Films

The new zombie independent low-budget flick Eat Me!, written by Katie Carman and Elizabeth Lee and directed by Carman, has a new trailer.

Set in Brooklyn, New York, a group of stoners in a band find themselves battling a zombie apocalypse.

The trailer gives us a good idea of what we can expect from the music, the zombies, and the New York-centric humor imbibed with plenty of pot-smoking...

The horror porn/bondage/sex documentary Graphic Sexual Horror directed and written by Barbara Bell & Anna Lorentzon has been pulled off the virtual shelves of Amazon.com because of 'some explicit issues' regarding the film.

What part of 'Graphic Sexual Horror' did Amazon not understand?...

Production begins next week in the U.K. on Focus Features and BBC Films’ new darker adaptation of gothic suspense Jane Eyre (based on Charlotte Brontë’s classic novel) adaptated by Moira Buffini about looming mansions, stormy moors, and wailing pyromaniac madwomen locked in attics!...

Tess Downy wrote, directed, and produced The Vanguard, an expose of a real-life account of an anti-semitic Aryan group that infiltrates a high school in the Californian Mojave desert and threatens the lives of Jewish teacher and those who try to protect her. Violence, guns, murder, tensions, suspense, and some cool white-trash backdrops seem to make this a scary, realistic portrayal of modern violence.

The film stars Vernon Wells, Joe Estevez, Janet Lee, Randy Wayne, Jacob Lucchini, and Downy herself. No release date yet, but we're waiting for Quantum Releasing to announce it. Downy's next film will be the thriller The Shankill Road, about a group of Irish terrorists in the 1970's that terrorized Northern Ireland, set to start shooting this spring 2010. Watch The Vanguard's trailer...

Award-winning genre filmmaker Devi Snively's next film will be a neo-noir called Last Seen on Dolores Street. Snively's previous work includes Raven Gets a Life, Death in Charge, Teenage Bikini Vampire, Trippin', Meat is Murder, and Confederate Zombie Massacre.

Last Seen on Dolores Street will be "a 2-minute horror noir film that will hopefully actually be disturbing and scary as opposed to our usual whimsical lighthearted approach to horror," says Snively. "I'm both very excited and very nervous - this is a whole new territory for me."

A new monster film called Bait is in development to start shooting Summer 2010, and will be directed by China Moo-Young from a script written by Lucy Moore. Bait is the only monster film entry featured in the iFeatures Twelve; 12 feature film projects/teams in the initial stage of development, three of which will be chosen as finalists to be filmed in Bristol, U.K. this summer. Moore and Moo-Young's Bait beat out 538 other entrants so far. If they win, their film will be shot in Bristol on a budget of £300,000...

Dark Matter DVD, a new distribution company putting out short independent sc-fi films, is distributing Lamia, directed by Katerina Slantcheva, and Void, directed by Meredith Berg, on the first edition of the Dark Matter DVD collection!

These two short sci-/fi horror films haven't been seen much, either in the festival circuit or anywhere else, so we're super-stoked to see them getting distribution! Dark Matter's films all have a very Twilight Zone/Outer Limits kind-of-feel, so we're looking forward to all the content they put out on their compilations. Their next collection will include Tanja Mairitsch's short Fueling the Fire...

On June 8th, Paramount is releasing the new horror film The Cry of the Owl on DVD. It's based on the novel by acclaimed author and suspense master Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley, Strangers On A Train.)

The film tells the story of Robert (Paddy Considine), a man trying to recover from a messy divorce by seeking solace in a small town. Robert becomes fascinated by the apparent domestic bliss of Jenny (Julia Stiles), who he secretly watches through her window. When Jenny catches him, she invites him in and the two begin a relationship, much to the chagrin of Jenny’s boyfriend. But when her boyfriend goes missing, Robert becomes the number one suspect in a murder investigation, leaving him to wonder if Jenny may not be all that she seems.

At the meaningless awards show tonight, 'The Oscars', The Hurt Locker was awarded the 'best picture' oscar, along with best editing, best director, best original screenplay, sound editing and sound mixing.

Congrats to director Kathryn Bigelow for finally breaking through the patriarchal barrier and opening the doors through which all women can now participate in the meaningless, shamefully egotistical Hollywood awards showcase known as The Academy Awards.

David Byron, author, owner of NVF Magazine, and filmmaker has just released the trailer for his new documentary Hot and Horrifying, featuring women who work and live in the horror industry - to go along with a book release of the same title. If it looks slightly similar to the documentary by Reyna Young about the exact same topic entitled Welcome to my Darkside - well, that's because it is. Except Byron's film's title seems to suggest a slightly more, er, sex-oriented film and may be for a different audience - one that just wants to look at hot chicks.

We're going to have PMS, get our panties in a bunch, and start being humorless feminists again in a second (yes, fellows, I have heard it all) but all I really want to say is this: If the film is about women, why aren't they getting the credit they deserve?