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I’m a big fan of horror comedy. It’s a combination that isn’t easy to get right, but when it is done well it can be hilarious. A couple of my favorite horror comedies in recent years include The Cabin in the Woods, Tucker Dale Vs. Evil, and Hell Baby. Horror comedies have been around forever, though, and I had to include one of them in the 1950s horror movie column that I’ve been writing this month for Halloween.

The next film on my list is the 1959 film The Headless Ghost. The story follows three college students, two Americans and a girl from Denmark, who take a day trip from London to visit an old English castle called Ambrose Castle. The three students hide in the castle after it is closed to see if the legends of the ghosts they heard about were real. There they find the headless ghost.

Alien horror thriller short Welcome To Willits: After Sundown is screening at this year’s SXSW festival in the Midnight Short competition. But it already has a bright future as director Trevor Ryan is planning a feature-length adaptation and has Teresa Palmer signed up for one of the lead roles. He probably didn’t have too much trouble securing her services, as she’s married to the short’s star, Mark Webber, who will return for the film. Welcome To Willits (it may lose the After Sundown bit for the adaptation), was written by Ryan’s brother Tim and finds Webber as Brock, a man waiting in an isolated Northern California cabin for his friend to complete a drug deal. He becomes increasingly more desperate and paranoid that aliens are heading his way to attack and abduct him again. Is he just a lunatic? Well, he is in a cabin in the woods.

Last week we brought you the second segment of the four-part Ghost Trek series. As promised, series creator Michael Plumides has prepared the third piece for your viewing pleasure. Come on in and take a gander.

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Now enjoy Ghost Trek: "The Kinsey Report" Part Three.

Synopsis

In this webisode the Puds (Paranormal Underworld Detective Society) team members gear up for their ghost hunt for "Tyler Rae Kinsey," a child beauty queen strangled to death with a jump rope in her Colorado home. Joey Mayhem and the Bomb would rather sit the investigation out, due to an impending Islanders game they want to watch, plus they're a little weary of the "cursed" dwelling. Dr. Zeke decides he'll entice the tech specialists, Robbie and Ray-Ray, with some strip club funny money...

Erica Leerhsen (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Wrong Turn 2) is set to star in Phobia, a horror/murder mystery to be directed by Jon Keeyes (American Nightmare, Living & Dying) and produced by Blake Calhoun (Killing Down, Pink) from a screenplay by Anne Gibson. Read on for the gory details!

Rounding out the cast are Chase Jeffery (Exposed, American Virgin) as Val Drakul, a man tormented by a family curse; Matthew Tompkins (Killing Down, Missionary Man) as I.M. Casey, a mysterious stranger tracking Val; Jonathan Brooks (The Next Door Neighbor, Seasons of Gray) and Nicole Leigh (Small Timers, Karma Police) as Guy and Marcia Krusek, Val’s cousins and owners of the Theatre du Macabres; and Matt Moore (Super, Premonition) as a young Sigmund Freud.

Combining Gothic horror and an Agatha Christie style murder mystery, Phobia will be produced by a seasoned genre crew including Director of Photography Richard Clabaugh (The Prophecy,...

Hellbilly horror rockers Ghoultown have announced they're working on a "gruesomely epic" music video for the single "Drink With the Living Dead" from their hit album Life After Sundown. Their 2009 Elvira tribute song & video "Mistress of the Dark" was awesome, so we're going all tingly over the possibilities for the next one. The band revealed the first concept art for the short film, which is based on the paintings of Finnish artist Juha Vuorma. Hit the jump to get a peek and catch up on some more interesting band news... Vuorma's work has graced dozens of album covers – not just for Ghoultown's latest, but also metal heavyweights like Autopsy, Kalmah and Edge of Sanity. (You...