The Walking Dead Sneak Peek 1.5 ‘Wildfire’ & Behind the Scenes of 1.4 Vatos
Courtesy of AMC
Spoilers Ahead for 1.4!!
Medium ‘Night of the Living Dead – Bite Me’ Episode airs Friday, 900pm
SciFiWire has it, sounds awesome. We love the show, our previous posts on Medium here.
…Medium is planning one of the more amusing Halloween episodes we’ve come across, a TV mash-up with Night of the Living Dead. The episode is (also amusingly) called “Bite Me” and runs Friday, Oct. 30, at 9 p.m.
“We literally insert Allison into the 1968 George Romero movie Night of the Living Dead,” said Medium creator and executive producer Glenn Gordon Caron. Of course, there’s also a mystery to be solved in her waking world, involving a missing funeral director.
'Bite Me' airs Fri., Oct. 30th at 900pm on CBS
Caron said the idea of putting a character from one of his series into an old movie has been kicking around for 20 years. “Actually I was going to do it on Moonlighting years ago. We were going to do it with an AIP movie. I think it was Godzilla vs. Mothra.” (Now, that’s an episode we would have watched!)…
…”Craig and I thought it sounded like a fun idea, but we had to find the right film,” said Doherty. “We did a search for public-domain films and realized that Night of the Living Dead was public domain. It was really amazing and perfect. Craig and I are huge zombie movie fans. … We also thought it was perfect for a Halloween episode.”
To provide some sense of jeopardy for the dream, the writers decided to do something they haven’t done before on Medium, where Allison begins to suffer real physical damage from her adventures into the world of black and white. “You have to be as worried about Allison as you would be if this were her waking life. So a zombie bite in the dream will follow her out into her waking life.”….
Update: Interview with the ‘real’ Allison DuBois after the break:
2009 Scream Awards: True Blood, Twilight, ‘Drag Me to Hell’ win; Taylor Lautner interview
Spike TV celebrated all things scary and sci-fi Saturday night at the Scream 2009 Awards, and no surprise here, the T’s owned the show— Twilight, Transformers, True Blood and Trekkies.
..The star-studded Scream 2009 Awards show airs Oct. 27 at 10 p.m. on Spike TV…
The tasty Taylor Lautner was the talk of the night, not only picking up one of the four Twilight trophies, beating out resident heartthrob Robert Pattinson for Breakout Male Performance (don’t worry! R. Pattz and rumored ladylove Kristen Stewart skipped the festivities, but both won Best Fantasy Actors).
..And just because they’re adorable, True Blood real-life lovebirds Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer took home matching Best Horror Actor awards….
Pics courtesy of Variety
Alexander Skaarsgard gets congratulatory hug from Kate Bosworth
Christina Ricci gives Taylor Lautner a congratulatory kiss as he picks up his win for Breakout Performance in Twilight
He’s such a kewtie, but so young. Jailbait! Hope his mom is protecting him!
Most Anticipated Fantasy Film: Alice in Wonderland
Best Sci-Fi Actress: Megan Fox, Transformers 2
Breakout Performance, Female: Isabelle Lucas, Transformers 2
Best Villain: Alexander Skarsgård, True Blood
Breakout Performance, Male: Taylor Lautner, Twilight
Best Comic Book Writer: Jeff Jones
Best Comic Book Movie: Watchmen
Rock Immortal Award: Keith Richards
Best Horror Movie: Drag Me to Hell
Best Horror Actor, Male: Stephen Moyer, True Blood
Best Horror Actor, Female: Anna Paquin, True Blood
Best Fantasy Actor, Male: Robert Pattinson, Twilight
Best Fantasy Actor, Female: Kristen Stewart, Twilight
Scream Mastermind Lifetime Achievement Award: George A. Romero
Best Director: J.J. Abrams, Star Trek
Best TV Show: True Blood
Best Fantasy Movie: Twilight
Comic-Con Icon Lifetime Achievement Award: Stan Lee
Ultimate Scream: Star Trek
Johnny Depp presented the award to Keith Richards for ‘Rock Immortal’
Interview with Taylor Lautner after the break:
Update: Universal Orlando Resorts Halloween Horror Nights 19; Spooky Empire: Legends Of Horror – Orlando, FL October 9-11: George Romero, John Landis, Max Brooks, Ghost Hunters and more..
Update: 10/12: Universal Orlando Resort’s Halloween Horror Nights 19 🙂
Courtesy of NerdCricket:
http://www.nerdsociety.com – Compilation footage of the Terror Tram experience at Universal Studios Hollywood 09. The tour is about 40 minutes long as you walk through the Bates Motel, the Psycho house and War Of The Worlds set.
For review of the mazes and shows, please check out my article:
http://www.nerdsociety.com/2009/10/07…
The largest gathering of horror icons and celebrities is about to take place in Orlando, FL, and it’s hosted by Spooky Empire, Inc. An excellent show is in store once again! They’ve brought together a who’s who of macabre guests to appear at Spooky Empire’s Ultimate Horror Weekend, being held this year on October 9-11, 2009 at the Wyndham Orlando Resort on International Drive.
Orlando, FL (Bluehost/PRWEB ) September 16, 2009 — This year Spooky Empire is proud to announce special guest, Shannen Doherty, of the TV shows “Charmed”, “Scare Tactics” and of course “Beverly Hills, 90210”. Other major guests to appear are The Masters of Horror – George Romero “Dawn of the Dead”, John Landis “American Werewolf in London”, and Herschell Gordon Lewis “2,000 Maniacs”, plus actresses Adrienne Barbeau “The Fog”, Linda Blair “The Exorcist”, and Fairuza Balk from “The Craft”.
From Alfred Hitchcock’s legendary film “The Birds” Tippi Hedren will be appearing, as well as Bill Moseley and William Forsythe of Rob Zombie’s “The Devil’s Rejects”, Danny Trejo of “From Dusk Til Dawn”, Jake Busey of “The Frighteners”, Jason Mewes of “Clerks”. The voice of “Jack Skellington” Chris Sarandon will be in attendance.
There will be a “Jason” Reunion with special guests Derek Mears, Kane Hodder and. C.J. Graham. Come and meet the daughter of the legendary movie monster Boris Karloff – Sara Karloff. Also meet special guest Brian Krause, best known as Leo in the “Charmed” television series and Stephen Kings “Sleepwalkers”, this is his first convention appearance. Other guests include Jason London from “Dazed and Confused”, “Creature from the Black Lagoon” Ricou Browning, and from “Night of the Creeps” Jill Whitlow and Jason Lively. There will also be a “Halloween II” reunion with the original cast. This is just the beginning!
From the popular television series, “Ghosthunters” TAPS members Steve Gonsalves and Dave Tango will appear, as well as Shannon Sylvia from the series “Ghosthunters International”…
When Lucas met Romero: Star Wars – ‘Death Troopers’…
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Georges are colliding, hopefully with spectacular results!!! Courtesy of Fidgit:
(…)It’s a tie-in to the horror-themed Star Wars novel Death Troopers, which will be published in mid-October ….And in case you’re wondering just what the deal is with Death Troopers, it’s about a prison barge that finds a derelict Star Destroyer full of zombies. No joke.
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
When the Imperial prison barge Purge–temporary home to five hundred of the galaxy’s most ruthless killers, rebels, scoundrels, and thieves–breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But when a boarding party from the Purge is sent to scavenge for parts, only half of them come back–bringing with them a horrific disease so lethal that within hours nearly all aboard the Purge die in ways too hideous to imagine.
And death is only the beginning.
The Purge’s half-dozen survivors–two teenage brothers, a sadistic captain of the guards, a couple of rogue smugglers, and the chief medical officer, the lone woman on board–will do whatever it takes to stay alive. But nothing can prepare them for what lies waiting aboard the Star Destroyer amid its vast creaking emptiness that isn’t really empty at all. For the dead are rising: soulless, unstoppable, and unspeakably hungry.
What would a marriage between George Romero and Jane Austen produce? ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’
Well, a really new spin on a much redone classic. I mean every other meme has been done on P & P after all…The review is sadly a pan, but hey still a great gag gift, I would pay to see the film :0)
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (Quirk Books, $12.95), (MiM here- available on Amazon for $7.12), credited to Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith, presents the plot and much of the text from from the classic novel, with the addition of ambulatory rotting corpses in search of living people to devour. The alteration leaves the original surprisingly intact, altering some of the referents and dialogue and adding violent encounters to present a landscape under siege from the living dead.
…Elizabeth, the toughest and fairest of them all, can be followed both taking an intense dislike to Mr. Darcy and tossing a lit flame into a gathering of oil-soaked zombies, while muttering dialogue that serves as hybrid between Romero-movie one-liners and feminine sass. “Let them burn,” she snarls. “Let them have a taste of eternity.”…
Moderate in the Middle 