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Do you like to laugh and learn? Me too! Wow, it's like we're twins or something. Well our good friend Bryan over at Cinema Suicide has completed work on the first installment of the new web series "How to Survive the Strange". In this episode we learn how to fight off pesky zombies with a claw hammer. Who doesn't need to know about that?

Things took a strange turn this week in “Happy Town”. The dark, serious mood of the first two episodes was replaced with an almost comic atmosphere. Happy go lucky music played while Henley recovered from her car crash, Tommy and Dave went digging for bodies and the Stiviletto’s got all gussied up to go file charges against Tommy for attacking them. While I liked the episode it didn’t really fit the theme of the first two and things are starting to get a little schizophrenic.

This week we sit down to watch "The Descent: Part 2". With the love we all shared for the first film it's not hard to understand why we're a little worried the sequel might be a mess, but with stellar reviews like "Surprisingly good" we might just be ok.

If you watched TRL this morning you probably know this already but the Mtv movie awards have announced their list of nominations and this year they have a special "Best Scared-As-S**t Performance" category. They use funny little star symbols because it's more adorable then just coming right out and saying shit. See?

For those of you interested here's the list of nominee's:

Alison Lohman - "Drag Me to Hell"
Amanda Seyfried - "Jennifer's Body"
Jesse Eisenberg - "Zombieland"
Katie Featherston - "Paranormal Activity"
Sharlto Copley - "District 9"

If you like TV countdown shows with the words "Most Shocking" and "Most Daring" in them than the guy who edited those has got a movie for you. It's called "Filth to Ashes, Flesh to Dust" and I'm not sure what the title means but supposedly the movie is a throw back to the slasher films of the 70's and 80's that we all love.

A group of teens decide to spend a night in a creepy old house only to find that an evil doctor has unleashed an evil beast that is looking to feast on the youngins. Sure you've probably seen this film before, but have you seen it done with puppets? No, I didn't think so. Well movie maker Dustin Mills is here to fix that little problem with "Puppet Monster Massacre". I bet you didn't even know it's a problem.

Check out the new trailer below and look for this fun little ditty sometime in the Fall of 2010.

With the sun shining the flowers blooming I'm happy to report the Podcast crew will be spending this weekend in the basement watching George A. Romero's latest zombie flick "Survival of the Dead".

I do not have any freakin clue what "Machete" is about but I'm not sure that really matters. From what I can tell Danny Trejo plays a guy who is "double crossed" and then starts cutting people up. Then Cheech Marin, who plays a priest, mind you, decides he wants to help so he blows up some cars. Then Jessica Alba comes out and does some really bad acting. Then Lindsay Lohan dresses up like a nun and shoots people in the face. Oh and Steven Seagal and Don Johnson are there too. I'm sure I'm forgetting something but it doesn't really matter.

This week’s episode of “Happy Town” actually answered one of the larger questions of the show. Turns out local pizza shop owner Dave Duncan killed old man Friddle in an act of vigilante justice. Unfortunately for Dave though it looks like Jerry Friddle had a pretty solid alibi for the kidnappings that happened in Haplin years ago so Big Dave may have just killed an innocent man. Luckily though his best friend is the towns newly appointed Sheriff Tommy Conroy so he might have the law on his side.

Back when I was a young lad in Upstate NY my brother and I would go to the local video store every Friday night and randomly pick a few horror movies to watch. We saw some real doozies but one film the store owner flat out refused to rent to us "I Spit on Your Grave". Over twenty years later I finally saw the movie realized that woman did me a giant favor. I'd like to send her a card thanking her for keeping my young eyes from witnessing what Netflix calls "one of the longest and most violent gang-rape scenes on film".