The Raven With Billy Drago - Teaser

In this new adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, Nicanor Loreti and Mariano Cattaneo have created an animated horror/suspense masterpiece that could only be narrated by Billy Drago (Masters of Horror: Imprint). As Drago has been around the genre for quite some time, both directors felt him a good choice since their version would focus on the terror that the narrator finds himself wrapped up in throughout the telling. Poe’s poems have always focused on the psychological aspects of horror, which in this tale revolves around the loss of the narrators love Lenore and the manifestation of his guilt as the raven.

Loreti and Cattaneo do add their own twist to this film, focusing on what really happened with Lenore. Perhaps she was murdered and still wants to come back? With ideas like these, it’s clear that their influences stretch far and wide, from German expressionist films, to great directors like Sam Raimi, George A. Romero, Tim Burton, Robert Rodriguez, John Carpenter, and Stephen King.

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Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Having no ambitions was just one of the many reasons why Liz (Kate Ashfield) dumped her long term boyfriend Shaun (Simon Pegg). But when his predictable humdrum life of playing Playstation games and heading over to the Winchester with his best friends Ed (Nick Frost) and Pete (Peter Serafinowicz) is turned upside by a random zombie outbreak, Shaun stops messing around and starts taking on the zombies directly in an attempt to protect his parents and Liz.

This English horror-comedy comes directly from the minds of director Edgar Wright and actor Simon Pegg. With both of them having written for the popular U.K. Television series Spaced, you can clearly see the sitcom style comedy stretched over this full length movie. While there is a horror element to it, the movie plays more on site gags and fart jokes than anything else. Some of them are dead on, while others flounder horribly.

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Diary of the Dead (2008)

While filming a horror movie for their college course, a group of students and their teacher find themselves in the middle of what appears to be a total zombie outbreak. One of the film students, Jason (Joshua Close) decides that this is absolutely something that needs to be recorded, regardless of what happens. In an attempt to figure out exactly what’s going on and find a safe place to stay, the group first heads to their campus before realizing it’s far worse off than they were. Jason’s girlfriend Debra (Michelle Morgan) suggests her family’s house as their next location, taking them on an adventure through a hospital and a fortified stronghold as they attempt to survive and keep the camera rolling.

Diary of the Dead is brought to you by the lord of zombies himself, George A. Romero, the man behind 1968’s classic Night of the Living Dead. Unlike other Romero movies, Diary of the Dead is more self standing and has quite a lower budget and feel to it. The story does however take place within the same world as his past movies, expecting the viewer to have a good grasp of how zombies and the undead work. For those of you who don’t know, you die, you become a zombie, you try to eat people. [Read more]