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Dating Service Match Using “The Walking Dead” To Connect Zombie-Loving Singles

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Hey, we both love Negan. Let’s go grab some dinner!

In a unique move, top dating service Match.com just announced that they’ll be hosting online viewing parties of “The Walking Dead” as episodes air on AMC, hopeful that the new initiative will allow fans of the series to come together and, hey, maybe even find their soulmates in fellow fans. Why, you ask? Well, they’ve run some tests and determined that, and this should come as no surprise to anyone reading this right now, “millennials are 270% more likely than those of other generations to be turned on by someone who watches the same shows as they do.”

CEO Mandy Ginsberg noted that we humans are more entertainment-obsessed than ever before, and that could be the key to finding true love here on the internet:

We realized that with singles in America today, one of the things that they connect on the most is the shows they watch and they love, and we wanted to figure out how to replicate what’s happening in the real world on the Match site and on the app.

People didn’t used to talk about series’, but now we all sit down and blow through them pretty quickly, so we think about shows in terms of series’, and no one talked like that five years ago. If we can have people connect over series’, that’s something we’re very excited about. I think it could change the game in terms of starting real conversations.

Match will allow users taking part in the weekly “The Walking Dead” viewing parties to either chat in groups or message one another privately.

Hey, you just never know when, where or how you’ll meet your Maggie/Glenn!

Writer in the horror community since 2008. Editor in Chief of Bloody Disgusting. Owns Eli Roth's prop corpse from Piranha 3D. Has four awesome cats. Still plays with toys.

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‘Alien Hunt’ – It’s an ‘Alien’ and ‘Predator’ Mockbuster Rolled into One! [Trailer]

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While you wait for Alien: Romulus, the folks over at Devilworks have cooked up their own slice of “mockbuster” fun with Alien Hunt, and we’re debuting the trailer here on BD this morning.

This brand-new sci-fi horror from director Aaron Mirtes (The Bigfoot Trap, Painted in Blood) is set for its US premiere on May 14, and you can find it on digital thanks to Devilworks.

You can exclusively watch the official trailer for Alien Hunt below, which looks to combine elements of Alien and Predator. This particular “mockbuster” has very little interest in hiding its inspirations, with the alien designs plucked straight out of H.R. Giger’s beautiful brain. Hey, if you’re going to pull from other movies, might as well take from the all-time greats!

In Alien Hunt, “On a hunting trip in the wilderness, a group of siblings discovers an abandoned military outpost on their land, but is it what it seems?

“Their trip takes a sinister turn when they find themselves facing off against a relentless army of extra-terrestrial beings. Suddenly, the hunters become the hunted.

“The formidable squad of alien soldiers will stop at nothing to wipe out the enemy and in an all-out, brutal battle for survival, it’s kill or be killed in Alien Hunt.”

Barron Boedecker (Escape Pod, The Bigfoot Trap), Brent Bentley (The Perfect In-Laws, Haunt Season), Deiondre Teagle (The Visitor, Painted in Blood, Death Ranch), Chelsey Fuller (The Bigfoot Trap, The Silent Natural), Jesse Santoyo (A Nashville Country Christmas, Potter’s Ground), and Adam Pietripaoli (The Bigfoot Trap, The OctoGames) star.

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