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Goodreads is having a live video chat with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author Seth Grahame-Smith about his new book Unholy Night, his upcoming movie Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, and any other things that their registered users can think to ask about.
This is happening tonight in just a little overt an hour from now at 7pm ET.
Harry Knowles sat down to talk with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author Seth Grahame-Smith for the Nerdist Channel and we get the interview and the out-takes!
Figment, the online writing community, is hosting a Twitter chat with Pride and Prejudice and Zombies author Seth Grahame-Smith tonight begininng at 7pm ET.
Grahame-Smith is also the writer behind Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter and his newest release Unholy Night as well as being the screenwriter of Tim Burton's DARK SHADOWS.
To take part in the chat, follow @FigmentFiction, @SethGS and use hashtag #figlitchat.
Well, that's one film title we'll never see.
It turns out that Scorsese is more of a vampire man than a zombiephile. In their latest issue, he revealed to GQ that he preferred vampires because you could at least have a conversation with them. Can't argue with that.
"I mean the undead thing... Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them. It's a whole other thing that apparently means a great deal to our culture and our society. There are many, many books written about it and many movies. I saw one in London when I was doing Hugo. I saw one late at night one weekend. It was called Colin, by a young filmmaker [Marc Price]. He shot it, I think, digitally by himself, edited it himself. It was savage. It had an energy that took the zombie idea to another level. Really interesting filmmaking. Disturbing."
You can read the full interview here.
if you've stepped into a movie theater in the last few weeks, you're probably already aware that Twentieth Centure Fox has Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter ready to launch on June 22, 2012 but you may not know that the folks over at The Asylum have Honest Abe suiting up to take on the undead in their own historical epic Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies.
The Asylum's film was directed by Richard Schenkman and stars Bill Oberst Jr., Baby Norman, Jason Vail and Christopher Marrone.
Here's the trailer:
Zombie Chris Hardwick explains why you need to subscribe to the Nerdist Channel for its April 2nd launch on YouTube!
LAIKA, the studio behind Coraline, have just released a new trailer for their upcoming stop-motion zom-com ParaNorman.
Written by Chris Butler and directed by Butler and Sam Fell, ParaNorman tells the tale of a young misfit, cursed (or blessed) with the ability to speak with the dead, who is forced to use his supernatural gift to battle the zombies and other monsters unleashed on his town by an ancient curse.
ParaNorman features voice acting by Kodi Smit-McPhee, Casey Affleck, Anna Kendrick, John Goodman, Leslie Mann, Jeff Garlin, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Elaine Stritch, Tempestt Bledsoe and others.
ParaNorman opens in theaters on August 17, 2012.
Think the undead are not getting any respect at the Academy Awards this year? Think again. One nominee brings on a full zombie apocalypse in its quest for Oscar gold.
Meet "A Morning Stroll", one of tonight's nominees for Best Short Film (Animated).
"Loosely inspired by a real life event recountd in Paul Auster's brilliant book 'True Tales of American Life', Grant Orchard's 'A Morning Stroll' tells the story of one New Yorker's early morning encounter with a chicken, an event that plays out over 100 years."
Written and directed by Grant Orchard and produced by Sue Goffe for studio aka, "A Morning Stroll" is perhaps the first and only film that will ever combine "inspired by a real life event" with an "encounter with a chicken" and the zombie apocalypse.
It has already won for best animated short at both the 2012 BAFTA Film Awards and the 2012 Sundance Film festival so it stands a great chance of taking home a statue tonight.
While the trailer doesn't offer any glimpse or hint of the zombie goodness included in this great short, the film definitely delivers and is a hilarious must see for fans of the living dead.
"A Morning Stroll" is available on iTunes now as part of the Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films 2012 collection.
The zombie apocalypse hits tonight - Chiller presents Humans Vs. Zombies!
"Students on summer break are exposed to a deadly virus, a neuroinvasive organism that is spread rapidly through direct human contact. The Infected are enslaved by the invading swarm intelligence and driven by an insatiable appetite to consume human flesh. Returning home, the infection spreads quickly to their fellow classmates and other unsuspecting townspeople. One by one, more and more fall victim to the plague, triggering an epidemic that spawns a horde of ravenous zombies.
The zombie horde grows and spreads throughout the community. Amidst the chaos, a campus security guard, obsessed with conspiracy theories, leads a group of students to safety as they and a small band of uninfected townspeople set out to find other human survivors in an attempt to discover the source of the "zombie" virus and save the world."
Humans Vs. Zombies premieres tonight on Chiller at 10pm ET.
Filmax, the producers of the [REC] series has a special Valentine's Day trailer of [REC]3 Genesis, the third installment in the franchise, featuring the marriage of Koldo and Clara...
'til death do them part.
Just released today - Sony Pictures official trailer for Resident Evil: Retribution...
Resident Evil: Retribution opens in theaters on September 14, 2012.
Tomorow night, Saturday, October 29th, the undead invade the Syfy Channel in "Zombie Apocalypse, an original movie from The Asylum.
Directed by Nick Lyon from a script by Brooks Peck and Craig Engler, "Zombie Apocalypse" stars Ving Rames, Taryn Manning, Lesley-Ann Brandt and Eddie Steeples.h
Here's a sneak peak:
Tune in and watch on Syfy tomorrow night at 9pm ET.
Right now, for Halloween, iTunes is having a big $4.99 sale on horror movies.
Zombie titles include:
Dawn of the Dead (2004) 
Dawn of the Dead: Unrated (2004)
Quarantine
[Rec]
Rammbock: Berlin Undead
Resident Evil
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
Other horror films on sale for $4.99 include The Thing, Fright Night, Drag Me To Hell, Silent Hill, Christine, 30 Days of Night, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Candyman, The Grudge, The Unborn, When a Stranger Calls, I Know What You Did Last Summer, Idle Hands, Prom Night, The Last House on the Left (2009), The Last House on the Left: Unrated (2009), The People Under the Stairs, Vacancy, Flatliners and William Castle's The Tingler.
Just released this week, straight out of New Zealand, is Peter Jackson's cult classic zombie gorefest Dead Alive, now available on Blu-ray.
Braindead, as the film is known everywhere except North America, was released in 1992 and immediately earned a reputation as one of the goriest films ever made. Featuring a unique blend of extreme horror and over the top humor, Dead Alive is indeed one of the most graphic fright films you will ever run across. In addition to directing, Peter Jackson also handled writing duties with longtime partner Fran Walsh and frequent collaborator Stephen Sinclair.
"Throw out all your preconceptions about the limits of horror! A new standard has been set with Dead Alive - The Mother of All Horror Films. On a quiet street, in a small town, pure evil has come to stay. An innocent young man forced to care for his domineering mother finds the task a whole lot more demanding after she's bitten by the cursed Sumatran rat monkey. Passing the point of death, Vera sucks friends and family into her gruesome existence among the living dead, and Lionel is sent spiraling into a ghoulish nightmare. Now a crazed zombie, she soon infects enough people to make it difficult for Lion, still the faithful son, to keep the neighbors from suspecting that something is terribly wrong. Dripping with state-of-the art special effects that feature mutilations, rock 'n' roll dismemberments and household appliances, it all combines into the most bizarre ending ever filmed."
A theatrical trailer is the only extra.
Dead Alive is available on Blu-ray for just $10.49.
From the WTF! File, here's ZOMBIN LADEN: The Axis of Evil Dead, the film that brings Osama Bin Laden back from the dead to continue his reign of terror as a zombie.
Well, not really a film but a great fake trailer written and directed by Clement Deneux.
Hey... is that Robert De Niro playing the sheriff? Can't be... can it?
Great news for zombie film fans as it looks like another high profile studio film is on the way now that Lionsgate has acquired the movie rights to Dead Island.
In a press release today, Lionsgate's Joe Drake said:
"Like the hundreds of journalists and millions of fans who were so passionate and vocal about the Dead Island trailer, we too were awestruck. This is exactly the type of property we're looking to adapt at Lionsgate - it's sophisticated, edgy, and a true elevation of a genre that we know and love. It also has built in brand recognition around the world, and franchise potential."
The Dead Island film will be produced by Sean Daniel (The Mummy, Tomstone, Dazed and Confused) and Stefan Sonnenfeld.
The game has sold over two million copies so far and is available now for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.
If the movie is half as good as this game trailer, then we're in for something great...
Just released on DVD today - Pacific Entertainment's Zombie Apocalypse: Redemption, directed by Ryan Thompson and starring Johnny Gel, Joseph Scott Anthony and blaxploitation legend Fred Williamson.
"At the end of civilization, zombies greatly outnumber people, and every day is a fight to see tomorrow. Rugged wanderer John Knox is saved by a ragtag group of survivors and acquaints himself with this new family. A war party of maniacal raiders assaults the camp, and they kidnap Sarah– Knox's love interest. Knox and the few who escaped the attack join up with the zombies and launch an all-or-nothing rescue mission on the raiders' home fortress."
Zombie Apocalypse: Redemption is available now on DVD and will be available on Blu-ray on October 18th.
Here's footage of a zombie attack on the set of World War Z, courtesy of Scotland's Piko Design.
A short film by Traviz Betz
