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Windy City Horrorama 2018 is ready to blow into Chicago for the very first time this April, and our favorite resident from Crystal Lake's trip to Hell will be featured, as well as many other films. Also in today's Highlights, we have details on this year's Nitehawk Shorts Festival, the new Parts Unknown trailer, and a religious take on the zombie apocalypse with Angels Vs. Zombies.

Windy City Horrorama 2018 Lineup Revealed: Press Release: "3/26/18 Chicago, Il - Windy City Horrorama has unveiled its slate of feature and short films for its inaugural festival, taking place from April 27th - April 29th in Lincoln Square’s Davis Theater. The festival will be home to a wide variety of exciting premieres of independent horror films from around the world, as well as anniversary screenings of horror classics and showcases of horror films made right here in Chicago.

Highlights include anniversary screenings of underrated cult...

All you kids go play nice with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story. The real men will be in the other room watching...Killer Pinata! Oh, if only we could take such a wonderfully titled movie so seriously. But alas, this is another goofy horror comedy that reaches new heights in weirdness. Though it looks like it was shot on an old inner tube, and cost about $17 to make, it also looks like a lot of fun. Here's the ghoulishly simple synopsis that makes us wonder why someone hasn't thought of this sooner.

"A possessed pi&#241ata, seeking to avenge the savagery that humanity has inflicted on his kind, picks off a group of friends, one by one, in an unending night of terror."

That sounds like the perfect premise for a cheapie horror movie, if only it wasn't so absolutely ridiculous. This truely terrifying work of genius hails...