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Terrifyingly Gnarly #18 – House Of The Devil’s A.J. Bowen
28 October 2009 5:38 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
To me, it’s fitting that in our lengthy conversation, actor A.J. Bowen tells me he was close to answering the phone with Tom Atkins’ famous line, “Thrill Me.” With his phenomenal facial hair (which I open the interview with) and true talent showcased in our beloved genre, I can see him attaining the heights of that classic ’80s hero. This Friday, Ti West’s much anticipated House Of The Devil reaches theaters (you can currently check it out on VOD, and you should!) where you can see Bowen in a relatively small but integral and very fun role. Punch drunk in love with the film since I saw it earlier this year at Tribeca and a huge admirer of Bowen’s excellent work in The Signal, I knew I’d have to get him talking about it all. So read on, and get excited about the lumberjack resembling future of horror, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Sam Zimmerman)
My Halloween Heroes: A Guest Blog By Steve Niles
28 October 2009 7:01 AM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »
Halloween Week continues with yet another guest blog from one of the industry's most notable creators of horror comics. This time around, it's "30 Days of Night" co-creator Steve Niles, whose series "Criminal Macabre," "Freaks of the Heartland" and "Wake the Dead" (among others) are also currently in development as feature films. His sequel to "30 Days of Night," "Dark Days" is also currently in production.
I imagine for a lot of folks out there Halloween is a fun time, but not one of the bigger times of year. In my house, Halloween is right up there with all major holidays. I’d even go as far as to say I spend more in October than I do in December.
It’s the truth. I have a problem. My name is Steve Niles and I’m a horror addict. I’m also one lucky monster-kid. But I’m getting ahead of myself. »
- Splash Page Team
Exclusive Interview: Doghouse Director Jake West
26 October 2009 12:38 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »
“Now is not the time to stop objectifying women.” This sharp line of dialogue, delivered by a character staring at a group of living dead females, is a key moment in director Jake West’s Doghouse.
Danny Dyer, Noel Clarke and Stephen Graham star as a group of blokes undergoing a tough time of it with the opposite sex. Unable to communicate or articulate themselves properly with their girlfriends and wives – and with one of the gang undergoing a messy divorce – they decide to go on a lads weekend and re-connect with their maleness. Arriving in the quiet country village of Moodley, the gang stumble upon a military-operation-gone-wrong and the female population are now a ravenous bunch of mutant zombies.
With its tongue-firmly-in-its-cheek and playful use of stereotypes, West’s third feature is a comic exploration of the battle of the sexes. In fact, the battle becomes literal. Packed full of gallows humour, »
- Martyn Conterio
Review: Shane Acker’s 9
25 October 2009 5:01 PM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
Over the last few years, animated family movies have begun to embrace increasingly adult themes and storylines. Led by Pixar, they began by including more grown-up jokes in movies aimed at children, attempting to increase box office figures by making movies that parents could get some enjoyment out of alongside their kids.
Then last year, Pixar picked it up a level with Wall-e. Dealing with themes of loneliness and gluttony, and taking a look at the way mankind has treated this planet, Adults arguably enjoyed it more than the younger audience. Then this years Up dealt with missed love and lost youth in a poignant story of an Septuagenarian making one last journey. Now, Shane Acker’s 9 has come along to further the trend of using animated film to explore adult ideas.
When i first read about 9, i felt like i should know the director. After all, when a director »
- Barry Steele
Fall Frights: The Descent (Film Review)
20 October 2009 1:08 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
In the spirit of Halloween '09, we're breaking out reviews (some new, some old) of some Fall Frights you may want to work into your monthly viewing.
Originally published, 08/04/2006
The Descent is proof positive that there’s nothing wrong with a timeworn horror premise that an application of good cinematic smarts can’t fix. Writer/director Neil Marshall’s follow-up to Dog Soldiers is far from the first film about a small group of people entering a confined environment and being picked off one by one by the local critters, but it stands so far above the likes of The Cave that it seems unfair to even mention them in the same context. The Descent goes back to horror basics in the best way possible, preying on primal fears of the dark as six female friends, who gather every year to take part in some sort of group adventure, decide »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
Fred Dekker Revisits The Night of the Creeps!
16 October 2009 7:44 AM, PDT | MovieWeb | See recent MovieWeb news »
The most elusive cult creeper ever made finally makes its way to DVD and Blu-ray October 27th!
Night of the Creeps has become one of the most sought after late night cult creepers ever made. After hitting the video store circuit in the mid-80s on VHS tape (and VHS alone), the film quickly disappeared. It would later crawl out from late night cable television on that rare occasion, like some long dormant creature hungry for flesh. It's never been re-released on any medium, and has only made a handful of appearances at the local midnight theater. Despite that fact, Fred Dekker's amazing 1986 ode to aliens, zombies, and high school romps has developed a rabid following over the years. Revolving around squirmy black leeches that possess a town full of teenagers and treats them like puppets on prom night, it's a hard film to shake. And the fact that »
Lists of Doom Xxvii: Skillet's "Monster" List
14 October 2009 3:22 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
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 our 27th feature, we caught up with John Cooper, Lead Vocalist & Bassist of Skillet, the Grammy-nominated band that recently released Awake on Atlantic Records. A certified connoisseur of pop culture with "an irrational love for comic books, Star Wars, and mostly all thing science fiction", it was time for Fango to pick his brain to find out what he digs on the Horror side of life. After all, with a new single and video called "Monster", there had to be something brewing beneath the surface, right?
1. Alien (pictured left on Starlog #23)
One of the best movies of all time! Favorite director, Ridley Scott. »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
An American Werewolf In London, Army Of Darknes and Van Helsing Blu-ray Reviews
10 October 2009 10:01 AM, PDT | Collider.com | See recent Collider.com news »
Halloween brings out the ghosts, ghouls and reissues of Haloween favorites and “favorites.” Universal, one of the great studios for catalog Blu-ray releases has put out two cult-classics, and one film that might strain to be some day. My reviews of An America Werewolf in London, Army of Darkness and Van Helsing after the jump.
John Landis has a great and awkward career, one that started with promise and mutated into saggy but somewhat enjoyable enterprises. It’s hard to say if the joy is gone because his first episode of Masters of Horror suggested that the man still has some game. An American Werewolf in London may not be his best movie (it’s hard to argue between it, Animal House and Trading Places), but it’s one of the great modern horror films.
David Naughton stars as David Kessler, who’s out backpacking with his best friend Jack Goodman »
- Andre Dellamorte
John Carpenter to Appear at Tfw! Convention Pulls off Huge Guest!
9 October 2009 4:57 PM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
I didn't think I'd ever see it. I thought it couldn't be done. I considered it impossible. But my friends at the Texas Frightmare have pulled off the biggest guest in all of conventions.
I don't know how Tfw got him, but John Carpenter will be at their 2010 show. Read that again. John Carpenter. Director of some of the greatest horror films of all time. Halloween. The Thing. Escape From New York. Big Trouble In Little China. His earlier efforts read like a litany of horror's most accomplished films. For the covention-goer, it doesn't get any bigger than this.
Here's Twf's press release. If you have any love of horror, this is a tremendous to you:
Join us April 30-May 2, 2010 in Dallas as Texas Frightmare Weekend salutes legendary filmmaker and composer John Carpenter! This movie maverick staggered audiences in 1978 by unleashing suburban boogeyman Michael Myers into our collective nightmares with Halloween. »
Carpenter and Cage’s ‘Riot’ Not Happening
7 October 2009 12:14 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
Last year we brought you news that legendary director John Carpenter and king of crazy haircuts Nicolas Cage were teaming up to make the prison action film Riot (which was also known as Scared Straight).
I recently interviewed the producer of the film Katie Chonacas who gave me the disappointing news that it looks like the film is dead.
The original synopsis of the film was as follows:
“‘Straight’ follows a troubled youth who’s sent to prison off the ‘Scared Straight’ crime-prevention program, which imprisons delinquent teens for a short period in the hopes of deterring them from a life of crime. While the teen is there, a riot breaks out and the prisoners take him hostage. A lifer, played by Cage, is forced to help the young man out.”
When I asked Chonacas what the progress of the film was she said:
“I don’t think the film “Riot” is happening anymore, »
- Niall Browne
Fantastic Fest Review: ‘Survival of the Dead’
30 September 2009 12:15 PM, PDT | The Flickcast | See recent The Flickcast news »
As a big fan of horror movies and the zombie sub-genre, I really wanted to like George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead and was prepared to give it the benefit of the doubt as much as possible. Although, my expectations were pretty low after Romero’s last two zombie movie efforts Land of the Dead and Diary of the Dead. Sadly, this film didn’t even manage to rise up to the level of my lowered expectations and is, instead, a heavily flawed and often very bad addition to Romero’s body of work.
Still, this is the man who basically invented the zombie film genre, so attention must be paid and respect given for his enduring legacy as one of this country’s innovative artists. But something has obviously gone a bit off kilter and the writer/director seems to have lost his way. I’m not »
- Chris Ullrich
Latest Buzz: David Cronenberg Working On ‘The Fly’ Reboot
24 September 2009 8:18 AM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
We’ve all been there: sitting at a picnic, enjoying an egg salad sandwich and some watermelon. You turn your head to look for a napkin and when you turn back around, without fail, there is a nasty little fly trying to grab a free meal. Bah! The whole sandwich is ruined now; doesn’t matter if you only saw it sitting on the very top corner, you’ll have to throw the whole thing away “just in case” it had time to trod its dirty little fly feet all over your sandwich. No sir; no one likes flies!
Unless of course said fly is Jeff Goldblum in a remake of the Kurt Nuemann 1958 sci-fi classic, The Fly. David Cronenberg directed the 1986 remake with Goldblum as inventor/scientist-turned-fly, Seth Brundle, although neither director or star would return for the sequel three years later. For years, Cronenberg insisted he did not »
- Paul Young
The Fly Remake Take 2 … Directed by David Cronenberg!?
24 September 2009 5:13 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
David Cronenberg’s 1986 remake of the Vincent Price classic The Fly is one of my favorite science fiction/horror films of all time. It has a wonderful sense of operatic gloom, and Jeff Goldblum invests what’s probably one of the best performances in his career, despite being buried underneath a mountain of makeup. Alongside John Carpenter’s The Thing, The Fly is proof that the remake business isn’t entirely a bum deal.
Here comes the news that Cronenberg, hot off the heels of adapting The Fly for true opera with Howard Shore, will be writing and possibly directing a new version of the film. The source cites our modern special effects technology as Cronenberg’s reason to revisit the film.
I’m ready to pass this off as an unsubstantiated rumor, simply for the reason that Cronenberg doesn’t seem like the sort of director who would revisit »
- John Cooper
Blu-Ray Review: ‘Fall of Fear’ HD Titles Including ‘Army of Darkness,’ ‘Shaun of the Dead,’ More
16 September 2009 1:03 PM, PDT | HollywoodChicago.com | See recent HollywoodChicago.com news »
Chicago – Universal is getting an early jump on the annual wave of horror-themed titles that usually hit stores in the week before Halloween with new Blu-Ray editions of three horror-comedy classics and, well, one stinker that surely looks good in HD if nothing else. Add “An American Werewolf in London,” “Army of Darkness,” “Shaun of the Dead,” and “Van Helsing” to your collection.
The “Fall of Fear” promotions actually includes 31 re-promoted titles with Halloween-themed wrap but only four are available on Blu-Ray and were sent for review. But the standard releases include reissues by two of our favorite directors and influential filmmakers in the genre - John Carpenter and Wes Craven.
For Carpenter, repackaged titles include “The Thing,” “Prince of Darkness,” “They Live,” and “Village of the Damned”. Personally, we would suggest picking them up in that order. As for Craven, the titles are “The Serpent and the Rainbow, »
- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 9/15/2009
12 September 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
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.
It's a stellar week for fright-fare in the home market, especially for those that prefer Blu-ray, with some pretty big titles hitting the format for the first time.
Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, September 15, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List - updated with all the last-minute additions and deletions.
Note: Clickable links lead to Amazon.com An American Werewolf In London (Full Moon Edition, DVD & Bd)
Re-discover one of the most gripping horror films of all-time with the cult classic An American Werewolf in London. Blending the macabre with a wicked sense of humor, director John Landis (National Lampoon’s Animal House) delivers a contemporary take on the classic »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
September 11: DVD alternatives to this weekend’s multiplex offerings
12 September 2009 10:10 AM, PDT | www.flickfilosopher.com | See recent FlickFilosopher news »
We know how it is: You’d like to go to the movies this weekend, but it’s all this settling back down into pre-autumnal routine has got you exhausted. But you can have a multiplex-like experience at home with a collection of the right DVDs. And when someone asks you on Monday, “Hey, did you check out Whiteout this weekend?” you can reply, “No, I like my scares on the ice done up more science fiction-y.” Instead Of: Whiteout, in which Kate Beckinsale’s U.S. marshal attempts to solve the first murder in Antarctica... Watch: Either 1951’s The Thing From Another World or John Carpenter’s 1982 remake ,The Thing, about terror at the South Pole of a more extraterrestrial sort. If U.S. marshals are your thing, check out 1993’s The Fugitive for Tommy Lee Jones’s Oscar-winning performance as a highly entertaining and doggedly determined federal lawman. For »
- MaryAnn Johanson
Review: Whiteout
11 September 2009 2:00 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
When the trailer for Whiteout first appeared I jumped to the disheartening conclusion that Hollywood had decided to remake The Thing (again), this time with a female protagonist. The Antarctica setting, the swirling snow over the title cards, the whistling wind on the soundtrack and an action scene set during a blizzard all triggered fond memories of the fine John Carpenter/Kurt Russell collaboration and the fervent hope that the filmmakers weren’t messing with a good thing, pun not intended. Less than a minute of subsequent Internet research alleviated my fears: this was an entirely new South Pole extravaganza, based on the graphic novel by respected comic artist Greg Rucka. Yet, after seeing what director Dominic Sena and his team of four screenwriters (never a good sign) made out of Rucka’s material, it’s hard not to wish they really had rebooted Carpenter’s. A lifeless whodunit, it wastes the mystical setting (or at least »
- Robert Levin
Starman (Blu-Ray Review)
11 September 2009 5:40 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
Starman on Blu-Ray
Main Feature (1H 54M 58S)
I am a huge fan of John Carpenter and Jeff Bridges and while I was pretty sure I had seen this movie many years ago I was also confident I had forgotten almost everything about it. Carpenter fails to hit the highs he achieved with other films; the same can be said of Bridges and Karen Allen. At the end of the day, in spite of these small disappointments, you’re left with something quite pleasant.
Starman appears to adopt many elements from previous movies in the sci-fi genre. At various points in the movie we are treated to short bursts of music which bear more than a little resemblance to the wonderful score from Vangelis in Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner. Near the beginning of the movie Allen is shown walking around in a top and panties which reminded me of »
- Tigervamp
Review: Did You Ever See... The Thing?
10 September 2009 7:12 AM, PDT | HeyUGuys.co.uk | See recent HeyUGuys news »
This week sees the release of Whiteout. A thriller set in Antarctica, it involves Kate Beckinsale trying to solve a series of murders before the long dark winter begins.
There haven’t been many films set in Antarctica, but maybe that’s because the bar was set so high some 27 years ago. Made in 1982, and starring Kurt Russell, it was a horror/thriller that still stands today as a cult classic.
I’ll see you on the other side, as we have a look back at John Carpenter’s The Thing. »
From the Files of Fangoria: This Damn Village Of The Damned
16 August 2009 6:15 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
As our huge 30th anniversary issue probably indicated, Fangoria has been around for 30 years. During those 30 years, some 12 trillion horror movies have been made. That’s a rough estimation. There may be a few I’m forgetting. With every horror film unleashed (from the major studios to your weird uncle’s experimental Poltergeist prequel filmed on super 8) a publicity file is created. Over the past 30 years, Fangoria has hung on to all 12 trillion+ publicity files and sealed them all in a 40 by 40 Tupperware vault.
100% no bullshit.
Buying into the new digital computer-ification fad, the task of converting every file into its zero and one equivalent has fallen upon me. So, for the next 165 years, I’ll be sitting at my scanner digitizing every photo, slide, wood etching, and threatening letter to the editor that Fangoria has received over the past 30 years. Not wanting to let my eyes bleed from excessive »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (David McKendry)
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