Finally! The Space channel Zombiemania documentary that a bunch of the Rue Crew are in is getting a second showing, tonight at 10pm, EST (listing here). Everyone here friggin’ missed it the first time it played a while ago.

If you lived a middle class suburban childhood like the one I had growing up in Sherwood Park (just outside of Edmonton), then there’s a good chance you were no stranger to things that weren’t quite brand name. Perhaps it was the supermarket’s own “Fruity O’s” instead of Fruit Loops, “Action Soldier” G.I. Joe knock-offs [...]

One of my fave young bands is California’s The Creature Feature, which is coming to Toronto, April 13th, to the Opera House. I can’t wait to see ‘em live. In the meantime, here’s a video from their re-recorded, re-released first album, The Greatest Show Unearthed.
More info and tour dates at the group’s MySpace page, here.

Teller of Penn & Teller (the magic-plying geniuses behind the hilarious Penn & Teller’s Bullshit), made this short film of him trying to survive the zombie holocaust after it hits Vegas. It’s unusually sombre and, stranger yet, Teller (the silent half of the duo) narrates it.
I think that if you’re an illusionist/magician and the zombie [...]

Waaaay back in summer I blogged about the short horror film Fallow that I shot in Alberta with fellow former Edmontonians-turned-Torontonians, my co-writer/director Colin Landry, producer Brenton Bentz (also Monica’s husband), shooter Jason Pichonsky (a filmmaker in his own right who did the animation in Rod’s short film The Demonology of Desire), as well [...]

Justin blogged earlier about the Hitchcock photo spread in the current issue of Vanity Fair, but yesterday I read the following feature:
KILLER INSTINCTS
The modern horror movie slashed its way to box-office glory in the 1970s. Jason Zinoman speaks to the masters—from Wes Craven to John Carpenter—who unleashed a billion-dollar tide of [...]