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FEBRUARY
These are archived news items, many of them outside of this website, so overtime, the links may not work.

FEB. 29

E.C.McMullen Jr.

Preditors and Editors needs your help. If you can't give money, then get the word out on your blog or website. Let's go people. It's time to dance.

* and a toast to feoamante.com alumni, Brian Knight and his MySpace blog for alerting me!

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FEB. 28

FINAL WORD ON DOOMSDAY
Writer / Director / Producer Neil Marshall (DOG SOLDIERS, DESCENT), has posted the last gallery he is fixin' to do on his upcoming post-apocalyptic movie, DOOMSDAY.

Said Gallery is at his blog! There! I said it, now go see what Neill has to say!

Oh, and for all of those folks who are only now getting it and posting to various message boards saying crap like, "This isn't original! He's just making a movie like ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK or BEYOND THUNDERDOME!" I'd like to say, on behalf of everyone else, "DUH!!!"

Check out Neil at Blog/MySpace.com/ Shock Meister.

HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAY TO -
Actor Ali Larter (HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL [1999], FINAL DESTINATION, FINAL DESTINATION 2, CONFESS, RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION) is 32.
One of the most thanked people in Hollywood Horror, as well as girl most likely to appear as herself. Seriously - scope her imdb credits!
Thankee Aine Leicht (THE LORD OF THE RINGS [all], THE DEVIL'S REJECTS) is 28.
Aine is also a "friend" so check her out at MySpace.com/aineleicht.
Look for Aine's upcoming PLATOON OF THE DEAD being released on DVD later this year. Aine is working on the upcoming Horror Thriller slasher flick, GRINDER: slated for a late 2008 release. Aine is also producing DESOLATION and THE SLASHER OF ZOMBIE TOWN.

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FEB. 27

MICHAEL LAIMO

QUICK BITE
From Michael Laimo (DREGS OF SOCIETY, DEEP IN THE DARKNESS, DEAD SOULS)
Hey everyone,

I'm the featured reader this month at Dread Central's Dreadtime Stories, where I read from my new novel FIRES RISING.

Check it out at DreadCentral.com.

Hope you enjoy it!

From Jeremy C. Shipp
SHIPP THIS
Jeremy C. Shipp's written creations inhabit over 30 publications including Cemetery Dance, ChiZine, Flesh & Blood, Darkness Rising, and more.

My novella "Flapjack" is now published in The Bizarro Starter Kit (Blue).

Here's the official book description:

There's a new genre rising from the underground. Its name: BIZARRO. For years, readers have been asking for a category of fiction dedicated to the weird, crazy, cult side of storytelling that has become a staple in the film industry (with directors such as David Lynch, Takashi Miike, Tim Burton, and even Lloyd Kaufman) but has been largely ignored in the literary world, until now. The Bizarro Starter Kit features short novels and story collections by ten of the leading authors in the bizarro genre: Ray Fracalossy, Jeremy C. Shipp, Jordan Krall, Mykle Hansen, Andersen Prunty, Eckhard Gerdes, Bradley Sands, Steve Aylett, Christian TeBordo, and Tony Rauch.

I also have a couple new interviews, one at Apex Online and one at The Writers' Block.

From Skullvines Press and Rich Ristow
INTO THE CRUEL SEA WITH YE!
Rich Ristow earned a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Later, he went on to win the Science Fiction Poetry Association's 2007 Rhysling Award for Best Short Poem.

All the while, Ristow struggled with writing, partly because throughout his academic experience, he chose to write mostly narrative poetry. A few years after graduation, he wrote very little due to frustration with the form. As a result, he submitted only minimally. Eventually, after undergoing throat surgery, he decided to mostly give up poetry altogether and embrace narrative prose. "Into The Cruel Sea" is Rich Ristow's first serious attempt at writing horror fiction.

Excerpt from INTO THE CRUEL SEA -
Beth has an abusive father.

She also has a boyfriend. The problem, however, is that her boyfriend went insane and murdered his parents, becoming a monster in a literal and metaphorical sense.

Now, after having disappeared, he has returned, and he wants Beth to join him. So, Beth faces a choice - boyfriend or father?

Frankly, both choices suck.

HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
Starting in 1993, this birthday boy started directing his career toward Horror and Thrillers, with a little science fiction thrown in. Happy Birthday to
Actor Adam Baldwin (PREDATOR 2, DEAD BOLT, COLD SWEAT, BITTER HARVEST, TREACHEROUS, SAWBONES [TV], SHADOW-0PS, GARGANTUA [TV], INDISCREET [TV], GACY, EVIL EYES, SERENITY, THE THIRST, SANDS OF OBLIVION, and more) is 46.
Writer / Director James Wan (STYGIAN, SAW, SAW III, DEAD SILENCE) is 31.

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FEB. 26

TERMINATOR SALVATION: THE FUTURE BEGINS IN NEW MEXICO
Albuquerque, NM (Vocus/PRWEB ) February 26, 2008 - TERMINATOR SALVATION: The Future Begins, the fourth installment of the TERMINATOR franchise, will begin filming in early spring at the Albuquerque Studios. The film recently began loading into the facility and will occupy the entire lot until the fall of 2008.

Working with this group in bringing this project to Albuquerque has been a great pleasure. This is an exciting time for Albuquerque Studios. To have the opportunity to host a production, cast and crew of this magnitude does not come along often and it speaks to the quality of the studio and the great film incentive programs put in place by the state of New Mexico.

The film is scheduled for a North American theatrical release May 22, 2009. Warner Bros. Pictures is handling all U.S. and Canadian distribution rights for the film, with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) handling international distribution rights in all territories (excluding Korea and select Mideast territories). The Halcyon Company acquired all ''Terminator'' franchise rights in May 2007.

TERMINATOR SALVATION: The Future Begins will be the first film in a new ''Terminator'' trilogy and will mark the latest installment of the multi-billion dollar ''Terminator'' franchise. Moritz Borman, Derek Anderson and Victor Kubicek will produce. McG will direct the film from a script by John Brancato and Michael Ferris (TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES). Christian Bale (AMERICAN PSYCHO, REIGN OF FIRE, EQUILIBRIUM, BATMAN BEGINS) will star as John Connor.

On TERMINATOR SALVATION: The Future Begins coming to Albuquerque Studios, COO Nick Smerigan said, "When building this facility, this is exactly the type of project we envisioned having and we look forward to working with Derek and Victor of The Halcyon Company and McG and the entire cast and crew." Added Jeremy Hariton, the studios' Sr. VP, "Working with this group in bringing this project to Albuquerque has been a great pleasure. This is an exciting time for Albuquerque Studios. To have the opportunity to host a production, cast and crew of this magnitude does not come along often and it speaks to the quality of the studio and the great film incentive programs put in place by the state of New Mexico."

On the latest project coming to Albuquerque Studios Mayor Martin Chavez said, "This is possibly the biggest production of 2008 and the city of Albuquerque warmly welcomes everyone from the production, not only to our city, but to our world class Albuquerque Studios."

TERMINATOR SALVATION: The Future Begins will be produced and directed by McG (STAY ALIVE) and written by the writing team of Michael Ferris and John D. Brancato (TERMINATOR 3: RISE OF THE MACHINES, PRIMEVAL), plus David C. Wilson (SUPERNOVA).

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TOP TEN TUESDAY: SUSPENSE
I search the top 10 books on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com under the search words, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, or Suspense. This week's search word is Suspense, and these are the top ten returns that appear on these book sites.

1. TONIGHT YOU'RE MINE: A NOVEL OF PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE - by Carlene Thompson (unchanged from January)
2. NOTHING TO LOSE (Zebra Romantic Suspense) - by S.K. McClafferty (unchanged from January)
3. CONFLICT, ACTION, AND SUSPENSE (ELEMENTS OF FICTION WRITING) - by William Noble (up from #10 in January)
4. I'M WATCHING YOU - by Mary Burton (new to the list)
5. GUARDIAN OF JUSTICE by Carol Steward (new to the list)
6. DESPERATE RESCUE - by Barbara Phinney (new to the list)
7. UNFORGETTABLE - by Merle Sawyer (new to the list)
8. LETHAL DECEPTION - by Lynette Eason (new to the list)
9. THRILL ME TO DEATH (THE BULLET CATCHERS BOOK 2) - by Roxanne St. Claire (drops from #4 in January)
10. SHE'LL NEVER TELL - by Hunter Morgan (drops from #7 in January)

Suspense
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1. SUSPENSE - by Darryl Shelton (unchanged from January)
2. 7TH HEAVEN - by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (up from #9 in January)
PROTECT AND DEFEND - by Vince Flynn (new to the list)
3. THE KILLING GROUND - by Jack Higgins (new to the list)
DOUBLE CROSS - by James Patterson (down from #2 in October)
4. WHERE ARE YOU NOW? - by Mary Higgins Clark (new to the list)
THE DARKEST EVENING OF THE YEAR - by Dean Koontz (new to the list)
5. EVERY MOVE SHE MAKES - by Beverly Barton (new to the list)
WHEN DAY BREAKS: A SUNRISE SUSPENSE NOVEL - by Mary Jane Clark and Isabel Keating (down from #3 in October)
6. NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN - by Cormac McCarthy (returns to the top ten)
STONE COLD - by David Baldacci (new to the list)
7. THE DYING GAME - by Beverly Barton (new to the list)
BLOOD BROTHERS - by Nora Roberts
8. CLOSE ENOUGH TO KILL - by Beverly Barton (new to the list)
THE CHASE - by Clive Cussler
9. THE ROCKY ROAD TO ROMANCE - by Janet Evanovich (new to the list)
10. WHAT SHE DOESN'T KNOW - by Beverly Barton (new to the list)

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FEB. 25

Officers were sent to the AMC Theater after receiving a report about a bag filled with illegal substances, said Fullerton police Lt. Tom Basham.

While at the theater, where THE SIGNAL was showing, officers were confronted with a crowd of people running out, including two bloodied men.

Continued at UPI.com.

CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE MORE DETAILED IMAGE.

From R.S. Connett
VOMITUS MAXIMUS
Robert Steven Connett, known as "RS", Is an artist living & working in Los Angeles. He has been showing and selling his paintings strictly on the internet since 1994. His website, "THE VOMITUS MAXIMUS MUSEUM" was one of the first websites dedicated to an artist's work in the early 90's. His site, vomitus.com, has been online and growing since its first day up. 12/12/1994.

Since the beginning, Connett has taken 'The road less traveled' in order to make his living as an artist. He has not had a 'physical art show' in a 'real' gallery since he began showing online well over a decade ago (he had several art showing in 'brick and mortar' galleries prior to his creation of his online gallery').

SAY'S CONNETT:
"In the beginning it was difficult. The 'art establishment' and even the 'anti-establishment' art scene looked down at me. I was also banned from computers in schools and public libraries, and included in the first versions of 'Child safety' software due to some of my art at controversial subjects.
I was considered on the same level as porn sites. The internet was something most people did not understand, thus they feared and maligned it. However, I developed a cult following that is still with me today. Now, every artist is on the web of course."

Connett still does all the updates his small site. I juggle my web work and my painting. However, the easel often wins, and there has been some gaps in my site updates. "I'm a painter first and foremost. the website is a means to my end."

RS Connett's work has grown in popularity over the years. His work is collected all over the world. He handles the sales and distribution of his paintings and prints himself from his home/studio in LA, Calif.
"I'm doing very well now. I am booked with private commissions for almost a year. All my original paintings sell, and I sell many of my hand stretched canvas prints. I do all the print making myself also. I work on average 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. I get up at Noon, and go to sleep at 4:AM every day. I love my work. I suppose I should say, I get to 'play around' all day."

To see more of his works, pay a visit to Vomitus.com.

TOMORROW'S DVDS TODAY!
These are the movies and shows coming out tomorrow, Tuesday, February 26, 2008, on DVD.

Television -
DARK SHADOWS Vol. 3: THE BEGINNING
THE INVISIBLE MAN: THE COMPLETE SERIES - From the 1950s comes this 26 episode collection.

HIGH DEFINITION -
BLU-RAY -
30 DAYS OF NIGHT, TERMINATOR 3 (this is a second BLU-RAY pressing of this movie)

These are the movies -

30 DAYS OF NIGHT - An excellent Vampire movie that was poorly advertised as a Hollywood "agenda" movie instead of the groundbreaking Horror movie it really is. Please read our review.

BEOWULF - This was not the hit that was hoped for, but it clung tenaciously to the weekly box office top ten for a long time. It has a lot of pluses to go along with its many negatives, so it might be the right Cult movie for you.

BLACK BLOOD BROTHERS: STARTER SET - Anime vampires. Regular vampires seek to stop virus infected vampires who want to infect (not kill) all of humanity. You can't have an entire planet of vampires. What would they suck?

A BLOODY ARIA - A torturiffic 2006 flick from Asia. An aspiring opera singer flees the forceful sexual advances of her professor, runs to the woods, finds help, then gets brutalized by the samaritan and his amigos.

THE BLOODSTAINED SHADOW - Lots of giallo goodies this week including this tale from 1974. Two adult brothers discover that their nightmares of childhood trauma are somehow key to a series of horrible murders in their hometown.

BONE DRY - A man is forced at gunpoint to go on a brutal, sadistic journey through the Mojave desert. Stars Lance Henrikson (TERMINATOR, ALIENS, NEAR DARK, ALIEN VS. PREDATOR).

THE CASE OF THE BLOODY IRIS - Giallo goodness from 1972 starring Edwige Fenech.

INSIDE - A quirky married couple buries a stranger who reminds them of their dead son. Thing is, the stranger is still alive.

THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE - I want to add, "For One Night Only!" This zombie cannibal cruncher from 1974 involves an entire English town of folks turned into cannibal zombies thanks to a radioactive agriculture machine. Directed by Jorge Grau (LET SLEEPING CORPSES LIE).

NATURE MORTE - Around the world, an art expert chases down, via the appearance of the artist's paintings, the person responsible for the murders of the painted subjects. A painting appears, the body of the person in the painting soon follows.

THE RAGE - This movie, which is NOT 28 DAYS LATER, is about a mad scientist (Andrew Divoff: WISHMASTER, THE RAGE WITHIN, DR. RAGE), who injects unwilling experimental subjects with a virus that turns them into enraged zombies... birds too. As I explained back in 2006 (I meant that the birds also turn into enraged zombies, not that the zombies turned into birds. Enraged or otherwise), this is HORROR THRILLER Scenario 1d. Stars Reggie Bannister (PHANTASM) and directed by Special Effects Artist, Robert Kurtzman (FROM BEYOND, EVIL DEAD II, PREDATOR, PHANTASM II, DEEPSTAR SIX, A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 5, TREMORS, BRIDE OF RE-ANIMATOR, ARMY OF DARKNESS, NEW NIGHTMARE, IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, SPAWN, THE NIGHT FLIER, PHANTOMS, THE FACULTY, FROM DUSK TILL DAWN 2, HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, THE GREEN MILE, GHOSTS OF MARS, CABIN FEVER, HULK, TREMORS 4, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, 2001 MANIACS, HOSTEL and much more).

SHORT NIGHT OF GLASS DOLLS - From 1971 comes this giallo film about a living man trapped inside his own dead body. As he tells the story which led to his own quasi-demise, he must also figure out a way to tell someone that he is actually alive before it is too late. Directed by Aldo Lado (WHO SAW HER DIE?)

THE SICK AND TWISTED HORROR OF JOANNA ANGEL - This movie is for that subset of Horror fans who really want someone to challenge their disgust threshold. Intentionally gory, intentionally disgusting, this film will do its level best to make you bark at the ants.

SLIPSTREAM - An avant garde fantasy, scifi mystery created by actor Anthony Hopkins (SILENCE OF THE LAMBS). So weird it has to be here.

THEM - No, not the giant ants, we already covered THEM. And no, this isn't THEY, from a few years ago. This 2006 French movie is billed as the film that terrified Europe (where it was released as ILS).

WHO SAW HER DIE? - From 1972 is this giallo tale of a Father forced to investigate the bizarre murder of his own daughter. Directed by Aldo Lado (SHORT NIGHT OF GLASS DOLLS)

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FEB. 22

RULES (pay attention):
To enter you must be at least 18 years old. This contest is open to residents in the United States only*.
email your name, date of birth, physical mailing address, and phone number.~
In the Subject Line of your email you must write only the following words you see in quotes:
"THE SIGNAL CONTEST"
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*A big Sorry, to all of my fans outside of the U.S. Why not contact your country's various entertainment folks and have them contact me? As long as it is about Horror, Thriller, Mystery, and/or Suspense fiction and art, I'll run a contest for any country (ies).
~Your personal information will not be sold or distributed to third parties outside of feoamante.com, Magnolia Pictures, or their representatives. This contest is presented by feoamante.com and Crew Creative Advertising with permission from Magnolia Pictures.

CONVENTIONS:
Fangoria's Weekend of Horror hits Chicago! You didn't get your ticket yet? And you LIVE in the Chicago area? Lucky you, they can be bought at the door! Fango is one of the primo Horror conventions from one of the primo Horror print magazines! Fangoria has had an uninterrupted print run of nearly 30 freaking years! Among the many luminaries are actors Robert Englund and Tony Todd; Directors Neil Marshall and Jeremy Kasten; Composer Harry Manfredini; Writer Craig Spector.

Texas Frightmare Weekend hits Dallas/Fort Worth!
Chicago is too far away and too cold? Lucky for you, tickets can still be bought at the door. We're talking road trip here! TFW is the new kid on the block, yet has grabbed immediate cred, staking its territory with an outstanding show. Their luminaries this weekend include Director George Romero; Actors Malcolm McDowell and Dee Wallace; Writers John Russo, Christopher Fulbright and Angeline Hawkes; SFX artists Greg Nicotero and Tom Savini.

MOVIES
Opening nationwide in the U.S. this weekend are THE SIGNAL and VANTAGE POINT.

SIGNINGS
This weekend include Burbank, California's Dark Delicacies (near Los Angeles) where February 23rd, MY BIRTHDAY, none other than Ray Harryhausen will sign his movies, IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA and EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS. His books, THE ART OF RAY HARRYHAUSEN and RAY HARRYHAUSEN: AN ANIMATED LIFE will also be available for signing.

Eddie Allen posing with his authorized Haunted photo of Gahan Wilson. Pass your mouse pointer over the image.

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RIP FOR BEN
The Gillman himself, actor Ben Chapman, left today. He was 82. We spoke of his work at our CREATURE FROM THE BLACK LAGOON sequels.

Michael De Feo with one of his famous flowers in New York.

No other Horror or Horror Thriller website is as consistently ranked #1 as feoamante.com, which makes this website the #1 Horror Thriller website in the world! Hell, the whole freaking Universe!

So Thank You again!

All that said, I'm not the only Feo out there! Check out today's Famous Feo, artist Michael De Feo, at mdefeo.com and MySpace.com/ MichaeldeFeo.

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