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This is the trailer for a new web series that offers us a different take on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. It's a more grounded, gritty take on the franchise, and it actually looks like it could be really freakin' cool! Here's the synopsis:

Evil Rebuilt. Power Reborn. - As the world celebrates the 20th anniversary of the Power Rangers, a controlling paramilitary group known as The Silver Guardians has taken over the duty of protecting the citizens of Angel Grove. Claire Ashmore (Dina Cataldi) is a former top soldier of the Silver Guardians, until she unearths the plans made by the head of the organization, General E.A. Collins (John Damroth). For the first time on the other side of a conflict, Claire must stop the Silver Guardians before it is too late. She will stumble upon the help of the ancient mythological being known as Zordon, the former mentor of the Power Rangers,...

The official trailer for horror anthology film Gallery of Fear just arrived online, and it contains an amazing amount of screaming, creepy characters doing bad things to each other. The film is made up of four stories, and the lovely Debbie Rochon ties them all together as Ms. Roberta Van Houten.

The shorts within the film are entitled "Critic's Choice", "By Her Hand She Drags You Down", "Down the Drain" and "A Far Cry From Home". Gallery of Fear is written and directed by Alan Rowe Kelly and Anthony Sumner and along with Rochon stars Jerry Murdock, Zoe Daelman Chlanda, Alan Rowe Kelly, Don Money, Terry M. West, Katherine O'Sullivan, Raine Brown, Benzy, Shane Kulman, Mike Lane, Robert Norman, Miguel Lopez, Jessie May Laumann and Tom Lanier.

Gallery of Fear has been well received at film festivals thus far and is looking for a wider release later this year. Give...

Some trailers focus on grossing you out. The bloody mouths, the stumped limbs, the overall yuck factor of it all. Some trailers focus on sexual deviancy, up-skirt shots, copulating with members of the clergy or fornicating behind a butcher's counter. The ambitious filmmakers behind Psycho Street decided to just go on ahead and throw it all into one pretty extreme trailer. Wow.

Psycho Street is a three-part anthology film starring Tiffany Shepis as the best looking version of the Crypt Keeper we've ever seen, welcoming you to the twisted town of Kronanburg where things ... well, things tend to get fucked up. And even though the film has already been picked up by R-Squared for a 2012 release, we thought you'd like to be the first on your block to take an early look at this intriguing Nsfw (that's Not Safe For Work for you cubicle jockeys prowling the internet on company time) trailer.

Dig on these Exclusive Nsfw Stills that director Anthony G. Sumner, don't show your kids or memaw this shit! Psycho Street is another cool film I'm close to and been following for a long time. The horror anthology has a really cool and insane segment called "Lewis", sounds pretty tame and simple but it'll  shock,floor and possibly offend you, it pushed the envelope as far or futher than anything I've seen in a long time and will probably make you go pray after witnessing the bloody carnage that is "Lewis". 

If you've been missing that 70's horror feel then this is what you've been looking for, devil worship, sacrifice, blood, gore and nudity all in one segment! I have a lot of friends invloved with "Lewis" and the entire anthology and I'm happy to see all of this come together! 

"Lewis" stars Deneen Melody, Jerry Murdock, Susan Adriensen, Marv Blauvelt,...

Some cool news for some of my awesome horror film making friends has been sent my way! There's a cool horror flick called Psycho Street that's just been picked up by R Squared Films and it features scream queen Tiffany Shepis, she's kind of groovy you know! I, Brian Shirley have been following this project for a long time now and I'm happy to say how close I am to it, the great news it's getting and congrats to the cast and crew.  Lot's of close friends connected to this project! Ok, dig on the exclusive images up top and check out the press release below to find out when this movie will make it's world premiere and the cool Distro/VOD deal!

 

From the Press Release:

"Muscle Wolf Production's Marv Blauvelt and Jared Degado are pleased to announce the agreement with R Squared films to distribute and promote the...

Anthony G. Sumner is the director of what I consider the stand out indie film of 2010. Many of you followed along with our coverage of this cool little movie and now it's finally available on VOD and will hit store shelves on DVD in June so be sure and check it out because I honestly think you'll enjoy the fun horror treat. Check out my latest Versus with director Anthony G. Sumner and watch the cool Exclusive GeekTyrant clip and Red Band trailer after the interview!

Hey Brian - Thank you so much for all the support you have shown III Slices Of Life, it has been huge in helping the project move along. Before we jump into the questions, I want to ask everyone to Please visit our Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/3Slicesoflife) and become friends of the film- it is the best way for us to...

 

Hey peeps! Another cool horror movie I'vve been keeping an eye on for sometime is this cool horror anthology I'm going to introduce you to along with the new poster art.  One thing I love is watching something special take its shape and form into something special and I think we have that here. Be sure to head over to Fango and watch the cool trailer for one of the stories, "Lewis" and to see a few images that were posted a few months back.

From the Press Release:

With the projected premiere of the Horror Anthology "Psycho Street" coming around the corner ("Fright Night Film Fest in Louisville Ky, July 22nd) Executive Producer, Marv Blauvelt released the Poster art-work (done by acredited Mid-west horror artist Chris Kuchta...check out his Gallery Of Horrors at www.horrorartist.com.....Muscle Wolf Production's worked with several prestigious Indie Production company's on all four segments of the film.

                             

                            

Finally the Croca has come back to Wonder Con but actually this is the first time! I just always wanted to say that!

The Crocaloctopus One shot comic book debuts this weekend at Wondercon 2011. Crocaloctopus is created and written by yours truly aka Brian Shirley with inside artwork and an "all ages" cover by Richard Zerga, Kristi Zerga, with inks by Noel Serrato and a special "Blood Soaked" cover by Dennis Willman. All of this is to continnue to capture the attention of Syfy and The Asylum to try and get a movie made for Crocky!

Plot:

 A mad scientist that has crossed DNA to create a truly monstrous hybrid and accidentally launches it into society! The comic is part of a marketing campaign to bring ol' Crocky to the Sy-Fy channel! Pencils, inks, colors by Richard Zerga, Kristi 'Batz' Zerga, and Noel Serrato. Two covers will be available. The...

'Legends of Heroes & Villains, Crocaloctopus, Taffy T. Clown, and Hotaru all invade WonderCon this weekend at the Moscone Center in San Francisco!

Legends of Heroes & Villains have 4 different titles making their world premier this weekend!

Crocaloctopus, written by Brian Shirley, is a tale about a mad scientist that has crossed DNA to create a truly monstrous hybrid and accidentally launches it into society! The comic is part of a marketing campaign to bring ol' Crocky to the Sy-Fy channel! Pencils, inks, colors by Richard Zerga, Kristi 'Batz' Zerga, and Noel Serrato. Two covers will be available. The first is a blood soaked cover by Dennis Willman, the second more kid friendly, by Kristi and Richard. The comic book cast includes Jerry Murdock, Brooke Lewis, Marv Blauvelt, Jessica Cameron, Heather Dorff, Suki Peters, Kitsie Duncan and our very own fearless leader Joey Paur aka Dr. Venkman!

Taffy T. Clown returns to...

Actor Jerry Murdock has shared his Best and Worst Films of 2010 with us.  Thanks for asking about my picks. Honestly, I don't see many movies in the theater anymore (annoying people, too expen$ive) and am quite picky about seeing films. I usually wait for feedback from critics and friends before I see anything. With that being said...here goes:

Best: Inception, True Grit, Black Swan, The American, Kick Ass and Slices Of Life

Worst: Only one...Jonah Hex. (I am a big fan of the comic...I Had to see it. I hated this movie so much, it made me want to harm puppies)...

The first thing people will notice about horror director Alan Rowe Kelly (Don't Look In The Basement, I'll Bury You Tomorrow) is that he is a gender bender, but Kelly has been bending more then genders his entire career as he has broken out the idea of conventionality. At the age of 39, with 40 just right around the corner, he had an epiphany. Bored with a career as a stylist, he made the sudden and dramatic move to horror. First testing the waters as an author, he switched over to the world of indie horror film directing where he won great acclaim for "I"ll Bury You Tomorrow". As he continued to direct films, he also started making a name for himself in the indie horror world as an actor playing power players, agents, something that rhymes with witch, etc. These were powerful, empowered characters that personally reflected upon Alan Rowe Kelly himself.

Hey peeps, I'll be proudly representing GeekTyrant at the very cool Dark Carnival Film Fest this weekend in Bloomington, Indiana Nov. 19-21. If you're in or around the area come on out for a great time! With guests like Joe Bob Briggs, Tiffany Shepis, Deneen Melody, Kitsie Duncan, Marv Blauvelt, Mike Holman from Jackass, Mark Cray, Jessica Cameron, Jerry Murdock, Zoe Daelman Chlanda, Tinycore Pictures, the gang from Paranormal State and many more you don't want to miss out! Over 30 indie horror films will play, a costume party will be held, tattoos will be given, and my Crocaloctopus t-shirts will make their debut for the Syfy campaign!

Deneen Melody and myself are planning on doing the TerrorTyrant Radio from the event too! Oh and I'll be playing with the Ustream channel too!

Forget so-called 'film festivals' that show movies on a tiny screen in a cheesy hotel conference room. Dark...

Scott W. Perry is an independent filmmaker who I just recently have had the pleasure of getting to know some and helping to spread the good word of his new horror short called 'Something Just', which we have shared with y'all here on Gt already. Check out my latest "Versus" to find out more on this cool filmmaker, how he got into the game and see what other projects he has for us horror fans to look forward to.

Brian S- First off, how'd you get into film making?

Swp- I’ve always loved film and I guess it was just a product of being raised in the right era for horror. It’s a clichéd story but it’s a true story. My relatives never looked beyond the rating of a horror film to allow me to watch it and there were some movies I remember seeing in the theater.

                             

I watched  director Scott W. Perry's independent horror/thriller short 'Something Just' and it's so cool I wanted to share it with all of you and since Halloween is right around the corner this is a very fitting short film to share. Watch it and let us know what y'all think!

'Something Just' stars Alan Rowe Kelly, Jerry Murdock and Joe Zaso. The short is written, produced and directed by Scott W. Kelly with the indie genre dream team of Jeremiah Kipp co-producing with Dominic Sivilli pulling cinemaphotographer and editing duties. This is a good one peeps!

Plot:

In order to stop a child killer, the guardian of one of his victims seeks the aid of a shady figure from his past.

 

                                                             

Something Just from Scott Perry on Vimeo.

 

Visit the official Something Just website

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Oh dear indie horror how I love thee! Hey peeps, here's another spanking new teaser trailer for Scott W Perry's upcoming 'Something Just' that shows just how twisted some people can be!

From YouTube:

Teaser for the upcoming short film from Slick Devil Entertainment, as featured on Fangoria.com. Starring Joseph Zaso, Jerry Murdock, Evan Robert Smith, Joslyn Jensen, and Alan Rowe Kelly as Thomas Sutcliffe. Assistant Director Jeremiah Kipp. Cinematography by Dominick Sivilli. Written, Produced, and Directed by Scott W. Perry. Go to www.slickdevilentertainment.com for more information. Music from the Nine Inch Nails album "Ghosts I-iv".

We have much more on this cool looking short!

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Indie film continues to make it's statement letting all of us know where the cool and original films are! I had the pleasure interviewing filmmaker Jeremiah Kipp a few months ago and I'm totally impressed with the guy and his short film 'Contact'! Here's the new trailer for The Sadist , the latest from Kipp and Big Caper Films which stars genre legend Tom Savini along with Frank Wihbey, Mackenzie Christine Hawkins, Miguel Lopez, Jerry Murdock and Santo Fazio from a story by Frank Wihbey. I'd file this one under a horror/action hybrid, watch the trailer below and give us your feedback.

If this trailer is any indication we have a bloody treat heading our way soon! We will keep y'all posted on all new things that are The Sadist!

Be on the lookout soon for my "Versus" interviews with actor Jerry Murdock. super-producer Alan Rowe Kelly and Dp Dominick Sivilli.

Director Jeremiah KippThe Sadist was previously known as Swine and the film stars make-up phenom Tom Savini (The Dead Matter). The script has been penned by Fangoria writer Jeremiah Kipp and The Sadist will be Kipp's debut in the director's chair. The first trailer for this feature shows a crazed Savini taunting and tormenting hunters in the bush. Maniacal eyes aside, this independent project has potential despite the challenges of a small budget. No word on the release, but low budget horror fans can look at the clip inside.

The synopsis for The Sadist here:

"The Sadist stars Savini as a combat veteran with serious psychological damage who stalks campers and hunters in the woods" (Fangoria).

Director: Jeremiah Kipp.

Writers: Frank Wihbey, Joe Pisani and Pedro Ondrush.

Cast: Tom Savini, Mackenzie Christine Hawkins, Miguel Lopez, Jerry Murdock, Santo Fazio, Zoe Daelman Chlanda, Carl Burrows and Tom Reid.

The trailer for...

I met Arthur Cullipher in Louisville, Kentucky at the Fright Night Film Fest this summer and have made a friend for life. One of the funniest and nicest guys you'd ever want to meet and he is talented too! He and his Clockwerk Pictures team have created one of the darkest and disturbing short films I've ever witnessed with 'Come', think Lovecraft and R-rated Twilight Zone episode mixed with a little Outer Limits, all on acid and then stuck in a blender, I haven't been lucky enough to witness more from him but I'm sure that day is coming. Arthur is a part of Clockwerk Pictures and even the Dark Carnival Film Fest. He's an FX artist, he writes, directs, produces, even makes action figures and can make you laugh in a second! Check out my latest "Versus" with Arthur Cullipher as he's invited all of us for...

A poetic, provocative and horrifying love story, brought to life by director Anthony G. Sumner and Co-Producer Alan Rowe Kelly. By Her Hand, She Draws You Down is the haunting tale of a boardwalk portrait artist who struggles with a powerful dark hunger, and the man who, through loving her, must come to grips with his own inner demons. Based on a story by acclaimed author Douglas Smith, By Her Hand, She Draws You Down is a beautiful, compelling, and ultimately tragic horror film.

'By Her Hand,She Draws You Down' will be showing at DragonCon, Killer Film Fest, Dark Carnival and Oklahoma Horror Film Festival. First things first, what you can do at the moment is check out the trailer and then go vote for it. All you have to do is Click the Thumbs Up link below the trailer, which is competing in the New Orleans Vampire Fest trailer competition.

Filming for Alan Rowe Kelly's remake of the drive-in classic, Don't Look in the Basement has been postponed. According to Kelly the bad economy is taking its toll on indie films this year, but he hopes to have the film up and running by 2010. In the meantime, Kelly plans on completing the anthology Gallery of Fear starring an all-star indie horror cast including Debbie Rochon, Raine Brown, Terry West, Jerry Murdock, plus many more. Fans can expect Gallery sometime around February/March 2010.

Fango recently spent a day on location with the new horror short Something Just—specifically the basement of filmmaker Scott W. Perry (pictured left). Here, sadistic serial killer Thomas Sutcliffe, portrayed in a bit of against-type casting by East Coast horror stalwart Alan Rowe Kelly, terrorizes a bound, captive girl played by genre newcomer Joslyn Jensen. You can see some exclusive pics from this and other Something Just moments below.

Perry’s follow-up to his vampire story Insatiable (which we covered here) also stars Jerry Murdock as the guardian of one of Sutcliffe’s victims, who goes to an old friend (Joe Zaso) to seek vengeance; in the process, dark secrets from the past are revealed. This is the first production of Perry’s Slick Devil Entertainment to be lensed in 1080p high definition, with cinematographer Dominick Sivilli creating an oppressively creepy atmosphere in the smoke-suffused basement as Kelly manhandles and murders Jensen.

Somehow the gay scheduling gods and the horror scheduling gods saw fit to allow Fango’s NYC Weekend Of Horrors and NewFest: The New York Lgbt Film Festival to overlap this year. Which meant that I got to fly to NYC for both the world premiere of my latest gay thriller, Pornography, and some good, fanboy geekout.

The downside to film fests and conventions is - I really hate crowds. I’m a very shy person, believe it or not, and being dropped into a crowd of people I don’t know is pretty much torture. (Strangely, I love to talk in front of a crowd.) I’ve learned to handle it because I have to, but… blech. So I have to give big ups to Alan Rowe Kelly, Bart Mastronardi and Jerry Murdock for letting me tag along all weekend.

Day One

I arrived at the con on Friday...

If you were lucky enough to attend Fango’s recently wrapped Weekend of Horrors, you hopefully were also fortunate enough to check out the phenomenal short Insatiable, which screened on Sunday. As much about vampirism and fetishism as it is about a dwindling marriage, the flick is a rare silent pleasure, harking back to the days when creating films was more about experimentation than making money.

“Insatiable really started out of my frustration from trying to sell a feature script of mine in 2004,” writer/director Scott W. Perry reveals. “I kept on inquiring to many production companies looking for scripts, but the answers were all the same: no vampires, because they’ve been done to death. I had just left a job at A&E, where one of my duties was to watch their prime-time programming before it went to air for quality control. Now, it was reality shit, but...

Indie filmmaker Bart Mastronardi gave Fango the first word that the official website for his psychological shocker Vindication has just gone live. It was designed by fellow East Coast frightmeister Alan Rowe Kelly, who also has a small role in the movie.

Described as “…total vindication for moviemaking the old-fashioned way…made with brains, beauty and balls” by Clive Barker, Vindication stars Keith Fraser as Nicolas, a severely troubled art student who slashes his wrists but survives—only to be plagued by a physical embodiment of his own guilt. Miguel Lopez, Zoë Daelman Chlanda, Jerry Murdock, Christopher J. Otis, Patrick Cronen, Jessie May Laumann, Raine Brown and Joe Zaso co-star; go here to check the site out.

“It was constructed so that horror fans can get a glimpse into the horrific world of Vindication,” Mastronardi tells us. “The easily navigated site captures the movie’s horrific tone through its stunning visuals,...

I had never seen any of Alan Rowe Kelly’s films until he contacted me—literally moments after posting my first Gay Of The Dead blog. And yes, that is Alan in the photo to the left. Don’t worry, we’ll get to that later.

Kelly’s opening salvo to me was the grisly, intense and controversial A Far Cry From Home segment from the recently wrapped Gallery Of Fear anthology, which he co-wrote, co-directed and produced for his Southpaw Pictures. From there I jumped back to his first feature, I’LL Bury You Tomorrow, a loopy, sprawling, bloody feature that manages to wind storylines of seven main characters into one big crazy fest. After that, I popped in The Blood Shed, which starts off with a preteen kid being yanked in half and just gets more insane (see: awesome) from there.

After watching Kelly’s films and chatting...

Indie filmmaker Alan Rowe Kelly sent along word that his long-aborning anthology feature Gallery Of Fear has wrapped, with the completion of the wraparound segment “Critic’s Choice.” This part of the film stars Fangoria Radio’s Debbie Rochon (pictured) as Roberta Van Houten, a nasty art critic who introduces each story.

The four tales are “A Far Cry from Home” and “Down the Drain,” along with “By Her Hand, She Draws You Down” and “It Rips,” directed by Anthony G. Sumner, also a cinematographer and FX creator on the project (see more details and photos here). The filmmaking team additionally includes cinematographers Bart Mastronardi and Dominick Sivilli, composer/sound designer Tom Burns and FX artists Brian Spears, Benzy, Michael Todd Schneider and Henry Boriello, along with actors Zoë Daelman Chlanda, Jerry Murdock, Joshua Neslon, Terry Shane, Raine Brown, Katherine O’Sullivan, Don Money, Benzy, Susan Adriensen, Terry M. West,...

Indie director Stolis Hadjicharalambous gave us the heads-up that a new trailer for his gory action-thriller Crossed recently went live on the movie’s MySpace page. You can check it out below.

Crossed was scripted by Christopher J. Otis, who stars as a young hitman dealing with the unsolved murder of his father (Jerry Murdock), while also tangling with other underworld figures, including an especially sadistic killer called The Ripper (Javier Rodriguez, who also produced). Fango caught an early screening of the movie and was duly impressed by the intense, brutal and frequent scenes of hand-to-hand combat and other carnage. The cast additionally includes Henry Boriello (who created the makeup FX), Talia Marrero, Andrew Roth, Ashley Bernardes, Keith Fraser and filmmaker Alan Rowe Kelly, for whom Hadjicharalambous has served as an editor; their frequent collaborator/Vindication director Bart Mastronardi was cinematographer. You can find out more about Crossed at the...

Indie director Stolis Hadjicharalambous gave Fango the word that his violent thriller Crossed has finished postproduction, and unveiled a new poster designed by actor/producer Javier Rodriguez. He’s now setting up festival screenings and gearing up to break the movie on the 2009 festival circuit.

“After all the years, hard work, blood, sweat and tears that were put into the production, it’s extremely thrilling to sit back and finally watch it all unfold on the screen,” Hadjicharalambous tells us. “I have waited since the beginning of production for the day I can sit back with a bag of popcorn and a soda and watch Crossed on the big screen. It’s exciting and mind-boggling that this day has finally come. I’m very proud of what the hardworking cast and crew and myself have created on screen. We all set out to make a hardcore, no-holds-barred action-thriller, packed with unforgettable twists and turns,...