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In Parts One, Two and Three of our interview with the beloved Jon Lindstrom, the acclaimed actor discussed his passion for music, returning to his musical roots in The High Lonesome, as well as indelible roles as Mark on Santa Barbara, twins Ryan and Kevin on General Hospital, highs and lows of the spin-off Port Charles, and overcoming pressures as the recast of Craig on As The World Turns. In this final part Lindstrom discusses his approach to handling cancellations, his future career in films and television, and his insights into the future of soaps. Why do gay audiences want to check their local film festivals in 2011? Find out below!

We Love Soaps TV: Where were you when you got the news that As The World Turns had been canceled?

Jon Lindstrom: I was at home. My phone rang, it was Chris Goutman. He had thought of me for...

“Ho Ho … What the hell is this?”

If that’s the type of reaction you want to get out of somebody — or everybody! — on your Christmas list, then pick something out of this collection of bizarro movies, gross-out flicks and mind-bending reads.

The New Underground Classics

Altamont Now, dir. Joshua von Brown

Chosen as Bad Lit’s 2008 Movie of the Year, this balls-out, punk-rockin’ apocalypse comes firing at you like a nuclear missile. (Seriously, it was filmed in an actual missile silo.) Part social commentary, part fame whore busting, part punk rock musical — and all freakin’ hilarious! (Review)

Every Other Day Is Halloween, dir. C.W. Prather

Screw Santa. Who you’ll really want to see on Christmas is Count Gore De Vol, Washington D.C.’s beloved TV horror host who for years thrilled late night viewers with scares and laughs before taking his act online for the whole world to enjoy.

If it’s Halloween, that means it’s time for people to start clamoring to watch the latest remakes and sequels to classic scary movies. Hey, not that there’s anything wrong with that. I enjoy a well-done remake or sequel. That there’s not too many of them, that’s a different story. But, it might be time to try something a little bit off the beaten path:

Brain Dead, dir. Kevin S. Tenney. (Netflix | Amazon) Tenney’s famous for fun ’80s low-budget horror classics like Night of the Demons and Witchboard, but Brain Dead came out under the radar recently and is finally available on DVD. The film is a completely over-the-top alien zombie extravaganza that has everything for the perfect horror movie: Blood, beasts and boobs. An alien parasite infects the local rubes who terrorize a group of hikers, bank robbers and a sex-crazed minister who are...

The documentary accompanying The Double Born on Celebrity’s recently released DVD explains that writer/director Tony (Hellbound: Hellraiser II) Randel’s motivations for making the film involved his weariness of shallow big-studio product. There’s no doubt this is a noble intention—many of us have the same issues with Hollywood and safe, big-budget horror fare—but this was not the way to go about retaliating.

There are two winners for The Double Born contest. The winners are M. Ashwell and D. Ibave of the United States. Congratulations and your DVDs of The Double Born will be sent out shortly. Check out the positive review for The Double Born right here (The Double Born Review). For those unfamiliar with the contest, or the story of the film a trailer is below.

A synopsis for The Double Born here:

"A woman is tortured by the sudden disappearance of her only child years before. Obsessed with having another baby, she is devastated and driven to emotional crisis when discovering her new husband is infertile. Gripped by despair, the woman begins to resign herself to the bitter likelihood of never having another child. Striking up a friendship with two discarded young laborers hired to re-paint her son's now silent room, the three lost souls form a disturbing bond as...

Director/writer: Tony Randel.

The Double Born has played at several film festivals throughout 2008 to 2009 and now the film is available on DVD, as of January 26th. The Double Born is 90% drama and 10% horror, with excellent performances from the cast all around. Described by the indie film review site Badlit as creating a "sexy, simmering slow burn," The Double Born gets the pacing right (Badlit). The feature also puts film director and writer Tony Randel (Amityville 1992) back in the director's chair after a ten year hiatus. This pause from film creating has allowed Randel to hone his skill, as the writing from The Double Born acts like a hook, that will not let go until this complex web is unraveled.

The tone for The Double Born starts as tense, pauses here and there, but stays dramatic through many of the plot twists in the film. Included in the twisting and...

Writer/director Tony Randel turns to guerrilla filmmaking tactics for his latest thriller, The Double Born, and creates a sexy, simmering slow burn that features a smoldering, tortured performance from former indie film “it girl” Sammi Davis.

Based on a short story by Bram Stoker, The Double Born is recast as a trailer trash Southern Gothic tale about a middle-aged woman, Sophie (Davis), so desperate to have a baby that she “rapes” her husband Ephraim (Jon Lindstrom) in the middle of the night. Yes, Sophie is slightly deranged, made mad after a terrible tragedy that is slowly revealed, confined to her dark, claustrophobic little home and trapped by her own desperation.

Davis plays Sophie with just the right amount of anguish and confusion. It’s a performance that goes to the top, but not over it. But, also sprinkled throughout we get glimpses of the old Sophie, the woman who...

The Double Born was just released on DVD this week and the film has created some buzz on the film festival circuit, with early reviews positive. The film stars Sammi Davis and Jon Lindstrom in this picture from Painted Bird Films. The Double Born was shot in Calabasas, California and the plotline involves childbirth, infertility, infidelity and a "woman's tormented world (Painted)." The trailer for the film seems to have been cut by an editor off his Ritalin, but several early reviews cannot be wrong. Have a look at all the info' on this project below, which was released on the 26th of this month.

The synopsis for The Double Born:

"A woman is tortured by the sudden disappearance of her only child years before. Obsessed with having another baby, she is devastated and driven to emotional crisis when discovering her new husband is infertile. Gripped by despair, the...