The movie follows Dusty, who is on a desperate rescue mission to save her crazy brother Derek, a conspiracy theorist who is convinced Osama Bin Laden is still alive. Dusty soon realizes her brother isn’t as crazy as she thought after she discovers Osama has been busy creating a zombie army in Afghanistan. Check out the great teaser trailer below, and visit the KickStarter page to donate some money to this great cause!

Full Moon is holding their biggest sale of the year again. The Valentine’s Day 50% OFF sale starts this Friday (Feb. 10th) at 12:01pm EST. EVERYTHING is 50% off, plus they are reopening the box sets and selling the DVDs individually. This is the perfect time to complete your Full Moon collection.

Visit Fullmoondirect.com for more info.

Brain Damage Films is also celebrating Valentine’s Day… Well kind of! Brain Damage is streaming their 24-hour “Anti-Valentine’s Day Collection” via BIGSTAR all week long. BIGSTAR is kind of like Netflix with more softcore porn!

Also from Brain Damage Films this February:

Filth to Ashes, Flesh to Dust – Available on Blu-Ray and DVD!

Driving home from a road trip, Eric and Shelly take a back road to avoid a traffic jam when they encounter the serial killer Purge. Eric survives but Shelly is murdered. A year later, A group of adventure-seeking high school grads venture to Purges lair. Amongst them is Erics brother Juan. Eric sets out to save his brother and get revenge on Purge. For the six teens, their imperfections will be the deciding factor if Purge shows them mercy. But if everyone is imperfect, will any of them survive?

Dorm of the Dead

After a campus-wide zombie outbreak, a slacker college student must protect his younger brother while becoming the unlikely leader of a small band of quirky survivors.

Hinzman is considered the first modern day zombie by many horror fans. He is also known for his work in the The Crazies, Santa Claws, There’s Always Vanilla and for directing the 1988 film FleshEater. Hinzman will be missed.

Women in Horror Month was cooked up by a bunch of failed artists and filmmakers to make themselves feel better. Simply put: it’s blackmail. A bunch of unknown wannabes get together to tell websites, blogs, and magazines that they should support their cause, then call them sexist if they don’t. The only people who care about Women in Horror Month, besides the people behind it, are a bunch of white knights who hope calling other men misogynistic will get them laid once in their life.

The goal of Women in Horror Month is not to celebrate women in horror, but to promote the projects and blogs of a very small group of female horror fans. A group of people who have to latch onto other’s achievements in order to make themselves feel relevant. Not only is WIHM a manipulative misguided attempt at hijacking horror blogs, it also has nothing to do with the horror genre (not to mention it’s pretty ballsy to declare black history month your month too).

The “horror community” is a made up term people throw around like “horror journalism”. There is no “horror community,” and if there was, it wouldn’t be some exclusive “no girls allowed” man’s club. What it is is just a bunch of fans who happen to know each other because they all like the same niche thing, but people throw the term community around like their members of an exclusive cult. Why do certain horror fans demand we support everything because of this fictional community? Just because I enjoy watching horror films doesn’t mean I have to support every person with a digital camera who spoke to me at a party once, or every dumb idea like Women in Horror Month. I also don’t understand why this only happens with horror films. You don’t see a bunch of women demanding respect because they enjoy westerns, or people politicizing every romantic comedy.

And what are we recognizing exactly? That women appear in horror films? That there are women directors? That women can drive cars? This is all common knowledge. And why do we need to recognize women horror fans? Who gives a shit! Cool! That’s so great that you’re different than the majority of women who don’t like horror; that’s amazing that you’re so different and unique, have a fucking cookie, stop talking about it, and let’s just talk about the goddamn movies. When did being a horror fan become so much about being a horror fan and so little about the films themselves?! WIHM is twice as bad as every month in the “horror community” because it’s not just about people bragging about how much of a fan they are, it’s about a minority group within the fandom bragging about how special they are for being fans! Do I need to be reminded once a year that women also watch football? No, because it has nothing to do with my enjoyment of football.

The worst part of it all is that the women who we’re being asked to celebrate aren’t even impressive figures in the genre. Nor do most of them promote positivity towards women in an already horribly misogynistic genre. No, the people we’re supposed to celebrate are some female blogger’s female friend who took her top off in Ass of the Living Dead 3 and signed a picture of herself while smoking a cigarette outside of a convention for some obese basement-dwelling pervert. And later, he jerked off to it. Now, let’s interview her for Women In Horror Month!

If women want to be recognized for their work in the low budget horror genre that is fine, but they should earn it like anyone else does, not demand it once a year in February. Put in the time, do the work, and wait till your fans want to celebrate you for your work in horror movies. Because it’s about the movies; not your friends, and certainly not you.

Director Shane Ryan (Amateur Porn Star Killer 1-3) returns with My Name is A by Anonymous. Inspired by the shocking murder of a 9-year-old girl by a 15-year-old in 2009. If you’ve ever seen a Shane Ryan film before, then your probably know what to expect. Check out the trailer below.

From the press release:

“Still without a distributor, this no budget film…is both disturbing and heartbreaking…a raw and honest and poetic portrayal of life gone wrong.” — Film Threat

Featuring Russian pop star Teona Dolnikova – formerly of the band Slot, Demi Baumann – younger sister of Ken Baumann from The Secret Life of the American Teenager, and newcomer Katie Marsh.

Longtime Horror Yearbook contributer Kelsey Zukowski has teamed up with Travis Legge (Raymond Did It) to produce the short dark drama Words Like Knives. Written by and starring Zukowski, the movie follows Emma, a girl who seems to have it all until one mean-spirited rumor tears her life apart.

“Words Like Knives deals with very disturbing material, but that’s part of the point. I like tackling uncomfortable material. I find it far more interesting. It’s a delicate balance between seeming exploitative and meaningfully bringing out the darker side of humanity,” explains Zukowski. “I’m thrilled with the team that has signed on for the project. Everyone involved really believes in what the film is trying to accomplish and will be a part in bringing this disquieting vision to life.”

That team includes Valerie Meachum (Holiday Carvings), Myke Wilson (Event Invitation), Melissa Revels (Monster Mash) and Aley Kreinz. Shooting begins in April 2012 in Rockford, IL.

You can learn more about Words Like Knives by following it on Facebook and Twitter. Or show your support by donating to the Indie Go Go campaign.

Although, it tackles very taboo material, Words With Knives also deals with the universal themes of a rumor spinning out of control and how damaging idle gossip can be.

Paranormal Activity 3 (DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging)

Love it or hate it, Paranormal Activity is the horror franchise that finally dethroned Saw, brought back the dreaded “found footage” genre and it’s not showing any signs of slowing down. A fourth movie is already in the works, and with the success of the 2012 exorcism flick The Devil Inside, people are going to be finding spooky video tapes for a long time to come.

Godzilla (The Criterion Collection), DVD, Blu-ray

The King of Monsters’ first movie gets the Criterion treatment with: A new high-definition digital restoration (uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition)

Audio commentary by David Kalat (A Critical History and Filmography of Toho’s Godzilla Series)

New high-definition digital restoration of Godzilla: King of the Monsters!, Terry Morse’s 1956 reworking of the original, starring Raymond Burr, Audio commentary for Godzilla: King of the Monsters! by Kalat

New interviews with actor Akira Takarada (Hideto Ogata), Godzilla performer Haruo Nakajima, and effects technicians Yoshio Irie and Eizo Kaimai Interview with legendary Godzilla score composer Akira Ifukube

Featurette detailing Godzilla’s photographic effects

New interview with Japanese-film critic Tadao Sato

The Unluckiest Dragon, an illustrated audio essay featuring historian Greg Pflugfelder describing the tragic fate of the fishing vessel Daigo fukuryu maru, a real-life event that inspired Godzilla

Theatrical trailers

New and improved English subtitle translation

PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by critic J. Hoberman

The Nude Vampire (Remastered)

Jean Rollin’s second vampire film about a suicide cult led by a mysterious man known as “The Master”.

Shiver of the Vampires (Remastered)

Jean Rollin’s third vampire film remastered by Redemption video.