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Corpse Crusaders: "In the popular imagination, zombies are scary, decomposing corpses hunting down the living. But since the 1930s, there have also been other zombies shambling across the panels of comic books—zombies that aren’t quite what most people think zombies should be. There have been zombie slaves, zombie henchmen, talking zombies, beautiful zombies, and even zombie heroes.

Using archival research into Golden Age comics and extended analyses of comics from the 1940s to today, Corpse Crusaders explores the profound influence early action/adventure and superheroic generic conventions had on shaping comic book zombies. It takes the reader from the 1940s superhero, the Purple Zombie, through 1950s revenge-from-the-grave zombies, to the 1970s anti-hero, Simon Garth (“The Zombie”) and the gruesome heroes-turned-zombies of Marvel Zombies. In becoming immersed in superheroic logics early on, the zombie in comics became a figure that, unlike the traditional narrative uses of other monsters, actually...

The director of cult films Shatter Dead (1994) and Sixteen Tongues (1999), Shooter McCrae is getting set to unleash his third feature film, titled Black Eyed Susan.

The upcoming genre film, which is being described as a takedown of toxic masculinity, will World Premiere at the Fantasia International Film Festival on Friday, August 2nd.

Exclusively watch the official trailer for Black Eyed Susan below and read on for more.

A Vinegar Syndrome Production in association with Not the Funeral Home and Moose + Squirrel, the erotic sci-fi drama was filmed on Super 16mm film and features a luscious musical score from legendary Italian composer Fabio Frizzi.

In the film, down-on-his-luck Derek is hired by a shady tech industrialist to “test” Susan, a lifelike robot built for the purpose of receiving and “enjoying” sexual abuse. Initially hesitant to take part, Derek accepts, but quickly finds himself drawn to Susan’s developing personality and inquisitive nature.

Having recently returned from the Transylvania Iff, where his new short film Saint Frankenstein picked up the Best Film Award in the Shadows Shorts Competition, writer/director Scooter McCrae agreed to field a few questions for Quiet Earth.

Here we discuss the genesis and the process of creating Saint Frankenstein, while also taking a look back at McCrae's previous films, the underground zombie classic Shatter Dead and the erotic cyberpunk thriller Sixteen Tongues. We also chat a little about horror movies generally.

You can read my review of the wonderful Saint Frankenstein here and download the film [Continued ...]...

"We didn't want to make a normal movie," Frank Henenlotter said of himself and producer/co-writer/rapper R.A. "The Rugged Man" Thorburn, introducing Bad Biology at the 2008 Philadelphia Film Festival. "We wanted something that was just wrong." And to paraphrase the popular saying, if going against the usual genre grain is wrong, who wants to be right? Bad Biology marks the welcome and long-overdue return (after 16 years without a feature) of one of the most unique and committed visions in independent horror, one whose underground sensibilities clearly haven't mellowed with age. If anything, Bad Biology is even more deranged than his previous works, and where sex was just one element or an undercurrent in the likes of Frankenhooker and Brain Damage, here the carnal takes center stage.

Jennifer (Charlee Danielson) is a New York City photographer with a penchant for quite twisted and murderous imagery that nonetheless has nothing on her personal life.