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Reviewed by Kevin Scott, MoreHorror.com

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Written by Chuck Hartsell, Chance Shirley, Michael Shelton

Directed by Chuck Hartsell, Chance Shirley

Cast: Chuck Hartsell (Chuck), Catherine Kinsey (Girl With No Name), Michael Shelton (Lee/Clint), Chris Hartsell (Jim), Mia Frost (Gail)

Sometimes we are so relentless when it comes to our pursuit of compiling the list of films that will become our new favorites, when we really should leave it up to serendipity the way we did all our old ones. I say that because had I not had a low tolerance to pollen, I woudn’t be writing this now. Back about eight years ago (give or take a year), I was up at two o’clock in the morning dealing with a scathing case of allergies. Before the antihistamines kicked in, I had the privilege of watching the best independent zombie comedy I’d ever seen.

Reviewed by Kevin Scott, MoreHorror.com

Hide and Creep (2004)

Written by: Chance Shirley

Directed by: Chance Shirley and Chuck Hartsell

Cast: Chuck Hartsell (Chuck), Michael Shelton (Michael, Lee), Kyle Holman (Keith), Chris Garrison (Ted), Eric McGinty (Ned), Melissa Bush (Barbara), Chris Hartsell (Chris), Mia Frost (Gail), Melba Sibrel (Sheila), Barry Austin (Reverend Smith)

I’ve watched a lot of independent zombie films, more than I can count for sure. Some were more memorable than others, and the production quality was definitely the most random criteria that differentiated them. I can honestly say that I enjoyed them all on some level. Being a fan of an obscure or independent film with a meager budget poses a bit of an interesting dichotomy. In any other genre it may make someone a little Bohemian. Ironically in horror, sometimes it’s incorrectly perceived as a case of low standards.

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As the Halloween season approaches, all kinds of fright fare past and present will be turning up at festivals and specialty theaters across the country. Here’s a rundown on a bunch of screenings and genre-film events we’ve been alerted to:

The first annual Maelstrom International Fantastic Film Festival launches tonight and continues through this Sunday, September 20 in Seattle, Wa at the Siff Cinema at McCaw Hall (321 Mercer Street). The event is hosting 33 shorts and six features from the realms of horror, science fiction, fantasy and animation; the full-length films are Jim Isaac’s Pig Hunt, D. Kerry Prior’s The Revenant (see our advance rave here), Faye Jackson’s Strigoi, Rustin Thompson’s The Ends Of The Earth, Scott Norwood’s TIMETRAVEL_0 and Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell’s black-metal documentary Until The Night Takes Us. In advance of the Fantastic Fest that begins next week, Austin, TX...

It’s good news and bad news for members of the wannabe garage band General Malacarne. The bad news is that while they were getting stoned in their basement after band practice, the world’s population turned into zombies. The good news? They might be the only band left on the planet, which, you know, makes finding gigs so much easier now. That’s the idea behind Katie Carman’s low-budget, New York-based zombie horror-comedy “The Eaters”. It’s not the best low-budget zombie horror-comedy I’ve ever seen (I still give that title to Chuck Hartsell and Chance Shirley’s Southern style “Hide and Creep”), but it’s also far from the worst I’ve seen, and I’ve seen lots of really, really bad ones. Trailer, pics, and official synopsis below. A Brooklyn band, General Malacarne, is practicing when once again, the power goes out. Little do they...