Zombies vs. Vampires: Celebs of the supernatural speak

BY AARON SAGERS

The undead vs. the walking dead: We spoke to celebrities who have built a career around the supernatural about this undying debate ...

John Carpenter, photo by
Thomas Peter Schulz

JOHN CARPENTER

Director, Halloween, Vampires, Big Trouble in Little China

"They're both great. Vampires go way back to when I was a little kid. And back even more to my parent's generation - and back even before them. The zombies are a little more recent. One of my favorite directors and close friends is George Romero and I think he transformed the horror genre with Night of the Living Dead. And it's everywhere today. Everywhere. That movie has influenced everything here, all movies that are made. It's unbelievable – and ripped off and ripped off, again and again and again."

Danny Trejo Set to Star in "Volcano Zombies"

It's a bird. It's a plane! It's a cursed, zombie spewing volcano!

The simply titled "Volcano Zombies," focuses on a sheriff (Tom Downey) and an estranged family who are not only threatened by the impending eruption of a nearby volcano, but have to escape a horde of the undead, reanimated by a curse. "Volcano Zombies" co-stars Danny Trejo as a Native American warrior that holds the secrets of the cursed mountain range, because of course he would.

Directed by Rene Perez ("The Dead and the Damned") and written/produced by Jason Ancona and Jeff Miller, the movie is currently in post production, however there is no release date as of now.

-Nowal Massari