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Are you like so many would-be filmmakers out there? Do you have a great concept, but don't know what to do with it. Then your prayers are answered. Burbank, CA will be hosting the Great American Pitchfest and Screenwriting Conference from May 31-June 2 and you need to be there. Aside from getting a chance to pitch your great film idea, there are opportunities to attend master classes in screenwriting and other aspects of filmmaking as well as meet some impressive writers and directors working in the business today, such as the great Tom Holland (Child's Play, Fright Night), Mick Garris ("The Stand," "The Shining") and loads more. For more information check out the official Great American Pitchfest and Screenwriting Conference website. VISIT THE EVILSHOP @ AMAZON! Got news? Click here to submit it! Start pitching in the comments section below!

An incredible amount of research went into Antonio Garrido's The Corpse Reader, based on Song Cí, the Chinese founding father of forensic science, including the author's extensive study of Song Cí’s own five-volume treatise on forensics. Intrigued? Check out an exclusive excerpt from the novel right here. Garrido (pictured), a native of Spain, is a former educator and industrial engineer. This fictionalized account of the early life of Song Cí represents years of studying the cultural, social, legal, and political aspects of life in the Song Dynasty. In 2012 The Corpse Reader received the Zaragoza International Prize for best historical novel published in Spain (Premio Internacional de Novela Histórica Ciudad de Zaragoza). When the excerpt begins, Cí Song and his family have left the city, where his father was a comfortable bureaucrat, in order to mourn for his grandfather. While unhappy to have left his law studies to work on his brother's farm, Cí's life takes a turn when he stumbles across a corpse. He then embarks on a trial, whereby his mentor, Judge Feng, ingeniously attempts to uncover the murderer. CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD A PDF of an excerpt from The Corpse Reader. Synopsis: After his grandfather dies, avid scholar and budding forensic investigator Cí Song begrudgingly gives up his studies to help his family. But when another tragedy strikes, he’s forced to run and is also deemed a fugitive. Dishonored, he has no choice but to accept work as a lowly gravedigger, a position that allows him to sharpen his corpse-reading skills. Soon, he can deduce whether a person killed himself—or was murdered. His prowess earns him notoriety, and Cí receives orders to unearth the perpetrator of an horrific series of mutilations and deaths at the Imperial Court. Cí’s gruesome investigation quickly grows complicated thanks to old loyalties and the presence of an alluring, enigmatic woman. But he remains driven by his passion for truth—especially once the killings threaten to take down the Emperor himself. With THE CORPSE READER (translated by Tom Bunstead; AmazonCrossing) Antonio Garrido has created something more than a thriller, more than a crime story; THE CORPSE READER is the story of a young man who fights for the honor of his family, for the truth, and for himself. Its multi-layered, ingenious plot is as disturbing as it is fascinating. VISIT THE EVILSHOP @ AMAZON! Got news? Click here to submit it! Sharpen your corpse-reading skills in the comments section below!

Another behind-the-scenes video has arrived for "Dexter" Season 8, and it's loaded with more hints and sneak peeks of what's ahead in the show's final season. Check it out, and get ready for the ride we're sure to go on as... The End Begins. "Dexter" Season 8, premiering June 30th, begins six months after LaGuerta’s murder with Dexter (Golden Globe and SAG Award winner Michael C. Hall) still managing life as a dad, brother, and serial killer. As Deb (Jennifer Carpenter) struggles to deal with the consequences of her actions, a mysterious woman comes to work with Miami Metro, offering first-hand information on Dexter’s past. The series also stars Desmond Harrington, C.S. Lee, Aimee Garcia, David Zayas, Geoff Pierson, and James Remar. Season 8 guest stars include Yvonne Strahovski, Bethany Joy Lenz, Rhys Coiro, Charlotte Rampling, Nick Gomez, Julian Sands, and Sean Patrick Flanery. Visit our "Dexter" archive here. For more in the meantime be sure to visit the official "Dexter" page on Showtime, "like" "Dexter" on Facebook, and follow "Dexter" on Twitter. VISIT THE EVILSHOP @ AMAZON! Got news? Click here to submit it! Ride with your dark passenger into the comments section below!

Move over, Dinoshark! Here’s comes the new king of prehistoric sea monsters: Poseidon Rex - a humongous, hungry oceanic T-Rex with an appetite for swimmers, boaters, tourists, treasure hunters, and former “Charmed” supporting actors. From Syfy super scribe Rafael Jordan and Mark L. Lester, the director of Firestarter, Commando, Showdown in Little Tokyo, and Class of 1999, comes the new aquatic monster movie Poseidon Rex! Synopsis: A small, secluded island in the Caribbean suddenly finds itself terrorized by a deadly predator from the planet's distant past when deep sea divers accidentally awaken an ancient evil. Jackson Slate and his team of underwater cave explorers unearth much more than long-lost Mayan treasure while plumbing the depths of a world famous blue hole. They disturb a creature that's been hibernating for over 100,000 years -- POSEIDON REX -- a rampaging behemoth of death and destruction not only at sea but also on land. As a devastating tropical storm descends upon the island, Jackson and the surviving members of the island community must try to stay alive long enough for help to arrive. When they learn the military intends to bomb the creature and the island into the next century, they realize their only hope is to make it to the mainland... even if that means going back in the water. The trailer delivers exactly what you would expect from a most assuredly Syfy-bound flick that stars ex-“Charmed” co-star Brian Krause as a treasure diver mixed up with bad guys and gigantic Tyranno-like dinosaurs. By the way, for those of you that watch Syfy Original movies, you’re going to have set aside a new day of the week. The Syfy Saturday night movie is moving to Thursdays starting next month as the network tries rolling out new scripted series that night of the week. Check out the trailer below courtesy of Fangoria. VISIT THE EVILSHOP @ AMAZON! Got news? Click here to submit it! Stomp around in the comments section below!

A new video from the set of the now filming Godzilla has emerged online of star Aaron Taylor-John filming a scene on a very smokey street. Wonder where all that smoke was coming from? Hopefully a giant fire-breathing beast! Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Richard T. Jones, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, David Strathairn, Patrick Sabongui, Yuki Morita, Brian Markinson, Juliette Binoche, Akira Takarada, Victor Rasuk, and Ken Watanabe star. Gareth Edwards is directing the film from a screenplay by Max Borenstein, Frank Darabont, and Dave Callaham. Legendary’s Thomas Tull and Jon Jashni are producing with Mary Parent and Brian Rogers. Alex Garcia and Patricia Whitcher are serving as executive producers alongside Yoshimitsu Banno and Kenji Okuhira. A presentation of Warner Bros. Pictures and Legendary Pictures, Godzilla will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company, except in Japan, where it will be distributed by Toho Co., Ltd. Legendary Pictures is a division of Legendary Entertainment. Slated to open on May 16, 2014, the film is expected to be presented in 3D. VISIT THE EVILSHOP @ AMAZON!Got news? Click here to submit it! Stomp around in the comments section below!

Titan Books just released Fringe - The Zodiac Paradox, which is a prequel novel to the "Fringe" television show focusing on the characters William Bell and Walter Bishop as they face off against the Zodiac Killer. Now check out the finer details of the book in our interview with author Christa Faust. AMANDA DYAR: Tell us about yourself and how your writing career got started. CHRISTA FAUST: I'm an ex-pat New Yorker living in the strange land of Los Angeles with my Boston Terrier Butch and way too many vintage paperbacks. I'm primarily a crime fiction writer with a hardboiled pulp sensibility, but I got my start in horror back in the early 90s. I've published a dozen novels, both original and tied into a variety of television shows and movies, including the award winning novelization of Snakes on a Plane. I love my job. To tell the truth, I'm really not fit to do anything else. AMANDA: What led you to write Fringe - The Zodiac Paradox (review) and what were some of your inspirations for it? CHRISTA: As with all my media tie in gigs, I was hired for the job based on the strength of my previous work. One of the things that fans may not know about professional tie-in writing is that you don't get to pick the properties you'll be hired to work on. You can always turn down a project if you really don't like the show, but other than that, you don't get a say. I've been lucky in that I've been invited to work on such great shows and movies so far, but I can't take any credit for the selection. My inspiration for the series came from a desire to explore the personal history and backgrounds of the three main characters. I wanted to use the more intimate novel form to allow the fans to go deeper into the characters heads and find out what makes them tick. I was also very curious about Cortexiphan and its origins, which is the main focus of the Zodiac Paradox. As is the infamous Zodiac killer, which is another fascination of mine. AMANDA: What kind of research went into writing the The Zodiac Paradox, and how closely did you work with the writers of the television series? CHRISTA: I did tons of research for the series on all kinds of topics ranging from San Francisco history to virology. Uterine deformities to Grape Nehi. It's one of my favorite things about this job, getting lost in archives and reading up on a wide range of oddball subjects that I may never have thought about on my own. And yes, I worked very closely with the Fringe writing team every step of the way on this project, particularly the science advisors. The best part of the gig has been my fun, crazy phone meetings with those guys, riffing on ideas and talking about everything from phosphorescent monkeys to Smallpox. Because of the fact that these books are official cannon, every little detail has to be approved several times over by Bad Robot. First the outline must be approved before I can write a single word, and then the final manuscript also has to go through the approval process. But I don't mind, because I enjoy collaborating and bouncing ideas with other writers. AMANDA: As a tie-in novel, what do you hope fans take away from The Zodiac Paradox? CHRISTA: First and foremost, I want them to have as much fun reading it as I did writing it. Enjoy the story, the suspense and adventure of it, and if they get answers to some of their questions about Walter, William Bell and Nina Sharp along the way, that's a bonus. AMANDA: Fringe - The Zodiac Paradox is the first of three prequels. Tell us about these three and if more are planned in the future. CHRISTA: Each book is centered around one of the three main characters. The Zodiac Paradox, obviously, is about Walter. The second book The Burning Man is centered around Olivia's childhood and teen years, particularly her time at boarding school. The third, Sins of the Fathers, is Peter's book, set in 2008 just before the first episode of the fir

As we all get ready to play a few hands with The Dark Dealer, we've scored you guys an exclusive clip from the upcoming DVD release of this chilling and charmingly cheesy little slice of cinema! Dig it! From the Press Release MVD Visual and Whacked Movies are proud to announce the release of The Dark Dealer, a feature length horror anthology, starring Richard Hull (She's All That, American Psycho II), Rocky Patterson (The Nail Gun Massacre, Repligator), and Charles Carrol (Disturbia, I Am Number Four) and directed by Tom Alexander. The Dark Dealer is a quirky supernatural thriller about three hell-bound characters gambling with their lives and souls in a game of blackjack with the devil. This indie horror film is in the vein of Creepshow and Tales from the Crypt. Like other classic horror anthologies of the past, The Dark Dealer blends supernatural horror, action, and sensuality into a sinister stew with an explosive climax. The first story in this thriller, the creepy, satanic "Cellar Space," won the Silver Scroll award from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror. In "Cellar Space" a vicious killer invades the cellar apartment of a seemingly defenseless old hermit, but the hoodlum soon finds out that something more than human lives there. John McCarty wrote in Fangoria magazine that The Dark Dealer is "an ambitious low-budget effort that boasts a solid line-up of computer generated and 'floor' FX." This is the second release from Whacked Movies. It follows the cult film distributor's inaugural release of Bret McCormick's erotic sci-fi romp Repligator. VISIT THE EVILSHOP @ AMAZON! Got news? Click here to submit it! Play your hand in the comments section below!

Alrighty, fiends! The release of The Purge is right around the corner, and we're giving away tickets for some advance screenings in the following cities: New York City; Atlanta, GA; Dallas, TX; San Francisco, CA; and Chicago, IL! If you live in one of them, read on for info regarding your hot ticket! To enter for your chance to win, just send us an E-MAIL HERE including your FULL NAME, MAILING ADDRESS, AND CITY OF CHOICE. We’ll take care of the rest. Directed by James DeMonaco (writer of Assault on Precinct 13 and The Negotiator), The Purge is produced by Jason Blum of Blumhouse (Paranormal Activity, Insidious, Sinister) and Platinum Dunes partners Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form (The Amityville Horror, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) as well as Sébastien Kurt Lemercier (Assault on Precinct 13). It stars Ethan Hawke, Lena Headey, and Adelaide Kane. Look for it in theatres on June 7th. Synopsis In an America wracked by crime, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity—including murder—is legal. The police can’t be called. Hospitals suspend help. It is one night when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking. VISIT THE EVILSHOP @ AMAZON! Got news? Click here to submit it! Go nuts in the comments section below.

Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight is a film you might have caught on SyFy back in the day (well, then it was probably Sci-Fi) - they used to show it all the time, along with Bordello of Blood. Demon Knight has all of the signs of being simply an extended cut of a Crypt episode, even opening and ending with the theme song music and journey through the Cryptkeeper's house. And even though Crypt was nearly at its end in 1995 when this film released, it still manages to capture the essence of the tale.William Sadler stars as Brayker, a man on the lam who is being chased down by the mysterious man known only as The Collector (Billy Zane). Sadler also starred in the first episode of Tales from the Crypt, "The Man Who Was Death", and his appearance here is a welcome one because his acting is so quirky and characterized by odd facial expressions. So too is Zane; he actually gets to be the more humorous character in Demon Knight, even though he is the ultimate bad guy. Brayker stumbles upon a small town and a run-down hotel in the middle of nowhere after being rundown by the Collector; he crashes at the place with a few other misfits until the cops come hunting him down because of a car accident he was involved in.The Collector's hot on the heels, and he really wants his precious key back. It's an antique, he says, though it's carved and gilted and holds some of the blood of Christ. Soon, the Collector reveals himself for what he really is - a demon who wants the key because it'll cause some sort of terrible consequence for humanity, ushering in an earthly hell. Brayker is the man who must stop him from getting his hands on the key, but he's also got a lot of hostages to deal with along with some nasty demon baddies with glowing green eyes.Director Ernest R. Dickerson gets what makes a Tales From the Crypt episode so entertaining: B-movie acting, boobs, goopy blood, and lots of ridiculous humor. He throws it at us in spades in Demon Knight, and the whole first sequence of the film is just an elaborate ruse to give us some double-D boobs before prompting the Cryptkeeper to show up. A lot of the film is in excess, but that's what the show revels in. The whole atmosphere is farcically moody, a traditional dark and stormy night setting that never lets up.Demon Knight also features some of the craziest ways to defeat demons ever, too. You must shoot them in their green eyes. Miss, and you're probably going to get your heart eaten out by the demon's snakelike tongue, although that only seems to happen some of the time. Or you might get your head punched in. There aren't many rules to the film, and that means the viewer is going to have a lot of fun with the storyline even if it doesn't always jive. The whole thing is just a mess of gross, pulpy violence and humor. Zane has a ball here, pouring on a southern drawl, then shaking it off again as a casual businessman looking to make a good deal with anyone who wants to hand over the key. Short vignettes highlight each character's paradise; Zane gets to ham it up, and Dickerson gets to include several well-endowed naked ladies. Everyone wins.Demon Knight is a film that is really hard to gripe about. Sure, it's often stretching its bounds as a full-length feature, and it doesn't do a very good job establishing realism within its plot. It doesn't even do a good job explaining what the demons are or why one person has to stop them. But Tales from the Crypt's best episodes haven't needed to establish a solid realistic plot. Instead, they throw up some gory fun for the horror fan, and that's just what you'll find in Demon Knight. Except this time, the tale's a bit longer and armed with a little more money.Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight on Rotten Tomatoes

from the kickstarter page… What is Harbinger Down? In the spirit of sci-fi/horror classics, Alien and The Thing, Harbinger Down is a tense, claustrophobic full-length creature film that will feature only practical Animatronic and Makeup Effects. If you’re a fan of the art of Animatronics and Makeup FX, you know that this technique is overlooked by the big studios. I’m hoping that you will help us change that by supporting this labor of love. Read more… Related posts:iPhone Horror Film — DEAD iSLAND Horror Film Quotes With The Word “Pants” Inserted Household Items That Aren’t Really Dangerous (Unless They’re In a Horror Film) Horror Film Quotes With The Word “Pants” Inserted: The Thing Edition Jon’s Favorite H.P. Lovecraft Film Adaptations