Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with a new update on the looming Fantastic Fest, one of the best, most kick-ass weeks of genre, cult and just plain ol' fantastic films to hit any theater in any country every year.

This is only wave 2 and there's still a lot more surprises in store, including things that won't be announced. There's always a bit of trickster to the fest courtesy of one Mr. Tim League and one Mr. Harold Knowles and their band of merry men.

Here's the full rundown of what's in this new wave of releases at the Fantastic Fest website. I'll highlight some of my more anticipated below.

First of all, I'm looking forward to the new George Romero zombie movie. I've caught a lot of shit from some close friends for my vehement dislike of Romero's last movie, DIARY OF THE DEAD, but I didn't crap on that movie for the hell of it. I love Romero's zombie movies and I felt his last effort wasn't worthy of his other zombie films. SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD I know very little about except that it's set on an island. The dude could pump out 20 movies I don't like, but I will always anticipate his next. He's earned it.

There's also DAYBREAKERS, the vampire flick from UNDEAD's Spierig Bros, the new flick from ALIEN RAIDERS' Jake West called DOGHOUSE starring SEVERANCE's Danny Dyer, MANDRILL, the newest action flick from Chilean badass Marko Zaror (KILTRO), Takashi Miike's YATTERMAN and Ruben Fleischer's ZOMBIELAND.

Gonna be a helluva fest! Can't wait to see a lot of you there!

-Quint
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