Cody Hamman

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Danny Pino will take on brain-eating aliens in the CBS show BrainDead

Posted 11 years ago

Actor Danny Pino is making the jump from procedural dramas to a comic thriller about brain-eating aliens. The former star of CBS's Cold Case and NBC's Law & Order: SVU has a landed a role in the series BrainDead, which...

Sylvester Stallone teams with Fox for Rambo: New Blood TV series

Posted 11 years ago

It has been almost eight years since Sylvester Stallone made his triumphant return to the character of John J. Rambo in the gore-soaked fourth film in the RAMBO franchise, a realization that is mildly shocking to me. Over the years,...

Dollface director Tommy Faircloth plots Family Possessions

Posted 11 years ago

A 1997 issue of Fangoria introduced me to the works of independent filmmaker Tommy Faircloth with an article on the making of his low budget slasher CRINOLINE HEAD. I ordered a copy of CRINOLINE HEAD immediately, greatly enjoyed it, and...

Ken Kirzinger and Brad Loree stalk and slash in Blackburn

Posted 11 years ago

Canadian stuntmen Ken Kirzinger and Brad Loree have played two of horror's greatest icons – Kirzinger was Jason Voorhees in 2003's FREDDY VS. JASON and Loree played Michael Myers in 2002's HALLOWEEN: RESURRECTION. Although it's been more than a decade since...

Martyrs remake gets a January release date

Posted 11 years ago

It was way back in June when we heard that Anchor Bay had picked up the distribution rights to the American remake of Pascal Laugier's 2008 French film MARTYRS. Those of you who have been waiting on pins and needles...

L.A. Slasher will chop into DVD and VOD on December 8th

Posted 11 years ago

If you missed L.A. SLASHER during its limited theatrical run back in June, you might have lucked out, judging by the 3/10 review it received from our own JimmyO. However, if you're still interested in seeing it, you don't have very...

Black and Dekker have turned in the script for their Predator sequel

Posted 11 years ago

1987 was a huge year for Shane Black. At the age of twenty-five, the screenwriter had three films released that year: LETHAL WEAPON, which was the first script he had ever sold, THE MONSTER SQUAD, which he co-wrote with his...

Sean S. Cunningham discusses the development of the next Friday the 13th

Posted 11 years ago

It's very disconcerting that the development of the next installment in the FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise is taking so long. In the 1980s, Paramount Pictures were pumping FRIDAY movies out on a yearly basis and they were awesome. Jason Voorhees...

Cavegirl slasher B.C. Butcher acquired by Troma

Posted 11 years ago

B.C. BUTCHER, the debut feature from filmmaker Kansas Bowling and "the only slasher movie set in prehistoric times", has been picked up for distribution by legendary indie genre company Troma. Shot on 16mm film when the director was just seventeen...

Everyone must fight in new Pride and Prejudice and Zombies trailer

Posted 11 years ago

Published by Quirk Books on April Fool's Day 2009, author Seth Grahame-Smith's novel PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES, which inserted zombies into the story of Jane Austen's 1813 public domain novel Pride and Prejudice, became a surprise bestseller. On February...

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