Just a reminder that this Thursday, at 10pm central time, Cold Case Cinema will be doing a live podcast via Skype while watching The Magnetic Monster on Turner Classic Movies.

Join Bryan and Tony and watch the film with them while they do their live podcast commentary. It’s gonna be a lot of fun. If you are interested in participating, send your Skype handle to Splattercast@DeadLantern.com and we’ll make sure you get added to our Skype contact lists. You can also check out all the details on our Facebook Event page.

Thanks! And enjoy The Magnetic Monster!

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Our longest show yet, clocking in at almost 2 hours! This is a special show to mark our 50th podcast. Download here

Many thanks to the team at The Colonel Mustard for joining the podcast to tell us about their Lincoln-based X Files musical! It’s super exciting news, so please stay tuned to the end of the show to listen to an interview with them. Many thanks to Lindsay and Phil for taking the time to talk to me about their project – can’t wait to see it! Check out their web site for more info: http://www.thecolonelmustard.com/

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This week Elgoro of Talk Without Rhythm joins us to discuss the Charles Band opus METALSTORM: THE DESTRUCTION OF JARED-SYN. Then we just talk about a bunch of random shit like zombies, 3-D movies, and Ron Paul. Oh yeah, and Sparklez joins us again from his loud phone.

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We’re very excited to be attending the brand new Indianapolis convention Days of the Dead this weekend. We’ll be selling Outpost Doom and promoting various stuff at our booth so stop by and say hello! And oh yeah, we’re shooting a short film with Uncle Randy of Drunken Zombie! It’s gonna be action packed and to tell us a little more about the convention, we interviewed Adolfo Dorta, one of the organizers of the event itself. Check it out!

Dead lantern: First things first, could you introduce yourself and give our readers a little bit of backstory about yourself?

Adolfo Dorta: I’m originally from Miami, FL but moved to the Chicagoland area with my wife in November of 2008. I’ve been going to Sci-Fi and comic book conventions since I was a young, young kid, but didn’t really start doing shows that were exclusively horror until about 6 or 7 years ago. Being a Florida native, I’ve always been a long time fan and loyal patron of Spooky Empire’s Ultimate Horror Weekend and have attended it religiously for their past 5 or 6 shows. Since moving to the mid west, I’ve expanded my convention going a bit more, taking advantage of all of the great horror shows out here such as Flashback Weekend and HorrorHound.

Much like most people my age, I grew up in the wonderful VHS era, where there was a mom and pop video rental store on every other corner. My mother was always strict about making sure I stayed out of the horror section lest I be stricken with nightmares by some of the ridiculous cover art that was so common back in those glory days. Despite her best attempts, I always found a way to sneak away and marvel at the gruesome, gory, and over the top imagery that adorned those beautiful boxes, and the fact that it was “forbidden fruit” made it that much more enticing. My curiosity went on to grow into a way of life, one which I have been fortunate to now turn into two really awesome projects – my website, From Dusk till Con, and the upcoming DAYS OF THE DEAD.

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Something new I’m starting, to highlight the sexy stars of The X-Files. And where better to start, than the enigmatic Doctor Scully.

Scully is hot, there are no two ways about it. I once heard her referred to as ‘the thinking man’s crumpet’. And while smart is certainly sexy, I think there is more to Scully’s appeal than her brain. She’s feisty, scrappy, and even her stubbornness is endearing. In early seasons she was (let’s face it) kinda frumpy; it’s not until season 4 that she comes into her own and really ‘wears’ those pant-suits.  This is when the writers start to be a lot more daring with her character (and the wardrobe people ditch the poofy hair), and we see a darker more cynical side to Scully. It’s also when her health is threatened and she is at her most vulnerable, and really begins to open up to Mulder, strengthening their burgeoning relationship even further (it’s also when Mulder starts to wear that leather jacket, but I’ll get to that another time!).

In short (she’s only wee), TV’s answer to Clarice Starling puts Special Agent Scully firmly in the “I would” category.

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As we’ve mentioned on the past few Splattercasts, we are very busy preparing for our new monthly web series. We have no name decided for the overall project yet (13 Drops of Blood was going to be it until we found out it’s a book) but we do know what the first four stories are going to be. We’ll release one 5-7 minute story per month and ultimately put all of them together for a DVD release. Without further ado, here they are with brief non-spoiler descriptions.

DEADBOLT: The framing device of the anthology. A young girl, home alone on Halloween night, is terrorized by someone knocking on her door. She thinks the boyfriend she just broke up with is behind it and locks the deadbolt. She soon realizes that ex-boyfriends are not the only things angry on Halloween night….

SLEEP TIGHT: Arriving at a hotel late at night after a long drive to a horror movie convention, two podcasters want nothing more than to get to their room and fall asleep. A fateful decision will leave one of them never looking at a hotel bed the same way again…

BAIT: Kemp has the greatest worms in the county and fisherman come from miles around to stop at his tucked away farmhouse. When Andy shows up to buy some bait, Kemp takes him to his barn to show him exactly what makes his soil the best in the county…

CONVENTION GIRL: David has a problem. He’s just staked a vampire call girl. Or at least, he thinks she is. And he will do anything to prove to his friend Justin that she is, indeed, a vampire….

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So there you have it, the first four entries in our new monthly anthology series that will debut on Halloween. We’re very excited to announce that Uncle Randy of Drunken Zombie will be starring in Sleep Tight, which will film next weekend at the Days of the Dead convention.

All four stories are created, written, and revised by Tony (Professor Bleak) , Steve, and myself. And we have a whole lot more planned for next year including some shorts written by fellow podcasters and even some entries by non-DL filmmakers. And yes, we are still working on The Dark Around Your Heart. In fact, you might see our private eye in one of the anthology shorts early next year….

So yeah, we’re excited! Now you have another reason to look forward to Halloween

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Ah, zombies. I’m back to talking about them again! Hurray! I think I’m on a never ending quest to “get it”. I know that eventually I’ll figure out the appeal because somewhere, someday there is going to be a zombie movie that does more than be mediocre, competent filmmaking of the same stories that were told 30 years ago! Okay, I’m being sarcastic. Mostly.

Quarantine was the American remake of the Spanish film Rec about a group of people trapped inside an apartment building trying to survive as one by one they turn into rabid, rage fueled zombies. Ostensibly, they are the same movie save for the final reveal. In Rec it turns out that the virus is supernatural in origin; demon possession. In Quarantine, it’s a doomsday cult that wants to spread a virus to destroy humanity. It is unquestionable that Rec has the better reveal but since Quarantine didn’t go that route the filmmakers of the sequel must work with what they were given. So here we get doomsday cult stuff inspired more by stuff like 24 and The Event than anything remotely unique. By the way, is Rec a zombie movie if the zombies are actually demons? It’s a fine line to draw but then again, zombie fans fight amongst themselves about whether “infected” are zombies or not. Maybe we can put The Exorcist in the zombie category from now on? “But they say the word ‘virus’ in Rec so they’re zombies!!!!!” I’m only half-joking, but I digress…

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