Recently we found out that The Strain, the planned new TV series adapted from the book trilogy of the same name by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, had been picked up for an entire season by FX.

To hold us over until an official trailer and the show itself arrives, a brief viral clip was shown during the most recent episode of The Walking Dead. The clip is titled “He Is Here,” and it involves lots of rats.

You can check out the viral clip for The Strain below.

Good news for fans of Guillermo del Toro and the horror book trilogy he wrote with Chuck Hogan, titled The Strain, as it has been announced that FX has ordered the TV adaptation to full series.

A little over a year ago we found out that the show was being developed by del Toro and LOST showrunner Carlton Cuse. Production on the pilot just finished up, and FX liked what they saw enough to greenlight a full 13-episode season, which will premiere in July of 2014.

The Goonies and Lord of the Rings star Sean Astin has joined the cast of Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, the upcoming installment in the franchise started by Eli Roth’s 2002 indie horror, Cabin Fever.

The movie is actually one of two new movies on the way, the other titled Cabin Fever: Outbreak. When we first told you about the two movies last November, they were said to be sequels. Now it’s unclear what they are. Some say a reboot or spin-offs, perhaps prequels…who knows. But they are Cabin Fever movies, that much is true.

This year marks the tenth anniversary since The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring took the global box office by storm (one month after the first Harry Potter movie debuted). To celebrate that milestone, the British film magazine Empire is dedicating a chunk of its December issue to paying tribute to the LOTR movies in typical Empire style.

The issue will spotlight a reunion of the four actors who played the brave hobbits of J.R.R. Tolkien‘s fantasy epic – Elijah Wood (Frodo Baggins), Sean Astin (Samwise Gamgee), Dominic Monaghan (Merry), and Billy Boyd (Pippin). To promote the issue, Empire has put together a short video preview of the hobbit reunion which you can watch here below, as well as an image from the reunion.

The Lord Of The Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy was released this week on iTunes as a digital download. In conjunction with this event, we here at Geeks of Doom have a Lord Of The Rings prize pack with some real cool goodies to give away to one (1) lucky reader!

One (1) winner will receive:

• One (1) The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring Original Theatrical Poster
• One (1) LOTR Playing Cards
• One (1) LOTR Bookmarks
• One (1) LOTR Necklace
• One (1) LOTR Jade necklace from New Zealand

The digital version is available now for only $19.99 at iTunes [note, link opens up iTunes application].

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