Jessa Sobczuk

Television and commercial production company, PRC, is breaking into feature films with the upcoming viral outbreak flick, Truth. (Click here to see the trailer.) PRC has also launched an Indiegogo campaign to fund some of their production costs, reaching out to potential fans to ensure an upcoming Summer release of the Michael J. Cramer film.

The producers of ABCs of Death, Ant Timpson and Tim League, announced today the release of a “grown-up children’s book” based on the highly-successful anthology film of the same name. The limited print run of 666 copies also contain a special edition uncut Blu-Ray of the film with over thirty commentaries and special features.

Featuring original artwork from acclaimed storybook illustrator Stephan Britt and written by author Zack Carlson, the 56-page storybook will delight ABCs fans with gory tales of sex, death and cannibalism; each of the twenty-six segments of the film are represented in 1960s Dr. Suess-inspired artwork.

Producer Ant Timpson and Greg Newman of EVP MPI/Dark Sky Films, along with New Zealand Film Commission CEO Graeme Mason recently announced the return of the Make My Movie project, the highly successful New Zealand feature film competition. Filmmakers put up their best synopsis and poster for their low-budget feature film and the individual or team that wins over the in-house judges, and the public, will be awarded funding for their project.

Successful in the past, this time around the competition has a gruesome slant, entitled Make My Horror Movie. In the press release from Cannes, Timpson says, “We were all knocked out by the creativity from the first Make My Movie, we have a real chance to find the next Paranormal Activity through this process.”

If you are ever lucky enough to be in Brooklyn, be sure to make a special stop to Swallow – home of Ria Charisse and her line of morbid and lovely nature-inspired jewellery, Dear Swallow. Combining beautiful, shocking and bizarre images cast in mixed metals with semi-precious gems, Charisse creates gorgeous and flattering pieces that are sure to make a true statement about the adorned.

The main trailer for Guillermo Del Toro’s much-anticipated Pacific Rim is now live on YouTube! Coming to theatres July 12 in 3D, 2D and select IMAX, the Sci-fi action adventure takes place when legions of monstrous creatures rise from the sea, sparking a war on humanity that will take millions of human lives unless two unlikely heroes (Charlie Hunnam and Rinko Kikuchi) save the world from looming Apocalypse.

We’re lucky enough to have a first look at Stuart Beattie’s upcoming dystopian thriller, based on the Kevin Grevioux graphic novel, I, Frankenstein. From the producers of Underworld, and starring Aaron Eckhart, Bill Nighy and Miranda Otto, this modern twist on a classic horror tale pits gargoyles and demons against each other in a battle for immortality.

Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist, Planet of the Apes) will be making an appearance at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA on May 19 to promote her book, Exorcising my Demons, a biography detailing her acting career and her experience while filming The Exorcist.

Co-written with Daniel Loubier, author of Dead Summit and Unmasked, the biography delves into Dietz personal life, the rocky start to her career and her dramatic role in The Exorcist, where she performed a number of disturbing scenes under the direction of William Friedkin.

Select cities across the US are getting spoiled rotten this month with a special Zombie Walk and a screening of Mimesis: Night of the Living Dead in Houston, TX, Myrtle Beach, SC and Flint, MI. The homage film to George Romero is already a best-selling DVD and VOD for Anchor Bay Entertainment,  featuring screen icons like Sid Haig and Courtney Gains who encounter a group of horror fanatics enacting their favourite cult classic. Written and directed by Douglas Schulze (who is already working on the sequel), Mimesis is now picking up a fanatic following of its own.

The Flint screening was held yesterday, in cooperation with the Flint Zombie Walk; Mimesis will screen at the Houston Zombie Walk on May 12 and at the Myrtle Beach Zombie Walk on May 31.

Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff Jr., both from Studio Amalgamated Dynamics, just launched a Kickstarter campaign to finance an upcoming creature feature, Harbinger Down, which will be created in the old Sci-fi and horror animatronic tradition.

“In the spirit of sci-fi/horror classics, Alien and Thing, Harbinger Down is a tense, claustrophobic full-length creature film that will feature only practical Animatronic and Makeup Effects,” announced Gillis in the press release, who will write and direct the film.

Ghost greeted a metal-hungry Toronto crowd last night with an amazing mosh-inducing set at the Opera House. California doom troop, Ides of Gemini opened the show with a dark and heavy mix of songs, and once the stage was properly incensed, Papa Emeritus II and the Nameless Ghouls set about rocking the Toronto fans with their organ-laced brand of psychedelic and monstrously epic satanic rock.

The Swedish incognito ghouls played a selection of songs from their latest album, Infestissumam, including “Body and Blood,” “Year Zero” and the “Per Aspera Ad Inferi” along with crowd-pleasers from their inaugural album “Stand By Him,” “Prime Mover,” “Ritual” and several others before closing out the night with their anthemic “Monstrance Clock” for an encore. If anyone remembers their last show in Toronto, which didn’t have an encore, this return show was longer, louder and received much more reaction from the crowd.