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Incredible "Motion" Poster For Terminator Salvation!

25 November 2008 3:28 PM, PST | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

Wow! Sony Pictures has released the first teaser poster for next summer's blockbuster franchise feature Terminator Salvation, and it's an incredible "motion" poster! You can check it out below and see individual pics of the poster below too. (Or click Here to see it in motion on Sony's Terminator site.) The new flick in the Terminator franchise is directed by McG and stars Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anton Yelchin, Common, Moon Bloodgood and Michael Ironside.

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Trailer and image gallery for Amir Valinia's Mutants

18 November 2008 8:32 AM, PST | From QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news

I've been clocking Amir Valinia's Mutants (not to be confused with David Morley's Mutants) for a while now and I'm honestly not sure why I've never posted anything on it yet. I mean, while it looks pretty budget it's got scifi mainstay Michael Ironside in it and that's gotta count for something right (go Rough Necks!)

A mad scientist is hired by a greedy sugar manufacturer to create an additive designed to be the most addictive substance in the world. Instead, he engineers it to turn human beings into killer mutants, and only the company’s security head & his girlfriend can stop the plague from spreading worldwide.

We've got some sales art, a couple of alternative posters, and the film's trailer after the break.

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The Alphabet Killer (Review)

11 November 2008 9:03 AM, PST | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news

Director Rob Schmidt seemed to come out of nowhere just over five years ago with Wrong Turn, a slasher sleeper that, arguably, created more edge-of-the-seat scenarios than the same year’s hit remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Following this up with his superlative Masters Of Horror episode Right To Die, Schmidt looked as if he could be the “next big thing” in our beloved genre—and, on the strength of The Alphabet Killer, that tag might still be warranted.

However, this is a curious diversion for the filmmaker—and a decidedly brave one at that (he could have easily hedged his bets by taking the reins of the “safer” Wrong Turn 2, after all). Sure, it might not be an instant classic—and its slow pace is certain to put some viewers off—but there are plenty of things to like about The Alphabet Killer (playing limited theatrical release ahead

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Production Art From Terminator Salvation!

10 November 2008 11:11 AM, PST | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

Ain't It Cool News posted several awesome pieces of production design artwork from the upcoming Terminator: Salvation. The new flick in the Terminator franchise is directed by McG and stars Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anton Yelchin, Common, Moon Bloodgood and Michael Ironside. Click Here or on the image below to see more production art from next summer's blockbuster.

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Opening This Week: Gay zombies, the literal Sundance kid and the Muscles From Brussels

3 November 2008 7:28 AM, PST | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Neil Pedley

Those nursing a Halloween hangover can enjoy a little hair of the dog with some amusing takes on terror, a double bill featuring the greatly missed Bernie Mac and a trio of Fantastic Fest titles coming their way.

"The Alphabet Killer"

Eliza Dushku reunites with "Wrong Turn" director Rob Schmidt for this supernatural riff on the infamous Alphabet murders that took place in Rochester, NY in the early '70s. Dushku stars as the lead investigator in a series of brutal child killings who's struck down by a severe mental breakdown. Two years later, her career as a detective is ostensibly over, yet when the killings inexplicably start up again, so do her crippling hallucinations and she must find a way to track down the serial killer with or without the help of her former colleagues at the police department. Timothy Hutton, Cary Elwes and Michael Ironside

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Neil Pedley

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Feature: Puddy In Their Hands - Ten Old Movie Makeup Jobs That Hold Up, Part I

30 October 2008 9:35 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Matt Singer

We're getting into the Halloween spirit at IFC.com this week by taking a look back at some famous movie makeup jobs (that are, at minimum, 25 years old) that have maintained their power to scare the bejeezus out of viewers. These kids today with their computer generated imagery and their Blu-rays and their "Saw V"s! Back in our day, we didn't have computers to do our imagination's dirty work for us. Visionary artists had only prosthetics, wire, plaster, rubber and a whole lot of Karo syrup to bring their creations to life! Back in our day, these were the movies you rented on Halloween! At the video store! As far as we're concerned, they still should be. And don't you dare teepee our Web site or we're calling the cops. [Part two of our list can be found here.]

10. The Man Who Laughs (1928)

Directed by Paul Leni

Makeup by Jack Pierce

To get a sense

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Matt Singer

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The Weekly Wrap-Up: October 18-24, 2008

24 October 2008 11:18 PM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

The week of October 18-24, 2008, was all about trailers, trailers, and more trailers -- for some highly anticipated and much discussed re-imaginings of classic genre films along with quite a few promising indies. And we got posters. Lots of new posters were revealed over the past seven days as well.

But first up is info on a pair of horror/sci-fi hybrids. Bill Malone describes his upcoming Phoenix Dust as a "sweeping sci-fi with kickass babes and gang-banger robots" while the somewhat Cube-sounding Pandorum stars Dennis Quaid and Ben Foster as crew members who awaken on a spaceship with no knowledge of who they are or why they’re there.

Two of this Woman's favorite things are award shows and film festivals, and both are covered in this week's Wrap-Up. The 2008 Scream Awards went down on October 18th, and the list of winners can be found right here. People have

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The Woman In Black

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"V" To Return to Primetime-Original Creator Not Involved

10 October 2008 11:35 AM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

In the early 1980's, sci-fi miniseries "V", the alien-human Holocaust allegory scored record ratings, spawned a sequel, "V: The Final Battle", and the short lived but well made "V: The Series". Now ABC is set to revive the cult classic for a new franchise, according to Variety. The new show, produced by "The 4400" creator Scott Peters will not try to replicate the original except that "the new "V" will still focus on what happens when the masses have blind faith in their leaders."

The 80's series focused on seemingly benevolent aliens coming to Earth with the the promise of sharing advanced technology in exchange for some help with their ailing planet. Unfortunately for the human race while they looked human underneath they were secretly lizard-like creatures who'd come to steal our water and enslave us.

Original series creator Kenneth Johnson had been trying to get a sequel to the

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Anchor Bay Picks Up The Alphabet Killer!

1 October 2008 8:43 PM, PDT | From iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news

Anchor Bay Entertainment has acquired the distribution rights for director Rob Schmidt's latest film The Alphabet Killer according to Fangoria. The long awaited (and delayed) feature from the director of Wrong Turn stars Eliza Dushku, Cary Elwes, Michael Ironside, Bill Moseley, Timothy Hutton and Tom Malloy and deals with a cop who begins suffering from schizophrenia while tracking a killer. The film will debut at the La Screamfest (click Here for details), then have a limited theatrical run in December followed by a DVD release early next year.

You can visit the official website at: www.alphabetkiller.com or the My Space page at: www.myspace.com/thealphabetkiller. We'll keep you posted on more details as they become official.

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Anchor Bay Catches The Alphabet Killer

30 September 2008 9:59 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

Rob Schmidt’s The Alphabet Killer has been sitting in limbo for so long, I had almost forgotten about it. Lucky for us Anchor Bay never did, though, as Fangoria learned today that the label has named Schmidt’s Wrong Turn follow-up for distribution.

Alphabet Killer premieres at La’s Screamfest on October 18th, and a limited theatrical release is planned for December. For those unsure, the film stars Eliza Dushku as Megan, a police investigator on the trail of the titular killer, a real-life murderer who struck in and around Rochester, NY, between 1971 and 1973. He got his name because the first letter of his victims' first and last names was the same as the first letter of the town their bodies were found in. The deeper she gets in the case, the more her grip on reality loosens.

“The Alphabet Killer is a special, strange little movie, a supernatural

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Johnny Butane

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List: Remaking Your Own Foreign Language Film

10 September 2008 8:54 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Alison Willmore

If "Bangkok Dangerous," with Nicolas Cage as a hitman in Bangkok moping over both his career choices and a girl, felt familiar -- well, that's probably because it's derivative of many a sad assassin movie that's come before. But it's also a remake, and not just your run-of-the-mill Hollywood retread of a foreign film. "Bangkok Dangerous" finds Hong Kong-born sibling directing team Danny Pang and Oxide Pang Chun remaking their own debut, a 1999 Thai-language film of the same name, and joining that growing club of directors who've headed to the U.S. to try an English take on their own movie. While the set-up makes sense -- subtitle-avoidant audiences here prefer a language and actors they're familiar with, and who knows the ins and outs of a project better than whoever helmed it the first time out? -- these remakes have a higher chance of stinkiness than the already dubious average redo.

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Alison Willmore

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Wrapping Up Cannes 2008

29 May 2008 10:40 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

By Matt Singer

It wasn't just the weather that was gloomy at the 61st Cannes Film Festival. By the time the skies above southern France briefly cleared for a few days during the second week of the festival, the international press corps had been infected by a mass plague, not unlike the one portrayed in this opening night selection "Blindness," done in reverse . instead of losing their sight, hundreds of journalists stumbled around in a fog, obliged to do nothing but look, and after 12-plus days of looking at a selection of tasteful, well-made and entirely bleak movies, society's rules were breaking down into sweaty anarchy. Those waiting in line for press screenings, always ready to devolve into contentious, multilingual shoving matches, were especially cranky. The traditional applause during a film's closing credits was muted at best, nonexistent or drowned out by boos at the worst. Walking out of a

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Matt Singer

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Mgm to Release 'Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II'

26 February 2008 10:55 AM, PST | From bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news

Planned to hit DVD just before Sony's remake is Mgm's DVD release of Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II, which hit theaters back in 1987. Starring Michael Evans, Vincent Gale, Michael Ironside, Justin Louis and Wendy Lyon, the film arrives at retailers on April 1. Read on for the cover art. When Hamilton High's Prom Queen of 1957, Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend, she comes back for revenge 30 years later. Bill Nordham is now the principle of Hamilton High and his son is about to attend the prom with Vicki Carpenter. However, she is possessed by Mary Lou Maloney after opening a trunk in the school's basement. Now Bill must face the horror he left behind in 1957.

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13 articles from 2008

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