Louis Fowler

And the Oscar goes to…Bill Moseley as Otis in THE DEVIL’S REJECTS. Oh sure, Charlize Theron gets an award for MONSTER, but Moseley only gets a freaking Fangoria Chainsaw Award. He (not to discount Sid Haig, Sheri Moon Zombie or William Forsythe) delivered one of the most powerful, beliveable incarnations of pure evil since Anthony Hopkins won for THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. The character of Otis transformed from a cartoonish boogey-man (in HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES) to the embodiment of all things the we fear, slicing our guts out while spouting homespun wisdom as we lie there bleeding to death. It’s a real shame that he didn’t get noticed outside of the horror circles.

Joakim - Mexploitation

Jack Nicholson in The Shining might be an example, although many people see his performance as hammy and over the top. But when the movie itself failed to even be nominated for any Oscars, and was just nominated for, without winning, the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Films “Best Horror Film” award that year, and Stanley Kubrick was nominated for a Worst Director Razzie for it, I guess you can’t get your hopes up.

Mia Farrow’s performance in Rosemary’s Baby is also excellent, and might well have deserved a Best Actress Oscar (she was nominated for, but didn’t win, a BAFTA and a Golden Globe).

But to top them all off, with a performance that doesn’t just impress with its acting skill, it also scares me out of my wits, there’s Michael Rooker in “Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer”. There’s just not that much more to be said about it, it’s probably one of the scariest cases of pure acting ever seen.

Don May, Jr. - Synapse

ROY SCHEIDER in JAWS…

David Z. - Tomb It May Concern

I have a hard time figuring out what is “Academy Award” winning is myself. I can’t get my head around rich hollywood people giving each other awards or what the criteria is… I’ll go with Linnea Quigley, who was robbed for her lack of nomination as Trash in Return Of The Living Dead for rocking a tight body sleeve to maximum effect. That certainly got a standing ovation from my audience!

JA - My New Plaid Pants

I don’t even know where to begin. It’s such a maligned genre in terms of awards recognition. So I’ll just state the most recent oversights: three of the actors in Pan’s Labyrinth - Ivana Baquero as little Ofelia, Sergi Lopez as the evil Captain, and Maribel Verdu as Mercedes - should’ve gotten recognized. All three took roles that are pretty solid archetypes and infused them with something special, be it Baquero’s haunting sadness, Verdu’s soulful defiance, or Lopez’s chilling sadism.

Quality over quantity this time around. I guess everyone else were busy picking an outfit to wear for the red carpet. That or it was a shit question. Thanks once again to everyone who contributed, my Mom for believing in me as a child, J. for encouraging my dreams even during the bad times, my hairdresser, Jose, for working his magic every single day on set, the guy down at the corner who sells Asian bootlegs, my dogwalker…

In one way I’m fairly conservative and set in my ways and that’s when it comes to special effects. I work in an industry where discussion of the latest computer generated special effects are almost mandatory and practical effects of the past are viewed with disdain. Yet there are a still few of us who talk lovingly about rubber suits, stop-motion and all manner of tactile effects. One place where these monsters of legend still reside is in Bob Burn’s Basement, the legendary home of classic props, costumes and effects.

In Bob’s Basement, for example, you can meet the biggest movie star in the world: the original King Kong, or at least the only surviving 18-inch armature that the sculptor Marcel Delgado created for the special effects wizard Willis O’Brien, whose painstaking, frame-by-frame animation brought Kong to life in the 1933 film. Kong is a bit slimmer these days, having lost the foam rubber padding and rabbit-fur coat he wore when he climbed the Empire State Building. Today he stands as a marvelously intricate metal skeleton, fashioned out of nuts, bolts and forged steel. His soulful eyes are empty sockets now, but somehow Kong’s personality still clings to this totemic object.

Like Ray Harryhausen has said, “If you attempt to make fantasy too real, you bring it down to the level of the mundane.” It’s nice to see a place that honours those sentiments.

Every zombie fan worth his salt has had “The Discussion” on at least one occassion. That’s the one where you envision what steps you would take to evade death in the case of a zombie plague. Now it seems as if a group of people have taken the pervasive threat of the undead one step further. The Utne Reader reports on St. Louis’s Zombie Squad.

The group began with zombie-themed camping trips among a handful of friends and has grown into a national survivalist coalition with 175 members and hundreds of fans. Not surprisingly, many in the group are young, hip, and zombie-obsessed, but not all were looking to become survivalists. Westhoff notes that “attendees probably come to the Zombie Squad seminar expecting an in-depth discussion of the monstrous antagonists of Resident Evil and Night of the Living Dead. But they stay interested in what [squad member Christopher] Barnhart has to say long after the discussion strays from zombies.”

The article delves even further into how the zombie scenario and a distrust of the government’s effectiveness during a crisis have comingled to create an international group of nerd survivalists, taking the skills they’ve learned for a fictional disaster and applying them to real world concerns.

The history of grindhouse cinema has rarely been explored, and when it has it’s usually only through ‘zines and books with unbelievably small print runs. Perhaps the problem lies in the term being used to describe a wide variety of films with little in common other than means of distribution and choice of venue. Regardless, anyone just getting acquainted with the grindhouse will find resources spotty at best.

Along comes Twitch Film, which has uncovered the republication in web form of Eddie Mueller’s book Grindhouse - The Forbidden World of Adults Only Cinema over at Greencine. Mueller’s tome starts way back in the 30’s with the roadshow and makes it’s way through the 40’s, 50’s, and up to the 60’s, when Herschell Gordon Lewis and David Friedman traded in soft-core for hard gore.

The next frontier, perhaps, was to show nude people actually engaged in erotic entanglements. They knew that would never pass. In 1963, the sight of a single pubic hair could bring out the riot squad. A penis penetrating a vagina? Absolutely inconceivable.

But what about a knife? Or better yet, an ax?

It’s a great read, and definitely worth your time if you’re interested in the sordid underbelly of cinema.

In one of the most bizarre items to cross my desk in the past few weeks, Cinematical drops the bomb that David Cronenberg, regular musical collaborator Howard Shore and world-famous tenor Placido Domingo are combining their talents to create an opera. And not just any opera, but an opera based upon Cronenberg’s version of The Fly. It looks like Cronenberg is getting nostalgic in his later years.

“It’s a magical reliving of a part of my life, this time playing a completely different role in the creation of a very different animal.”

I guess M. Butterfly wasn’t an option. The two-act adaptation will open in Paris in the summer of 2008, followed by a stop at Los Angeles in September. Apparently the Canadian Opera Company was offered the chance to stage the production but declined due to the high cost. Luckily for me, they are considering hosting The Fly in 2009. I’ll mark that down in my day planner.

Update : Looks like The Horror Blog and the always fascinating Popcorn and Sticky Floors have been pacing one another, each posting similar stories for the past couple days. Make sure you check out their take on the Fly opera, with a bonus look at other horror musical adaptations.

There isn’t much time left before International Read A Comic Book Naked Day, so you better stock up while you can!

If you’re aware of an event I can place here, or are planning one yourself, please send me an email at steven@thehorrorblog.com.

Notable Theatrical Releases

Feb. 23rd - The Number 23
Feb. 23rd - The Abandoned (limited)
March 2nd - Zodiac
March 9th - The Host (limited)
March 16th - Dead Silence
March 16th - Premonition
March 16th - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (limited)
March 23rd - The Hill Have Eyes 2

Notable DVD Releases

Feb. 20th - Wilderness
Feb. 20th - Open Water 2 - Adrift
Feb. 20th - Night of the Living Dorks
Feb. 20th - The Dark Castle Horror Collection (House of Wax, Gothika, Ghost Ship, Thirteen Ghosts and House on Haunted Hill)
Feb. 27th - 42nd Street Forever: XXX-Treme Special Edition
Feb. 27th - Jess Franco’s Count Dracula
Feb. 27th - One Missed Call Collection
Feb. 27th - Perversion Story
Feb. 27th - The Return
Feb. 27th - Shock
Feb. 27th - The Ultimate Hitchcock Collection (Sabotage, Jamaica Inn, The Lady Vanishes, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Farmer’s Wife and 15 more)
Feb. 27th - Chainsaw Sally
Feb. 27th - City of the Living Dead (reissue)
Feb. 27th - Don’t Torture A Duckling (reissue)
Feb. 27th - Inferno (reissue)
Feb. 27th - Deep Red (reissue)
Feb. 27th - Aftermath/Genesis (reissue)

Notable Comic Book Releases

Feb. 21st, 2007

Criminal Macabre Two Red Eyes #3
Hellblazer #229
Scooby Doo #117
Texas Chainsaw Massacre #4
Walking Dead #35
Hellstorm Son Of Satan #5
Legion Of Monsters Werewolf By Night #1
Kolchak Tales Frankenstein Agenda #2
Se7En Sloth #3

Events

Present to Feb. 25th (New York, NY) - Dracula, performed by Downtown Art for ages 8 and up. That’s fucking awesome.
Feb. 23rd -25th (Durham, North Carolina) - Nevermore Film Fest.
Feb. 23rd - 25th (Chicago, Illinois) - Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors including guests Doug Bradley, Jeffrey Combs, Ken Foree, Uwe Boll and many more.
Feb. 23rd (Montreal, Quebec) - Freaky Fridays lecture series. Ophidophobia: What is it with snakes? followed by a screening of Snakes on a Plane.
Feb. 23rd - March 3rd (Porto, Portugal) - Oporto International Film Festival.
Feb. 24th (Kelowna, British Columbia) - Sneak preview of Fido at the Landmark Cinema.
Feb. 24th (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Cinema Sewer 10th Anniversary bash! (NSFW)
Feb. 26th (New York, NY) - The Films of Bong Joon-Ho at the IFC center, including a Q+A with the director after the screening of The Host.

Mar. 2nd (Montreal, Quebec) - Freaky Fridays lecture series. Shrunkenhead Fever, followed by a screening of The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake.
Mar. 3rd (everywhere)- International Read A Comic Book Naked Day.
Mar. 3rd (Burbank, CA) - Dark Delicacies hosts an afternoon with 30 Days of Night scribe Steve Niles and master illustrator Bernie Wrightson.
March 5th (New York, NY) - The Host and Falling To Pieces screenings at Pioneer Theater. Presented by Fangoria.
March 10th (Austin, Texas) - SXSW, The Alamo Drafthouse and Robert Rodriguez present a grindhouse double bill of Torso and Zombie.
March 15th (Toronto, Ontario) - Rue Morgue’s Cinemacabre presents Fido.
March 24th (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) - Exhumed hosts a very special night with Roy Frumkes and his classic grindhouse film Street Trash. In addition, Frumkes will be screening his documentary on George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead, entitled Dream of the Dead, as well as other surprises.
Mar. 29th - April 1st (Toronto, Ontario) - The World Horror Convention descends upon the unsuspecting populace of Toronto, the first time the event has been held outside of the United States.
Mar. 30th - April 1st (Strongsville, Ohio) - Cinema Wasteland movie and memorbilia expo has some truly bizarre and wonderful guests lined up, including the ladies of Faster Pussycat Kill… Kill!

April 2nd (New York, NY) - Severence screening at the Pionner Theater. Presented by Fangoria.
April 6th (London, Ontario) - Vagrancy Films double bill, with Grindhouse followed by Cannibal Ferox.

The grindhouse faux-trailers keep rolling in, this time with the stop-motion Vietnam zombie extravaganza Cong of the Dead. Dave of The Abbatoir rated this one higher than Hobo With A Shotgun, but for me it faltered slightly by using the same voice actor as the narrator and the characters.

Bonus Grindhouse faux-trailer - It’s a bit rough around the edges, but at least Emmauelle, Prisoner of Frankenstein has it’s heart in the right place.

I had intended to spend the weekend doing some housecleaning, both in reality and for the blog. Unfortunately, I came down with the most brutal fever I’ve experienced since the time the ceramic E.T. statue in my bedroom started talking to me. It certainly didn’t help that I finally began whittling down the Stack of Shame and the last movie I watched before going to sleep prompted bizarre hallucinations. Peeping Tom nearly killed me.

Movies

You all know how much I love killer pig movies. Horror Yearbook has the scoop on Pig Hunt, a film about a giant boar, topless cultists and a killer hippy. Oh, you had me at boar. The rest is just icing.

My brother in killer pig movies, Jeff O’Brien, seems to be considering another creature feature project with Prey For The Beast director Brett Kelly.

Genre Girls takes its best stab at mostly-generic stalker film Swimfan. For some weird reason I have a certain amount of affection for that flick.

Steve Bissette tackles Ghost Rider in a review that delves deep into the character’s history.

“Still, I can honestly say this is the best film based on a beloved childhood era decal I’ve ever seen.”

Interviews

Blogcritics speaks to Gary Rhodes, the director of the documentary Lugosi: Hollywood’s Dracula.

UnderGroundOnline talks to Ricou Browning, the man behind the Creature From The Black Lagoon’s underwater sequences.

Television

A drama student in Cardiff is writing her dissertation on Doctor Who, with a special emphasis on the werewolf episode Tooth and Claw.

Literature

The Boston Herald takes us on a walking tour of H.P. Lovecraft’s Providence.

Real World

The Rhea County has a profile of Sci-Fi Subs, a small sandwich shop conquered by robots, giant insects, and creatures from beyond the stars. The menu includes sandwiches like The Plan 9, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Thing, as well as an assortment of salads named Revenge of the Creature, War of the Worlds and Attack of the Killer Tomatoes.

It’s new DVD day once again, though you may want to hold off until next week’s reissue bonanza.

If you’re aware of an event I can place here, or are planning one yourself, please send me an email at steven@thehorrorblog.com.

Notable Theatrical Releases

Feb. 23rd - The Number 23
Feb. 23rd - The Abandoned (limited)
March 2nd - Zodiac
March 9th - The Host (limited)
March 16th - Dead Silence
March 16th - Premonition
March 16th - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (limited)
March 23rd - The Hill Have Eyes 2

Notable DVD Releases

Feb. 20th - Wilderness
Feb. 20th - Open Water 2 - Adrift
Feb. 20th - Night of the Living Dorks
Feb. 20th - The Dark Castle Horror Collection (House of Wax, Gothika, Ghost Ship, Thirteen Ghosts and House on Haunted Hill)
Feb. 27th - 42nd Street Forever: XXX-Treme Special Edition
Feb. 27th - Jess Franco’s Count Dracula
Feb. 27th - One Missed Call Collection
Feb. 27th - Perversion Story
Feb. 27th - The Return
Feb. 27th - Shock
Feb. 27th - The Ultimate Hitchcock Collection (Sabotage, Jamaica Inn, The Lady Vanishes, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Farmer’s Wife and 15 more)
Feb. 27th - Chainsaw Sally
Feb. 27th - City of the Living Dead (reissue)
Feb. 27th - Don’t Torture A Duckling (reissue)
Feb. 27th - Inferno (reissue)
Feb. 27th - Deep Red (reissue)
Feb. 27th - Aftermath/Genesis (reissue)

Notable Comic Book Releases

Feb. 21st, 2007

Criminal Macabre Two Red Eyes #3
Hellblazer #229
Scooby Doo #117
Texas Chainsaw Massacre #4
Walking Dead #35
Hellstorm Son Of Satan #5
Legion Of Monsters Werewolf By Night #1
Kolchak Tales Frankenstein Agenda #2
Se7En Sloth #3

Events

Present to Feb. 25th (New York, NY) - Dracula, performed by Downtown Art for ages 8 and up. That’s fucking awesome.
Feb. 23rd -25th (Durham, North Carolina) - Nevermore Film Fest.
Feb. 23rd - 25th (Chicago, Illinois) - Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors including guests Doug Bradley, Jeffrey Combs, Ken Foree, Uwe Boll and many more.
Feb. 23rd (Montreal, Quebec) - Freaky Fridays lecture series. Ophidophobia: What is it with snakes? followed by a screening of Snakes on a Plane.
Feb. 23rd - March 3rd (Porto, Portugal) - Oporto International Film Festival.
Feb. 24th (Kelowna, British Columbia) - Sneak preview of Fido at the Landmark Cinema.
Feb. 24th (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Cinema Sewer 10th Anniversary bash! (NSFW)
Feb. 26th (New York, NY) - The Films of Bong Joon-Ho at the IFC center, including a Q+A with the director after the screening of The Host.

Mar. 2nd (Montreal, Quebec) - Freaky Fridays lecture series. Shrunkenhead Fever, followed by a screening of The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake.
Mar. 3rd (everywhere)- International Read A Comic Book Naked Day.
Mar. 3rd (Burbank, CA) - Dark Delicacies hosts an afternoon with 30 Days of Night scribe Steve Niles and master illustrator Bernie Wrightson.
March 5th (New York, NY) - The Host and Falling To Pieces screenings at Pioneer Theater. Presented by Fangoria.
March 10th (Austin, Texas) - SXSW, The Alamo Drafthouse and Robert Rodriguez present a grindhouse double bill of Torso and Zombie.
March 15th (Toronto, Ontario) - Rue Morgue’s Cinemacabre presents Fido.
March 24th (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) - Exhumed hosts a very special night with Roy Frumkes and his classic grindhouse film Street Trash. In addition, Frumkes will be screening his documentary on George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead, entitled Dream of the Dead, as well as other surprises.
Mar. 29th - April 1st (Toronto, Ontario) - The World Horror Convention descends upon the unsuspecting populace of Toronto, the first time the event has been held outside of the United States.
Mar. 30th - April 1st (Strongsville, Ohio) - Cinema Wasteland movie and memorbilia expo has some truly bizarre and wonderful guests lined up, including the ladies of Faster Pussycat Kill… Kill!

April 2nd (New York, NY) - Severence screening at the Pionner Theater. Presented by Fangoria.
April 6th (London, Ontario) - Vagrancy Films double bill, with Grindhouse followed by Cannibal Ferox.

I’m a little late getting to this party, but I’m hoping to make up for lost time.

Over a month ago I posted about a small contest Robert Rodriguez was holding in conjunction with SXSW where participants would submit their own faux-trailers for an imaginary grindhouse feature. I immediately forgot all about it, but since then dozens of people have taken up the challenge, many of them posting their contributions on You Tube. I’ve gone through over 30 of them so far, and of them all one stands head and shoulders above the rest. Rodriguez, Tarantino, et al. better watch their backs, because I’m not sure even they can match the exploitative power of Hobo With A Shotgun. Link courtesy of The Rue Mortuary.

Bonus Grindhouse faux-trailer - Witness the horror behind the patch! 150 Days of Sodom’s Warren makes a special appearance in Blind Vengeance.

Movies

Mercy! With a weak selection of movies opening up this weekend, it makes sense that Ghost Rider could take first place. What’s a little more surprising is that it now has the best opening weekend of 2007 so far, with a take of 44.5 million dollars. That practically guarantees that we’ll see a Ghost Rider 2 in the near future. The only other horror movies holding onto a top ten spot are Hannibal Rising at #7 and The Messengers at #9. Pan’s Labryinth finally gives up its hold on #8 and slips down to #11. Not bad at all for a subtitled film.

I took a bit of a break last week. Not that you’d notice. So quite a few things flew under my radar and is probably old news to the rest of you. One of those items is the story that Robert Rodriguez composed a couple of action cues for Edgar Wright’s Hot Fuzz, as well as scoring the hilarious Director’s Cut trailer. It’s interesting to see this group of filmmakers all collaborating and assisting one another.

Jay C. of the Documentary Blog brings us the news on The Boy From Out of this World, a new documentary being produced that takes a look at the making of legendary B-Movie Teenagers from Outer Space (thanks, Paul!). It seems that the creators are taking a respectful stance towards the film, though I have my doubts about the involvement of Mike J. Nelson.

Interviews

The Washington Times conducts a short interview with horror comic artist legend Bernie Wrightson.

I’ve read great things about Bob Fingerman’s vampire novel Bottomfeeder, and plan on picking it up in the near future despite my distaste for the sub-genre. But it wasn’t until I read this interview with the author over at Skull Ring that I realized this is the same man who brought us such comics as Minimum Wage and Recess Pieces.

Literature

The Cuny Graduate Center Advocate takes an in-depth look at three of the top-selling horror novels of 2006, Stephen King’s Cell, Scott Smith’s The Ruins and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.

Music

The University Chronicle delves into the world of Horrorcore, hip-hop with a horror twist.

Gaming

A zombie-based MMORPG might work, but I’m not entirely sure this is the way to go.

Real World

It was Valentine’s Day of the Dead in Eugene, Oregon, as hordes of drunken zombies made their way through hospitals, pubs and Starbucks. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re aware of an event I can place here, or are planning one yourself, please send me an email at steven@thehorrorblog.com.

Notable Theatrical Releases

Feb. 23rd - The Number 23
Feb. 23rd - The Abandoned (limited)
March 2nd - Zodiac
March 9th - The Host (limited)
March 16th - Dead Silence
March 16th - Premonition
March 16th - Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (limited)
March 23rd - The Hill Have Eyes 2

Notable DVD Releases

Feb. 20th - Wilderness
Feb. 20th - Open Water 2 - Adrift
Feb. 20th - Night of the Living Dorks
Feb. 20th - The Dark Castle Horror Collection (House of Wax, Gothika, Ghost Ship, Thirteen Ghosts and House on Haunted Hill)
Feb. 27th - 42nd Street Forever: XXX-Treme Special Edition
Feb. 27th - Jess Franco’s Count Dracula
Feb. 27th - One Missed Call Collection
Feb. 27th - Perversion Story
Feb. 27th - The Return
Feb. 27th - Shock
Feb. 27th - The Ultimate Hitchcock Collection (Sabotage, Jamaica Inn, The Lady Vanishes, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Farmer’s Wife and 15 more)
Feb. 27th - Chainsaw Sally
Feb. 27th - City of the Living Dead (reissue)
Feb. 27th - Don’t Torture A Duckling (reissue)
Feb. 27th - Inferno (reissue)
Feb. 27th - Deep Red (reissue)
Feb. 27th - Aftermath/Genesis (reissue)

Notable Comic Book Releases

Feb. 21st, 2007

Criminal Macabre Two Red Eyes #3
Hellblazer #229
Scooby Doo #117
Texas Chainsaw Massacre #4
Walking Dead #35
Hellstorm Son Of Satan #5
Legion Of Monsters Werewolf By Night #1
Kolchak Tales Frankenstein Agenda #2
Se7En Sloth #3

Events

Present to Feb. 25th (New York, NY) - Dracula, performed by Downtown Art for ages 8 and up. That’s fucking awesome.
Feb. 23rd -25th (Durham, North Carolina) - Nevermore Film Fest.
Feb. 23rd - 25th (Chicago, Illinois) - Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors including guests Doug Bradley, Jeffrey Combs, Ken Foree, Uwe Boll and many more.
Feb. 23rd (Montreal, Quebec) - Freaky Fridays lecture series. Ophidophobia: What is it with snakes? followed by a screening of Snakes on a Plane.
Feb. 23rd - March 3rd (Porto, Portugal) - Oporto International Film Festival.
Feb. 24th (Kelowna, British Columbia) - Sneak preview of Fido at the Landmark Cinema.
Feb. 24th (Vancouver, British Columbia) - Cinema Sewer 10th Anniversary bash! (NSFW)
Feb. 26th (New York, NY) - The Films of Bong Joon-Ho at the IFC center, including a Q+A with the director after the screening of The Host.

Mar. 2nd (Montreal, Quebec) - Freaky Fridays lecture series. Shrunkenhead Fever, followed by a screening of The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake.
Mar. 3rd (everywhere)- International Read A Comic Book Naked Day.
Mar. 3rd (Burbank, CA) - Dark Delicacies hosts an afternoon with 30 Days of Night scribe Steve Niles and master illustrator Bernie Wrightson.
March 5th (New York, NY) - The Host and Falling To Pieces screenings at Pioneer Theater. Presented by Fangoria.
March 10th (Austin, Texas) - SXSW, The Alamo Drafthouse and Robert Rodriguez present a grindhouse double bill of Torso and Zombie.
March 15th (Toronto, Ontario) - Rue Morgue’s Cinemacabre presents Fido.
March 24th (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) - Exhumed hosts a very special night with Roy Frumkes and his classic grindhouse film Street Trash. In addition, Frumkes will be screening his documentary on George A. Romero’s Land of the Dead, entitled Dream of the Dead, as well as other surprises.
Mar. 29th - April 1st (Toronto, Ontario) - The World Horror Convention descends upon the unsuspecting populace of Toronto, the first time the event has been held outside of the United States.
Mar. 30th - April 1st (Strongsville, Ohio) - Cinema Wasteland movie and memorbilia expo has some truly bizarre and wonderful guests lined up, including the ladies of Faster Pussycat Kill… Kill!

April 2nd (New York, NY) - Severence screening at the Pionner Theater. Presented by Fangoria.
April 6th (London, Ontario) - Vagrancy Films double bill, with Grindhouse followed by Cannibal Ferox.