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 click the KickStarter link above 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.

One is known for starring on 90210, and the other is the queen of child porn — AnnaLynne McCord (pictured) and Traci Lords star in Excision.

Anchor Bay Films announced today the acquisition of all North American distribution rights to director/writer Richard Bates, Jr.’s debut feature film. Excision is the story of Pauline (McCord), a delusional teenage outcast. Pauline picks scabs. Pauline dissects road kill. Pauline fantasizes about performing surgery on strangers. Her fascinations disturb her schoolmates and her parents, Phyllis (Lords) and Bob (Roger Bart). No one understands Pauline except for Grace (Ariel Winter), her younger sister who suffers from cystic fibrosis. An outcast at school and at home, Pauline is convinced that the best way to repair her estranged relationship with her family is to perform a risky operation to save her sister’s life.

The movie also stars John Waters, who directed Lords in Cry Baby, Malcolm McDowell, Jeremy Sumpter and Marlee Matlin.

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.

Just in time for Women in Horror Month Impulse Pictures has announced two new erotic DVDs in the Nikkatsu films collection.

Sex Hell — Due to their juvenile crimes, a group of fresh young girls is thrown into a horrid, squalid jail. They soon wish they were back on the outside, as a gang of inmates subjects this “fresh meat” to the horrors of being locked up. Mayumi, a new inmate with a mysterious past, stands up for herself and fights back! NO ONE is going to push her around, and she hatches an escape plan to seek revenge on the person who had her incarcerated.

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Debauchery — The sexy Ryôko Watanabe stars as Ami, a jaded housewife who pitches herself, body and soul, into the Tokyo decadence of the decade in an attempt to pep up her marriage. She secretly joins the elite “Madame Machiko Society Club” to experiment with discrete sex games and the thrill of making love to anonymous men. The sexual perversion and sick depravity she is subjected to, by her clients, is much more than she bargained for. Bondage, beads and whips are only the beginning!

Can she escape this secret life she has chosen, or will it destroy her forever?

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Luckily, The Vampire Diaries writers only left us hanging for one week this time and picked back up with another chilling, tension-filled episode of one turn after the other. In every episode things develop so much, characters are pushed to their limits and beyond. Seeing the way they react can often push them in to a completely different point than seems to be in their character. The writers have really done a great job in creating material that is always taking on challenges and ends up being rich, exciting, and always changing.

One of the many interesting elements of the episode was Mr. Forbes’ material. Just as he is starting to get on better terms with Caroline their relationship is ripped apart from them as the vampire blood in his system has an after death response. He is now the things he has been fighting his entire life. I couldn’t have been more excited when this happened as it opened up so many
possibilities. The dark and intriguing potential they could have gone with the character is endless. They could have explored the monster that he could combine and hating himself just as every vampire he has sought to destroy or “save” through his disturbing and vicious methods. It might have been even more interesting if he did find a way to use these extreme methods on himself and become the creation he always thought he could train Caroline in to being.

The show went a different direction with Mr. Forbes’ character. Although, it wasn’t the scenario my mind was racing towards, when this change came in to place it still offered some great material. Candice Accola gave an incredible performance. Caroline is so conflicted, she shows equal amounts of love and hate. She is unable to let him go and yet is so disgusted by what he did to her and how unaccepting he is of her nature. The level of emotion Accola delivers and her range shows what a tremendous actress she is.

She has brought Caroline to life in such a thrilling, genuine, and complex way that I never would have dreamed in a million years the Caroline of the books could have ever been. It was really when she turned in to a vampire that I instantly fell in love with her. This was something far behind her undead nature; it was her amplified human qualities that makes her such a kick ass vampire. She’s still somewhat tortured since this is never what she wanted for herself; to be a prisoner to blood lust, forever frozen in time. Still, she embraces what she is and makes no apologies.

This week’s episode also brought the return of Elijah, which was even more revenge-filled, intense, and satisfying than expected….and I’m a Klaus fan. Really, I am kind of indifferent to Elijah, but the material and the direction his involvement turned things towards was too good not to get a thrill out of.

We learn of a lot of similarities between Klaus and Elijah and the Salvatores; they both had a similar tragic love triangle that turned them towards their vampiric nature. If only love triangles in real life resulted in bad ass, intriguing vampires. Until that day, at least we have vampire diaries.

Things with Klaus and his family certainly escalated to another level, awakening things that we saw temporarily silences and those that seemed so buried in the past. Everything is coming back full force, opening up a multitude of possibilities. Either way, it is sure to make for plenty of interesting material that I’m sure the show will dive in to full force.

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.

The Thing (2011)

It’s not human. Yet. From the producers of Dawn of the Dead comes the chilling prelude to John Carpenter’s cult classic film. When paleontologist Kate Lloyd (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) travels to an isolated outpost in Antarctica for the expedition of a lifetime, she joins an international team that unearths a remarkable discovery. Their elation quickly turns to fear as they realize that their experiment has freed a mysterious being from its frozen prison. Paranoia spreads like an epidemic as a creature that can mimic anything it touches will pit human against human as it tries to survive and flourish in this spine-tingling thriller. Starring: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Joel Edgerton, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Ulrich Thomsen, Eric Christian Olsen, Trond Espen Seim Directed by: Matthijs van Heijningen

Dream House

Will Atenton (Daniel Craig) quit a high-profile job in Manhattan to relocate his wife, Libby (Rachel Weisz), and their two daughters to a quaint New England town. But as they settle into their new life, they discover their perfect home was once the murder scene of a mother and her children. When Will investigates, he’s not sure if he’s seeing ghosts or if the tragic events are somehow related to his past. The only clues come from his mysterious neighbor, Ann (Naomi Watts), who helps him piece together this haunting puzzle. Full of twists and suspense, this psychological thriller will have you on the edge of your seat. Starring: Daniel Craig, Naomi Watts, Rachel Weisz, Marton Csokas, Elias Koteas, Jane Alexander Directed by: Jim Sheridan

Night Train Murders

You Can Tell Yourself It’s Only A Movie… BUT IT WON’T HELP!

It was released as Second House on the Left and Torture Train. The ads screamed, “Most movies last less than two hours! This is one of everlasting torment!” It remains one of the most graphically fiendish films in exploitation history, the story of two teenage girls traveling through Europe, forced into a nightmare of sexual assault and sadistic violence.

Irene Miracle, Flavio Bucci, Macha Meril, and Marina Berti star in this depraved shocker directed by Aldo Lado and featuring a haunting score by Ennio Morricone. Experience evil gone off the rails: NIGHT TRAIN MURDERS is now presented in a brand-new High Definition transfer from the original uncensored negative!

EXTRAS:

“Riding the Night Train” – Interview with Co-Writer/Director Aldo Lado
U.S. Trailer
International Trailer
Radio Spots

Blubberella (DVD only)

A Uwe Boll original. Shot the same time as Bloodrayne: The Third Reich.

It’s 1940 and the German army is oozing their ickiness across the European continent, indiscriminately slaughtering thousands. On the Eastern Front, a motley group of Resistance Fighters, led by Nathaniel (Brendan Fletcher) and “Vadge” (Willam Belli), struggle valiantly against the Nazi scourge. The German army, headed by the Commandant (Michael Paré), shadow puppet master, a mad, showtunes-singing Doctor (Clint Howard), and the newly-addicted-to-blood Lieutenant (Steffen Mennekes), threatens to eradicate the Resistance. But coming to the rescue is Blubberella. Half vampire, half woman, and all trouble, Blubberella loves nothing better than killing Nazis and a substantial turkey on rye. She has moved through the centuries destroying nasties and their like while perfecting the ultimate cotton candy recipe. Blubberella and the Commandant face each other in a rail car and after a unseemly exchange of bodily fluids… From IMDB.com

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.