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The SyFy channel is currently developing a new series based on Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook’s Dark Horse comic Harrow County. Dominion and Twelve Monkeys writer, Becky Kirsch, will be penning the adaption. Horror County focuses on Emmy, who has always known that the woods surrounding her home is filled with goblins, ghosts and the undead. On her 18th birthday, Emmy learns that she is the reincarnation of a powerful witch. Now the town’s people are set on killing her, again, like they did in previous life. To survive, she must embrace who she really is and her dark powers.
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Prequels It’s tempting to leave the brilliant Mr. Plinkett Star Wars prequel reviews to suffice for this post. I think they should be used in film classes everywhere. Red Letter Media’s brilliant look at what went wrong with the franchise is without equal and perfectly nails everything wrong with three installments that scarred memories and almost derailed a franchise. The critiques are raunchy and in terrible taste but they are also funny as hell and exquisite. See all of them HERE There are multiple parts for each film, but every single one of them is worth it. Watching the Plinkett critiques was far more entertaining than watching the actual films. &list=PL5919C8DE6F720A2D#action=share To someone who’s under the age of 20 and says his his least favorite film in the series is the Empire Strikes Back because “it was the most boringest one,” can I suggest you shut this review off right now before I carefully explain how much of a fucking
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Vin Diesel announced a new series and film for the ‘Riddick’ franchise, yesterday, via Instagram. Next month work begins on the script for the film, titled ‘Furia’, to be written by Diesel and and director David Twohy. Diesel and Twohy will also be working on ‘Merc City’, a series that explores the Merc and Bounty Hunters of the ‘Riddick’ universe. ‘Furia’ will be fourth film in the ‘Riddick’ franchise. The first film, ‘Pitch Black’, was released in 2000, follows a commercial transport ship and its crew, who are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that come out at night. The crew discover that a month long eclipse is coming. An escaped convict named Riddick is their one hope for survival. The second film (2004), titled ‘The Chronicles of Riddick’ finds Riddick battling the “Necromongers”, an invading empire, planning to kill or convert every human on the planet. 2013’s release, ‘Riddick’, the badass finds himself stranded on a scotched
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DC’s character Lucifer, from ‘The Sandman’ comics and it’s spin-off comic titled ‘Lucifer’, is joining the list of adaptions for TV, that includes ‘Constantine’, ‘Arrow’, ‘Preacher’, Robert Kirkman’s ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Outcast’. The character ‘Lucifer’ was created by Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg and Sam Keith, which premiered in ‘The Sandman’ in 1989. The comic follows ‘Lucifer’ as he abandons his throne for the “shinning insanity” of LA. There he befriends a pop star, who is murdered in a drive by, in front of Lux, the night club that he owns. The murder stirs something in him and he vows to punish the people responsible. The detective assigned to the case, Chloe Dancer (Lauren German), is intrigued by Lucifer (Tom Ellis) and his ability to get the truth out of people. Together they set out to solve the case. ‘Lucifer’ is scripted by Tom Kapinos, who wrote for ‘Californication’. Jerry Bruckheimer and Littman (CSI) along with Len Wiseman (Sleepy Hollow
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Hey Horror Comic fans! It’s me, Shane AKA Deadman, your comic reading and reviewing fiend here at ZADF.ORG ! Every Wednesday is New Comic Book Day, the day when all the new comics come out each week. This week 11/18/15 there are plenty of Horror Comics coming out to suit your need to read. Here is my list of what I think you should pick up or add to your pull lists: Marvel Comics – Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three – The Lady of Shadows #3 Dark Horse Comics – Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 10 #21 , B.P.R.D. Hell On Earth #137 #28 , Dark Horse Presents #16 IDW Publishing – Godzilla In Hell #5 Action Lab Comics – Tomboy #1 Titan Books –Angel Vol. 1 Graphic India – Mistry, P.I. #5 Dynamite – Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #2 Vertigo Comics – Clean Room #2 , Red Thorn #1 American Gothic Press –
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Fans were ecstatic to see Constantine make a cameo last week (November 4th) on ‘Arrow’. The episode (S4 Ep5), “Haunted”, proved a couple of things, that the fan base for Constantine, played by Matt Ryan, is very much alive and are still calling for the series’ return. The second thing, as if that wasn’t enough, the episode boosted ‘Arrow’s’ ratings by 10%, proving that Constantine still has value, of which, a network should be taking advantage. Earlier this year fans were crushed to learn that Constantine had been cancelled by NBC, after it’s first season and have since been begging for someone to bring the series back, with the cast from it’s one and only season. Fans have gone so far as starting a petition, that has already surpassed 50,000 signatures, in hopes that it will get the attention of a network. At the moment the rights to Constantine are owned by The El Rey Network, but there has been
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It’s Not A Remake The Thing, 2011, is NOT a remake. It is a prequel. I just did more than the entire Universal Studios marketing department with that clarification. John Carpenter got royally screwed on his 1982 masterpiece. Some call The Thing his greatest film. Others, like me, call it one of the greatest films ever made for any genre. Carpenter’s film was buried in 1982 by a candy pilfering alien and Spielberg. Between a lackluster marketing campaign by Universal Studios and America’s pop sugar desire for heart glowing aliens, The Thing, 1982, never really had a chance. Carpenter himself saw the handwriting on the wall after exiting a plane to giant advertisements for ET: The Extraterrestrial. “We’re done,” he lamented. However home video and cable gave his film a new life, and eventually the tortoise caught up and passed the alien. Today, Carpenter’s film is regarded as timeless and as mentioned, by many, his best. The film is deserving
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Wynonna Earp, brought to life in Beau Smith’s comic book series, is getting her own live-action show on the SyFy channel. The supernatural series follows Wynonna Earp, descendant of “the” Wyatt Earp, who is a special agent for the U.S. Marshalls’ Monster Squad. Earp battles supernatural threats including vampires, zombies, demons and mummies. Wynonna Earp will be played by Melanie Scrofano, who has appeared in films such as 2014’s ‘RoboCop’, ‘Saw VI’ and ‘Wolves’. Scrofano will also be appearing in the upcoming series ‘Damien’. Tim Rozon (End of the Line) will play the role of Doc Holliday and ‘Defiance’ actor Shamier Anderson has been cast as Agent Dolls. The Synopsis of the new series: “After years on the run and in juvenile detention, Wynonna Earp is finally coming home. The only problem is no one back home wants her to return. But when she becomes the town’s only hope of eradicating mysterious demons, Wynonna must chose which side of the
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Hey Horror Comic fans! It’s me, Shane AKA Deadman, your comic reading and reviewing fiend here at ZADF.ORG ! Every Wednesday is New Comic Book Day, the day when all the new comics come out each week. This week 11/11/15 there are plenty of Horror Comics coming out to suit your need to read. Here is my list of what I think you should pick up or add to your pull lists: Image Comics – The Walking Dead #148 , Mythic #5 , Limbo #1 , ’68: Last Rites #3 DC Comics – Constantine: The Hellblazer #6 , Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #63 IDW Publishing – The X-Files: Season 11 #4 Action Lab Comics – Zombie Tramp #16 , Puppet Master #8 BOOM! Studios – Sleepy Hollow: Providence #4 Dark Horse Comics – Harrow County #7 , Abe Sapien #28 Dynamite – Alice Cooper vs. Chaos #3 Avatar Press – Crossed +100 #11 Vertigo Comics – The Twilight Children #2
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After months of rumor and speculation, the role of The Walking Dead’s big, bad, brutal character Negan has been cast. Multiple sources, including The Hollywood Reporter have stated that ‘Supernatural’ actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan will play the role of The Walking Dead’s f-bomb dropping psycho path and leader of “The Saviors”. During the casting process the role of Negan went under the name Orin to prevent fans and press from finding out. Jeffrey Dean Morgan played the role of Sam and Dean’s father in Supernatural. He also had roles in 2012’s ‘The Possession’, ‘Jonah Hex’, ‘Watchmen’ and many other shows and films. Negan, known for carrying a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, nick named “Lucille”, makes the Governor look like a sweet fluffy kitty in comparison. Those of you who have read the comics know exactly what kind of character Negan is and what that possibly means for our favorite characters. Stop reading now if you want to avoid
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The SyFy channel is currently developing a new series based on Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook’s Dark Horse comic Harrow County. Dominion and Twelve Monkeys writer, Becky Kirsch, will be penning the adaption. Horror County focuses on Emmy, who has always known that the woods surrounding her home is filled with goblins, ghosts and the undead. On her 18th birthday, Emmy learns that she is the reincarnation of a powerful witch. Now the town’s people are set on killing her, again, like they did in previous life. To survive, she must embrace who she really is and her dark powers.
Continue reading →
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Prequels It’s tempting to leave the brilliant Mr. Plinkett Star Wars prequel reviews to suffice for this post. I think they should be used in film classes everywhere. Red Letter Media’s brilliant look at what went wrong with the franchise is without equal and perfectly nails everything wrong with three installments that scarred memories and almost derailed a franchise. The critiques are raunchy and in terrible taste but they are also funny as hell and exquisite. See all of them HERE There are multiple parts for each film, but every single one of them is worth it. Watching the Plinkett critiques was far more entertaining than watching the actual films. &list=PL5919C8DE6F720A2D#action=share To someone who’s under the age of 20 and says his his least favorite film in the series is the Empire Strikes Back because “it was the most boringest one,” can I suggest you shut this review off right now before I carefully explain how much of a fucking
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Vin Diesel announced a new series and film for the ‘Riddick’ franchise, yesterday, via Instagram. Next month work begins on the script for the film, titled ‘Furia’, to be written by Diesel and and director David Twohy. Diesel and Twohy will also be working on ‘Merc City’, a series that explores the Merc and Bounty Hunters of the ‘Riddick’ universe. ‘Furia’ will be fourth film in the ‘Riddick’ franchise. The first film, ‘Pitch Black’, was released in 2000, follows a commercial transport ship and its crew, who are marooned on a planet full of bloodthirsty creatures that come out at night. The crew discover that a month long eclipse is coming. An escaped convict named Riddick is their one hope for survival. The second film (2004), titled ‘The Chronicles of Riddick’ finds Riddick battling the “Necromongers”, an invading empire, planning to kill or convert every human on the planet. 2013’s release, ‘Riddick’, the badass finds himself stranded on a scotched
Continue reading →
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DC’s character Lucifer, from ‘The Sandman’ comics and it’s spin-off comic titled ‘Lucifer’, is joining the list of adaptions for TV, that includes ‘Constantine’, ‘Arrow’, ‘Preacher’, Robert Kirkman’s ‘The Walking Dead’ and ‘Outcast’. The character ‘Lucifer’ was created by Neil Gaiman, Mike Dringenberg and Sam Keith, which premiered in ‘The Sandman’ in 1989. The comic follows ‘Lucifer’ as he abandons his throne for the “shinning insanity” of LA. There he befriends a pop star, who is murdered in a drive by, in front of Lux, the night club that he owns. The murder stirs something in him and he vows to punish the people responsible. The detective assigned to the case, Chloe Dancer (Lauren German), is intrigued by Lucifer (Tom Ellis) and his ability to get the truth out of people. Together they set out to solve the case. ‘Lucifer’ is scripted by Tom Kapinos, who wrote for ‘Californication’. Jerry Bruckheimer and Littman (CSI) along with Len Wiseman (Sleepy Hollow
Continue reading →
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Hey Horror Comic fans! It’s me, Shane AKA Deadman, your comic reading and reviewing fiend here at ZADF.ORG ! Every Wednesday is New Comic Book Day, the day when all the new comics come out each week. This week 11/18/15 there are plenty of Horror Comics coming out to suit your need to read. Here is my list of what I think you should pick up or add to your pull lists: Marvel Comics – Stephen King’s The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three – The Lady of Shadows #3 Dark Horse Comics – Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 10 #21 , B.P.R.D. Hell On Earth #137 #28 , Dark Horse Presents #16 IDW Publishing – Godzilla In Hell #5 Action Lab Comics – Tomboy #1 Titan Books –Angel Vol. 1 Graphic India – Mistry, P.I. #5 Dynamite – Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Storm Surge #2 Vertigo Comics – Clean Room #2 , Red Thorn #1 American Gothic Press –
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Fans were ecstatic to see Constantine make a cameo last week (November 4th) on ‘Arrow’. The episode (S4 Ep5), “Haunted”, proved a couple of things, that the fan base for Constantine, played by Matt Ryan, is very much alive and are still calling for the series’ return. The second thing, as if that wasn’t enough, the episode boosted ‘Arrow’s’ ratings by 10%, proving that Constantine still has value, of which, a network should be taking advantage. Earlier this year fans were crushed to learn that Constantine had been cancelled by NBC, after it’s first season and have since been begging for someone to bring the series back, with the cast from it’s one and only season. Fans have gone so far as starting a petition, that has already surpassed 50,000 signatures, in hopes that it will get the attention of a network. At the moment the rights to Constantine are owned by The El Rey Network, but there has been
Continue reading →
BooksComic Books/Graphic NovelsEventsHalloweenIndieMoviesProductReviewsStreaming TVTrailers
It’s Not A Remake The Thing, 2011, is NOT a remake. It is a prequel. I just did more than the entire Universal Studios marketing department with that clarification. John Carpenter got royally screwed on his 1982 masterpiece. Some call The Thing his greatest film. Others, like me, call it one of the greatest films ever made for any genre. Carpenter’s film was buried in 1982 by a candy pilfering alien and Spielberg. Between a lackluster marketing campaign by Universal Studios and America’s pop sugar desire for heart glowing aliens, The Thing, 1982, never really had a chance. Carpenter himself saw the handwriting on the wall after exiting a plane to giant advertisements for ET: The Extraterrestrial. “We’re done,” he lamented. However home video and cable gave his film a new life, and eventually the tortoise caught up and passed the alien. Today, Carpenter’s film is regarded as timeless and as mentioned, by many, his best. The film is deserving
Continue reading →
Comic Books/Graphic NovelsNewsReviewsStreaming TV
Wynonna Earp, brought to life in Beau Smith’s comic book series, is getting her own live-action show on the SyFy channel. The supernatural series follows Wynonna Earp, descendant of “the” Wyatt Earp, who is a special agent for the U.S. Marshalls’ Monster Squad. Earp battles supernatural threats including vampires, zombies, demons and mummies. Wynonna Earp will be played by Melanie Scrofano, who has appeared in films such as 2014’s ‘RoboCop’, ‘Saw VI’ and ‘Wolves’. Scrofano will also be appearing in the upcoming series ‘Damien’. Tim Rozon (End of the Line) will play the role of Doc Holliday and ‘Defiance’ actor Shamier Anderson has been cast as Agent Dolls. The Synopsis of the new series: “After years on the run and in juvenile detention, Wynonna Earp is finally coming home. The only problem is no one back home wants her to return. But when she becomes the town’s only hope of eradicating mysterious demons, Wynonna must chose which side of the
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Hey Horror Comic fans! It’s me, Shane AKA Deadman, your comic reading and reviewing fiend here at ZADF.ORG ! Every Wednesday is New Comic Book Day, the day when all the new comics come out each week. This week 11/11/15 there are plenty of Horror Comics coming out to suit your need to read. Here is my list of what I think you should pick up or add to your pull lists: Image Comics – The Walking Dead #148 , Mythic #5 , Limbo #1 , ’68: Last Rites #3 DC Comics – Constantine: The Hellblazer #6 , Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? #63 IDW Publishing – The X-Files: Season 11 #4 Action Lab Comics – Zombie Tramp #16 , Puppet Master #8 BOOM! Studios – Sleepy Hollow: Providence #4 Dark Horse Comics – Harrow County #7 , Abe Sapien #28 Dynamite – Alice Cooper vs. Chaos #3 Avatar Press – Crossed +100 #11 Vertigo Comics – The Twilight Children #2
Continue reading →
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After months of rumor and speculation, the role of The Walking Dead’s big, bad, brutal character Negan has been cast. Multiple sources, including The Hollywood Reporter have stated that ‘Supernatural’ actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan will play the role of The Walking Dead’s f-bomb dropping psycho path and leader of “The Saviors”. During the casting process the role of Negan went under the name Orin to prevent fans and press from finding out. Jeffrey Dean Morgan played the role of Sam and Dean’s father in Supernatural. He also had roles in 2012’s ‘The Possession’, ‘Jonah Hex’, ‘Watchmen’ and many other shows and films. Negan, known for carrying a baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire, nick named “Lucille”, makes the Governor look like a sweet fluffy kitty in comparison. Those of you who have read the comics know exactly what kind of character Negan is and what that possibly means for our favorite characters. Stop reading now if you want to avoid
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