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Just a Reminder - Come See John Franklin and Courtney Gains at Horrorhound Weekend
7 November 2009 6:45 AM, PST
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Hey Horror Fans - Just a reminder! On November 20th-22nd at the HorrorHound Weekend Convention in Cincinnati Ohio, two of your favorite Gatlin natives will be on hand signing autographs and taking pictures. That's right! John Franklin (Isaac) And Courtney Gains (Malachai) will Both be in attendance this year for the 25th anniversary of the original 1984 classic, Stephen King's Children of the Corn. This year will be a very big event with other guests attending such as - Elvira, Tom Savini, Scout-Taylor Compton (Rob Zombie's Halloween 1&2), Gunnar Hansen ("Leatherface" The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Tom Atkins (The Fog, Halloween 3, Night of the Creeps), Quinn Lord (Trick 'r Treat's "Sam" in his 1st convention appearance) and many, many others! HorrorHound Weekend will also be hosting the much anticipated premiere of Sean Clark's "The Black Waters of Echo's Pond" (view the official website here) starring an amazing cast including - Danielle Harris,
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'Nightmare On Elm Street' New Freddy Krueger Thanks Fans For Casting
29 October 2009 3:52 AM, PDT
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'The first I heard about it was people were suggesting me on the Internet for the part,' Jackie Earle Haley says.
By Larry Carroll, with reporting by Vanessa White Wolf
Jackie Earle Haley
Photo: MTV News
For decades, Hollywood cast the person they thought would bring in the most money for a movie role, often resulting in some odd choices (Vince Vaughn in "Psycho," Kevin Costner in "Robin Hood," Keanu Reeves in virtually everything) that were largely rejected by audiences. But now, it's the 21st century, and the Internet has made film more of a conversation than a monologue. From Michael Chiklis as The Thing in "Fantastic Four" to Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool in "Wolverine," several high-profile castings of the last few years have begun online — and Jackie Earle Haley couldn't be happier.
"The first I heard about it was people were suggesting me on the Internet for the part of Freddy.
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50 Influential Scream Queens: Part 1
27 October 2009 5:54 AM, PDT
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Given man's unwavering fascination with woman, it's no surprise that the female star acts as the anchor to a dominant portion of horror pictures. I mean really, who wants to see a bare chested man tearin ass through the woods screaming at the top of his lungs while a bladed assailant nips at his heels? I don't - I know that much, although I'm certain there are plenty of men who would disagree (and that's okay with me, to each his own!). The simple fact remains however, women bring a unique appeal and certain sensual atmosphere to film that no man ever could. And it's not all about gratuitous T&A.
There's a comforting quality in the hands of the heroine; a fascinating maternal strength that, as a man I cannot genuinely relate to. I can however admire, and in many cases it's nearly impossible to not admire the lone
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Matt Molgaard)
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Rumor: Tobe Hooper Might Direct Twisted’s Texas Chainsaw Massacre Remake/Sequel?
24 October 2009 11:57 AM, PDT
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As it stands, this is a rumor at best and, more accurately, an informed online endorsement that could easily pick up steam amongst horror fans and online. Either way, it's the weekend and the thought of Tobe Hooper, creator of Leatherface and director of 1974's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and its huggable '86 sequel, once again revving up the genre's best 'saw hadn't crossed my mind. It should have. According to Shock's Ryan Rotten, while attending a party for Saw IV, he saw Hooper hanging with TCM2's Bill Moseley and, more importantly, the team at Twisted Pictures. Dots connected, and Rotten has fully thrown his support behind Hooper's possible involvement.
I know, oohlala. But as we reported (and as Russ understandably bemoaned), Twisted Pictures purchased the franchise's rights from the metallic douches at Platinum Dunes. Twisted's first installment, vaguely said to be a contemporary take and possibly a
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- Hunter Stephenson
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John Kassir + More join the Trinity Of Terrors!
21 October 2009 6:21 AM, PDT
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The guest list for the inaugural Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors (to be held October 30 through November 1 at The Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas) just keeps getting bigger!
John Kassir, best-known as the voice of The Crypt Keeper from HBO's Tales From The Crypt has joined the Trinity, and will be appearing all weekend!
Tickets for our massive Halloween Weekend are now available online through http://www.trinityofterrors.com and through Vegas.com. You may also order tickets from Vegas.com by phone - 1-888-las-vegas (527-8342) 24 hours a day.
Other recent additions to the Trinity's massive guest list include:
Charles Cyphers - Sheriff Leigh Brackett in John Carpenter's original Halloween and it's 1981 sequel Halloween II; along with The Fog, Escape From New York, and more!
Ed Neal - The Hitchhiker from Tobe Hooper's 1974 splatterfest The Texas Chain Saw Massacre!
Teri McMinn - Pam from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre!
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 10/13/2009
10 October 2009 11:19 PM, PDT
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Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.
Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, October 13, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List. It's another Big week, with Sam Raimi's Drag Me To Hell hitting the market, along with some long-awaited classics including The Stepfather, Hardware, and more.
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Angels Vs. Demons: Fact Or Fiction?
The Vatican has condemned it. Readers around the world love it. And now we separate the fact from the fiction in Dan Brown’s controversial bestseller Angels & Demons. We examine the cutting-edge science of anti-matter and question the historical accuracy of theology, conspiracies, symbolism and cults as described by the The Da Vinci Code author. Includes bonus feature:
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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Leatherface goes 3D with a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre series.
9 October 2009 2:34 AM, PDT
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Twisted Pictures, the production company behind the never-ending Saw series, is in talks with Lionsgate to buy the movie rights to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre with plans to relaunch the series in 3D.
Stephen Susco, a horror specialist who is most famous for penning the remake of The Grudge will write the script and Carl Mazzocone, Oren Koules and Mark Burg will produce.
Tobe Hooper's 1974 original grossed more than $30 million in the United States, making it the most successful independent horror film at the time. It was eventually overtaken in 1978 by John Carpenter's Halloween, which grossed $47 million at the box office upon release. The film was generally well-received by critics and now decades later is cited as one of the scariest and most influential horror films ever made. Ridley Scott credited the film as an inspiration for his 1979 film Alien and French director Alexandre Aja and Rob Zombie
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- Kyle Reese
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Top 10 Classic Horror Movies for Halloween
7 October 2009 11:53 PM, PDT
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In celebration of this ghoulish time of year, we've put together a list of our Top 10 horror movies to watch on Halloween. Forget about things that go bump in the night, these creatures are the night. So, sit back, grab your popcorn, curl up in that comfy blanket (you'll need it), and get ready for your blood to curdle and your hair to stand on end. In other words - watch at your own risk... Halloween Ah, Halloween - John Carpenter's 1978 horror classic. Just hearing the name Michael Myers can send chills up your spine, and his character has become synonymous with this witchy holiday. Having escaped the sanitarium he was locked up in for fifteen years for the murder of his older sister, Myers (Nick Castle and Tony Moran) unleash hell on the small town of Haddonfield, Ilinois on Halloween night. Among his prey is Jamie Lee Curtis,
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- jschiecke@corp.popstar.com (Janelle Schiecke)
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[DVD Review] Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
30 September 2009 5:00 AM, PDT
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The scariest thing about real-life killer Henry Lee Lucas, perhaps, is that we will in fact never know just how many people he killed. The number’s anywhere from 50-400. Investigations for practically every unsolved murder case for years found their way to Lucas upon his capture, and he took credit for many which he could not have committed. Rarely has a more perverse fiend ever appeared in American history.
The scariest thing about John McNaughton’s (largely fictionalized) film adaptation of Henry’s exploits is that absolutely everything about it is terrifying. Because we as the audience have seen Henry’s handiwork long before we actually witness him commit any sort of crime, we watch him with absolute focus and horror even when he’s simply sitting down and having a meal with his friends, playing cards, drinking beer. The world of Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer is
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- Saul Berenbaum
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Martyn’s Top Ten Disturbing Films
17 September 2009 4:40 AM, PDT
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It is rarely highlighted what a strange habit and practice cinema-going is. Off we go to sit in a darkened room, usually with complete strangers, and watch something akin to a dream unfold before us. After all, Hollywood in particular, has been known as “The Dream Factory”. Why restrict it to Hollywood? Cinema = dreams. And as the subconscious plays havoc; dreams can turn into nightmares.
Audiences can laugh, cry and scream together. Each person maybe processing information in a variety of differing ways, yet, filmmakers employ a bag of tricks to invoke particular responses, at particular times.
Film experiences have a habit of becoming cherished, personal memories. It can achieve an ambiguous effect. Millions were astounded by Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, just as they were terrified by Jaws, seventeen years earlier. Alfred Hitchcock devised the infamous shower sequence in Psycho relying on suggestion, chocolate sauce, rapid editing and shrieking
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- Martyn Conterio
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Lists of Doom Xxiv: Violent Soho
13 September 2009 6:53 PM, PDT
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Greetings Fango Fiends! It's time once again for another installment of Fangoria Musick's Lists Of Doom - the column where we track down some of your favorite (or soon-to-be favorite) bands to get their thoughts on on the world of horror, and which films scare them.
Australia has long been a source for fine rock 'n roll, and for our 24th installment, we caught up with Violent Soho - a band you probably haven't heard yet, but will hear much of in the year to come.
Their recent release, We Don't Belong Here was a hit down under, and now the band is set to conquer the 'States with 2010 release date set for their next set on Ecstatic Peace/Universal.
Certified Fright Fans and Fango Fiends, the band spilled their guts on their top 10 favorite fright flicks!
1. Psycho - (1960) - The original and the best horror film of all time.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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The 10 Sexiest Scream Queens
10 September 2009 5:45 PM, PDT
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One of the things I love best about the internet is that people post movie-related lists and then other people get to comment on all the things the lists did wrong (or, sometimes, did right). Today, in anticipation of this week's Sorority Row, Moviefone posted a list of the ten sexiest scream queens. It's a fun list, and it's wise enough to go all the way back to Fay Wray (King Kong) and Janet Leigh (Psycho), and it includes two essentials: Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween) and Marilyn Burns (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre). It also includes Shannon Elizabeth, a dubious choice for films like Jack Frost, 13 Ghosts and Cursed (although I'm glad someone has thrown Cursed back into the ring; it's silly but it's also sexy, well-acted and very sharply directed by Wes Craven).
I like Adrienne Barbeau as a choice, too, even though she's really only a "scream queen" in one movie,
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- Jeffrey M. Anderson
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Win Texas Chain Saw Massacre Ultimate Edition DVD's!
14 August 2009 8:07 AM, PDT
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We love giving away free swag here at Fangoria, and for this round we're breaking out a piece of classic horror cinema!
Dark Sky Films released Tobe Hooper's 1974 classic The Texas Chain Saw Massacre in a 2-disc Ultimate Edition DVD back in 2006, and now we're giving Fangoria readers a chance to win their own copy of this beautiful steelbook.
Ready to fight Leatherface?
It has been called "grisly," "sick," and "perverse," as well as "raw," "unshakeable," and "the movie that redefined horror." It was attacked by churches, banned by governments, and acclaimed by only the bravest of critics. It stunned audiences worldwide and set a new standard in movie terror forever. In 1974, writer-producer-director Tobe Hooper unleashed this dark, visionary tale about a group of five young friends who face a nightmare of torment at the hands of a depraved Texas clan. Today it remains unequaled as a landmark of
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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Fangoria Celebrates Fathers Day Aka- “Oh look, another tie! Now I have to kill you.”
20 June 2009 9:16 PM, PDT
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He taught you to tie your shoes and ride a bike, and now he’s chasing you around the house with an axe.
Such is fatherhood.
In celebration of Father’s Day, we have gathered our top ten favorite horror movies dads. Without further adieu-
10- Vincent Cassel as Joseph in Sheitan (2006)
While at the Club Styxx on Christmas Eve, a group of kids run into a shepherd named Joseph and his pregnant wife. But something is peculiar about this sinister dad-to-be and it isn’t just the sting of symbolism slapping you in the face.
9- Jim Siedow as the Old Man in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
This twisted gourmet father is a well simmered blend of Emeril Lagasse and Jeffery Dahmer, with a dash of that redneck “squeal like a pig guy” from Deliverance. Bake at 350 and lets put an apple in that pretty mouth of yours.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Dave and Bekah McKendry)
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Teri McMinn Talks Meathooks, Chainsaws, and Massacres
4 June 2009 1:36 AM, PDT
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As any horror fan worth their salt knows, back in 1974, a little film was released (or unleashed) upon the public with the off-putting yet intriguing title, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Most horror folks have heard all the stories about the film including The Dinner Scene shoot and about the deal with Bryanston, which led to years of legal wrangling. The cast has, to one degree or another, stayed in the public eye and director Tobe Hooper, Dp Daniel Pearl and Production Manager Ron Bozman all moved on to other films, even an Oscar win.
But one cast member has remained mysteriously quiet. And she is the most iconic of them all – Pam, the girl on the hook. Every TCM poster has her image along with Gunnar Hansen’s Leatherface, but no one really knew what happened to her once the film was wrapped. Now, Teri McMinn, who so memorably played Pam,
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- thebellefromhell
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Lists of Doom IV: Gwar's Beefcake the Mighty
25 March 2009 6:44 PM, PDT
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My mission was simple. Make a list of the top 10 horror movies of all time. Ok, let’s see… Frankenstein, Dracula, Nosferatu, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Hmm, what about all the Friday The 13ths, and Halloweens, and Nightmare on Elm Streets, and zombie, and Alien flicks? And all the Fulci, Argento, H.G. Lewis, Bava, Romero, and Carpenter movies? The classic Universal movies? The new breed of remakes? The Rob Zombie films? Holy shit!
Suddenly it seemed impossible. Top 100 maybe. But narrow it down to 10? That’s gonna be tough! So I thought about it long and hard and decided I’d l have to go with the one’s that really started my love affair with horror. There are so many I had to leave out. I decided to focus on the ones from my era, which meant skipping the classic greats like Frankenstein and Dracula, and I also had
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Live from SXSW: Tobe Hooper's First Film
18 March 2009 5:02 PM, PDT
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While many SXSW Film Festival attendees were at the Paramount last night watching The Hurt Locker, I decided to try a more Austin-ish event at Alamo Drafthouse on South Lamar. Tobe Hooper's first feature was screening -- no, not The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but earlier than that. Eggshells was shot in Austin in 1968 and had a limited release the following year. And that's pretty much the last anyone saw of it on a big screen until now -- even Hooper, who was at last night's screening. Hooper says he had a DVD made from a VHS copy, but for the rest of us, Eggshells has been a "lost" film.
The film focuses on a big rambling house full of college-age people who hang out, throw parties, get married ... and discuss the "ghost" in the house, an odd energy field that lives in the basement. But as Hooper told us before the film started,
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- Jette Kernion
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Trailer: Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre
17 March 2009
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Details and images from Julius Kemp's Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre float in at random, so it doesn't come as a surprise that a trailer has suddenly washed up. Thanks to Twitch Film, here's your first look at this tale about a group of whale watchers whose ship breaks down and they get picked up by a whale fisher vessel. Those on the vessel "have just gone bust," and everything goes out of control. Gunnar Hansen ( The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ) has a small part. No word yet on U.S. distribution, so you'll have to hang tight.
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Chainsaw Doc, South Texas Blues, Goes to Print
11 March 2009 10:38 AM, PDT
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There's been lots of documentation relating to Tobe Hooper's classic film The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, but nothing as unique as Christopher Garetano's South Texas Blues -- the TCM making-of graphic novel.
Shock Till You Drop nabbed a couple of panels (one below, hit the link for the other) for your perusal, and I gotta say I dig 'em.
Stb is based on the true story of the filming of TCM during the summer of 1973 and is told through the mind of "Tobe", an obsessed filmmaker.
Garetano has spent the last two years researching and writing South Texas Blues and is currently developing it as a feature film. Artist Trevor Cook has adapted Garetano's original screenplay for use in the graphic novel, and legendary comic book artist Steve Bissette (Swamp Thing) will be doing the cover. Look for this bad boy in October.
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