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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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A look at what's new on DVD today:

"Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection"

Directed by Fernando Di Leo

Released by RaroVideo

Fans of badass '70s cinema and the stoic Henry Silva rejoice! Underappreciated Italian crime master director Fernando Di Leo finally comes to the U.S. via this set of four films -- "Caliber 9," "The Italian Connection," "The Boss," and "Rulers of the City" -- that shows what made him an influence of filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino and John Woo.

"The Absent" (2011)

Directed by Sage Bannick

Released by Passion River

Twin brothers are bonded by the experience of having their parents try to kill them for insurance money, only to become killers themselves in this slasher film from Sage Bannick.

"Be My Teacher" (2011)

Directed by Lakisha R. Lemons

Released by Maverick Entertainment Group

A student's (Derek Lee Nixon) flirtations with his English teacher (Lateace Towns-Cuellar) has serious...

Interplanetary, a new horror / sci-fi thriller from director Chance Shirley about "monsters and mayhem...40 million miles from earth" starring Mia Frost, Kyle Homan and Michael Shelton from Shock-o-Rama Cinema is set to scares audiences on March 15, 2011

Nine men and women, employees of Interplanetary Corporation, live and work on Mars. Their days aren't particularly interesting, much less exciting, until they are assaulted by a murderous band of strangers and a seemingly unstoppable alien creature. Do these attacks have anything to do with the Martian fossil recently uncovered by one of the employees? Will the rapidly increasing body count adversely affect Interplanetary's stock price? And can anyone survive long enough to fill out the inevitable paperwork? 

2010 / Color / 96 mins. / 1.78:1 Widescreen (16x9) / Not Rated / Region 0 / Ntsc 

Special Features:

- Commentary by director Chance Shirley

- Shock-o-Rama Trailer Vault

DVD Release Date: March 15, 2011

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For those of you in the La area, the 13th annual Hollywood Film Festival kicks off Oct. 23 and continues through the weekend with some promising horror programs at 9pm each evening.

First up on Friday is the Interplanetary (accompanied by short Attackazoids), a B-movie romp across the surface of Mars from Birmingham film-maker Chance Shirley, who shot on old-school 16mm “like it was still 1983”. Originally pitched as “Alien meets Office Space”, this is Shirley’s follow-up to 2004’s zombie comedy, Hide and Creep. Saturday’s line up is all about the walking dead and includes Spanish chaos-in-a-mall short, Zombies and Cigarettes, followed by zombie/serial-killer hybrid Die-ner.

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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...