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Bitch Slap - 2009 UK premiere
A World premiere at the Toronto film Festival this September 2009 then a UK Premiere at the Bram Stoker International in WHITBY. Be one of the first to get Bitch Slapped.
Director: Rick Jacobson
Writers: Eric Gruendemann, Rick Jacobson
Cast: Julia Voth, Erin Cummings, America Olivo, Michael Hurst, Ron Melendez
Mix three bad girls, one desert, a ruthless crime lord, 1,473 exotic weapons, $206 million in stolen diamonds and more cleavage than you can shake a stick at, and you'll get Bitch Slap – a rip-roaring, sexy mashup of the audacious sexploitation films of the sixties and seventies. Like Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! injected with a lethal cocktail of estrogen, pheromones and steroids, Bitch Slap hits hard with machine-gun battles, corny jokes, knock-'em-out fisticuffs and even a refreshing slow-motion water fight.
When three busty babes arrive at a desert hideaway to steal over $200 million from a ruthless underworld kingpin, things quickly spiral out of control. Hel (Erin Cummings), the caper's mastermind, is a corporate bombshell with a taste for vengeance. Trixie (Julia Voth) is the bait, a gorgeous stripper with a heart of gold and a dress to match, irresistible to men and women alike. Camero (Ameríca Olivo) is the drug-running, man-hating psycho killer who trusts nobody but herself. Allegiances are switched, truths are revealed, criminals are unmasked (and undressed) and nothing is quite what it seems as the fate of the world is precariously balanced among this trio of smouldering, sexy femmes fatales.
Bitch Slap knows never to take itself too seriously. Thanks to its tongue-in-cheek script, the film flips tired sexual stereotypes and clichés. Director Rick Jacobson wrote and produced this latest feature with partner Eric Gruendemann, with whom he first worked on the cult TV sensations Xena: Warrior Princess and Hercules: The Legendary Journeys. The three strong-willed leads are also to be credited for Bitch Slap's wild thrills. They were put through their paces by action director Zoe Bell, Uma Thurman's stunt double for Kill Bill.
The cast tossed aside any prim, ladylike mannerisms for a tough rumble in the dirt, and it's clear they're having a grand time whooping it up in this femme-tastic fight fantasy. Bitch Slap is full of clever nods to the down-and-dirty sexploitation classics, but these saucy minxes are no copycats – they're prepared to grab the old genre by the balls, drag it, kick it, crush it and mix it all up. A great coup for the Bram Stoker International Film Festival, see it first in WHITBY.
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Al's Beef - 2008 UK premiere
Director: Dennis HauckGenre: Horror
Tagline: She's got revenge written all over her.
Bloodied, barefoot, and branded like cattle, a mysterious stranger comes to town with an aim to kill the man that done her wrong.
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Back Alley Butcher - 2008 UK premiere
Director: Joseph GuzmanGenre: Horror | Short
Back Alley Butcher tells the story of Ruth, a down on her luck, unwed pregnant waitress, whose world is turned upside down when she is abducted in the middles of the night in a brutal kidnapping. Back Alley Butcher takes place in the late 1970's where the lack of modern technology made the world a more vulnerable place. The movie explores the hush-hush world of black-market adoptions and will introduce the audience to the term, 'Reverse Abortion' a phrase people will be talking about long after the credits roll. This is an original story that has not been explored in recent horror movies. It's uniqueness and chilling subject matter lends itself to horror audiences looking for something new.
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Blood On The Highway - 2008
Directors: Barak Epstein and Blair RowanGenre: Comedy | Horror
Tagline: There's a sucker born every minute!
After a gastrointestinal mishap with their map, three twenty-somethings on a road-trip accidentally wander into Fate, Texas, only to find the town populated by bloodthirsty, dimwitted vampires. A brutal run-in with two carnivorous convenience store clerks leads the three to take refuge with the town's only surviving humans and prepare for battle with an army of the undead.
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Brain Dead - 2007
Director: Kevin TenneyGenre: Horror
Tagline: A Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
The story of six people caught in the unusual (except in horror films) predicament of being stranded in a deserted fishing lodge with a host of alien-infected, mutant amoeba-controlled zombies at their doorstep.
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Brothers Keeper - 2008 UK premiere
Director: Martijn SmitsGenre: Horror | Short
Tagline: Ours is a strange history.
Two brothers live together in an old mansion, one gruesomely mutilated. The other brother seduces young women, mostly prostitutes and brings them to their remote estate, where the brothers fulfil their holy mission to ritually murder these women. When one of the brothers falls in love with the next victim the situation gets out of hand.
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Caution Sign - 2009 UK premiere
Director: Wade CarneyGenre: Horror | Short
The sign said SLOW... or did it? A dark forest road. A heated argument. A caution sign.
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Cheerbleeders - 2008 UK premiere
Director: Peter PodgurskyGenre: Short | Horror
Penny and Devon, a pair of high school outcasts, are best friends in their isolation in the small town of Blackfoot, Idaho. However, things take a nasty turn for the worst when penny inadvertently turns Devon into an unspeakable evil, the most popular boy in school.
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Colour From The Dark - 2008 UK premiere
Director: Ivan ZucconGenre: Horror
Tagline: Sucks the Life Out
Pietro and Lucia live on an isolated farm with Alice, Lucia's younger sister. Poor farmers, they live tilling the soil. Pietro is a good worker and a strong man who, unlike his three brothers, is not at war because of a deformed knee. Lucia is a beautiful and reserved woman dedicated to her family. Their life is peaceful and good, in spite of the hard work. One day, while drawing water from the well, Pietro and Alice accidentally free something from Earth's womb. A strange and alien colour flashes underwater, at the well's bottom, then disappears. From that moment on, inexplicable events start happening all around the farm, and by night the surrounding vegetation glitters with a sinister glow. The colour soon takes hold of the whole farm, and dwelling inside Pietro and his family's minds, it brings them into its sick world of pain, blood and death.
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Dead Bones - 2008
Director: Olivier BeguinGenre: Short | Horror | Western
The Wild West. A bounty hunter is tracking down a criminal. He catches up with him in a small half-abandoned village where he soon discovers that the few remaining locals have unusual customs.
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Damned By Dawn - 2009 World Premiere
Director: Brett AnsteyGenre: Horror
During a violent thunderstorm, a family is awoken by piercing shrieks which summon the dead to rise again. Their lives explode in a blood soaked fury as they battle malevolent spirits... whilst fighting to save their souls from eternal torment with... the Banshee.
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Death In Charge - 2008 UK premiere
Director: Devi SnivelyGenre: Short | Fantasy | Horror
Tagline: Don't tell mom the babysitter's death.
In the tradition of E.C. Horror Comics, this cautionary tale examines life through the eyes of Death who gets derailed when an impatient single Mom carelessly mistakes the scythe-carrying cloaked one for her tardy babysitter and leaves Death to care for her precocious 9-year-old daughter.
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Una Storia Di Lupi - 2008 UK premiere
Director: Cristiano DonzelliGenre: Short | Horror
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Dracula, the Vampire and The Voivode World Premiere
Director: Michael Bayley HughesGenre: Documentary
The first documentary ever to reveal the TRUE story of Bram Stoker and his legendary novel... Dracula
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DRAG ME TO HELL -2009
Director: Sam RaimiGenre: Horror
A loan officer ordered to evict an old woman from her home finds herself the recipient of a supernatural curse, which turns her life into a living hell. Desperate, she turns to a seer to try and save her soul, while evil forces work to push her to a breaking point.
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Dying Breed - 2008
Director: Jody DwyerGenre: Horror
Tagline: Everybody has different tastes.
Zoologist Nina is convinced there are still tigers remaining in the Tasmanian wilderness, and she has proof - a photograph of a paw print snapped by her sister just before she met with a fatal accident in the bush eight years before. Unable to attain funding for an expedition, Nina fears her wish to finish her sister's work (and perhaps lay to rest recurrent nightmares she has about her sister's death) will never happen. Her partner, Matt, manages to persuade an old mate Jack to help finance the trip - at a price.
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Excision - 2008
Director: Richard Bates Jr.Genre: Short | Horror
Pauline, has a sister, Grace, who suffers from cystic fibrosis and occupies most of her parents' attention. Pauline is fascinated by surgery. This not only gives her nightmares, but also disturbs her mom and dad. However, compelled by a life with a suffering sister, she can't let go of this preoccupation, despite her fear. As her home life deteriorates, Pauline's grades drop and her mother becomes emotionally distant. She has no one to go to and her mental state veers far away from sanity until her nightmares no longer frighten her and surgery becomes more than an intense fascination, but perhaps a future and a way of winning her parents' attention and love. Pauline no longer looks at her sister as a human, but as an opportunity to steal back the devotion of her parents. Aware that Grace will one day need a lung transplant because of her condition, Pauline is convinced she can perform the operation herself. The story explores a strained relationship between a mother and daughter. It is a story of neglect, obsession, jealousy and loneliness told through a blurring of suburbia and terror.
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The Facts In The Case Of Mister Hollow - 2008 UK Premiere
Directors: Rodrigo Gudiño, Vincent MarconeGenre: Animation | Short | Horror
Tagline: Look Closely...
The film centers on an unusual photograph dating back to the 1930s. An investigation of its particulars reveals a tapestry of secrets hidden in the details, and a tale of kidnapping and murder captured in a haunting moment.
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Family Demons - 2009 UK premiere
Director: Ursula DabrowskyGenre: Horror
Tagline: They never let you go.
When an abused teenage girl murders her alcoholic mother, the mother's vengeful spirit returns to haunt her. Even in death, the mother is hell bent on denying her daughter her freedom.
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Fun On Earth - 2007 UK premiere
Director: Jesse GordonGenre: Sci-Fi | Short
Tagline: My planet or yours?
Boy meets Girl. Boy is from Earth. Girl is not. But could they still have fun?
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Georges Intervention - 2009 UK premiere
Director: JT SeatonGenre: Horror | Comedy
Tagline: 9 out of 10 interventions are successful... this is the 1
George's friends have all gathered for an intervention... George's intervention. You see, George is a zombie and George's friends are attempting to convince George to stop eating people and to enter 'zombie rehab'. But the intervention doesn't go quite as planned.
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Hair Extensions - 2007 aka: Exte
Director: Sion SonoGenre: Horror
Tagline: What lovely hair you have...
About hair extensions that attack the women that wear them.
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Harvest Moon - 2008
Director: Micah RanumGenre: Horror | Short
Sometimes, love sucks! Walter and Cleo have been married for ages, but their relationship has recently soured. Walter has lost his taste for life, while his beautiful wife, Cleo, just wants to go out like they used to and paint the town red. One night, while the couple argues over dinner, a group of burglars break into their palatial mansion expecting a huge score. Surprisingly, this just might be the marital counseling Walter and Cleo have been waiting for.
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How My Dad Killed Dracula - 2008
Director: Sky SoleilGenre: Short | Comedy | Horror
Tagline: One of the greatest Halloween stories of all time.
A Halloween practical joke turns a family tradition into a night of comic terror when two young teens don't believe their cousin's dad killed Dracula. Insisting on proving it, Dad picks up a shovel and starts to dig.
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I Sell The Dead - 2008
Director: Glenn McQuaidGenre: Comedy | Horror
Tagline: Never Trust A Corpse
A grave robber reflects on his life of crime.
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Idiots And Angels - 2008
Director: Bill PlymptonGenre: Animation
Angel is a selfish, abusive, morally bankrupt man who hangs out as his local bar, berating the other patrons. One day, Angel mysteriously wakes up with a pair of wings on his back. The wings make him do good deeds, contrary to his nature. He desperately tries to rid himself of the good wings, but eventually finds himself fighting those who view the wings as their ticket to fame and fortune.
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Inside (À l'intérieur) - 2007
Director: Alexandre BustilloGenre: Horror
A pregnant widow awaiting her ride to the hospital must fight for her life against a mysterious woman who comes knocking on her door in a daring tale of caesarian terror. It's been four months since Sarah was involved in the tragic car accident that claimed the life of her husband, yet somehow the couple's unborn child miraculously survived the jarring ordeal.
Now it's Christmas Eve and Sarah is sitting alone in her suburban home, still grieving the loss of her beloved. Soon, Sarah's mother will arrive to drive her daughter to the hospital, where the doctors plan to induce labor. Out of nowhere, Sarah hears a knock at the door; on the other side is a stranger who calmly asks to use Sarah's telephone. Immediately suspicious of the stranger's motivations, Sarah locks the door and quickly calls the police. Upon searching the grounds, the policemen find no trace of an intruder and Sarah cautiously bolts her doors once again. But unbeknownst to the expectant mother, this time she has unwillingly locked herself into a violent struggle for the one thing that matters most to her. Now, as the scissor-wielding psychopath attempts to forcefully claim the new life within Sarah, the jealous maternal battle is about to get bloody.
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It Came From Another World! - 2007 UK premiere
Director: Christopher R. MihmGenre: Sci-Fi
"It Came From Another World!" chronicles the continuing adventures of everyone's favorite 'a-rockin' scientist, Professor Jackson. First introduced in 2006's "The Monster of Phantom Lake," Professor Jackson (Josh Craig) finds himself tasked yet again with saving the planet from certain doom. When Professor Jackson's colleague and best friend Dr. Frasier (Mike Mason) doesn't return from a scientific expedition in the deep woods, the Professor is sent to find and retrieve him. While searching, the Professor and Canoe Cops Sven (M. Scott Taulman) and Gustav (Mike Cook) stumble upon an enigmatic meteorite that may hold the answer to Dr. Frasier's disappearance - and something far more cataclysmic than they could ever imagine! Can our intrepid heroes unlock the secrets of the mysterious "rock from outer space" before its otherworldly power threatens not only the fate of the entire universe, but Professor Jackson's wedding plans?
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Kirksdale - 2007
Director: Ryan R. SpindellGenre: Horror | Short
Tagline: Sanity is a state of mind.
In the deep south of 1960's Florida, down canopy roads, amongst blooming live oaks, rests a quiet hospital. Kirksdale Hospital, a plantation turned mental asylum, provides patients with a calm environment to ease their inner turmoil. At least on the surface. When a tormented mental patient escapes the facility, Molly Walker a misunderstood teenage girl, and Darryl Pearl, a young sheriff's deputy, must face their inner demons in a fight for their sanity and their lives.
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The Machine Girl - 2008
Director: Noboru IguchiGenre: Horror
The life of a young, Japanese schoolgirl is destroyed when her family is killed by a Ninja-Yakuza family. Her hand cut off, she replaces it with various machines-of-death, and seeks revenge.
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Murder Party - 2007
Director:Jeremy SaulnierGenre: Horror | Comedy
Tagline:"Everybody Dies!"
A random invitation to a Halloween party leads a man into the hands of a rogue collective intent on murdering him for the sake of their art, sparking a bloodbath of mishap, mayhem and hilarity.
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Nightlife - 2008 UK Premiere
Directed by Timothy SandersonGenre: Comedy | Horror
Tagline: 300 years, and they're still living paycheck to paycheck...
Being a vampire kinda sucks. At least that's the premise of this mockumentary comedy in which a small film crew follows six of the undead in their night-to-night lives.
Forget about capes, they dress just like us. They watch a lot of bad TV. They're more concerned with paying the rent on time than they are with crossing Van Helsing. However, everyone has enemies, and our subjects are no exception. Enter the vampire hunters; comic book loving geeks who have made it their mission to vanquish these demons of the night with signature homemade weapons. When these two sides come fang to face things get pretty ugly, but for all concerned parties it's just another day in the everlasting battle between good and evil.
Tim Sanderson has been making films since he was twelve years old; many of them with his long time friend, and fellow director/screenwriter, Darren Scharf. Never having much money, he quickly learned how to improvise and make the most of what he had. Tim had to teach himself everything, and has been writing, directing, lighting, editing and working the camera since his first film. Tim has also worked on other films in Texas and New York doing everything from production assistant to cinematographer and more. Tim shot some early films on 16mm, but has since switched to the more versatile digital medium. Nightlife is his first feature film and the result of all the tricks of trade he learned over the years.
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Orlok - 3D - 2009 World Premiere
Directors: Keith Carter/F.W. MurnauGenre: Horror
Tagline: From the Bottomless Pit He Came!
3D re-imagining of the Silent classic based on the story "Dracula." Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
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The Pick Up - 2009 UK Premiere
Director: John Carchietta, Carl Morano Genre: Short | Horror
A mysterious blonde woman hitchhikes along a dark, lonely road. An equally strange man drives by and offers her a ride. It's someone's lucky night. A soon to be sexual liaison leads them to a seedy motel run by a creepy manager. Events and characters proceed in a progressively bizarre manner until it becomes obvious that by sunrise, not everyone will check out.
"Perfect start to finish, if you are lucky enough to get the chance to see this at a cinema make sure you go" Gorezone Magazine.
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Prombies - 2007
Director Frederick SnyderGenre: Horror | Short | Comedy
Strange things are happening at the Senior Prom. The boys have gone crazy, and the girls have gone wild. Amy and Darryl flee from the horror, but will they also become victims of the supernatural forces from below? Can Darryl save Amy from the madness? Can Amy save Darryl from himself? What will become of the hapless student body? PROMBIES! is a thrilling journey of fear and discovery and a heartwarming tale of young teenage lovers coming together to deal with the issues of sex and zombies on one of the most memorable nights of their lives.
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Reel Zombies UK premiere
Directors: David J. Francis, Mike MastersTagline: When the dead rise, the camers roll
Independent Zombie Film makers, Producer Mike Masters and Director David J. Francis, the team behind the commercially unsuccessful Zombie Night 1 and 2, have found the climate for Zombie movies has changed significantly after the "real" zombie invasion begins!
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RetarDEAD - 2008 UK premiere
Directors: Rick Popko Dan WestGenre: Comedy | Horror
Tagline: They're not so special anymore!
The evil Dr. Stern returns, armed with a lethal intelligence serum that yields horrific results at the Butte County Institute for Special Education.
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Schrik - 2007 UK premiere
Director: Martijn HullegieGenre: Horror | Short
Barbara and Olivier like to play games and scare each other!
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Smile - 2005
Director: Yuval Markovich and Noam AbtaGenre: Horror | Short | Animation
A very sinister and unsettling student film from Israel.
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Temptation - 2009 UK Premiere
Director: Catherine TaylorGenre: Horror | Thriller
After a heavy night out with the girls, Isabel, and attractive young professional woman catches an illegal mini-cab home. Things take a turn for the worse when the cabbie pulls her into an ally and violently forces himself onto her, taking her life. From high above on the rooftop, an ancient female Vampire notices. Taken in by Isabel's beauty and innocence, she dispatches the Cabbie and feeds Isabel a drop of her immortal blood. Isabel awakes with 48 hours to decide whether to embrace immortality, or kill herself before she becomes undead
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The Cellar - 2009 UK Premiere
Director: Martin Kjelleberg"Extremely terrifying!" - Fanatisk Film
"Chock full of atmosphere" - DreadCentral
"Will scare the living hell out of you" - Slasherpool
Four college students majoring in art have rented a remote summerhouse for the weekend to get some peace and quiet while working on their latest projects. Their stay quickly becomes increasingly unpleasant however as they start having strange visions. Is the house haunted or are their minds just playing tricks on them? Well, they're just about to find out.
"Perfect start to finish, if you are lucky enough to get the chance to see this at a cinema make sure you go" Gorezone Magazine.
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The Fox Family (aka - Gumiho Gajok) - 2006
Genre: Comedy | HorrorDisguising themselves as humans, a family of kumiho travel from their home in the mountains to the city. The kumiho can only truly become human if they consume a human liver during an eclipse that occurs once every thousand years, and with just thirty days to go they open a circus in the hope of attracting some victims. But the only person they succeed in capturing is conman Gi-dong, and things get complicated when the family's eldest daughter falls in love with him. In addition, a series of murders in the city brings the family under suspicion from a local police detective.
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The Resident Magician (2009) Australia World Premiere
Director: Daniel MarsigliaGenre: Thriller
The Resident Magician is a spiritual story told in Thriller, based on learning to let go of the past with the possibility of turning to a brighter future. It is about learning and in some cases relearning to do the actions that both benefit one-self and others even though heart-braking decisions sometimes need to be made. The Magician is the embodiment of opportunity and possibility for those willing to make the choice on this path regardless of their experiences – a path that takes everyday courage.
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Thicker Than Water: The Vampire Diaries Part 1 - 2008 UK premiere
Director: Phil MessererGenre: Comedy | Horror
Tagline: The family that prays together... slays together
Thicker Than Water is the first part in the Vampire Diaries Trilogy. It tells the story of the Baxters, an ordinary suburban family whose world is turned upside down when their youngest becomes a vampire.
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Wasting Away - 2009 UK premiere
Director: Matthew KohnenGenre: Horror | Comedy
Turning the zombie film on its head, "Wasting Away" is an oddball comedy from the perspective of the brain munching monsters themselves.
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Zombie Honeymoon - 2004
Director: David GebroeGenre: Horror | Romance
Tagline:In sickness and in health.
Zombie Honeymoon is a gore-soaked exploration of how far the boundaries of true love can be pushed without reaching a breaking point.