It is a beautiful summer Tuesday, and this is the Long Live the New Flesh roundup of news from the indie horror world for the week.

Following the crowd-pleasing JUAN OF THE DEAD (my review here) in the double bill presented by the Toronto After Dark Summer Screenings was THE PACT. With a confident hand on the wheel, director Nicholas McCarthy weaves together a complex and pleasingly modern take on the classic haunted house tale. Like any older house on the market, there are problems – the wiring doesn’t always connect, one burner is always out on the stove and someone’s tipsy uncle did the uneven tile in the bathroom—but despite the minor flaws the foundation is solid.

Another week has passed in the world of horror, and I’m freshly back from a bit of a weekend away so let’s get right down to it mutants. Here is what’s happening out there:

I ventured out to the newly renovated Bloor Hot Docs Cinema* the other night to take in some of the best in genre film with a legion of other people who love these movies as I do. With a lineup of Cuban zombie opus JUAN OF THE DEAD and haunted house chiller THE PACT, we were in for a night indeed.

Greetings mutants!

I am back to bring you the week in indie horror news as I see it, here in the second instalment of the weekly “Chunks of Flesh” series. As always, readers are invited to interact with me and let me know what is going on out there in the big wild world – This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . We are living on the cusp of the next big indie renaissance and FANGORIA is here to navigate through it all.

The title of Astron-6’s making-of FATHER’S DAY doc is inspired by a death-march like motto, NO SLEEP, NO SURRENDER, and the teaser shows us some of the hilarious and insane conditions the cast and crew had to endure while making a $10, 000 feature look like a million dollars. This will prove to be something to watch for all indie filmmakers out there. You can expect to see the blood, sweat and tears that were poured into the movie, but perhaps the most interesting aspect of this documentary is that it is being released by the film collective independently, and will not be appearing on the FATHER’S DAY set from Troma.

When I started this blog I initially pitched it to our Commander in Chief, Chris Alexander, as a one off piece for the print magazine. I wanted to tell the story of a new wave of indie filmmakers who were out there on the fringes, making incredible films in innovative new ways. I quickly realized this couldn’t be some one-off piece as there was a real scene and movement out there that I felt needed to be documented so Chris kindly agreed on this blog.