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You gotta' hand it to the producers of the hilarious film "The Puppet Monster Massacre", released July 2011, with its 'Muppets' looking clones that spare no ludicrous attempt to homage horror movies.

Created by writer/director Dustin Mills and a small ragtag crew of actors and puppeteers, Mills will string his fans along for "PMM2", but won't keep them hanging for very long, as he kick-starts a campaign to raise "PMM2" funding that you can be a part of @ indiegogo.com/The-Puppet-Monster-Massacre-2-Zombunny-Apocalypse.

"We have big plans for "PMM2", said Mills, "badder, better, and sexier than the first, with more puppet nudity and foul language..."

Cast of "PMM2" will include Steve Rimpici, Bart Flynn, Shawn C. Phillips, Sarah Swofford, Robbie Rist and a host of celebrity cameos.

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*full disclosure: a screener of this film was provided by Gravitas Ventures.

Director/writer: Dustin Mills.

Cast: Steve Rimpici, Jessica Daniels and Bart Flynn.

Experimental movie-making and puppet theatre could not get any more stranger with The Puppet Monster Massacre. This horror comedy product comes from the mind of writer, director and actor Dustin Mills. He takes the early style from "South Park" and mixes it up with the production reminiscent of 80’s "Sesame Street." Appropriately enough, the vintage vibe Mills is going for shows.

In this film, Mills manages to make a running gag out of the movies from that era, and keep it going fairly strong. This product is certainly the most unique piece of B-cinema performance art to come out a long time. Who would have thought that a horror movie could be made with nothing but puppets? There are no true scares, but the twisted humour Mills uses somewhat works.

The Take Shelter Trailer has premiered. Jeff Nichols‘ Take Shelter (2011) movie stars Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Kathy Baker, and Ray McKinnon. Take Shelter‘s plot synopsis: “Curtis Laforche [Michael Shannon] lives in a small Ohio town with his wife Samantha [Jessica Chastain] and six-year-old daughter Hannah, who is deaf. Curtis makes a modest living as a crew chief for a sand-mining company. Samantha is a stay-at-home mother and part-time seamstress who supplements their income by selling handmade wares at the flea market each weekend. Money is tight, and navigating Hannah’s healthcare and special needs education is a constant struggle. Despite that, Curtis and Samantha are very much in love and their family is a happy one. Then Curtis begins having terrifying dreams about an encroaching, apocalyptic storm. He chooses to keep the disturbance to himself, channeling his anxiety into the obsessive building of a storm shelter in their backyard….”

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