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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.”

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.

Break out the cheese, coke and scrubbed limes and join Feedback and Lance as they finish selecting their picks for the 11th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards.

Rue Morgue has been nominated in the following categories:

Best Independent Film (The Last Will & Testament of Rosalind Leigh)
Best Magazine
Best Article (Two Nominees)
Best Magazine Column (It Came From Bowen’s Basement)
Best Themed Issue (Rue Morgue 127 – Universal Monsters)
Best Magazine Cover (Rue Morgue 127 – Universal Monsters)
Best Convention (Festival of Fear)
& Best Horror Multimedia (The Rue Morgue Podcast)

To vote, copy and paste the ballot available online at www.rondoaward.com then send your picks to taraco@aol.com (make sure to include your name.) You don’t have to vote in every category either.

Voting ends at midnight on April 7th!

Endure,

:- FDBK

On this episode of the Rue Morgue Podcast, Feedback and Lance select their picks for the 11th Annual Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Awards.

Rue Morgue has been nominated for seven categories.

To vote, copy and paste the ballot available online at www.rondoaward.com then send your picks to taraco@aol.com (make sure to include your name.) You don’t have to vote in every category either.

Voting ends at midnight on April 7th!

Endure.

:- FDBK

Here it is – the remainder of my interrogation with John Hyams, director of Universal Soldier 4: Day of Reckoning – one of the most insane, blood-curdling American action flicks ever concocted.

On January 22nd, Sony Pictures will release it on DVD and Blu-ray.

You can listen to part one of the interview here:
http://www.rue-morgue.com/2012/11/rue-morgue-podcast-john-hyams-vol-i/

Endure.

:- FDBK

Halloween is over but we’re keeping the horror alive on the Rue Morgue Podcast.

But how do we follow an interview with the legendary George A. Romero?

Well, how about another chat with the inimitable Jennifer Lynch?

The day after the world premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, I sat down with Ms. Lynch to talk about her latest horror flick, CHAINED. It stars Vincent D’Onofrio as a lumbering serial killer named Bob who kidnaps a young boy named Rabbit and attempts to train him in the nefarious craft of murdering young women.

Excerpts of this ran in the Halloween edition of Rue Morgue Magazine but here for the first time is the complete interview with one of the most candid and honest filmmakers I’ve ever had the pleasure to talk to.

Endure.

:- FDBK

This week, the inimitable and tireless Colin Geddes drops by the Rue Morgue Studio of Flesh Eating Ghouls.

Mr. Geddes is the man behind both the Midnight Madness and Vanguard programs at TIFF. This fall at the Lightbox, in cahoots with Rue Morgue Magazine itself, he’s conjured up some deliciously lurid treats for our viddying purposes, beginning with the eight film retrospective Living Dread: The Cinema of George A. Romero – including an on-stage conversation with the man himself along with a 35mm print of Creepshow on Halloween night.

And in conjunction with Tiff’s BOND retrospective, Colin has cobbled together a juicy sidebar program – Beyond Bond: The Other Secret Agents, a nine-part series of films inspired by the legendary spy franchise.

He’s also the Executive Producer of Steven Kostanski’s lo-fi epic Manborg which begins its Canadian theatrical run on Nov. 2nd at the Royal Cinema in Toronto.

TIFF Midnight Madness is in full swing. We’re four flicks into the ten-film program, and the past two nights have been chock-full of batshit carnage courtesy of Ryuhei Kitamure (No One Lives) and JT Petty (Hellbenders 3D). For those of you who can’t be here with us, here’s the next best thing: a whack of pics! Okay, so that’s not the next best thing at all, but it’s all I’ve got.

[Shawn Macomber contributes this Sinister Seven with Exhumed frontman Matt Harvey.]

When Rue Morgue caught up with Exhumed on one of the early dates of this year’s Summer Slaughter tour, we asked the gore-festooned, old-school death metal legends how they planned to leave their mark on a package boasting such extreme metal luminaries as Cannibal Corpse, Between the Buried and Me, Job for a Cowboy, and Goatwhore. “By pouring blood on everyone in the front row and drinking the most beer in the history of the tour,” guitarist/vocalist Matt Harvey replied.

And how is that working out for the band two-thirds of the way through the journey? “The first one, we’ve got on lockdown,” Harvey says. “The second one, we’ve had some help achieving from our friends in Goatwhore.”

Based on the above interaction we had a hunch Harvey had more wisdom to impart, and over the course of seven sinister queries he surely does not disappoint.

[Ed. note: For more on Exhumed, check out the Gore-Met's interview with Harvey in RM#114.]

This week, DVD/Blu-ray Producer extraordinaire, the Mighty “Iron” Mike Felsher makes a spectacular return to the show for a special two-part interrogation into the comings and goings of his outfit Red Shirt Pictures. El Slipster’s been a very busy bee since we last spoke to him a year and a half ago which incidentally was on the very first episode of the Rue Morgue Podcast.

(You can listen to that historic event in horror talk radio right HERE).

But on this installment, we get into some of Mike’s more notable recent reissues, including the Blue Underground 2-Disc Ultimate Edition of Zombie, the Special Edition of The House By The Cemetery, the Synapse Films reissue of Scott Spiegel’s Intruder & the 25th Anniversay Blu-ray release of Evil Dead II: Dead By Dawn.