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Bloodthirsty, viscerachewing congratulations go out to Dubliners Edward and Rob Kennedy, whose Wheels of Deathhorror short recently won the Killer Shorts Competition at the Monster Mania Convention in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. The flick thus becomes the first film ever to earn an advance slot in the line-up for the 2009 New York City Horror Film Festival.