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Farrow Concerned About Sudan Elections
5 November 2009 2:06 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actress Mia Farrow has taken her passion for the affairs of Sudan to the Toronto Star newspaper in Canada, agreeing to pen a column for the publication this weekend.
The Rosemary's Baby star, who fasted earlier this year to raise awareness about the refugee crisis in Sudan, has leaked an extract of her upcoming op-ed piece on her blog.
In it, she calls for Americans to pay careful attention to the 2010 elections in Sudan, and raises concerns about officials who are obstructing the fair monitoring of the vote.
She writes, "Next April a critical presidential and parliamentary election is scheduled to take place in Sudan. The elections are an integral part of the 2005 peace agreement that ended more than two decades of war between north and southern Sudan.
"The 2005 peace deal set up a transitional unified government based in Khartoum in the north, and Juba in the south. But the hostilities and a complete lack of trust between north and south is far from ended. As a core part of the 2005 peace deal, in 2011 there is to be a referendum in which the south can choose whether to become independent from the north.
"Based on my two trips to Southern Sudan, I believe this is what the people of Southern Sudan hope for, although no one believes the north will allow it to happen without a return to war. Remember the oil fields.
"Voter registration officially began this week... The Carter Center, based in Atlanta, has been invited to monitor the elections but permits for the 32 monitors from the Carter Center are being denied or delayed by Khartoum officials. Funds promised to state-level election committees have not come through, therefore local committees are unable to pay staff. It is not clear to the people where the registration sites are, and sites are closed arbitrarily.
"According to the Carter Center, insecurity and intimidations are obstructing international observers from monitoring registrations for Sudan's first nationwide elections.
"The Carter Center called on Sudan to disarm militias. They are asking Khartoum to revoke the "state of emergency" in the western Darfur region as this will serve to hamper the voting there. Although Sudanese authorities claim voting will take place in Darfur, many are skeptical. The Carter Center have called upon Sudanese authorities to ensure the observers' freedom of movement. But the team continues to meet obstacles. These many hindrances will diminish the capacity of the only international group Sudan permitted to monitor the voting - to verify the fairness of the election."
The Carter Center was created by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. »
Raising Hell: Style vs. Substance in The House Of The Devil
3 November 2009 3:22 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Having been bombarded with hype-filled reviews, I went into The House Of The Devil with high expectations. Unfortunately, I came away from the film feeling as disappointed as I felt after watching Oren Peli's over-hyped Paranormal Activity (which may have worked as a short film that took place over three nights, but was simply excruciatingly at feature length).
Ti West undeniably captured the look, sound and feel of indie horror films from the late '70s and early '80s. It's too bad that a lot of reviewers seem to have been so overcome with the film's style that they neglected to point out how little substance the film has. I guess I should have known better, given the trend in recent years where film analysis being replaced with how a film either appeals to or offends a reviewer's sense of nostalgia in what are supposed to be film reviews. »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Brian Matus, a.k.a. Hellstorm)
Polanski Launches Third Bail Attempt
3 November 2009 8:06 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Incarcerated filmmaker Roman Polanski has promised authorities he will not try to evade justice if they accept his latest bail offer and grant him his freedom.
The Rosemary's Baby director filed a new bail offer on Monday, following two unsuccessful attempts to convince officials in Switzerland to release him from custody.
His filing is said to have listed "adequate guarantees" that he will not run away from his ongoing legal battle, according to his lawyer Herve Temime.
Polanski has been imprisoned since September on the request of Los Angeles law officials, who want to extradite the star to the U.S. to face sentencing over a 1977 sexual assault on a 13-year-old girl.
He pleaded guilty to the charges but fled the country in 1978 before he could be handed his punishment.
Despite calls from his victim to drop the case, Polanski has been refused bail on two separate occasions over worries he is a "flight risk". »
Farrow Troubled By Gaza Problems
2 November 2009 2:01 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Actress Mia Farrow has been left haunted by the news a Palestinian has suffocated to death after a tunnel collapse under the Gaza Strip at the weekend.
In a post on her blog, the Rosemary's Baby star reveals there are over 800 tunnels along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt - and one collapsed on Sunday as aid workers were bringing in supplies.
Farrow writes, "While I was in Gaza, one tunnel worker, a child, was killed and seven were injured during an Israeli bombing raid. The 1.5 million people living in Gaza depend on hundreds of tunnels beneath the border to get fuel and other products, since Gaza has been sealed off after the Hamas takeover in June 2007.
"Israeli bombings are frequent and more than 130 Palestinians, many of them children, have been killed while working in the tunnels."
And the celebrity activist's thoughts are with those suffering in Gaza, who are also without fresh water.
She adds, "Most of Gaza water is unsuitable for drinking... The daily quota of water for each person in Gaza is 80 liters, half of the W.H.O (World Health Organisation) minimum standard. The 1.5 million people of the coastal strip rely on one aquifer as their sole source of water.
"However, the sea water has blended with the underground water, making it salty. Since the sewage plant was also bombed, raw sewage flows into the sea."
Israel has imposed a complete closure on Gaza since 2007 and the rebuilding of sewage and water treatment stations is impossible due to the lack of building materials and spare parts. Last week, Amnesty International accused Israel of depriving Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank of water. »
Film Review: Paranormal Activity
2 November 2009 2:21 AM, PST | t5m.com | See recent t5m.com news »
A box of soap powder falling off a shelf in your laundry in the middle of the night may not seem like the most terrifying thing to ever happen. But, for ghost enthusiast and general scared little kid Oren Peli, it was the night that sparked the idea that would lead him to fund a $15,000 dollar horror film called Paranormal Activity. A $15,000 horror film which has since become the most profitable independent film ever made... and just to make sure he could truly exorcise the demons, he shot it over one week in his own house. The film was originally screened in a handful of festivals way back in 2007 and was independently distributed on DVD by the film makers. One of those DVDs reportedly made its way into the hands of perhaps the most terrified wide eyed little boy, the geek master himself, Steven Spielberg. He shakily returned the film »
- Neil Innes
The Best New York City Horror Movies
31 October 2009 3:21 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »
Mia Farrow in Polanski's Rosemary's Baby
Writer Nick Carr of the Huffington Post site lists his choices for the best horror films set in New York City. We only take issue with the inclusion of Wait Until Dark, which is more a thriller than a horror film. On the other hand, Carr is canny enough to include the original Planet of the Apes, although, again, this is a sci-fi film rather than a horror movie. Check out the list and see if you concur with Carr's opinion. »
- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
The Blu-Ray Review: Orphan
31 October 2009 2:09 AM, PDT | The Hollywood News | See recent The Hollywood News news »
Colin Jacobson reviews Orphan on Bd.
While not as prolific a horror subject as zombies or vampires, creepy kids have been a genre standby for decades. We get a new entry in that field via 2009's Orphan.
When her pregnancy results in miscarriage, Kate Coleman (Vera Farmiga) suffers from nightmares and various psychological concerns. Though somewhat reticent, she and husband John (Peter Sarsgaard) decide to adopt a child to add to their existing brood of Maxine (Aryana Engineer) and Daniel (Jimmy Bennett).
They choose Esther (Isabelle Fuhrman), a rather prim and proper but nonetheless sweet, charming little girl. She immediately hits it off with hearing impaired Max, but Daniel becomes jealous of all the attention his new sister receives. They become rivals, and Esther also runs into mockery and disdain at school.
None of this ends well for the parties who cross Esther. Not that things go much better for »
- Paul
Roman Polanski Going Nowhere Fast
30 October 2009 11:42 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online news »
Looks like Roman Polanski won't be going trick-or-treating this Halloween. Swiss authorities have turned down a second bid for freedom by the Rosemary's Baby helmer after his attorney offered to pay a higher bail deposit. "We received a request for bail on Oct. 26, which we rejected today," Folco Galli, the spokesman for the Justice Ministry in Bern, told Bloomberg. "The risk of flight remains high." The 76-year-old Polanski, who's said to be ailing in a Zurich jail, had his initial bid for bail rejected by the ministry earlier this month. That came a week after Swiss police took him into custody on an international warrant related to his 1977 conviction for illegal... »
Roman Polanski Going Nowhere Fast
30 October 2009 11:42 AM, PDT | E! Online | See recent E! Online - Movies and Television news »
Looks like Roman Polanski won't be going trick-or-treating this Halloween. Swiss authorities have turned down a second bid for freedom by the Rosemary's Baby helmer after his attorney offered to pay a higher bail deposit. "We received a request for bail on Oct. 26, which we rejected today," Folco Galli, the spokesman for the Justice Ministry in Bern, told Bloomberg. "The risk of flight remains high." The 76-year-old Polanski, who's said to be ailing in a Zurich jail, had his initial bid for bail rejected by the ministry earlier this month. That came a week after Swiss police took him into custody on an international warrant related to his 1977 conviction for illegal... »
'The Office' recap: A fish out of water
30 October 2009 9:14 AM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
After last week's intense departure, "The Koi Pond" was a return to form, and had all the markers of my favorite kinds of episode: weird character explanations, group activities, and A and B stories that complemented each other without being redundant. Michael got soaked, Pam and Andy got maybed, and Jim got a taste of outsiderness. For me, "The Koi Pond" boiled down to Erin's warning to Michael: "People are asking questions." The questions Michael himself asked this week summed up his character pretty well, starting with "Why is Christmas the only holiday that can have a message?" He wondered »
- Margaret Lyons
Speak of the Devil: The Many Faces of Cinematic Satanism
30 October 2009 8:07 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
The Bible says that Satan "masquerades as an angel of light. In popular culture, we tend to think of him as a big red dude with horns and a pitchfork, or as a talking snake, or as Al Pacino in an Armani suit. The devil, in other words, comes in many different forms. And his followers come in just as many. Unlike a lot of other horror movie staples, there's no visual archetype for satanists. We recognize a vampire when we see his fangs and a zombie by the rotting flesh, but a Satan-worshipper? Tougher to spot.
In the new indie horror film "The House of the Devil," an unknowing teenager looking to make some quick cash is lured into a babysitting job by a crew of weirdos who are ultimately revealed to be devil worshippers (not a spoiler, folks, look at the title). This particular coven of satanists are a bunch of suburban eccentrics, »
- Matt Singer
Review: The House of the Devil
30 October 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | Slackerwood | See recent Slackerwood news »
Just in time for the Halloween weekend, horror film The House of the Devil opens in theaters nationwide. This film is set in the 1980s, but takes viewers back even further to the psychological horror films of the late 1960s and 1970s, including horror classics Rosemary's Baby and The Exorcist. Like its predecessors, The House of the Devil delivers horror built on slowly built tension and Satan worshippers.
Jocelin Donahue (The Burrowers) plays Sam, a pretty college sophomore who accepts a babysitting job at a remote Victorian mansion deep in the woods despite the misgivings of her best friend, played by Greta Gerwig (Hannah Take the Stairs, Baghead), and lack of an actual baby to watch. There Sam meets Mr. and Mrs. Ulman (Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov), who don't seem quite right. As the night progresses and a lunar eclipse begins, things get even worse for Sam, culminating in »
- Debbie Cerda
Here's the Top 101 Scariest Film Scores!
30 October 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
This month, Shock readers were asked to participate in Sirius Xm Radio's "Halloween Horror Score Chopdown" on Cinemagic. After gathering submissions, the show's team started rolling them out on Sirius Monday. If you haven't been tuning in, here's the complete list of soundtracks that made the cut. What do you think? Halloween John Carpenter 1 Psycho Bernard Herrmann 2 The Shining Wendy Carlos/Assorted 3 Jaws John Williams 4 Alien Jerry Goldsmith 5 Omen, The Jerry Goldsmith 6 Bride of Frankenstein Franz Waxman 7 Thing, The Ennio Morricone 8 Exorcist, The Pendereki 9 Fog, The John Carpenter 10 Rosemary's Baby Christopher Komeda 11 Hellraiser Christopher Young 12 Friday the 13th Harry Manfredini 13 A Nightmare on Elm Street Charles Bernstein 14... »
Horror Hero Sam Raimi Reveals His Favorite Scary Movies For Halloween
29 October 2009 10:00 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »
It's the eternal dorm-room debate, the stuff of boozy smack-talking sessions and stony, less-than-coherent arguments: what's the scariest movie of all-time? It's a (sober) discussion we've been having at MTV News as Halloween sneaks up on us and a question we've been throwing out to folks in the film biz who truly know their fright-fest stuff.
When I had a chance to talk with Sam Raimi – he of the many righteous "Evil Dead" pictures – I had to get his thoughts on the matter. The first thing he told me was that the horror genre scares the crap out of him. "It's hard to sit through them," he confessed. "I really enjoy it when I'm in the middle of it, it's just hard to approach the theater." The second thing he said is that he loves them dearly. The third and fourth and fifth and sixth? Those scary movies he cherishes »
- Eric Ditzian
In Theaters: The House of the Devil
28 October 2009 10:20 AM, PDT | Movieline | See recent Movieline news »
Satan's back, y'all, but only sort of. Relatively dormant since his '70s horror heyday, in recent films like Antichrist and Jennifer's Body, Satan has been invoked, but not yet successfully resurrected as an organizing theme. Films like Rosemary's Baby, The Exorcist, The Omen and The Sentinel elevated horror from its schlocky middle century, reinstating the respect it earned as one of cinema's earliest and most successful genres. And call me a cradle Catholic (all right, I'm a cradle Catholic), but I believe that had something to do with the fact that, in the right hands, there's nothing scarier than the devil. With the rise of the slasher, however, the more unrefined charms of the deranged serial killer took over, and that way torture porn lies. With The House of the Devil, director Ti West goes old school in the best possible way, and yet for all of the film's lovingly, »
Rosemary's Baby Revisited
28 October 2009 7:13 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
With Halloween week upon us -- and the timely arrest of Roman Polanski and increased interest in the style of all things sixties, I thought this would be a good time to revisit one of the scariest and most stylish films of the horror genre ever made. Based on Ira Levin's best selling book, Rosemary's Baby (1968) centered around a young couple (Mia Farrow and John Cassavettes) who are trying to start a family. The husband, a struggling actor, literally sells his soul to the Devil and the wife gives birth to the son of Satan (a role that could clearly be played by many today but I digress). New York City's famed Dakota building on the Upper West Side becomes another character (named the Bramford in the film) with its eerie Old World feel and menacing dark hallways. Since the... »
- Cathy Whitlock
The Shining Tops Frightening Film List
28 October 2009 5:16 AM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
The Shining has been named the most terrifying film of all time in a new poll.
The 1980 Stanley Kubrick classic, starring Jack Nicholson as a deranged writer, topped the list of the world's scariest movies ahead of Rosemary's Baby, directed by Roman Polanski.
The original Wicker Man from 1973 came in third in the Totalscifionline.com poll, which was dominated by horror classics.
The top ten also included Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 thriller Psycho, John Carpenter’s slasher Halloween, and Night of the Living Dead from 1968. »
50 Influential Scream Queens: Part 2
27 October 2009 10:57 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Before I launch into the conclusion of my 50 Influential Scream Queens (read part 1 here), please let me remind you that this list is based upon my personal taste, and my personal taste alone. I didn't poll 100 Fango readers, the Fango staff or any other form of 'industry professionals'. It's all opinion, so if you feel I've wronged a certain actress by excluding them from the list, don't leap to brand the entire Fango crew 'vile'. I probably just don't personally find their work to be that influential. Either that or I'm just ignorant to their accomplishments!
25. Mia Farrow: Mia's genre work may be a bit limited, but that doesn't change the fact that Rosemary's Baby will forever be regarded as one of the creepiest films in history. Farrow's portrayal of Rosemary Woodhouse is harrowing to say the least, and will always remain (in my mind) one of the best performances the genre has seen. »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Matt Molgaard)
Horror Icon Lee Hates 'Obscene' Modern Horror
27 October 2009 3:01 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Horror movie icon Sir Christopher Lee has branded modern fright films "obscene".
The British actor, who was a regular in the cult Hammer horror films of the 1960s and 1970s, tells CNN that movies like the Saw franchise, The Hills Have Eyes, Halloween and Cabin Fever leave him feeling sick.
Lee says, "I find it quite nauseating what they do. The blood is all over the screen like an avalanche - the mutilation - dreadful things, and I just don't enjoy that."
The actor insists scary movies were much better when the blood and the gore weren't shown on screen: "What you don't see is far more frightening than what you do see."
Lee considers Roman Polanski's 1968 supernatural thriller Rosemary's Baby the scariest film he's ever seen. »
Roman Polanski's Victim Just Wants This to Go Away
27 October 2009 2:39 PM, PDT | www.actressarchives.com | See recent Actress Archives news »
Roman Polanski might be the one rotting in a prison cell in Switzerland for a crime he committed three decades ago but that doesn't mean he's the only one suffering. His then 13-year-old, now 46-year-old, victim Samantha Geimer is suffering from the backlash of his crime as well, and she just wants it to go away. According to the Los Angeles Times, Geimer asked an appellate court to drop the charges against the "Rosemary's Baby" director, who plied her with champagne and Quaaludes before raping her in 1977. Her attorney Lawrence Sil ... »
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