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As the guitarist for Fall Out Boy, Joe Trohman has been entertaining millions of people for decades, and now he's also channeling that creative energy into the world of comic books with his new series The Axe. Co-written by Joe Trohman and actor/comedian Brian Posehn and illustrated by Scott Koblish, The Axe continues with its third chapter in issue #317 of Heavy Metal Magazine (which is now available), and we've been provided with exclusive preview pages to share with Daily Dead readers!

Following a group of teenage metalheads on a journey into a hellscape brimming with deadly creatures, The Axe will contain six chapters overall, with the final chapter being released in August's Heavy Metal Magazine #320 ahead of its eventual release as a comic book series and then a trade paperback collection. Additionally, a screen adaptation of The Axe is in development at Heavy Metal.

Providing further insights into their new comic book series,...

Stars: Hannah Arteton, Rosie Day, Tom Conti, Jenny Seagrove, Elliot James Langridge, Connor Byrne, Belinda Stewart-Wilson | Written by Dan Schaffer | Directed by Paul Hyett

Paul Hyett’s debut movie The Seasoning House blew me away. With its hard-hitting story and an incredible performance from Rosie Day, It was one of my favourite films of 2013. He followed it up with something completely different, the highly entertaining werewolf movie set on a train Howl, so I was now very much looking forward to checking out Peripheral.

Peripheral is once again, completely different from the directors other movies. This time more sci-fi but still entering into body horror territory. We follow Bobbi Johnson whose debut novel has become a huge hit but also sparked riots across England. Now struggling with her second novel, a stalker and trying to stay off drugs, her publishing company give her a new computer and editing software that...

Exclusive: Sales deal for Paul Hyett’s recently wrapped sci-fi produced by Bill Kenwright.

UK sales outfit The Salt Company has boarded sales on sci-fi conspiracy thriller Peripheral from director Paul Hyett (Howl).

Hannah Arterton (Burn Burn Burn) stars as a young writer who enters into a Faustian pact with her publisher. Convinced to use a new smart editing software she stumbles upon a conspiracy of social control. As her mind unravels she finds herself going head to head with an artificial intelligence that is determined to write her book for her.

Producers on the feature, which wrapped in the UK this week, are UK theatre mogul Bill Kenwright and Craig Tuohy of Bill Kenwright Productions.

Co-starring are Jenny Seagrove (Local Hero), Tom Conti (Shirley Valentine), Elliott James Langridge (Northen Soul). The writer is Dan Schaffer (Doghouse).

The Salt Company, which is handling world sales for the film, is also at the Afm with Miss You Already starring...

There's a British horror-comedy from 2009 called "Doghouse," written by Dan Schaffer and directed by Jake West. In it, a group of guys trying to help a friend deal with his divorce all go to a small village where a virus has turned every single woman into a man-eating monster. Literally. The movie's not quite the misogynistic nightmare that sounds like, but it also isn't quite smart enough to be the movie that it wanted to be, a cutting piece about the culture war between the genders. Well, it looks like Anne Hathaway's going to get a shot at trying to make the good version of the film now thanks to the news that "The Shower" is going to be made. One of the scripts from last year's Black List, written by Jac Schaeffer, "The Shower" is about a group of women who get together for a baby shower, only...

The Scribbler

Release Date: Theaters, VOD, and iTunes September 19th Written By: Dan Schaffer Directed By: John Suits Starring: Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Eliza Dushku

Man o’ man, creeps. What we have here is a lil’ independent gem that serves as one of the most original and entertaining superhero origin films I’ve seen in many a day!

But I’m getting a bit ahead of myself… ya see, at first, The Scribbler plays out like a kind of murder mystery (albeit a surreal and ultra-stylized one), as Suki (Katie Cassidy), a young girl with multiple personalities, arrives at Juniper Tower, a boarding home for recently released mental patients—all of whom have their own unique quirks (think Arkham Asylum subdivided into low-rent housing).

After Suki arrives and does a lil’ of the ol’ self-medicating (which in this case involves her eliminating individual personas from her psyche via a machine...

Despite acknowledging that The Scribbler boasts a title fitting only the wussiest superhero imaginable, this indie graphic novel adaptation somewhat holds its own against bigger Marvel/DC bullies who command the comic book genre. It’s not easy for a little fish to swim with the sharks, as even larger-budget films like The Spirit couldn’t hack it, but Dan Schaffer’s multiple story layers are able to provide enough groundwork for director John Suits to build a heavily saturated, psychotically seedy world around. There are certainly heroes and villains, but not in the way comic book movies have taught us to recognize, which is somewhat refreshing with so many spandex-clad hard-bodies running about and being all disgustingly charming – give me a cynical, conflicted hero any day of the week.

Katie Cassidy plays Suki, a woman with multiple personalities who currently is undergoing a continuing procedure called “The Siamese Burn...

With John Suit's adaptation of Dan Schaffer's graphic novel The Scribbler preparing to bow in cinemas and on iTunes and VOD on September 19, it is time for the promotions to roll out. We have been given an exclusive clip as well as a collection of stills to share with you.The Scribbler follows Suki (Katie Cassidy), a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using "The Siamese Burn," an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. The closer Suki comes to being "cured," she's haunted by a thought... what if the last unwanted identity turns out to be her?The Scribbler stars Katie Cassidy, Garret Dillahunt, Michelle Trachtenberg, Michael Imperioli, Gina Gershon, Sasha Grey, Kunal Nayyar, Ashlynn Yennie, Eliza Dushku, and Billy Campbell. Watch the clip below, and...

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The Scribbler was originally a graphic novel by the same name by Dan Schaffer of London England. Schaffer has an interesting career starting off as a political cartoonist before moving to comics by writing and illustrating the series Dogwitch in 2000. Four years later came what Schaffer considers to be a more serious phase in his artistic direction with The Scribbler meant to illustrate the dangers of mechanical thinking in an organic world. Having not read the Gn this film was viewed with no preconceived notions or familiarity with the storyline at all.

Waiting for Hollywood to make a movie about The Black Widow? Or Wonder Woman? Or any female character from any comic book? Then direct your attention towards The Scribbler.

Adapted from the graphic novel of the same name, the film stars Katie Cassidy (Arrow) as a woman named Suki who, according to the official synopsis, “confronts her destructive mental illness using ‘The Siamese Burn,’ an experimental machine designed to eliminate multiple personalities. The closer Suki comes to being ‘cured,’ she’s haunted by a thought… what if the last unwanted identity turns out to be her?”

Directed by John Suits...

I’m Scribbling as Fast as I Can: Suits Unsuited for Comic Book Adaptation

Within minutes of its meager running time, which opens with a disorienting barrage of monotonous narration, John Suits’ The Scribbler makes good on the asinine promise of its silly title. Starting out as producer, Suits has a trio of other direct-to-dvd quality horror titles under his belt, this time adapting a celebrated graphic novel by Dan Schaffer with a handful of notable names in the cast that would indicate some semblance of worthwhile quality, but alas, there’s nary of whiff of enjoyable screen time in this tonally awkward, amateurish handling concerning a disorder that’s been long out of pulp fiction fashion for several decades.

Suki (Katie Cassidy) suffers from Multiple Personality Disorder and has checked into a halfway house for troubled individuals. Her physician (Billy Campbell) has prescribed a controversial treatment known as “The Siamese Burn,...

We’re back with another edition of the Indie Spotlight, highlighting the recent independent horror news sent our way. Today’s feature includes release details for Out of the Dark, Travelogue of Horror, and The Hunted, a trailer for The Scribbler and The Pyramid, a look at The Walker Stalkers’s music video Talk Dead to Me, advanced screening details for L.A. Slasher, and much more:

Out of the Dark Release Details and Photos: “Vertical Entertainment and Participant Media today announced that Vertical has acquired U.S. rights to Participant’s supernatural thriller Out of the Dark, and slated the film for an early 2015 theatrical release.

Starring Julia Stiles, Scott Speedman, and Stephen Rea, Out of the Dark is a ghost story set in South America, where a young family’s new life turns from promising to terrifying when they are forced to confront ancient legends, ghosts, and a haunting family secret.

Exclusive: Indie distributor XLrator Media is diving into content creation with John Suits and Gabriel Cowan’s film production shingle New Artists Alliance. The companies have inked a three-picture production and distribution deal to co-produce low-budget science fiction action thrillers, starting with the Brandon Routh-Caity Lotz astronaut pic 400 Days, now in post-production.

After seeing a self-described successful digital and VOD return on the $1.5 million-budgeted April sci-fier The Machine, XLrator’s CEO Barry Gordon was seeking similarly budgeted high-concept acquisition titles but found niche offerings to be sparse. He linked up with Naa, the producers behind recent genre pics Bad Milo and SXSW winner Cheap Thrills. The deal gives XLrator a stake in the pipeline driving content tailored to the kind of multiplatform release that made British android pic The Machine an iTunes high performer.

The two companies initially pacted on graphic novel adaptation The Scribbler, the upcoming Suits-helmed...

Katie Cassidy is confronting her mental illness, and is looking for a cure, in her new sci-fi thriller, ‘The Scribbler.’ The action movie, which is set to be distributed in theaters and on VOD and iTunes on September 19 by XLrator Media, also stars Michelle Trachtenberg, Eliza Dushku, Gina Gershon, Sasha Grey, Garret Dillahunt, Michael Imperioli and Billy Campbell. The following synopsis for ‘The Scribbler,’ which was directed by ‘Family of Four’ helmer John Suits and written by ‘Doghouse’ scribe Dan Schaffer, has been released by XLrator Media: The Scribbler follows Suki (Katie Cassidy), a young woman confronting her destructive mental illness using “The Siamese Burn,” an experimental machine designed [ Read More ]

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A new mind-f#cking trailer for John Suits' 'The Scribbler' has been unleashed by XLrator Media. The gorgeous Katie Cassidy -below ('Arrow', 'Kill For Me') stars as Suki, a woman with multiple personalities who tries out an experimental machine to help cure her 'issues'. The movie is based on the 2006 graphic novel by Dan Schaffer and looks like it'll certainly bring the pages of the original to life. 'The Scribbler' also stars Michelle Trachtenberg ('Gossip Girl'), Eliza Dushku ('Dollhouse'), Gina Gershon ('Bound'), Sasha Grey ('Would You Rather') and Ashlynn Yennie ('The Human Centipede (First Sequence)'). Garret Dillahunt ('Winter's Bone'), Michael Imperioli ('The Lovely Bones'), Billy Campbell ('The Killing') and Kunal Nayyar ('The Big Bang Theory'). Check out the trailer below....

The Scribbler received a release date and official trailer from XLrator Medial today and the latter looks...interesting. But what do you expect from Dan Schaffer, the creator of the graphic novel this film is based on? John Suits directs the film opening September 19th. Katie Cassidy, Garret Dillahunt, Michelle Trachtenberg, Eliza Dushku, Gina Gershon, Michael Imperioli, Billy Campbell, Sasha Grey and Ashlynn Yennie star.

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FRONTIÈRES International Co-Production Market has announced it’s official selection for it’s return to this year’s Fantasia International Film Festival. Frontieres is the first and only co-production market to connect North America and Europe in an environment focused specifically on genre film production. The initiative began in 2012 with 14 projects selected including works by Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson (Resolution), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator) and Bruce McDonald (Pontypool). This fourth edition will bring together 12 projects hailing from Canada, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, the UK and the United-States.

Frontieres will take place from July 24th to 27th. This group of filmmakers in particular presents a high volume of fresh filmmakers, many of whom will be presenting their debut feature length films. This is rounded off by a handful of internationally known filmmakers.

The official Frontières selection of Frontières @ Fantasia 2014 consists of the following projects:

Dead Noon (Luxembourg)

Director/Writer: Jeff Desom...

Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival, widely acclaimed as one of the largest and most influential genre film festivals in the world, has just announced the official selections of the fourth edition of its Frontières International Co-Production Market.

Read on for a complete listing of all the titles being pitched at the event!

From the Press Release

Montreal, Thursday May 15, 2014 – Just over a month after its first European edition in Brussels, the Frontières International Co-Production Market has selected the official line-up of Frontières projects for its 4th edition.

For its return to Montreal's Fantasia International Film Festival, from July 24 to 27, 12 Frontières projects have been selected, hailing from Canada, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, the UK and the United-States.

This project selection boasts a higher-than-usual concentration of fresh talents, many of them presenting first feature film projects after many award-winning shorts, or second features following debuts that traveled extensively on the festival circuit.

Fantasia’s co-production markets announces projects for its fourth edition, running July 24-27.

Frontières International Co-Production Market has unveiled the official lineup of its fourth edition.

Returning to Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival following its first European edition in Brussels, Frontières has selected 12 projects hailing from Canada, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, the UK and Us.

Among the projects are new works from established film-makers Gabriel Pelletier, George Mihalka and Simon Rumley, but the selection also includes a strong concentration of new talents presenting their first or second features.

Ahead of this edition, Lindsay Peters has been promoted to market managing director, while Stephanie Trepanier [pictured] will focus on market creative director duties.

Trepanier commented: “It’s a particular pleasure to be able to present a new line-up of film projects just a month after the new Frontières in Brussels took place. It was also a challenge, the load of submissions having more than doubled over the...

Stars: Katie Cassidy, Michelle Trachtenberg, Eliza Dushku, Garrett Dillahunt, Gina Gershon, Sasha Grey, Kunal Nayyar, Billy Campbell, Michael Imperioli, Ashlynn Yennie, Richard Riehle | Written by Dan Schaffer | Directed by John Suits

Based on the graphic novel by Dan Shaffer (Doghouse), The Scribbler is the latest “comic book movie” to grace our screen, telling the story of Suki, a lonely woman dealing multiple-personality disorder, who moves into a halfway house for recently released mental patients. But her arrival coincides with the deaths of other residents, residents who are dying at an alarming rate. Continuing her dissociative treatment at “home” Suki, undergoes an experimental procedure to cure her illness involving ‘The Siamese Burn’ machine which is designed to eliminate her unwanted identities one by one. But each time she uses the machine she black out and the machine changes, doing something new, something that turns her world inside out.

As a comic...

The Hoarder [pictured], starring Mischa Barton and Robert Knepper, to head up newly formed Eis based production company’s first slate.

Principal photography has commenced on The Hoarder, starring Mischa Barton and Robert Knepper.

The horror-thriller is the first film from newly formed Eis based production company Sunny Day Media, headed up by UK financier Keith Chapman.

Working with UK producer Tim Dennison, the fund has been set up to produce and finance a slate of $2m-$3m pictures through the use of Eis and Equity funding.

Directed by Matt Winn (who also co-wrote), The Hoarder is the first film to go into production and a sales agent is currently being sought to handle international sales. It’s currently shooting at London’s Three Mills Studios.

Next up will be Jake West’s Spitfire, written by Dan Schaffer and to be produced by Dennison, Bob Portal and Simon Markham. The producers are in talks with Daryl Hannah and Bérénice Marlohe...

John Suits' upcoming thriller 'The Scribbler' has been picked up for North American distribution by XLrator Media. Based on the original British graphic novel by Dan Schaffer the project revolves around Suki, played by the gorgeous Katie Cassidy -below ('Arrow', 'Kill For Me'), a young woman trying out some experimental new treatment to help remove her unwanted multiple personalities. The movie also stars a host of talented lovely ladies that includes Michelle Trachtenberg ('Gossip Girl'), Eliza Dushku ('Dollhouse'), Gina Gershon ('Bound'), Sasha Grey ('Would You Rather') and Ashlynn Yennie ('The Human Centipede (First Sequence)'). Garret Dillahunt ('Winter's Bone'), Michael Imperioli ('The Lovely Bones'), Billy Campbell ('The Killing') and Kunal Nayyar ('The Big Bang Theory') also star....

The first poster for John Suits' new adapted thriller 'The Scribbler' has arrived and its pretty darn eye grabbing. The poster sees the hot Katie Cassidy ('Arrow', 'Kill For Me') donned up and trying out a little sideways balancing act on a nearby building. The poster comes accompanied by the tagline 'Unzip Your Head', which says it all really. The movie is based on the original, and mind-bending, British graphic novel by Dan Schaffer and stars a host of talent that includes Cassidy and a whole line-up of hotties such as Michelle Trachtenberg ('Gossip Girl'), Eliza Dushku ('Dollhouse'), Gina Gershon ('Bound') and Sasha Grey 'Would You Rather') and Ashlynn Yennie ('The Human Centipede (First Sequence)'). Garret Dillahunt ('Winter's Bone'), Michael Imperioli ('The Lovely Bones'), Billy Campbell ('The Killing') and...

The Scribbler is on its way to Cannes, and we have the details for you right here. "You're only using a small portion of your brain. Ever wondered what the rest of it is up to?" Read on for the latest on the next flick from director John Suits.

From the Press Release

Imagination Worldwide, LLC, announced today that it has acquired the foreign distribution rights to the upcoming genre-bending thriller The Scribbler and will be representing the film at the upcoming Marché du Film held in conjunction with the prestigious 2013 Cannes Film Festival from May 15th through May 26th.

Directed by John Suits and based on the popular British graphic novel written by Dan Schaffer, The Scribbler features an all-star cast toplined by Katie Cassidy (“Arrow”) and also stars Garret Dillahunt (Winter’S Bone), Michelle Trachtenberg (“Gossip Girl”), Eliza Dushku (“Dollhouse”), Gina Gershon (Killer Joe), Michael Imperioli (The Lovely Bones...

Imagination Worldwide, LLC announced today that it has acquired the foreign distribution rights to the upcoming genre-bending thriller The Scribbler and will be representing the film at the upcoming Marché du Film held in conjunction with the prestigious 2013 Cannes Film Festival from May 15th through May 26th.

Directed by John Suits and based on the popular British graphic novel written by Dan Schaffer, The Scribbler features an all-star cast toplined by Katie Cassidy (“Arrow”) … Continue reading →...

Filming on Dan Schaffer’s graphic novel The Scribbler begins later this week in Los Angeles for a live action theatrical film release.

Schaffer’s graphic novel was originally published in 2006 by Image Comics. A new “director’s cut” of the graphic novel is being prepared by the recently re-launched First Comics™ for release in conjunction with the film’s opening. Schaffer penned the screenplay adapted from his graphic novel.

The thriller centers on Suki, a young woman confined in a mental institution and being treated with an experimental machine dubbed “The Siamese Burn, designed to eliminate multiple personalities. As the “treatment” progresses, Suki starts to be haunted by the realization that if “The Siamese Burn” is successful, which one of her personalities will be the survivor?

Katie Cassidy, already with comic connections as Dinah Lance in the CW pilot Arrow, stars as the title character Suki. The cast also...

Stop the presses! A comic book adaptation of a character hardly anyone has ever heard of is on its way! How daring of Hollywood! Ah, yes. The next beloved hero to get the film treatment is going to be The Scribbler. Read on for the info.

According to THR, New Artist Alliance, an Encino, California-based production company specializing in low-budget films, has secured financing for a slate of four micro-budgeted movies, all to cost less than $1 million, that it will co-produce with management/production firm Caliber Media.

The first film under the new deal is an adaptation of the First Comics graphic novel The Scribbler, author Dan Schaffer’s tale of a woman will multiple personalities. John Suits, one of the founders of Naa, will direct the film, to be shot in 3D, which is beginning casting.

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The Image comic book, The Scribbler, is being groomed for a film adaptation.  The Hollywood Reporter says New Artist Alliance and Caliber Media are teaming up for a four-picture slate, producing films that are each budgeted at under a million dollars.  The Scribbler falls into that plan.

Written by Dan Schaffer and published by Image Comics in 2006, The Scribbler will be adapted by John Suits, who last directed the upcoming Static starring Milo Ventimiglia and Sara Paxton.  Suits is currently casting his latest endeavor.

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Directed by: Jake West

Written by: Dan Schaffer

Cast: Danny Dyer, Noel Clarke, Lee Ingleby, Christina Cole, Terry Stone, Stephen Grahm

I watched this film twice, hoping to find one brief moment where the filmmakers delivered more of a message than boys will be boys and women will be bitches. Yet, despite a few opportunities, that moment of salvation never arrived. While I don't think the film is misogynistic, it's obvious the script presents women as the cause of all men's problems.

The story focuses on Vince, devastated by his upcoming divorce, and his six friends who have chartered a bus to the village of Moodley. Not only do they have access to a house for the evening, but three quarters of the village's population are women. The guys hope a night of drinking and debauchery with not only cheer up Vince, but give them a break from the overbearing women in their lives.

#1- Machete

Directed by Robert Rodriguez and co-director Ethan Maniquis

It took three years, but Machete, whose fake trailer showcased before the B-picture homage Grindhouse, finally hit the cineplex. Anyone who found themselves excited by that teasing coming attraction will no doubt be satiated by the relentless onslaught of over-the-top violence, extreme gore, unnecessary nudity and cheap laughs that directors Rodriguez and Maniquis deliver in it’s full-length incarnation. Sugarcoat it with a dose of political satire and Machete is everything The Expendables should have been – self-aware, flashy and fun.

Rodriguez does a good job in updating a gritty, gory genre. His pic made-on-the-cheap mimics the grind house aesthetic right down to the choppy edits, 70′s style opening credits, the tongue and cheek use of funky soft core porn music (provided by Rodriguez’s band Chingon) and the grainy cinematography. More so the director summons influences of American Westerns and...

Someone let the dogs out, or Zombies as it were, and they're pissed! Read our Doghouse Movie Review and check out the movie synopsis and trailer below.

Doghouse released on DVD and Blu-ray October 12th 2009. Directed by Jake West and written by Dan Schaffer.

Plot:

A group of men head to a remote village to help one of their friends get over his divorce; when they get there, though, they discover that all the women have been infected with a virus that makes them man-hating cannibals.

Doghouse Movie Trailer:...

  Shaun of the Dead set the bar high in terms of expectations from British horror comedies, and no film since has even come close to meeting those expectations. Until now, that is. With Doghouse, director Jake West (Evil Aliens) matches Edgar Wright's contemporary classic zom-com, low-brow joke for low-brow joke and severed limb for severed limb, keeping pace right up to the (non) conclusion, where it inexplicably falls completely off the rails and ultimately disappoints. The film, which had its Canadian premiere at Fantasia, is about six buddies hoping to console their recently divorced pal Vince (Stephen Graham, Snatch, Gangs of New York) by planning a wild weekend of drunken debauchery in a small village where one of them used to visit his Nan in the summer. These are your typical, everyday guys: a couple of alpha male macho men, one of whom thinks all women want him, the...

[Jake West's latest was caught by Mack at Fantastic Fest, and since it is showing up at Fantasia, take it away Mack!]

Neil [Danny Dyer] and Mikey [Noel Clarke] gather together the lads and head to Mikey's Nan's house in the remote village of Moodley to help one of their friends Vince [Stephen Graham] get over his divorce. No sooner have they arrived when they discover that all the women, only the women, have been infected with a virus that makes them man-hating and man-eating zombies. A night out with the boys turns into a night of terror in Jake West's Doghouse.

The screenplay by Dan Schaffer wastes no time setting up. In the opening minutes we already know what each of the boys is like and what they are like with the women in their lives, if they have any at all. And no sooner have they warmed up at their local pub, had a laugh and taken the piss, hired a coach, and landed in the middle of nowhere Moodley then things begin to go to hell right quick.

Evil Aliens and Doghouse director Jake West is back again with The Scribbler. Being produced by Stealth Media Group, shootings is scheduled to begin on March 1 in the UK. The film is a noir sci-fi action thriller about a young woman recently released from a mental hospital, and continuing a treatment programme to rid her of her alternate personalities. She moves into a halfway house for mental patients where the residents begin to die at an unusual rate. From Director Jake West and writer Dan Schaffer, the creative team who brought you the successful UK horror comedy film Doghouse - starring Danny Dyer, Stephen Graham and Noel Clark... comes The Scribbler The Scribbler is based on Dans critically acclaimed and very commercial graphic novel published by Image comics and will be Jakes 5th feature film after a string of genre successes.

“Now is not the time to stop objectifying women.” This sharp line of dialogue, delivered by a character staring at a group of living dead females, is a key moment in director Jake West’s Doghouse.

Danny Dyer, Noel Clarke and Stephen Graham star as a group of blokes undergoing a tough time of it with the opposite sex. Unable to communicate or articulate themselves properly with their girlfriends and wives – and with one of the gang undergoing a messy divorce – they decide to go on a lads weekend and re-connect with their maleness. Arriving in the quiet country village of Moodley, the gang stumble upon a military-operation-gone-wrong and the female population are now a ravenous bunch of mutant zombies.

With its tongue-firmly-in-its-cheek and playful use of stereotypes, West’s third feature is a comic exploration of the battle of the sexes. In fact, the battle becomes literal. Packed full of gallows humour,...

I have to say that Fantastic Fest goers were the perfect audience to enjoy this soon to be cult classic with. Doghouse is a British zombie film that has a truly unique and funny take on the genre.

Doghouse starts out by introducing us to Vince, a divorcee who’s friends are determined to get him back on track. His friends Neil (Danny Dyer) and Mikey (Noel Clarke) come up with the idea to go to Mikey’s home town where the ratio of women to men is 4 to 1, and apparently the women are all gorgeous. They along with several more friends rent a van with a hot driver Candy (Christina Cole) and head off to this supposed heaven for single men.

When they get there, not everything is as promised. The house they’re staying at is a mess, the place is filthy and it’s in the middle of nowhere.

"Doghouse," is going nationwide June 12th throughout the United Kingdom and a ten minute clip is available for fans worldwide. Involving six men on a weekend getaway in England these comrades will soon be fighting for their lives in a small town full of the undead. Comedic and thrilling with vicious amounts of blood the "Doghouse," looks to be entertaining from the initial promotional material. Have a look at all the information available on this film from director Jake West until a North American play date is announced.

A synopsis for the "Doghouse..."

Six men with mid-life anxiety set out for a weekend in the country in an attempt to reconnect with their masculinity.

What they find is a catastrophe so horrible and bizarre that a mid-life turns out to be exactly what they need to survive it...(Doghouse).

Release Date: June 12th, 2009.

Director: Jake West.

Writer: Dan Schaffer.

Cast: Danny Dyer,...

If you're a fan of British cinema then do I have a treat for you! Directed by Jake West, written by Dan Schaffer and brought to you by Carnaby International & Vertigo Films, Doghouse hits UK theatres on 12th June 2009.

Vince (Stephen Graham) is handling his divorce badly. He’s depressed. Gone to pieces. But his mates Neil (Danny Dyer) and Mikey (Noel Clarke) aren’t giving up on him. Struggling with their own mid-life troubles, they drag him off for a boy’s weekend in the country... which goes horribly twisted when they find themselves holidaying in a village overrun by psychotic, homicidal women.

Forced to hide out in the empty shops when their minibus driver also goes crazy, they’re cut off and helpless. And clueless. But then they encounter an injured soldier, the sole survivor of a bloody massacre, and discover that an airborne toxin is the cause...

In twelve days, the doors will swing open on Jake West's Doghouse (to audiences in England, that is). Empire scored the first ten minutes of this horror-comedy right here . Danny Dyer (you might remember him from Severance ) leads the male ensemble cast of this film who find themselves in a village where the women are turned into cannibals thanks to a virus. West developed Doghouse with writer Dan Schaffer, the creator of the "Dogwitch" comic books.

An early trailer for Jake West’s latest horror outing, Doghouse, showed up online recently, and it’s about time you guys dug upon it, don’t you think? I do, too.

Doghouse is the story of a group of men who head out to a remote village to help a friend get past his divorce. Their timing is all fucked up, though, because shortly upon arriving, they discover that all the women of the village are afflicted with a virus that makes them flesh-eating cannibals. That’d sure make me happy to be single!

West dropped us a line to say that, while he's fine with fans getting a sampling of Doghouse, this is by no means a final trailer. "The trailer on the web is just a very quick and early teaser made up of material from the first couple of weeks of shooting," he explained. "Believe me...

Hell ya!! Now this is what I'm talking about. Many have tried to blend horror and comedy over the last couple of years but very few have succeeded in quite the same way as the Brits have; and even less have managed to do it quite as well as the team of Jake West, director of the crazy awesome over-the-top gore fest Evil Aliens, and comic book creator Dan Schaffer. I've been waiting on the trailer for Doghouse for over a year now and even though I've been checking the film's official webpage everyday, the lads at BD still beat me to it. Ah well, all's fair in love of film I say. You'll find the trailer and full synopsis after the break. And G.H., if you're out there, you're gonna love this one!

Danny is handling his divorce badly. He’s depressed. Gone to pieces. But his mates...