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Featuring: George A. Romero, Charlie Adlard, Joanna Angel, Robert Kirkman, Simon Pegg, Max Brooks, Bruce Campbell, Fran Kranz, Greg Nicotero, Jacqui Holland, Tom Savini, Traycee King | Written by Chad Herschberger & Alexandre O. Philippe | Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe

I like zombies just as much as the next person. Well, okay, maybe a little more, but probably not by much. While my friends and I, as teenagers, discovered the walking dead from satirical horror movies sought out in movie rental shops, most new initiates to the delights of the undead can simply leave their TV on for ten minutes and chances are there’ll be a zombie on it at some point.

Zombies have taken over the world. While the irony of their mass appeal is most certainly lost on them, it isn’t lost on Alexandre Philippe and Chad Herschberger, who decided the best way to deal with the oversaturation...

Brandon Scullion’s so-cool-it’s-frozen horror feature Live In Fear has announced the casting of one of its four leading roles.

Chris Dorman, who is probably best known for his recurring role as Toby in the award winning zombie apocalypse web/TV-series 8.13, will play Eric, a boy with multiple bad habits like drinking from strange flasks and dismembering his girlfriends. 8.13, which won no less than seven awards in the 2011 LAWeb Festival and which also received a 2nd Annual Indie Soap Awards nomination as 2010 Soap of the Year, combined the talents of actors such as Dorman with the producing and directing expertise of Traycee King (producer of Nerd Rage and The RadNerd Show) and Mando Franco, resident director at, and owner of, Evil Panda Films. 8.13 is currently airing on the American Horrors Channel, and a further season of episodes is presently in pre-production.

Dorman, who was one half of a cannibalistic...

Online video and web series news worth clicking today… Workshop the series debuts Season 2 today on Hulu after inking a distribution deal with the network earlier this spring. Creator Nate Golon is calling it the first half-hour web comedy to premiere on the site, and looking back over our records, he may be right. “As an added bonus, we’ve also posted episode 2, since people were patient enough to wait an extra week,” said Golon on the launch. That means you’ll need to earmark about 44 minutes for this comedic look inside the world of struggling La actors. 20 minutes in, we’d have to say it’s worth it. Six episodes total are due out this season, adding up to a whopping 132 minutes of comedy. [Workshop on Hulu] ElfQuest came to life last night with the SAG screening and release of the “fan imagined” trailer for a would-be series based on the popular comic book series.