Hat tip to Icons of Fright for pointing out that Voltage Pictures have released a teaser/trailer for the new George A Romero zombie movie.

The film is still untitled and known as Blank of the Dead (my money’s on “Isle of the Dead”). Although it’s still in production you can now watch a trailer online at the official site (the link’s at the bottom right of that page). The trailer has now been removed.

I have to say it looks pretty good, hopefully a return to form after the disappointing Diary of the Dead. The plot appears to be summed up in one dialogue exchange from the trailer:

We set out trying to keep these deadheads alive and lately you’re just shooting them down like they’s mad dogs

We’ve got to get these things to learn to eat something other than us

Work is underway on the eagerly awaited Rob Zombie movie H2 (Halloween 2), a sequel to his 2007 reimagining of the John Carpenter classic.

Over at the official H2 blog Zombie has uploaded a picture of the Michael Myers mask to be used in the new film. Well, more accurately it’s a picture of the model from which the mask will be cast.

The mask has been created by effects wiz Wayne Toth who, according to the blog, “is back on the case working the greatest Michael ever”. Myers will again be played by Tyler Mane from the 2007 movie.

It certainly looks as if Myers has been through hell. Note the hole on the head’s right hand side which was, presumably, made by a bullet.

Shooting for H2 begins in March with a US release date of late August 2009.

As movie titles go, Lesbian Vampire Killers is pure genius.

The film is, of course, a spoof. It’s a British horror comedy written by Paul Hupfield and Stewart Williams and is due in cinemas from March 20th 2009.

Don’t expect too much in the way of complex plot. The official website summarises the story in a six page mini-comic. To summarise the summary of the summary:

Two no hopers… one cursed village… a bus full of foreign students… and an army of solacious lesbian vampires… can the boys put their fear aside to become… Lesbian Vampire Killers?

The film stars Mathew Horne and James Corden as the no-hopers with Paul McGann as the vicar.

A couple of months ago I reported that the Johnny Depp/Tim Burton remake of Dark Shadows was on permanent hold. Now it seems that – as is the way with Hollywood – everything’s changed.

Collider reports on a recent conversation with producer Richard D. Zanuck. It seems that Dark Shadows might not only be back on but could be Depp’s next project after Alice In Wonderland, to be shot in London next summer.

Good news. And London in the summer is a great choice for grey, miserable atmosphere with malfunctioning scenery.

Shooting has started on a new vampire musical comedy Suck. The film, written directed by and starring Rob Stefaniuk, concerns a wannabe rock group ironically called “The Winners”. The band will do “anything” to become famous – cue the vampires!

Alice Cooper plays a bartender and Iggy Pop a music producer. Moby also appears as the lead singer of another band.

The film stars Malcolm McDowell as a vampire hunter – who’s afraid of the dark.

It could be fun, but any time I see a movie written, directed by and starring the same person it rings alarm bells.