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Welcome to The Genre Traveler! Please sign up using the form to the right so that you'll get all the latest updates to the site. You also might want to sign up for the RSS feed, which you can do via email or your favorite RSS Reader. MGM and Dimension Films will have an advance screen of Stephen King's The Mist tomorrow (Nov. 15) at 2pm in Beverly Hills. To get your pass for two, send an email to mist@alliedadvpub.com and include your name and date of birth. The pass does not guarantee admission, so arrive early. Seating is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis. This pass is nontransferable and is not redeemable for cash. NO one will be admitted once the screening begins.

This year's After Dark Horrorfest -- 8 Films to Die For -- will be held Nov. 9-18, 2007. What is the After Dark Horrorfest you say? Well, its kind of like a film festival that takes place in multiple theaters throughout the U.S. at the same time. Basically, for one week, you can go to a participating theater near you and see one or all 8 of these thrilling, scary films, often before they are released on DVD. This year's films include:

• The Deaths of Ian Stone
• Nightmare Man
• Frontiers
• Unearthed
• Borderland, and
• Mulberry Street

For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.horrorfestonline.com.

Fantastic Fest 3 is playing now through Sept. 27 at the Alamo South in Austin, Texas. This film festival features about 60 science fiction, fantasy and horror movies, along with 50 filmmaker guests. "If you talk to most filmmakers and hardcore film geeks, the movies that made them love movies were the genre films they saw as a kid," Fantastic Fest co-founder Harry Knowles told The Austin American-Statesman. "So this is an opportunity to see what a freaky, weird ghost story from Thailand looks like. We have a Pakistani horror film this year. Like, what the hell's that going to be? That's the excitement of it." Guests at this year's festival include:

• George Romero presenting Diary of the Dead

• Adam Green presenting Spiral with star Joel David Moore

• Joe Lynch presenting Wrong Turn 2

• Uwe Boll and star Zack Ward presenting Postal

• Maurice Devereaux presenting End of the Line

And more. For more information, visit www.fantasticfest.com.

The next Chiller Theatre Expo, which focuses on toys, models and film, will be held Oct. 5-7 at the Hilton in Parsippany, N.J. Guests include Elvira, Val Kilmer, Henry Winkler and Catherine Bach. For more information, visit www.chillertheatre.com.

The Orlando Science Center will present a special advanced screening of Ron Howard's In the Shadow of the Moon this Saturday, Sept. 15, at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. The film will open to the public in selected theaters on Sept. 28. Howard is lending his name to this feature documentary about the Apollo space program and the first-ever landing on the moon in partnership with THINKFilm to help promote it to the widest possible audience. It is directed by David Sington. Beginning in the early 1960s with President Kennedy's stated ambition to put an American on the moon before the end of the decade, In the Shadow of the Moon covers the Apollo space program through Apollo 11's successful lunar landing. Read more »