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Praise the Internet Gods! The Onion — the best satire, well, anywhere — is taking on BuzzFeed et al, calling out their click-bait headlines, silly quizzes, and other attention-getting practices with a new website. (Full disclosure: EW.com’s editor, Kyle Ryan, worked at The Onion’s A.V. Club until last month.)

Called Clickhole.com, the venture will put “content and sponsored posts side by side, with barely any distinction between them. People will climb into this click hole and find content so interesting they won’t be able to keep it to themselves,” according to “Jim Haggerty,” an Onion...

On July 31st, filmmaker Jim Haggerty will host the first annual Yellow Ape Film Festival. It will be a festival of short films held in Long Island, NY at the prestigious art-house theater Cinema Arts Centre presided over by a panel of celebrity judges including legendary cult movie actress Beverly Bonner (Basket Case), writer and scream queen Suzi Lorraine (When Death Calls), and renowned Long Island filmmakers Glenn Andreiev (Vampire’S Embrace) and Keith Crocker … Continue reading →...

We've got to hand it to The Onion. Its latest parody, "Porkin' Across America," nails food reality television to a tee -- even the camera angles look like startlingly familiar. We half expected Adam Richman to suddenly jump into frame.

The show follows fictional host Jim Haggerty, who aims to pork it up in all 50 states. Episode 1 features Haggerty's first stop in Lexington, K.Y., where he makes insightful comments like, "It's times like these I thank god I'm not an observant Jew," and "Wow, you can really taste the cooked pork."

There's also a whole shtick with Haggerty's distressed wife calling and calling, begging him to come home. Being the wife of a food personality isn't all it's cracked up to be, apparently.

Watch the first episode of The Onion's "Porkin' Across America" below.

No, I'm sorry. There's no such thing as 'Crappy Movie Poster Monday' - I just made that up as an excuse to show you this really awesomely bad independent horror movie poster. Enjoy.

This is the official poster for an independent horror film called Highway 91:

What's that? Maybe I'm taking the poster image out of context? Alright then:

This pretty much speaks for itself, don't you think?

The filmmaker, on his production company's Facebook Page, asks about this DVD cover, musing "I think it's pretty much done...but should I leave the quote or take it off?? Hmmmm...."

The quote on the cover is from that paragon of grammar and journalism, Horror-Movies.ca, that also had this to say about the trailer for Highway 91: "This badboy features, zombies, bullets flying into craniums, brains exploding and of course just utter gore, you know, the good stuff." Which just proves...

Local area online faux news program to make television debut in January. The Onion News Network - the online video arm of satirical newspaper of past, present, and future, The Onion - announced in March it would make the transition to TV. The Independent Film Channel said it would develop an Onn series as part of a new, late-night line-up of comedy programming. Said series will make its debut on January 21 at 10Pm Est. Onn on IFC will showcase "the network’s top-rated prime time show, a hyperactive graphics and sound effect-laden news explosion called FactZone with Brooke Alvarez, hosted by the world’s most respected news-reader (played by real-life, former Fox News anchor Suzanne Sena). Co-host Tucker Hope (played by Todd Alan Crain, who recently hosted a special edition of Jeopardy where humans played against Hal 9000) will join Alvarez at her news desk as the duo throws to a...

Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.

Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, September 22, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List. There's a good bounty to be had, so start making your own chopping list now!

Note: Clickable links lead to Amazon.com

Albino Farm

An Ozark Mountain town - with a century-old history of religious fanaticism - inadvertently creates a modern sadistic society of in-bred misfits who prey on stray travelers. Four young college students - lured into exploring the legend of the Albino Farm - uncover its disturbing past while enduring a night of horrors.

Autopsy Of The Dead

In 1968, the Dead walked...

Now the Dead will talk.

Board up the windows and doors! More than...

First, a few street date updates: Shout! Factory’s DVD of Audition, which we broke the news on here, will arrive October 6. Monarch Video will release Farmhouse (see our review here) September 29; look for a making-of featurette and possibly other special features on that one. And First Look will issue Kyle Rankin’s big-bug opus Infestation on October 13, following its Syfy cable debut (see previous item here).

Lowest Common Denominator Entertainment has set an October 27 street date for its long-awaited special-edition disc of Black Devil Doll, and gave Fango the scoop on the complete details. The saga of an executed black militant’s spirit entering a ventriloquist’s dummy and wreaking all sorts of outrageous, politically incorrect havoc will be presented in widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, plus an insane amount of special features:

Audio commentary by director Jonathan Lewis, writer/producer Shawn Lewis and writer/designer Mitch Mayes Audio...