AMC sent me the first two episodes of The Walking Dead in advance, the second of which was not the final air version. After watching both several times, here’s my spoiler-free review.

There aren’t too many new shows that can get me to jump onto them right away. It took me two seasons to give True Blood a try and I still haven’t seen Lost. But don’t misunderstand — I love television shows, but as my DVR can attest, I just don’t usually like to watch them as they air. But every so often a new series comes along that I feel I just have to be there at the beginning of it all, and one such series is The Walking Dead, developed for AMC by Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist).

The Walking Dead is based on the comic book series of the same name created by writer Robert Kirkman, and it’s anything but mild. It’s a serious tale of a group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse, and there’s blood and gore and death galore. Unlike cable networks like HBO and ShowTime that can air R-rated content, AMC has to adhere to stricter television guidelines, which if handled poorly, could be the downfall of the series. Luckily, from what I’ve seen of the first two episodes, the network and the show’s creative team have managed to skirt the rules and give us what looks to be the best new television series of the season.

It’s Halloween time and this year zombies are all the rage. If you’re not already planning to dress up like a zombie, you can still see what you’d look like as one with Make Me Zombie.

Visit the site and upload a photo of yourself and click “Make Me Zombie” and in seconds, you’ll be zombified!

Check out the photo of me here at right — not too shabby, I’d say!

Once you get your zombified picture, there’s options to save it and to share it on Twitter and Facebook. It will also give you the URL to your photo (like this).

Go ahead and get yourself zombified, then leave the link to your photo here in the Comments section.

Have fun!!!

Lake Mungo
DVD
DIRECTOR: Joel Anderson
STARRING: Talia Zucker, Rosie Traynor, David Pledger, Martin Sharpe, Steve Jodrell
Lionsgate Home Entertainment
RELEASE DATE: March 23, 2010

For four straight years now, After Dark Horrorfest: 8 Films to Die For has been unleashed. Eight original horror films to quench your thirst for blood and gore and screams galore. Last year I was able to check out and review their third collection of horrors (Read: DVD Review: After Dark Horrorfest III: 8 Films To Die For), and was rather excited to check out their new slate this year! Instead of cramming every review into one mammoth review, this year we’ll take it one flick at a time, with this little opener stuck at the top of each one.

Most of the movies that you’ll see when watching an After Dark Horrorfest title will involve a whole lot of graphic violence and some pretty horrific other-worldly beings. And while that’s expected and usually pretty entertaining to a horror fan, Lake Mungo brings a completely different and rather refreshing tone to the table.

The movie tells the story of a young girl named Alice (Talia Zucker) who mysteriously disappears while swimming with her family at a local dam. It takes some time, but eventually search and rescue teams discover her body. At first the family thought that was the sad and tragic end of it, but when her brother Matthew (Martin Sharpe) feels she might not be gone and sets up cameras, haunting evidence leads the family to wonder just what’s going on. One step after the other, a dark side to their daughter’s life becomes more clear, and the family must put it all in place and find a way to move on with their own lives.

Twenty five years ago the world was introduced to a little movie called Back To The Future. One of the major jokes in this movie is when the character of Marty McFly played by Michael J. Fox visits his father, George McFly (Crispin Glover), in the middle of the night telling him that he was Darth Vader from the Planet Vulcan and urged him to take Loraine to the Enchantment Under the Sea dance.

Well, now fans of the movie can get their hands on the 3D or 2D poster for the fake film Darth Vader From The Planet Vulcan.

Head on below to find out where you can get them!

As you might have noticed, “found footage” movies are pretty popular these days.

It all began with The Blair Witch Project before movies like [REC], Cloverfield, Paranormal Activity, and any sequels or remakes continued to prove the success of such an outrageous style of filmmaking. Some people don’t have the stomach for these them park-worthy adventures, but for the rest of us, most of the movies can be a whole lot of fun. Just like first person shooter video games, these movies make you feel like you’re right there in the middle of whatever madness is unfolding, and they’re without doubt an effectively entertaining experience to behold.

Most of these films have been made on incredibly low-budgets and without any top-tier actors or directors involved, but now it appears that this is about to change.