From Ed Peters
FEO GETS BRUTAL!
JOIN ELLEN SANDWEISS AND GERRY BEDNOB FOR A Q&A/INTRO ABOUT “BRUTAL MASSACRE: A COMEDY”

WHAT:
Stars Ellen Sandweiss (THE EVIL DEAD, THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND) and Gerry Bednob (The 40 Year Old Virgin) will conduct a Q&A/intro for their new comedy BRUTAL MASSACRE: A COMEDY on Friday, July 18th at the Laemmle’s Sunset 5 Theaters prior to the Midnight screening. Moderated by Feo Amante from FeoAmante.com, Ellen and Gerry will discuss the challenges and chuckles of bringing the indie comedy to the big screen, as well as take a few questions from the audience (time permitting).

WHEN:
Friday, July 18th, 2008 Immediately before the Midnight showing of BRUTAL MASSACRE: A COMEDY

WHERE:
Laemmle’s Sunset 5 Theaters
8000 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90046
(323) 848-3500

Written and directed by Stevan Mena (MALEVOLENCE) and boasting an all-star cast of horror film legends - all in comedic roles - BRUTAL MASSACRE: A COMEDY is a hilarious look into the chaotic world of low budget independent filmmaking, as a once-successful horror film director tries to make his comeback vehicle. Delivering laughs in the best mockumentary tradition of This Is Spinal Tap, Brutal Massacre gives fans of horror and comedy a “Best in Horror-Show” performance featuring such horror and comedy film luminaries as David Naughton (AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON); Brian O’Halloran (DOGMA, Clerks, Chasing Amy); Gerry Bednob (The 40-Year Old Virgin, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story); Gunnar Hansen (the original THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE); Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker and Theresa Tilly, aka "The Ladies of THE EVIL DEAD", Ken Foree (the original DAWN OF THE DEAD, FROM BEYOND, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS), and Vincent Butta (The Breakup Artist).

From Alan Grosheider
WORLD’S LARGEST ZOMBIE GATHERING
On November 1, 2008, Anubis Digital Studios plans to blow away the current Guinness World Record for the Largest Zombie Gathering. The current record is 1028. Anubis plans to bring together 3,000 zombies at one event.

Anubis is the proud producer of the wildly successful zombie comedy DEAD MOON RISING. DEAD MOON RISING has become an instant cult classic, winning every film festival in which it was shown, and is distributed throughout North America, including Netflix, Blockbuster, Best Buy, and many other retailers and Internet sites throughout the World.

Anubis already filmed the World's Largest Zombie Scene with over 1,200 zombie and biker extras, and this was accomplished simply by sending out a press release asking people to show up in costume. The scene is included in the grand finale of DEAD MOON RISING.

This time Anubis is actually promoting the event; so 3,000 zombies should be no problem. The company has already forged agreements with Feo Amante, owner of famed horror movie website FeoAmante.com - the #1 Horror Thriller Website in the World and is promoting the event on other horror and zombie websites all over the Internet and on radio stations around the country, newspapers, and horror publications internationally.

The ANUBIS WORLD’S LARGEST ZOMBIE GATHERING will be held at 3pm on Saturday November 1, 2008 at the City Block entertainment venue in Louisville, KY. The event will also be combined with the WORLD’S LARGEST ANNUAL ZOMBIE HALLOWEEN BALL, which will be held at City Block on Friday October 31, 2008 at 7pm.

The WORLD’S LARGEST ANNUAL ZOMBIE HALLOWEEN BALL will include bands, DJs, dead celebrity zombie look-alike contests, zombie celebrities from popular movies, meet-and-greets with the cast and crew of DEAD MOON RISING, a King and Queen Zombie contest, and much more.

Check out The ANUBIS WORLD’S LARGEST ZOMBIE GATHERING.

From Herbert M. Brindl
COOGAN'S IN THE DARK WOODS
Irish born actor, Tracy Coogan (ZOMBIE HONEYMOON, THE DEVIL'S DUNGEON) is now in pre-production as the lead in the feature film, DARK WOODS.

DARK WOODS is a mystery thriller written by John Muscarnero and directed by Mike Escobedo. The story follows a couple who move to a secluded cabin in the woods to cope with a terminal illness of the wife. As the wifes condition drags her deeper into dementia and darkness, the husband's friendship with a local teenage girl takes a dangerous and obsessive turn.

The emotional feel will be something like SWIMMING POOL, WE DON'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, or Roman Polanski's REPULSION. Lots of foreign influence, with some Lynch thrown in the mix.

Nom De Plume Films LLC, is shooting the feature film, Dark Woods, this winter in and around Los Angeles.

E.C.McMullen Jr.

Secret Story: For Those Who Scroll

The dark of the Movie theater. How trusting we all are to sit in the dark with hundreds of total strangers, also sitting in the dark,

Right - Behind - Us.

I remember my days of working in the Movie Theater as a young lad. After a while, I got bored with the novelty of seeing free movies, the SAME movies, several times a day in chunks, scraps, and pieces. Then there were the rude folk. Those human droppings who try to waste everyone else's money and enjoyment by making stupid remarks, kicking the seats in front of them, and/or being generally obnoxious. I would always be the one, chose by the management, to go quiet the "loud" ones because I was pretty good at it. I'm a big guy and I was good at getting obnoxious people to be quiet.

I could always be counted on to go in; make the noisy people in the audience silent, and come back out. No muss, no fuss: not ever

Truth be told though, even in a 12 screen theater, it was hard to keep quiet about the people who wouldn't leave after the movie was over: the people for whom an ambulance had to come and take them away.

No witnesses of course: total strangers, no one knew each other. The folks seated in the dark, didn't see what happened, or maybe did see but were secretly delighted at the plight of the obnoxious moviegoer who had harassed them so. Hmmm. I didn't really think of that at the time. I probably should have given that more thought.

In any case, the first three times it happened, the manager was very tense about having to call an ambulance and the subsequent arrival of the police. And yet she didn't fire me, and she didn't send someone else: I was THAT good at my job. One day she was told that if the police or ambulance had to come one more time, they would close the place down, there would be an investigation, and they would release it to the news.

So . . . did my boss turn me in? Did she fire me?

No. She just stopped calling the ambulance: No ambulance, no police. Whenever somebody couldn't leave, she would send me alone to go with the great big plastic garbage cart to clean up the screen room for the next show.

Soon, obnoxious people weren't coming to our theater as much. Everything was fine for many months, almost a year. My manager was promoted out of the theater and they sent someone else to run the show.

One summer day, two days after school let out, we had one screen room with an ENTIRE ROW of rude noisemakers, disrupting others and daring the other moviegoers to do something about it. I remember that it was a very hardcore horror movie: a gory blood and guts kind of flick; really attracts a select type of fan. As always I first asked the noisemakers to please be quiet in respect to the rest of the patrons. That works about half the time.

"You think you can make us be quiet?" was the response. Well of course I could. I knew that, though I guess they didn't. There were many of them, so I couldn't be furtive, quick and silent as usual - but - I did make them be quiet.

I silenced them during the loudest, most screamingest part of the movie.

- Just as the film broke.

- A blinding bright shutter blade of light froze me and exposed me 24 frames in one second.

The automatic sensor alarm on the projector alerted the manager in her office. This was her first time with me and my methods.

She arrived in time to see the result of silence. She stood there gaping at me and my work. Then the stunned crowd rose to give me a standing ovation. Some of my new "friends" helped me move the silent people out to the dumpster. They clapped my horrified manager on the back and swore how they "would always come back to THIS theater!"
"This one really takes care of their customers!"
She left the screen room in a daze while I cleaned the screening room, only to ask my co-workers to call the police. Her surprise at me was compounded by the response she got from them. I'd worked at the theater for years and many of them had worked with me nearly as long. So of course they knew me and what I did. I'd been at it for a long time.

After closing, the new manager asked me to "Please help me lock up."
When everyone was gone, she courteously gave me the day's receipts, over $30,000 dollars in cash, and asked me to "Please quit." and never come back.

I'm not stupid of course, I clearly understood her reasons and I appreciated her being up front with me.

I finished college and got my degree. Now I'm a police officer. The TV show COPS is coming to our city next week to spend a month riding and taping us. The Police Commissioner himself has given me that time off: a bonus vacation with pay.

-Feo Amante