Award Winning Zombie Film The Eschatrilogy: Book of the Dead Hitting DVD and VOD

The European zombie anthology film The Eschatrilogy: Book of the Dead from Safehosue Pictures U.K has been making the festival rounds and been sweeping up the awards.
Runner up best film at Fantastic Fest U.K, being an official selection at the Killer Film Festival in Massachusetts as well as being an official selection at Grimmfest in 2012.
Director Damian Morter's third film is currently at the Cannes market and we have the official trailer to get you ready for the DVD and VOD release this August.

Synopsis
"THE WORLD HAS CHANGED...AND IT'S FULL OF MONSTERS...

​The population is now scarce...a young man called Matthew now seeks refuge and solitude in the hill tops and mountains, spending his days repetitively picking up the starving dead by the roadside and burning them on his fire. One day he encounters Cal, a mysterious stranger who passes out in his camp. Matthew takes him in, and upon inspecting Cal's possesions, he comes across a journel, which documents 3 stories of horror Cal has experienced upon his search for "THE STORYTELLER" an ancient demon who has caused the death and chaos which now surrounds them...but as Cal sleeps and Matthew reads on, something approaches from the forests around them and soon. they will no longer be alone..."

Warm Bodies (2013)

Warm Bodies is a daring, refreshing take on the zombie apocalypse. With humor and great acting this little film is solid and is even better then one might think.
The film starts out with the main protagonist of the film R, played by Nicholas Hoult. The opening sets the tone of the movie perfectly. It's comedy is spot on with the subject matter and hearing R the zombie talking to himself and expanding his thoughts on himself and everyone else being a zombie is great. It's a refreshing take on the deadbeat rundown zombie genre seeing it from a zombie's perspective for once. Some of the hardcore zombie fans will hate it but everyone else should breath it in like fresh air. 
The story here is simple. Zombie apocalypse happens and survivors are trying to survive, they raid a building with zombies, R sees a beautiful woman Julie played by the lovely Teresa Palmer. R captures Julie and keeps her safe from the other zombies and tries to get her back to where she came from. The chemistry that Hoult and Palmer have together is what really makes the film. As R and Julie spend more time together they get closer together and you see R display more human emotion as they bond closer to each other. The trailers and even the posters have basically labelled this film Twilight with zombies and it most certainly is not Twilight with zombies. It's about being and feeling human and what that is. Yes, romance and love is a part of being human but they don't focus their attention too much as they play with other emotions to create an interesting zombie trying to return to human form. 
One of the new things they have thrown into the exhausted formula are creatures called Bonies which eat both zombies and humans. This shakes things up a bit as the humans are torn between who is worse and who they should shoot first.
The zombie violence is toned down for the PG-13 rating, this may turn a few of you off due to it. The gore is also toned down extremely, to almost gore that you would find in a twilight film and that my turn some off of the film. The film also lags a bit in the middle but Palmer and Hoult make the lags in the story manageable due to their on screen chemistry.
Everyone in this film is great. Rob Corddry sells his role as a zombie and John Malkovich does a nice job on being the leader of the human resistance. But it's Nicholas Hoult that steals the show as he goes from lifeless zombie struggling to get out human emotion to human with full fledged emotions. 
Warm Bodies is a film that will divide zombie fans straight down the middle. Some will hate it for its more human take on a zombie as well as the toned down violence and gore. And some will love it for its refreshing take on the zombie genre with good comedy, great acting and fresh ideas. 
Even if you are at least a little bit curious about this film it is highly recommended that you check it out. 

3 out of 5

Rob Zombie Stepping Down From Directing For A Long Time

Lets face it, Rob Zombie does not have the best directing career. In fact, he sucks (except for Devils Reject). His first film House of 1,000 Corpses gained a cult following but where he really shined was The Devils Rejects in 2005. It was just an old fashioned exploitation road trip film that was fun and brutal at the same time. Then he did Halloween and well, the first half of the movie is okay. Then the dreaded Halloween II which has more plot holes and dumb ass dialogue then the first.
Now with The Lords of Salem (Review here) Rob has finally manned up and said "You know, I am not very good at this directing stuff" well he didn't say that but that's what were all thinking.
In a recent interview with Phoenix NewTimes Rob Zombie said this.

"No. I'm not really thinking of doing anything . . . Lords of Salem is my last sort of horror-genre related film for a really long time."- Rob Zombie 

Thank god now lets all exhale and be relieved that we don't have to suffer through another horror movie where Sheri Moon Zombie is the lead or has white horse or plays a stripper mom.

Source: Phoenix NewTimes