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Update: The Popcorn Frights festival in Florida has revealed that there will be a special presentation of the “lost cut” of Return of the Living Dead III at 10pm on August 10th at the Savor Cinema Fort Lauderdale, with director Brian Yuzna in attendance!

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Several years ago, director Brian Yuzna’s Return of the Living Dead III (watch it Here) got a great special edition Blu-ray release as part of the Vestron Video Collector’s Series… but now a discovery has been made that has fans of the film hoping for a new release as soon as possible: a VHS tape of the “first cut” of Return of the Living Dead III, featuring almost 8 minutes of additional, never before seen footage, has been unearthed! That tape is now in the hands of filmmaker Dustin Ferguson, who took to social media to share a picture of the tape,...

Henry Blake's death wasn't the first major point of transformation for Mash, it began with season 1's "Sometimes You Hear The Bullet." This pivotal episode mixed humor and darkness, informing the show's evolution towards a more dramatic tone in later seasons. Alda regrets his emotionally charged performance in the episode's finale, feeling he was "forcing" it.

Henry Blake's death is often cited as the moment that changed Mash, but its transformation into a dramedy began with a season 1 outing. Mash evolved in many ways during its first few years, moving from a sitcom with a not so subtle anti-war message into a medical drama that happened to be funny. This mix of laughter and darkness would have a big impact on the TV shows that came after, with Scrubs being the most obvious example. Showrunner Larry Gelbart and star Alan Alda were both behind this push toward a more...

When Larry Gelbart brought "M*A*S*H" to television, he had dauntingly spacious shoes to fill. Robert Altman's 1970 film, based on a novel by Richard Hooker, was a New Hollywood sensation that mined the Korean War (an obvious Vietnam substitute) for edgy, hard R-rated laughs. It was the third-highest-grossing movie of the year and racked up five Academy Award nominations (including one for Best Picture). Matching the quality of the film was challenging enough. The biggest problem facing Gelbart was retaining the ribald tone, a tall order considering network television's conservative content standards in the early 1970s.

Gelbart's solution was to sand down the sharp misogynistic edges of the characters and embrace a more humanistic gallows sense of humor. The small-screen version of the 4077th was certainly mischievous, but they weren't mean-spirited. They would've never pulled the humiliating shower prank on Hot Lips from the film. Yes, there were extreme personality clashes,...

Nicole Eggert was the object of countless crushes as fresh-faced teen Jamie Powell on '80s sitcom Charles in Charge, later earning her red swimsuit as lifeguard Summer Quinn on Baywatch.

However, for her latest role, the blond beauty will be heard but not seen: Eggert, 42, costars with Mario Lopez in The Dog Who Saved Easter, in which the pair voice two amorous canines.

In honor of her upcoming flick, the actress chatted with People about '80s trends, bizarre fans and her reality-tv stints, which include VH1's Celebrity Fit Club and ABC's Splash.

Now that you're a mom of two,...

New comic book Wednesday has come and gone. The dust at your local comic shop has settled. An eerie silence descends as you finish reading your last superhero book of the week. Now it's time for something a little more sinister. Welcome to Bagged and Boarded: comic reviews of the sick, spooky, twisted and terrifying!

The Auteur No. 1

Nathan T. Rex was one of the hottest names in Hollywood. His track record as a producer was incomparable. Hit after hit he spawned, until his latest release, a three-part space epic called 'Cosmos,' flopped. Considered the biggest failure in movie history, Rex was shunned. Now he's trying to find inspiration for his newest horror movie through drugs, drugs… and more drugs. Through vivid hallucinations he finally figures out who his slasher is supposed to be.

Bag it or board it up? This comic, written by Rick Spears and drawn by James Callahan,...

The great Ed Wynn stars as an elderly clockmaker who is convinced that he will keep living as long as he can keep an antique timepiece from dying. The Twilight Zone, Episode #132: "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" (original air date Dec. 20, 1963) The Plot: Sam Forstmann (Ed Wynn), 76, is a retired clockmaker who lives with his pregnant granddaughter Marnie (Carolyn Kearney) and her husband Doug (James Callahan). Lately Doug has noticed that Sam is a bit too devoted to the grandfather clock that he keeps in his room, feeling that the older gentleman has become obsessed with maintaining it to an unhealthy degree. Sam insists that it isn't so, that he simply suffers from insomnia and that working on the clock relaxes him,...