Posted 2/21/13 10:30 am EST by Charles Webb in Horror, Movies, News, Trailers
Want to see a horror anthology with Robert Englund, Malcolm McDowell, and John Glover? "Sanitarium," a feature by the directing trio of Bryan Ortiz, Bryan Ramirez, and Kerry Valderrama have you covered then, with their upcoming feature which is set to make its debut at the Miami International Film Festival.
"Sanitarium" is set--where else--in a mental institution featuring three stories about three patients with McDowell ("A Clockwork Orange," ask your parents about "Caligula") in the lead.
Posted 2/21/13 9:28 am EST by Charles Webb in Horror, News, TV
Actress Rachelle Lefevre joins the cast of the CBS series based on Stephen King's bonkers novel about a small Maine town trapped under a mysterious dome, according to EW.
Posted 2/15/13 3:00 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Horror, Movies
With his new horror film "Smiley," director Michael J. Gallagher tackles the torment and terror that can come to teens - in the form of slasher Smiley - who choose not to surf responsibly. And according to Gallagher, he experienced some torment and terror himself.
Posted 2/15/13 2:53 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Horror, Movies, Toy Fair, Toys
The monsters were out in full force at this year's Toy Fair, especially when it came to Robert Kirkman's mighty zombies. But the BOOths were stocked with other creatures and creepy crawly ghoulies from a host of movies, TV shows, and pop culture. Here are some of the coolest horror toys, action figures, and statues that I spotted while roaming the floor.
Posted 2/13/13 5:00 pm EST by Charles Webb in DVD and Blu-ray, Horror, Interviews, Movies
It was a nice piece of luck that while Renny Harlin was lining up publicity to talk about one of his first, little-seen films, "Prison," news was making the rounds that the "Die Hard 2" and "Cliffhanger" director was in charge of a big budget, 3D, gritty action film about Hercules.
Posted 2/13/13 3:24 pm EST by Charles Webb in DVD and Blu-ray, Horror, Movies, Reviews
In its favor, writer/director Bradley Rust Gray's teen girls in love horror movie is painfully, deeply earnest. About what, it tough to tell based on what ends up on screen, but it feels deeply sincere about the burgeoning love between butch and abrasive Jack (Riley Keough, "The Runaways") and and the addled--let's be nice and not say "ditzy"--Diane (Juno Temple, "The Dark Knight Rises"), even as their bodies are going through monstrous changes that threaten... something.
The problem is that the horror elements in "Jack and Diane" exist as a bait-and-switch to elevate a listless love story between two thoroughly vacant characters. It's a romance between mentally underdeveloped children, substituting brief flashes of expertly-crafted creature FX (and stop-motion sequences from the Quay Brothers) for any kind of deep understanding of its two leads.
Posted 2/12/13 6:22 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Horror, Movies, Toy Fair, Toys
At Toy Fair, NECA provided us our first full look at Chloe Moretz pre- and post-pig bloodied in the upcoming "Carrie" remake before it hits theaters in October.
Posted 2/12/13 12:26 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Horror, Movies
Hackers interrupted the airing of a very special episode of the "Steve Wilkos" show (Teen Cheaters Take Lie Detectors!) on KRTV in Montana to release an emergency message to warn viewers of an impending zombie attack!
Posted 2/8/13 2:45 pm EST by Charles Webb in Horror, News, TV
Deadline has revealed a pair of (relative) newcomers who'll be the leads in the upcoming pilot based on Reuben Fleischer's "Zombieland," and I can't believe this thing is really happening.
Posted 2/8/13 11:30 am EST by Charles Webb in Horror, TV
TV Line is reporting that the two actresses will be returning to the present day-set third season of the FX series "American Horror Story" .
Posted 2/7/13 5:16 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Horror, Movies
While chatting about his new film "Would You Rather" with Topless Robot, genre legend Jeffrey Combs dropped some info on the long-discussed fourth "Re-Animator" movie, the proposed "House of Re-Animator" which would've seen Dr. Herbert West (Combs) dropping in the President of the Untied States to re-animate the corpse of a Dick Cheney-esque Vice President.
Posted 2/7/13 2:30 pm EST by Charles Webb in Horror, Movies, News
Giant spiders, teens trapped in a hellish "Groundhog Day," vampire romance, and more are coming to South By Southwest's late-night genre program.
Posted 2/6/13 2:16 pm EST by Charles Webb in Horror, Movies, News, Trailers
Writer-director Rob Zombie channels everyone from Polanski to Argento in the latest trailer for "The Lords of Salem."
Posted 2/5/13 2:00 pm EST by Eddie Wright in Horror, Movies
Want to own a very awesome part of horror movie history? Got $2.1 million? If so, you could own Nancy Thompson's house from "A Nightmare on Elm Street" Parts 1, 2 and "New Nightmare"
The three bedroom home in West Hollywood was built in 1919, and has a swimming pool full of blood (with a badly burned, constantly quipping lifeguard), and a guest house/boiler room full of torture devices in the rear.
Posted 1/26/13 5:01 pm EST by Charles Webb in Horror, Movies, Reviews
"John Dies At the End" is in limited release from Magnolia Pictures. You can find out if it's coming to your city with this handy list Alternately, you can watch the movie via your favorite VOD service.
In a few ways, director Don Coscarelli's adaptation of David Wong's novel "John Dies At the End" is imperfect--it's too short, for one thing, and a major character is given short shrift as a result. But these are the complaints of someone who wanted even more of this strange world of sentient drugs and surreal-comic horrors cropping up in a small unnamed town. In that way, "John Dies At the End" is a success: it's created a world that's so interesting, that by the end of its brief running time, you're wishing for another trip there.