue Morgue and Fangoria Magazine, The Resurrection Game has developed an incredible cult-following over the years and fans will be pleased with the final version. But if the anniversary disk isn’t enough, those who purchase the DVD can send in a proof of purchase provided on the cover to receive a completely free companion disk filled with numerous other extras—including a rare investor’s video, unseen trailers, a never-before-seen alternate opening and the original VHS workprint which has been bootlegged around the world!

     “That’s the version most people were familiar with,” says Watt. “This ugly, ‘Robot Epilepsy Theater’ thing I shot off a Steenbeck monitor. But when we asked fans what they’d most like to see on a second disk, this is what they asked for. Grease pencil marks, stuttering picture, chattering soundtrack and all.”

      As 2010 also marks Happy Cloud Pictures’ 13^th Anniversary as a company, look for more special offers from the company throughout the year by visiting the website at www.happycloudpictures.com

      The Resurrection Game streets on April 30, 2010, with an S.R.P. of $19.99. For more information, please visit www.happpycloudpictures.com. To arrange interviews with the principals, please contact them directly at info@happycloudpictures.net

February 12th 2010

with Dan Farrands!
Part 2 of 2!

This week DEADPIT concludes the excellent interview with Dan Farrands the man behind Halloween 6, His Name Was Jason, The Friday the 13th Deluxe DVDS and the upcoming ‘Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy’. This week its everything post Halloween 6 and beyond, in addition to that your Thrillbilly Horror Hosts discuss all the latest happenings in the world of horror, take your phonecalls giving away tickets to the upcoming Dark Woods Convention in Pikeville. Discuss the brand new DEADPIT On The Road Season 2 DVD and a lot more. The movies reviewed include the latest chapter in the neverending Saw franchise in Saw VI and the 1980’s proper throwback released by Dark Sky Films that is House of the Devil. All of this plus new video announcements and the guest for next week that will bring a world of evil upon thee here on DEADPIT.com !

THE CINEMA WASTELAND MOVIE and MEMORABILIA EXPO’s “Spring Spectacular” this April 9th, 10th and 11th, 2010 promises to be one of our biggest and best shows to date when we present a ZOMBIE (aka Zombi 2) Reunion and all around Zombie Themed Show. We’ve already got some great guests from Lucio Fulci’s cult horror classic, as well as several of horrordom’s most well known zombies confirmed and ready to go for April’s show; so start making those plans to join us now for a Wasteland Weekend you’ll never forget.
And don’t forget that you have until March 5th to purchase both Single Day and 3-Day Passes for April’s Show and save some decent cash over paying at-the-door prices come show time. We even reward fans for buying weekend passes early and saving money by letting 3-Day Pass holders in half an hour early on Friday. No Other Convention out there does that as far as we know?
To go to our website where you can order tickets online securely using Visa/MC or PayPal click on the following link…. http://www.cinemawasteland.com/xcart/home.php?cat=
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February 19th 2010

with Ellen Sandweiss!
Of The Evil Dead!

Lady evilllll…evilll…she’s a magical mystical woman! This week on Deadpit Radio, the first lady of “Evil Dead”- Ellen Sandweiss- joins us with great vengeance and fury to discuss her amazing work in the genre. Also, sit down and shut yer mouth for another set of DVD reviews including the indie feature “Serial: Amoral Uprising” from director Kevin Jamison, and the newest sci-fi blu-ray from Anchor Bay “Pandorum”. All this plus news on the Deadpit documentary “Into the Pit”, bombastic bundles, the Dark Woods Con, and much more…only on Deadpit.com!

February 26th 2010

DEADPIT 200!
The 200th Episode of The Pit!

It’s the Deadpit bicentennial this week as we celebrate our 200th show in grand style. We’ve got the complete history of the show including segments, songs, and interviews from year’s past, as well as remembrances and info from Deadpit’s “5th Beatle” Michael “Slipcase” Felsher, and radio testimonials from yinz guys! We’ve also got a regular hootenanny of reviews- featuring the Norwegian zombie epic “Dead Snow” and the blu-ray release of George Romero’s original “The Crazies”. Also, we’ve got some breaking guest news from the Dark Woods Con, news about an upcoming interview, and more…VIVA LA deadpit.com!

Midnight Syndicate is teaming up with Precinct 13 Entertainment, Robert Kurtzman’s Creature Corps, and director David Greathouse to produce a music video for Dark Legacy from their Dead Matter: Cemetery Gates CD.  It is the band’s first music video in their 13-year career.  Syndicate’s Edward Douglas, director Greathouse, and Robert Kurtzman will be on hand to premiere the video during The Dubliner Opening Night Celebration co-sponsored by Ken Donat and Westland Insurance at the TransWorld 15th Halloween & Attractions Show in St. Louis March 25th (www.haashow.com). It will also be on display all weekend at the Midnight Syndicate Soundtracks Booth #631.

TransWorld 15th Halloween & Attractions Show - www.haashow.com

Midnight Syndicate Halloween Music – Gothic Fantasy Horror Soundtracks - www.MidnightSyndicate.com

Precinct 13 Entertainment - www.p13entertainment.com

Midnight Syndicate Soundtracks – BOOTH # 631

Robert Kurtzman’s Creature Corps – BOOTH #629