BGG Issue 1: Undead & Loving It by BioGamer Girl

Amanda Dyar Editor-In-Chief: Function Dawson, Alabama: Location barbie1682 (Xbox Live): Gamertag Resident Evil Outbreak, Left 4 Dead: Favorite Games Red Dead Redemption & Call of Duty: Black Ops: Current Games amandadyar@biogamergirls.com: Contact

Stavros Assistant Editor/Art Director & Design: Function Poolesville, Maryland: Location “Hey, it’s your turn”: Gamertag Carcassone, Zombies, Candyland, & Duke Nukem: Favorite Games Super Smash Bros, Rabbids Go Home, & Lego Star Wars: Current Games stavros@biogamergirls.com: Contact

Kenny King Copy Editor/Reviewer: Function Moss Point, Mississippi: Location xxmastershake (Xbox Live): Gamertag er Mario RPG Super RPG, Star Ocean: the 2nd Story, Final Fantasy X, Halo 2, & Left 4 Dead: Favorite Games Left 4 Dead 2, Call of Duty: Black Ops, & Magic: the Gathering: Current Games kking@biogamergirls.com: Contact

Kevin Cole Interviewer: Function Tallahassee, Florida: Location N/A: Gamertag Ms. Pacman & Super Metroid: Favorite Games Resident Evil 4 & Calling: Current Games kevincole@biogamergirls.com: Contact

Michael Rodgers Reviewer: Function Ocean Springs, Mississippi: Location moviebuff1084: Gamertag Resident Evil series, Left 4 Dead, Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Mass Effect 1 & 2: Favorite Games Mass Effect 2, Magic: the Gathering, & Borderlands: Current Games michaelrodgers@biogamergirls.com: Contact

Sarah Harmon Reviewer: Function Minneapolis, Minnesota: Location PunkonFire or ParanormalSarah: Gamertag Silent Hill, GTA, COD, Rockband: Favorite Games COD Black Ops & Rockband: Current Games *Fan of old-school Nintendo games sarahharmon@biogamergirls.com: Contact

Amanda Prior Culinary Expert: Function Shirley, New York: Location Uhm Uhmanda (Xbox Live) MandaAMP (Playstation 3): Gamertag Halo, Left 4 Dead, Fable 2, & Guitar Hero: Favorite Games Little Big Planet, Avatar, Assassins Creed, God of War, Halo Reach, & Left 4 Dead 2: Current Games amandaprior@biogamergirls.com: Contact Cover Art: Justin Stewart Published by Crazy Duck Press, LLC www.crazyduckpress.com

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Off the Beaten Path (2004). http://www.imdb.com/name/ nm1651756/ Dawn Lyn Actress/Model Known for Tough Trade (2010), Thong Girl 4: The Body Electric (2010), Black, White and Blues (2010), Hell House (2009) and Van Wilder: Freshman Year (2009). http:// www.imdb.com/name/nm3168905/ Mike Christopher Actor/Musician Known for Dawn of the Dead (1978), Stopped Dead (2009), Baine (2010), Alien Vengeance II: Rogue Element (2010), Bikini Monsters (2010), and the upcoming film, A Few More Brains. http://www.imdb.com/name/ nm2883012/

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Gaming for me sstarted at a young aage, probably around ssix. Our family didn’t h have a lot of money sso I was super exccited when I got my first Nintendo game fi ssystem. My brother aand I stayed up all night playing the n original Super Mao rrio Brothers game. The Nintendo platT fform took me on an aamazing journey where I battled to Princess Toadstool of the Mushroom Kingdom ssave a P from the evil Bowser. Playing make believe with my Barbie dolls just didn’t compare to the intensity and fun that I felt from the game. That is when I traded in my dolls for a gaming controller. That was the turning point that changed me into the person I became. I get a lot of grief about being a girl gamer. I remember the further I descended into the levels my brother made comments about how I needed to give him the controller before I died. That as a girl I wasn’t going to be able to beat the game, so naturally I wanted to prove him wrong. The day I finished off Bowser was the day I proved that a girl could be just as good and/or better than their male counterparts. The years went by and I started moving more into the survival horror genre of gaming. I have always been a horror fanatic, even as a small child. The Night of the Living Dead movies really perked my interest in both horror and zombies. So, in 1996 when Capcom released Resident Evil on the Sony Playstation my gaming dedication got a jump kick. The anticipation of just putting the disk into the console was so exhilarating that I knew I was addicted before I even clicked “Start” on the controller. That game was the first, and one of the few, that made me jump out of my seat. I was afraid to go around that next corner. My brother refused to play Resident Evil. He was too scared so he just watched from afar as I battled the undead throughout the whole game. I knew at that moment that survival horror gaming was the only gaming for me. I became a loyal, devoted fan of the Resident Evil series, continuing to purchase all the sequels over the years. Eventually, I became an adult and started a family of my own. As a young mother and college student I still set aside time to play a game or two. Capcom released Resident Evil: Outbreak in

2003, which was an online version where I could play with up to 4 people at a time. This online aspect was something I had never done before, but I knew that playing with real people in one of my favorite games would only make it better. At that point in time, the tech within the online system did not provide gamers with the tools to talk while playing in game mode. This often made the game harder to play when one did not have a cooperating team. Members could only talk in the lobby area through text chatting before and/or after the game. Many people then didn’t believe I was really a female gamer, insisting that I was a guy pretending to be a girl. This sort of reaction justified all of my adolescent thoughts on the misconceptions about how girls really didn’t play games. The individuals I met online in Resident Evil: Outbreak 1 & 2 became some of my closest friends, who I still play with to this day. Many years passed and eventually the servers for Outbreak shut down and I went in search of new gaming prospects. No matter how many games I’ve played none of them could measure up to the love and excitement that I had for Resident Evil: Outbreak. Eventually, I stopped gaming for awhile because I could not find a game that gave me what I needed and craved. In 2008, Valve released a little gem entitled, Left 4 Dead, which had some of the same concepts that I adored from the Resident Evil series. I had never played Microsoft’s Xbox or any of their games before, but this soon changed. I officially left the Sony Playstation family and became a 100% Xbox girl after the release of Left 4 Dead. In a way, maybe I had been let down by Sony and saw another company that could provide me with what I needed. Gaming is made up of relationships that provide one with the games he or she desires. As a gamer, I had a need that longed to be filled, so I went to where the action was. Even now when playing online games I still get the pause and “you’re a girl” reaction from guy gamers. Gaming is still dominated by males, even though females are starting to show that they can take names and pwn noobs with the best of them! I have met quite a few girl gamers over the years and always noticed how down to earth most of them are. Being like one of the guys and still being a sexy, intelligent woman is something that other male gamers definitely take notice to. Men can undeniably appreciate a girl who can sit down, handle a controller, and kick butt. Gaming has always had my heart and I am sure it always will. Now, as a mother I am just making the time to pass my skills down to my children so that the process of gaming can continue for generations to come. -Amanda Dyar

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Dino Gamer Type: I am a LARP girl! (Live Action Role Playing)

Gamertag: People call me Dino OOC. My favorite character is a Malkavian, named Patricia Lockwood (Pre-3rd ed VTM) Favorite Games: I prefer White Wolf games like Vampire the Masquerade, Werewolf the Apocalypse, & Changeling the Dreaming. Current Games: The last LARP I played was one shot in Vancouver Washington with the local Camarilla group. Super fun!

Amanda Dyar “I am an Xbox 360 girl.”

Andie Noir “I love old school classic Arcade games!” Favorite Games: PacMan, Xmen, Mortal Kombat, Castlevania, & even Paperboy. hahaha! Current Games: Xbox - Left 4 Dead !!! SEND US YOUR GAMER GIRL PIX! submissions@biogamergirls.com

Douglas Randal Fabricante was an avid photographer of all sorts. He liked using any camera that he could get his hands on, including a Polaroid One 600, which he bought at a yard sale. In early 2008, Doug traveled abroad with his girlfriend, Shirley Min, and two family friends on a photographic vacation that he and Shirley had been planning for awhile. Neither returned. Months went by and there was no news from Doug or Shirley. Worried, Douglas’s father and brother went in search of him. Upon learning that he was last seen joining a tourist group in Yugoslavia his family members searched for him there. All they found was the Polaroid on the opposite page. It is not known if this was the last image ever taken by Doug or a staged photograph that he had on him when the tourist party, that he and Shirley had joined, met with whatever end that had caused each member to remain missing. Family members do no know what to make of Doug’s Last Polaroid. They attest that he was not a huge fan of horror films, preferring instead to take pictures of friends and family, or scenes of nature. The Fabricante family asks that if anyone recognizes the young woman in the Polaroid to please contact BioGamer Girl Magazine. Doug’s Last Polaroid Though it has been over two years now, since Doug and Shirley went missis available thru the ing, the family still has hope that they may be out there. Arti(s)fact Store in the Photography & Prints Section.

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Dead Analysis by Amanda Dyar & Stavros

Part One: Apocalypse Zombies have been around for centuries, rotting into the social consciousness of our society. They unearthed from ghost tales and vampire stories, scaring folk as unlucky souls who had the misfortune to be buried in unconsecrated soil. Zombies weren’t portrayed as the walking undead flesh-eating monsters of our popular fiction until after the huge success of the 1968 film, Night of the Living Dead. These new zombies got their undead appetite from writer, John A. Russo, and director, George A. Romero. In Russo & Romero’s re-imaging, zombies were presented as mindless, rotting corpses with an insatiable appetite for human flesh. Later sequels and movies by other, inspired, filmmakers would focus on the zombie’s refined palate for brains. Brain Hors d’oeuvre would become a defining character trait of the undead diet, growing in popularity, as these nightmarish creatures seeped into our culture. Initially, zombies were portrayed as slow-moving killing machines that swept over towns and cities in an unstoppable procession. But more recent films have greatly broadened a zombie’s range of motion and speed for either comedic or dramatic effect. It is generally considered among horror fans and film enthusiasts that George Romero is the father of the modern zombie and that he has used his reinvented creatures of the night to criticize real life problems in our American society. One of these problems was racism, which he confronted in Night of the Living Dead by casting a black actor, Duane Jones, in the title role of Ben, a lone survivor who must take refuge in a farm house. The other problem was a global pandemic or war and has been repeated in subsequent undead cinema, becoming known as “The Zombie Apocalypse”. A Zombie Apocalypse is a scenario that involves a global epidemic of undead creatures transmitting a rare and terrifying disease by bites and/or fluid transfer. Those victims bitten become zombies themselves, and in turn infect others. This ultimately leads to a panicked collapse of our social and governmental infrastructure, where only a small group of individuals are left to fight for survival in a pre-industrialized time. Though, the underlining meaning of The Zombie

Apocalypse is that civilization is intrinsically weak in the face of unparalleled threats. The concept that most people value their own personal skin over the welfare and greater good of society as a whole is represented here. Zombies have a universal meaning that ultimately signifies the end of the world. The many fears that people have about genocide and Armageddon, and what the future may hold personally, can in a way be relieved by what a zombie represent: Life After Death. All life ends in death, so therefore people are terrified about the idea of dying. People may generally act as if they are not afraid of death, but most live in denial of it, re-enforcing their fears daily in the habits they form, the company they keep, and they way they choose to live. Watching zombie movies and attending zombie walks are a way of dealing with one’s mortality and the potential demise of our species at our own hands. When individuals in the entertainment industry came along and exposed our fears on celluloid, they revealed our true weaknesses – of self and of society. Zombie films show our frailty, and as we watch countless undead hordes consuming and chasing after the solesurvivors we, as individuals, start to identify with both the living and the dead. Deep down we all know that they are just characters on the screen, playing a role, and that none of it is real. Deep down, that is what we want ourselves to believe. But on a deeper unconscious level, we inherently are the individuals running for survival from the undead. As we witness each lone survivor battling their way to safety in zombie movies we essentially see ourselves reaching that safe haven, and ultimately feel safe. Although, in our daily lives, what we fear is not in the form of a rotting flesh-eating corpse, but more the actuality that death lingers around every corner. We often deal with the conflict of wanting to survive and continue on, usually by procreating. Though, unconsciously we know that in the end we will perish. We live our lives in our minds and blockade ourselves from our fears, knowing that at any moment zombies (aka: death) will break through that door and it’s anybody’s game. Our barricades and systems of government will fall apart, our struggles and times on this earth will fade, and that rap on the door from undead hands reaching out for us, slowly weakens our resolve to where we collapse. Over time, we begin to realize that we can no longer run and hide from the inevitable. So like the survivors in the films, we make a final stand. Yes, we are chased, and sometimes we follow willingly, countless zombies into the dark abyss of our souls, looking only for the light.

Next Issue: Cutting Across Time - A Social Catharsis

al e R st o Gh ries o St The popular supernatural horror film, Paranormal Activity 2, was released October 2010. The film was written by Todd Williams and was directed by Michael R. Perry to follow up the proceedings of the original film. Like its predecessor, Paranormal Activity 2 placed number one at the box office on opening day and held the record for the highest grossing midnight release of a R-rated film. Paranormal Activity 3 is expected to release October 2011. With the popularity of Paranormal Activity, I recently decided to sit down with John Edwards of the Beyond Paranormal Team to discuss his experiences with real life paranormal activity. The Beyond Paranormal Team is a dedicated group of paranormal investigators that visit the south’s most notorious haunted areas, searching for documented evidence of unexplained phenomena. John and Stacey Edwards founded the Beyond Paranormal Team in 2010. The team consists of three couples (John & Stacey Edwards, Patrick & Sandi Carter, and Tim & Connie Clark). The Clark’s daughter, Ashleigh, also aids the team. Their show, Haunted South TV, is in its second season and has been featured on channels such as the CW. You can also find the show on local East Tennessee television stations or on the web at www.hauntedsouthtv.com. Recently, they released a new iPhone App called, The Haunted South TV APP, which allows users to check out their weekly video podcast on iTunes or through their site. John Edwards has held general manager jobs at many different businesses throughout his lifetime, and was also a professional wrestler with the CWA wrestling organization for five years. John married Stacey in December of 1998, and they have six children together, ranging from the ages of 3-17. John and Stacey also stay busy finishing up their first book entitled, Alone in a Haunted South. John is an experienced paranormal investigator with over 100 reported investigations under his belt. His role in the Beyond Paranormal Team is to capture electronic voice phenomena or EVPs for short. He has an unnatural gift for communicating with spirits, and after many strange occurrences with EVPs, John discovered that a female spirit was connected to him. John is very proud of the work his team does, bringing authentic evidence of paranormal activity to the public. BGG: Have you ever had any investigations or paranormal experiences that were almost like something out of a horror film or game? JOHN EDWARDS: Yeah, you can say that again. For many months in early 2010, it seemed like the EVP’s that I was collecting had more than one voice. I had incredible direct responsesand there seemed to the voice of a female who was coercing the other spirits into answering my questions. After consulting many psychics about these strange phenomena I found out that I did indeed have the spirit of a female connected to me! A paranormal hitchhiker to be exact. My own psychic gifts had helped to bring this spirit near me, and as I learned I reminded her of her husband. She goes and brings the spirits across for me from the other side, much like a spirit guide. Now, if that isn’t the story line to a new game…then I don’t know what is!

The Spirit Walk

by Stavros

Model: Lily Haze

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So what in the world is a paranormal investigator doing writing something in a gaming magazine? Well, sometimes games can inspire you much like a great movie or incredible song. Ever since I was a kid playing my Intellivision game system, I was easily inspired by a good game. I was a pro wrestler for over 10 years, and during that entire run I would steal moves that I learned while playing the early WWF or WCW games. I was a lead singer in a metal band and would many times be playing a first person shooter game while coming up with lyrics. So, it’s not a big stretch to imagine that the first Resident Evil and Silent Hill games helped mold me, and my wife Stacey, into the kick ass ghost hunters we are today. Now, before anybody points it out, I do realize that we don’t have to shoot many zombies while investigating a 200 year old house, but you never know what is waiting behind every creepy door. When we were playing those original games, (most of the time the Resident Evil games) we had a strategy. Stacey would always solve any puzzles and I would always handle the fighting. We are still pretty sure that the Umbrella Corporation is tracking our rise up the paranormal ranks and are just waiting for the right moment to unleash a new virus on us! I am not stuck somewhere in the late 90’s, but I am a sucker for an original. I would give anything to be able to go back in time for just one more night. The beers, the snacks, the max alerts, and just the pure thrill of playing an early horror genre game; trying for that perfect time on the hardest level can never be matched. These days we don’t have nearly enough time to invest on our 360 or Wii unfortunately. It’s the real haunted houses and all-nighters trying to piece together all the clues and solve a mystery that takes up most of our time. However, when new games like Alan Wake or even a Left 4 Dead pop up, we are all over it. So, to all of you hardcore gamers out there, keep playing those zombie games and maybe someday soon you will be searching for real brains to survive!

THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 1 REVIEW BY MICHAEL RODGERS

The Walking Dead first aired on October 31, 2010 on AMC to millions of waiting fans across the country. The hit AMC show is based on the Eisner Award winning comic book of the same name. Published by Image Comics in 2003, The Walking Dead, created by Robert Kirkman and artist Tony Moore, was an instant sensation. Although Charlie Adlard replaced Moore after issue #7 the comic continued to grow in popularity, becoming a regular monthly best seller. Just as in the comic book, the show centers around a small town cop named, Rick Grimes. In the TV show, Rick is played by actor, Andrew Lincoln, and just like his illustrated counterpart Lincoln’s Grimes is thrown into the zombie apocalypse after waking out of a coma. Though despite concerns about the quality of special effects that were to appear in the first ever zombie television show and the typical violence associated with most productions in this sub-genre, the show kicked off strong with a pilot episode entitled, Days Gone Bye. In it, Kentucky police officer Grimes wakes in a devastated world. The hospital is in shambles and he soon happens upon a locked and chained door that reads: Don’t Open. Dead Inside. Nothing has prepared him for what he’s about to learn. He races home to find his family missing, and retrieves his uniform and weapons from his old job. Though, it is when the camera slowly starts to pan out from Rick to a little girl dressed in pajamas, a robe, and bunny slippers,

who holds a teddy bear does the show answer those gnawing concerns. This opening scene of a child walking away from Rick only focuses on her backside. This keeps us, the viewers, in anticipation until it reveals the Close-Up. Finally, we are faced with the most frightening, yet amazing special effects makeup, and we are shown the full picture of the little zombie girl. She is missing half her mouth and cheek. There is blood splattered all over the front of her shirt and robe. She must have endured some agonizing horror, because her dark empty eyes pierce the soul. When Rick unceremoniously shoots her in the head, without a second thought, we are treated to the full brutality of his actions without a scene cut or angle change. From then on, we are not let down by the subsequent zombies in this series, whether they were CGI or actors in makeup. The zombie effects in The Walking Dead are mind-blowing, and actress Addy Miller, who played the little lost zombie girl, terrified me with her performance. And it was at that moment that I was hooked. Gradually as the season progressed, each show started to become less about the zombies and more about the survivors. Rick is reunited with his wife Lori, played by Sarah Wayne Callies, and son Carl, played by Chandler Riggs, as well as, his best friend and for-

mer partner Shane Walsh (Jon Bernthal). Thinking that Rick was dead, we learn, in a very Pearl Harbor like way, that Shane and Lori were having an affair to deal with their loss. This is all well and good, necessary even, but it seemed to slow the momentum of the story. Around the fourth episode, we are entreated to huge cliffhangers even though nothing significant had occurred in about 90% of the show. Now, I understand that a horde of zombies can’t appear in every episode, but ending the season finale with only showing around four zombies, in the last few minutes of the season, was disappointing. Though despite that, The Walking Dead turned out to be unlike any other television show on the air. It may have started out fierce, but it slowly lost energy as the season developed. Nevertheless, the Internet is a buzz about Season Two and I, for one, am anxiously awaiting its arrival to see where these survivors end up.

GROWING UP SCARY BY ALISSA WORLEY

Children can often be one of the scariest things in horror films. The fact that t they are small and innocent often throws the viewer off when they play an evil e character or end up becoming a victim. A child’s helplessness, or the absent thereof, can terrify grown-ups when applied in the right scene. Addy Miller and Chandler Riggs are two child actors from the hit television show The Walking Dead who parallel the blurry lines between innocence and innocence lost. Chandler stars as Carl Grimes, the only child of Laura and Rick Grimes, while Addy plays a creepy zombie girl in the pilot episode of the show.

Alissa w/ Chandler Riggs

C Chandler Riggs was born June 27, 1999 and has played in films such as The Wronged Man M and Get Low. Chandler is your typical kid who loves video games and movies. He H recently revealed to BioGamer Girl that he loves console games, such as the Nazi Z Zombie Mode on Call of Duty: World at War. Chandler also stated that one of his favorite f horror films is Paranormal Activity.

Addy A Miller was born January 4, 2000 and some of her current work includes The S Secret Life of Bees and One Last Sunset. Addy told BioGamer Girl that her normal daily d activities consist of playing with her little brothers, soccer, video games, and playing p on the computer. She stated that when she is off-screen that she “just does everything e that other little girls do.” Alissa w/ Addy Miller

With Chandler and Addy, we have two normal children playing very abnormal roles, each depicting a version of good and evil, meant to terrify us and draw us in deeper. Though they both live similar lives off the set, these little rising stars prove that it is the child in all of us that truly terrifies us in our favorite horror movies!

EDITOR PICKS FOR “TOP SCARY KID MOVIES." 5. ORPHAN (2009) 4. WICKED LITTLE THINGS (2006) 3. THE RING (2002) 2. CHILD'S PLAY (1988) Alissa Worley is a Nintendo DS and Xbox 360 girl. 14

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Kayla Perkins is a 17 year old actress and model from Kentucky. Although she is young, Kayla already has many achievements on her resume, including being presented with a Proclamation Award from Georgetown, received third runner up in the Miss Teen Kentucky County Fair 2009, was selected as a “Rising Star” by Supermodels Unlimited Magazine, was featured in a its January issue, was Miss August 2009 for the Once Upon a Dream calendar, and was a 2008 CCE Eagle Award winner. Kayla has appeared in over 40 different films, including Santa Claus vs. the Zombies, Hell House, and Hell-ephone. She also appeared on numerous music videos, commercials, advertisements, runway shoots, and radio shows.

Even with all of these accomplishments, Kayla still remains very down to earth, doing what any ordinary 17 year-old would. When she is not working, Kayla spends a lot of time on her schoolwork and house chores. Finishing her education is very important to her, so she usually works on that during the week and only works as a model and actress on the weekends. Kayla likes to spend her free time with family and their four dogs, usually making dinner or watching Lifetime movies with her mom. Kayla also enjoys going out for dinner and catching movies with friends. Red Lobster and the Olive Garden are two of her favorite restaurants where she can enjoy dishes like shrimp scampi and macaroni & cheese.

Kayla on set in a Haunted House Commercial

Kayla has appeared in many horror movies and revealed to BGG that some of her favorites were Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, and Final Destination, to name a few. She also enjoys playing games on her new Iphone, such as building games where you make your own bakery, towns, and farms. Kayla’s advice to aspiring actors and models is to “always follow your dreams and put all you got into it.” 15

by Stavros

Americans invented Rock-n-Roll, but it was the Brits that ran with the ball and changed it forever, giving us some of the best groups that crossed an arena stage - the Fab Four (Beatles), The Rolling Stones, The Who, Black Sabbath, Queen, Led Zeppelin, and many more. When I was growing up I used to be impressed that M.A.S.H. was considered the longest running TV show. That was until I learned about Dr. Who. Now, The Simpsons and South Park are trailing on the Doctor’s legacy. But I’ll take the Pepsi challenge, pitting any incarnation of the wandering Timelord against these long running cartoons from the former colonies. I know the Doctor will emerge unscathed and victorious. He always does. Flesh-eating Zombies too are an American invention. But the Brits have handed us our ass with only five episodes of the critically acclaimed BAFTA-nominated horror drama, Dead Set. Created by English writer, Charlie Brooker, this spry, inventive, social cinema has taken everything that we, as Americans, have built into the undead empire, and risen the bar, yet again. Over the past decade, I dwindled my comicbook subscription to only one title: The Walking Dead (TWD). I’ve collected both the monthly issues and the trade paperbacks. Needless to say…I am a fan. As a filmmaker, I also dreamed of one day turning those black and white illustrations into TV or film. TWD writer, director, and executive producer, Frank Darabont, beat me to it. But I was excited, nonetheless, at the zombie series, which released this past October, along with the Indendent Film Channel’s release of the 2008 Dead Set mini-series. Admittedly, I was annoyed that TWD only aired six episodes in its first season. But being a fan of British TV, I’ve become accustomed to short seasons. Whereas a normal, good ole home spun television season is traditionally 22 episodes, England has patented the 6 through 10 episode mini season. With AMC only ordering six episodes of The Walking Dead one could argue that they didn’t really understand the power of the zombie, or that of the zombie fan, or that they were biting off the British style of television with a short season. Though over recent

years, American cable companies have picked up on the BBC’s use of a short run season with mega-popular shows like Weeds, Dexter, and Hung. So, AMC could claim that they had a mini-season planned, but I don’t think it would give them, or the show, any credit. Regardless of how many shows make up a season or if it’s ongoing or a mini-series one thing has to be consistent, and that is, it has to have a point. The media, in a serialized form, has to lead somewhere. Or else its going to get caught in that god awful Three’s Company Loop, where the same plot is regurgitated again and again until the actors are so aged and haggard, having worn out their welcome 3 Chrissys’ ago! In a series, each show has to be a building block in the journey of an artistic idea to make any real impact. Unfortunately for Frank Darabont, this is where the first season of TWD failed miserably. It just ended with no real point. Kind of like shooting a zombie in the leg – useless. Six episodes and done. There was no revelation. There was no impact, no cliffhanger. It just feels unfinished. Dead Set on the other hand, gave us everything: Point, Plot, Sub-Plot, Meaning and Catharsis. In the critically acclaimed British series, they took five poignant 24-minute episodes and wiped the slate clean on how it should be done. Comparing it to America’s Walking Dead – because I can’t stop myself from comparing – I have to say AMC is greatly lacking. Sure TWD is based off a preexisting work of art, but the TV show can not be judged by the comicbook. It has to stand on its own living dead legs. And compared to the British zombies in Dead Set…well, let’s just say…they ate us alive! Set within the uber popular world of reality TV, the fictional Big Brother house is going to evict another housemate as a zombie epidemic unwittingly sweeps across the media savvy isle. Dead Set’s five episodes chronicle

this nightmarish outbreak, leaving production staff and housemates stranded in a secure bio-dome. But in traditional Romero fashion, minus slow-moving zombies, the human element soon eviscerates any hope of survival. In this acclaimed television series, we get to look at our media crazed world through the eyes of the apocalypse. Scenes of zombies transfixed like mindless animals on the moving images of live people on TV screens harken one to consider our own mindless worship of technology. It says we are all zombies staring into cameras, into monitors and screens. We are trapped by our own constructs and we will not survive. It tells us that our species is inherently flawed by arrogant pride and vanity, and that if we continue to gaze at our own navels we are going to miss something really crucial and important. Even the simplicity of our biology, eating and waste, so often made the butt of jokes in TV and film, is wrought with social and psychological commentary as this mini-series unfolds, showing us the perils of the passage of time while being locked behind closed doors, in an infected society, within rooms that don’t have the facilities that we’ve taken for granted. Dead Set examines our humanity, warts and all, just as any good zombie tale should. Forget the semantics of fast-moving undead vs. slowmoving undead or how it was shot cinematically. Dead Set does what it set out to do, and that was to wind its way through our psyche, boring into our souls while paying homage to some of the greatest zombie films of our times. TWD on the other hand, said and did…nothing.

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by L.D. Redfield

a cold winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s morning, in a little cafe off Read Street in Baltimore, Maryland, I sat down with entrepreneur, Jonathan Carroll, who for years has been working to create his own independent media empire: BGG: What is X9 and how did it evolve into X9TV: JONATHAN CARROLL: I like to refer to X9 as a business with a soul. X9 is a multimedia company that possesses a social and political conscience. BGG: Ok. How did this socially and politically company come to be?

JONATHAN CARROLL: X9 was brought into existence from a need that I saw amongst local indie recording artists who I knew, and the need for more intelligent video productions. My cousin, Ernest, was the tidal wave that pushed me forward, building X9 on its technical foundation. Ernest is an old school computer and Hip Hop head. He grew up on 286 and 386 computer systems, and he handled many important networking projects for the government. Now here’s where Hip Hop came in. He was and still is a huge Public Enemy fan. He had every record that Chuck D recorded and he had no problem sharing PE with anyone. One of Chuck D’s message through the music was that Black people should not only focus on being artists, but Blacks should also get involved in business and technology. Being that I was a tinker child, my cousin was very relentless about me learning the internal makeup of computers and electronics. He told me that if I learned this discipline that I would come up with something that could help me and others. Long story short, I studied Robotic Engineering and Mass Communications at the University of Maryland. I graduated with a 4.0 and also earned my CET (Certified Electronic Technician from the International Society Of Certified Electronic TechniciansISCET). With a strong technical foundation and technical resources, I was able to build the X9 infrastructure that supports digital downloads and video streaming. Later, I was blessed with a recording artist named, ENFENETEE, who took X9 to the next level, helping us to spread our name within the indie music community. Truth be told, we actually had indie artists online and selling downloads years before Itunes. BGG: What was the hardest, or most difficult, part about creating X9? JONATHAN CARROLL: The age-old problem for all small businesses: MONEY! We can develop the product/service, however, having enough money to promote the product/ service to the mass market is challenging. BGG: How have you been able to meet that 22

challenge? JONATHAN CARROLL: Through strategic partnerships and niche marketing, we have been able to brave the economic storms that face all small businesses. BGG: How do you think X9TV compares to other streaming sites, like Fancast and Hulu.com? JONATHAN CARROLL: Sites like Fancast and Hulu are equable to terrestrial movie theaters. They don’t produce their own content. At X9TV, we not only broadcast other’s content we actually produce our own. In 2011, you will be seeing more exclusive content from our affiliate producers and us. BGG: Does this make X9TV different from these other streaming sites? JONATHAN CARROLL: Well, our content does not focus strictly on light-hearted topics. We have some of that however, we are not afraid to release titles that tackle hard issues that NEED to be addressed, or broadcast short and independent features that regularly fly below the radar. BGG: What are the drawbacks in today’s technology for streaming content and how is that impacting your vision of X9TV? JONATHAN CARROLL: The biggest problem that we face is bandwidth or consumption. As streaming becomes more and more popular, along with HD video, more and more consumers want access to it. The more content you have, especially HD, the more storage space is needed and the more bandwidth is needed to stream to larger amounts of people. Thus driving up the costs. Now, on the consumer end, high speed Internet is needed to consume true HD content online (desktop or mobile) and most consumers can’t afford to pay for it. Now, it‘s time for some mathematics. Believe it or not, there are still millions of people in the world that still use dial up modems to access the web. Those fees are around $5.00 a month. DSL is much faster and has really picked up in consumer support in the last 6 years. When DSL was ﬁrst released, consumer service

fees were around $45.00 a month. As time passed, and more customers got on board, prices fell to around $15.00 a month. Now, here comes video to the web. It started with short length clips- 30secs or less. The Internet gets bigger and produces more opportunity and thus the consumption goes up on all levels. And due to costs, we now live in an Internet world that is dominated by dial up and DSL surfers. As fast as DSL is, it isn’t fast enough to stream video titles in high quality with smooth playback. In order to stream video your download speeds are of most importance. Technically speaking, to smoothly stream True Blood in HD on your favorite website you need 10mbps or more download speeds. DSL can only provide you with between 128kbps - 3 mbps. It simply isn’t fast enough. This is where faster services come into play. On average, it will cost you between $60.00 - $65.00 a month, over $700.00 a year, to get faster service speeds, and most surfers can’t afford it. Therefore, in light of this equation, we focus on high quality production of shorter length titles. This will allow us to give more consumers an enjoyable streaming experience. We will stick with this plan until more consumers can afford higher speed Internet access. BGG: What is “dual stream” technology? And why is it so important? JONATHAN CARROLL: Dual streaming allows the viewer to stream the same quality of content from your desktop to your smart phone (ie: Blackberry, Iphone, Ipad, etc.) without the consumer needing to download or purchase any apps. BGG: Where do you see yourself and X9TV in five years? JONATHAN CARROLL: In the near future, we will be focusing more on branding and from there we plan to have more indies and businesses turning to us to rely on their streaming needs.

X9 Properties: http://www.x9tv.com http://www.x9records.com http://www.x9records.com X9 is also a Federally recognized Trademark.

Content Submissions are a free and paid for service. Free Submissions: X9 will determine, when and how long titles will air on X9TV. Titles that are 10mins or less should be encoded to 720x480 for SD files or 1280x720 for HD files. For titles longer than 10mins that do not exceed 30mins, encode to 320x240. Formats can be .mpeg4 or .wmv. Titles that are longer than 10mins but do not exceed 30mins must be submitted in the .wmv format in order to conserve storage space. Content Delivery: Place your file in a zip folder along with contact info and a promotional image and send to: info@x9mediaonline.com via http://www.yousendit.com Paid Submissions: $250 for 30 days. Same as above, except you pay for a definitive time when your content will broadcast. We supply you with a script that you can embed in your website or blog pages. This will allow you to stream your content to desktops and mobile audiences.

The Atlanta Comic Con is a pop-culture convention that showcases comics, cards, prints, gaming, artwork, videos, toys, magna, anime, statues, celebrities, new artists, book signings and more. Atlanta Comic Con 2010 was hosted at the Cobb Galleria Centre in Atlanta, Georgia on Saturday, December 3 and Sunday, December 4. Gareb Shamus is the founder of Wizard Entertainment and is also the creator of the North American Comic Con Tour. Tickets for Atlanta Comic Con were $25 for a 1-day pass or $45 for a 2-day pass. VIP tickets were also available for $150 and came with a 2-day pass to Atlanta Comic Con, an exclusive VIP badge, CGC 9.8 random wizard exclusive, and three limited edition lithographs from artists Michael Golden, Arthur Suydam, and Ethan Van Sciver. A Walking Dead panel answered questions about what many were calling “The best new show on television.” There were three special movie screenings for Hysterical Psycho, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, and Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu. Attendees were also treated to an exclusive nine minute long preview of It’s a Trap, the third part of the Family Guy Star Wars Saga. Billy Dee Williams (best known for his role as Lando Calrissian in Star Wars V and VI), Henry Winkler (best known as Arthur Fonzarelli “The Fonz” in the show Happy Days), Pam Grier (star of many ﬁlms, including the 1974 hit, Fox Brown, and Tarantino’s Jackie Brown), and many other celebrities attended Q&As. Other main events from the event were a trivia game show, Wizard Art School with a Q&A, and an adult’s and children’s costume contest. There were also plenty of celebrity booths set up throughout the arena for fans to meet, receive autographs, and take photos with their favorite celebrities.

Cosplay at Atlanta Comic Con: Characters from the smash video game, Left 4 Dead 2. 24

Q & A with the Zombies by Elbert Smith

Fresh from ﬁlming in Georgia and a successful premiere, cast members from AMC’s The Walking Dead (TWD) joined the Atlantic Comic Con for a question and answer session on being a zombie. The panel consisted of Melissa Cowan, Sonya Thompson, Keisha Tillis, Addy Miller, and Chandler Riggs.

Melissa Cowan is a 29 year-old actress from Georgia. Her filmography and television work includes over ten movies and seven shows, including The Walking Dead. Melissa played a number of zombies in TWD, but none were more famous than the “bicycle girl.” The bicycle girl is one of the first casualties of the undead apocalypse and is shown crawling around a park with only half a body in the series’ first episode. Melissa believes that one of the reasons The Walking Dead became so popular was that a zombie television show “hasn’t really been done before and everyone can relate to it as if they were one of the survivors. It’s not all about the zombie, but the survivors’ struggles.” One thing Melissa liked was that the show attempted to make the zombies appear as people, pointing out the scenes where Rick, out of pity, comes back to kill her character and when Morgan’s wife, played by Keisha Tillis, returns to the house, possibly knowing that her husband and son are inside. She further explained how TWD has everything a person could want in a show, and revealed that her grandmother even watches it.

When she was asked about playing a zombie, Melissa said that “there were three levels of zombies: Prosthetics, Airbrushing, and Masks.” She further explained that a realistic zombie would basically limp around because of their bodily wounds and blood loss. “You accentuate where your wounds was. You might even be reaching with it, so that it’s realistic.” The zombie cast also informed the large audience that they weren’t given any back-stories, but most gave themselves little histories based on their injuries. Individually, each zombie stated that it was easy to get into character almost instantly because of the visuals on set. Melissa was the only one required to wear a full body prosthetic. “It was very hard for my skin to breathe and get oxygen.” Combined with the fact that her character only used its upper body to crawl around must have made the 107-degree summer temperatures feel more like 150. Melissa received wonderful praise for her performance as the “bicycle girl and admitted that she thought her role could be pretty big, but had no idea she would become the poster child for zombies.

Sonya Thompson was born in Northeast Georgia and has worked on many different productions, including TWD, Night of the Jackals, Zombieland, and Ben 10: Alien Swarm. Sonya was also featured on the cover of the November issue of Entertainment Weekly. In an interview with some her zombie cast-mates she was asked 25

why she thought zombies were becoming so popular in our culture. Sonya replied, “I think some of it is simple gore and just the need to see something different. Because there are so many vampire and werewolf movies; zombies are a change, a good change.” She also talked about attending zombie school, explaining how zombie actors were encouraged to shamble fast enough to be dangerous, like a Romero zombie, rather than run.

Addy Miller is an 11 year-old actress born in North Carolina. She’s appeared in several films and television commercials. In The Walking Dead, Addy is the first zombie shown and a lot of her co-workers said that she had the creepiest scene of the whole first season. When asked if she knew that she scared America, Addy replied, “My family wasn’t as scared, cause they were there. It wasn’t as gory to me, because I was there, but I know I scared everyone.” Addy also went to zombie school, but wasn’t allowed to watch zombie movies, which makes her chilling performance in the season premiere even more impressive. Addy told the crowd that she prepared for her role by being aware of her injuries, but not acting as if they hurt. “The contact lenses we wore also helped you to feel like a zombie, because you really couldn’t see all that well with them on.”

Chandler Riggs, though not a zombie, played Carl Grimes, the young son of the lead character, in TWD. He is an 11 yearold actor from Atlanta, Georgia and has appeared in a few ﬁlms, as well as, some theatre productions in his short

career. Chandler also mentioned how hot it was during filming and shared a story about walking into one of the air-conditioned tents and saw a zombie lying on the floor. At first, he thought it was a mannequin until it sat up and spoke to him. Eager to take advantage of the situation, Chandler coaxed his co-worker, Noah, to go over and kick what he told him was a “mannequin,” but when Noah walked over the zombie reached out and grabbed his leg. Chandler said it nearly scared Noah to death. Practical jokes and scaring each other was common practice on set.

Keisha Tillis is a Georgia born actress, currently living in Atlanta. She’s appeared in several movies and played Morgan’s wife. For me, her character helped to create one of the saddest scenes in the ﬁrst season when her character’s husband can not bring himself to end his wife’s undead existence. Keisha was asked if we would see closure for her and her on-screen husband in Season two and replied, “He couldn’t shoot me, so we all look forward to it.” Recently, Keisha received a call from People Magazine and was surprised to learn just how big her impact in the show had become. In preparation for her role, Keisha explained that she didn’t watch any other zombie ﬁlms. “I did not want to be contaminated by other people’s works.” She also did not attend the zombie school like the other actors. “I think for me, it was the adrenaline and energy of all my co-workers. This made me feel like I needed to step up.” “As an actor,” she explained, “you are often taught not to look directly at the camera lens, but for my audition I was told to do the opposite.” This came in handy for those scenes when she had to act as if her zombie was peering into the peephole of a front door.

“A special lens was used and Frank (Darabont) instructed me to look directly into it.” Keisha also went on to say that working with director/executive producer, Frank Darabont, was awesome, telling us how he was “very handson” and would explain exactly what he wanted from his cast. She also noted that Frank would get very animated when his actors did a good job, expressing it verbally, as well as, jumping up on a chair and clapping. When the panel was asked who they thought would survive an actual zombie apocalypse, Melissa commented that becoming a zombie would relieve all of her stress of being a survivor, but that she’d have to survive because she has a family. Another zombie cast member went on to say that initially the survivors would be those crazy militia people that stockpile weapons for the impeding apocalypse. When a young audience member asked how he could become a zombie, Melissa encouraged

him to check the Extras Casting Atlanta Facehe Ext he E xtra xt xtra as Ca C astting iin ng A At tlla a ant nta Fa nt F ace c book Page around March orr April ou und nd M arrch ho Ap A prriil 2011. 201 20 11 1. One of the most th he e m ost interesting os inte in teres rre es sttin ng stories stor st orrie o es the tth he zombie cast shared was during filming when har ared ed w as a s d urriin u ng fil fi lm miing ng w he h en an ice cream truck stopped The driver had ru uc ck ks tto topp oppe pp p pe ed d by. by y.. Th T he dr d riv ve err h a ad no idea what w was being filmed until as b as eing ei ng fi lme lm ed d u nttil n il a llarge arge ar ge horde of a few hundred hu un ndr dred ed zombies zzom om mb biies es came ca am me around arou ar ou ound und n the corner in search arrch a h of of a cool coo co oll treat, tre reat at, exclaiming ex xcl cla aiim miing g “Ice creaaaammm,” mm, m,” iin n complete com omp pllet ete zombie-type zzo o b moans. Another interesting tale told, shared that one of the show’s zombie actors had gotten into a minor car accident while still wearing their makeup. Although the actor hadn’t been hurt, the other driver thought she had when she first got out of the car, nearly scaring the driver and on-lookers alike. :P All in all, the panel was great fun and I learned that even zombies found the time for a good laugh in between takes of devouring brains and chasing survivors. 27

Paranormalbabies: Susan Andrews’ Horror, Gothic, and Fantasy Dolls by Amanda Dyar

Cindy Lennox, right, from the Resident Evil: Outbreak game and Susan Andrew’s doll recreation, made exclusively for BioGamer Girl.

Resident Evil: Outbreak is a survivalhorror video game that was released in North America on March 31, 2004 and is available exclusively on the PlayStation 2. It is the ﬁrst game in the highly popular Resident Evil franchise to feature online cooperative play. The game allows you to take control of one of the eight available characters as they tried to escape Raccoon City after a zombie outbreak. One of those eight characters is Cindy Lennox. Cindy was a well known and highly liked waitress at J’s Bar before the outbreak. She is typically used as the team’s medic because of her skills with healing items. The one of a kind Cindy Lennox doll made exclusively for BioGamer Girls is displayed wearing her waitress outﬁt that consists of a blue and white striped shirt with a bowtie, under a low-cut blue vest complete with nametag, a black skirt

and black high heels. The Cindy Lennox doll was created by the talented artist, Susan Andrews, founder of Paranormalbabies. Paranormalbabies was established in April 2006 and has been featured at many horror conventions, such as Scarefest and the Fright Night Film Festival. Some of Susan’s creations can also be found in the movie “The Creepy Doll,” from Big Biting Pig Productions, due out this summer 2011. Susan Andrews became interested in baby dolls after coming across a Lee Middleton Doll that closely resembled her youngest son while shopping with her mother in a local toy store. She considered creating her own Lee Middleton Doll collection, but while doing research on them she discovered another style of doll called Reborn Dolls. Susan had been an artist for many years, but had never found

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something that fascinated her as much as these dolls that were crafted to look as real as they possibly could. Susan has also been interested in the paranormal ever since the death of her friend at a very young age, and she decided to incorporate this passion into her newfound medium. As a dollmaker, she truly loves giving life to her creations, and even sometimes hates parting with them after all the hard work and time was put in creating each Paranormal Baby. Susan’s clients range from the avid doll collector all the way up to celebrities like Tom Savani. Susan is conﬁrmed to appear, along with her doll from The Creepy Doll ﬁlm, at the HorrorHound convention in Indianapolis, Indiana during March 25-27, 2011. SUSAN ANDREWS: The name Paranormalbabies is like an umbrella word that kind of covers what I do. They even take on their own personality. So be warned, if one of these dolls ends up in your possession. Don’t be surprised if it takes on a life of its own and you end up being the possessed. Learn more about Susan Andrews and her Paranormalbabies by visiting her Facebook page or go to www.paranormalbabies.com.

Scarefest

is the world’s largest horror and paranormal convention. It took place at the Lexington Convention Center in Lexington, Kentucky from November 5, 2010 through November 7, 2010. Scarefest is owned and hosted by Ghost Chasers International Inc. It was created by Jeff Waldridge, Patti Starr, and Chuck Starr. Ticket prices were as low as $20 for a single day or $55 for a weekend passes. Golden Tickets were also on sale for $125. These came with lots of extras, including access to the Scarefest VIP party and Costume Ball, an open pass to a haunted house event, free merchandise, and more. Special Guests included George Romero (director of such zombie movies as Night of the Living Dead, Dawn of the Dead, Day of the Dead, and Diary of the Dead), Tom Atkins (star of such movies as The Howling, Bruiser, The Fog, and Creepshow), Adrienne Barbeau (star of Swamp Thing, The Fog, and Creepshow), Danny Trejo (star of Machete), and part of the Night of the Living Dead cast and crew (Russ Streimer, John A. Russo and George Cosana), plus many others. There were also appearances by notable performers Aron Houdini, Pickled Brothers Side Show, and Impossible Magic by Reed, just to name a few. There were many movie screenings for Scarefest attendees including D4, Bled White, Santa Claus vs. The Zombies 3D, The Dead Matter and many more; plus a world premiere of the movie Beware. On Friday, November 5th main events included Q&A sessions with George “The Animal” Steele, Chip Coffey, Catherine Hickland: Hypnosis Live Stage Show, a Ms. Scarefest Pageant, and an Undead Wedding. Saturday’s main events included Q&A sessions with the Hatchet II Panel, a Romero Panel, Brad and Barry Klinge’s Ghost Lab, Amelia Kinkade’s Panel, a Paranormal Panel, Andrew Calder’s Demonology, Patti Starr’s Journey Into the Spirit World, Michael Baker’s Science in the Paranormal, Geraldine Stith talking about UFOS, and many more. On November 7th main events included Chris Dedman: Dangers in Ghost Hunting, a GH/GHI Panel & Q&A, Lyzayne Whitaker: Horror Make-up, and a few others.

Inset: BGG Editor, Amanda Dyar, at ScareFest, poses with the writer & cast members of the original Night of the Living Dead. Pictured, from left to right: Russ Streiner, George Kosana, Amanda (holding the original NOTLD screenplay!), & John Russo

Upcoming 2011 Horror Conventions: Monster Mania 17 March 11, 2011 Cherry Hill, New Jersey, Crowne Plaza Hotel. Special Guests: Nick Castle, Lance Guest, Catherine Mary Stewart, Tommy Lee Wallace, Stella, and Fred “The Hammer” Williamson. Horrorhound Weekend Indianapolis March 25-27 2011 Indianapolis, Indiana Marriot Indianapolis East Special Guests: Dario Argento, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco, Sean Patrick Flanery, Tom Atkins, Stacey Nelkin and Dick Warlock Cinema Wasteland Movie and Memorabilia Expo April 1-3, 2011 Strongsville, Ohio Holiday Inn Special Guests: Ruggero Deodato, Michael Berryman, Francesca Ciardi, David Hess, Robert Kerman, Tom Atkins, and William Forsythe Monsterpalooza April 8-10, 2011 Burbank, California Marriott Burbank Hotel Special Guests: Verne Langdon, Haruo Nakajima, Michael Westmore, Ve Neill, Tom Woodruff Jr., Glenn Hetrick, Rob Burman, and Joe Dante Texas Frightmare Weekend April 29- May 1, 2011 Dallas, Texas Sheraton Grand Hotel Special Guests: Clive Barker, Robert Englund, Tom Six, Dieter Laser, Angus Scrimm, Norman Reedus, David Della Rocco, Sean Patrick Flanery, Cary Elwes, Shawnee Smith, and Costas Mandylore Days of the Dead 2011 July 1-3, 2011 Indianapolis, Indiana Wyndham Indianapolis-West Special Guests: Zoe Bell, Edward Furlong, Roddy Piper, Jake Busey, and Diamond Dallas Paige

The Man Behind the Mask: Jeff “Wickedbeard” Cochran by Seth Worley Jeff “Wickedbeard” Cochran is a horror icon impersonator from Cincinnati, Ohio. Jeff’s favorite character to impersonate is Jason Voorhees. Jason is his all-time favorite horror icon, and Jeff feels the character suits him best. He has been an impersonator since his first horror convention, back in 2008 at Horrorhound in Indianapolis, Indiana. Jeff was nervous for his first convention, but soon realized that this was his true calling. He believes the Scarefest convention in 2008 really started it for him. Though, his most memorable convention was Horrorhound Indianapolis, back in 2009. It was the first show he attended with his girlfriend, Angie, and the week they started their life together. Jeff prepares for his impersonations by trying to mentally connect with what he thinks the characters are feeling based off of what he observes in their movies. In order to maintain his character’s physically intimidating size, Jeff likes to stay in shape and

frequently attends a local gym. He also studies the characters’ movements and stances in order to become an almost mirror-like reﬂection of those characters. Jeff creates all of his costumes himself, perfecting his craft now for over ten years. Jeff loves the reactions his impersonations get from fans and celebrities alike. The smiles and enjoyment it causes them makes all of his hard work worthwhile and keeps him dedicated to the craft. Jeff is scheduled to attend some great horror conventions in 2011, including Horrorhound Weekend and Days of the Dead in Indianapolis, Scarefest in Lexington, Kentucky, and many more. He is currently working on some hockey masks for famous Jason Voorhees actor, Kane Hodder. You can see plenty of Jeff’s works at his website: www. wickedbeard creations.com. Also get updates from Jeff on Facebook at: www. facebook. com/wicked beard.

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Reviewer Kenny King

Call of Duty: Black Ops is the seventh chapter in the highly popular Call of Duty franchise. It was released on November 9, 2010 and received mostly admirable reviews. Black Ops presents you with three different ways to play; single player campaign, competitive multiplayer, and zombies. Zombie mode can be played solo, split-screen, or online with up to four players. In zombie mode, players try to survive for as many rounds as they can inside of a barricaded building that is being attacked by hordes of living dead. There is no ending to zombie mode, so having fun and attaining a higher rank on the leader boards are a player’s main goals here. Players begin zombie mode armed only with a pistol, but they can unlock more weapons by purchasing them off of walls or out of mystery boxes. Occasionally, zombies that are killed inside of the parameters of the building will drop powerups for players to pickup. These powerups can be extremely powerful and can end rounds by themselves. Players can also purchase upgrades for their character and can activate traps to help keep the zombies at bay. Players earn money to purchase these weapons and upgrades by killing zombies and rebuilding broken barricades. Zombies become harder to kill and attack players in bigger swarms as a player progresses through each round. The game also becomes harder as the number of players in a game increases. If you progress far enough in zombie mode, it is possible to encounter other monsters besides zombies. There are three missions for zombie mode in the standard edition of Call of Duty: Black Ops. Kino Der Toten is the only mission that is automatically available to play. It takes the same four characters from Call of Duty: World at War missions, Der Riese and Shi No Numa, and sets them inside an old Nazi theater. The Mission Five can be unlocked by beating Black Ops campaign mode or by entering the code “3ARC UNLOCKS” into the computer on the main menu. This mission takes place inside The Pentagon and casts players in the roles of Richard Nixon, John F. Kennedy, Fidel Castro, and Robert McNamara. Five has a funny cutscene that plays before a zombie match begins that I would definitely recommend checking out if you haven’t already. The final zombie mission is Dead Ops Arcade and can be accessed by entering the code “DOA” or “3ARC UNLOCKS” into the computer on the main menu. Dead Ops Arcade is not your typical Call of Duty zombie m mode, but it is in the form of your classic a arcade shooter. Once again, there is no end to this game, and your only goal is to en set a highscore in order to reach a higher rank on the leaderboards. Players gain points by killing zombies, grabbing treasure, point and gaining score multipliers. The original four maps from Call of Duty: World at fou War are available only by purchasing the Wa Prestige or Hardened editions of Call of P Duty: Black Ops.

The zombie mode on Call of Dury: Black Ops is very fun and very addicting. The main problem with zombie mode is that there is no difficulty setting. The game mode is very difficult and can easily overwhelm the casual gamer. I also wish the game would allow you to explore the maps without a need of money to open doors, and without having bloodthirsty zombies stalking you throughout the map. I really enjoyed the short storyline that Treyarch gave to Five, and I wish the other missions had cutscenes that added a short story line to them as well. I think most gamers would enjoy Call of Duty: Black Ops zombie mode, and I hope that Treyarch continues to produce great content for this mode, making it a permanent addition to every Call of Duty game they create in the future.

In Dead Rising 2 you play as the character Chuck Greene. Chuck was a Motocross star before the zombie apocalypse took his career and wife away from him. Chuck has a daughter named Katey that has been infected, and Chuck must give her a dose of Zombrex every 24 hours to prevent her from turning into a zombie. Chuck moves to Fortune City and becomes a contestant on the reality show, Terror is Reality, so that he can afford to continue giving Katey her medication. After one episode of uniquely sick show, a huge zombie horde is released from their cages. They soon kill almost everyone in Fortune City. But Chuck manages to find Katey and escape from the stadium to an underground safe house. Chuck soon finds out that he has been framed for causing the disaster. You will have three days to clear Chuck’s name before the military arrives. The basic concept of Dead Rising 2 is to grab anything you can find and kill zombies. When you kill zombies or complete missions, Chuck will receive Prestige Points, or PP. Chuck will level up after attaining enough PP and gain special feats, such as better statistics, extra inventory slots, Combo Cards, or special moves. This adds an RPG element to Dead Rising 2, and will eventually make Chuck strong enough to fight zombies barehanded. Combo Cards teach you how to make special weapons at maintenance rooms located throughout Fortune City. These weapons are combinations of two or more weapons located throughout the game that combine to create a stronger more durable weapon that gives Chuck extra PP for every zombie he kills with said weapon. You can create weapons at maintenance rooms without Combo Cards, but Chuck will not receive as much PP without them. There are 50 Combo Cards in total, and some of them must be found in hidden spots during the game, collected from survivors, or acquired from defeating psychopaths. Of course you will probably want to complete missions, so you can prove Chuck’s innocence, save as many survivors as you can, and find Katey some Zombrex in order to unlock better endings, but that is optional. If at any point in the game you fail to complete one of the main story missions you will be given the option of continuing to play so that you can free roam through Fortune City and kill as many zombies as you like until the military arrives. Every mission you receive in the campaign of Dead Rising 2 is set on a timer. The timer really isn’t a big deal though, because you will have more than enough time to complete the majority of the main missions. You may not be able to do every mission in the game during your first play through. However, it is possible to do them all if you are quick enough. As your

character levels up and you become more familiar with the game, you should be able to complete more missions in one play through. There are multiple endings depending on which story missions are completed throughout your game. This will have you wanting to play through the entire game multiple times to view every ending available. Most of these features were carried over from the original Dead Rising, but the biggest new features to Dead Rising 2 are the online game modes. In co-op play, you and a friend will both play as Chuck, and together you will go through the campaign as normal. The game will never mention the existence of two Chucks in any cutscene, but instead the cutscenes will show whichever character triggered the cutscene. Both players are allowed to do everything in co-op play that they would normally be allowed to do in a single player campaign. The second player will be allowed to save any money or PP earned during his or her session. Dead Rising 2’s campaigns play just as smoothly online as it does offline, which is a feat a lot of games can’t boast. You can also compete in 4 player TIR episodes and earn cash, which you can save for Chuck to spend in campaigns. TIR episodes consist of three random events, chosen from out of eight possible events. Each event awards points to players who complete certain objectives. Earned points are then translated into time bonuses for the last event, Slicecycles, where the winner of that event becomes the winner of the entire episode. The TIR mode seems to have very little game lag as well. I have very few complaints about Dead Rising 2. The storyline of a man trying to clear his name after being framed is a little bland and has been done before (in the original Dead Rising in fact). The co-op campaigns really don’t make a lot of sense when you stop and think about it, but you have so much fun with your friends that you won’t care. Some of Dead Rising 2’s bosses are a bit too difficult during your first play through. Rescuing survivors can become annoying at times, because they tend to get in your way when you’re fighting zombies, but are slow when trying to run past the zombies. The graphics are really spectacular and run smoothly when you consider how many zombies are loaded o on the map at any point in the game. The mu music is a little repetitive, but never to the point of being annoying. Dead Rising 2 offe offers a lot of replay value since you will have to play through the campaigns multiple time times to unlock all the Combo Cards, see all of the endings, and unlock some of the to tougher achievements/trophies, etc. I w would recommend Dead Rising 2 to anyone. I It is one of the best games of the year!

Dead Rising 2: Case West was released on December 27, 2010 exclusively for Xbox 360 and costs 800 Microsoft Points. Case West is available for download as an arcade game that you can play on your Xbox 360 even if you don’t own the complete version of Dead Rising 2. Case West is essentially another alternate ending for Dead Rising 2. In it Chuck Greene has managed to fight his way to a rooftop helicopter rescue, but gets overpowered by a horde of zombies in the building’s elevator. Luckily for Chuck, the hero from the original Dead Rising, Frank West shows up and saves Chuck from being eaten. Apparently, Frank is trying to uncover a huge development in the Phenotrans disaster. Phenotrans is the pharmaceutical company that created the medication Zombrex, and the people behind the zombie outbreaks of both Dead Rising games. Chuck and Frank decide to team up and go to the Phenotrans headquarters to complete Frank’s story, clear Chuck’s name, and stop Phenotrans evil plan once and for all! When the two arrive at the Phenotrans facility, Frank releases the facility’s captive zombies with the help of his inside source. The two use this distraction to help get past the Phenotrans guards and infiltrate deeper into the laboratory. Case West was designed for cooperative play and can be played online with two players, one Chuck and the other Frank. The game can be played offline as well where Frank will be controlled by AI. This game will feel very comfortable to fans of the Dead Rising series, because many of the features you have come to expect from the past games are present in Case West. You still use any items you find as weapons to kill zombies and guards, you still use food to regain health and revive your partner, all missions are still on timers, and you can still create combo weapons and find combo cards. One new feature that Case West adds to the Dead Rising franchise is “smart” survivors. Now, when you find a survivor you do not have to slowly escort them back to a safe room, but instead just kill some zombies around them and give them an item to protect themselves with. This is a nice addition that hopefully Capcom will use in future Dead Rising games. Case West also contains 40 new weapons, 8 new combo cards, and a bunch of new attire for Chuck and Frank to wear. Also, both players are now equipped with cameras and can use them to take pictures and earn prestige points for leveling up. This is a new feature to Dead Rising 2, but fans of the original Dead Rising will know just what to do here. The story of Case West is only 3 c cases long, but the game does offer two di different endings to help make up for a sho short campaign. Dead Rising: Case West is a fu fun game, and everyone that enjoyed Dead Rising 2 will be happy playing this game.

Gamers n e v e e s Becau at! need to e Hey all, it’s Manda. Culinary student by day, Gamer Girl by night, and I’ve got a recipe to die for…and come back to life for! Braised Short Ribs. It’s loaded with goodness, and despite its lengthy cooking time it will bring those taste buds back to life! So prep these bad boys, stick ‘em where the sun don’t shine, and play some games, because this is one achievement you’ll want to unlock!!

PREP TIME 20 - 30 min

COOK TIME

READY IN

SERVES VES

2-3 hrs

2hrs or more Depends on tenderness

Directions: 1. Preheat Oven to 300*F 2. In a deep pot (preferably one that can fit all of the short ribs) add oil and heat until very hot. Then add short ribs and brown all sides, then remove and set aside on a plate. 3. Cut up your onion, celery and carrot relatively the same size and cook them until they are brown. (Be sure not to burn them or else the burnt taste will linger through the entire dish!) 4. Mix flour into the cooked veggies and make a roux. Roux: A mixture of fat (the oil) and flour heated and used as a basis for sauces.) 5. Cook the roux until it is browned and stir in the stock and tomato puree and simmer (bubble on a low temperature) until the sauce thickens. *TIP: Use a whisk to stir in the stock because the roux might get lumpy! 6. Return the short ribs to the pan and put it in your 300*F oven for about 2 hours or until tender.

Ingredients: • • • • • • • • • •

5 Short Rib Portions ¼ Cup of Oil ¼ Cup of onion 2 tablespoons of Celery 2 tablespoons of Carrot 2 tablespoons of Flour 2 ½ Cups of Chicken Stock 2 tablespoons of Tomato puree 2 bay leaves Salt & Pepper to Taste.

Notes: - Make sure you salt these bad boys because they absorb the entire flavor, so the more seasoning, the more flavor the meat itself will have. - Feel free to add any additional flavoring. It’s a very versatile dish. - With this type of dish it is OKAY to be lazy, the longer it sits the more TENDER it will be, so don’t get worried if you’re in the middle of a mission, or completing a level, because it’ll be there waiting after you’re glorious victory as your trophy! - Make sure they are all evenly covered with enough stock because that is what makes them tender and you might want to flip them whenever you get the chance. - Last but not least, cover the pots! The liquid WILL evaporate and the less liquid the less tender your ribs will be.

Silent Hill:

DS N U O S HE T F O DEAD

by Sarah “Paranormal” Harmon

Regardless of your gaming expertise, whether you’re the occasional player, or fan of a deep-rooted story lines in your games, the Silent Hill series is one spooky experience. As a fan of this game since its beginning in 1999, I have played each and every one of the games in the series; all being quite impressive. Originally, created and introduced by Konami, Silent Hill is a series that falls within the psychological and horror genre of games, and has been spooky enough to encourage and inspire comic books, novels, and two movies; one of which is in pre-production. With the early games I was young enough to actually be scared if I was sitting alone in my room at night playing. But now with some experience under my belt, the screams and psychological regressions only add to the story of the characters. As you explore the town of Silent Hill, you begin to experience the plot by piecing together clues, gaining insights to who you are and what your purpose is. Slithering zombies are everywhere, crawling out of the shadows and screaming as you kill them. Though there isn’t a whole lot of gore or slashing as you might see in other popular games, the developers and myself believe that the psychological fear the game induces by the creepy plot is far more compelling than quick-witted killing. Seeing your character unlock secrets and go from shadow to shadow searching for who they are is unsettling as the creepy soundtrack strings you along. The music, storyboard, and thought that went into the development of this game is not only a scary form of horror entertainment, but it is also a complicated game that is worthy of play. Silent Hill has even been named one of the “Top 10 Scariest Games” throughout its life span. One of the reasons this game is unique, and why I find the fear factor so complicated, is the use

of the music. It perfectly balances the graphics, character plot, and impulsive scary monsters coming out of nowhere. Unlike some games where you can simply mute and play (though boring) Silent Hill is a series that requires you listen to the music for subtle cues. Having to sometimes search your way through thick forests, fog, poor visibility, and shadowy buildings the sound effects and music help you to find your way. With the music creeping along, and the unlocked secrets keeping you fixated on the game, the makers then incorporated monsters to scare the crap out of you. It all works together to make a finely tuned thriller. With little known about the plot of the Silent Hill 8, due to be released in 2011, one can only read online gamer forums and view trailers. With such a long series, it is without question that this release needs to bring back the original fear factor that was so present in the first three games and mute the negative reviews that have come from the last games released.Some reviews compared games 4-7 to a “cheaply made Resident Evil.” Gamers, and fans like myself, are hoping that the upcoming release is a return to that deep psychological fear, which was originally such a huge attraction to Silent Hill in the first place!

Gamer Girl/Actress Dayna Deau pictured inset as “Alchemilla Nurse” from Silent Hill holding a screwdriver. usually, they weld knives. Dayna is Also pictured with other cosplayers recreating their favorite characters, including the boss from the game, “Pyramid Head.”

Left 4 Dead 2 is the sequel to the hit game, Left 4 Dead, from Valve studios. It was released on November 17, 2009; exactly one year after the original was released. It’s only available for the Xbox 360 and PC. Left 4 Dead 2 follows four new survivors of the zombie apocalypse (Coach, Ellis, Nick, and Rochelle) as they try to make The PassIng & The SACRIFIce their way from a remote part of Georgia to a rumored safe zone in Reviewer Kenny King New Orleans. The game spans over five campaigns, and it sends our heroes through such locations as an enormous mall, a zombified carnival, a stadium rock concert, complete with pyrotechnics and loud music, a creepy swamp town, an old abandoned factory overrun with witches, and a section of New Orleans being attacked by the U.S. Military. Left 4 Dead 2 adds a few new features to the franchise, including melee weapons, new guns, new healing items, new special infected, new common infected for each campaign, and two new game modes. Scavenge Mode puts two teams against each other, making the “Zombie Team” try to stop the “Human Team” from finding gas cans scattered throughout the map and pouring them into a generator. The two teams take turns as both zombies and humans battle each other. Whichever team has the most gas cans at the end of each round wins. Scavenge is fun, and great if you want to play as a zombie, but you won’t want to sit through an entire round of Versus Mode. The other new game mode is Realism. Realism is essentially a campaign with only a few changes that makes completing campaigns harder. It takes away player’s parts of player HUDS, dead survivors no longer appear in closets, zombies take less damage when shot anywhere but in the head, and witches are a lot more powerful. Left 4 Dead 2 is a great game, a worthy successor to the original. If you haven’t played this game yet, and enjoy first person shooters, then you have to try this game! Left 4 Dead 2 received two new downloadable campaigns in 2010. The Passing, which was released on April 22; costs 560 Microsoft Points on Xbox 360 and is free to PC users. The Passing adds a brand new campaign to Left 4 Dead 2 that takes place chronologically in between the Dead Center and Dark Carnival campaigns. The Passing finds our four heroes (Coach, Ellis, Nick, and Rochelle) on the wrong side of a river that they need to cross. The crew from the original Left 4 Dead (Bill, Francis, Louis, and Zoey) arrived shortly before them and raised the bridge to avoid being killed. They tell you Bill has died and Louis has been injured, and that they can’t lower the bridge themselves, but can help the Left 4 Dead 2 characters once they get to the other side. The Passing is three stages long and requires that you go through a wedding equipped with a witch in a wedding gown, pass through an underground water treatment facility, and fill up a generator with gasoline. The remaining cast of Left 4 Dead keeps their promise during the finale and help by killing anything that is within their range. While looking for gasoline cans, players can find Bill’s corpse just inside a building by the generator. Once the generator is filled, the bridge lowers, and the Left 4 Dead 2 characters make a mad dash across the bridge to the Jimmy Gibbs Jr.

stockcar. The Passing also adds a new melee weapon (golf club), a new gun (M60), random caches full of pills, adrenaline shots, pipe bombs, or Molotov cocktails; new achievements for Xbox 360 owners, a new song on the jukebox, and new common infected called the “Fallen Survivor” that drops supplies when killed. The last addition, and in my opinion most important, of The Passing is Mutations. Mutations are special game modes, changed by Valve every week that puts different twists on existing game modes. Mutations by itself makes The Passing worth purchasing, because it changes every week and offers game modes most weeks that any Left 4 Dead 2 fan would enjoy. The Passing is a very fun campaign, and in my opinion more enjoyable than some of the original Left 4 Dead 2 campaigns. This is my favorite downloadable Danya Deau & random content package of the year for any game, and I cosplayer struttin’ as their think it is absolutely essential for every Left 4 fav characters, Rochelle & Dead 2 owner to purchase The Passing. Nick, from L4D2! The Sacrifice was the second of two new campaigns for Left 4 Dead 2 that came out in 2010. It became available for purchase on October 2, and is available for both Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2 on Xbox 360 for 560 Microsoft Points and free to PC players. The Sacrifice picks up right where the Left 4 Dead comic ends. If you are a fan of Left 4 Dead, then I would definitely recommend reading the comic on the Left 4 Dead website. It connects the end of Blood Harvest with the start of The Passing. It is just as entertaining and hilarious as the games are. Bill, Francis, Louis, and Zoey arrive at some random docks via a train. They disembark and quickly decide that the best chance they for survival would be to find a boat and sail it to an island. The survivors spend three entire campaign stages looking for a boat big enough to carry them and the supplies they will need to survive while on the island. They find the boat they need on the last stage, but unfortunately they will need to power up three generators spread across the area in order to raise the bridge. This will allow them to sail the boat across the river and into the gulf towards their island destination. The survivors manage to power up all three generators and the bridge begins rising, making a deafening noise as it does. This noise alerts nearby zombies to their presence and swarm to the bridge. Sadly, one of the generators fail and someone must sacrifice Danya Deau as Rochelle with Obituary Mary havin’ a ‘lil fun!

themselves in order to turn it back on a and save the others. That means for th part to work, at least two survivors this mu must make it through the finale. In the com Bill sacrifices himself to save the comic othe others, but in the game anyone can restart the generator. The Sacrifice on L4D2 also adds the No Me Mercy campaign from the original Left 4 D Dead, complete with melee weapons and Left 4 Dead 2 special infected. The Sacrifice

It starts out with John Marston going home one rainy night. A guy that sounds a lot like Vincent Price starts narrating. For those of you who don’t know who Vincent Price was, he was a veteran actor of stage, silver screen, and television. He starred in nearly a hundred horror movies, including The Fly, Return of The Fly, House of Wax, The Tingler, House of Usher, The Pit & The Pendulum, The Last Man on Earth, and Edward Scissorhands to name just a few. He also added the creepy voice on Michael Jackson’s Thriller music video. So, with such an impressive persona and body of work in the horror genre it is no surprise they found someone that sounded like him for Undead Nightmare. Now, the timeline for this DLC is....well, I think it’s better than most alternate story lines that happen after a character returns home. John Marston discovers that his Uncle is missing (and I’m sure you’ve guessed it). Uncle has been turned into a zombie. John wakes up the next morning to find that his Uncle has bitten his wife and kid. So now, with all three of them being zombies, John kills his Uncle and ties his wife and son up while he goes in search of what’s going on. Now, this game has always had great dialogue. It doesn’t change in Undead Nightmare. When John leaves to go see what’s up, he says to his wife and son, “Jack, be kind to your mother. Abigail, teach the boy right from wrong. And both of you, stop biting chunks out of people! Be back as soon as I can.” John Marston heads out to look for the cause of the zombie apocalypse. And lets face it, if anyone can put a stop to the zombie apocalypse, it’s John Marston!. When you head out to the world map, that we all know and love from the original game, you will notice a couple different things. Everything seems a little bit darker, and all the animals are now zombiefied. Also, there are zombies everywhere. If you stop riding your horse, no matter where you are, for even a short while, the odds are that there will be some zombies coming to attack you. And whenever zombies are around, which is pretty much all the time, they make the freakiest sounds that I’ve ever heard a zombie make. The first few times I heard it, it scared the hell out of me. There are also many new creatures besides zombies in the world now. One of which is a Yeti. Yes, I said Yeti. If you travel around Tall Trees you will see them just walking around, and there is a mission for killing all of them. There are also Unicorns and Chupacabras, even though I’ve never been able to find any. Though, the most awesome, new animals to appear in Undead Nightmare are the Four Horses of the Apocalypse. War, is a black horse that has flames coming of it like it just crawled out of hell. Its special ability causes any zombie that it touches to catch on fire. Then there is Pestilence. Pestilence is a dirty white horse that is surrounded by a green cloud of infection. Its special ability makes this horse very, very hard to kill. How hard you ask? Well…I rode Pestilence off a cliff in Tall Trees and the animal didn’t even get hurt. Then there is Famine, which is a jet-black horse surrounded in a swarm of insects that follow it everywhere. Its special ability is infinite stamina. Though to be fair, I don’t understood Famine’s ability, because as far as I can tell all zombie horses have everlasting stamina. But, at least, this horse looks awesome! Last but not least, my personal favorite, Death. Death is a black and white horse that has a ghostly white mist coming off the back of him while

you’re riding. Death’s special ability kills every zombie it comes in contact with. This ability is a really handy thing to have in those tight situations when one finds themselves in the middle of a zombie horde. As a point of note, all the zombie animals you kill can be skinned for undead animal parts. (Hey, where’s my buck knife?) Undead Nightmare also has a few new weapons as well. They are, in no particular order: the Blunderbuss, Torch, Holy Water, Undead Bait, and Boom Bait. The Blunderbuss is a rifle that you can load with zombie bits you can pick up off dead zombies. It’s strong, but very slow to reload, so I hardly ever use it because of that reason. The Torch does what it sounds like it would do – set zombies on fire. It’s pretty effective in the middle of a horde or when you’re running low on ammo. Holy Water kind of acts like a molotov cocktail for the living dead. It sets them on fire with an awesome looking blue flame. Undead Bait also does what you think it would. By throwing it down all the zombies in that area come running to the spot where you threw it. Boom Bait is a combination of Undead Bait and Dynamite, and performs very similar to a pipe bomb from Left 4 Dead. You throw it, zombies gather around it, and then… BOOM! Zombies bits everywhere. (hehehehehehehe) New outfits are also part of the joy of Undead Nightmare. Though, you will have to complete new quests to unlock them. The three brand new outfits are Undead Hunter, Union Suit, and Legend of the Apocalypse. These outfits, like all outfits in the game, can only be worn in single player mode. Another treat they added to Undead Nightmare is a new tune. If you were a fan of the original soundtrack, like me, then you’ll be happy to know that they have another exclusive song that was written just for this expansion. It’s a song called, Bad Voodoo, by The Kreeps. It plays as you’re on your way to the last mission of the game. Now, I love all the music in this game. It’s one of the best soundtracks of any game I’ve ever heard, and Bad Voodoo is no different. It has a sound that sets the mood for what you’re doing, and every time it plays you are transported to the unmistakable world of Red Dead Redemption. Overall, the new story arc in Undead Nightmare was very well done. You can really tell they went all out and had fun unleashing zombies in the game. The missions are more or less the same type of stuff you did in the original RDR, except for cleansing graves. When you come to a graveyard you must cleanse it by killing all the zombies that roam there. They also added some new random people encounters. These missions show up as question marks on your map, just as they did in the game’s original campaign. You will get to see some of your old favorites from the original RDR, like Seth, Bonnie MacFarlane, Landon Ricketts, and Nigel West Dickens. Unfortunately, Nigel West Dickens, once again, has you trotting off to pick flowers, which is just what you want to be doing in a zombie-infested world! These missions are pretty fun and the story line is pretty long, depending on how much you want to rush it. I took my sweet time so that I could enjoy all the zombie goodness, and it took me about 9 to 10 hrs to beat it. The last mission also opens up a brand new area of the map to explore. Granted it’s not much, but hey it’s a new area of the game. Just like in the original game, after you

beat Undead Nightmare you can continue playing. Except this time, after the story is over, you can become Zombie John Marston. Yes, that’s right, John Marston gets a zombie makeover! And I tell you there is nothing more awesome than saving random strangers with a zombie. “Please Mister, save me!!!” “RARRRRR UUUHHHHHHHHH.” “Thanks for saving me Mister; that was close.” “GGGRRRRRRRR UHHHHHHHHHHH.” Now, onto the new multi-player modes….Wagons, Ho! First off, just by having Undead Nightmare you unlock a number of new characters to use in multi-player. There are 8 new characters in all, such as Zombie Ricketts (a personal favorite), Zombie Marston, and more. The first new multi-player game mode, and my favorite of the two, is Undead Overrun. In Undead Overrun you, and up to 3 other players, try to survive wave after wave of undead hordes. The more waves you beat the harder it gets to survive. You only get 4 classes of weapons to chose from, but if you fight hard and survive long enough you will receive a weapon drop that has one of the following: a semi-auto shotgun, an Evan’s repeater, or a Blunderbuss. At the beginning of each wave there is a coffin you must get to and open. This gives you and your team Powerups and full ammo to help out with each wave of the living dead. There is also a time limit in getting to the coffin. If you don’t get to the coffin within the time limit, then the mode switches to sudden death. In sudden death, you are stuck fighting an endless horde of undead cannibals until you and your teammates die. This game mode will be so much fun for you and your friends. So fun in fact, that I almost forgot there was another game mode altogether. I was so vested in playing. With five different levels to run around in,

John Marston Born: 1873 Death: 1911 His father was an illiterate Scottish immigrant, his mother was a prostitute who died in childbirth. His father was blinded in a barﬁght and died of unknown causes in 1881. John was 8. John Marston was a former outlaw and bandit. He ran with Dutch Van Der Linde, Bill Williamson, and Javier Escuella, committing bank robberies, train raids, murders, and other various crimes across the country. In 1908 he was seriously wounded in a bank robbery, and abandoned by Bill Williamson; Marston retired from the outlaw lifestyle. Putting his past deeds behind him, he disappeared along with his wife Abigail Marston and young son, Jack, and purchased a ranch. Between his abandonment of the gang and the beginning of the game, Marston had a daughter, but she died of cholera. Nicknames: Johnny boy, Marston, Mr. Marston, Gringo

Undead Overrun’s 5 Maps: High Brains Drifter it takes place in Coot’s Chapel

Undeadwood it takes place in Tumbleweed

Bury em’ Deep it takes place in Off Fellow’s Rest

Dead Man Walking it takes place in Blackwater

Undead Django it takes place in Sepulcro

Undead Overrun is simply awesome. Each of the different levels are also named from old western movies with a bit of a zombie twist. The next multi-player game mode is called Land Grab. Land Grab is where players have to fight for control over a section of land in one of seven different towns. Once you have control of the land, a countdown will begin, and each player must defend his or her land while other players try to take it for themselves. Now, I haven’t played this game mode much, not because it’s bad, but because I got so addicted to Undead Overrun. The one or two times I did play Land Grab was fun enough, but it just wasn’t as entertaining as Undead Overrun. For me, Undead Overrun is where it’s at in this DLC. Though, you might love Land Grab and find the Overrun too much. Who knows? People a strange. Gamers are a stranger. All in all, Undead Nightmare is a great addition to an amazing game. If you’re a zombie lover like me, you will especially enjoy it. After playing this DLC I would love to see Rockstar make an entire game dedicated to zombies in the old west. I’m not sure if it will ever happen, but if it did, I would be the first in line to buy it. Undead Nightmare really has everything you could ever want in an expansion, all for only $10 (800MS points). It’s really worth a good bit more, so you’re getting every penny for your ten bucks. This addition can keep you busy for hours with tons of replay value. The story is so much fun to play through. I highly recommend Undead Nightmare to anyone who liked the original game, and to all you zombie freaks out there in the world…you know who you are.

Coming Up Next: The Assassins Creed series, saw series, Sherlock Holmes series, the condemned series, and many, many more!

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Dear Mistress Barbie, My name is Chucky and I want to play, but no one seems to want to play with me. I thought people liked to play knife fights from what I see on TV, but most just scream and run away. The other dolls just call me names, and no one wants to play any voodoo games. I had a falling out with my best friend, Andy. I have been trying really hard to reconnect with him, but he just doesn’t understand. I never meant to hurt anyone; I just wanted to kill them. I don’t know what to do. I sure am lonely. Maybe I am coming on too strong? — GOOD GUY IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DEAR GOOD GUY: Maybe you need to tone down your robust behavior. You must remember that what you see on television isn’t always appropriate behavior for little dolls like yourself. You cannot just voodoo yourself into people’s lives. Take this time to reflect on your behavior, and maybe Andy will realize the friendship he has lost. Ask the other dolls if they want to play knife fights, and if not, see what games they want to play. Maybe you could even try some jigsaw puzzles. Your current friends seem to be intimidated by your aggressiveness and unique qualities. It may be time to consider finding new friends and disposing of the old. Don’t let anyone be your puppet master! Contact Mistress Barbie for all your social ills and intimate cures: DearMistressBarbie@biogamergirls.com 48

red flags go up? Not one! As the band hypes the town up about their impending HARD ROCKING, by way of a dancing montage, where the band members hop, skip, jump, and mime (yes, mime), Jessie spots Cassie again, and chases her across town. Over the course of the film, Jessie falls madly in love with this 16 year-old girl. So much so, that he writes a tender, yet shitty love ballad, just for her. His love is so passionate it is already penned and rehearsed to perfection by the band! And so, night falls as the band members recuperate from a painful, but not fatal electrocution at the freak residence. It is after this, much anticipated point, does the Freak family ACTUALLY decide to kill the band! This had me cheering in my living room as one by one these big hair band rejects get slaughtered in very cheap and awkward ways. The keyboardist and bassist get murdered by werewolf granny, who regains the power to walk when she puts on her wolf mask. Jessie gets crucified on an oak tree and then receives a weed whacker to the chest, and the drummer gets it while naked in the shower with the blonde hitchhiker as they try, and fail, to recreate the legendary scene from Psycho. Halfway through the running time, we’re one step closer to actually having some zombies show up, and the entire band is murdered. The small town residents bury the guys a foot or two deep in the front yard of Freak Manor, and call it a day. Cassie has a harder time letting go though. She sits beside Jessie’s grave and plays her favorite cassette tape of their ill-fated love, which just so happens to feature...the same

REANIMATION ROCK we heard the band playing earlier in the van! The four fellows rise from their graves to march around town, doing some strange dance, before getting their vengeance against the Freaks that had killed them. Oddly enough, our story doesn’t end there. Before you can say “This movie is retarded” those that were killed by the band rise up from the dead to begin killing anew. That’s right. Zombie Hitler, Werewolf granny, zombie midgets, and even a zombie interpretive dancer! They are all back to tear the quaint little town of Grand Guignol to pieces. Will the band impress the big wig record executive now that they are undead? Can Grand Guignol be saved from the zombie apocalypse? Will the band ever be able to convincingly fake-play their instruments? Will there be any explanation as to why the midget zombie has decided to ride a cow? Will any of the severed head jokes make me laugh? Will Hitler’s gas chamber in the Cave of Death come in handy? You’ll just have to check this puppy out and see for yourself! In all honesty, probably the only truly disturbing aspect of the entire film is Jessie’s strange lusting for Cassie – A 16 year-old girl. The man writes songs about her. He runs after her as she flees. He even corners her to give her a sentimental ring, which seems to win her over. There’s even a fantastic fantasy sequence that takes place towards the end of the film, where the now zombified band rocks out with their brand new Monster Ballad “Cassie”. In it, Jessie sees himself running to embrace his little girl in a secluded area of the woods while he is decked out in a white leisure suite and

HRZ was Krishna Shah’s final film as a director. However, he also directed American DriveIn (1985), Shalimer (1978), and several episodes of Love, American Style. He also wrote some episodes of The Flying Nun, The Six Million Dollar Man, & The Man from UNCLE. Jack Blisner, who played Hilter, only has one other previous credit as The President of the United States in the 1985 film, Crime Killer. Now, that’s ironic! Phil Fondacaro, who plyed Mickey, though was billed as H.G. Golas, certainly had the most varied career out of everyone involved in HRZ. A few of his credits include: playing an Ewok in Star Wars - Return of the Jedi, Vohnkar in Willow, Torok the troll in Troll, Greaser Greg in The Garbage Pail Kids Movie (a TCC Fav!), Sir Nigel Penneyweight in Ghoulies II, Dracula in The Creeps, Cousin It in the Addam’s Family Reunion, and Chihuahua in Land of the Dead. He also appeared in The Doors, Evil Bong, The Polar Express, Bordello of Blood, Phantasm II, Something Wicked This Way Comes, and more. Fondacaro also made many TV appearances: Star Trek: The Next Generation, Thirtysomething, The Adventures of Superboy, Quantum Leap, Married With Children, Santa Barbara, Renegade, Tales from the Crypt, Northern Exposure, Hercules, Sliders, Touched by an Angel, The Pretender, Sabrina, The Teenage Witch, Walker Texas Ranger, CSI, and more. In The Creeps (1997), he became the shortest Count Dracula ever on screen. He is also 3 feet shorter than the tallest Dracula, which was played by Christopher Lee. PERSONAL QUOTE: “It’s not the size of the man in the fight, but the size of the fight in the man.”

TRIVIA: Originally, HRZ was only meant to be a 20-min long short used solely as the feature movie in the ﬁlm, American Drive-In (1985). At some point during production, the decision was made to invest a little bit more money and come out with two full-length feature ﬁlms instead of just one.

Shah’s film, River Niger, starred Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, and Lou Gosset Jr. It garnered many awards, including Best Direction at the Virgin Island International Film Festival and a Golden Globe nomination. Between 1984 - 1990 Shah had an enviable track record as a Hollywood entrepreneur. As President and CEO of Double Helix Films, a public company, and then at the Carnegie Film Group, Shah brought professionalism and gave the company an aggressive stance in the industry. Under his supervision, the company developed and produced several films: `Kiss Daddy Goodnight’ (Uma Thurman’s first film), `Warriors’ (William Shatner & Michael Pare), `Cease Fire’ (Don Johnson), `Matewan’ (James Earl Jones), `Mob Story’ (Margot Kidder), and the all-time horror cult classics, `Sleepaway Camp II & Sleepaway Camp III’. A sequel for Sleepaway Camp is now being made by a major studio.

matching ascot. This can only be the sexual fantasy of a mustachioed pedophile with a rotting brain and a taste for the tacky. That sequence was the one that elicited a serious reaction from me, a strange combination of nervous laughter and stomach churning. The film reaches a climax as the town folks realize the only way to appease the zombies is to allow them to gang bang a virgin girl to death. AND THE TOWN FOLKS ARE COOL WITH THIS! They find this information in some random book (probably the same one Jessie got the Raise the Dead song from) and decide that it’s high time to sacrifice Cassie’s sweet, virginal love-outlet to the hordes of living dead – who probably can’t even get it up anyway.

I mean, kudos for originality, but I have a feeling there was some creative force on this project who liked the prospect of a very young girl getting ﬁddled with a bit too much. The ﬁlm already makes one feel dirty while watching it, simply due to the production values. But the added bonus of this strange Lolita complex makes me want to incinerate my clothes and take a scalding hot bath, while trying to scrub away the stain on my soul with a Brill-O Pad and AJAX.

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Hard Rock Zombies is a one of a kind ﬁlm, unlike anything you’ve ever seen before, and hopefully, you will ever see again. It’s awkward, bargain basement schlock that is hard to really get a grip on, because there’s just so much zany shit going on in every dang scene! People run-

ning around with giant pictures of faces to avoid zombie attacks, people fondling dead women’s breasts, old men ascending to heaven after providing exposition, men parading around in tightey-whiteys! It just has to be seen to be believed! Even then, you may not be able to wrap your mind around it. In the pantheon of zombie cinema, Hard Rock Zombies, is undoubtedly among the very worst. A scummy film at the very bottom of the Trash Cinema dumpster. But no viewer can deny its gonzo kind of creativity and originality. I mean, it didn’t transform into anything good. But for those of us who find the appeal in the baddest of the bad, these are the flicks we are looking for. We’re not looking for something “good.” We’re looking for the forgotten. The oddities. The films everyone else threw away and banished to obscurity decades ago. And for those of us who make up The Collective we find the beauty in such trash. That’s what always keeps us searching, and in the end, always brings us back for more. TCC Film Rating:

DUMPSTER NUGGET! We of The Collective rate ﬁlms on how bad they stink. More cans equal trashy goodness. Less cans equal a more mainstream ﬁlm, even possibly a good, well made piece of crap.

by Amanda Dyar

The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is a horror film that was written and directed by Tom Six. The premise for the movie had developed from an ongoing joke that Tom Six would make to his friends which concerned punishing wrongdoers, like that of child molesters, by connecting their mouths to that of the anus of an obese truck driver. The idea for a German villain came from the concept of events, like the Nazi medical experiments and the German invasion during World War II. Tom Six also had the ingenious idea of including a language barrier between the lead of the centipede and the doctor. The cast of the movie includes Dieter Laser, Akihiro Kitamura, Ashley C. Williams, and Ashlynn Yennie. The film involves a German doctor, Dr. Heiter, played by Dieter Laser, who kidnaps three tourists. Dr. Heiter joins the three tourists Lindsay (Ashley C. Williams), Jenny (Ashlynn Yennie), and Katsuro (Akihiro Kitamura) surgically, mouth to anus. The doctor dreams of making a creature that shares a single digestive system called a “human centipede.” The events of the first part of the film involve the kidnapping and the surgery. The end of the film features the attempted escape by the three victims. The film, although disturbing in nature, is based off implied content rather than directly showing explicit images. Human Centipede was distributed in the United States and Canada by IFC films in 2010. IFC films have been identified in releasing avant-garde works, such as Dead Snow and Antichrist. The film received mixed reviews, but went on to win many rewards on the film festival circuit. A sequel, The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence), is planned for a theatrical release in 2011.

THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE Released 2009 (September) Six Entertainment Pro. Co. Written & Directed by Tom Six Starred: Dieter Laser, Akihiro Kitamura, Andreas Leupold, Ashley C. Williams, Ashlynn Yennie Run Time: 90 min Filmed in the United Kindom & Netherlands Rated: R

The ﬁlm’s concept came about from an ongoing joke that Tom Six had with friends about attaching child molesters’ “mouth to ass of a fat truck driver” as punishment. During test screenings, some individuals walked out because of the controversial content of the ﬁlm. AWARDS: Best Film - Screamfest Jury Prize - Fantastic Fest Best Actor (Dieter Laser) Fantastic Fest

Estimated Film Budget: $1,500,000 Dieter Laser, as Dr. Heiter, the creepy, crazy mad scientist who likes playing with dolls...really big, ﬂeshy human dolls!

Recently, BioGamer Girl traversed the globe in search of the cast of The Human Centipede to ask them about their on set experiences, about their process; and bottle their thoughts on this highly controversial ﬁlm, as well as, get the scoop as to who farted in whose face when and if, at all, did it distrupt the scene and cause the director, Tommy Six, to call “Cut!” So, join us now as we travel to the far away land, the ambiguous land of....(and here altogether known as)...The Other Side Of The Page!!! (Add Creepy Music Now)

Made only $12,424 in the USA on opening weekend. As of June, 2010 the ﬁlm has grossed: $181,467 - Domestic $70,740 - Foreign $252,207 - Worldwide Widest Release: 19 Theaters Closing Date: 07/01/2010 In Release: 63 days / 9 weeks 53

TRIVIA: Dieter Laser played Mantrid on the surreal sci-fi show, LEXX. Mantrid was the supreme BioVizier of His Divine Shadow until he was exiled to a barren snow-covered world. When a part of Mantrid’s psyche is fused with an evil insect he becomes the most powerful destructive force in the Light Universe. Then Mantrid systematically destroys all the matter in the Light Universe, creating billions of robot arms. Mantrid is eventually defeated, but not before he destoryed the entire universe. He was killed by Zev Bellringer when she crushed his cubed essence underfoot! BGG designer & editor, Stavors, watched seasons 3 & 4 of LEXX while laying out this magazine. He loves Zev 1 and rates season 4 as a supreme dumpster nugget!!! Dieter Laser was born on February 12, 1942 in Kiel and raised in Hamburg, Germany. Before his role as Dr. Joseph Heiter, his career started in theater parts such as Macbeth, Don Juan and Valmont. His first cinematic piece was the 1975 film “John Glueckstadt” in which he received the “German Film Award in Gold.” Besides many guest appearances on the most important stages of German language: Berlin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich, Zurich, Vienna, Salzburg-Festival etc. - Dieter starred in over 65 films and television-movies.

Akihiro Kitamura wrote, directed, and starred in two movies: Porno & I’ll Be There With You On Porno he was also the Producer. 54

Akihiro Kitamura Akihiro was born in Kochi, Japan in 1979. He studied acting at the Beverly Hills Playhouse, the North Carolina School of Arts, and the Los Angeles City College for ﬁlmmaking. Akihiro also writes and directs. His acting credits include performances on VH1, MTV, and most recently as the character, Tadashi, on NBC’s hit show, Heroes. BGG: You have been on television in such shows as Heroes and then you’ve done the movie The Human Centipede. How do you prepare for doing such completely different types of roles? AKIHIRO KITAMURA: I acted in The Human Centipede before Heroes. As far as acting goes, being on all fours for The Human Centipede was not a big deal. I think it was because I was the head of the human centipede. But I wasn’t as strong as those other girls. I was still strong, but to me, what was most challenging about being in a horror movie was mentally being tortured by Dieter, who is a very scary and creepy guy. BGG: If you experienced this in real life, being in that type of situation, how do you think you would have reacted? Would it have been similar or different from that of your character? AKIHIRO KITAMURA: I would not have made the same choices. If I was my character, I would totally be nice to the doctor and come up to him like the normal dog. Then I’d get him to trust me, and then fucking stab in the back or something. My character is just too angry, so he doesn’t obey. [laughs] BGG: In the movie there are language barriers. Your character does not understand what is going on or the language the doctor is speaking. How do you think that helped or hurt the environment of the ﬁlm? AKIHIRO KITAMURA: That’s right. That is what I think is so ingenious about what Tom Six has done. My character gets put through a lot, but he cannot communicate with the girls or the doctor, so it makes the situation more intense. BGG: Do you think the language barriers hindered their escape? AKIHIRO KITAMURA: Yeah. The characters couldn’t really communicate until the end when it had to become a team effort. BGG: How was it working with the other cast members? Did you all get along well? AKIHIRO KITAMURA: I think they are all so talented. I was blown away by Ashley’s performance. I had a great time working with those girls. When I went to shoot this

movie, and met them, they did not really show that they were scared. Their ability gave me courage, because I was scared. I was really scared! BGG: So, you were terriﬁed before it even started. Did that make it hard for you to play your character? AKIHIRO KITAMURA: Yeah, I had to have an attitude to do this movie. I couldn’t really imagine doing it without the girls.

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BGG: What about off screen, do you watch horror ﬁlms? And if so, have any of them helped yo to prepared you for this role?

Ashley C Williams & Dieter Laser are both Aquarius.

AKIHIRO KITAMURA: I actually wrote and directed this feature ﬁlm, called, I Will Be There With You. It is like a horror or violent movie. So from that perspective, of a writer and a director, when I heard about the Human Centipede I was like ‘I want to do it!’ Because it is the kind of movie I want to watch. I had a good time.

She is also a ﬁne artist painter, using oil on canvas. Ashley moved very often when she was young, living all over the country; California, Colorado, Virginia, Massachusetts, and New York. She has been a vegetarian since she was 4 years old. She is also a professional Lindy Hop Swing Dancer. Ashley received the Charles Jehlenger Award for Best Actress while at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

Ashley C Williams Ashley was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 24, 1984. She graduated in 2005 from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York. She co-founded, and is Vice-President, of Mind The Art Entertainment. Some of her recent projects include: Bong, Bong, Bong Against the Walls, Romeo & Juliet, and Mind the Arts. BGG: What made you decide to take the role in the Human Centipede? And how did you feel during the process of filmmaking? Did you hate it, love it? ASHLEY C. WILLIAMS: What drew me to the project was how different and unique it was, and how challenging the character would be. To be connected to something and only have the ability to use your eyes for emotion, I was like ‘that’s cool’. I do not think that I have ever seen that in a film before. Well, seen an actress have to do that. BGG: How did you feel during the process of filmmaking? ASHLEY C. WILLIAMS: Tom Six was really awesome and very passionate about the story. Even with how gross it was and sick minded, I was just like this is cool, I would love to be part of it. While shooting, I was really scared. I thought to myself that I do not know how this is going to look, how I am going to feel while doing it, but that turned out to be part of the whole challenge. So, there was a lot of excitement behind it too. It was uncomfortable at first, being in that centipede position. I felt really vulnerable because we were half-naked and I was trying to make sure that nothing was showing. And it was also physically and emotionally demanding. We were crying all day long for like 13

Her middle name is Christina. Ashley is 5’ 4” tall. Ashley has an extensive background in theater and musical theater. Her production company has produced many works of varying art forms that she has also starred in at such venues as The New York International Fringe Festival, La MaMa E.T.C, and the Cherry Lane Theaters. Ashley is currently working on two UK productions: Stagnant - a horror ﬁlm & Snow in Hell - a romantic drama

hours, so it was really draining. BGG: If you were to, in real life, come across someone like Dr. Heiter and became involved in that type of situation, do you think you would have acted the same as your character or make different choices? Human Centipede is 100% medically correct. DID YOUR KNOW: Vladimir Demikhov, who is credited with modern day organ transplants, is best remembered for his two-head dog projects. He would transplant the head and front legs from one dog to the second dog’s body. He created 20 of his two-head creations which were aware and hungry. The creations did not live longer than a month due to tissue rejection. A surgeon in the 1970s named, Robert White, transplanted the head of a monkey successfully to the body of another monkey. Both monkeys were paralyzed from the neck down due to the resulting nerve damage, but the heads could still taste, see, comprehend and feel. Dr. White believed the monkeys could have survived this way, but he put them out of their misery. Joseph Mengele, a SS physician, known as the “Angel of Death” supervised an operation where two twin Gypsy children were sewn together to form a conjoined twin creation. The children’s hands became infected due to the resection of the veins. His surgeries were completed without anesthesia. He was also known for his fanatical methods of drawing blood from the twins for studies. He often bled some of the Jewish children to death this way.

ASHLEY C. WILLIAMS: Well, part of the process of creating that character and being in that position was similar to how I would do it, because this had kind of never been done before. So, I kind of just guessed about how I would feel in that situation. A lot of it came from me asking ‘what would Lindsay do?’ She’s this young American college girl who is really rich and doesn’t know a lot about Europe, or being on her own. But it was also like, ‘Shit, we have gotten ourselves into this position and now there is no going back.’ Also Lindsay’s character is really strong minded and proactive. That’s why she ends up surviving at the end. So, I think I would have done the same thing as me and as my character, but I also would have been super scared. BGG: How was it to work with such an accomplished actor as Dieter Laser? ASHLEY C. WILLIAMS: He kept in character the entire time. He’s a method actor, so it was really hard to get to know him as himself, because he wouldn’t talk to us off set. He kept to himself, he ate in his room, and he didn’t ask us anything about ourselves. He was completely in character the whole time. So, it was really hard, and at the same time, amazing to work with him, because he gave us so much to work with. BGG: In parts of the movie some of the scenes were very humorous and gross at the same time. When doing a scene like that did you find it funny at the time? ASHLEY C. WILLIAMS: No. We had no idea it was funny while making the film. We thought it was the most terrible thing to endure. So, when we finally saw the movie, and people were laughing in the audience, I was like ‘this isn’t funny, what are you talking about?’ Obviously, as actors we’re in a particular position, and we’re crying; we’re not thinking about what the doctor is doing and how that might be perceived by other people. So, it was a learning experience from being an actor to becoming an audience member. It was like I wasn’t sure if this was supposed to be funny, because of the situation, but it is funny, and every time I see it I laugh more.

Ashlynn Yennie Ashlynn graduated in 2006 from The New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. She has worked on pilots for Comedy Central and Spike TV. Her most recent projects include roles on As the World Turns, One Life to Live, and the 2011 ﬁlm, Fetch.

BGG: What made you decide to do this particular movie? ASHLYNN YENNIE: A lot of people ask that question, and I think it had a lot to do with the time that I went in. It wasn’t a script yet. It was just a synopsis of the film. I asked so many questions, because I have never met Tom until I had actually flown to London for the project. I had only met the producer. I asked her a billion questions. My first audition was an hour and half long. I was just so intrigued that someone would want to make a film like this. Tom’s sister, Ilona, is this insanely gorgeous Dutch woman. She’s tall, statuettes, and beautiful. So, when I read the synopsis of Dr. Heiter, and what he was going do, I went into this room thinking that there was going be crazy madman in there, but it turned out to be this beautifully elegant woman just sitting there. I was like ‘What? How in the world are you auditioning me for this role?’ I watched a lot girls walk out of the audition. That kind of did it for me. I was like ‘you know what, I want to take the challenge and do something a little different.’ BGG: How many hours did you spend in the centipede stance, on all fours? ASHLYNN YENNIE: It wasn’t very long at all. They had the prosthetics made that Ashley and I had to wear. The longest was the scars that were put on our faces. That took about an hour and a half each morning. So, as far as being on all fours, we were maybe like that for about 5 to 6 minutes at a time.

Commentary from Tom Six on the DVD and Blue-ray release of The Human Centipede: “Of course, the movie is about shit. And here’s a truckdriver taking a shit to start the ﬁlm with.” “There he is, Dr. Heiter. Oh, man I love his face. Some people say he looks like a dehydrated Christopher Walken. Others say he looks like an evil turtle.”

Ashlynn is 5’ 6” tall.

BGG: What about the crying parts? In most of the scenes, you’re basically screaming and crying most of the time, how did you approach that as an actress? ASHLYNN YENNIE: Well that was a lot of my audition process. Ilona said that the acting I was going to do for 2/3rds of the film was crying and screaming, but that it was also going to be muffled. So, I had to just react with my eyes. That was one of the things that was a huge challenge, to let go and be there emotionally every day. It was great to play a character that, when the film starts, she’s just this girl going out and laughing, having a good time. Then the fear starts to set in, and the torture starts to set in, and then the destruction of the three of them sets in, so I got to play this huge range of emotions throughout the entire course of the film. We shot it in sequence, so it was really easy to understand where everything was going and where you had came from. BGG: Do you like horror movies and do you have any favorites? ASHLYNN YENNIE: I am a big fan, and am scared by films like the Exorcist. One of my teachers knew I was frightened of horror films, so they made me study the genre. She said that I had to get over my fears and learn about them. At the time, I didn’t want to do it, but I ended up studying them anyway. I really like all of the Alfred Hitchcock movies, and older horror films, such as, Rosemary’s Baby. Though nowadays, I can’t watch a Saw or Hostel movie because they are just too much. They are too gory! Though, when I watch something like that I think to myself about how fake it is, such as the blood. It’s really funny how the mind twists and changes, making it become not so scary anymore. When I was in high school I used to get scared by movies like Scream and I Know What You Did Last Summer. That sounds so freaky now.

Ashlynn grew up in Wyoming, watching old black & white films with her mom & two sisters. Ashlynn is starring in the upcoming film, Fetch, which was co-written by Trent Haaga, who wrote the 2009 horror film, Dead Girl. In Fetch, Ashlynn plays Starlene, a drug-addicted, gold-digging stripper who is married to a man she hates.

Tom Six was born on August 29, 1973. His other ﬁlm work includes I Love Dries, Honeyz, and Gay in Amsterdam.

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My Thoughs on Remaking Horror Classics by Jeff “Wickedbeard” Cochran

First off, let me start with my favorite film, Friday the 13th. While most diehard fans were very disappointed with the Friday remake, I was very supportive of the idea and am very happy with the film’s outcome. I went into it with an open mind and a love for the character of Jason Voorhees. I did not attempt to compare the remake to the original film, because in my opinion that would have been silly, as they offer two completely different takes on the classic story. Derek Mears was flawless in his portrayal of Jason. The aggression and overall ferocity his character showed truly captured what I felt Jason should be – an unstoppable killing machine!

As far as the look they chose for the character, I feel that their decision was on point. I hear a lot of people say that they should have gone with the classic look from parts 3 and 4, but I for one am happy they did not. I wanted a fresh and nastier look, a new vision if you will, and I was very pleased with how they portrayed Jason in the remake. I know my opinion vastly differs from most of my horror cohorts and Friday fans, but I believe they would enjoy the movie as much as I do if they would only broaden their imaginations and be more accepting of the remake. If there were one thing I could change about the new Friday the 13th, it would be to the movie‘s soundtrack. I would have loved to hear the classic sounds from the past ﬁlms in the remake. I think that would have made the movie more frightening overall, and it would have been a nice tribute to the original ﬁlm. It would have also been nice if the director would

have been a little more creative with Jason’s kills, but I still greatly enjoyed this movie. As much as I love the previous installments, it was deﬁnitely time for Jason to receive a modern update.

Another classic horror film that has recently been remade is “Halloween.” I am not what you would call a diehard Myers fan, but I grew up with and have always loved the original film, as well as, some of the sequels. However, I eventually thought the Halloween sequels began to get repetitive and boring as they all used the same old style. In those films Myers was the boogeyman, a silent figure lurking in the shadows stalking the young men and women of Haddonfield in his search for his long lost sister. Myers was always silent, deadly and seemingly unstoppable. I have always craved a different attitude from that character, as well as a more monstrous appearance. When Rob Zombie’s Halloween remake was released, the vision I always had for Myers was finally realized. This new Michael Myers no longer hid in the shadows and silently prowled after his victims, but rather systematically destroyed everyone in his path, in a very violent and in-your-face fashion. Many of the diehard fans of the original Halloween movies do not appreciate this remake, but it certainly gets my blood pumping and my heart racing. However, I do agree with the complaints I’ve heard, saying that they could have cut back a little on the profanity and maybe added a little more suspense to the mix. Overall, I thought this was an enjoyable movie and a nice reenactment of a classic horror film. The last movie I want to share my thoughts on is Nightmare on Elm Street. Let me start by saying that I

am a huge Robert Englund fan. He is and always will be Freddy, but I have to give props to Jackie Haley for stepping into some big shoes and playing the role with such passion and ferocity. He did a fabulous job and deserves a lot more respect and kudos than most fans give him. It takes a special individual to take a role that was ﬂawlessly dominated by one man for decades, all the while knowing that he will be torn apart from every would-be critic and naysayer out there. Jackie’s performance was amazing as far as I am concerned, and I look forward to seeing him reprise the role in the future.

I enjoyed a vast majority of the composition of the remake. I loved the kill scenes, dream sequences, and the new look of Freddy. However, I do agree that they should have done a lot more with the character/ victim relationship development. I believe that all of the victims were kind of forgettable and less appealing than past supporting actors and actresses were. The victims play a big part in a ﬁlm’s grasp on the audience, and therefore the characters that surround Freddy should be every bit as important to the ﬁlm as he is. In the remake, I did not feel like the victims did a very good job of this. But the real reason I watched Nightmare on Elm Street was to see Freddy do his thing. Although the new Nightmare on Elm Street has its share of problems, I was overall pleased with the way the movie turned out. No remake will ever be able to recapture the magic of past iconic Horror and Slasher Films that a lot of us grew up with, but at least our favorite horror characters will continue to live on for a new generation of horror lovers to enjoy. To me, that is what is important.

10. Saw 3D Saw 3D, the seventh entry in the Saw franchise, picks up right where Saw 6 ended. Detective Mark Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) escapes the trap he was placed in by Jill Tuck (Betsy Russell) and continues to ﬁght her over the legacy left behind by Jigsaw (Tobin Bell). Saw 3D is easily the best one in the series since the third movie.

9. After Life After Life was a real treat. It was different from almost every other horror movie out there. After Life centers around Anna Taylor (Christina Ricci), who dies in a car crash, but wakes up in the funeral home while Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) is preparing her body for her funeral. Although she does not want to accept her fate, Anna becomes convinced that Eliot can communicate with the dead and is the only person that can help her transition into the afterlife. Justin Long also stars as Anna’s heartbroken boyfriend, Paul. The movie plays out nicely, making one wonder if she is really dead or alive.

8. Skyline Now some might say Skyline is more sci-ﬁ than horror. But I put it in the horror genre because of the way the plot unfolds. It threw certain things at the viewer that was distinctly horror. Skyline follows a group of people that live on the top ﬂoor of an apartment building that have no way out when an alien invasion begins. Their only choice is to try to survive by hiding out in their apartments. Skyline was well made and sported the scariest alien invasion I can ever remember watching. Though, Skyline falls

to #8 because of its ending. It left the ﬁlm lacking. If the ﬁlmmakers were to change the end then it would easily move to #2.

7. Nightmare on Elm Street (Remake) Now, I’ve always been a huge fan of the original Nightmare on Elm Street, so I was afraid the remake wouldn‘t live up to it. I could not have been more wrong, because I absolutely loved this ﬁlm. They gave Freddy Kruger a great new look and voice, and Jackie Earle Haley gave Robert Englund a run for his money in the prized role of Freddy. One of the main things I loved about this nightmare was the back story. The original just talked about it. In this version we get a front row seat to the horrors that created the dream king. The only bad thing I can say about this movie is that it didn’t really need to be remade. The 1984 Nightmare on Elm Street is still an enjoyable ﬁlm to watch. It has weathered time well, none of its grisly humor and iconic charm feels dated. With that said, I’m glad they remade it, because now a new generation of moviegoers has a chance to be entertained by one of the greatest horror monsters of all time!

6. Survival of the Dead Survival of the Dead is the latest zombie movie from the king of the living dead, George A. Romero. With movies like Shaun of the Dead and Zombieland successfully mixing zombies with comedy, I knew it wasn’t going to be long before Romero made his very own Zomedy. Survival takes some of the smaller characters from Diary of the Dead and gives them a back story. In lots of ways it is a se-

quel to Diary of the Dead. The main plot is taken from the old Hatﬁelds and McCoy feud as two rival families continue to ﬁght over land, braggin’ rights, and who makes the best hooch in the impending undead apocalypse. Alex Van Sprang and Kenneth Welsh are hilarious and kept me laughing long after it was over.

5. Devil Devil really came as a surprise to me, because the story was from M. Night Shyamalan. A lot of his recent movies have been sheer disappoints. So, I didn’t have high hopes going into Devil. But this movie was surprisingly good. Directed by John Erick Dowdle. It follows a group of people trapped on an elevator, though with a twist. Trapped on the elevator is a mechanic (Logan Marshall-Green), a young woman (Bojana Novakovic), an elderly woman (Jenny O’Hara), a guard (Bokeem Woodbine), and a salesman (Geoffrey Arend). Secretly, one of them is the devil. At ﬁrst, I didn’t think Devil would be scary, but it was creepier than I ever imagined, revealing character back stories throughout the entire ﬁlm. Devil keeps you guessing, at the edge of your seat, until the credits roll!

4. The Crazies The Crazies is a remake of the 1973 George A. Romero movie of the same name. I haven’t seen George’s ﬁlm, so I can’t really compare the two. But Breck Eisner’s 2010 version is amazing. This virus gone wrong in a small town movie comes about as close as one can get to a zombie ﬁlm without technically having any zombies in it. When an airplane carrying toxic chemicals crashes into a nearby river this small Iowa hamlet gets turned inside out, and not just by the infected crazed locals, but by the US Military as well. A small group of survivors, lead by 59

local sheriff David Dutten (Timothy Olyphant) and his wife Judy Dutten (Radha Mitchell), battle the town’s once docile residents as they struggle to evade soldiers following strict protocols. This movie quickly captures your attention and makes you feel like you’re a part of the chaos.

3. Paranormal Activity 2 Being a huge fan of the first Paranormal Activity, I went into this movie expecting greatness. I am happy to say that I was not disappointed. Paranormal Activity 2 takes place before the events in the first movie ever happened. Of course, spooky stuff happened then and cameras were installed throughout the house to try and capture the strange phenomena, similar to what the couple did in the first film. And just like the first one, PA2 is wickedly scary with great storytelling. So much so that I’m hoping for a third installment to round the whole paranormal activity into an unholy trilogy!

2. The Human Centipede Every now and then a movie comes around that is completely unique from everything else you have seen. The Human Centipede is such a movie, one of the best films that I’ve watched all year. As an independent film it wasn’t advertised that much and had a limited release. This was partially due to the controversial nature of the story. Though sick and twisted, the story is well written. Penned by director Tom Six, T.H.C. stars Dieter Laser as a demented surgeon who captures three tourist and stitches them together, going ass to mouth, to form a human centipede with a single digestive track. Being an indie film, you would suspect to suffer through bad acting and cheaply made props, though I am happy to add that you will not find any of that here. The Human Centipede is an excellently crafted psychological drama with spectacular acting.

1. Let Me In Let Me In is an American remake of the Swedish film, Let The Right One In, which came out in 2008. I watched the original foreign film when it came out, and even though reading subtitles is slightly annoying, it was still the best vampire movie I had ever seen. When I heard Matt Reeves was creating the American version I was very excited. Let Me In stayed true to the original and managed to improve upon it. I liked it better. Maybe it was the fact that I didn’t have to read subtitles anymore or just the awesome actors they cast in the film. But either way, Let Me In was better than I ever could have imagined. The movie follows a young boy named Owen (Kodi Smit-McPhee) who has no friends and always gets beat up by bullies in school. He ends up meeting a girl named, Abby (Chloë Grace Moretz), who happens to be a vampire. They build a strong friendship and she helps him out with a few things. Let Me In is not just the best horror movie of the year, it is the best movie, in any genre, of the year!

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Top 10 Worst Horror Movies of 2010 By Michael Rodgers

10. 30 Days of Night: Dark Days Not enough action, very dry acting, and just no reason for a sequel; but it was still a hell of a lot better than the ﬁrst one!

9. 2001 Maniacs: Field of Screams This movie gave me a headache. The audio was out of sync, which did not improve the atrocious dialog. The only good thing about this ﬁlm was....well, the nudity. Just too bad it wasn’t enough to save it from this list.

8. Dead Snow I couldn’t even ﬁnish it. Terrible acting, horrible dialog – on top of having to read poorly transcribed subtitles. I just couldn’t bare it.

7. Legion Good special effects and an interesting idea though tragically executed. Cheesy in parts, but not the good kind of cheesy, just bad.

6. The Last Exorcism Nothing about this movie was remotely scary. Which arguably doesn’t matter, but it was advertised to be more scary than Paranormal Activity! Avoid the Hype!

5. The Wolfman The makers of this movie forgot one thing. And that was to make it interesting! I found it hard to stay awake.

4. Night of the Demons A remake of a 1988 ﬁlm of the same name, and that’s the only similarity. I loved the original. Good thing this doesn’t stand a chance to take that away!

3. Case 39 This movie was really annoying. Its about a nosy social worker, played by Renée Zellweger, who keeps sticking her nose where it doesn’t belong. Having to look at her squinty eyes for an hour and a half just made the ﬁlm worse.

2. Daybreakers Terrible! The plot wasn’t even thought out well enough to be a full-length feature ﬁlm. Too bad nobody caught that before it went into production!

1. Black Swan Its annoying that this movie is even considered a horror film. Nothing about Black Swan was scary or interesting. The whole movie was full of... Wait for it.... Ballet! Natalie Portman & Mila Kunis. Honestly, I think they just made this film to show off how hot these girls are. The story meandered from boring to just plain weird until finally it ended. Thank God, it ended.

One Dark, Eerie Night, in an abandoned old building in the backwoods of the deep South, I was able to creep up behind fetish model/actress/writer, Lily Haze, as she was posing for a horrific, yet sexy, zombie pin up shoot, and surprise her with a spine chilling interview. One, that Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna die for...

BGG: So Lily, tell us a little about your background - where were you born? Grew up? B L Haze: I was born in Baltimore, Maryland on the corner of a street called S. Cary. Lily We called it Scary Street, because to us, it was. We moved when I was 8, but I have vivid W m memories of the kids who skateboarded and blasted music on that street at 2am, and the homeless man who died on my neighbor’s stoop. Good times. h BGG: As a toddler were you a biter, a screamer, a loner, or one of the group? B Lily Haze: [Laughing] I was a weird kid. I wanted to learn in nursery school, and when I L was told to go play I protested by sitting on the bench, refusing to join in. I was 3 years old w when I learned the meaning of the word “malicious” because it was used on my report card to w describe my silent protests. d I was about 5 when I began telling my mother that she had no respect for me and I began trying to make deals about my bedtime. I started journal writing around age 6, to practice my writing skills. Those books have several references to my mother’s unfair bedtime policies. [Laughs] My parents and I were very close despite my almost political tendencies. My mom and I read the first chapter of the book The Hobbit together at bedtime when I was 6. We continued to read together for many years; and trade books to this day. BGG: The Hobbit is a great book! So, would you consider yourself a bookworm? Lily Haze: When I was 8 my longest love affair was with Nancy Drew novels. In school I made friends with other outcasts. But I changed schools so often that friendships were fleeting at best. Growing up, I had a lot of “study-buddies” who wanted my notes. [winks!] But there were very few people I would call true friends. I often played the mediator when my friends fought amongst themselves, because I was the only one who could listen without taking sides.

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BGG: Interesting. So what would you say fuels your ambition to be a fetish model, actress, and writer? Is there any one particular art that you would rather see succeed more than another? Lily Haze: I love to perform. More than anything, I want to spend my life as an entertainer. I’ve been “on” since I could talk. My mom told me I used to entertain the old ladies on the bus when I was a toddler. Being a Fetish Model is fun since it’s like playing dress-up, in the naughty way. Though, I feel most at home as an actress. Which is to say, I’m a bit of an escapist by nature and how better to escape than to become someone else for hours or even days at a time? BGG: How has the environment you are in shaped your passions (fetish model, actress, writer)? Lily Haze: The environment I am in is a result of my passions. I wanted to model, but I don’t exactly have the look for runway or Haute Couture. With this said, I find the fetish industry very interesting. When my manager, Bill, discovered me I told him I had always wanted to act, but didn’t know how to get started. He guided me in finding my way and the more I do it, the more it feels like home. BGG: You have a zombie role in the upcoming film Infected, starring actors such as Michael Madsen, Christy Romano, and William Forsythe. How was it working with them? Do you have any behind-the-scenes stories? Lily Haze: Infected was a different experience than other projects. The attitude on the set 62

With Madsen on the set of Infected

was very much hurry up and wait. When I mentioned I was from Baltimore, Madsen’s reaction was, “I got in a bar fight in Baltimore.” BGG: How long was the makeup and/or wardrobe process? Lily Haze: I made my own wardrobe with some old clothes and a pair of scissors. The makeup process went quickly since the makeup artist shared with me some awesome and interesting stories from previous jobs. BGG: How did you get…Infected? Lily Haze: I met the director and writer at Monster Mania in Hunt Valley, Maryland. BGG: So, what’s next? What are you working on now?

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Lily Haze: Well, I am currently cast in the lead role of an indie film L project called, Savor, written by Stavros, author of the intriguing p novel, Blood Junky. It’s a thriller and I’m very excited about it! I n ccan’t give too much away just yet, but suffice to say…it’s a delicious part. [Laughs] In tandem with the film, Bill, Stavros, and I are p producing a Calendar for 2012 that’s a bit horror and glam. p BGG: I see. (Noticing the photo set) How did the two of you meet? B

LH with cute ‘lil Random Lee Spaztik (playing Z) being undead at Monster Mania

Lily Haze: We met at Monster Mania too. It was a brilliant L networking day for all! [Laughs] He was there selling his book, n Blood Junky, which is awesome by the way. Another model was B there with him dressed up as one of his character. We all hung out t and had a blast. Random (the model) is adorable and Stavros, being the multi-talented guy he is, showed me some of his photography. We have since done a shoot in Ellicot City that is pure art.

BGG: Are there any other actors, directors, and/or producers that you would love to work with? Lily Haze: I would like to work with Joss Whedon, hands down. And I would love to be in something by Julien Temple. Also I would love to be in a musical, preferably something subversive like Reefer Madness: The Musical. BGG: I saw that you have a Bachelors Degree in Communications with a Minor in Psychology, what made you decide to get a degree in that particular field? And have you applied the knowledge you gained from the degree into your creative work?

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Lily Haze: To be entirely honest, I chose communications because I liked the department. The classes were interesting and b tthe teachers were eccentric. I was 16 when I started college, so had no idea what I wanted to do. Naturally, I went with what h I enjoyed at the time. I adored my psychology classes and this ffueled me to keep taking them. By my senior year of school, I had enough credits for a minor, so I added it on. Psychology h has always appealed to me, because I find people fascinating. h Although, most of it seems like common sense, when you stop to A llook at it. I would like to pursue some type of higher education iin psychology one day, and take courses in human sexuality. Before I was modeling and acting full time, I was looking into B ggetting a degree as a Sex Therapist. 63

BGG: So, where did you learn to be so carefree with your body in front of the lens? Lily Haze: In my opinion it‘s a simple equation, naked = fun. I was 17 when it hit L me that individuals would pay me to do what I was already doing for free in my m dorm, such as being naked. So when I hit 18, I was raring to go! d BGG: Legal tender. B Lily Haze: Very tender. [Laughs] L BGG: [Laughing] What do you think the hardest thing is these days doing what you B do? d

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L Haze: Well, I work my ass off every day in order to keep everything headed in Lily tthe right direction. Bill and I run my fetish site, my career, aand all of our side projects. It’s become a full time job jjust keeping our heads above water, but I think it will be worth it. w

BGG: I recently heard that your manager suffered a heart attack; has that altered your plans any? And how is he? Lily Haze: Bill is alright now. He just needs to remember to take it easy. He is extremely lucky to have survived with his bad habits of smoking, unhealthy eating, and chronic stress. I monitor his activities and make sure he takes his pills, but our plans haven’t changed too much. BGG: What do you want out of life? For a career? Lily Haze: I would like to get a feeling of contentment and a sense of accomplishment out of life. I want my career to make me want to wake up in the mornings excited that it’s a workday. I also want it to never feel stagnant. I like feeling passionate about what I do. BGG: Where do you see yourself in a year? Five years? Ten Years? Lily Haze: Dare I say, Hollywood? BGG: What are some of your traits that you would be consider geeky? Weird? Funny? Or, annoying? Lily Haze: I don’t know how other people would categorize these traits, but here are a few fun facts: I love using archaic slang like nifty and gee whiz. I have had entire conversations in movie quotations. I know and tell a lot of dead baby jokes. I enjoy doing photo-shoots where I am covered in fake blood and gore. I can walk down the street reading a book and not miss a step, yet I bump into furniture in my mother’s house that has been there for over a decade. I occasionally hold conversations with inanimate objects. I am one of the “girliest” girls I know, but I love reptiles and earthworms, and can climb a tree in heels. BGG: Are you a Gamer? If so, what are your favorite games? And what games are you currently playing? Lily Haze: I have a lot of friends who play World of Warcraft (WoW) on PC and I always enjoy watching them play. With my addictive personality, I have not played it myself out of fear of never getting off it. I would never get anything else done! On the other hand, I do love my Sims 2 game, especially with the cheat codes that allow you

In the Swellco studio. Taken by the late Acid Squid.

to impregnate characters through alien probing. I made an entire village of aliens once that way. I’m also really into the Plants vs. Zombies game right now. BGG: During a zombie attack or outbreak of a virus, would you prefer to be a survivor or a zombie? And what would be your weapons of choice? Lily Haze: I would be a survivor and my weapons of choice would be a machine gun, provided the kickback wouldn’t kill me. And any sharp shooter that reloads quickly. BGG: So you can only carry a backpack of stuff through this zombie invasion, what are you going to put in it?

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Lily Haze: I would include weapons, freeze dried food (such as fruit), and nuts. Along with my copy of Lolita and The Song of the Lioness Quartet by Tamora Pierce. And lastly condoms, because you never know. BGG: What do you think would be your survival rating and how long do you think you could hold out? Lily Haze: If I was alone then I don’t think I’d survive for long. I’m naturally a social creature, so in a group of my friends, I think we would fare pretty well. BGG: If you could pick anyone in the world, who would you want on B your team in order to survive a zombie apocalypse? y Lily L Haze: Chuck Norris. [Laughs] BGG: [Laughing] Do you have any special skills that would come in B handy during a zombie outbreak? h Lily L Haze: I’m surprisingly calm in a crisis and good at organizing people. p BGG: If it comes down to it, what are you willing to do to survive? B Could you kill a zombie child, your friends, or even family? C Lily L Haze: Zombies lose their humanity. l I would rather my loved ones kill me l than let me become t one. So yeah, I’d do o what w I had to do to survive. s Personal Site: lilyhaze. yolasite.com Facebook: facebook.com/ lilysincere Horror Site: hazeshorrorcraze.yolasite.com

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Photo Credits: Voxefx (model mayhem #148575). Stephen Cohen (http://web.me.com/cohen9/www.scohenphoto.com/Welcome.html). The Acid Squid; Swellco Studios. Joseph Morales. Bill George. Stavros (www.bitemereallyhard.com / www.artisfactstore.com) 65

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Basic Halloween Style Zombie Makeup Feeling Undead? Looking to step out as a Zombie one night, or planning a custom for Halloween, then here’s an easy step-by-step makeup fx that you can do at home. To achieve this look you will need the following: ﬁg. 0

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There are two types of wounds you can make. Both look great, but when creating your zombie look its good to know how you died.

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To make a wound using paper towels, follow these steps:

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Step1: Make an outline in latex on the face of where you desire your wounds to be. Step2: Apply paper towel over the wound area. Paper towel may need trimmed down once already on the face. Step3: Apply latex to the outer part of the paper towel, and blend into the skin.

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To make a wound using cotton balls, follow these steps: Step1: Make an outline in latex on the face of where you desire your wounds to be. Step2: Form the cotton in the same shape of the wound and apply. Make sure the cotton stays ﬂat. Step3: Apply a thin layer of latex over the cotton and blend into the skin. ﬁg. 2.2

Now you can begin your base coat of makeup while the latex dries. Step1: Using the base color, which I am using the ghoul gray purchased at any Halloween specialty store, blend into the skin. Another color for the base is optional, depending on your preference. However earth-tone colors are what I recommend to achieve the best “zombie” effect. Avoid putting makeup around the eyes, this will be done later. For the best effect allow the skin tone to show through the makeup.

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Step2: Apply the black cream makeup around the eyes. Be sure to blend the black into the gray. Step3: Use the tweezers to tear apart the mid-section of the paper towel wound. Be sure to leave a complete paper towel circle around the wound. The same can be done with the cotton. Step4: Apply black cream makeup into the holes you have torn into the wounds. This will give the effect of depth. Step5: Add blood to the inside of the wounds and anywhere else you desire blood. ﬁg. 3.5 ﬁg. 3.2

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Step1: Mix corn syrup with red food coloring. You will need: Step2: Add a few drops of blue food • Corn Syrup • Red & Blue Food Coloring coloring to make the blood appear darker. Step3: Add water. For thicker blood, add • Water less water. ------> Fake Blood Recipe:

You can also make zombie-like wounds using cornflakes and/or rice crispy cereal: Step1: Apply latex to area on face where you desire your wound. Make sure the area of latex is not just an outline, but a completely filled in area. Step2: Apply pieces of cornflakes and/or rice crispy cereal to latexed area. Now allow drying time for the latex.

Step4: Apply fake blood where the corn ﬂakes and/ or rice crispies are to cover them. Step5: Allow to dry. Congratulations! You have now achieved Halloween Zombie Makeup. Go shamble in the streets! Special Thanks to Jeremy & Justin!

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