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TV: ‘The Walking Dead’ Gets Season 3 Boost
While AMC has already announced a third season for ”The Walking Dead”, the cabler revealed that they’ve boosted the order from 13 episodes to 16! For you bad with math, that’s a little over two hours more of undead mayhem.
The second season rose form the dead with monster ratings as the October 16 premiere drew 7.3 million total viewers — a 38 percent surge over the show’s Season 1 average. Nearly 5 million of those viewers fell into the coveted 18-49 crowd, a basic cable record.
Returning February 12, “‘The Walking Dead’ tells the story of the weeks and months that follow a pandemic zombie apocalypse. County Sheriff Rick Grimes travels with his family and a small group of survivors, constantly in search of a safe and secure home. But the constant pressure of fighting off death on a daily basis takes a heavy toll, sending many to the lowest depths of human cruelty. As Rick struggles to keep his family alive, he will discover that the overwhelming fear of the survivors can be far more dangerous than the mindless walkers roaming the earth.”
Neon is hitting the road this summer with Gen Z horror hangout movie It Ends.
The feature debut by writer-director Alex Ullom will officially arrive in theaters on August 21.
In It Ends, “Four recent college grads on a night time drive find themselves stuck on a road that sprawls on forever, with seemingly no end in sight. They are occasionally attacked by stragglers and have to find a routine to plan their rest stops, but after a few thousand miles it all feels the same. Still, they keep on driving, only in the belief something better will come eventually.“
Starring in the film are:
- Akira Jackson as Day
- Phinehas Yoon as James
- Mitchell Cole as Tyler
- Noah Toth as Fisher
“This was always a movie that was more about how we live with horror than about the actual horror. I make this joke too much, but I always wanted to see the family in Hereditary give a postgame interview and just be like, ‘Yeah, that was terrifying. That was absolutely terrifying.’ Then, they all die, obviously, but like they go about their lives. The movie is constantly recontextualizing the things that happen in it,” Ullom previously told BD of his existential horror film.
It Ends premiered at SXSW earlier last year and went on to win Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival.
I wrote in my review, “It Ends captures a universal fear, that anxiety-inducing transition into full-blown adulthood where we’re all expected to become responsible contributors to society. It’s a lot of pressure with no clear guide. As such, it runs through every emotion that comes with that journey.”
Ullom is already a filmmaker to watch; the newcomer has already been tapped to helm 4 X 4: The Event, which is described as Battle Royale meets Saw meets Climax.