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If you missed last year's Jugface, then do yourself a favor... fix that Immediately. Once you do, you'll be equally as excited as we are for the new film from Mickey Keating (Ritual) entitled Pod. Read on for details.

Styd got the earlier word that Keating has cast Jugface star Lauren Ashley Carter (pictured) for his latest foray into terror. She will be joining Ritual star Dean Cates, who will appear in the film with Brian Morvant.

According to Shock, the film is being described as an ensemble family drama that goes horrifically awry in the snowy confines of an isolated lake house. Keating tells the site, "It's a paranoid and violent nod to the original 'Twilight Zone' series, Frankenheimer's Manchurian Candidate, and The Andromeda Strain." Sign us up!

Morgan White, William Day-Frank, and Sean Fowler are serving as producers. Eleanor West and Benjamin Wright co-produce.

More soon!

Since 2009 "The Blood List" (an offshoot of "The Black List") has shone the spotlight on horror scripts that were seeking a home. The 2011 list in now out, and as always we have it for you right here to chew on!

The Blood List is the top 13 most-liked screenplays in the horror, thriller, sci fi, fantasy, or dark comedy/drama genres. 75 industry insiders vote for their top three choices.

To make it on the list, a screenplay had to receive at least 3 votes and come out within the last calendar year (October 2010 to October 2011).

Maggie by John Scott III

Logline: After a zombie infects a 16-year-old girl, she has six weeks before she transforms.

Genre: Horror/Sci Fi

Status: Pierre Ange financing. Henry Hobson attached to direct. Casting.

Bethlehem by Larry Brenner

Logline: In a post-apocalyptic world overrun by flesh-eating zombies, a benevolent vampire teams up with a group of humans to survive.

Since the creation of The Black List in 2006, there's been a push for Hollywood insiders to collect and publish their own compiled lists of unproduced screenplays that they feel deserve more attention. The Black List is the best known of these, released every December, but today another list of recommended unproduced screenplays was released: The Blood List, a collection of horror, sci-fi and fantasy scripts that are deemed worthy by those toiling in the showbiz industry.

This is the third year that The Blood List has been assembled. Created by Kailey Marsh, the Blood List process goes like this: votes are collected from 100 industry insiders as to what the best unproduced screenplays were between Halloween last year and Halloween this year. The one that gets the most votes goes to the top Blood List. Results are then released to the Internet on October 31.

As Coming Attractions did with the 2009 Black List and 2010 Black List,...