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Cinematical Seven: High School Horror We Love

17 September 2009 8:18 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

Jennifer's Body is getting panned in some circles for the alleged tragic flaw of a horror movie not being particularly scary. They're mostly right -- Diablo Cody's genre follow-up to Juno doesn't really elevate the heart rate very often. But I think that's because it tips to the "high school" side of the "high school horror" balance; it's more of a teen drama with a bloody metaphorical twist than a full-on horror flick.

That may disappoint some fans, but it sort of gets at why high school horror movies work so well, so often. It's a cliche that "high school is scary," but movies that make a connection between the reasons high school is scary in real life and whatever monstrosity happens to be stalking or haunting the characters are the ones that tend to leave the biggest impression.

In honor of Jennifer's Body, which I think will be »

- Eugene Novikov

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Shooting Begins on 'Copper'

23 July 2009 9:44 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

Canada's Canwest Broadcasting has announced the start of production on Copper, a one-hour, 13-episode police series that will be simulcast on Global and ABC Television later this season.

Copper is described as "a workplace drama about five young rookie cops just out of the police academy". The series has an all-Canadian cast that includes Vancouver's Missy Peregrym (Reaper, Heroes) and Gregory Smith (Everwood). Peregrym's character, Andy McNally, is described as "the soul of the close-knit group of five rookie officers". Smith will play another cop, Dov Epstein. Epstein is the "thrill-seeker" among the cops and aspires to emulate his heroes, Starsky & Hutch

Among the other members of the cast of Copper are Enuka Okuma (24), Travis Milne (My Green House), Charlotte Sullivan (M.V.P.), Ben Bass (Would Be Kings), Eric Johnson (Smallville), Matt Gordon (Rent-a-Goalie), Noam Jenkins (Flashpoint), Melanie Nicholls King (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) and Aidan Devine (M.V.P.).

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Ginger Snaps (Film Review)

19 July 2009 6:57 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Restored Archive Review, Originally Posted on 7/1/2001

It has become a sad, familiar refrain: How is it that a scary, intelligent teen horror film like Ginger Snaps can't make it to major U.S. release, while dross like Urban Legends: Final Cut, Valentine and The Forsaken makes it into theaters nationwide? In this case, it is at least understandable, if lamentable, that the studios would be averse to handling Ginger Snaps. Not only is it drenched in blood and the rawest language heard in a youth film since Heathers, it also deals frankly with adolescent female sexuality, a subject the majors have never been comfortable with. Not to mention that (speaking of Heathers) it spotlights two sisters who rehearse their own suicides, and not all the bloodletting is done by the victims. Menstruation is a key subject here, and it's easy to imagine studio heads reacting the way the young protagonists' »

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

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Myles of Footage: The Company of Wolves

8 June 2009 9:34 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

It is by complete surprise that I ended up with a copy of this movie. There I was, walking the aisles of my virtual movie store, looking for 'The Empire of the Wolves' when my clumsy fingers stumbled and clicked on Neil Jordan's (The Crying Game, In Dreams, Breakfast on Pluto) film instead. The result? Pure delight. I normally stay away from the 3 W's: witches, wizards and werewolves, but I'm glad I took a chance on this. Based on the werewolf stories in Angela Carter's short story collection 'The Bloody Chamber'[1] [1], this collection of gothic-themed tales was much scarier and darker than I expected it to be. Furthermore its release year (1984) and lead characters (Sarah Patterson and Angela Lansbury) lead me to believe that it was just another fantasy classic from the 80s, in the same vein as Time Bandits, Labyrinth and The Dark Crystal. In short, I »

- Myles Dolphin

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Monster Movies- Ten of the Best

18 April 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

As much as the incomparable John Cusack in High Fidelity made it über cool to compose ‘top fives’ – or ‘top tens’ in this case – personally, I’ve always found it a colossal struggle, as though I’m somehow betraying otherwise very close friends; a mother forced to select favourites from her brood.

Given that my book, Monster Movies, contains 75 or so (all) marvellous monster flicks that have been granted inclusion within the 45,000 words/200-ish pages for one reason and one reason alone (they’re fine examples of the genre), I’d like to nominate each of these films as a top monster movie. But – and I capitalise ‘but’ to emphasise the shackles of my brief – if forced down on my knees with pistol pressed to temple, the following films listed below would compose a Top Ten Monster Movies of All Time, and I’ll endeavour to explain why.

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