The end of days is nigh in the new trailer for Fire City: End of Days, directed by Tom Woodruff Jr. Also: new programming announcements from the 2015 Mile High Horror Film Festival, release details for Aquarius Season 1 and zombie web comic When It's Over.

Fire City: End of Days: Press Release: "Burbank, CA - Academy Award Winning Creature and Character Effects Designer Tom Woodruff Jr. makes his highly-anticipated directorial debut with Fire City: End of Days, hitting DVD and Digital October 6 from Uncork’d Entertainment.

Set in a world where demons live among us, this exhilarating vitrine of effects and action sees a hard-boiled demon named Vine confronted with the ultimate choice between the salvation of his own kind and the life of an innocent human girl. Tobias Jelinek (Hocus Pocus), Danielle Chuchran (SAGA: Curse of the Shadow), Glee’s Harry Shum Jr, and Kristin Minter (TVs E.R) star.

Fire City, written by Brian Lubocki and Michael Hayes and inspired by Woodruff’s short film, Fire City: King of Miseries, was successfully financed by way of a Kickstarter campaign in 2013.

The Highland Film Group handled sales for the film."

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Mile High Horror Film Festival 2015: Press Release: The Mile High Horror Film Festival along with our media partner, FANGORIA are thrilled to announce the first wave of programming for the 2015 festival, which is taking place October 1-4 at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema in Littleton, CO!

In addition to the previously announced retrospective screenings of The Phantom of the Opera, The Return of the Living Dead, Silver Bullet, The Descent and The Shining, as well as the All-Day Musical Showcase (featuring Ari Lehman's First Jason), the live We'll See you in Hell Podcast, the LGBT in Horror Panel and Tales of Halloween (with a Neil Marshall Q&A moderated by filmmaker Adam Green!), the first wave of Mile High Horror Film Fest's cinematic line-up includes:

A Christmas Horror Story,
starring William Shatner and co-directed by Steve Hoban (Darknet), Brett Sullivan (Ginger Snaps 2) and Grant Harvey (She Make Me Do It)

- Julien Seri's Taxi Terror Night Fare

- Dan Berk and Robert Olsen's domestic thriller Body, starring Helen Rogers (V/H/S) and indie genre icon Larry Fessenden

-Jason Krawczyk's festival favorite He Never Died, starring Henry Rollins (Feast)

-Onur Tukel's scathing horror comedy Applesauce, starring Dylan Baker (Trick 'r Treat), Max Casella (Inside Llewyn Davis) and Trieste Kelly Dunn (Banshee)

- Ben Cresciman's transgressive directorial debut Sun Choke, starring Barbara Crampton (Re-Animator), Sarah Hagan (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and Sara Malakul Lane (Scout's Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse)

Bite, the latest gruesome genre offering from Chad Archibald (The Drownsman)

- Karyn (Jennifer's Body) Kusama's slow-burn psychodrama The Invitation starring Logan Marshall-Green (Prometheus), Tammy Blanchard (The Good Shepherd) and John Carroll Lynch (American Horror Story: Freak Show)

- Mickey Keating's Darling, starring co-stars Sean Young, Larry Fessenden, and Lauren Ashley Carter

- Hector Hernandez Vicens' shocking Spanish thriller The Corpse of Anna Fritz

- Todd Strauss-Schulson's audience-slaying slasher satire The Final Girls, starring Taissa Farmiga (American Horror Story), Malin Akerman (Watchmen) and Adam DeVine (Workaholics)

Furthermore, Mile High Horror Film Festival and FANGORIA are also announcing a 10th Anniversary screening of Rob Zombie's The Devil's Rejects with none other than Captain Spaulding himself, Sid Haig, in attendance!

In addition to these films, previously announced guests at this year's Mile High Horror Film Festival include Scream Queen legend Linnea Quigley, actor Ron Chaney, The Shining twins Lisa & Louise Burns, genre vet Joseph Turkel, horror icon Kane Hodder, comedians Joe DeRosa & Patrick Walsh, The I In Evil author/FANGO Scribe Ken Hanley, Final Destination writer Jeffrey Reddick and the aforementioned filmmakers Neil Marshall & Adam Green!

With one month before the madness of Mile High Horror Film Festival 2015, the MHHFF, and FANGORIA will be making more exciting announcements coming soon!

Memberships for the 2015 MHHFF are available here:
http://mhhff.com/ Individual tickets will be released September 9th on a first come, first served basis.

RSVP for the MHHFF here:
https://www.facebook.com/events/386711454833774/"

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Aquarius: "Los Angeles, 1967. Welcome to the Summer of Love. Aquarius stars David Duchovny as Sam Hodiak, a seasoned homicide detective whose investigations dovetail with the activities of real-life cult leader Charles Manson in the years before he masterminded the most notorious killings of a generation, the Tate-LaBianca murders. A small-time but charismatic leader with big plans, Manson has begun to build up his "family", recruiting vulnerable young men and women to join his cause. Teaming up with a young cop who will help him infiltrate Manson's circle, Hodiak is forced to see things through the questioning eyes of someone who came of age amongst the current anti-establishment counterculture. Edgy, addictive and visually stunning, the Age of Aquarius is here.

Available On DVD and Blu-Ray September 15, 2015. Starring: David Duchovny, Emma Dumont, Grey Damon, Gethin Anthony and Claire Holt.

AQUARIUS: The Complete First Season” BLU-RAY™

Street Date: September 15, 2015
Catalog #: BD63634
UPC: 013132636344
Run Time: 590 Minutes
Rated: Not Rated
SRP: $59.99
Format: Widescreen Presentation 1.78:1
Audio: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
Subtitles: English SDH and Spanish

“AQUARIUS: The Complete First Season” DVD

Street Date: September 15, 2015
Catalog #: DV63633
UPC: 013132636337
Run Time: 590 Minutes
Rated: Not Rated
SRP: $49.98
Format: Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English SDH and Spanish"

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When It's Over: Press Release: "Zombies have been done to death (no pun intended). The dead rise, the world comes to a halt and humans are the true monsters, blah, blah, brains. It’s this slow repetition that When It’s Over (whenitsovercomic.tumblr.com) hopes to end.

When It’s Over is a new free to read web comic series that takes a different approach to the zombie genre by answering the question "what would happen if the zombies lost?" In this world, humanity has eradicated the horde after 5 long years of fighting and now the only people left are the ones who were willing to betray those who trusted them most.

Set in the forested American northwest, four of these not-so-innocent survivors wander the land, carrying the weight of the broken world on their shoulders, looking for a home, and hoping to keep their terrible secrets.

“It’s like Y the Last Man meets The Walking Dead,” says Johannes Vick (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004874477916) (penciler, inker).

The first 2 pages of the comic series will be available on their website: whenitsovercomic.tumblr.com, today at 5:30 pm EST. Like many webcomics today, When It’s Over is free to read, running completely on donations and Patreon, which also goes live today (patreon.com/whenitsover). The rewards for patrons range from pencil sketches to featuring their own original characters in the series.

Helming this project with Vick is Roman Howell (https://www.facebook.com/roman.howell) (author, letterer), an award-winning screenwriter who has been developing the When It’s Over world for more than 4 years. “One of my friends asked me how I would survive the zombie apocalypse, to which I said, ‘I would grab everything I could, throw it in a truck and drive across the country until it was over.’ This was actually the inspiration for my first main character,” says Howell.

Along with the release of the first page is the premiere of a teaser trailer, directed by Howell, of the entire series, which can be seen here (https://youtu.be/B7y2632koNE). Starring in the trailer is Joey Perillo (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0673776/) (Twelve Monkeys, The Sopranos, Veep).

To be able to talk with fans of When It’s Over, Howell and Vick host a weekly podcast “Sketch & Scotch” every Sunday at 10pm EST. Here readers can watch Vick work on the latest page while the two bicker over comics."

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    Tamika hails from North Beach, Maryland, a tiny town inches from the Chesapeake Bay.She knew she wanted to be an actor after reciting a soliloquy by Sojourner Truth in front of her entire fifth grade class. Since then, she's appeared in over 20 film and television projects. In addition to acting, Tamika is the Indie Spotlight manager for Daily Dead, where she brings readers news on independent horror projects every weekend.

    The first horror film Tamika watched was Child's Play. Being eight years old at the time, she remembers being so scared when Chucky came to life that she projectile vomited. It's tough for her to choose only one movie as her favorite horror film, so she picked two: Nosferatu and The Stepford Wives (1975).