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Stars: Tom Arnold, Sean Astin, Martin Blasick, Natasha Blasick, Jake Busey, Rhys Coiro, Leisha Hailey, Michael Horse, Joi Liaye, David A. Lockhart, Nick Mason, Amber Martinez, Michelle Campbell, Angelica Cassidy, Ewart Chin | Written by Ron Carlson, Hank Braxtan, Dan Sinclair | Directed by Ron Carlson

Ron Carlson (Tom Cool) co-wrote the story and the screenplay of Giant Killer Ants with story co-writers Dan Sinclair (Chemical Peel) and Hank Braxtan (Snake Outta Compton), and they created a flashback of 80s comedy horror.

Giant Killer Ants takes a trip down peyote-lane with a 1980s glam rock band who have only had one hit, and they plan to rejuvenate their career by heading to a music festival in the middle of the desert. It isn’t as simple as going out and rocking out though, because they are attacked by, you guessed it, Giant Ants!

I love the concept. A comedy film about a...

Stars: Tom Arnold, Sean Astin, Martin Blasick, Natasha Blasick, Jake Busey, Rhys Coiro, Leisha Hailey, Michael Horse, Joi Liaye, David A. Lockhart, Nick Mason, Amber Martinez, Michelle Campbell, Angelica Cassidy, Ewart Chin | Written by Ron Carlson, Hank Braxtan, Dan Sinclair | Directed by Ron Carlson

Ron Carlson, director of the 2009 lesbian vampire film Life Blood and 2011′s “shockumentary” Midgets vs. Mascots (which I liked if nobody else did), teams with Hank Braxton, whose film Snake Outta Compton has just hit DVD here in the UK and who worked with Ron Carlson (with Carlson taking the lead) in the 2015 killer-bear movie Maneater, aka Unnatural for Dead Ant, a ridiculous monster movie in the style of Mike Mendez’s Big Ass Spider and 50s creature feature Them!

The 1989 ‘one-hit-wonder’ glam-metal band Sonic Grave embark on a trip to the No-chella rock festival with their long-suffering manager in the hopes of a comeback. Making...

Stars: Natasha Blasick, Richard Tyson, David A. Lockhart, Charlie Glackin, Alanna Forte | Written by Barry Massoni, Rene Perez | Directed by Rene Perez

Before we start, let me clarify some things… Or not. Because I’m still a little confused.

Last March saw the UK DVD release of director Rene Perez’s Playing With Dolls. That release passed me completely by, however I know it did get a decent reception from some quarters (if memory serves Zombie Hamster’s Dave Wain enjoyed it). Yet now, some months later, we have Playing With Dolls under the unoriginal, and possibly copyright infringing, title of Leatherface. Confused? I am. The BBFC website list this film’s cast as the sequels cast, whilst Amazon is the opposite. It doesn’t help that the UK distributor has the official synopsis for Playing With Dolls: Bloodlust on the back of the DVD but then has the cast...

Following a borderline extermination in a nameless small town, wannabe cowboy Mortimer (David A. Lockhart) ups sticks to another identikit Western village – via the unapologetically named Whiskeytown – in order to trap a supposed rapist Indian (Rick Mora) and collect the substantial bounty in return. Purchasing a young woman (Camille Montgomery) to use as bait, Mortimer is ultimately outsmarted by the Indian who empties the bounty hunter’s gun while he sleeps. Their conflict is shortlived, however, after a local tradesman and his friend – a man who will undoubtedly resemble Van Kilmer once he’s finished eating all the pies - inadvertently unleash luminescent spores, which in turn transform the rest of the villagers into zombies.

You know the drill: department store costumes, hand-carved performances, diabolical dialogue and exploitatively gratuitous nudity – this is an Asylum production in everything but name (we have Left Films to thank for this one). Originally titled The Dead and the Damned,...

by Jim Mcleod, MoreHorror.com

Just in time for the release of Cowboys V’s Aliens, Left Films has released the similarly tilted Cowboys and Zombies.

Set in Jamestown, California in 1849, meteorite strike has released terrible evil alien spores in the atmosphere; these spores will turn whoever they come into contact with into zombie mutant type creatures.

Hot on the trail of a brutal rapist, our whiny voiced hero Mortimer, a rather in effectual bounty hunter comes to town. As is want to happen in these sorts of movies our hero is soon forced into a pact with a rival bounty hunter to fend off the attacks of the zombies.

This sort of movies lives and dies on the action sequences and the scare factor. I’m sad to say that the scares are few are far between, however the action sequences are done with some neat touches.

The effects...

*full disclosure: a screener of this film was provided by Left Films.

Director/writer: Rene Perez.

Cowboys and Zombies is being released in the United Kingdom August 1st on DVD. The film's title may or may not be a way to capitalize on the looming success of Cowboys and Aliens, which releases near the same date. In North America, this title is called the more unique, but less fun The Dead and the Damned and the film will release in this territory July 26th on DVD. This is an independent film from director Rene Perez, who also directed the upcoming War Machine. Set in the 19th Century, a meteorite crashes the party in a small western town. Zombies takeover, while a bounty hunter searches for a wild apache "indian" (Cowboys) to earn a plentiful bounty. Overall, this is a strangely enjoyable time from a gifted first time director.

David A. Lockhart plays a troubled Mortimer.

The Dead and the Damned Thanks to the fine folks over at Inception Media Group, we here at Big Daddy Horror Reviews are excited to announce that we will be holding a DVD giveaway contest of "The Dead and the Damned" from director Rene Perez and starring David A. Lockhart & Camille Montgomery. Two lucky winners will find themselves the winner of a brand spanking new DVD copy of the film valued at $29.98 each.

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The film with two names. In North America, there is a zombie styled film set in 1849, known as The Dead and the Damned. In the United Kingdom, this same film is known as Cowboys & Zombies. As well, this title will release in North America July 26th and then in the United Kingdom August 1st.

Cowboys & Zombies blends two exciting genres: the western and the zombie film. The result is a lot of gunfire and a lot of blood splatter. Check out the trailer for this feature below, as Cowboys & Zombies takes its seat amongst Cowboys and Aliens, Cowboys and Angels...

The updated synopsis for Cowboys & Zombies is here:

"Set in 1849, it follows a bounty-hunter in the old west’s Jamestown, who gets more than he bargained for when he finds the town over-run by zombies - victims of a virus unleashed by a meteor found in the gold rush" (Left...

The Dead and the Damned is a zombie film set in the wild west. Here, prospectors and pioneers come under the influence of a fallen meteor, which releases an "aggressive virus" (Afm). This film is currently at the American Film Market, with a showing today (November 6th). In preparation for the presentation, a new movie poster is available left, which shows off the main characters both good and bad. Hopefully, a wise distributor picks up the film for horror fans everywhere. Re-visit the film's trailer inside.

The film's synopsis:

"The wild west! Gold miners unearth an ancient meteor which they believe contains precious emeralds encased within. They crack it open and unwittingly release an aggressive virus which transmutes everyone in town into mindless ravenous mutants" (Afm).

Release Date: November 6th (Limited Showing).

Director/writer: Rene Perez.

Cast: David A. Lockhart, Camille Montomery, Rick Mora, and Robert Amstler.

The trailer for...

There is something about westerns and horror flicks that when blended have an effective impact. Dead Bones by Olivier Beguin is one of the better western horror shorts and now the Another Hole in the Head Film Festival will show Rene Perez's latest The Dead and the Damned with a world premiere July 17th. In this film, a meteor is unearthed by some 19th Century miners and instead of holding precious minerals the meteor contains a deadly virus (Bloody). Soon, the local town folk are lumbering zombies and a bounty hunter must set things right with cold steel. Watch the trailer for this independent film from Mattia Borrani and iDiC Entertainment production inside; then, envision a rugged frontier made deadlier with the roaming dead.

The synopsis for The Dead and the Damned here:

"It is 1849 in Jamestown California and the Gold rush is in effect. The local miners are...