I strongly dislike having to watch “party scenes” in films. Also, my brother once told me he hates seeing other people have fun. And to a degree, I think we all do. When you’re banging on a downstairs neighbors’ door, yelling for him (her) and his (her) stoner (skanky) friends to keep their party to a low roar, it’s not that it’s keeping you up. You can’t sleep because really, you long to be downstairs shotgunning a beer too, but you weren’t invited. And there are very few party scenes in movies that have made me feel like I was invited.

FANGORIA’S FrightFest (see previous item here and go to www.fangoriafrightfest.com for more details) is coming closer to its debut this summer, and one of the films yearning for your votes to win a theatrical release in the on-line sweepstakes is the Australian DUEL-inspired thriller ROAD KILL; see the new, exclusive trailer in our homepage rotator.

We’ve been hearing about the independent production SPIKE, a more horror-oriented variation on BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, for a few years now. And after appearing at assorted festivals (winning prizes at Shriekfest and the Edinburgh International Film Festival), the movie is finally set to receive its DVDebut this summer.

Author of the MONSTER ISLAND trilogy (MONSTER ISLAND, MONSTER NATION, MONSTER PLANET) and a co-author of the New York Times Best Selling graphic novel MARVEL ZOMBIES RETURN, David Wellington (pictured) is also known for his vampire series, which so far has consisted of 13 BULLETS, 99 COFFINS, VAMPIRE ZERO and 23 HOURS. It was just announced that 32 TEETH, the final volume in the franchise, will be published by Three Rivers Press.

FANGORIA recently reported the tragic loss of one of our own, former editor David Everitt, who succumbed to Lou Gehrig’s Disease on May 7 (see initial announcement here). Since then, we’ve run Everitt co-editor Bob Martin’s words on the man (see them here), as well as those of Everitt protégé Tony Timpone (here). Today we present more tributes from some of the people who fondly recall this Fango trailblazer, who toiled on the magazine during the seminal years of 1981-5. Watch for more Everitt remembrances all week long.

The fourth film in the zombie series comes out September 10. Written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson (who helmed the first movie), AFTERLIFE once again stars Milla Jovovich, joined by RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION’s Ali Larter and PRISON BREAK’s Wentworth Miller.

While in NYC, BEST WORST MOVIE director/TROLL 2 child actor Michael Paul Stephenson and leading man Dr. George Hardy spoke with Fango’s Tony Timpone about both films (see part one of our lengthy chat here). In part two, which you can see after the jump, everybody’s favorite dentist-turned-actor George Hardy talks about how he became involved with TROLL 2 and the difficulties he and Stephenson encountered making BEST WORST MOVIE.

Rob Zombie is returning to four-color horror with WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BARON VON SHOCK? Zombie—whose previous comics efforts included SPOOKSHOW INTERNATIONAL and THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO—wrote the eight-issue miniseries, which is being published by Image Comics. Take a peek inside issue #1 and check out the cover & art by Donny Hadiwidjaja and Val Staples

First-time director Yann Gozlan’s CAGED (a.k.a. CAPTIFS) is the latest horror offering to come out of France. The movie stars Zoé Félix, Eric Savin and Arié Elmaleh, and the first photos have hit the web.

It all starts with the pissing scene. A pagan, pre-Christian monster excreting on a verger…

The important thing to remember about Emily Hagins, the budding filmmaker at the center of the documentary ZOMBIE GIRL: THE MOVIE (which has been playing the fest circuit for the last year or so), is that she’s a 12-year-old. A real 12-year-old, not a miniature adult of the type we’ve been conditioned to expect from the cinema, and that no doubt would have taken center stage if this were a calculated reality-TV program.