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Beyond The Pale #1: In Hell it Begins...
16 November 2009 3:31 AM, PST
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Welcome to hell. It’s as good a place as any to start talking horror and spirituality. I’m sure our ongoing conversation will take us to other places as well, but hell.... hell is a place that burns up Bs. That seems like a good starting point to me. You see the idea here is to actually talk, engage in dialogue, share ideas and experiences and do a little honest self-inventory. Can’t do that until we burn up the Bs. And the biggest bunch of Bs is that horror and spirituality are incompatible.
Now obviously I have a bias here. That’s right I’m a religious guy. I’m definitely starting from spirituality as base one and horror as next in line meaning horror is a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there eternally. Eternity? Oh I believe in it most certainly.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (David Canfield)
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[DVD Review] The Dead
6 November 2009 2:08 PM, PST
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If there’s one type of film that simply doesn’t float my boat, it’s the late 1800s/early 1900s period European costume drama. I’m not into it, I feel I can’t relate to many of the characters. The films which fall into this category that I can watch at length are few and far between, and if anyone mentions Brideshead Revisited to me I’ll likely slip into a light coma.
John Huston’s final film, The Dead, falls under this heading. It was the immortal director’s dream project for many years. He did not live to see the film’s release. Directing from an oxygen tent, he meticulously adapted James Joyce’s short story in the most non-indulgent manner a director of his stature and ability could endure. With the help of an Oscar-nominated screenplay penned by his son, Tony Huston, and with his
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- Saul Berenbaum
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25 Most Disturbing Movies #8: Cannibal Holocaust
6 November 2009 11:07 AM, PST
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Continuing Simon Augustine's countdown of the Most Disturbing Movies (Read Part 1 for the first 13). [<< #9]
8. Cannibal Holocaust (1980) 7/10
Ruggero Deodato's exercise in The Ugly American's confrontation with jungle cannibalism is an admired and feared placeholder on any respectable Disturbist's desert island list. Made a full twenty years before Blair Witch Project, Deodato's film cleverly played with the line between movie reality and reality-reality by using a story of found footage: film stock is found in the jungle that chronicles the self-made video diary of an intrepid naturalist/would-be documentarian and his cohorts as they cut a swath through the Amazonian jungle to capture the lives of a “primitive” and, unfortunately for them, cannibalistic tribe.
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Screamfest Review: The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
27 October 2009 1:48 PM, PDT
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Regular Cinematical readers will remember that I've famously said I can never watch Ruggero Deodato's Cannibal Holocaust thank to violence it commits against animals, but I have definitely seen my share of gross, weird, and deeply disturbing movies. Until recently, the most f*cked up thing I've ever watched is probably Jorg Buttgereit's 1987 film Nekromantik, which climaxes - literally - with a guy stabbing himself to death as he ejaculates blood. But Sunday's offerings at Screamfest offered a new contender in this dubious competition to show audiences the depths of human depravity: specifically, The Human Centipede is precisely the kind of cult sensation that earns immortality on the merits of its gobsmacking levels of gore, despite the fact that all in all it's really not a very good film.
Dieter Laser stars as Dr. Heiter, a reclusive German surgeon who specializes in separating conjoined twins. Pining for the loss
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- Todd Gilchrist
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Lists of Doom XXX: Travis Miguel of Atreyu
26 October 2009 7:18 AM, PDT
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For those that like a little rock with their horror, it's time for another installment of Fangoria Musick's Lists Of Doom. This is the spot where we talk with some of your favorite bands to get their takes on the world of horror.
With their latest effort Congregation Of The Damned due in-stores tomorrow via Hollywood Records, we caught up with Atreyu guitarist Travis Miguel to get his thoughts on the films that scare him.
It's time for Lists Of Doom 30...
Cannibal Holocaust (1980) - Ruggero Deodato
"Cannibalism, chopping up turtles straight from the river, beating monkeys to death so they can feast on them, gratutious nudity, and rape....fun for the whole family!"
Zombie (1979) - Lucio Fulci
"The Lucio Fulci flick has one thing every other zombie movie never had - a shark, eating a zombie."
*Pictured left on the cover of Fangoria #8
Return Of The Living Dead Part II
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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The Enigma of Horror Vérité
24 October 2009 10:06 PM, PDT
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The notion of a film using a vérité style and false claims of “it really happened” is nothing new to the horror genre. In 1974, Tobe Hooper’s masterpiece The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, made use of a now famous John Larroquette narration, a group of amateur actors and a gritty shooting style to make mid-70s drive-in movie-goers question the reality of what they had just seen. 1980 brought horror fans the still controversial Cannibal Holocaust, a film that not only invented the now popular “found footage” horror film, but still even today manages to make some of its viewers question if what they are watching is in actuality, “snuff”.
The trend continued into the 1990s with films like the morbidly comical Man Bites Dog (1992), the widely overlooked and heavily flawed The Last Broadcast (1998) and of course the hugely profitable and arguably overrated The Blair Witch Project (1999); a film whose success, though
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (The Horror Professor)
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘Ghost House Underground Four Film Collection’ Offers Few Chills
12 October 2009 8:07 PM, PDT
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Chicago – It’s always nice to see world-famous filmmakers raising awareness about work from their lesser known peers. Where would Eli Roth be without Quentin Tarantino, or Neill Blomkamp be without Peter Jackson, or Danny McBride and Jody Hill be without the better half of Hollywood’s comedy titans? That’s why it’s nice to see “Evil Dead” creators Sam Raimi and Rob Tapert “hand pick” the indie horror films they admire, and then assist in their distribution.
Overall Blu-Ray Rating: 2.5/5.0
Raimi and Tapert’s “Ghost House Underground” series began last year with a collection of eight features that included the exuberant zombie satire “Dance of the Dead.” This year’s collection has shrunk to four features, none of which are as fun or memorable as last year’s “Dance.” Only one film manages to satisfy, while the other three vary in their degrees of mediocrity and failure. Let
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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Lists of Doom Xxvi: Nick Coleman of 1997
11 October 2009 1:03 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.
For #26 we caught up with Nick Coleman, drummer for Chicago's 1997 - whose sophomore album Notes From The Underground hit's retail this Tuesday. So what scares Nick? Check out his List of classic films and writers after the jump!
A Clockwork Orange (1971) written by Anthony Burgess
Just the over all crazy state of mind that Alex is in.. that’s why I love this movie.
28 Weeks Later (2007) written by Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
The best modern-day zombie movie
A Nightmare On Elm Street (1984) written by Wes Craven
A classic. Love Freddy, not Jason
The Shining (1980) written by Stephen King
I saw this when I was little
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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Fantastic Fest Review: Van Diemen’s Land
27 September 2009 4:53 AM, PDT
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Movies about cannibalism come in two (and a half) distinct varieties. They'll either go the exploitation/entertainment route with films like Cannibal Holocaust, Sweeney Todd, and Delicatessen, or they'll go for the dramatic angle with films like Alive and Keep The River On Your Right. (The remaining one half is the rare combination of the two and my favorite of the genre... Ravenous). The dramatic ones are usually more powerful as they present an uncompromising and bleak look at one of the rawer aspects of humanity. They ask what it would take and how long we might last before the darkness within us all rises up and usurps not only the rule of law and common decency, but our table manners as well...
In 1822 Tasmania a group of prisoners escape from their captor and head off into the wilderness toward freedom. At least that was the plan. Instead the group find a never-ending landscape of mountains, woodlands
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- Rob Hunter
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Talking [Rec] 2 with Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza
24 September 2009 2:00 AM, PDT
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Surely, one of the biggest independent horror success stories of 2007 was the film [Rec], from writer/director team Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza. This small title (with reports claiming it was made for a mere 1.5 million Euros) ended up a massive hit in their home country of Spain. It was released around the world soon after to similar acclaim and success. In the Us, the film was quickly snapped up by Sony Picture’s Screen Gems division and put on the studio shelf before being remade in English the following year under the title of Quarantine (only Balagueró has seen the American remake, and claims the experience of watching it was so strange that he couldn’t form any opinion of it). So, while the official North American DVD of the original [Rec] has only recently been released here, in Spain, its follow-up, [Rec] 2 (see our review here), has already been completed.
It
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Glenn Kay)
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Cannibal Holocaust – Reviewing The Oldies
22 September 2009 9:46 AM, PDT
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At the time of its release Cannibal Holocaust was seized by authorities across the world and prosecuted under obscenity, animal cruelty and (potential) murder charges. Quite a collection of accolades. Many were convinced something more repugnant than senseless animal slaughter had gone on – real murder! Its director, Ruggero Deodato, had to bring his quartet of actors onto Italian television to prove he hadn’t done away with them, in the name of cinema, deep in the Amazon jungle. There were casualties: several animals, insects and careers. Like the film’s ravenous cannibals – film censor’s cut it to shreds – or it was banned it outright on legal grounds. In other countries such as Germany and Japan (what does this tell us?) it was a box office smash.
It has been almost-thirty years since its explosive debut in Milan. Deodato has continued working after his brief time in jail; Luca Barbareschi
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- Martyn Conterio
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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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[DVD Review] Requiem for a Dream
8 September 2009 5:31 PM, PDT
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Requiem for a Dream. What in God’s name do I say about this movie? A shattering portrait of lives lost and dreams squandered. A simultaneously crippling and moving cinematic monument and a film rarely bested since its release in simply engaging its audience. If you’re reading this and you haven’t seen Requiem for a Dream, where have you been? Did you die? The film has reached an uncommon level of infamy for a mainstream film. Whether it’s fully deserved depends on who you ask and if they’ve seen the film, and how many times.
On first viewing I didn’t think I’d be watching it very much, but in the years since, the initial reaction of genuine anguish has subsided in favor of the kind of warm, cozy familiarity that comes from those really special movies in your life. Unlike Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,
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- Saul Berenbaum
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Interview: Ruggero Deodato
30 August 2009 10:41 AM, PDT
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The main guest at this year’s Grossmann Film and Wine Festival (Ljutomer, Slovenia) was the great Italian director Ruggero Deodato. Last year Roger Corman and Brian Yuzna were there and interviews with them can be found at Beyond Hollywood. Now, exclusive to this site, comes a talk with the director of Cannibal Holocaust, Violent Cops, The House At The Edge Of The Park and many others.
In the following overview of his career, Deodato also reveals news about his most recent and upcoming projects.
Dejan Ognjanović: You have started your career back in the 1960s, and we are now in the Xxi century. During the span of your career many things have changed. You began as an assistant director to some big names like Rosselini, Corbucci etc. and now, sadly, it seems that there are no such great directors in Italy. What happened to Italian cinema? What changes did you experience?
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- Dejan Ognjanovic
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Bsb: Lars Von Trier's Antichrist
29 August 2009 8:32 AM, PDT
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To be a parent is to experience primal joy. To be a parent is also to be cast into a flaming pit of paranoia, anxiety and gnawing fear. Nature has designed us to protect and love our offspring, to cradle and nurture them, to adore them and keep them from harm. It is because of this instinctual wiring that we, as parents, do in fact live in constant horror. We wonder, what if illness claimed them? What if some sickening sidebar of humanity parlayed their repellent egocentric dark side into taking them away from us? And if anything ever did happen to them…selfishly, we ask….how in God’s good name would We cope with it?
Danish master of manipulation and melodrama Lars Von Trier understands where true dread, where real horror lurks and it’s firmly ensconced within the cavernous, often uncharted recesses of the human mind. Von
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
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Movies I Will Never See: Cannibal Holocaust
12 August 2009 2:15 PM, PDT
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I have sort of a love-hate relationship with horror movies. Truth be told, I love them mostly in theory, when I don't have to endure the scary stuff or the gory stuff or the haunting stuff that keeps me up nights afterward. But as a fan of zombie films, and Italian horror in particular, I really kind of embrace all of that stuff, be it in Dario Argento's creepy thrillers or Lucio Fulci's gross-out odysseys. But there is one film in particular that no matter how intrigued I am about its contents, no matter how much I'm interested in catching up with the rest of the horror-loving community, that I simply cannot, and will not watch: Cannibal Holocaust.
I've only seen one Ruggero Deodato film, House on the Edge of the Park, and despite the fact that its director was in attendance at the screening I attended, I was not particularly entertained.
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- Todd Gilchrist
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Weekly Body Count: Trap Them and Eat Them
20 May 2009 9:02 PM, PDT
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One of the many disadvantages of living in a place like New Hamsphire is that you have to live on the edge vicariously through the lives of people who live closer to the action through correspondence so it was a while before I got into the depths of crazy horror movies. Though I'd been watching horror for years, we never had the convenience of one of those video stores that bought one of everything from their distributors and the horror sections around these parts were woefully understocked. If you wanted to watch A Nightmare on Elm Street 6, you could find it just about anywhere but if you wanted to go out on a limb and see something wildly exotic, you were screwed. Getting your hands on stuff bearing names like Lenzi, D'Amato and Deodato you had to drive into Boston and pay premium prices on factory pre-records and overpriced bootlegs.
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Lists of Doom Xii: Flatline
6 May 2009 4:59 PM, PDT
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Alright Fango Fiends, it's time for another installment of Fangoria'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.
Tonight we're catching up with Los Angeles' Flatline, another band carrying the old-school torch into the future with their own brand of highly-polished metal.
Flatline recently released Pave The Way through Stand and Deliver Records, and just had the balls to cover perhaps the most famous song by Cannibal Corpse - "Hammer Smashed Face" (see the vid below, released this week) and do it well!
The band took the time to get Fango up to speed on their favorite horror flicks, while prepping for their upcoming tour with Threat Signal, The Agonist, and Thy Will Be Done.
Evil Dead II (1987) - Sam Raimi
Tim Hassemer (Drums): Funniest horror movie ever!
Randy
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Lists of Doom X: Ed and Stephan of Hail Of Bullets
18 April 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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Welcome to the tenth installment of Fangoria Musick's Lists Of Doom, our new column where we'll be catching up with some of our favorite bands and giving them a place to talk horror. Since this is Fangoria, we're gonna pick these musician's brains to find out what scares them.
For number ten, we caught up Stephan Gebedi (guitars) and Ed Warby (drums) from Hail of Bullets, European purveyors of "Death Metal Supreme" - both huge horror fans with some great taste in genre films, and their love for some Goblin scores.
Ed - I'm a huge horror nut, so here goes...
1. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Tobe Hooper's terrifying original, that is)
Easily the scariest and most intense movie ever made, and it earns this title without shedding more than a few drops of blood. Must've seen it 100 times at least and it still packs a huge sledgehammer blow to the nuts.
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Final Schedule for La Fango Con!
16 April 2009 8:08 PM, PDT
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We're getting all settled in out here in L.A., and the finishing touches have been put on this weekend's schedule of events. Our buddy Ted from Creation just gave me the Revised schedule, which I've posted after the jump. If you were planning your weekend around one of the previously posted schedules, please check this one out, as it may have changed.
Also a reminder, for the first time ever, we have Two Tracks of panels on both Saturday and Sunday!
Friday April 17
Main Track (Main Auditorium, Concourse, Rooms 151 & 152)
2:00 P.M. Greetings - With our hosts, Creation chief Adam Malin, Fangoria president/owner Thomas DeFeo, and Fango editor Tony Timpone.
2:10 P.M. Previews - A look at upcoming genre flicks!
3:10 P.M. Preview: “Walking Distance” - With writer/director Mel House and cast members Adrienne King, Reggie
Bannister, Shannon Lark and Denton Blane Everett
3:45 P.
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