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Remember the Guess Brothers? They're the guys from Muncie who raised money using Kickstarter to help produce their newest opus, The Unhuman. According to a recent blog post they're almost finished shooting and intend to wrap by year's end. A few weeks ago their first effort, the short film Don't Go Into the Woods, was honored with a screening at The Drunken Zombie Film Festival in Peoria. Sadly neither could attend since the event was held at a theatre/bar and they're both underage! Head on over to their Kickstarter page and check out the trailer for the new movie. It's got a hatching alien egg and everything.

On Halloween, there are those of us who like to get dressed up and go to parties. And there are those of us who like to stay home curled up with a mug of hot cider and watch scary movies. We know who we are. A new Scorsese list got us thinking about what movies we would recommend. Here are five:

Don't kid yourself. Anyone who says summer is the best time of year in Chicago is a rotten liar. Autumn is matchless. Especially if you're a movie watcher. From now through Thanksgiving (when Hollywood's Holiday/Oscar assault begins in earnest) an embarrassment of cinematic variety is yours for the taking. Your stamina and your wallet's size are your only limitations.

Here's your chance to be in the remake/reboot of A Nightmare on Elm Street. It stars Oscar-nominated actor Jackie Earle Haley as the supernatural slasher and a slew of attractive, no-name teenagers as the slashees. It's currently being shot around town at various high suburban high schools and in Gary, Indiana. Producers are looking for "REAL POLICE, REAL FIREFIGHTERS, REAL PARAMEDICS, REAL COFFEE SHOP BARISTAS, REAL BOOKSTORE CLERKS and REAL PRESS TYPES." (In other words, you phonies can all stay home.) The parts also include "males and females, all ethnicities, 18-years-of-age and up, to work in non-speaking roles as ONLOOKERS and SHOPPERS."

Stark Trek had an estimated budget of $160 million. Even Sam Raimi's new "low budget" horror movie Drag Me to Hell cost millions. Turns out you can get more bang for your buck in Indiana: The Unhuman is being made for around $500. Co-helmer Jacob, 13, sketched out the story for us: "A group of teens are working on a video project for school when a meteor lands bringing with it an alien infection. When some of the friends start showing up dead the remaining group must figure out which one of them (if any) have been infected by the virus." His brother Michael, 14, adds, "We know that there's been many different movies made with storylines like this. Beginning with Invasion of the Body Snatchers going all the way through to Slither. I don't want to say too much, but we're doing our own twist on this idea."

Whoa. Che has been held over at the Landmark Century for yet another week! Unfortunately it's no longer the whole salteña but only Part One. Still, half is better than none, and Part One has many powerful moments that should spur you on to catching up with Part Two (the full film is available through video-on-demand on Comcast). We highly recommend you see it in its entirety.

Need more evidence that wintertime in these parts is enough to make Chicagoans feel homicidal? Here you go: our city has two festivals of horror movies occurring more or less simultaneously. Horrorfest III runs at Piper's Alley through Wednesday, and next weekend the Horror Society presents B-Movie Madness at the Portage Theater. The lineup boasts four horror flicks that definitely fall on the wacky, schlocky end of the spectrum.

The first few months of the year are typically the cinematic equivalent of a graveyard. Studios have already unloaded their Oscar bait in advance of the January 1 deadline and are in the midst of prepping their would-be cash cows for release in the late spring. But After Dark's Horrorfest III will take the phrase "cinematic graveyard" seriously. It unspools January 9-15 at Piper's Alley, highlighting eight fright flicks. They'll be shown on a rotating schedule for the duration of the festival.