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There is a horror/thriller that will be released in late summer/early fall of 2011 entitled The Toy Box. Director Michael Colburn will bring us his vision of the brutal and horrific events based on the true story that involved at least 60 murders by this serial killer. Mr. Colburn and actress Shannon Lark both share the behind the scenes story and the intense moments in making this film and bringing it to life. Read on as they share their feelings of this film, the impact it'll have on other victims of similar crimes, how important the message is and on a slightly lighter note how I begged to be cast in the sequel. Mr. Colburn was gracious enough to share these images with all of us First so check them out throughout the interview and enjoy! This is their story behind The Toy Box.

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The 2009 New York Horror Film Festival (November 18 thru 22) at the Tribeca Cinemas in New York City, USA has a great lineup of shorts and features directed and produced by women this year. The creepy spin on the Van Helsing tale Abraham's Boys (Dorothy Street), dark fairy-tale White Radishes (Christina Won), Together (Gigi Romero), award-winning short Death in Charge (Devi Snively) and claymation feminist horror short Barbee Butcher (Sophie Lagues) all follow feature film The Shadow Within by Silvana Zancolo.

Horror produced by women at the fest includes The Familiar (Jennifer Snick), Must Love Death (Anna Wendt), and Sweatshop (Katherine Banks, Kristi Boul and Laura Bryan.)...

Writer/director Jeremy Sumrall and producer/cinematographer Robert Luke gave Fango the first on-line look at a new trailer for their shocker Possum Walk, along with a few exclusive images from the movie; check ’em out below. “The trailer debuted prior to a screening of Josh Vargas’ Sway at Crypticon Houston this past weekend,” Luke tells us, “and received an incredible response from the crowd.”

Possum Walk, which we last reported on here, is set in the titular small Southern town where the residents live under extreme religious oppression. A virginal local girl mysteriously becomes pregnant and begins suffering horrible visions, all while a vicious serial killer begins targeting her friends. Maggie Conwell, Parrish Randall, Andrew Sensenig, Tim Taylor, Tyler Tackett, Keli Wolfe, Danielle Jones, Chris Warren, Jessica Jecker, Kristen Hall, Jennifer Peebles and Victoria Lane star, with Kristi Boul and Matthew Ash on the makeup FX.

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Texas-based writer/director Jeremy Sumrall got in touch with the scoop on Possum Walk, “a twisted little religious horror movie” he has written and will be directing for Horrorphile Entertainment and his own Bloodbrick Pictures. “We’ve currently shot one full scene, and a smidgen of random violence and sex for the purpose of a teaser trailer,” he tells Fango; you can see a few images from them below.

Sumrall, who plays the hulking killer The Beast in Stacy Davidson’s upcoming Sweatshop, also passed on the following synopsis: “In small towns like Possum Walk, secrets can be hard to keep. For Faith Carpenter, her secret could be downright deadly: She’s pregnant…and a virgin. Her father—a local preacher with dark, violent secrets of his own—tightens his grip on her, driving a wedge between them. But both of them will have to put aside their differences to...