Production Begins On Sci-fi/Thriller “Dark Skies”

Scott Stewart’s “Dark Skies” has started production. The film is a sci-fi/thriller that finds a family dealing with a home invasion of the fourth kind. An alien is entering their home nightly to prey upon their children. Increasingly isolated from skeptical friends and neighbors, the couple is forced to take matters into their own hands to save their family. The film is set to cast Josh Hamilton, Keri Russell and JK Simmons.

Check Out The Trailer For Fang Comedy “Vamps”

Sorry but this will be on my list of guilty pleasure watches forever right along side “Dick” and “Valley Girl” and “Night Of The Comet”. Check out the trailer for super bubble-goth vampire flick “Vamps”.
Goody (Alicia Silverstone) and Stacy (Krysten Ritter) are all about the night life (in super amped ‘Betty’ and ‘Veronica’ style), clubbing, hooking up and always trending like uber-banked bi@tches!, and hiding the simple fact of their true self (which if ‘life coaching’ has taught anything it has taught that this is a no-no). They still have a lot to learn about love though, when Stacy unexpectedly falls for the son of a vampire hunter, and Goody runs into the man of her dreams from decades earlier.
With their destinies at stake, the girls are faced with a difficult choice; give up their eternal youth for a chance at love, or continue to live their uncomplicated fabulously single lives forever.
 

Check Out The Trailer For Horror Short “Morgue Street”

Based upon Poe’s “The Murders In Rue Morgue” italian director has created this blend of classic giallo and film noir fest of depravity in horror short “Morgue Street”. The short will be part of an anthology called “Poe 2: Project Of Evil”. Check out the trailer below.

“Morgue Street” tells the story of two prostitutes, mother and daughter, played by Desiree Giorgetti (star of "Morituris" and "Ritual: A psychomagic story") and Federica Tommasi struggling against a mysterious creature after it has broken into their home.

“Found In Time” To Have World Premiere At Shriekfest 2012

Arthur Vincie’s sci-fi/nior will have it’s world premiere at this years Shriekfest Film Festival. The film is a dramatic blend of film nior and sci-fi that focuses on an alternate world day in New YorK City where psychics with real powers sell their services as street vendors. They live in fear of the Psychological Police Corps ("Psychcops") and lead lonely, desperate lives. Our hero, Chris, is a collector. He compulsively picks up the things most of us throw away or forget – pens, coins, lighters, keys, stones, and other detritus – and sells them to passersby. But every object he picks today will have meaning for someone in the future.
His gift comes with a big downside, however – he experiences his life out of order, slippingbetween the past, present and future. Chris wants to live a "regular" existence, and copes with his slippage as best he can. But when he commits murder in the future, he realizes he has to alter his present in order to prevent it. But how can he do this when he’s not even sure of what time it is? The film stars MacLeod Andrews, Mina Vesper Gokal, Kelly Sullivan, Derek Morgan, Mollie O'Mara, Curt Bouril, Eric Martin Brown and Stephen Bradbury.
 

 
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Osama By Lavie Tidhar

Book Worth Reading:

Lavie Tidhar’s highly-praised and BSFA Award-nominated novel Osama is being published in paperback in October.
The outspoken and controversial Israeli-born author delivers the most exciting, daring and sensitive, fictional engagement with the post-9/11 era. Tidhar was in Dar-es-Salaam during the American embassy bombings in 1998, stayed in the same hotel as the Al Qaeda operatives in Nairobi, and narrowly avoided both the 2005 London, King’s Cross and 2004 Sinai attacks – all of which has informed this vital book.The critical reception of Osama has been nothing short of astonishing – making it a must-read novel for both genre and mainstream readers.
 
In an alternate world without global terrorism, a private detective is hired by a mysterious woman to track down the obscure creator of the fictional vigilante, Osama Bin Laden...
His identity slowly fragments as he discovers the shadowy world of the Refugees, ghostly entities haunting the world in which he lives. Where do they come from? What do they want? Joe knows how the story should end, but is he ready for the truths he will uncover... or the choice he will have to make?
 
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Check Out The Official Trailer For James Cullen Bressack’s “Hate Crime”

The official Trailer for James Cullen Bressack's new film “HATE CRIME” has just released! This is the second feature film by James, his first being the amazon horror best seller “MY PURE JOY” which was released last year. The film has just begun our festival submissions and have already won Best Picture and Best Director at the Underground Monster Carnival Festival in OKLAHOMA. Check out my review here. Also an Official Selection in Grimmfest 2012 in Manchester, U.K. along with the POLLYGRIND film festival in LAS VEGAS and the LATE NIGHT HORROR FILM FESTIVAL in CALIFORNIA.

"A family, just arrived in a new neighborhood, are recording their youngest son's birthday celebrations on video when their home is suddenly invaded by a bunch of crystal-meth-crazed lunatics... '
 

My Review Of “Scary Or Die” 2012

“Scary Or Die” anthology tells five very different dark and twisted stories with L.A as a backdrop save the first. The first story happens in the borderlands outside the city close to Mexico. The film manages to quietly hint at the interwoven depth of the five tales with carefully hidden elements to the tale which require careful attention from the viewer to catch the connection. “Scary Or Die” has directors Bob Badway, Michael Emanuel, and Igor Meglic coming together to create some clever and fresh urban tales of horror which star Bill Oberst Jr., Alexandra Choi, and Corbin Bleu just to name a few playing out these ill fated lives.

“Scary Or Die” is a classic horror trilogy that celebrates the classic dark, witty and twisted styles most common in 80’s anthologies and television series (Tales From The Darkside is the one I kept coming back to as I watched this film). The stories are “The Crossing” - a very dark and poignant story of prejudice and karma which has a couple of ‘good ole boys’ seeking to deport immigrants in their own sick manner only to have fate exact a gruesome justice of it’s own; “Tae Jung’s Lament” - a Korean vampire tale that is both elusive and clever in it’s re-imagining of a ‘damsel in distress’ story; “Re-Membered” – a story that brings a scene of almost demonic or devilish cat and mouse dance between a shady character with someone in the trunk; “Clowned”- is an emotional horror story that has a family torn apart over some demonic case of twisted circumstance which conjures nightmares on so many levels; and “Lover Come Back”- a sinister and justified voodoo love story that proves some emotional bonds go beyond the grave or in this case the gross dumping ground.

For me this is one of the better produced anthologies that flows cleanly between tales as given through us by an unknown person via a website entitled “Scary Or Die”. The person becomes known at the end, tying up the thread of continuation in this nice little flick. The stories varied from dark humor to melodramatic despair. Each of the stories held out to the very last scene before unveiling the full scope of the twisted tales which brought a freshness to each of them and made this film very entertaining. It is not a balls out scary anthology but it is clever and modern. “Scary Or Die” is a new urbanized 21st century anthology that holds it’s own against the classics. I will watch this one many more times before I tire of it. Mainly because there are some deep messages in these stories that you don’t see in a lot of the new anthologies and I am still trying to figure out what those messages actually represent.