Radioactive is set to release horror comedy The Red theatrically on October 31st, just something about that date. Well okay that release date is only for Australia and New Zealand but North American fans have been promised the movie will arrive sometime during "the spooky season". The movie is based off the previous short Waterborne (2005) by director Ben Rekhi and written by Ryan Coonan and Richard Barcarticchio, which from memory involved a containmented water hole and local fauna going feral. Ryan Coonan is taking the director's chair for the feature length adaptation, from a script by the same writers who gave us the original.

We have some horror alumni in the cast, which is great to see. Tess Haubrich (Wolf Creek season 2, Alien: Covenant) takes the lead as a young police officer named Maddy who is determined to live up to her deceased father's legacy. We get Michael Biehn (Aliens) as Maddy's eccentric uncle Schmitty, and Angie Milliken (MDA, Jungle) as the resilient aunt Donna. The trio must embark on a high-stakes battle to save the local town from marauding zombie critters, and if possible prevent a national wide outbreak.

The by-line for this one writes itself, "Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the billibong", "The Australian bush is now even more deadly", or how about "Even the Drop Bears are scared". If anyone from Radioactive is reading, feel free to run with any of those.

If you have seen Waterbourne then you probably already know how this is going to go down, but I am expecting some extra gravey on the red raw meat with the feature length, hopefully this isn't all character development and relationships. Read, we want a decent body count, that excludes dogs and other non-human members of the cast.

Anyone else getting excited? Hell I am, and here's the trailer to whet your appetite for destruction, Outback style!