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‘Resident Evil Zero’ rises again Dec. 1

October 29th, 2009, 8:27 am by Jayson Peters

Resident Evil Zero Nintendo GameCube Capcom zombiesCapcom announced today that the Wii-exclusive Resident Evil Archives: Resident Evil Zero will ship on Dec. 1.

Priced at $29.99, the game is described as a prequel that exposes the back story and internal tyranny of the Umbrella Corporation. Players will explore the origins of the T-Virus in an epic storyline that tells the horrors leading up to the infamous mansion incident.

Resident Evil Zero was originally released for the Nintendo GameCube in 2002. The Wii version adds support for the Wii Remote and Nunchuk controllers.

Is this how the zombie apocalypse begins?

October 28th, 2009, 12:13 am by Jayson Peters

In a Mexican food restaurant … in Iowa???

Weekend Reading

October 18th, 2009, 8:24 am by Jayson Peters

Local conventions update: Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival

October 16th, 2009, 2:25 pm by Jayson Peters

The International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival is now under way through the weekend at MADCAP Theaters in Tempe.

International Horror and Sci Fi Film Festival, Chandler, Arizona, East Valley Tribune, Nerdvana

In addition to more than 50 films, the festival will also include parties, a gore girl competition, and discussions with filmmakers and directors. A VIP all-access pass costs $100, a flex pass of four individual screenings costs $25 and single-screening tickets cost $10.

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Warning: ‘Paranormal Activity’ is spreading

October 6th, 2009, 11:41 am by Jayson Peters

paranormalParanormal Activity, the little horror movie that got three preview showings last weekend in Tempe, will expand to more Valley screens this Friday.

The movie, which uses “found footage” to follow a couple’s harassment by a demonic presence in their new home, will get multiple screenings at AMC’s Deer Valley theater and Harkins’ Arizona Mills and Gateway Pavilions theaters. Harkins’ Tempe Marketplace, which opened the film as a special engagement last weekend, will continue showing it throughout this weekend.

‘Paranormal Activity’ screenings this weekend in Tempe

September 30th, 2009, 12:49 pm by Jayson Peters

paranormalYou demanded it. But are you ready for Paranormal Activity?

The film, billed as one of the scariest in the last decade, is not opening in wide release; instead there will be three preview showings at 12:01 a.m. Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Harkins’ Tempe Marketplace 16 theaters. Valley residents brought the film to Tempe by going to the Demand it! site and showing their support in an online popularity contest with other U.S. locations. Now they’ll get what they asked for — if they can handle it.

The work of an Israeli video game designer, Paranormal Activity is about a young couple who move into what seems like a typical suburban “starter” tract house, then become increasingly disturbed by a demonic presence in the middle of the night. It premiered in 2007 at the Screamfest Film Festival and was screened last year at the Slamdance Film Festival. Read the rest of this entry »

They’re coming to induct you, Barbara!

September 9th, 2009, 12:35 am by ebehrendt

MADCAP Theaters at 730 S. Mill Ave. in Tempe will be hosting this year’s International Horror and Sci-Fi Film Festival Oct. 15-18, 2009.

Judith O'DeaThis year’s inductees into the IHSFF Hall of Fame include Judith O’Dea, known for her role as Barbara in the George A. Romero 1968 classic zombie film Night of the Living Dead; Marilyn Burns who played Sally in the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Casper Van Dien, who is best known for his role as Johnny Rico in the 1997 science fiction classic Starship Troopers. The IHSFF Hall of Fame honors those individuals that have made a difference in Horror and Science Fiction film.

The three-day festival will include screenings of more than 50 films, including Donkey Punch, Friday the 13th, The Wizard of Gore, Rapturious, Tokyo Gore Police, Vampire Hookers, Ray Bradbury’s Chrysalis, Alien Raiders, The Blob, Hell’s Ground, Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth, Deadly Event, Farmhouse, Re-Animator, Farmhouse, Jerome Bixby’s The Man From Earth, Frazetta: Painting with Fire, Hell’s Ground, and of course The Rocky Horror Picture Show.

The festival will also include parties, a gore girl competition, and discussions with filmmakers and directors.

For more information please call the Phoenix Film Festival at (602) 955-6444 or visit www.horrorscifi.com.

‘Plan 9′ finally riffed on

August 22nd, 2009, 12:01 am by ebehrendt

NOTE TO READERS: Please welcome the newest member of the Nerdvana crew. Emily Behrendt is a journalist at our sister publication, the Ahwatukee Foothills News. Here she brings us a review of the long-awaited MST-ing of Plan 9 From Outer Space.

Rifftrax LIVE: Plan 9 from Outer Space

Plan 9 From Outer Space vintage poster public domainIn their Mystery Science Theater 3000 days, “Satellite of Love” partners Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett left no wise crack unturned for every cheesy B-movie that came their way.

Every B-movie, that is, except the infamous 1959 sci-fi/horror classic Plan 9 from Outer Space.

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‘The Walking Dead’ shambles to TV

August 13th, 2009, 1:09 am by Chris "KeL" Adams

twdhcTelevision is getting a little more mindless, but in a good way for a change. The Hollywood Reporter writes that AMC has picked up the rights to develop Robert Kirkman and Charlie Adlard’s zombie comic “The Walking Dead.”

The grim comic details the day-to-day fight for survival in the wake of an undead apocalypse. The book has been a runaway success since its 2003 debut, becoming the best selling black-and-white book on the market today.

Frank Darabont, no stranger to life and death struggles for survival (The Shawshank Redemption, The Mist), is on board to help write, direct and produce the series.

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School’s UFO hoax gives new meaning to ‘British invasion’

July 21st, 2009, 10:04 pm by Jayson Peters

Children in Britain got the shepherd’s pie scared out of them earlier this month when educators, with the cooperation of local police, staged an alien invasion for the little tykes with the goal of inspiring creative thinking and improving their writing skills.

Wikipedia Commons

Wikipedia Commons

As reported in the U.K.’s Daily Telegraph, the Sussex students — some as young as 7 — were told a UFO had crashed nearby and were encouraged to follow a trail of debris, whereupon they witnessed a performance that included a school staff member’s “alien abduction.”

Parents were not told of the July 10 exercise beforehand, and one described her daughter as “shell shocked” upon returning home from school.

On the bright side, at least now the kids will have something to put in their journals.

(Via Gawker’s io9 blog)

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