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Culture Warrior: Horror 1960

2 November 2009 9:34 AM, PST | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

Although Halloween has come and gone, the Fsr universe of readers and contributors alike have hardly satiated their horror fix, so this week’s Culture Warrior presents three movies that were major game-changers for the genre. 1960 saw the horror film, and filmgoing at large, change dramatically and permanently. Long gone was the horror of the literary monster that characterized 1930s Universal classics personified by Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, and the dawn of a new decade in turn also said goodbye to the 1950s B-movie creature features. In 1960 horror switched its gaze to a far more terrifying direction: inward. Horror now focused on the horrific capacities of the human being, on the grotesque monster potentially inside all of us. No longer would horror be relegated to B-movie status, instead enabled with the capacity, through depiction of psychological trauma and inner monstrosity, for a unique kind of profundity that other genres couldn’t even come close to. Three »

- Landon Palmer

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Monsterpalooza Guest List Begins Filling Up

2 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »

Although it's still several months away, Monsterpalooza 2010 is already shaping up to be one of the must-hit events of the next year. Mark your calendars, the dates are April 9th-11th at the Marriott Burbank Convention Center in beautiful Burbank, California. Appearing at the now annual event in April for the FX-laden convention will be Mr. Verne Langdon (Famous Monsters, Decca LP An Evening With Boris Karloff And His Friends), five-time Emmy Award-winning make-up artist Thomas R. Burman, FX artist Michael G. Westmore, Barney Burman of Proteus FX , Rob Burman of Sticks and Stones FX, FX artist Tony Gardner ( Michael Jackson's Thriller , Seed Of Chucky ), Alec Gillis and Tom Woodruff of Amalgamated Dynamics Inc., Howard Berger and Greg Nicotero of Knb Efx, Allan Trautman, Beverly... »

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Vampires Unite for Halloween in Sin City

1 November 2009 7:55 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »

"True Blood" stars Rutina Wesley and Sam Trammel hosted Veuve Clicquot's Yelloween party at Lavo at the Palazzo in Las Vegas, while "Twilight" vampires Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene threw their own spooky Yelloween Halloween bash at Tao at the Venetian.

Wesley, dressed as a pirate, and Trammel, wearing a wizard costume, dined on Italian dishes at Lavo before heading to their VIP table at Lavo nightclub.

See photos of celebrities dressing up for Halloween

Lutz, »

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Fangoria Week in Review 10.24.2009

24 October 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

If it's Sunday, then that means its time for another Fangoria Week In Review. We're turning back the clock to look back on the past seven days of blood-soaked horror goodness. 

We've got the entire week broken down by category so that you can catch up on anything you might've missed. We've got the Fango reviews of this week's big releases, a bunch of new interviews - and the news continued to flow about the biggest event in Fango history - the Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors, which invades Las Vegas on Halloween Weekend!

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Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors: Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nv - 10/30-11/01/2009

Tickets are now available online through http://www.trinityofterrors.com and through Vegas.com. You may also order tickets from Vegas.com by phone - 1-888-las-vegas (527-8342) 24 hours a day.

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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Blu-ray Review

22 October 2009 8:11 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

The Who.s down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, the Grinch however did not. He was green, scary, and sounded like Jim Carrey. The Sueussian rhyme sounded good some of the time, but it can.t beat the original with Boris Karloff. Erm, what rhymes with Boris Karloff? The basis kernel of the story is thus: The Grinch (Jim Carrey), who lives atop Mount Crumpit with his dog Max, hates Christmas, but the Who.s down in Whoville love it. Their vocal celebrations drive the nasty, green grouch nuts and this year he.s had enough. He decides to disguise himself as Santa Claus and on Christmas Eve stealthily stalk into town and burgle all of the Who.s ornamentation, gifts, and »

- Jeff Swindoll

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Hollywood's Scariest Characters!

21 October 2009 12:23 PM, PDT | Extra | See recent Extra news »

It's almost Halloween -- time to bust out the scariest horror flicks! Which villain freaked you out the most? "Extra" brings you Hollywood's Scariest Characters -- check 'em out... if you dare! Bwahahahahah!

Hollywood's Scariest Characters!Frankenstein

Frankenstein was the first reanimated movie monster, played by Boris Karloff. Shocking!

Michael Myers

This “Halloween” maniac murdered his sister when he was six. It only got worse.

Norman Bates

Norman Bates, played by Tony Perkins, made taking »

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Group Fun

20 October 2009 3:50 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

If you've been here for some time you might recall that the Film Experience was once one of the main pushers of the phenom known as the blog-a-thon where multiple sites posted on a specific topic simultaneously. I hosted three of the largest blog-a-thons the web had ever seen at the time (Michelle Pfeiffer 2006, Vampires in Cinema 2006 and Action Heroines 2007) before collapsing from exhaustion / 'thon burnout... that happened pretty much everywhere since the sites that used to keep calendars of such events stopped keeping track, too.

The blog-a-thon has essentially been replaced by the film clubs which come in two forms: one site hosted discussions or formatted like old school 'thons with links to every site discussing the topic. The other 'thon replacement is the monthly event/tradition like, for example, StinkyLulu's awesome Supporting Actress Smackdown series which is about to hit its 34th installment. Wow. That's devotion.

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- NATHANIEL R

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Blu-Ray Review: Gaudy ‘Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ Lacks True Holiday Cheer

20 October 2009 2:57 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »

Chicago – Just weeks before the opening weekend of Jim Carrey’s new “A Christmas Carol,” Universal has released a Blu-Ray + DVD combo pack of the nearly decade-old “Grinch” remake, featuring Carrey as the infamous Seussian Scrooge. The combination of Carrey’s star power and Theodor Geisel’s beloved source material assured the film’s massive box office success. But no matter how much dough it raked in, few family audiences actually seemed to like it. That’s because no one behind the camera had a clue about how to stretch this simple tale into a feature-length blockbuster.

Blu-Ray Rating: 2.0/5.0

The original “Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas” was a half-hour cartoon first broadcast in 1966, featuring masterful narration from Boris Karloff, exuberantly funny animation from Chuck Jones, and classic songs written by Seuss and unforgettably performed by Thurl Ravenscroft. It remains one of the finest holiday films of all time, »

- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)

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Bela Lugosi And Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story Of A Haunting Collaboration (Book Review)

20 October 2009 1:50 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Their names are synonymous with classic horror films.  Together, Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff presented an unbeatable tag team of terror.  For over 25 years they dueled for horror superiority with films such as Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, White Zombie, The Bride Of Frankenstein, Mark Of The Vampire, and dozens of others.  Film historian Greg Mank, the foremost expert on classic horror of the 1930s and 1940s, takes horror fans on an incredible journey through the lives of these two icons of the silver screen in Bela Lugosi And Boris Karloff: The Expanded Story Of A Haunting Collaboration.

In a volume nearly 700 pages long, Mank looks at their films both individually and together, as well as their personal and private lives and relationships.  Over the years Mank has conducted interviews with hundreds of personalities related to classic horror including many surviving stars, crewmembers, and the families of the stars.  With Mank’s work, »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Tim Janson)

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Trick ’R Treat w/Michael Dougherty in NYC and more screening news

19 October 2009 3:13 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

It’s time for another update on horror-film screenings for the Halloween 2009 season and beyond; you can track back through our previous items starting here. The most exciting news is the addition of a very special show to the Scary Movies 3 series currently unspooling at New York City’s Lincoln Center: Trick ’R Treat with Michael Dougherty (pictured) in attendance!

The All Hallow’s anthology feature unspools at the Walter Reade Theater (165 West 65th Street, upper level) this Wednesday, October 21 at 8:30 p.m., followed by a Q&A with Dougherty. Trust us: You want to see this one on the big screen. Full details on Scary Movies 3 can be found here. In addition, adventurous genre fans will want to check out Juraj Herz’s The Cremator when it shows as part of Lincoln Center’s The Ironic Curtain: Czech Cinema series on Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 9 p.m. This black »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)

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Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics: Bela Lugosi Disc

19 October 2009 12:52 AM, PDT | Alternative Film Guide | See recent Alternative Film Guide news »

Darby Jones, Bela Lugosi in Zombies on Broadway Karloff & Lugosi Horror Classics: Boris Karloff Disc Matters do not improve much over on Bela Lugosi’s disc.  Horror enthusiasts will likely experience a gargantuan case of buyer’s remorse during the first scenes of You’ll Find Out (1940).  What they’ll find out is that this movie is a vehicle not for Bela Lugosi, but for comedian/bandleader Kay Kyser and his Kollege of Musical Knowledge band, featuring Ginny Simms, Sully Mason and Ish Kabibble (who appears to have been the visual inspiration for Jim Carrey’s Lloyd character in Dumb and Dumber).  Kyser and company’s style of comedy has, shall we say, not aged well, but this is [...] »

- Dan Erdman

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Halloween and Horror Books Every Fan Should Own

18 October 2009 1:22 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

Horror fans love this time of the year. For those of us not living in La, there's the chill in the air, the colorful leaves, pumpkins everywhere, dead cornfields to explore … if you dare. So, in honor of Our official holiday, I have come up with a list of books and some movies every horror fan should at least take a look at, if not outright add to your book or DVD library.

Without further ado (and in no particular order):

Creepy Places to Visit:

Creepy Crawls: A Horror Fiend’s Travel Guide by Leon Marcelo, Santa Monica Press, 380 pages

I Love this book!! Leon Marcelo travels the world, literally, to find places of horror both real and fictional. Rome to visit the Dario Argento Profondo Rosso Shop then to George Romero’s Pennsylvania and H.P. Lovecraft’s New England. Marcelo also covers Stephen King country, Poe’s Baltimore, »

- thebellefromhell

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Classic Movie Monsters vs. Modern Movie Monsters

8 October 2009 8:29 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »

It’s classic movie monster time! I was going to wait until Christmas to talk about this, but now seemed like a more appropriate time. We are going to compare the original black and white movie monsters (and the actors who brought them to life), against more modern versions and actors to see who comes out on top.

I know there are dozens of classic monsters, including the Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Fly, giant robots, aliens, and over-sized insects/animals, but I’m going to focus on the more famous literary monsters : Frankenstein’s monster, The Wolf Man, Dracula and The Mummy.

 

Let’s start with my favorite character, Frankenstein’s monster. Most people incorrectly refer to the monster As Frankenstein - but actually, author Mary Shelley never gave the creature a name. In the 1818 novel, Shelley writes about mad scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein and how he learns to create life. »

- Paul Young

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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 10/06/2009

3 October 2009 11:06 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.

Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, October 6, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List. It's a Big week, with Trick 'R Treat finally hitting the home market, along with re-issues of The Gate, Audition, and a whole lot more!

Note: Clickable links lead to Amazon.com

Audition (Bd)

New 1080P High-Definition Transfer From The Negative!

Deceptively innocent at first, Takashi Miikes Audition finds Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi, Suicide Club, The Grudge), a middle-aged widower of many years, urged by his teenage son and his film producer friend Yasuhisa Yoshikawa (Jun Kunimura, Ichi The Killer) to get out and start dating again. To help Aoyama meet women, Yoshikawa devises a plan to »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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Votd: 1937 Warner Bros Blooper Reel

29 September 2009 1:00 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Almost every DVD features a blooper reel, containing all the outtakes from a particular film. Before DVD. Recently, Tropic Thunder released three full 10-minute mags of outtakes on DVD. But it wasn't always this way. I remember that in the age of VHS, ABC would host television specials a couple times a year featuring all the Hollywood bloopers. Back in the 1930's, Warner Bros would release a yearly collection of "Breakdowns," which would air between double features. A while ago, Go Into The Story posted a Warner Bros Blooper Reel from 1937. It's amazing how different bloopers were back in the earlier days of Hollywood. The "Breakdowns of 1936" features Humphrey Bogart, George Brent, Bette Davis, Glenda Farrell, Errol Flynn, Dick Foran, Kay Francis, Hugh Herbert, Allen Jenkins, Boris Karloff, Barton MacLane, Pat O'Brien, Dick Powell, and Claude Rains. Watch the clip after the jump. »

- Peter Sciretta

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Exclusive: Grilling Leslie Nielsen of Stan Helsing

22 September 2009 1:18 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

It's hard to interview Leslie Neilsen and keep a straight face. The spoof-master general simply won't allow it.

When Fango recently caught up with the Airplane! and Naked Gun actor to discuss his portrayal of Kay (yes, a woman) in the upcoming Anchor Bay release of Stan Helsing (on DVD & Blu-ray October 27), Neilsen kept the jokes running at a steady pace as we quizzed him on everything from Forbidden Planet to Scary Movie.

Leslie Neilsen: So... you've always wanted to be in show business?

Fangoria: How did you get involved in Stan Helsing and what is the film about?

Ln: I don't know! (Laughs) The answer to both of those questions is that I don't know!  (Laughing Again) It's funny because I bumped in Bo [Zenga, the director] in Vancouver and he said that he'd like me to play a part in the movie. I read the script and I noticed that there »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Mark Wolfe)

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Music Box Massacre 5 Comes to Chicago - Fangoria's giving away tickets!

21 September 2009 9:39 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Movieside's Music Box Massacre 5 comes to Chicago's Historic Music Box Theatre on October 10th, and in addition to giving you the full details on the event - Fango's giving away 3 pairs of passes to the annual 24-hour horror event!

Chicago icon Stuart Gordon joins the Music Box Massacre 5 (Oct 10.) screening his Masters Of Horror episode, The Black Cat (starring Jeffrey Combs) which is a fictitious portrayal of Edgar Allan Poe spiraling into madness while writing the classic tale "The Black Cat."  In addition, Gordon's Re-animator and From Beyond will be screened.

In addition to having Stuart appear - Chicago residents Tim Kazurinski (Saturday Night Live, Shakes the Clown) and Greg Holliman (Strangers with Candy) will be reading poetry selections from Edgar Allan Poe's work. 

Here's the full details on what you can expect at Music Box Massacre 5:

24-hours-of-horror-movie-Madness!!! October 10, 2009

Music Box Theatre | 3733 N. Southport Ave., Chicago, Il 60613 | 1.773.871.6604 | Noon 'til Noon! »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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Mad Monster Party: Special Edition - DVD Review

16 September 2009 3:04 AM, PDT | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »

Rankin/Bass pretty much owns Christmas. So why not try and make a holiday special film for Halloween? Even better have .Uncle. Boris Karloff present the treat to the audience and even trick Phyllis Diller into voicing the bride of Frankenstein. Well, maybe not a trick but certainly the film is a cult one that offers a treat to film monster fans. Baron von Frankenstein (Boris Karloff) has discovered the secret of total destruction. He already knew how to create life so he made it his life.s work to discover the opposite. Now that the discovery is in the bag he decides that he.s going to retire. He has his lab assistant Francesca (Gale Garnett) send out invitations to »

- Jeff Swindoll

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Carriers creators reveal their next genre project

9 September 2009 4:13 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

While talking with Fangoria Radio last week, brothers Alex Pastor and David Pastor, writer/directors of the postapocalyptic Carriers (out now in limited release; see review here) gave us a little hint as to their next endeavor. Instead of the disease-ravaged future, this time they’re heading into the past.

“We have a few projects that we’re working on,” Alex Pastor told show hosts Dee Snider, Debbie Rochon and Tony Timpone. “I don’t think any of them are openly horror. Well, one of them is a creature movie set in the Balkans in the 16th century. It’s kind of a vampire/werewolf movie, like Beowulf, so to speak. It’s a cool project with some horror and lots of action. The title right now is Wurdalak, which means undead, but we’re going to change it to something a little more comprehensible.” (The last time a wurdalak »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Samuel Zimmerman)

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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 9/08/2009

5 September 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.

Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, September 8, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List - updated with all the last-minute additions and deletions.

Note: Clickable links lead to Amazon.com

Creepshow (Bd) - Warner Bros.

Amazon.com says: Inspired by the controversial E.C. Comics of the 1950s--which also provided the title and inspiration for the popular Tales from the Crypt TV series--director George Romero and screenwriter Stephen King serve up five delightfully frightful stories. Utilizing comic-book panels, animated segues, and exaggerated lighting and camera angles, Romero and cinematographer Michael Gornick come very close to replicating a horror comic in film format. The results mix fine acting with the morbid sense »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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