The folks over at LostZombies.com are on a mission to alert the world to the imminent zombie apocalypse, and they want your video proof — or re-enactments — for their site and a feature-length documentary.

Damn! And I just recorded my dog chasing a flashlight beam over the tape of my neighbor-lady Mrs. Nonnemacher gnawing on the postman.

Find more videos like this on Lost Zombies

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Get your Tivo’s ready — there’s a double-feature of Well Told Tales thesps on TV tonight. Another favorite WTT reader — and “Side Effects” star — Rachael Drummond will be profiled on TruTV show “Hollywood Heat” on Thursday at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT.

Rachael is an excellent dramatic actor. But she’s also very funny.

She’s a member of the Trophy Wife improv group at IO West and has been getting a lot of buzz (The Atlantic, AOL News) recently for her Hillary Clinton rap videos, which caught the attention of TruTV producers.

Congrats, Rachael!

Here’s one of her Hillary rap video:

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Catch thespian Andy Hoff — one of our favorite Well Told Tales readers and the co-star of our 10-minute film “Side Effects” — as Agent Beames on the season finale of the CBS series “Without a Trace” at 10 p.m. ET/PT Thursday night .

Andy is a consummate pro. So we’re thrilled to see him do well.

Congrats, Andy!

Here’s the episode description on the CBS Web site:

The team searches for five people who are abducted at the same time from a coffee shop.

And a sneak preview:

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Technological advances in digital filmmaking have led to an explosion in the number of short films available on the Web.

I always enjoy finding good ones, so I’m glad someone tipped me off to this stylish, spooky horror short written and directed by Jacob Swanson.

More options at Vimeo.com.

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In honor of Mother’s Day, we here at Well Told Tales came up with our top 10 moms from horror, sci-fi and crime/hardboiled films.

Chime in on the comments section if you think we missed someone.

Happy Mother’s Day!

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“Kolchak, The Night Stalker,” “One Step Beyond,” “The Twilight Zone” and “Star Trek” — lots and lots of “Star Trek” — are among the shows featured in this 30-minute documentary on sci-fi on American television.

Link (via ComputerLove)

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The creators of Internet film sensation “Star Wreck” are at it again. This time with “Iron Sky,” a movie about … well, I’ll let them tell it:

“In 1945 the Nazis fled to the moon. In 2018 they are coming back.”

More from their site: “Iron Sky is a film about conformity: those who want to conform, those who want to make others conform, and those who refuse.”

The film is in pre-production (the trailer above contains no actual movie footage — just some conceptual look and feel) and they are looking for people to help out. Sounds like fun.

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Battling insomnia one night, I stumbled across this short film by Canadian director Trevor Canwood and was completely mesmerized.

The surreal stalking creatures are quietly menacing. And the ’70s look of the film is pitch-perfect. Needless to say, I didn’t get back to sleep easily after watching this.

(Link to hi-res version: http://www.terminus-movie.com/movie.html)

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Let’s get the obvious out of the way immediately: George A. Romero, father of the modern-day zombie movie, is a genre — and general — filmmaking giant. Mr. Romero could release a 90-minute test pattern and his legacy would be secure.

But man alive (or undead), is his latest film dreadful.

I love the ‘Dead’ series like Pittsburgh zombie’s love human flesh. So when ‘Diary’ came out, I searched all over L.A. to catch it (and the fact that it was only playing at Grauman’s Chinese Theater did little to dampen my enthusiasm.)

Sadly, it was probably the worst movie I’ve ever watched in its entirety — and I’ve seen several Uwe Boll flicks.

It’s on DVD soon, so you can see for yourself.

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It’s amazing no one thought of this sooner.

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