S. William Hinzman
Motion picture actor and director. Born Samuel William Hinzman, he was working in 1968 as an assistant cameraman on the low budget, black and white film, "Night of the Living Dead", when director George Romero cast him as the zombie in the opening sequence. The iconic role... Read full bio →
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Mimesis
A group of horror fans find themselves unwilling participants in a nightmarish role playing game that pays homage to a classic horror film.
Shadow: Dead Riot
Evil voodoo-practicing serial killer Shadow gets executed for murdering pregnant women. Twenty years later the prison Shadow was put to death at has been turned into an experimental women's penitentiary. Tough and fiercely autonomous new inmate Solitaire has some kind of link with Shadow.
The American Nightmare
An examination into the nature of 1960's-70's horror films, the involved artists, and how they reflected contemporary society.
Night of the Day of the Dawn of the Son of the Bride of the Return of the Terror
FleshEater
A group of teenagers, taking a nocturnal hayride come across the grave of a man. Little did they know that this deceased man is a zombie. One by one, the actual living are falling victim and becoming zombies. Eventually there are zombies everywhere, and someone needs to stop them, but who?
The Majorettes
A hooded psycho is murdering high-school girls. A devil-worshiping, drug-dealing biker gang is suspected.
Knightriders
A medieval reenactment troupe struggles to maintain its family-like dynamic amid pressure from local authorities, interest from talent agents, and their "King's" delusions of grandeur.
The Crazies
Citizens of a small town are infected by a biological weapon that causes its victims to become violently insane. As uninfected citizens struggle to survive, the military readies its own response.
Hungry Wives
An unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft with unexpected consequences.
There's Always Vanilla
A young man returns home to Pittsburgh and moves in with an older woman, on whom he begins to rely on for emotional and financial support.
Night of the Living Dead
A group of people try to survive an attack of bloodthirsty zombies while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. Although not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary "zombie apocalypse" horror film, and it greatly influenced the modern pop-culture zombie archetype.