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The July 19th start of Montreal's 16th annual Fantasia International Film Festival is drawing closer (it runs through August 7th), and the powers-that-be have announced the second wave of films along with a few selections from the new Axis section of the event.

Fantasia Announces The Satoshi Kon Award For Achievement In Animation + A New Section Dedicated To International Animation Cinema + Second Wave Title Announcements

The art of animation in its many forms and disciplines has always had a strong place at Fantasia. This year, the festival has decided to give the form its own permanent section: Axis. From social realism to mind-bending fantasy, all styles and sensibilities will be showcased, now on a greater scale than ever. Further, the festival is proud to be rechristening its animation jury prize as The Satoshi Kon Award for Achievement in Animation, named after the dear, departed visionary whose feature debut, Perfect Blue,...

Almost daily, we're hit with e-mails pointing us to various short films. Some are good. Some are bad. The Horror Short Stop will point you only to the cream of the crop. And today, two floated our way that we thought were worth sharing. First, Quiet Earth premiered The Gate by Matt Westrup. No introduction, just watch it . Trust us, you'll probably dig it. Night of the Little Dead is a hammy lil' horror-comedy by director Frank Ippolito and Ezekiel Zabrowski. Set in a quiet Midwestern fishing town at Sadie's Grub 'n Grub, the local watering hole and baitshop, the mood changes once a couple of tourists run in covered in blood. Not easily spooked, the locals set out to find whatever caused this horrific accident, only to find themselves caught up in a terrifying lil'...

With the 11th annual Screamfest La Film Festival having commenced this past Friday, October 14th (it runs through the 22nd), at Manns Chinese 6 in Hollywood, California, we hit the carpet Saturday night, October 15th, to bring you some additional eye candy and to catch the anticipated Short Film Program #1 and the premiere screenings of the features Crawl, The Tunnel, and Rosewood Lane. Read on!

Those in attendance for the packed day and walking the black carpet included Rosewood Lane director Victor Salva as well as that flick’s cast members Ray Wise, Lin Shaye, Sonny Marinelli, Tom Tarantini and Lesley-Ann Down (look for our review soon). Joining them were Crawl writer/director Paul China and his producing partner and brother, Benjamin China, along with The Tunnel director Paul Ledesma, writers Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey, and star Bel Delia.

In the short films arena, An Evening with My Comatose Mother...

With the 11th annual Screamfest La Film Festival having kicked off October 14th (it runs through the 22nd at Manns Chinese 6 in Hollywood, CA at Hollywood and Highland), Dread Central hit the carpet that night to bring you some eye candy and to catch a screening of director Kim J-hoon’s Korean monster flick Sector 7 in 3D.

Check out our overflowing gallery below, and then get your tickets to the venerated event by clicking here.

Those walking the black carpet and in attendance for the packed opening included (take a breath) the following: Gravedancers director Mike Mendez, Abominable director Ryan Schifrin, actresses Chelsea Rendon and Jessica Cameron, Paranormal Activity director Oren Peli, Madison County director Eric England and actors Ace Marrero and Matt Mercer, The Tunnel director Carlo Ledesma with producers Enzo Tedeschi and Julian Harvey and actors Steve Davis and Bel Delia, actor-producer Tom Malloy (The Alphabet Killer), filmmaker...

The Spooky Movie International Horror Film Festival is, once again, set to push the boundaries of modern horror with their sixth annual edition that will run for four terrifying nights on Oct. 13-16 at the Artisphere theater in Washington, D.C.

For the opening night event on Oct. 13, Spooky Movie proves its international flair with the over-the-top Japanese zombie gorefest and action flick Helldriver, directed by Yoshihiro Nishimura, which will have two screenings, one for the early birds at 7:00 p.m. and one for the late-night crowd at 10:00 p.m.

The closing night film on the 16th is also an international affair: Joe Bauer’s The Killage, an Australian horror comedy that sends up the teen camp counselors slasher genre. Plus, there will be several Aussie short films accompanying this final feature.

Smooshed in between these two events are some of the most original and provocative terror flicks around,...

"It's the little things that getcha." 

Pint sized terror comes alive to munch on the flesh of a cast of familiar faces, including Penn Jillette (Penn & Teller), Bill Moseley (Babysitter Wanted), Adam Savage (Mythbusters) and Martin Klebba (Feast II & III), in Night of the Little Dead. A terrifyingly funny horror comedy that offers a refreshing new take on zombies. Night of the Little Dead proves that sometimes good things come in small packages. 

Helping to turn the zombie sub-genre on its head by reducing the size of everyone's favorite anti-hero is former Face Off contestant Frank Ippolito who co-directs alongside Ezekiel Zabrowski. To check out some additional interviews or behind the scenes stuff, please visit: http://nightofthelildead.com/.

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I can't think of a little person zombie movie.  It seems like one of those obvious things that should have happened by now.  Well, here it is.  Night of the Little Dead is - appropriately - a short film about a little zombie hunting yokels at a bait shop.  Martin Klebba (Pirates of the Caribbean) stars as the titular monster, along side Adam Savage (Mythbusters), Bill Moseley (The Devil's Rejects), and magician Penn Jillette.  The project is co-directed by Frank Ippolito, better known for his makeup work on films like Pirates of the Caribbean and The Chronicles of Riddick, and Ezekiel Zabrowski, whose other shorts include Dracula's Daughters vs. the Space Brains and Spider Mountain: No...

Night of the Little Dead is a movie we've been watching for a while now, and today they sent over the official trailer for the film. The movie has a really impressive cast including Penn Jillette, Bill Moseley, Adam Savage, Martin Klebba, Erica Taylor, Gary Morgan, Aye Jaye, and James Hurley.  The movie is directed by Ezekiel Zabrowski and Frank Ippolito and with a tagline like "It's the little things that getcha" I can't wait to see this!

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This morning "Face/Off" reality television star and filmmaker/FX maestro Frank Ippolito chatted up his horror short Night of the Little Dead on Kroq’s "Kevin and Bean" radio show, so we thought it high time to bring you the first look at two new trailers for the film as well as a handful of exclusive monster-centric stills of the titular creature.

Shot during our set visit (read it here) this past January, the photos below were snapped as actor Martin Klebba underwent the process of being transformed into the film's diminutive antagonist (as designed by Charlie Chiodo).

Co-directed by Ippolito and Ezekiel Zabrowski, Night of the Little Dead stars Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects), Adam Savage (of the series "Mythbusters"), comedian Penn Jillette, James Hurley, Erica Taylor, Gary Morgan, Aye Jaye, and the previously mentioned Klebba and revolves around a group of rural unfortunates who find themselves...

Killer Film is always looking for fun, original material to introduce to you, and today we have a first look at the trailer for an upcoming feature film, as well as a short film starring Neil Patrick Harris that looks awesome.

Night of the Little Dead: On a long weekend in January, a bunch of friends embarked out on a crazy adventure, helmed by Frank Ippolito and Ezekiel Zabrowski…..here is a peek at what went on.

Keep an eye out for the film, and the full behind the scenes coming soon!

Dracula’s Daughters vs the Space Brains is currently available on iTunes!

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Once zombies lumbered into the popular culture, there was no stopping them. Movies and other forms of entertainment have explored how legions of zombie children, zombie sheep and zombie plants would munch our flesh, but what about little people? A new short film (har har) directed by Ezekiel Zabrowski and Frank Ippolito, 'Night of the Little Dead,' may have the answer. They've released a behind-the-scenes trailer to whet our appetite for brains and teensy zombies. As Zabrowski and Ippolito say, "It's the little things that getcha."

From what we can gather in the teaser video and Dread Central, who recently spoke with the Notld crew, the story goes something like this. Two guys from Chicago head to a small Wisconsin town on a fishing trip. Penn Jillette plays the surly big-city guy and Adam Savage ('MythBusters') is his quiet pal.

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Once zombies lumbered into the popular culture, there was no stopping them. Movies and other forms of entertainment have explored how legions of zombie children, zombie sheep and zombie plants would munch our flesh, but what about little people? A new short film (har har) directed by Ezekiel Zabrowski and Frank Ippolito, 'Night of the Little Dead,' may have the answer. They've released a behind-the-scenes trailer to whet our appetite for brains and teensy zombies. As Zabrowski and Ippolito say, "It's the little things that getcha."

From what we can gather in the teaser video and Dread Central, who recently spoke with the Notld crew, the story goes something like this. Two guys from Chicago head to a small Wisconsin town on a fishing trip. Penn Jillette plays the surly big-city guy and Adam Savage ('MythBusters') is his quiet pal.

Hey peeps! Check out the behind the scenes trailer for Night of the Little Dead. The teaser  features behind the scenes interviews with both Adam Savage and Penn Jillette (that's right ,they both are in this). Ezekiel Zabrowski (writer, and works for Penn&Teller) and Frank Ippolito (SyFy's Face-off) plan to finish editing the film by mid March. We'll have more on this neat little film soon!

 

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On the heels of coverage stemming from our set visit (read it here) to the short flick "Night of the Little Dead" and just prior to giving you an exclusive peek at the titular monster (stay tuned!), we thought we’d share with you this behind-the-scenes clip produced by Peter Podgursky.

Co-directed by filmmaker, FX artist and "Face Off" reality series celebrity Frank Ippolito and Ezekiel Zabrowski, "Night of the Little Dead" stars Bill Moseley (The Devil’s Rejects), Adam Savage (of the series "Mythbusters"), comedian Penn Jillette, James Hurley, Erica Taylor, Gary Morgan, Aye Jaye and actor Martin Klebba (Feast II/III and "The Cape") in the titular role - a handful of whom you’ll see chatting about the flick in the video below.

Ippolito describes the plot as follows: “It takes place in a little bar/diner/bait shop kind of thing in a small Wisconsin fishing town.

Cinema has spent much time exploring ways in which to protect the ol’ noggin from unwanted noshing by the undead, but what of the more vertically challenged zombie? Dare we ask what body parts they may prefer? Co-directed by Frank Ippolito and Ezekiel Zabrowski, the currently in post-production ‘short’ film (pun intended) Night of the Little Dead intends to answer that question, and Dread hit the Sun Valley, CA set this past January 18th to find out.

“A couple of years ago, Charlie Chiodo and I were talking about ridiculous concepts for things, like Snakes On A Plane, and we started talking about midget zombies, and I said, ‘Night of the Little Dead!’” Ippolito told us from the makeup trailer of the film’s inception. “Charlie thought it was an awesome idea, so we started coming up with rough story ideas.”

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For the fifth year in a row, October gets a little creepier and scarier when the Spooky Movie Film Festival rolls into the Washington, D.C. area on Oct. 21-25 for six terrifying nights of of feature films and shorts.

Every year, Spooky Movie redefines the very definition of “horror” by presenting an absolutely unique selection films from all over the world. This year the bloody offerings range from backwoods horror comedies to documentaries to Norwegian and British zombie flicks to Australian monster movies and more.

Most exciting, however, is the return of the father of the splatter movie himself: Herschell Gordon Lewis, who will be screening his latest gore extravaganza, the diabolical The Uh-Oh Show!. This is Lewis’ first gross-out flick in seven years and is an unholy combination of blood, social satire and fairy tales. Bad Lit’s seen it and thinks it’s a real hoot and a holler.

For those in Seattle, your in luck. The 2nd edition of the The Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival is this coming weekend (September 17th - 19th) and has not only a few films to satisfy, but a couple we really love.

Our own agentorange called Adam Mason's Blood River, which will be playing, a tour-de-force. You can read our review here..

A Serbian Film may have run into a few problems elsewhere, but play here in the states is never an issue.

You can check out further details and buy tickets off the official website.

Full lineup after the break.

Blood River

USA - Director Adam Mason - 104 min

A newlywed couple are pushed to the limit during a chance encounter with a mysterious drifter in a deserted ghost town.

Mørke Sjeler (Dark Souls)

Norway, France - Directors César Ducasse, Mathieu Peteul - 97 min

A revengeful father embarks on...

Got eight minutes to spare? Of course you do! You're obviously surfing the Net, or you wouldn't have been here to answer my question. (Uncle Creepy - Breaking the fourth wall since 1972.) Anyway, if you do have some time on your hands, why not bloody them while watching a new badass short film called The Growth?

The flick stars Dean Cameron (Summer School), Michael Cornacchia, and Penn Jillette (of Penn & Teller) and is directed by Ezekiel Zabrowski and Frank Ippolito.

"The story follows a man named Bill (Cameron), who wants to be a good father but finds the task a lot more demanding after he is bitten by his date. Now confined to his room with a strange growth on his shoulder, he must find a way to survive. As he grows closer to the point of death with each minute, Bill's family and friends only intensify the gruesome nightmare he is living.