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10 articles from 2010

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A Conversation with Brad Sykes, Director of Plaguers

15 hours ago | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

On just about every Friday night, when I was a kid, back in the days before Netflix (or illegal BitTorrents for all you criminals out there, you know who you are), my parents used to take me to the video store (this being their idea of active recreation, far be it from me to complain). No sooner would we get through the entrance way before I found myself in the horror and sci-fi/fantasy sections, face-to-face with a slew of low budget titles, never advertised on television, performed by actors who seldom (if ever) broke into major motion pictures, and helmed by directors who proved, time and time again, that creativity cannot be bought, but rather cultivated, with ambition and a fervent imagination.

In my formidable youth, sold on the elaborate (if at times cheesy) cover art these features put forth, I’ve managed to tantrum my way into watching »

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

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Daybreakers Movie Reviews

4 January 2010 10:04 AM, PST | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »

The idea of a vampire like Bromley feeding off the misery of his own kind is an intriguing one. But the Spierig brothers never truly commit to dissecting the economics of supply and demand during a time of crisis. Then again, it’s just one of many ideas pursued by the Spierig Brothers that are never fully realized.

How about the allure of vampirism being too strong to resist? You don’t age and you live forever. Hey, I understandable why a girl would rather burn to death in the sunlight than remain trapped for eternity in the body of a 10-year-old year child. But why would Dalton – 35 (again for the 10th time) and upwardly mobile – resist being a vampire when his human-hunter brother Frankie (Michael Dorman) embraces it? Dalton’s actions reveal that vampires do not completely lose their moral code when their humanity is sucked right out of them. »

- Matthew

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Zombies of the Stratosphere (1952, Review)

4 January 2010 6:40 AM, PST | HorrorYearbook | See recent HorrorYearbook news »

Today's current term for the word "zombie" is defined as a deceased individual who is brought back to life by supernatural forces. You could also toss in some Romero key words in there like cannibalism and apocalyptic. Most of my generation only knows this type of zombie and doesn't realize that George A. Romero only re-innovated the undead. There were two vastly different groups of zombies pre-1968: the voodoo zombie and the automaton. The voodoo zombie, similar to that of the Romero zombie, still resurrects from death but only for objective purposes; in other words, the zombie will do the dirty work for the resurrecting practitioner. You're shit out of luck on this review because we will be discussing the automaton zombie like that from the Zombies from the Stratosphere. »

- Steven Tee

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Behind the FX of The Crazies

4 January 2010 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »

More coverage from The Crazies : Set Report | Director Breck Eisner Interview | Timothy Olyphant Interview | Radha Mitchell Interview | Joe Anderson Interview | Danielle Panabaker Interview This is where they stash the bodies. And it's not a pretty scene. These two corpses are ripe, bloated masses of tattered clothes, congealed blood and other body fluids - both housed in the trailer of Almost Human FX. The wonderfully macabre aspect of this rolling meat locker is that it's just a stone's throw away from Georgia's Peach Country High School where The Crazies - a remake of the .73 George Romero film of the same name - has set up production when Shock Till You Drop visits the set. Inside, accompanied by not just his convincing dead guys but equally convincing FX »

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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 01/05/2010

4 January 2010 2:29 AM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

It's the first weekly installment of the Fangoria Chopping List of the new year and the new decade, and the genre fare is kicking up again. After the traditional holiday slowdown, this week sees some big titles like The Final Destination arrive at retail, along with a handful of indies, and a new batch of titles arriving on Blu-ray for the very first time.

Curious what horror can be found this week? Check out the full list below!

Note: Some product descriptions provided by Amazon.com or through Video Distributors. Clickable links lead to Amazon.com

Dawn Of The Dead: Director's Cut (2004, Bd/DVD Combo Pack) - (Universal)

A mysterious virus turns people into flesh-eating zombies, leaving survivors to battle for their lives. The 2004 Zack Snyder remake of the classic George A. Romero film.

The Final Destination (New Line)

Available on DVD and Bd

Read The Fangoria Review »

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

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Daybreakers Review

3 January 2010 9:32 AM, PST | Filmofilia | See recent Filmofilia news »

The concept behind “Daybreakers” is reminiscent of “I Am Legend.” No, not the movie with Will Smith, but the book. In the near future, vampires have become the dominant society on the planet. Grocery stores are no longer relevant as human blood is the only form of nourishment that the vampires require. A vampire by the name of Charles Bromley (Sam Neill) is the head of a company that specializes in farming humans for their blood. The problem is that humans are nearing extinction and there aren’t that many of them left to farm. To keep his company afloat, he enlists the help of a scientist named Edward (Ethan Hawke) to come up with a blood supplement. Time and time again, Edward (poor choice of name) attempts to find another way of nourishing the vampire race, but fails…read more [BadGuyWins]

Usually guts and gore isn’t my thing. Horror »

- Allan Ford

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The Decade in Film: The Ones That Last

2 January 2010 3:15 PM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

If you watch two films in close proximity to one another, it’s pretty easy to tell which one you liked more. Watch three, and you can still tell pretty easily, but it’s more subject to change. Watch films on a regular basis for about a decade, and it becomes nearly impossible, not to mention pointless and kind of reductive to try and rank them in the way you would sports teams. If you’re in any way engaged with the world, your opinions and attitudes will change somewhat over that course of time, and to try and reduce that entire expanse of time into a trite little list is, well, why would you want to do it?

I’m not going to argue that these films are the absolute best of the decade (though I think that a case could be made for several of them, and I »

- Anders Nelson

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The Crazies Timothy Olyphant Movie Still

1 January 2010 11:00 PM, PST | ShockYa | See recent ShockYa news »

Overture Films sent us this very cool movie still featuring Timothy Olyphant as David in the upcoming film “The Crazies”. The film is a reinvention loosely based upon the George Romero classic about the inhabitants of a small Iowa town beset by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply. Directed by Breck Eisner (Creature from the Black Lagoon, Flash Gordon) and produced by Rob Cowan, “The Crazies” stars Timothy Olyphant (Deadwood, Elektra Luxx), Radha Mitchell (Rogue, Surrogates) , Danielle Panabaker and Joe Anderson and will hit theaters on February 26th, 2010. Synopsis: A biological weapon gone awry is only the start of problems in the [...] »

- Brian Corder

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Dread Central's Best Horror Films of the Decade

1 January 2010 2:46 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

What a decade. Talk about an insane ten years. In it we've seen sequels top originals, remakes up the ante, and a precious few bits of original content do what all quality cinema does -- become instant classics. Join us now for a look back at the decade that was 2000-2009!

Being that Foy covered the worst of the decade already (and who better to do so?), we collectively voted on the best so this truly is Dread Central's definitive list. Now let's get to it, starting with the title that garnered the fewest votes all the way up to the one that got the most.

10: The Devil's Rejects (2005)

Well before the much abused re-imaginings known as Rob Zombie's Halloween and Halloween II were conceived by the unpredictable writer/director, he was honing his craft on a taut and dark little film called The Devil's Rejects. While Rejects is »

- Uncle Creepy

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Beauty & The Basement! Michele Morrow Part 1

31 December 2009 9:16 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Although she appeared in mainstream stuff like Alias and The Young And The Restless, Washington-born actress Michele Morrow is clearly meant to be a Scream Queen!

With her good natured girl-next-door vibe, you find yourself rooting for her in the just-released Basement Jack (Written by Fango contributor Brian Patrick O'Toole) and hoping she doesn't become the maniac's last victim.

Michele Morrow has also been seen tangling with vampires in Bled and screaming, running and fighting in other horror films like Slaughterhouse Of The Rising Sun, Purgatory House and the upcoming Ashley's Ashes.

One can't help but notice while at Fangoria's Trinity Of Terrors in Las Vegas, the actress attracts appreciative stares from passerby. This may be because with her big blue eyes, elfin nose and long blonde hair, she looks like a Disney Cartoon princess come to life, but it's probably because she's dressed as a cat--in leopard print, with big cat ears and tail! »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Pat Jankiewicz)

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10 articles from 2010

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