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For the second time in as many months, London’s Leicester Square is the place to be for UK horror fans as the GoreZone International Film Festival returns to the Prince Charles Cinema on October 2nd and 3rd. Featuring not only bevy of blood-soaked movies and guests but also GoreZone Magazine’s first ever awards ceremony, can you afford to miss it?

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Roll up, roll up! The third annual GoreZone International Film Festival is hittin’ London on October 2nd and 3rd at the prestigious Prince Charles Cinema on Leicester Square. 13 film premieres, 2 days, no chance for survival!

Hosted by the ever delectable Emily Booth (Evil Aliens) and Christa Campbell (Hyenas), this year’s festival will be covered for broadcast on Lava TV (U.K.) and The Fusion Network (U.S.A.).

This year will also feature our first live awards ceremony with the results,...

Somehow, I don't know how, I have been grossly neglecting reporting on Jeff Leroy's ambitiously cheesy and damn proud of it Rat Scratch Fever. Scratch that. One look at the new trailer for it, and I've got me a serious case of (Insert Title Here).

The budget is low but the creativity is high, as evidenced by this latest trailer for Rat Scratch Fever, the terrifying tale of giant rats from outer space running amok in Los Angeles. Not to be confused with the human-sized rats that already run amok in the streets of L.A.; we call them agents. Rimshot!

Low budget terror involving giant vermin is nothing new to writer-director Jeff Leroy; giant spiders attacked in his 2003 monster mash Creepies. But Rat Scratch Fever - this looks completely off the charts.

"The toothy terror begins when astronaut Sonja (Tasha Tacosa) travels with a team to a distant planet in search of life.

With 2009 already in full swing horror-wise, you know that there's gonna be a lot of shows to get to in order to meet your favorite stars! And where better to start than the Fangoria Weekend of Horrors?

Fango's first stop? Chicago, at the Wyndham O'Hare from March 6th-8th. The line-up is looking pretty soild thus far -- Tobe Hooper, George Romero, Doug Bradley, Herschell Gordon Lewis, and more. To check out the entire guest list, visit the official Weekend of Horrors website here!

And keep your eyes peeled as we'll have your chance to win tickets really soon!

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This morning we got a heads up from indie workhorse Lee Perkins about the poster for one of his latest starring roles, Live Evil. The poster is below; it was first seen at Afm but apparently we missed it...

Dig the art below and hit up the official Live Evil site to learn more about the movie, which also stars Tim Thomerson, Ken Foree and Tiffany Shepis!

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In the future vampires and creatures less than vampires fight one another for the honor of feasting on the last remaining pureblooded humans. You see, anything that can possibly change our blood makes it instantly undrinkable for a vampire. At least that’s the future according to Jay Woelfel’s Live Evil.

We got our first look at the trailer for Live Evil today, which was cut specifically for Afm, and all you have to do is click here to see it in Video Dread! Once you’re done, you can visit the official Live Evil site to learn more about it!

Tim Thomerson, Ken Foree, Lee Perkins and Tiffany Shepis are just some of the genre names involved in the film, which actually looks like a helluva lot of fun! Hopefully some good will come from its time at Afm; we’ll let you know when we hear more!

Issue #83

October 2008

Seems like just the other day my former editor contacted me about this new horror magazine from Canada who really wanted to start getting U.S. exposure called Rue Morgue. I agreed to check it out, even interviewed the editor-in-chief at the time, Rodrigo Gudino, and thus began a love affair with one of the coolest horror magazines ever produced.

Now Rue Morgue is turning 11 and to celebrate they’ve produced yet another massively amazing issue that’s about twice the size of their normal monthly output, but doesn’t compromise a single ounce of their usual badassness.

The focus for this issue is the 50th anniversary of Famous Monsters of Filmland, the horror magazine that started it all, and as usual the Rue crew threw their all into making sure every aspect of the magazine’s history is covered. To this end there's a huge interview with the mag’s founder,...

Ever-busy genre actor Lee Perkins (Katiebird: Certifiable Crazy Person, Live Evil) jut dropped us a line with some very cool early info on one of his next projects. Perkins is getting ready to transition from the world of physical acting to voice acting for Justin Paul Ritter’s The Living Corpse!

Ritter is the man behind Katiebird, the film that first brought Perkins to our attention, and now he’s branching out by doing The Living Corpse, his first animated feature. The film is based on the comic of the same name, the creation of Ken Haeser and Buz Hasson, and is the story of a somewhat self-aware zombie who takes it up on himself to keep the rest of his undead brethren at bay.

Perkins is doing the voice of Timmons, the Administrator of the East Bend Boarding School, where displaced children find themselves. We’re not sure how...