Continued at WritersDigest.

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Horror Baseball Graphic Novel 'Sullivan's Sluggers' Finds Producers (Exclusive)
Broken Road Production's Todd Garner has teamed up with Adam Herz and Joshua Shader of Terra Firma Films to produce an adaptation of Sullivan's Sluggers, a horror baseball graphic novel by Mark Andrew Smith and James Stokoe.

Tom and Tim Mullen have been tapped to write the script.

Continued at Hollywood Reporter.

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Cursed Clothes Launches Horror Movie Inspired T-Shirts
Los Angeles, CA, May 31, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Cursed Clothes, (www.cursedclothes.com), the hauntingly fun clothing line, and brainchild of Poltergeist star Oliver Robins and Designer Florian Mihr launches with a summer line-up of horror movie inspired t-shirts and accessories.

The Cursed Clothes website describes its mission: "Whether you're exorcising a demonic possession, swimming in a pool of rotting corpses, or just battling the undead, Cursed Clothes has the garbs you need to feel closer to the afterlife."

Continued at PR.
(FeoNote: Oh. So that's what he's doing now. Huh.)

Combining a silly, self-aware sensibility with over-the-top gore, the original comedic horror film starring the likes of Richard Dreyfuss, Christopher Lloyd and Elizabeth Shue as townsfolk fighting off prehistoric flesh-eating fish became a just-add-water cult hit when it was released two summers ago opposite more mature fare such as "The Expendables" and "Eat Pray Love."

Continued at WashingtonPost.

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'Gremlins' Star Joins Cast of Horror Movie 'Hatchet 3'
Zach Galligan, who is best known for starring in 1980s classics Gremlins and Gremlins 2: The New Batch, has joined the cast of Hatchet 3, the latest installment of the cult horror series from MPI/Dark Sky Films and ArieScrope Pictures.

Continued at HollywoodReporter.

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Christians Made a Horror Film About a Haunted Box of Porn
Over the past few years, a Christian called Rich Praytor has been making a found-footage-style horror film called Harmless. Harmless is about a loving, honest, God-fearing American family that is infiltrated by a demonic box of porn, which, when opened, unleashes a poltergeist that proceeds to haunt the house. The main character (played by Rich himself) watches in horror as his home is overcome by the evil spirit, which terrifies his wife and corrupts their eight-year-old son.

Continued at Vice.

Scientists have speculated that life could have come to Earth from space — a notion called panspermia — since the 1870s, when Lord Kelvin suggested microbes could have ridden here on a comet or meteor. Others have suggested tiny organisms could cross the galaxy embedded in dust grains, which could be nudged from one planetary system to another by the slight pressure of stars' radiation.

Continued at WIRED.

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Reports: Miami 'zombie' attacker may have been using 'bath salts'
A naked man who chewed off the face of another man in what is being called a zombie-like attack may have been under the influence of "bath salts," a drug referred to as the new LSD, according to reports from CNN affiliates in Miami.

The horrific attack occurred Saturday and was only stopped after a police officer shot the attacker several times, killing him.

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CDC.gov Zombie Preparedness page.

Zombie Preparedness.org has issued a YELLOW ALERT.

Continued at Feo Amante/Zombie Origins?

Continued at Miami.CBSLocal.
(FeoNote: This will be the day remembered as the beginning of the zombie apocalypse.)

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If H.R. Giger were a pastry chef, his cakes might look something like this
For his Cakeland project, Oakland sculptor Scott Hove takes cues from both the animal kingdom and the modern kitchen. He gives flamboyant gâteaus teeth, jaws, and imposing frosting spikes. If someone decided to reboot Alien on Planet Candyland, Hove's work would be a good place to start.

Continued at io9.
(FeoNote: This doesn't remotely look like H.R. Giger's art. Great work, though!)

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Peli's latest horror movie set in shadow of Chernobyl
NEW YORK, May 28 (UPI) -- Israeli-born filmmaker Oren Peli, creator of the "Paranormal Activity" movie franchise and TV show "The River," has found yet another new way to tap into the collective fear of the unknown with his latest release "Chernobyl Diaries."

Continued at UPI.

Sanctuaries are full of the birds now the craze has faded after the release of the final Harry Potter film last year.

And it's feared many more have been illegally released into the wild and will have starved to death or taken over territory inhabited by smaller wild owls.

Continued at Mirror.

The hallowed — and spooky — tradition of showing scary movies at midnight is coming to Savannah with the inaugural Rock 106.1 FM Friday Night Fright Fest.

"The idea is to give local horror fans something to look forward to every month," says Jim Reed, artistic director of the Psychotronic Film Society of Savannah, which is screening the films.

Continued at SavannahNow.