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Welcome horror fans to the UK debut of the November edition of Horror Bites, the Horror Channel’s monthly guide to some of the highlights coming your way in November… Yes, you did read that right folks, our good friends at the Horror Channel have let us have the exclusive UK debut of their monthly show Horror Bites.

Hosted by Emily Booth, you’ll see Horror Bites right here on Blogomatic3000 before anywhere else!

This month on the Horror channel their Winter Chills Weekend is guaranteed to leave you frozen in fear, with the premiere of Tommy Wirkola’s fantastic horror comedy Dead Snow and the Swedish slasher movie Blood Runs Cold. Rounding out the Winter Chills weekend is The Thaw, which stars Val Kilmer as a scientist in the Arctic researching the greenhouse effect who makes a terrifying discovery.

Also showing on the Horror channel this month is World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries 2...

There is a new crime thriller developing from production company Imagination Worldwide. The title of the film is Secrets from the Past and the film follows a young woman, who leads a double life. After witnessing the murder of a friend by a "crime syndicate" (Imagination), Kate (Ashley Jones) goes into hiding to protect herself. The tagline promises some excitement as now: "it is time to tell the truth" (Imagination). Secrets from the Past stars Antonio Sabato Jr. (Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas) Michael Woods, Nicole deBoer, and Al Sapienza. More of the mystery is revealed below.

The synopsis for Secrets from her Past is here:

"Ten years ago, Kate Collins (Ashley Jones) was a different person. Literally. She was living in Chicago, working as a bartender, and going by her real name ‘Stephanie Wickers.’ That all changed when she witnessed the murder of her boss by a ruthless member of...

Henry Lee Lucas: Serial Killer

Stars: Antonio Sabato Jr., Kostas Sommer, John Diehl | Written and directed by Michael Feifer

The story of one of America’s most prolific serial killers, Henry Lee Lucas: Serial Killer tells the tale of Henry (Sabato Jr.), who, surrounded by violence he whole life, consequently embarks on a killing spree across the the south of the Us. When the law finally catches up with him, Henry comes up with a diabolical solution, and confesses to thousands of murders all over the country. Unable to sort the lies from the truth, the legal system threatens to set him free…

Henry Lee Lucas: Serial Killer comes from director Michael Feifer who was previously responsible for another serial killer movie, B.T.K Bundy. Like that film, Henry Lee Lucas is marketed as a film that aims to set the historical record straight, puporting to show the real...

Barnholtz Entertainment was nice enough to send along a screener copy of Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas - the latest direct to dvd serial killer epic from writer/director Michael Feifer. Feifer has been a busy man in the last few years, cranking out a string of grisly straight to dvd serial killer bio-pics including Chicago Massacre: Richard Speck, Ed Gein: Butcher Of Plainfield, Boston Strangler: The Untold Story, B.T.K., and Ted Bundy: Legacy Of Evil. You can check out my review of Ted Bundy: Legacy Of Evil here.

Review by Amanda Reyes

Starring Antonio Sabato Jr., Kostas Sommer, Kelly Curran

Directed by Michael Feifer

Written by Michael Feifer, Wood Dickinson, Christopher Ryan

Since Henry was all about confessions, I thought I’d start my review with one: I am a pretty voracious true crime nut and I’ve always been drawn to films about the “superstar” serial killers, such as Dahmer, Bundy and, you guessed it, Henry Lee Lucas. Like good ol’ Ed Gein, Lucas has inspired a tale or two about his supposed rampage across the country. I say supposed because Lucas confessed to a few hundred some odd murders and then rescinded most of them...

He became most famous to casual crime followers when the excellent horror film Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer enjoyed a small theatrical release in 1989. John McNaughton’s shocking film was only loosely based on Lucas, but was such a searing...

First, a few street date updates: Shout! Factory’s DVD of Audition, which we broke the news on here, will arrive October 6. Monarch Video will release Farmhouse (see our review here) September 29; look for a making-of featurette and possibly other special features on that one. And First Look will issue Kyle Rankin’s big-bug opus Infestation on October 13, following its Syfy cable debut (see previous item here).

Lowest Common Denominator Entertainment has set an October 27 street date for its long-awaited special-edition disc of Black Devil Doll, and gave Fango the scoop on the complete details. The saga of an executed black militant’s spirit entering a ventriloquist’s dummy and wreaking all sorts of outrageous, politically incorrect havoc will be presented in widescreen with Dolby Digital 5.1 sound, plus an insane amount of special features:

Audio commentary by director Jonathan Lewis, writer/producer Shawn Lewis and writer/designer Mitch Mayes Audio...

I've got a wacky idea. Indie horror filmmakers Ulli Lommel and Michael Feifer should have a fight, and only the winner is allowed to make any more movies based on the exploits of real-life serial killers. I'd be cheering for Feifer, if only because he at least attempts to make actual movies.

Michael Feifer has been quite the busy beaver of late with two serial killer thrillers debuting on DVD: last month's B.T.K. (review), which Heather found surprisingly effective, and next month's Bundy: A Legacy of Evil (review), which I found to be quite pointless. Feifer has yet another coming to DVD in the form of Drifter: Henry Lee Lucas starring Antonio Sabato, Jr. as the notorious serial killer responsible for 350 murders during his rampage from 1975 to 1983.

Antonio Sabato, Jr. as Henry Lee Lucas? Say what? I know what Henry Lee Lucas looked like. You can slap some scruffy facial hair on Antonio Sabato,...