Television is due for an onslaught of zombies as AMC recently secured the rights to Robert Kirkman's comic book series The Walking Dead. It gets better, folks: Three-time Oscar Nominee Frank Darabont (The Mist, The Fly 2) has signed on as writer-director for the miniseries as has Gale Anne Hurd (The Terminator, Aliens, Armageddon) for executive producer. EW.com calls the pairing of The Walking Dead and AMC the "best-idea-ever of the day" and goes on to deem The Walking Dead the best piece of zombie of the decade. Kirkman's series chronicles the post-apocalyptic fates of ordinary people from the greater Atlanta area as they fight off the living dead. The story center on Rick Grimes, a small-town police officer who's shot in the line of duty then awakens from a coma to find himself in a bloody new world of monsters.

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Life is full of bad horror... you have news feeds for that.

Your guide to good horror is no farther away than your iPhone and iPod Touch: AMC has recently launched an exclusive, free app that will hook you up with all the goodies our Horror Hacker site has to offer like our in-the-know blog columns crammed with unique insights into the world of serial killers, classic monsters, demonic possession and angelic-looking bad seeds. It will also ensure that you'll never miss another scary movie on AMC, thanks to your now-mobile broadcast schedule. What's on this week's Fear Friday? Well, let me check my iPhone...

And there's more: You'll also get AMC's SciFi Scanner and Future of Classic movie blogs, plus exclusive video for AMC originals Breaking Bad, Mad Men and AMC News. In other words, everything but Freddy Krueger crawling out of your screen. (You don't really want that, do you? Because it always ends in a scream.)

Click here to view the app at the iTunes store.

If you're looking for the inside scoop on Halloween 2, you've just found it. Now head on over to the AMC News blog for a video interview with Wayne Toth, the lead makeup effects designer, and the man responsible for Michael Myers' new mask. Afterward, watch on-set interviews with Rob Zombie and actor Tyler Mane.

Read more here.

Starved for info on Rob Zombie's upcoming Halloween 2? You've come to the right place. Check out the AMC News blog for a video interview with Tyler Mane, the massive pro-wrestling actor who'll be playing Michael Myers. Afterwards, check out the on-set video interview with Rob Zombie conducted at the ungodly hour of 4AM.

Read more here.

Good news for lovers of all things old, exploitative, obscure, and shot on the way, way cheap! AMCtv.com is pleased to announce the launch of a new section dedicated to that most singular and under-appreciated of art forms, the B-movie. And it won't be just any fan-site: We'll be sharing a slew of movies hand-picked from the archives that you'll be able to watch from the comfort of your own home, free of charge. (Amen.)

Head on over to the site with over twenty movies to choose from, six of them horror flicks. Among them: War of the Colossal Beast (which inspired a 14-year-old John Carpenter to craft a sequel, Return of the Colossal Beasts, in 1962); the 1950 movie Corridors of Blood, in which Boris Karloff stars as a vapors-addicted doctor; and Del Tenney's drive-in classic The Horror of Party Beach. John Waters would be proud.

If you haven't already caught it, be sure to check out this week's edition of Now or Then in our Future of Classics blog.

This week's matchup pits The Last House on the Left against  Alexandre Aja's 2006 remake of The Hills Have Eyes, two movies with a lot in common.

A family in peril? Check? Grosser than gross moments? Check. Based on a Wes Craven classic? Check again. 

Help decide which fright flick does a better job of making a horror master relevant for new audience. (Your vote is wanted!)

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Stan Winston's work not only transcended genres, it also legitimized them, introducing the world to some of the most beloved (and most horrifying) movies of all time including Aliens and Terminator 2.

Winston, who passed away this weekend at 62, had battled multiple myeloma for seven years, but the makeup and special-effects artist was still working hard at work in the months leading up to his death. With Avatar and Terminator: Salvation forthcoming, audiences can expect to continue enjoying his new work in the next few years. In the meantime, the career that earned Winston four Oscars and many other nominations, as well as the undivided attention of most filmgoers, isn't likely to fade anytime soon. While movies like Batman Returns and Pumpkinhead seem like dubious movies to curl up with during a time of mourning, I'm sure Winston wouldn't have it any other way.

News, reviews, and snarky opinions are the backbone of the blogging world, and horror is no exception. What began two years ago as a traditional genre blog, The Horror Blog has slowly blossomed into an entertaining forum for expression thanks to the weekly Horror Roundtable, in which prominent bloggers assemble to answer questions like "Setting Zombies on Fire: Decent Strategy or Horrible Mistake?". Curated by Steven Wintle, each Roundtable topic is an opportunity to pick the brains of writers who really know their stuff.

"I sent out invitations to the first batch of participants just to get the ball rolling," says Wintle, "This group was comprised of practically every horror blogger I could think of. After that initial drive, I would occasionally extend an open invite on the blog, and we would get new recruits either that way or just by people inquiring about it." Wintle gives full credit to his panelists for the Roundtable's success to date, "It's like a dinner party, but everyone invited is a cannibal."

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• Director Dan Myrick wants people to know he's not just a one-hit wonder and say, "OK, this guy can do more than just one movie, he can do more than just Blair Witch." 

• The older you get, the scarier birthdays become. To celebrate my decay: Cakes that are edible and age-appropriate.

• Dismembered Macy's mannequins are given new life in Florida. "It's a handmade zombie farm."

• Shocktilyoudrop.com has exclusive news about Breck Eisner's Creature From the Black Lagoon remake: The updated Gill Man will surface in the Forest of Mirrors.

• Eli Roth (Hostel) isn't ditching horror. "A headline that nasty is not only untrue, it makes it seem like I'm like spitting in the face of everyone who's ever supported me." Let's be clear: His PG-13 film will be scary, just in a different way.

• A cajun werewolf legend turned a struggling artist into a multi-millionaire. CBS would like you to Meet the Blue Dog.