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Descent 2 Gets Hard "R;" Plus a Rant about Ratings
22 December 2009 7:26 PM, PST | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
Slow news day, so it's a perfect time to announce the MPAA has given The Descent 2 a hard "R" rating. The sequel to Neil Marshall's popular spelunking horror has achieved the rating for "for strong bloody horror violence, grisly images, terror and language." It sure sounds as if the film should satisfy gore hounds.
As the MPAA gets more pervasive over the years in some ways (they can bump a grade for including smoking now), and yet more permissive in others (I'll get to that in a minute), I wonder if the organization is even relevant anymore. Theatres still generally refuse to carry or advertise for unrated movies, so the product they run can be watered down, especially pertaining to horror. But with the advent of DVD, many directors have found a way to obviate this problem; they simply pull back on the theatrical release, knowing they will release »
R.I.P. Dan O'Bannon
18 December 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
We're saddened today to learn of the passing of Dan O'Bannon. No stranger to sci-fi or horror fans, he'd penned the screenplays for the original Alien , John Carpenter's debut feature Dark Star , Gary Sherman's Dead & Buried , Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce and Invaders From Mars and one of our personal favorite zombie movies Return Of The Living Dead , which he also directed. We recommend you head over to his imdb credits right here , familiarize yourself with his work and celebrate it by revisiting those movies and incredible contributions to our beloved genre by a fellow fan. He will be missed. »
Rip: Dan O’Bannon
18 December 2009 2:34 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
According to Harry Knowles at Ain’t It Cool News, screenwriter Dan O’Bannon has passed away. If you’re on this site, you’re surely familiar with his work. The man created Alien, worked on John Carpenter’s Dark Star, and was on the visual effects crew for a little film called Star Wars.
In addition to these, O’Bannon wrote an excellent little film called Dead & Buried, as well as Return of the Living Dead (which he also directed), Tobe Hooper’s space vampire epic, Lifeforce, and the 1986 remake of Invaders from Mars (also Hooper). He also gave us Total Recall.
We’ve lost one of the greats today, people.
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- Andrew Ford
Dan O.Bannon, 63, Passes Away
17 December 2009 9:55 PM, PST | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
Dan O’Bannon, science fiction screenwriter and director, passed away on December 17, 2009 in Los Angeles. He was best known for his work in the science-fiction and horror genres, with hits that included Alien, Total Recall, and The Return of the Living Dead.
O’Bannon made his first splash in 1974 with Dark Star, which expanded a low-budget, 45-minute short co-written with fellow USC student John Carpenter. Although the film had sci-fi trappings, such as a space ship and cryogenic freezing technology, Dark Star was essentially a quirky, black-hearted comedy about the ship’s misfit crew members. The movie became a cult hit; and not only did O’Bannon work on the screenplay, but he had an acting role as a character named Sgt. Pinback.
A few years later, after working on special computer animation and graphic displays for a little feature called Star Wars, O’Bannon wrote the script for Alien, »
Eisner Now Brooding
15 December 2009 5:29 PM, PST | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
On the heels of my earlier comments about some commercial dude directing The Creature From The Black Lagoon remake instead of Breck Eisner, I can report that, according to the L.A. Times, Eisner will be directing another remake: David Cronenberg's The Brood.
Eisner's remake of The Crazies has been getting lots of love on other horror sites of late, but I'll reserve my comments on the film until I see it (and if it lacks the social commentary of George Romero's original, those who criticized Zach Snyder's Dawn Of The Dead remake for eschewing Romero's commentary on consumerism should be equally upset with Eisner).
The one comment I will make is about a new type of director that's emerging in horror of late: the sequel king. Guys like Eisner and Marcus Nispel threaten to throw themselves into a horror ghetto where all they will be known for »
More True Blood Casting News
15 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Following up yesterday's casting news for the hit HBO series "True Blood", we have one more name to add to the ever-growing list of new stars and potential fangbangers (how we love that term)!
Dread Central has been informed that Cooper Huckabee will also be joining the new cast on "True Blood" as a recurring character named 'Joe Lee Mickens'. Huckabee, whom you may remember from the Tobe Hooper slasher classic The Funhouse, will begin his run starting in Episode Two of the new season.
"True Blood" resumes its steamy bouts of bloodsucking goodness this June. Stay tuned for more as it comes.
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- Uncle Creepy
Funhouse Star Latest to Join True Blood
15 December 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Following on the heels of yesterday's True Blood casting news , we have one more to add. Shock Till You Drop has been informed actor Cooper Huckabee is set to be another regular as "Joe Lee Mickens," a character introduced in the second episode of the upcoming season as Sam's dad. Huckabee is fresh off Dexter and the recently released Staunton Hill . Fans of Tobe Hooper's work will recognize him as Buzz from The Funhouse ! The third season of True Blood begins in June. »
Hooper's Eggshells Screening in L.A.
29 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Before he set loose Leatherface on an unsuspecting America, Tobe Hooper directed Eggshells and the Steve Allen Theater Drive-In in Los Angeles (4773 Hollywood Blvd.) is giving you a chance to see this "lost" '68 film from the director of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre . Beginning December 4, the film - which screened to SXSW audiences in March - will get a midnight run at the Steve Allen (part of a limited theatrical run) before hitting DVD from Watchmaker Films. Due to weather concerns the screenings may move from the outdoor drive-in screening to the indoor theater (at the same venue) at the end of December. Eggshells is described as a trippy experience capturing "the Austin counter culture scene of the late sixties, new attitudes of sex, love, drugs and »
Are Horror Films Supposed To Be Scary Or Fun?
28 November 2009 6:57 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
After watching hundreds (or thousands?) of horror movies over the course of decades, how many horror fans still get scared after watching a horror movie? I'm not talking about merely feeling tension because a character is in danger, but actually feeling frightened by a film.
All too often, it seems that people complain that a horror film was "bad" because it wasn't "scary". Without any context, this is essentially meaningless. For example, when was the last time a movie scared them, and what was it?
I feel that this "problem" has less to do with the quality of a film than it does with someone's having built up a tolerance. Besides being a horror fan, I'm also a fan of very spicy food, and I have an assortment of hot sauces made from habanero and scotch bonnet peppers in my refrigerator at all times. My tolerance of spicy food is significantly higher than average, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Brian Matus, a.k.a. Hellstorm)
Spielberg And King Join Forces
19 November 2009 10:13 PM, PST | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Stephen King's whopping new novel Under the Dome was only published a week ago, but plans are already afoot to develop it for the small screen. Steven Spielberg will executive produce, along with Stacey Snyder, Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey of Dreamworks TV, and King himself.The novel is a reworking of King's never-published "lost" work The Cannibals, in which the small Maine town of Chester's Mill is suddenly, inexplicably cut off by an invisible forcefield that doesn't allow exit or entry. Trapped inside, the society-in-microcosm starts to unravel.Yes, it sounds like The Simpsons Movie, but it's been hailed in some quarters as a return to old-school King after a gradual shift of direction and focus in recent years, and has drawn favourable comparisons to his much earlier end-of-the-world tome The Stand. King adaptations for TV have been a mixed bag. Tobe Hooper's Salem's Lot and the 1990 It, »
'Salem's Lot'? Hell Yeah!
17 November 2009 1:57 PM, PST | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
'Hell Yeah!' is an ongoing series in which horror filmmakers, critics and fans share their take on movies they love. This month: vampires! You never forget your first. Barlow from the Salem's Lot miniseries (the 1979 version, that is) was the first vampire who inspired my elementary-school-aged self to fashion a crucifix out of popsicle sticks and Elmer's glue, and sleep (or fail to) with it under my pillow. I'm not saying that Salem's Lot is the greatest vampire movie ever made, but for the late 70's, it brought a lot to the polyester-clad party – particularly one being held on network television. It was directed by Tobe Hooper. It contained »
Uncle Bob Martin: A Long Thank-You to Frank, Part One
16 November 2009 4:05 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
The first that I heard of Frank Henenlotter was on a perfectly awful cable tv show that aired on Manhattan's Public Access channel in the 1970s.
"The Nikki Haskell Show" was a self-indulgent half-hour cable show hosted by Haskell, a wealthy socialite-divorcee and former stockbroker who now claims that her show marked the invention of "reality television." About a year ago, after her diet pill company got in trouble with the NFL over a "secret ingredient" that should have been labeled, Haskell signed up for an account at YouTube and started posting clips from the 30-year-old program, but she seems to have lost interest after posting just ten of them.
The main reason I'd tune in Haskell's silly show was the programming that followed it, "adults only" programming like Screw magazine publisher Al Goldstein's "Midnight Blue," porn performer Robin Bird's "Hot Legs" show featuring New York's leading "dance talent" and, »
- unclebob
Palisades Tartan Video’s Terror Pack Vol. 1 (DVD Review)
16 November 2009 3:54 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
I’m not going to lie, I typically hate box sets. They’re more often than not, a dumping ground for DVD’s that have spent one too many years collecting dust in some old warehouse that their distributers are just a little too eager to get off the shelves. You go to your local video retailer or Amazon.com and think “Awesome, John Carpenter box set. Surely it’s packed with the original Halloween, The Thing, and Escape From New York.” Much to your dismay, you come to realize you’re stuck with Ghosts Of Mars (featuring the acting prowess of Ice Cube), that damned Village remake, and Escape From L.A.. Moreover even if you happen to like one or two of the flicks in the set, you’re bound to hate the rest; that is to say, if you could even identify what the, often bottom barrel, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Compton)
Movie Review: The House of the Devil
12 November 2009 8:31 PM, PST | MovieRetriever | See recent MovieRetriever news »
Nov 12, 2009
If a ticket buyer were to stumble into a theater showing Ti West's The House of the Devil without knowing what to expect, they might think they had come across a long-lost Tobe Hooper film from the early 1980s or at least a film from a lesser-known director of the same era. Ti West has made a horror flick that is not meant to merely be Set in the early 1980s but is designed to feel like it was actually produced back then. Everything from the font of the opening credits to ...Read more at MovieRetriever.com »
FEARnet Prepping ‘Post Mortem’ Interview Series
12 November 2009 10:18 AM, PST | Tubefilter.tv | See recent Tubefilter News news »
Can you believe FEARnet is already onto its eighth original web series already? The Comcast-backed horror hub, which recently launched Fear Clinic, is now gearing up for Post Mortem with Mick Garris. The interview series will feature five minute episodes, in a "Charlie Rose of Horror" fashion, with various horror directors and other luminaries like Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven, Robert Englund and John Carpenter. Mick Garris might in fact be the Charlie Rose of horror, having a rolodex that reads like a who's who in the genre after creating The Fantasy Film Festival and Showtime's Masters of Horror anthology series. "There is nobody in the business who can bring to our audience what Mick can – an unprecedented knowledge of the industry from the ground up, and a network of A-List colleagues who are happy to share with him and our viewers their experiences, stories and insights about fear-inspired entertainment,” said FEARnet's President Diane Robina. »
- Marc Hustvedt
Update: Mick Garris to Perform Post Mortems for FEARnet
11 November 2009 2:04 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
FEARnet is once again doing its very best to provide viewers and fans some really cool stuff to check out beyond its vast library of flicks and webisodic content.
Variety reports that the broadband channel is set to run "Post Mortem With Mick Garris", which will feature the creator behind the anthology "Masters of Horror" as he sits down with some of the genre's top writers, producers, and stars including Tobe Hooper, Wes Craven, and more.
Update: Each episode of "Post Mortem" will run about a half-hour in length and be sort of a "Charlie Rose of Horror" type show with five-minute webisodes being utilized as an adjunct to that.
The show and the webisodes will debut in December on the network, which is distributed via on demand, online, and mobile platforms. Look for more soon!
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- Uncle Creepy
25 Most Disturbing Movies #4: Texas Chainsaw Massacre
9 November 2009 12:57 PM, PST | GreenCine | See recent GreenCine news »
Continuing Simon Augustine's countdown of the Most Disturbing Movies (Read Part 1 for the first 13). [<< #5]
4. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) 8/8
Tobe Hooper, a talented and innovative filmmaker who never quite got his mainstream due, even after making Poltergeist (and be embroiled in controversy with Steven Spielberg about who actually directed it), made this perennial classic on the cheap in the early seventies. Taking the baton from Wes Craven and Last House on The Left, it expresses the miasma of violent dread and disorientation that hung over an America left schizophrenic by the auto-cannibalism of Vietnam, Kent State, Attica, Watergate, etc. Hooper swings at the audience with the kind of gritty haymaker that only very hungry, very creative, and very poor directors just out of the gate can make. »
- underdog
Exclusive First Look at MTV's Savage County
6 November 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Grisly, dark, menacing. Exactly the type of photos you'd expect to see from a film that pays tribute to Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre . That's alright with us. Yesterday, Shock Till You Drop broke the news about MTV's upcoming horror film Savage County directed by David Harris. To follow that up, we've got a trio of official pics to share. Savage County follows a group of small town Texas high school kids who play a prank that accidentally kills an old man. They're then hunted down by the man's family of murderous hillbillies. The film will be broken up and rolled out as a web series in February. Pic #1: Willard (Jimmy Crosthwait). Pic #2: Kasper (Pat Cox) pays a visit to Caitlyn (Bekah Graf). Pic #3: Orry (Jeff Pope) gets a moment alone with Angie »
Lake Placid 2 (2007) Movie Review
3 November 2009 11:47 AM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Fade In: Int: Sony Pictures offices. A studio head sits at his desk and ushers in another man Man: I’ve got a pitch for a new horror film. Sony Man: Go for it. Man: It’s about crocodiles! Sony Man: Next. Man: Killer crocodiles. Sony Man: Been there, done that. Man: Umm, it’s a sequel to Lake Placid! Sony Man: Who wants to see a sequel to that? Man: Err, everyone? Sony Man: Next. Man: Um…there’ll be two crocodiles this time… Sony Man: Big wow. Next. **Spoiler Warning** Man: Ok There’LL Be Four Fucking Crocodiles. **End Of Spoilers** Sony Man: This will be the greatest film in the history of everything. If you’ve seen Tobe Hooper’s “Crocodile” then chances are you’ve seen “Lake Placid 2″, even though you may not know it. The reason for this is that they’re pretty much the same film, »
- Gazz Ogden
Will Tobe Hooper Return For The Next Texas Chainsaw Remake?
2 November 2009 9:23 AM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Unpopular opinion of the day: Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror flick “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” is not a good film. Sure, it broke new ground in terms of intensity and introduced a lot of people to the extremes of hardcore horror, but it’s far from entertaining. The characters are nerve-shredding idiots, the villains are head-splitting irritants, and the direction is spotty at best. In fact, I’d say Marcus Nispel’s version of the material is far more effective despite the questionable presence of Jessica Biel. Feel free to build a wooden cross in your parents’ musty basement and nail me to if you feel the need, but, deep down, you know I’m right. According to the folks at Slashfilm, Tobe Hooper is in talks with Twisted Pictures to direct a “contemporary” version of “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” though what that specifically entails is anybody’s guess. In case you’re a little behind, »
- Todd
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