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ZOMBIE-THEMED CRUISE sets sail IN January Bringing a new meaning to the


term “swab the deck,” two horror fans dedicated to the undead have organized The Ooze Cruise – a seven-night zombie-themed get- away. In addition to offering screenings


of Zombie and Night of the Living Dead, organizers Brian Solomon and “Captain Cruella” Moxham will host costume contests and a zom- bie crawl. This is particularly intrigu- ing as there will be approximately


50 “Ooze Cruise” guests mixing with the rest of the passengers aboard the 2000-plus capacity Royal Caribbean ship. “Hopefully they don’t wind up making snacks of any of the humans,” jokes


Solomon, who runs thevaultofhorror.blogspot.com. “Believe it or not, we ac- tually got turned down by the first cruise line we approached. They were okay with it as long as no one wore any zombie makeup in public, we didn’t have


entrails According to The Atlanticmagazine,


Iraq’s first female-fronted black metal band, Janaza (Arabic for “funeral”) and its demo, “Burn the Pages of the Quran,” are “repurposing black metal’s historically anti-Christian ferocity to rail against Islam.” Vocalist Anahita is quoted as saying that black metal has helped her cope with the death of fam- ily members to a suicide bomber and that if she was outed from beneath the corpsepaint, she and all of her friends would face beheading. Metal fans have offered up evidence that photos of the 28-year-old singer were actually lifted from a photo project called “Black Metal Barbie,” however, and that the image of another member of Janaza was nicked from Norwegian band Vul- ture Lord.


Earlier this summer, Scottish law


enforcement reported a flurry of emails in which recipients were told they had won the opportunity to appear as ex- tras in Wood Evil, a horror film set to shoot in Inchnacardoch Forest in the Highlands, provided they each coughed up a £60 deposit (approximately $94 US). Scottish tourism agency VisitScot- land first alerted police, who’ve since informed the public that, “Film compa- nies would not ask for money from a potential extra.”


The end is near for Bray Film Stu-


dios, the Berkshire, England, site where Alien and dozens of classic Hammer horror films, including The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) and Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966), were shot. In July, an East Sussex ar- chitectural firm was granted permis- sion to return Down Place, a building that once housed the studio’s offices and catering unit, to its original state as a residential-use manor house. Other related buildings will be de- stroyed to make way for seven “eco- houses” and a media centre.


The LA Times recently reported


that The CW – the American TV net- work known for shows such as The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural – is seeking the rights to adapt Koushun Takami’s 1999 novel Battle Royale into a series. The proposal is particularly puzzling considering that Kinji Fukasaku’s film based on the book was only released in the US ear- lier this year, twelve years after its debut, reportedly because of distrib- utors’ hesitance to release a movie about kids killing kids in a country prone to school shootings.


While Aussie filmmakers Julian Harvey and Enzo Tedeschi have been


TV chef Anthony Bourdain, whose


claims to fame include eating every- thing from sheep ’nads to warthog rectums, recently published his first graphic novel, the blood-spattered Get Jiro, with the help of co- writer/friend Joel Rose and artist Langdon Foss. The Vertigo book fol- lows a violent sushi chef who uses a Samurai sword to behead customers who fail to pay his food the proper re- spect. An aspiring comic book artist in his teen years, Bourdain says his inspiration was EC-style horror comics of the 1950s.


A.S. BERMAN


praised for their clever take on crowd-funding The Tunnel (support- ers paid $1 US per frame), their insis- tence that the finished horror flick be streamed for free online left many du- bious. Recently, they divulged some stats from the movie’s first thirteen months of release: 51,051 frames of the 135,568-frame film were fi- nanced, by 4409 funders from 63 na- tions; four million copies of the movie were downloaded via P2P sharing; 25,000 DVDs sold; 7000 in-flight views; and 3610 movie screen views. Absent was a profit/loss statement, however.


any special group meals and there was no zombie crawl on deck. Basically, they just wanted it to be a regular cruise.” The idea for the trip – which begins in Bayonne, New Jersey, and travels to


the Bahamas by way of Orlando, Florida – came about last year when travel organizer Eva Greenwald met Solomon and Cruella at a chamber of commerce event. “It wasn’t long before the conversation turned into, ‘Imagine if someone


did a zombie cruise,’” Solomon remembers. Moxham’s experience organizing similar gruesome gatherings – she is also


putting together the upcoming Village Invasion zombie crawl in Saugerties, New York – made her ideally suited to spearhead the event. “Cruella is the mistress of ceremonies and will be rallying the zombie faithful


as she’s done in the past with her other ghoulish events,” Solomon says. “She’ll be leading the actual zombie crawl on deck, as well as a zombie makeup tutorial. I'll be hosting some screenings of choice zombie cinema, which I’ve personally selected, and we’ll both be judging the costume contest.” The Ooze Cruise departs from Cape Liberty in Bayonne on January 6; email


egreenwald@cruiseplanners.com or call 203-221-3171 for details. A.S. BERMAN


Plenty of photos of alleged Bigfoot tracks have surfaced, but never a suspected troll print. Recently, a Nor- wegian resident who calls himself “Findi” sent a striking shot – clearly showing a huge, human-like footprint he claims was found in a remote part of Norway – to the Bigfoot Evidence website. Considering Norway isn’t known for hairy man-apes, could it be the mark of one of the towering ogres prominent in Scandinavian folklore, or just the result of one too many viewings of Troll Hunter?


In her latest work, Real Wolfmen: True Encounters in Modern America (Tarcher Books), prolific author and cryptid researcher Linda S. Godfrey discusses the creepy phenomenon of “real werewolf” sightings. Since 1991, she has chronicled numerous chilling accounts that suggest that some type of humanoid wolf-like creature stalks the backwoods of America.


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