Mike Catalano
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Favorite Movies: The Dark Knight, Kick-Ass, Halloween, Night of the Creeps, Hoosiers, Sneakers, read more Unbreakable, Batman Begins, What About Bob?, May, Black Christmas ('74), Hot Fuzz, Superbad, Bubba Ho-Tep, Dead Alive

Likes: Movies (duh), writing horror novels, the Mrs., the son, anything horror, read more basketball, the North Carolina Tarheels, sandwiches, walks along the shore, days off, my TV, margaritas, writing while drunk, sushi, and The Office. Oh and my forthcoming 2nd son.

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Killer Shiver stills

Posted 18 years ago
A little ways back, I called your attention to the freaky friggin’ poster for the Spanish shocker SHIVER (pronounced ESKALOFRIO in Spanish). I couldn’t tell too much beyond that great poster. The synopsis was cool, but quick: A lonely adolescent...
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Zombie politics

Posted 18 years ago
Zombies with a political agenda?! Now there’s an interesting concept for a horror flick and it’s exactly what we’ll be getting from writer/director Tony Nunes’s forthcoming spectacle ZOMBIE ALLEGIANCE. I know, it may sound corny at first, but Nunes seems...
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Fantasia begins!

Posted 18 years ago
As I’m sure you all know by now, the stupendous Fantasia Film Festival occuring in Montreal is upon us. The Arrow wrote about it here and yours truly wrote about it here. And TODAY, July 1st, marks the official start...
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Sick Quarantine

Posted 18 years ago
Yes, by now I’m sure we all know of the upcoming fright flick QUARANTINE and that it’s a remake of the Spanish shocker [REC]. A look at its first poster was presented by Jared P. here. The concept for QUARANTINE...
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Bubba’s killer Chili

Posted 18 years ago
Oh, I just love horror flicks with a sickly demented, down-home dose of self-aware comedy. I’m talking about the likes of MOTEL HELL and SLITHER. There’s just something tasty about the combo of over-the-top gore and slack-jawed yokels. And speaking...
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Hostel 3 helmer?

Posted 18 years ago
Just the other day, my man Eric broke the news here that HOSTEL: PART III was indeed in the works. Now, just a couple of days later we have word on a possible writer/director and, big surprise, it ain’t Eli...
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Dead Office

Posted 18 years ago
Now here’s an ideal idea for a zombie humor/horror—the workplace! What better setting for lumbering, undead drones than the confines of mind-numbing office cubicles! Such is the case for director Mathew Chung’s OFFICE OF THE DEAD. Fango scored some pics...
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Bloody Mid-Terms

Posted 18 years ago
Well, we’ve got another wacky dose of Asian horror to throw your way. The South Korean title is GOSA: PIHEE JUNGKANGOSA which translates to EXAM: BLOODY MID-TERMS. Outstanding title, I says! But does it bring the goods? Well, from the...
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Creatures take over!

Posted 18 years ago
“Damn you dirty CREATURES! Damn you all to hell!” Sorry about that. I was just getting in the proper mood for the theme of this next article. Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, the writers of the sexy/slammin’ Angelina Jolie (above)...
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Odette talks Unborn

Posted 18 years ago
The extra dreamy Odette Yustman (CLOVERFIELD, above) recently spoke to STYD regarding her upcoming roll in director David Goyer’s THE UNBORN (which I last wrote about here). She seemed very excited about the flick and had some pretty cool things...
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