While doing our Halloween prep this weekend, we came across Nightchills Studios here in Lincoln, a local business that specializes in home made horror props such as tombstones and corpsifications. They also have a prop club that is free to join in which various genre enthusiasts get together to collaborate, build, and help each other make props. Yet another rad thing here in our own backyard that we had no idea even existed!

They’re a small local business so stop by their website and take a look at their wares. I saw their corpsifications in person and they looked really freakin’ awesome.

Chillerama, the horror comedy anthology by Adam Green, Joe Lynch, Adam Rifkin, and Tim Sullivan, is coming to DVD and Blu-Ray on November 29th. This is probably one of the coolest DVD covers I’ve seen in a long time. Who says art is dead?

I actually got to see Chillerama and will be giving my thoughts and comments on it on Monday’s Splattercast. Stay tuned!

Our friends at Drunken Zombie are having their film festival November 4th and 5th. Check out the rad commercial that will be playing in the Illinois area.

Also, episode two of Shivers Down Your Spine, our new web series that premieres on Halloween right here on DL, will be making its premiere at the festival. It’s called SLEEP TIGHT and features Randy of Drunken Zombie fame. So, like, go to the festival because good shite is gonna be playing.

The Drunken Zombie Deadly Double Feature is tonight and the guys were kind enough to put Outpost Doom on the same bill as Attack of the Giant Leeches!

Stop by the Peoria Theater at 9pm for monster movie madness. And thanks again to the guys at Drunken Zombie for putting our crappy little movie on a theater screen!

The great Joe Bob Briggs has a great opportunity for all you aspiring filmmakers and writers: Submit a script! Here’s the full details:

Joe Bob Briggs, the world’s first and foremost drive-in movie critic, has founded his own movie studio, and he’s buying scripts for development. We’ll read any genre—horror, action, martial arts, thriller, mystery, and youth sex comedy, but especially horror. He’ll be producing 10 films in the next 18 months. No need to query first, and there’s no limit on how many scripts you can submit. Send scripts as a PDF to scripts@joebobbriggs.com. Questions? Check out our FAQ at http://www.joebobbriggs.com.

What are you waiting for? This is great news! A true friend of independent cinema is giving the community a great opportunity! Submit your scripts ASAP!

It’s Monty Python meets Nazi exploitation in a surreal nightmare as can only be imagined by Bizarro author Cameron Pierce.

In a land where black snow falls in the shape of swastikas, there exists a nightmarish prison camp known as Auschwitz. It is run by a fascist, flatulent race of aliens called the Ass Goblins, who travel in apple-shaped spaceships to abduct children from the neighboring world of Kidland. Prisoners 999 and 1001 are conjoined twin brothers forced to endure the sadistic tortures of these ass-shaped monsters. To survive, they must eat kid skin and work all day constructing bicycles and sex dolls out of dead children.

While the Ass Goblins become drunk on cider made from fermented children, the twins plot their escape. But it won’t be easy. They must overcome toilet toads, cockrats, ass dolls, and the surgical experiments that are slowly mutating them into goblin-child hybrids.

Forget everything you know about Auschwitz…you’re about to be Shit Slaughtered.

Praise for The Ass Goblins of Auschwitz:

“Who needs Ass Goblins when you have Jon Voight?”
- Jeremy Robert Johnson, Pushcart-nominated author of Angel Dust Apocalypse

“Truly disgusting! A fascinating mix of William Burroughs, David Cronenberg, and Lenny Bruce if you were to take all three and drop them into a blender. Cameron Pierce is a writer with a truly warped imagination.”
– Keith J. Crocker, director of Blitzkrieg: Escape From Stalag 69 and The Bloody Ape

“A must read.”
- The Horror Fiction Review

Available at Amazon.com

About the Author: Cameron Pierce is the author of Shark Hunting in Paradise Garden (Eraserhead Press, 2008) and the creator of Meat Magick, a squid-smashing performance series. Visit him online at meatmagick.wordpress.com.

Lee Perkins passed along the first pic of his character Mason slimed from the upcoming Slime City Massacre

I’m looking forward to seeing this!

Wild Eye Releasing is pleased to announce the release of the first TEASER POSTER art for the upcoming video art gallery experience Night of the Living Dead: REANIMATED in anticipation of the project’s official DVD release in winter 2009.

Organizer/Curator of the project, Mike Schneider, designed the poster as a small glimpse into the dozens of styles on display in the project, which features over 100 artists from around the world. Working from the same source, George Romeros’ original Night of the Living Dead, each artist has taken scenes and ‘reanimated’ them through processes ranging from CGI to puppetry and oil paintings to tattoos. This creates a new viewing experience of a timeless classic.

The teaser poster will be available this weekend at Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors in NYC at the Wild Eye table.

The all new TRUE BLOOD promo featuring a sneak peak at clips from Season Two of the HBO original series and Bob Dylan’s new single “Beyond Here Lies Nothin’” is available now on HBO.com

TRUE BLOOD returns for the new season on HBO on Sunday, June 14 at 9pm ET.  TRUE BLOOD Season One will be available on DVD, Blu-Ray and digital download on Tuesday, May 19.  The soundtrack will also hit on May 19.

Founder Charlie Ruckus provided me with a DVD compiling a few of their films. I especially liked the rough cut of Cask, a modern-day take on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Cask of Amontillado.

Those of us who can’t catch their TV show can poke around their website to check out what Ruckus is up to. I wish you all the best on your projects, Charlie!