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The Austin Texas Film Society's Essential Cinema Series presents "Other Minds, Other Words: Global Sci-Fi Cinema". The cool part is that this is not just Sci-Fi but they have a lot of horror films in here as well. Check out the horror films below. The fest runs from

June 5 - June 26 @ 7:00 pm
Alamo Drafthouse Downtown (409 Colorado Street)

July 3 - July 31 @ 9:45 pm
Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar (1120 S. Lamar)

The Fantastic Planet (La Planete Sauvage)
Other Minds, Other Worlds: Global Sci-Fi Cinema
Tuesday, June 5 - 7:00pm
The planet of Ygam is inhabited by large blue-skinned, red-eyed, intelligent beings called Traggs. They spend most of their time meditating since education comes easily through a headphone with a soothing voice providing all necessary knowledge for survival. Among their possessions are tiny creatures called Oms (think "hommes"), which look suspiciously like human beings from Earth.

Planet Of The Vampires (Terrore nello spazio)
Other Minds, Other Worlds: Global Sci-Fi Cinema
Tuesday, June 19 - 7:00pm
In the near future the two spaceships Argos and Galliot are sent to investigate the mysterious planet Aura. As the Galliot lands on the planet her crew suddenly go berserk and attack each other. The strange event passes, but the crew soon discovers the crashed Argos - and learns that her crew died fighting each other!

Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Other Minds, Other Worlds: Global Sci-Fi Cinema
Tuesday, July 3 - 9:45pm
Strange seeds from a distant planet drift on cosmic winds down to Earth, where they take root and take over by duplicating humans through giant pods. The resulting full-sized clones are soulless automatons who do as they are told.

Planet of Storms (Planeta Bur)
Other Minds, Other Worlds: Global Sci-Fi Cinema
Tuesday, July 10 - 9:45pm
The Soviet cosmonauts in PLANET OF STORMS land on the hot, uneven surface of Venus, which turns out to be a very inhospitable planet for humans but perfect for giant creatures.

If you haven't seen the Banner Ads we have been running here then take a note. The Haunted Report is one of the official sponsors of the Viscera Film Festival. It's run by Shannon Lark and recently she took a moment to tell us what it is all about.

What is the Viscera Film Festival?
It's a rather exclusive Festival wherein only women may work on the films submitted. This means every role, from acting to directing to editing, on and off camera.

Why a women's only horror festival?
The purpose of the Festival is to raise the low ratio of women to men in the horror genre, in all aspects of production. In doing so, Viscera is attempting to assist in raising the female to male ratio in the film industry in general, creating an equal atmosphere.

Where is it held and how many contestants/entries do you have?
This is an online fest and has just been launched, so entries are just beginning to be produced.

If your an old man like me you don't get Spring Break off but if you do or can afford it why not check out SXSW this week in Austin, TX? If you don't know what it is it's one of the biggest Film/ Interactive/ Music festivals in the country. Yours truly is all set up to attend for the next week or so. The best part is once you wade through all the indie emo films the big boys come out at night. Including almost 13 new horror movies premiering all week at midnight. Check them all out here. Mutant sheeps and Zombie's anyone?

- iamlegend

Well then why not get off your butt and submit it? The Eerie Horror Festival is looking for your scripts, films, and horror video games. That's right video games. Now that is pretty damn original. I have never seen a horror show that was looking for horror video games to show off. A cool concept indeed. I mean most have a film festival now days (like your HauntCONs, etc) but video games? That's cool.....

For those of you looking for something to do in the midwest area this weekend, Chicago Horror Fest opens up it's doors for it's bi-annual horror film festival. The festival takes place at the 3 Penny Cinema in Chicago, IL all weekend long. Showcased are both independent new films as well as cult class. To my understanding, this year the fest will include magicians and guests from around the horror movie industry performing. If you can't make it this time, the fest rolls around every spring and fall so there's plenty of chances to catch it again. I've listed some links below, check it out.

http://www.chicagohorrorfest.com

http://www.myspace.com/chicagohorrorfest

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