Bits ‘n Bloody Pieces: Ghost Face Invades Australia, Hulk vs. Dracula, Play Dead, Night Shift

Zombie Hellcats, True Blood, Supernatural



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• Insidious opened at #3 at the box office. Not bad, considering it was up against an Easter Bunny film.

• What will happen to our pets when the zombie apocalypse occurs? That’s a question the Meza Brothers will explore in Play Dead, an indie horror film that’s told from the point of view of several dogs. Here’s a trailer that was released to stir up interest and funding.

• The latest trailer for The Night Shift, an indie horror-comedy wrapping soon, has hit the web.

• Chris Gorak’s The Darkest Hour will open on December 23 in 3D and 2D. The alien invasion film is the latest effort from the director of Right at Your Door.

• Friday rush hour in Sydney, Australia became the scene for a Ghost Face invasion.

• Dean Cochran and Drew Waters (Friday Night Lights) will appear in the Salt Lake City, Utah production Treatment. Cochran will play the head counselor of a treatment facility which brings treatment kids in the Idaho woods for a retreat. Once they arrive all hell breaks loose as they are being chased by a hulking creature and mysterious other forces.

• Peaches Christ is holding a Mommy Dearest 30th Anniversary Birthday screening this May. The event will take place at the Castro Theater in San Francisco.

• FrightFest is open to submissions. The UK genre film festival runs August 25 – 29.

• HBO has released another True Blood video clip to tease season 4 beginning June 26.

• The Hulk versus Dracula? Yep, it’s happening.

• Warner Bros. Home Entertainment is going to release Supernatural: The Anime series on DVD and Blu-Ray July 26. The collection will feature 22 episodes.

• The CW’s Hellcats is doing a “zombie” episode directed by Andy Fickman, the man who may be directing Boy Scouts vs. Zombies soon. The CW airs the episode April 19.

Source: Ryan Turek, Managing Editor

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