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You may recall recently I published a piece looking at new short comedy show Dead Town, well if not you can go check that out  By Clicking Here To accompany the new show they have also released a book called Welcome to Dead Town which is available now for Kindle and also as a paperback book. Synopsis: ‘My name is John Diant. Tortured father to a teenage girl, friend to a retro smart arse and brother to a Spam loving Chuck Norris wannabe, only with less hair and a shitter beard. It has been several days since the outbreak and now my home town is nothing more than a dead town.’ Follow the zombie outbreak as it happens in the small industrial town of Runcorn in the North West of England, with journal entries from survivor John Diant bringing you the apocalypse from his perspective, whilst chapters bring you tales of survival from the town. Welcome to Dead Town is the Amazon bestselling horror comedy series Death in a Northern Town 1, 2 and 3 told as one complete story. Amazon Links: Welco

You may recall recently I published a piece looking at new short comedy show Dead Town, well if not you can go check that out  By Clicking Here To accompany the new show they have also released a book called Welcome to Dead Town which is available now for Kindle and also as a paperback book. Synopsis: ‘My name is John Diant. Tortured father to a teenage girl, friend to a retro smart arse and brother to a Spam loving Chuck Norris wannabe, only with less hair and a shitter beard. It has been several days since the outbreak and now my home town is nothing more than a dead town.’ Follow the zombie outbreak as it happens in the small industrial town of Runcorn in the North West of England, with journal entries from survivor John Diant bringing you the apocalypse from his perspective, whilst chapters bring you tales of survival from the town. Welcome to Dead Town is the Amazon bestselling horror comedy series Death in a Northern Town 1, 2 and 3 told as one complete story. Amazon Links: Welco

About: Born and raised in Istanbul, Evrenol studied Film Studies and Art History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Upon graduating, he has independently written, directed and produced short horror films, which won him several international awards, as well as being officially selected to more than 40 international genre film festivals around the world. His feature debut film Baskin (2015), based on his 2013 short film of the same title, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness section, and awarded the Best Director at Austin Fantasticfest's New Wave Awards. --- Ahead of the UK premiere screening of BASKIN at the Glasgow Film Festival, we asked the director Can Evrenol a few pertinent questions… Q: What were the challenges of elongating the BASKIN short film ideas into a full feature? A brief history of Turkish genre cinema and the must-see movies virgins should see? Please refer to the awesome award winning documentary "Remake, Remix, Rip-O

About: Born and raised in Istanbul, Evrenol studied Film Studies and Art History at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Upon graduating, he has independently written, directed and produced short horror films, which won him several international awards, as well as being officially selected to more than 40 international genre film festivals around the world. His feature debut film Baskin (2015), based on his 2013 short film of the same title, premiered at Toronto International Film Festival's Midnight Madness section, and awarded the Best Director at Austin Fantasticfest's New Wave Awards. --- Ahead of the UK premiere screening of BASKIN at the Glasgow Film Festival, we asked the director Can Evrenol a few pertinent questions… Q: What were the challenges of elongating the BASKIN short film ideas into a full feature? A brief history of Turkish genre cinema and the must-see movies virgins should see? Please refer to the awesome award winning documentary "Remake, Remix, Rip-O

Five Dolls for an August Moon is out on  Dual Format [Blu-Ray + DVD]  on 1st February!  and to celebrate we have a great competition for you and 2 copies to win. Synopsis: A weekend retreat on a private island should be a recipe for rest and relaxation unless you re appearing in a giallo by the master of the macabre, Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Blood and Black Lace)... Wealthy industrialist George Stark (Teodora Corrà, Django the Bastard) has gathered a group of friends - played by a who's who of Italian genre cinema including William Berger (Faccia a faccia), Ira von Fürstenberg (The Fifth Cord), Edwige Fenech (Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key) and Howard Ross (The New York Ripper) - to his island retreat. He hopes to entice them into investing in a new project, but soon the sunbathing and cocktails parties give way to murder, as the corpses begin to pile up one by one. Paying homage to Agatha Christie s Ten Little Indians, Five Dolls for an August Moon turns the s

Five Dolls for an August Moon is out on  Dual Format [Blu-Ray + DVD]  on 1st February!  and to celebrate we have a great competition for you and 2 copies to win. Synopsis: A weekend retreat on a private island should be a recipe for rest and relaxation unless you re appearing in a giallo by the master of the macabre, Mario Bava (Black Sunday, Blood and Black Lace)... Wealthy industrialist George Stark (Teodora Corrà, Django the Bastard) has gathered a group of friends - played by a who's who of Italian genre cinema including William Berger (Faccia a faccia), Ira von Fürstenberg (The Fifth Cord), Edwige Fenech (Your Vice is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key) and Howard Ross (The New York Ripper) - to his island retreat. He hopes to entice them into investing in a new project, but soon the sunbathing and cocktails parties give way to murder, as the corpses begin to pile up one by one. Paying homage to Agatha Christie s Ten Little Indians, Five Dolls for an August Moon turns the s

Sky 319 / Virgin 149 / Freesat 138 / Freeview 70 Horror Channel presents eight petrifying premieres for Friday and Saturday nights this February, including the UK TV Premiere of Daric Gates’ possession  thriller THE APPEARING and the Network premieres of Paul Hyett’s disturbing directorial debut THE SEASONING HOUSE, Stephen King’s psychological thriller SECRET WINDOW, starring Johnny Depp and Renny Harlin’s supernatural cult favourite THE COVENANT. Other network premieres for Friday nights are: Christian Duguay’s dystopian Sci-Fi actioner SCREAMERS and Robert Heath’s Brit revenge shocker TRUTH OR DARE, whilst Saturday night’s exclusive line-up embraces haunting chiller DARKNESS FALLS and Simon West’s frenzied pulse-racer WHEN A STRANGER CALLS. Be afraid. Full details in transmission order: Fri 5 Feb @ 10.55pm – SCREAMERS (1995) *Network Premiere Based on Philip K. Dick's short story "Second Variety", this cult favourite stars Peter Weller as Cmdr. Joe Hendricksson, who se

Sky 319 / Virgin 149 / Freesat 138 / Freeview 70 Horror Channel presents eight petrifying premieres for Friday and Saturday nights this February, including the UK TV Premiere of Daric Gates’ possession  thriller THE APPEARING and the Network premieres of Paul Hyett’s disturbing directorial debut THE SEASONING HOUSE, Stephen King’s psychological thriller SECRET WINDOW, starring Johnny Depp and Renny Harlin’s supernatural cult favourite THE COVENANT. Other network premieres for Friday nights are: Christian Duguay’s dystopian Sci-Fi actioner SCREAMERS and Robert Heath’s Brit revenge shocker TRUTH OR DARE, whilst Saturday night’s exclusive line-up embraces haunting chiller DARKNESS FALLS and Simon West’s frenzied pulse-racer WHEN A STRANGER CALLS. Be afraid. Full details in transmission order: Fri 5 Feb @ 10.55pm – SCREAMERS (1995) *Network Premiere Based on Philip K. Dick's short story "Second Variety", this cult favourite stars Peter Weller as Cmdr. Joe Hendricksson, who se

Confined is out on DVD on 25th January!  and to celebrate we have a great competition for you and 2 copies to win. Synopsis: CONFINED is an intense and claustrophobic thriller that follows troubled Streak (Louisa Krause Avas Possessions) who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with Cooper (Jason Patric The Lost Boys), a perverse rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to focus on the job at hand and not let the dark hallways play havoc on her delicate mental state. But as the night wears on and the shadows begin to move in the empty halls she realises the darkness inside her own mind might be the least of her worries. Win This: Confined [DVD] To enter all you have to do is answer this easy question... Competition Closed Winners will be chosen randomly and will be informed via email.

Confined is out on DVD on 25th January!  and to celebrate we have a great competition for you and 2 copies to win. Synopsis: CONFINED is an intense and claustrophobic thriller that follows troubled Streak (Louisa Krause Avas Possessions) who, in a last-ditch effort at getting her life together, takes a job working nights as a security guard at an abandoned luxury apartment building. Stuck with Cooper (Jason Patric The Lost Boys), a perverse rent-a-cop as her partner, she tries to focus on the job at hand and not let the dark hallways play havoc on her delicate mental state. But as the night wears on and the shadows begin to move in the empty halls she realises the darkness inside her own mind might be the least of her worries. Win This: Confined [DVD] To enter all you have to do is answer this easy question... Competition Closed Winners will be chosen randomly and will be informed via email.

The evil Crimson Ghost threatens to short out the world in this Sci Fi adventure! Edited-down feature version of the serial 'Crimson Ghost, The (1946)', in which the evil Crimson Ghost tries to make away with an atomic device capable of wreaking havoc throughout the world.

The evil Crimson Ghost threatens to short out the world in this Sci Fi adventure! Edited-down feature version of the serial 'Crimson Ghost, The (1946)', in which the evil Crimson Ghost tries to make away with an atomic device capable of wreaking havoc throughout the world.

Jon Donnis Opinion: I was contacted by director Peter Mckeirnon, and told about his new show Dead Town, a web based comedy horror show set in the North of England. It already sounds like the perfect mix, zombies and northerners! So I checked out the trailer (see below), and I liked it, so thought I would give the show a plug. We live in a world of huge budgets, overpaid actors and so on, so any time we have an independent team trying to put together something new we should support them. For truly great comedy has to start somewhere. And without people taking a chance at something, we would never get anything. So if you are a Zombie fan, and lets be honest, we all are really, whether your thing is Walking Dead or Ash vs Evil Dead, there is always space for a new show, and my pick for that spot is Dead Town. So watch the trailer below, check out their social media pages, and if you want to help click on the Indiegogo link and see if it floats your boat. Ok read the blurb, watch the trail

Jon Donnis Opinion: I was contacted by director Peter Mckeirnon, and told about his new show Dead Town, a web based comedy horror show set in the North of England. It already sounds like the perfect mix, zombies and northerners! So I checked out the trailer (see below), and I liked it, so thought I would give the show a plug. We live in a world of huge budgets, overpaid actors and so on, so any time we have an independent team trying to put together something new we should support them. For truly great comedy has to start somewhere. And without people taking a chance at something, we would never get anything. So if you are a Zombie fan, and lets be honest, we all are really, whether your thing is Walking Dead or Ash vs Evil Dead, there is always space for a new show, and my pick for that spot is Dead Town. So watch the trailer below, check out their social media pages, and if you want to help click on the Indiegogo link and see if it floats your boat. Ok read the blurb, watch the trail

FILM NEWS (UK): World, European & UK premieres dominate as Film4 FrightFest celebrates 11th year at Glasgow Film Festival with record-breaking thirteen titles Natalie Dormer in THE FOREST Kicking off with a special screening of THE FOREST with star Natalie Dormer in attendance, and finishing in racy rock-fuelled style with Sean Byrne’s THE DEVIL’S CANDY, the UK’s favourite horror fantasy event returns to Glasgow Film Festival with another stellar line-up to shock, chill and thrill. A record thirteen films will screen from Thurs 25 Feb to Sat 27 Feb 2016, alongside a selection of unmissable shorts, guest director Q & A’s, great give-aways and a sneak preview of Paul Hyett’s HERETIKS, with the popular director in attendance. Official trailer: The line-up starts at 9pm on Thurs 25 Feb with the UK Premiere of THE FOREST starring Natalie Dormer searching for her twin sister in Japan’s most haunted location, the fabled Sea of Trees. The ‘Game of Thrones’ star is making her first appe

FILM NEWS (UK): World, European & UK premieres dominate as Film4 FrightFest celebrates 11th year at Glasgow Film Festival with record-breaking thirteen titles Natalie Dormer in THE FOREST Kicking off with a special screening of THE FOREST with star Natalie Dormer in attendance, and finishing in racy rock-fuelled style with Sean Byrne’s THE DEVIL’S CANDY, the UK’s favourite horror fantasy event returns to Glasgow Film Festival with another stellar line-up to shock, chill and thrill. A record thirteen films will screen from Thurs 25 Feb to Sat 27 Feb 2016, alongside a selection of unmissable shorts, guest director Q & A’s, great give-aways and a sneak preview of Paul Hyett’s HERETIKS, with the popular director in attendance. Official trailer: The line-up starts at 9pm on Thurs 25 Feb with the UK Premiere of THE FOREST starring Natalie Dormer searching for her twin sister in Japan’s most haunted location, the fabled Sea of Trees. The ‘Game of Thrones’ star is making her first app