Troy Escamilla's Fright Meter Awards have grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years. And now the online horror awards have found a home for their inaugural live ceremony… Florida's Pensacon!

From the Press Release
The Fright Meter Awards Organization is excited to announce that Pensacon will be hosting the 2013 Fright Meter Awards inaugural ceremony. The event will be presented as part of Pensacon’s main programming on Saturday, February 22, 2014, in Pensacola, Florida.

Pensacon is a multi-genre convention for fans of horror, sci-fi, comics, anime, gaming and more. It will be held at the Crowne Plaza Grand Hotel in downtown Pensacola the weekend of February 21-23, 2014, and feature guests including Tom Savini, Kane Hodder, Lew Temple, Peter Mayhew, Walter Koenig, Dirk Benedict and more. As the official host of the Fright Meter Awards Ceremony, Pensacon hopes to position the awards as the preeminent honor of the horror genre, which has long been ignored by mainstream award organizations.

Now in their seventh year, the Fright Meter Awards are presented annually by the Fright Meter Awards Organization, dedicated solely to honoring and recognizing excellence within the horror genre. The nominees and winners are determined by members of the Fright Meter Awards Committee. Past winners of the Fright Meter Award include John Cusack, Chloe Grace Moretz, Rutger Hauer and Marcia Gay Harden.

The Fright Meter Award Committee consists of horror fans, bloggers, actors, producers, directors and others involved in the industry. The aim is to select and nominate worthy films regardless of budget, means of release or popularity. The Fright Meter Awards Organization intends to make the Fright Meter Award one of the most prestigious horror awards given.

For more information on the Fright Meter Awards, visit the official Fright Meter Awards website; and for more on Pensacon, visit the official Pensacon website.

If you're a book collector who's always on the lookout for special editions... even more so if they're signed by the authors, then read on for details of a new release coming from Cemetery Dance of Brian Hodge's Dark Advent, a post-apocalyptic novel due out later this year.

From the Press Release:
We're pleased to announce we'll be publishing a signed Limited Edition hardcover of Dark Advent by Brian Hodge, his epic 550-page end of the world novel, featuring stunning wrap-around cover artwork by Vincent Chong; and for the next week only we're offering FREE SHIPPING within the US!

Published in two states:
• Hardcover Limited Edition of 750 copies signed by the author, bound in full-cloth and Smyth sewn ($50)
• Traycased Lettered Edition of 52 signed and lettered copies bound in leather with a satin ribbon page marker ($200)

Special features exclusive to this Collector's Edition:
• epic cover artwork by Vincent Chong
• special afterword by the author
• deluxe oversized design with a 7" X 10" trim size
• extremely collectible print run
• four color illustrated signature sheets

Synopsis:
It arrives without warning: a devastating plague, the medieval Black Death weaponized for the age of global terrorism. Like a biblical pestilence, this plague sweeps through modern civilization almost overnight, destroying good and evil alike, leaving only a handful of survivors to make their way through an empty landscape and face the unknown horrors awaiting them in a savage new world.

In a deserted St. Louis department store, a few survivors band together to begin again. But beyond their temporary haven, an evil is stirring. An evil that preys upon human weakness for its own twisted ends. Soon, all that stands between the reborn world and a reign of insanity is this unlikely fortress of humanity, armed with what can be found on a department store shelf and what courage they can muster to battle a monstrous, merciless scourge...

For more info, including pre-ordering details, visit the Cemetery Dance website.

It was 21 years ago this week that Alien 3 opened in theaters. Since Alien 3 didn’t spawn any music videos, I’m instead forced to go with Mötley Crüe frontman Vince Neil’s theme song to Encino Man, the other movie that opened on May 22, 1992.

Ah, May 22, 1992: The night I saw a double feature of Alien 3 and Encino Man. I remember being so excited for Alien 3 - then I actually saw it. Yeah, I know there are many of you out there ready to rush to the defense of Alien 3 - save your breath. That’s one you’ll never be able to sell me on. Wanna know how much I disliked Alien 3? I was so let down exiting the theater that I turned right back around, bought a ticket for Encino Man, and ended up enjoying it far more. That’s how bored and depressed I felt watching Alien 3. And that’s really saying something because if you’ve ever seen a few minutes of Encino Man in the two decades since, I’ll just politely note that it doesn’t hold up.

Before Brendan Fraser fought mummies, he was the one being awakened from a deep sleep, as an unfrozen caveman thawed out by Samwise and Pauley Shore, whose short-lived movie career was once best summarized by Bobcat Goldthwait when he said, “I guess the kids need a new Ernest?” The clueless caveman is brought to school as an exchange student, where wackiness ensues as he helps Sam… er, Sean Astin defeat the school bully and score with Full Moon movie cutie Megan Ward. Robin Tunney, however, still to this day remains unamused by the antics of “The Weasel”.

Somewhere between the Crüe breaking up and getting back together and before he would enjoy a new career as a reality star on VH1’s “Rock of Love,” Vince Neil’s solo music career churned out “You’re Invited (But Your Friend Can’t Come),” the title track to the Encino Man soundtrack.

The official music video sees Pauley Shore crashing a Vince Neil performance and eventually succeeding in getting invited into his dressing room with all the hot girls. The ending is even more depressing than Alien 3.

The wheeling and dealing at Cannes 2013 is almost over, but one more genre film has landed distro just in the nick of time! Sony Pictures Classics acquired North American rights to Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive just hours before the film's world premiere at the fest.

"Only Lovers Left Alive is one of the great Jarmusch pictures, and American audiences will love it,"Sony Pictures Classics said in a statement provided to The Wrap. "We are excited to be back with Jim and our great friends [producer] Jeremy Thomas and Tilda Swinton, whose performance, along with the rest of the cast, is fantastic."

We also got our hands on some spoilery additional info on the film from Yahoo! News, including the fact that it's more an unusual comedy that puts its own spin on the age-old vampire genre than the angsty drama so many vamp-centric flicks tend to be these days.

Related Story:Image Gallery and Artwork Arrive for Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive

The last English-language entry competing for the Cannes Film Festival's Palme d'Or, Only Lovers Left Alive stars Tilda Swinton as Eve, a grungy but erudite vampire who's married to a forlorn vampire musician, Adam, played by Tom Hiddleston. Several-hundred-year-old Adam (of Biblical fame) has been living quite happily ever since being expelled from the Garden of Eden--that is, until the 21st century came along with its excesses and greed and pushed him into a full-flung existential crisis. He cracks and orders a wooden bullet to kill himself.

Adam and Eve are not about blood-sucking and murder but are refined lovers of literature, science, music, and learning in general. When Eve's estranged sister (Mia Wasikowska) "drinks" Ian, a friend, to death, Eve tells her off, saying that in the 21st century people won't understand such barbarity. It's not like they can just dump the bodies in the Thames with the tuberculosis sufferers like in old times, she says. Now, in the 21st century, they get their blood from the transfusion section of a hospital. Alongside this, John Hurt plays a vampire Christopher Marlowe, who's still bitter that Shakespeare became more famous.

In the film vampires elegantly cover their mouths and have a strange ritual with gloves that goes unexplained, but at heart it's the story of Adam and Eve, who try to rekindle their love despite living in different places, he in Detroit and she in Tangiers. It is as touching as it is odd. The love story between immortal beings also raised philosophical questions for leading man Hiddleston, who said playing Adam was a "fascinating prospect"— a chance to break away from his more conventional superhero roles like Loki in 2011's Marvel Studios film Thor. "The idea of exploring love in the context of immortality — is (it) a blessing because it recurs, and what does that do to your commitments?"he said.

It took Jarmusch seven years to find a backer, and he explains why: "I wanted to make a vampire love story... The reason it took so long was that no one wanted to give us the money. It's getting more and more and more difficult for films that are maybe a little unusual or not predictable or not satisfying the expectations of everybody — which is the beauty of cinema, discovering new films of all forms."

Hear, hear, Jim! And kudos to Sony Pictures Classics for taking a chance on it as well.

A grainy clip from a new trailer for Machete Kills has been popping up on the Internet - and then getting quickly pulled down by Open Road Films - but we found a decent copy and have it right here... just act quickly! Along with it is a Pop News Daily segment focusing on Lady Gaga's role.

Open Road Films will release Machete Kills - directed by Robert Rodriguez (Machete, Sin City, Spy Kids franchise) from a screenplay by Kyle Ward and based on a story by Marcel Rodriguez and Robert Rodriguez - on September 13, 2013. The film stars Danny Trejo, Michelle Rodriguez, Sofia Vergara, Amber Heard, Carlos Estevez/Charlie Sheen, Lady Gaga, Antonio Banderas, Jessica Alba, Demián Bichir, Alexa Vega, Vanessa Hudgens, Cuba Gooding, Jr., William Sadler, Marko Zaror, and Mel Gibson.

Synopsis:
In Machete Kills, Danny Trejo returns as ex-Federale agent Machete, who is recruited by the President of the United States for a mission which would be impossible for any mortal man - he must take down a madman revolutionary and an eccentric billionaire arms dealer who has hatched a plan to spread war and anarchy across the planet.

What better chaser could there be for your holiday weekend than a hefty helping of eye candy for the upcoming flick Pacific Rim? That's right, kids! Time for a gaggle of new images and the second TV spot.

Look for Pacific Rim, directed by Guillermo del Toro, in theatres July 12th of 2013. Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Charlie Day, Ron Perlman, Rinko Kikuchi, Max Martini, Rob Kazinsky, Clifton Collins, Jr., and Diego Klattenhoff star.

Related News: Visit our Pacific Rim archive

Synopsis
From acclaimed filmmaker Guillermo del Toro comes Warner Bros. Pictures’ and Legendary Pictures’ epic sci-fi action adventure Pacific Rim.

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity’s resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes--a washed up former pilot (Charlie Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Rinko Kikuchi)--who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind’s last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

San Francisco. Man, this city just can't catch a break lately. Godzilla is busy laying it to waste currently in Canada, and the apes have laid waste to it as well. Check out this latest image from Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and you'll see what we mean.

Andy Serkis, celebrated for his performance in the last film, reprises his role as Caesar. Jason Clarke (Zero Dark Thirty, Public Enemies, The Great Gatsby), Gary Oldman (The Dark Knight Rises, The Harry Potter franchise), Keri Russell ("The Americans,"Mission Impossible III), Toby Kebbell (The Prince of Persia, Wrath of the Titans, Rock N Rolla), Kodi Smit-McPhee (Let Me In, ParaNorman), Enrique Murciano (Traffic, Black Hawk Down), Kirk Acevedo (The Thin Red Line), and Judy Greer (The Descendants, Three Kings, 13 Going on 30) also star.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is directed by Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In). The producers are Peter Chernin, Dylan Clark (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Oblivion), Rick Jaffa, and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes). Tom Hammel (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) is executive producing.

Oscar-winning visual effects house WETA Digital – employing a new generation of the cutting edge performance capture technologies developed for Rise of the Apes and Avatar– will again render photo-realistic, emotionally-engaging apes. The film’s key behind-the-scenes team includes director of photography Michael Seresin, production designer James Chinland, and VFX Supervisors Joe Letteri and Dan Lemmon, VFX producers Ryan Stafford, editor Bill Hoy and Stan Salfas, and costume designer Melissa Brunning.

Twentieth Century Fox will release Dawn of the Planet of the Apes worldwide on Memorial Day weekend, May 23, 2014.

Synopsis
A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. They reach a fragile peace, but it proves short-lived, as both sides are brought to the brink of a war that will determine who will emerge as Earth’s dominant species.

Calm down, Universal monster fans. The following story has nothing to do with a remake, redux, reimagining, rebirth, retelling, redundant of your favorite gillman. This is a beast of another kind, one that grins with a mouthful of razor-sharp teeth!

From Origin Releasing, Dead Sea Films LLC. and director Brandon Slagle comes Black Lagoon starring Alexis Iacono, Britt Griffith, Cleve Hall, Brandon Slagle, Devanny Pinn, and Chanel Ryan.

Synopsis:
A marine biologist is assigned to investigate the mysterious deaths of marine life in an inland saltwater lake. When she arrives, she discovers the town’s dark secret – an ancient legend that may in fact be real…

Look for more on this one soon!

To go along with HBO's premiere of "Behind the Candelabra" tonight, they've released a new trailer for "True Blood" Season 6 that includes a few quick clips we haven't seen yet. Check it out, and look for lots more in the coming days leading up to the show's June 16th return.

Season 6 picks up immediately after last year's bloody finale, which found Sookie (Anna Paquin) and Eric (Alexander Skarsgard) attempting to escape a very scary--and very naked--Bill (Stephen Moyer, who also directed the premiere episode). Joining the "True Blood" regulars this year are guest stars Rutger Hauer, Arliss Howard, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Rob Kazinsky, Karolina Wydra, Luke Grimes, and Amelia Rose Blaire.

Related Story:New "True Blood" Season 6 Teaser Home to Governor Burrell's Anti-Vamp Tirade; #ShowYourFangs Campaign Launches

The battle between humans and vampires begins on June 16th at 9PM, when "True Blood" Season 6 premieres. Tweet or Instagram a photo of yourself using #ShowYourFangs to tell the world that you stand with the bloodsuckers. Visit ShowYourFangs.com for more info.

For more info visit "True Blood" on HBO.com, "like""True Blood" on Facebook, and jump in on the Twitter conversations here using the hashtag #trueblood.

Ever since we heard that remixed version of "Shrinking Universe" in the trailer for 28 Weeks Later years ago, we knew that if anyone could possibly give a dramatic score to the zombie apocalypse, it would be MUSE. If you agree, then you MUST read on!

From the Press Release
Paramount Pictures has teamed up with Grammy Award-winning British band Muse to feature the band’s music in the new film WORLD WAR Z. The tracks are from Muse’s latest album The 2nd Law. Following the film’s world premiere in London’s Leicester Square on Sunday, June 2, Muse will perform live from Horse Guards Parade Ground, St. James’s Park. Tickets for the live performance will be available Tuesday, May 28, at 9:00 a.m. BST. For more information and for tickets, please click here.

WORLD WAR Z revolves around ex-United Nations investigator Gerry Lane (Brad Pitt), who traverses the world in a race against time to stop a pandemic that is toppling armies and governments and threatening to decimate humanity itself. Starring Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, and James Badge Dale.

Since forming in 1994, Muse has released six studio albums, selling upwards of 15 million albums worldwide. The band earned its highest-ever debut on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart when The 2nd Law bowed at No. 2 a week after its October 2 release. "Madness," the first single from the album, was No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Chart for 19 weeks, breaking the previous record set in 2007. The 2nd Law and “Madness” received two Grammy Nominations this year. The group’s last album, The Resistance, reached No. 1 in 19 countries around the world, and they have won numerous awards, including a Best Rock Album Grammy Award and an American Music Award for The Resistance.

WORLD WAR Z is directed by Marc Forster from a screenplay by Matthew Michael Carnahan and Drew Goddard & Damon Lindelof and screen story by Matthew Michael Carnahan and J. Michael Straczynski. Based on the novel by Max Brooks. Produced by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, and Ian Bryce.

World War Z is in theaters June 21, 2013.

Want to learn more about "The Following"'s Ryan Hardy? You can on June 4th when The Paley Center for Media hosts an event in NYC featuring popular actor Kevin Bacon in a one-on-one conversation discussing the complex character.

Kevin Bacon on Being Ryan Hardy
Tuesday, June 4, 2013 - 6:30 pm ET
The Paley Center for Media
25 West 52 Street
New York, NY 10019
Moderator: Damian Holbrook, Senior Writer, TV Guide Magazine

Exactly how many degrees of separation are there between Kevin Bacon and "The Following"'s Ryan Hardy? Find out at this one-on-one conversation with the Golden Globe–winning actor, who will explore his acclaimed portrayal of the exceedingly dark and damaged erstwhile FBI agent in Fox’s first-year serial-killer drama, the leading candidate for top-rated new show of the season. Bacon’s TV career extends back into the late Seventies and early Eighties, when he appeared on the daytime soap "Guiding Light" and includes the 1988 American Playhouse installment “Lemon Sky,” on which he met future wife Kyra Sedgwick.

Tickets are on sale now at $25 for members and $35 for the general public. Click here for tickets and here for more info on The Paley Center for Media.

For more about the TV show, visit "The Following" website, "like""The Following" on Facebook, and follow "The Following" on Twitter.

The weekend is over, and we're pretty unhappy about it. Well... I guess we'd be happy if there was some good old fashioned werewolf horror on tap to pass the time until the 5:00 pm whistle! Well, hey! Whattaya know! We have a little something for you!

Below you'll find the trailer for the short film After Visiting Hours for your viewing pleasure! Written and directed by Jacob de la Rosa, After Visiting Hours stars Jeffrey Goodrich, Charly Lee Bivona, and Alana Jo Beckman.

The film revolves around Harvey, Kylie, and Laurel and their family dynamic. Each character brings a unique quality to the team. Harvey (Jeffrey Goodrich) is the leader. He is ruled by his instincts, and he gets his thrills from hunting down and slaying monsters. Kylie (Charly Bivona), his eldest niece, is more emotional, and she feels that murdering monsters is still murder. Laurel (Alana Jo Beckman) is very rational and logical. She is the family's technical wizard. Even though Kylie doesn't want anything to do with Harvey's crusade, she is pulled back into her old life. Harvey, Kylie, and Laurel have to work past their differences in order to save their lives and the lives of the residents of a nursing home.

Synopsis
Elderly residents are disappearing from nursing homes all over the country. An age-old enemy from the Grimms' Fairy Tales is on the prowl, and it has a taste for aged meat. Harvey, a modern-day monster slayer, goes undercover and stakes out a nursing home. The monster is too deadly to face alone, and Harvey enlists the help of his nieces, Kylie and Laurel. Together they will have to face the Big Bad Wolf and defend the nursing home after visiting hours.

Excited for Season 2 of the FEARnet sitcom "Holliston?" Then strap in, kids, because we have nearly two dozen images from the show for you to feast on... or masturbate feverishly to. Joe, Adam, Corri, and Laura won't mind!

From the Press Release
FEARnet will premiere the second season of the hit original sitcom "HOLLISTON" on Tuesday, June 4, at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT as part of its Twisted Comedy Block, it was announced today by Peter Block, president and general manager of FEARnet. Season Two of the series—which was renewed for a second season after just two episodes had aired—is set for a 10-episode order, an increase of four episodes over Season One.

FEARnet is currently carried by a majority of the major U.S. cable operators and is in nearly 10 million homes and growing. To benefit those fans who are unable to experience the show on Tuesday nights, for the first time ever, each week’s episode will be streamed on FEARnet.com starting Thursday, June 6, and will be available for a seven-day period. Fans can also catch up on episodes on FEARnet On Demand every Wednesday after a new episode premieres.

"HOLLISTON"—created by celebrated genre filmmaker, Adam Green, who wrote and produced the upcoming HATCHET III, in theaters this June—stars Green and fellow real-life genre filmmaker Joe Lynch (KNIGHTS OF BADASSDOM, WRONG TURN 2), as “Adam” and “Joe,” two aspiring horror filmmakers, dealing with the struggles of life, love, and career aspirations during the post-college period where nothing ever seems to work out like it should. With relatable storylines inspired by Green’s own life experiences that mash-up traditional situational comedy plot lines with popular horror genre-themes, "HOLLISTON" is the hip and edgy horror-fueled sitcom that FEARnet fans had been waiting for and have now embraced wholeheartedly.

The series also stars Laura Ortiz as Joe’s longtime girlfriend and adorably demented artist; Corri English as Adam’s confused and on-again/off-again childhood sweetheart; and heavy metal icons Dave Brockie as “Oderus Urungus”, Adam’s twisted closet-dwelling imaginary friend and guardian angel, and Dee Snider as “Lance Rockett”, the delusional wannabe rockstar who runs the local cable station where “Adam” and “Joe” work. Season Two is loaded with appearances from genre stars such as Bill Moseley (TEXAS CHAINSAW), Kane Hodder (HATCHET III), Sid Haig (THE LORDS OF SALEM), David Naughton (AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON), Danielle Harris (HALLOWEEN IV and V), Bailee Madison (DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK), and James Gunn (GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY).

“'HOLLISTON' demonstrates not only the breadth of FEARnet’s programming, but also the broad reach of the horror culture. We surprised people by opting for a sitcom. Now, we’re going to surprise them with the places 'HOLLISTON' goes, as Season Two really celebrates the genre with episodes that mock, embrace, and twist the types of scary movies we love,” said Block.

“We are thrilled with how quickly we’ve found an audience with this series and this cast,” added Green. “'HOLLISTON' was designed to fill a missing gap in situational television comedies and speak directly to genre fans who can’t typically find these types of themes or comedic sensibilities in the average sitcom.”

Following the events of the first season, Season Two ups the ante of outrageousness, taking the show to a wide range of unexpected places. Highlights include the series’ first animated episode, finding the town attacked by a giant blob; a Ringu-inspired J-horror episode; a found footage episode; and a one-hour season finale that will boast two special musical performances by the talented cast and a shocking final scene that will raise the dead. The second season will also feature some surprising twists and developments for the four main friends that will have a major impact on their lives and leave viewers anxious for more.

"HOLLISTON" is produced for FEARnet by Adam Green’s TV and film production company, ArieScope Pictures, in association with The Hacienda Film Co. and A Bigger Boat Productions. Joining Green and Lynch as executive producers are Cory Neal and Andrew Mysko, as well as producers Sarah Elbert, Will Barratt, and Sean Becker, who directed many of the episodes this season.

The Seen and the Unseen strives to be a beacon of journalistic integrity and to hold those in power accountable for their actions. “They” don’t want you to know many things, and dad-gum-it, we’ll show them varmints wut fer (you can tell we’re serious because we just used 1840’s prospector language) by telling you everything you need to know.

We think it’s your god-given right to be paranoid, fearful, and have drunken rants at the "guv'ment."

To those ends, we found this piece in Slate Magazine that has been covered up, buried and marginalized. The content so shocking, so earth shattering, it will topple several major religions and governments.

Ready for this? Ready to have your life changed forever?

In 1959 the U.S. State Department and Foreign Service issued a highly secretive memo for those who wanted to go on a Yeti hunt in Nepal. What were these conditions?

- Pay a bribe

- Only take pictures and don’t kill it.

- Don’t tell anyone about it.

We smell a Yeti-sized conspiracy. We think we need Congressional hearings. We want to know what President Eisenhower knew…. Whoops, it seems the Foreign Service was just reissuing a memo given to them by the government in Nepal to help solidify diplomatic relations. Um… maybe we should cancel those Congressional meetings.

On second thought, it seems that Yeti was a bit of diva; no photographs, paying money just for a sighting and no paparazzi. Did the U.S. government fund and aide Yeti’s diva-like nature? To what end? To stop the commies?

The letter writing campaign begins now…. Tell me what you think about the U.S. government’s attempt to hide Yeti from the world. We think it makes Roswell look like child’s play, don’t you?

With Memorial Day officially kicking off summer, if you're a party person who's also a bit of a fangbanger, then you'll want to check out True Blood Drinks & Bites before your next shindig. You're guaranteed a bayou buffet no Trubie can resist along with some previously unseen photos!

HBO and Chronicle Books are releasing True Blood Drinks & Bites, a cookbook inspired by the hit series that focuses on cocktails and appetizers, on June 11th.

Synopsis:
“It’s all about casting off the empty shell of what’s dead and embracing the mysteries of what is yet to come. We are gonna have a wicked good time tonight. I can just feel it in my bones.”—Maryann Forrester

Drink up, y’all! Bon temps means “good times,” which in Renard Parish also means nerve-calmin’ drinks and finger-lickin’ victuals. Featuring forty-five themed recipes inspired by the namesake HBO original series, and geared toward the ravenous fans who love to gather for weekly watch parties, True Blood Drinks & Bites brings the good times of Bon Temps home. From often-ordered refreshments at Merlotte’s and Fangtasia to the Fortenberrys' family recipes for the best finger foods around, here are mixed drinks for teetotalers and boozehounds alike plus bites for all appetites.

In True Blood Drinks & Bites, these delicious “in-world” appetizers and libations mix and mingle with quotes and commentary from the characters themselves that are accompanied by original unpublished photography from Seasons 1-5. Sip and nibble as the drama goes down onscreen, or quench your cravings in between episodes—how about Scorn Fritters and Cheese Stakes washed down with an ice-cold Spirit Lifter? Or a Maenad a Trois paired with Skinwalkers and Vamp Repellent?

True Blood Drinks & Bites, by Gianna Sobol, Alan Ball, and Benjamin Hayes, contains recipes by Dawn Yanigahara with photographs by Alex Farnum. Sobol is an associate producer on HBO’s hit show "True Blood'; she writes for HBO.com and edits the New York Times bestselling True Blood graphic novels. Ball is the Academy Award–winning creator, writer, and producer of "True Blood." Raised on good Southern food in Marietta, Georgia, he lives and works in Los Angeles. Hayes is the writers’ assistant for "True Blood" and an independent screenwriter. Yanagihara is a professional recipe developer, cookbook editor, and contributing editor for Cook’s Illustrated magazine; she lives in San Francisco. Farnum is a food and lifestyle photographer based on the West Coast.

The Scream Factory has dated its upcoming Blu-ray release of the George A. Romero classic Day of the Dead, and we cannot think of a more perfect way to end the summer and head straight into the Halloween season.

Look for the Blu-ray in stores on September 17th. Special features are to be announced.

Synopsis
Below ground in a fortified installation, scientists conduct experiments to understand the virus that has turned humanity into flesh-hungry zombies. Isolated and deprived of natural light, the researchers begin clashing with their military protectors and it soon becomes apparent that their co-dwellers are just as dangerous and unpredictable as the zombies gathering to enter their safe haven… Director George A. Romero follows Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead with this stark, unflinching sequel that stands as the series’ most gritty and astoundingly gory installment.

For more visit the official The Scream Factory website, and "like"The Scream Factory on Facebook.

With Stephen King's "Under the Dome" getting closer, the prolific and much beloved author recently sat down for an interview with Parade Magazine to talk about the show as well as what stories scared him as a youngster.

“I grew up in a house where we didn’t have a TV until I was 10,” King tells the magazine. “We couldn’t afford one. Books were what we had... and the radio. My mother was a reader, and she read to us. She read us Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde when I was six and my brother was eight; I never forgot it.” King also collected comics, “which were also fairly bloody. I still remember the Oliver Twist one... there was blood all over that thing. Comic books were the closest we had to a visual medium.”

As for "Under the Dome,"“It looks good,” he said. “It’s not exactly like the book. It’s like a pogo stick: It hits big set pieces in the book, then bounces in its own direction. So that’s fine. You know what’ll happen is the purists who loved the book will probably scream, ‘Well, this is different and that isn’t there…’ But I think most people are going to like it. I hope they will.”

Synopsis:
"UNDER THE DOME" is the story of a small town that is suddenly and inexplicably sealed off from the rest of the world by an enormous transparent dome. The town’s inhabitants must deal with surviving the post-apocalyptic conditions while searching for answers to what this barrier is, where it came from, and if and when it will go away.

The 13-episode summer series will premiere June 24th on CBS. It stars Mike Vogel, Rachelle Lefevre, Dean Norris, Natalie Martinez, Britt Robertson, Alexander Koch, Colin Ford, Nicholas Strong, Jolene Purdy, Ned Bellamy, and Aisha Hinds.

"UNDER THE DOME" is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Amblin Television. Neal Baer, Stephen King, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Stacey Snider, and Brian K. Vaughan, who wrote the television adaptation, serve as executive producers. Acclaimed director Niels Arden Oplev (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) directed the first episode.

Visit underthedome.com to sign up for more info.

Of all the one-sheets we've seen in promotion of World War Z, this is easily the worst of the bunch as it proves even the best of ideas can be trampled into the ground by an overzealous designer and his Photoshop suite.

In the film Brad Pitt plays a U.N. employee racing against time and fate as he travels the world trying to stop the outbreak of a deadly zombie pandemic, and his Plan B shingle is producing. Mireille Enos ("Big Love", "The Killing") plays his wife, a mother of two girls. Their co-stars include Eric West, Matthew Fox, David Morse, and James Badge Dale.

Look for World War Z in theatres on June 21st!

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The cast is coming together for the feature helming debut of L.A.-based VFX supervisor Jabbar Raisani (Predators, Machete, "Game of Thrones"), Outpost 37, and we've got the skinny on who's next at bat to fend off the alien menace.

Joe Reegan (pictured; The Crazies), Reiley McClendon (Dirty Girl), and Rick Ravanello (Snitch) have all signed up to beat off aliens. Joining the crew are production designer Eddie Yang (Robocop, Man of Steel. The Dark Knight Rises) and award-winning special effects character creation artist and monster maker Steve Wang (AVPR: Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, Kamen Rider: Dragon Knight).

Filming starts next week in South Africa.

Synopsis:
A documentary crew follows an elite unit of Marines, tasked with protecting mankind in the aftermath of a devastating alien invasion. As they reach the world’s most dangerous outpost, they make a terrifying discovery: The first invasion was just the beginning…

Matador Pictures has announced a six-film slate, the lion's share of which are genre-based, including two very interesting sounding zombie flicks. Read on for the first details on films that involve the Dark Ages and the opening of an undead theme park!

Screen Daily reports that Plague of the Undead is an action film that was co-written by Paul Gerstenberger, who recently wrote Vertigo’s StreetDance spinoff All Stars, with Orlando Cubitt and is set in the Dark Ages, while Zafari (yes, Zafari) is also written by Gerstenberger and is a co-production with Nick Gillot that takes place in a zombie safari resort where guests pay money to shoot the undead. Man, in a perfect world, huh? That would so friggin' rule.

Also on the slate is Jonathan Trigell’s sci-fi thriller Genus with Mike Carey attached to write the screenplay. As for the other three flicks, unless you're into feel-good comedies. you really don't need to know about them.