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Just days ago we broke the news that a new sequel to the first ever direct-to-video movie, Truth or Dare, is on its way, and now we've nabbed the long form plot details for you. Why? Because we don't mind picking "dare", damn it.

Truth or Dare IV will be going into active production (principal photography) beginning on May 22nd! The project will star rising scream queen Jessica Cameron, Reaper M. Jones (one of the film's producers), and newcomer Joshua Logsdon. Also producing will be Tim Ritter, Steve McNaughton (Reconciled), and John Bowker.

Synopsis

Tuner Downing is a man struggling to break out of his shell in a society that demands inhibition but not before he is abandoned by his girlfriend and let go from his job by his boss on the same day. When his best friend, Axel, turns him on to a dating website, Tuner becomes obsessed with Dara,...

How many Eighties horror fans remember the very first(!) direct-to-video feature, Truth or Dare? It was violent, psychotic fun that spawned two not so great sequels. Now, however, the makers of the original are back and looking to set the record razor straight with the next installment in the franchise -- and we have got the first word for you!

Producer Reaper M. Jones just dropped us a line to let us know that Truth or Dare IV will be going into active production (principal photography) beginning on May 22nd! The project will star rising scream queen Jessica Cameron, Reaper M. Jones himself, and newcomer Joshua Logsdon. Also producing will be Tim Ritter, Steve McNaughton (Reconciled), and John Bowker.

Look for more really soon including a synopsis and a steady flow of gory goodness to keep you guys playing this really messy game. Stay tuned as things are likely to get really sticky!

And the dead keep marching on. At least they do in John Bowker and Joe Sherlock's latest undead romp, The Platoon of the Dead. Get on your gear, people! It's time to hump it to the cemetery!

Look for Johnny to come shambling home to DVD on June 16th, 2009. Pre-order yourself a copy below. Thanks to DC reader Avery for the heads up!

Officially, the plot goes like this; "In the distant future, man's greatest enemy is one another as the flesh-eating undead wage war against the living! A Marine platoon is ambushed during a mission, leaving only three soldiers alive to fend off the growing army of the living dead. En route to their pickup point, they come across an abandoned house with three mysterious women hiding inside. If they can make it through the night, they're home free...or so they think, because someone is hiding a...

Two independent genre stalwarts sent along full details of their latest horror DVDs. Happy Cloud Pictures has the official disc of its latest production, Splatter Movie: The Director’S Cut, shipping in April, while Tempe Video releases Platoon Of The Dead June 16.

Splatter Movie, directed by and starring Amy Lynn Best and written by Mike Watt, also features Evil Dead FX artist Tom Sullivan, Fango Radio’s Debbie Rochon, Sofiya Smirnova and Elske McCain in a “documentary” on the making of the slasher opus Tesseract—whose makers are stalked and slain by a murderer dressed as their film’s villain. Special features include:

• The Splatter Movie Companion 25-minute movie • Deleted scenes • Outtakes • Trailers

Happy Cloud is also simultaneously publishing a Splatter Movie screenplay book, annotated by Best and Watt and illustrated with behind-the-scenes photos. You can pre-order the DVD for $19.99 here; the book will be $13 and both will be available...