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Season Three Previewed At Comic-Con In San Diego

A zombie show based on a zombie comic continues to break records.

This weekend at Comic Con in San Diego the crowd was over-run by decaying, blood-thirsty zombies. The Walking Dead, AMC's hit horror-thriller show that is. A four-minute preview for this October's new third season of Walking Dead was previewed to the packed audience.

The zombie show based on a zombie comic of the same name by Robert Kirkman continues to break television records against all odds and probabilities. Will you be there this fall? The new season has been moved up from Halloween October 31st to October 14th 2012.

References:
IMDB, The Walking Dead (2010 - 2012)
IMDB, Frank Darabont
AMC.com, The Walking Dead
Nielsen.com, TV and Internet Ratings

The most successful horror series on television returns for season three in October of 2012.

The television phenomena The Walking Dead is a survival-horror drama set in a George Romero movie. Only this show is a weekly TV series that features seasoned, talented actors and impressive effects and make-up. The show was originally brought to the small screen in 2010 by Frank Darabont, director of The Shawshank Redemption (1994) and The Mist (2007), and based on the on-going hit comic series by Robert Kirkman. The Walking Dead's popular ratings have been practically unimaginable for a horror series prior to 2012.

According to Nielsen, the ratings board organization that monitors and announces televised programming's audience numbers, 9 million people viewed the season two season finale - which are American Idol or play-off series numbers. For a show that features years of material from underground/cult classics from Night Of The Living Dead (1968) to Return Of The Living Dead (1990) to Silent Hill (video game 1999) - this reflects a new-found, huge audience for well-made survival horror.

Season Three of The Walking Dead returns to cable television channel AMC on October 31st 2012.

References:
IMDB, The Walking Dead (2010 - 2012)
IMDB, Frank Darabont
AMC.com, The Walking Dead
Nielsen.com, TV and Internet Ratings

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Actors:

Featuring the legendary Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price and Brad Dourif.

Actresses:

Galleries and bios about the adorably sexy Bettie Page, scream queen Barbera Steele, busty cheesecake goddesses, pinkie violence kitten Reiko Ike and the queen of late night soft-core: Nikki Fritz.

Flicks:

Screwed-up reviews of the most tasteless movies ever unleashed including Blackenstein and Robot Monster! Guest bloggers take on They Eat Scum, The Stuff and more!

Models:

Beautiful women of stage and screen including Bettie Page, Bernie Dexter, Vikki Blows and Sabina Kelly.

Twilight Zone Guide:

The series that brought sci-fi and horror to mainstream television. Featuring Rod Serling, Charlie Bronson, Burgess Meredith and Lee Marvin.

Directors: Barry Mahon

Barry Mahon,1921-1999, infamous B-Movie director was born in Bakersfield CA. and enlisted in 1941 as an Royal Air Force fighter pilot. Mahon was a POW in WWII, shot down in the English Channel while raiding the Nazi occupied port of Dieppe in France during Operation Jubilee. He escaped through prisoner dug tunnels with 76 other airmen at Stalag Luft III only to be re-captured on the Czechoslovakian border. The real life story would later be the basis of the David Lean's Great Escape (1963).

After World War II ended, he became engrossed in Hollywood even acting as Errol Flynn's personal pilot years before lauching a directorial role with Cuban Rebel Girls (1959) - a campy adult thriller starring Flynn.

His filmography includes exploitation golden nuggets 1,000 Shapes of Female (1963) and The Beast That Killed Women (1965) both defined the worst films of the Times Square spankcore genre.

Reference:
Operation Jubilee, Dieppe France 1942
RAF 71st Squadron
Barry Mahon, IMDB
Wikipedia, Barry Mahon

Actors: Arch Hall Jr.

Arch Hall Jr., 1943- , best known as the slack-jawed guffawing Sadist (1963) and Eegah (1962) co-star was a teen actor and singing sensation in the 1950's as loosely retold in Wild Guitar (1962).

His father was Arch Hall Sr. (aka William Watters ) whose production company Fairway International Films cranked out Z-Grade gems like Choppers (1961) starring a young Jack Nicholson. More often than not these flicks featured his son Arch who more interested in being a rock 'n roll musician.

In 1967, he hung up his ruff and switchblade and took up airline and cargo piloting - something he did until he retired in 2003.

Word from the Wikipedia is that a PA. documentary company shot video in 2006 about the Halls and Fairway Films. Whether it's schedueled for a theatrical or video release or not is still unknown.

References:
Choppers (1961)
Wild Guitar (1962)
The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961)
Arch Hall Sr. on IMDB

Famous Monsters of Sleazeland:

Robot Monster (1953)

Taglined with "Horror so incredible it stretches the mind of Man beyond the breaking point!" This Ro-man vs. the last 6 Hu-mans on Earth epic stretches more than the average person's patience for gorilla suits and diving helmets. A classic!

It Conquered the World (1956)

"Hey lady, that's not in the script!" Roger Corman's 10th film (10th of 385 and counting...), a Lee Van Cleef vehicle prior to his comeback in spaghetti westerns.

Monster on Campus (1958)

Aka Big Monster on Campus, Jack Arnold's classic one monster love affair with chronic fear of commitment and school shooters.

The Ghost (1962)

Sequel to The Horrible Dr. Hitchcock, another Poe derived Mario Brava production, features a Dr. Mabuse-like (Langian?) atmosphere of suspicion, poison, demonic possession, and greedy lovers. Starring the adorably evil Barbara Steele in one hell of a role. FYI, there are dozens of hacked up versions of this release.

Eegah! (1962)

Richard "Jaws" Kiel as the misunderstood (and also club wielding) cro-mag Eegah!

Equinox (1970)

Student film for Dennis Muren (Jurassic Park, Star Wars) and screened by Ray Harryhausen himself. In this scene, Ranger Asmodeus ain't takin' kindly to no face sucking.

Shows: The Walking Dead

Shows: The Walking Dead

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