Archive for October, 2007
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October 31, 2007
Moira Sullivan Sam Reaves Twilight Tales
All scheduled Twilight Tales shows begin at 7:30 p.m. Their usual time limits still apply at open mic nights. So here’s what’s coming this month …
November 5 - their regular open mic night, bring a story and some friends buy a dollar beer and enjoy the night.
November 12 - Twilight Tales Famous Drums Around the Fire Night. Richard Engling will supply the drum beat to cycles of poems written and performed by you. This is a popular event so come early and enjoy the show.
November 19 - Sam Reaves will read more of his well written and engrossing crime stories set in Chicago and environs. Missing his stories may find you on the wrong side of literary mob hit. Come on out and see who winds up catching the verbal bullets.
November 26 - Moira Sullivan and her group of writers will present stories from their recently published book Further Persons Imperfect. The evening will feature a cycle of readers all offering their best stuff, come one out and meet Moira and her merry band.
Twilight Tales meets at their new location, The Mix Bar at 2843 North Halsted in Chicago.
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October 31, 2007
Hide And Seek Jack Ketchum Match To Flame Ray Bradbury
Hide and Seek: Jack Ketchum’s Hide and Seek has shipped from the printer. For those who preordered, copies will be sent to the author to sign. As soon as Gauntlet receives them they’ll ship them out.
Match To Flame: The last of the wooden traycases is shipping to us now for Ray Bradbury’s Match To Flame. As soon as Gauntlet receives they’ll ship the balance of the lettered edition.
Visions of Death: While Gauntlet doesn’t yet have a release date for Richard Matheson’s Visions of Death, they’re fairly certain to have it from the printer before the end of November or beginning of December (definitely well before the holiday season for those who want to give the book as a gift). Those who have put off ordering might want to order a copy now: Visions of Death
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October 31, 2007
Stefan Petrucha Wicked Dead
Is it a clever promotion or a real ghost? While editing a video to promote his new series of horror books, Wicked Dead, author Stefan Petrucha noticed something odd in the background of one of the shots. “To me it looks like a transparent figure standing against a tree.”
The image can be seen in the Wicked Dead promotional video online, but only briefly, since the sequence it’s in (a knife-wielding hand) was sped up for effect. The original footage, at different speeds and zoomed in to the figure, is also online.
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October 31, 2007
Fatally-Yours.com will be hosting a >Halloween Costume Contest in which the lucky winner will walk away with the guts, the glory and an exclusive, limited edition Fatally-Yours.com shirt that only a few people are lucky enough to get!
So get your cameras ready for tonight folks, because all you have to do is take a photo of yourself in your scary/sexy/original/gory and/or AMAZING costume and submit that photo to sarah AT fatally-yours.com by 11:59pm on November 7th. That’s right, you have ONE WEEK from today to submit a photo of yourself in THIS YEAR’S costume.
The frightfully friendly staff at Fatally-Yours.com will be deciding a winner, who should be chosen by Friday, November 9th. Perhaps we’ll even let YOU, the readers, decide between the top three.
Rules are subject to change, but this contest WILL NOT be rigged (unlike some OTHER bogus “contests”).
Happy Haunting and Best of Luck!
Now get those camera’s clicking!
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October 31, 2007
Welcome to the Jungle a new “cannibal” film from Dimension Extreme will be released as an unrated DVD on November 13.
“Two young couples set out to explore the jungles of New Guinea in search of Michael Rockefeller, heir to the Rockefeller fortune who disappeared there over 40 years ago. To their horror, their hunt for a big payday turns them into the hunted as the native cannibals follow their every move and unfathomable bloodshed waits at the gory end.”
Welcome to the Jungle is being described as a “Blair Witch style” film, and a “fresh and autonomous mix” of cult film favorite Cannibal Holocaust and the legend of Michael Rockefeller’s mysterious 1961 disappearance in New Guinea supposedly at the hands of cannibals.
It is written and directed by the man who brought us The Punisher (2004, not the Dolph Lundgren one).
That is all, I have nothing witty to add.
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October 31, 2007
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Artfire and Romero-Grunwald Productions are ready to make a Diary of the Dead sequel. Part 2 will pick up right where the first film ended. The survivors have to fight their way through zombies to make it to a remote island. Which we all know from the Dawn remake and The Zombie Survival Guide, may not be such a safe place anyway.
Diary of the Dead will be released sometime next year by the The Weinstein Company!
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October 31, 2007
I’ve been both surprised and in awe of the caliber of participants in this series, but of all the people who chose to write in, one in particular made me weak in the knees. It is my pleasure to introduce Judith O’Dea, the actress who portrayed Barbara in Night of the Living Dead and […]
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October 31, 2007
Review by Theron Neel
I just finished watching Attack of the Baby Doll and The Golem, two movies from Stunt Kitty Films. Both flicks are directed by Debora Roventini and written/produced by Rob Robinson.
These are no-budget video productions that look as if they were made with a home video camera. I mean, there are no production values at play here at all. But I do respect the effort Roventini and Robinson have put forth. Stunt Kitty Films has a website and several DVDs available for sale. They’re also making the rounds at various film fests, so they are definitely taking this seriously. (more…)
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October 31, 2007
Review by Fatally Yours
Dying to Live is a different type of zombie novel, one that takes a more humanitarian and philosophical approach to the popular zombie genre. Though there are some brutal gore scenes described in the book, author Kim Paffenroth focuses more on the interactions between people than the zombies. This different perspective in a zombie novel is wholeheartedly welcomed and is very refreshing.
After an apocalypse that has destroyed the world’s population and turned most people into the living dead, Jonah Caine continues to wander alone as he struggles to come to terms with what has happened. He kills the occasional zombie when he has to, but for the most part tries to avoid them. He comes to believe he is the only survivor until he finds a group of living people holed up in a museum. Among them are two leaders – Jack, the logical and practical military man, and Milton, a kind of spiritual leader to the people who has a special power over the undead. Jonah is welcomed into the community but also asked to prove his worth as the group tries to rebuild a civilization with what little they have left. Soon, though, they come to discover that they aren’t the only survivors and zombies, when compared with the brutality of mankind, may be the least of their worries. (more…)
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October 31, 2007
Although George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead won’t be released until next year, Artfire Films and Romero-Grunwald Prods. have greenlighted a sequel that Romero will direct from his screenplay.
The instant sequel will pick up where the first film ends. Fighting their way out of a mansion through a horde of ravenous zombies, the survivors of “Diary” escape to a remote island only to be plunged into another battle with the dead. Principal photography is set to begin in the spring.
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