Horror Highlights: TRICK ’R TREAT Doll, ME AND MY MATES VS. THE ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE, BAD ACID, ECHOES

2016/05/19 14:21:20 +00:00 | Tamika Jones

When Sam shows up at your door, usually your luck has officially run out, but Mezco Toyz's Sam doll is an exception to that rule. Accompanying Sam in today's Horror Highlights, we have a new clip from Me and My Mates Vs. The Zombie Apocalypse, a trailer for the short film Bad Acid, and Echoes graphic novel cover art and release details.

Mezco Toyz's Trick 'R Treat Doll: From Mezco Toyz: "He may look like a child dressed for trick or treating, but Sam is the personification of Halloween itself.

Straight from the film Trick 'r Treat comes Sam, the enforcer of the rules of Halloween. Beneath his apparently innocent scarecrow mask is his misshapen, demonic head. Part pumpkin, part supernatural being, Sam shows no mercy to those who show disrespect to his holiday.

Sam comes complete with his infamous and mysterious sack and his deadly oversized lollipop. He wears his film accurate removable hood mask and his orange footie pajamas. Sam stands 10" tall, features 5 points of articulation, and comes packaged in a collector friendly, specially die-cut window box.

Brand: Living Dead Dolls

Expected to Ship: Oct – Nov 2016.

$46.00."

New Me and My Mates Vs. The Zombie Apocalypse Clip: Press Release: “Studio City, CA – (April 18, 2016) – The Australian zombie comedy, Me and My Mates vs. the Zombie Apocalypse (MAMM), is heading to North America this summer! Starring three of Australia’s biggest comedians: Alex Williamson, Jim Jefferies, and Greg Fleet, Me and My Mates vs. the Zombie Apocalypse will be released on July 5th, 2016, on DVD, VOD, and Digital channels throughout U.S. and Canada by Lightyear Entertainment.

The film follows three blue-collar Australian telecom tradesman, and some of their friends, who are trapped in a telephone exchange during the onset of a zombie apocalypse. MAMM is the first “oz-zom-com” and the laughs and mayhem are nonstop.

Jefferies is well-known in America for his FX series Legit, his 2014 Netflix special, Bare, his 2012 Epix special, Fully Functional, his 2010 Comedy Central special Alcoholocaust, and his 2009 HBO special, I Swear To God. He regularly sells out giant tours in North America.

Williamson, a worldwide internet sensation, has 65 million views on his youTube channel, and over a million Facebook followers. He has sold out standup shows all over the world.

Fleet has starred in various Australian TV shows for the past 4 decades and is best known for Thai Die, Full Frontal, and The Hard Word.

The film was produced by Daniel Sanguineti and Christian Doran, and written and directed by emerging filmmaker Declan Shrubb on the Red Epic 4K. Rights were licensed by Lightyear Entertainment (distributed through eOne Distribution) from worldwide sales agent Shoreline Entertainment.”

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Short Film Bad Acid Trailer and Release Details: "BAD ACID is the debut short film from British writer/director David Chaudoir. The story of a washed-up cabaret hypnotist. It blends hypnotic suggestion, hallucination and demonic apparition in a wry, tragically comedic, dark fantasy, exploring the fleeting nature of fame.

Bad Acid is the writer/director’s love letter to the films of Amicus and Hammer from the 1970s. Coming to festivals soon."

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Echoes Cover Art and Pre-Order Details: Press Release: "MILWAUKIE, OR—Dark Horse Comics announces the latest original graphic novel from Mike Richardson (Father’s Day, 47 Ronin) and Gabriel Guzmán (Father's Day, Lady Death):Echoes.

Troubled pilot Fred Martin is caught in a bizarre storm and loses control of his aircraft. Martin awakens unharmed, only to discover that he is thirty years in the past with the impossible opportunity to right the wrong that ruined his future. But to prevent murder, will he commit murder?

Written by Richardson, creator of The Mask and Timecop, and illustrated by Guzmán, Echoes is fantasy drama on a human scale, a provocative journey into how the past is always present.

Echoes (978-1506701233 / $14.99) debuts on November 23, 2016. Pre-order your copy today at your local comic shop or through these fine retailers:

Amazon
Barnes and Noble

*Echoes reunites Father’s Day creative team Richardson and Guzmán.

*Richardson’s 47 Ronin, illustrated by Stan Sakai, was named in the top ten in the 2015 YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens list."

About the Author - Tamika Jones

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).

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