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Five Favorite Films with Keith David
11 December 2009 6:35 AM, PST
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Whether you realize it or not, you probably already know who actor Keith David is, even if his name is not immediately familiar. Are you a fan of John Carpenter's cult classic films The Thing and They Live? Have you seen any of Ken Burns' documentaries on PBS? Did you grow up watching the popular animated television series Gargoyles? And more recently, have you played such blockbuster video games as Mass Effect, Halo 2 or 3, or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you know who Keith David is.
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Five Favorite Films with Keith David
11 December 2009 6:35 AM, PST
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Whether you realize it or not, you probably already know who actor Keith David is, even if his name is not immediately familiar. Are you a fan of John Carpenter's cult classic films The Thing and They Live? Have you seen any of Ken Burns' documentaries on PBS? Did you grow up watching the popular animated television series Gargoyles? And more recently, have you played such blockbuster video games as Mass Effect, Halo 2 or 3, or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, then you know who Keith David is.
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TV Special Celebrates the Music of Morricone
2 December 2009 11:02 AM, PST
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Fans of legendary film composer Ennio Morricone – whose beautiful and haunting scores have etched themselves into cinema history – will have plenty to cheer about when Eurochannel premieres the special Morricone Conducts Morricone later this month.
The prolific, award-winning and still very active maestro has provided the music for countless movie classics, including genre favorites like Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and John Carpenter's The Thing... and this is your chance to watch the master at work. Read on for more details!
Probably most famous for his work on classic Sergio Leone westerns like The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Morricone is also beloved by horror film buffs
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Horror-filled Fundraiser in Burbank this Sunday!
18 November 2009 10:05 PM, PST
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On Sunday, November 22nd, a fundraiser is being held at the Victory Theatre Center in Burbank, California at 7:45 pm til 9 p.m.
What makes this of interest to Fangoria is that most of the guests have an impressive horror pedigree, including Keith David, star of John Carpenter's The Thing and They Live, Harry Manfredi, composer of the Friday The 13th theme, Miguel Nunez, Jr. ('Spider' from Return Of The Living Dead and Friday The 13th: A New Beginning), Fresh Prince Of Bel Air's Karyn Parsons (who also starred in Death Spa/Witch Bitch) and James Avery (Nightflyers), as well as Michael D. Walton, who suffers a truly gory fate in the upcoming Black Waters Of Echo's Pond.
Tickets are $25.00--the money will finance a March 2010 production of the acclaimed play, Topdog/Underdog. One hour event, followed by a wine and food reception.
The Victory Theatre Center is at 3326 W Victory Blvd in Burbank,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Pat Jankiewicz)
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Palisades Tartan Video’s Terror Pack Vol. 1 (DVD Review)
16 November 2009 3:54 AM, PST
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I’m not going to lie, I typically hate box sets. They’re more often than not, a dumping ground for DVD’s that have spent one too many years collecting dust in some old warehouse that their distributers are just a little too eager to get off the shelves. You go to your local video retailer or Amazon.com and think “Awesome, John Carpenter box set. Surely it’s packed with the original Halloween, The Thing, and Escape From New York.” Much to your dismay, you come to realize you’re stuck with Ghosts Of Mars (featuring the acting prowess of Ice Cube), that damned Village remake, and Escape From L.A.. Moreover even if you happen to like one or two of the flicks in the set, you’re bound to hate the rest; that is to say, if you could even identify what the, often bottom barrel,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Compton)
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‘Mad Men’ Writer to Have a ‘Fright Night’
12 November 2009 5:33 AM, PST
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As much as critics and movie fans seem to hate on remakes and reboots, you have to admit that a lot can be done with a remake in talented hands. Examples of this extend back to John Carpenter’s work on The Thing to David Cronenberg’s The Fly. It’s possible. It can be done right.
Which is why the news of Mad Men writer/producer Marti Noxon being attached to write a remake of Fright Night is pretty superb news: Noxon is a talented guy who helped shape Buffy the Vampire Slayer into a successful series. His knowledge of the source material and the fact that Mad Men is widely considered to be one of the best pieces of entertainment on television makes me excited to see what he does with a remake.
Remember: the original Fright Night came out in 1985, starred Jack Skellington himself, Chris Sarandon, and
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- John Cooper
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Terrifyingly Gnarly #18 – House Of The Devil’s A.J. Bowen
28 October 2009 5:38 PM, PDT
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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,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Sam Zimmerman)
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My Halloween Heroes: A Guest Blog By Steve Niles
28 October 2009 7:01 AM, PDT
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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.
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Exclusive Interview: Doghouse Director Jake West
26 October 2009 12:38 AM, PDT
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“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,
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- Martyn Conterio
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Review: Shane Acker’s 9
25 October 2009 5:01 PM, PDT
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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
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- Barry Steele
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Fall Frights: The Descent (Film Review)
20 October 2009 1:08 AM, PDT
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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
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
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Fred Dekker Revisits The Night of the Creeps!
16 October 2009 7:44 AM, PDT
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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
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Lists of Doom Xxvii: Skillet's "Monster" List
14 October 2009 3:22 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 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.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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An American Werewolf In London, Army Of Darknes and Van Helsing Blu-ray Reviews
10 October 2009 10:01 AM, PDT
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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
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- Andre Dellamorte
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John Carpenter to Appear at Tfw! Convention Pulls off Huge Guest!
9 October 2009 4:57 PM, PDT
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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.
John Carpenter.
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.
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Carpenter and Cage’s ‘Riot’ Not Happening
7 October 2009 12:14 PM, PDT
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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,
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- Niall Browne
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Fantastic Fest Review: ‘Survival of the Dead’
30 September 2009 12:15 PM, PDT
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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
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- Chris Ullrich
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Latest Buzz: David Cronenberg Working On ‘The Fly’ Reboot
24 September 2009 8:18 AM, PDT
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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
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The Fly Remake Take 2 … Directed by David Cronenberg!?
24 September 2009 5:13 AM, PDT
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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
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- John Cooper
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘Fall of Fear’ HD Titles Including ‘Army of Darkness,’ ‘Shaun of the Dead,’ More
16 September 2009 1:03 PM, PDT
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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,
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- adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
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