It's sequel weekend at the movies this... well, weekend. And Jason and Howie are gonna tell you all about it when From The Basement takes to the Radio NL 610 AM Morning News at 7:20. Jay's also got a new interview for fans. This time he talks with scream queen Trista Robinson about her new horror flick Echoes of Fear, which is making the theatrical rounds as well speak. As always, you'll hear a few minutes of their conversation this morning, then the whole thing appears when the extended cut podcast drops later today. As for those movies; there's the much-anticipated Zombieland: Double Tap with Woody Harrelson and Emma Stone, and Angelina Jolie brings her bad self back for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. One of those has to appeal to someone! So grab your morning coffee, tune in via the AM dial or the streaming link to your right, and settle yourself in, we're waiting for you... in The Basement! Stick with us!

It's catch-up time in The Basement as Jason, Shawn and Amy tackle a couple of somewhat recent releases that begin with the letter M. Yeah, as the headline says, they're talking about Maggie and Machete Kills.

Arnold Schwarzenegger in a zombie movie sounds like a great idea. Because, if you know the Schwarzenegger of his heyday, then you're in for a zombie-ass kicking good time. Right! I said right? You mean this is a drama about a father coming to terms with the fact his daughter has been bitten by a zombie, and will do everything to protect her until the turn finally happens, when he is asked to do what any father would deem unthinkable? Really? I said really?

That's right folks, Arnold Schwarzenegger is starring in a zombie film . A zombie film called Maggie . In all my years as a movie AND Schwarzenegger fan, I never thought this day would come. But it has. And Maggie doesn't sound like any old zombie film either. No, we won't see the Austrian Oak take 'ole Painless out of the bag and unleash hell on a horde of the undead. This is something . . . different.

Everybody likes a good ghost story, right? Well, how about a story where pretty much everyone is a ghost? That's the premise behind Cube and Splice director Vincenzo Natali 's Haunter . Original, yes. Any good? Stick with me. The ghost of a teenager who died years ago reaches out to the land of the living in order to save someone from suffering her same fate.

That's right peeps, we might not be getting a sequel to the rather brilliant Zombieland , we're going to get a TV series instead. But it won't be a network series, oh no. This mother is going the On Demand route. Seems Amazon .com is trying to compete with Eli Roth 's Netflix original series Hemlock Grove by jump starting the Zombieland project. No word yet on who's in it or when we'll see it, but each 30-minute episode will follow the adventures of a group of survivors who band together during the zombie apocalypse. Unless you've been living under a rock, the Zombieland movie starred Woody Harrelson , Jessie Eisenberg, Abigail Breslin and the lovely Emma Stone , all of whom are pictured above. The verdict is still out on whether Netflix or Amazon can sustain a series like this, but I say go for it. VOD is the wave of the future, and I'd love to see these sites produce good, original content until the cows come home. Source: iO9 Related...

And you know what? It actually doesn't look half bad.  Granted, Halle Berry and co-star Abigail Breslin are talented actors. Berry's won an Academy Award and Breslin's been nominated. And director Brad Anderson is the bomb when it comes horror and thrillers, what with his Session 9 and The Machinist. The Call follows a 911 operator who ends up dealing with a killer from her past after a young girl calls the center, kidnapped in the trunk of a car.  Working against the film is the plot has elements of Taken and Buried, and the trailer shows every beat we'll see in the movie. Still, there's talent involved, which gives me hope that The Call will be worth the watch when it opens March 15.  Trailer courtesy of Yahoo.

Remember Abigail Breslin, the cute little girl who received an Oscar nomination for her work in the indie comedy Little Miss Sunshine before she battled zombies in the modern classic that is Zombieland? No? Then you are a true Basement Dweller. Well, Breslin is moving further into the horror genre with her next project, The Hive, where she joins Oscar winner and Bond girl Halle Berry. Yes, we posted a picture of Berry instead of Breslin because we don't want to seem like a couple of pedophiles. Pervs yes, pedophiles no. The Hive is directed by genre veteran Brad Anderson, who helmed Session 9, The Machinist and Vanishing on 7th Street. Berry plays an operator at a 911 call centre who must race against time to save a teenage girl menaced by a deranged killer. Logically, Breslin plays the teenager. But wouldn't it be really interesting if she played the killer? Indeed. I like Anderson's work. So far his only real misfire has been Vanishing. The Hive's story does sou...