September, 2008
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REVIEW: Fright Flick
Fright Flick. La Luna Entertainment (www.lalunaentertainment.com). By Brian Kirst
While the original Friday the 13th was considered a low budget, quickly shot feature, it actually stuns the mind that the recently shot Fright Flick (which pays direct homage to the Friday the 13th series) was probably done with a third of that seminal fright fest’s budget and production time. This is especially revelatory because Fright Flick is such a twisted, enjoyably bloody good time.
Fright Flick, which received its debut screening at…
A Plan 9 Re-Make
Well here is something that you dont hear everyday…”the remake will be a serious-minded retelling of the original story, paying homage to the spirit of Wood’s film without resorting to camp or parody.” – John Johnson
That is from the director of the new remake of the old Ed Wood Classic. Plan 9 is one of the shitty-ist movies ever made, and it should stay that way!
Im sure he has the best of intentions with the new film, but some thing…
CORNERED
LOS ANGELES, CA, Sep 29, 2008 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX) — MAZEfilms, an independent film production company based in Brussels, Belgium, with a branch in LA, announced today its first horror film “CORNERED!,” which was made-in-America, is ready for the market.
“First and foremost, viewers must be able to enjoy a movie, regardless of gore or dark undertones,” explained Managing Director Daniel Maze, MAZEfilms, Inc. “That’s why we added unexpected humor to ‘CORNERED!’ and married it with a strong plot.”
The horror…
Hong Kong remakes Cellular
A cellphone serves as a lifeline for a kidnap victim in Connected, a remake of a Hollywood blockbuster.
Hollywood has time and again produced many remakes of Asian movies. Now, in a role reversal, an American movie gets a Chinese remake instead.
Connected (Bo Chi Tung Wah in Cantonese), based on New Line Cinema action thriller Cellular (2004), is said to be the first Hong Kong remake of a Hollywood blockbuster. It is jointly produced by Warner China Film HG and Emperor…
Home Horror Movie
If Ram Gopal Verma has a challenge to send shiver down the spine with his newly released horror flick, here is a better bet. The Mook Badhir Mandal of Vadodara, on the occasion of World Deaf Day on Sunday, released their first-ever horror film.
With no background music or subtitles, the 45-minute movie, titled Home is based on the editing techniques and expressions of the actors to raise the adrenalin of the viewers. The film has been has been scripted, directed…
Desolation 2 – Flash Horror Online Game
This is the Desolation Sequel. The Desolation 2 online horror game brings you into an enhanced version of the original Desolation. Desolation: The Bunker of Fear delivers the same creepy atmosphere, but with much better graphics. The downsides: still not very challenging (and if it is for you, you can click on the Desolation walktrough link right on the top of your screen) and too short. Use your mouse to walk from one room to the next and left click to attack.
The British Thunderclap Award
CAST YOUR VOTE IN THE BRITISH THUNDERCLAP AWARD 2008
The British Thunderclap Award was set up to find and publicly recognise the film director who, as voted for by the British audience, is producing the most innovative or interesting work in British independent film.
Be it in features, shorts, documentaries or fiction, The British Thunderclap Award aims to reward and acknowledge the director who so clearly stamps his or her own individual identity, creativity and vision on an independent film.
The awards that…
PROFILE: John Pata
John Pata: Whiskey, the Howling and Living Among the Dead By Brian Kirst
There are a lot of things that drinking can induce – blackouts, hangovers, homicide.
Luckily for us, John Pata’s robust binges brought about the zombie indie short “Better Off Undead”. This initial limb wrenching project was inspired by Pata and friends sitting around drinking whiskey, watching zombie movies and thinking – “I wanna do that!”
As a result, the fun project about 3 friends experiencing a sudden zombified invasion in…
The Undertaker aKa el Sepulturero
FUSIONATOR PRODUCTIONS sent us some still of their latest movie: The Undertaker aKa el Sepulturero. Since the website is in Spanish, here is the translation of what they are all about. And check out some of the still below.
FUSIONATOR PRODUCTIONS was founded during half-full of year 1997, after a great one soaks of fantastic cinema, Gore and series Z. The effects of visionar so large amount of cinema sweepings derived in deliriums from greatness, anxieties to roll and furious attacks…
Halloween Horror Nights
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif., Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ — The relentless masked killers from Rogue Pictures’ horror-thriller hit, “The Strangers,” will make their theme park debut with vivid appearances in “House of Horrors: Meet the Strangers,” one of many terror-filled mazes featured in Universal Studios Hollywood’s “Halloween Horror Nights” event, beginning on Friday, October 3.
“The Strangers” deadly stalkers, “Doll Face,” “Pin Up Girl” and “The Man in the Mask,” will join a “murderers’ row” of Universal notorious celluloid creature that includes The…
Pathology on DVD Sept. 23
MILO VENTIMIGLIA AND ALYSSA MILANO STAR IN THE TERRIFYING AND TWISTED THRILLER
Premiering On DVD September 23rd From MGM Home Entertainment. Loaded With Special Features Including Cast and Crew Commentaries, Four Featurettes and Numerous Deleted & Alternate Scenes
The diagnosis is deadly as the heart-pounding film Pathology debuts on DVD September 23rd from MGM Home Entertainment.
Starring Milo Ventimiglia (“Heroes,” Rocky Balboa), Alyssa Milano (Charmed, “My Name Is Earl”) and Michael Weston (“Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Scrubs,”, The Last Kiss) and…
Adrienne King: Walking the Distance
Adrienne King: Walking the Distance with the Original Final Girl. By Brian Kirst
Long before she graced theatre screens as one of the “first females to kick ass in horror films”, Friday the 13th superstar Adrienne King was breaking the glass ceiling in her local high school in Long Island. In the early 1970’s, King was not only a talented artist, but also “the first girl to wear pants in my school” and “the first female to enroll in auto mechanics”.…
New Hammer Horror
Hammer Films has begun shooting in Donegal on its first production in almost 30 years – a horror thriller entitled The Wake Wood.
The film – about a couple who try to resurrect their dead daughter – stars Timothy Spall and Aiden Gillen.
It is the first feature from the cult British company since it was bought last year by a Dutch consortium.
Hammer became synonymous with the horror genre in the 1950s thanks to films like Dracula and The Mummy.
Other famous Hammer…
Big Bad Wolf
Big Bad Wolf is an over-the-top, balls-to-the-wall werewolf movie with a very biting wit. It must be seen to be be believed. And even then I had a hard time believing what I’d just seen!
While the setup is pretty run-of-the-mill, (a group of kids go party in the woods despite the creepy gas [...]
Summer Glau – Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Mammoth, Firefly, Serenity
If you’re into totally sexy and super creepy girls, then you already watch Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and you already know Summer Glau. As the emotionless and ultra-deadly terminator robot girl, she sends shivers down your spine at the same time she gets you hot and bothered.
Sadly, I missed Mammoth [...]
Horror Film Workshop for Teenagers
A digital project is looking for young horror fans in Birmingham to make the next Halloween or Nightmare On Elm Street.
And the organisers hope to use the project to make the first feature film from the region made entirely by young people.
The Killriculum project is a scheme designed to teach young people the skills of film making by getting them to make their own blood-chilling films.
It is aimed at 11-18-year-olds keen to get into the creative industries and teaches scripting,…
Terror on Washington Street
CLINTON—The Clintonia Eagle Theater is teaming up with the “Terror on Washington Street” haunted house in offering a “Fright Fest,” four horror movies, including two classics, “Psycho” and “Frankenstein.”
The fest will include recent and classic horror films to be shown in October in conjunction with the haunted house, an annual fundraiser for the Clinton Area Chamber of Commerce. As one of Illinois’ top 10 haunted houses, the Chamber annually hosts more than 6,000 visitors from around the region.
Each night that…
Baghead
“Baghead” is the best of the shaky-cam spawn of “The Blair Witch Project.” Yes, it’s another low-budget indie horror movie about making an indie horror movie. But this one, from the Duplass brothers, who did the daft road trip comedy “The Puffy Chair,” takes the time to construct characters and relationships before tossing its four would-be actors into turmoil.
This bunch — Chad (Steve Zissis), his pal Matt (Ross Partridge), Matt’s on-off girlfriend Catherine (Elise Muller) and Michelle (Greta Gerwig), the…
Linda Blair: Genre Legend
Linda Blair: Genre Legend, Possessed Activist and a World Heart. By Brian Kirst
“I didn’t know what I was doing.” So says Linda Blair about her Academy Award nominated performance of the possessed and physically violent Regan in The Exorcist. “I was 13. I didn’t understand what was going on. I just have this intense look – even as a kid – and they utilized it.”
In fact, years later while filming The Exorcist spoof Repossessed, Blair knew the way she was…
Rotten Jack’s Creep Show
The convention pickings have been slim for Buffalo horror flick fans, who have had to travel two hours—to attend either the Eerie Horror Film Festival in Pennsylvania or the FanExpo Canada in Toronto—to get their fill of B-film celebrities and merchandise. Last year, Tom Kowalski, the proprietor of Rotten Jack’s Creep Shack, a Halloween and horror “boo-tique” located on Transit Road in Depew, stepped up to the plate to host Rotten Jack’s Creep Show, an all-night celebration of horror entertainment,…
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