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Where do the Toynbee Tiles come from, and who created them? The origin of the Toynbee Tiles, sometimes referred to as the Toynbee Plaques, have long been the subject of much speculation and several heated debates. There have been countless urban legends crafted from the mysterious appearance of these mosaic tiles, and each one was painstakingly crafted before being placed in the asphalt of nearly two dozen major cities in the United States of America … Continue reading
A colorful and bloody new poster has been released for I SAW THE DEVIL. Heralded for being visually stunning and ultra-violent Kim Jee-woon’s I SAW THE DEVIL will have a showing at the Sundance Film Festival. The film will be shown in Korean with English subtitles and I SAW THE DEVIL runs for 141 minutes. It will make its US debut at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday January 21st at 9:00 pm in Salt … Continue reading
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SILENT HOUSE tells the tale of a young woman returning to her family’s summer home with plans of renovating it when she discovers something supernatural lurking within the walls. It seems that the house has a sinsiter past and now everything that was once normal begins to turn very wrong. Directed by Laura Lau and Chris Kentis, with a screenplay written by Laura Lau, SILENT HOUSE stars Elizabeth Olsen, Adam Trese, and Julia Taylor Ross. … Continue reading
Another poster is out, courtesy of auction winner Spinnoff Online, for Kevin Smith’ RED STATE. This poster features the mysterious character Mordechai and looks every bit as dirty and scratched up as its predecessors. RED STATE will show next week on Sunday January 23rd, 2011 in the Park City Eccles Theatre at the Sundance Film Festival. The film stars Michael Angarano, Kerry Bishe, and John Goodman.
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“Red State begins … Continue reading
HBO is spicing things up down in the South with a taste of something magical in the fourth season of their hit vampire show ‘True Blood.’ The Fourth season is said to be loosely based on the fourth book in the Southern Vampire Mysteries titled Dead to the World, and in the new teaser, viewers are promised something magical. If this magic brings with it all the sex, blood, and mayhem that the series is … Continue reading
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Producer Jonathan Sothcott officially announced to Dread Central that the search for the perfect director for their film STRIPPERS VS WEREWOLVES is finally over. Jonathan Glendening (13 HOURS) is the man in question and actress Barbara Nedeljakova (HOSTEL) will take on the lead role in the film. The screenplay for STRIPPERS VS WEREWOLVES was written by Pat Higgins, (whom you will see in the video below discussing the penning the second draft STRIPPERS VS. … Continue reading
Written and directed by Ciarán Foy, CITADEL is a UK/Irish co-production that began shooting in December for 4 weeks, with a three week stint on location and studio in Glasgow, followed by one week on location in Dublin. Now that the filming has wrapped the post production has begun and a release date for the film is not yet available. The story for CITADEL is based on the true-life experiences of Ciarán Foy who was … Continue reading
The new poster for John Carpenter’s THE WARD features a bruised and battered Amber Heard, and proudly proclaims that with this film “Carpenter proves that he is still the master of shock.” There is also a finished trailer in HD, and oh my, what a difference high quality and an eerie track of a little girl singing makes. The girls in the ward are apparently terrorized by what appears to be a ghost whom the … Continue reading
A new Japanese poster is out for BLACK SWAN featuring Portman posing gracefully amidst a flurry of falling feathers with arm outstretched and minus the bloody hand from a previous US version.
In other news, BLACK SWAN continues to be an award show darling, having snagged Golden Globe nominations for Best Motion Picture, Darren Aronofsky for Best Director, Natalie Portman for Best Actress, and a Best Supporting Actress nod for Mila Kunis.
The cast of Glee are hard at work in preparation for their Super Bowl Sunday show and it will be a real Thriller. Dianna Agron and other stars from the hit television program Glee are paying tribute to what is arguably the greatest dancing zombie music video of all time, and have gone zombie. Performing on a high school football field in Long Beach California, the Gleesters shake their goo-thang while zombie footballers and a … Continue reading
Actor C. Thomas Howell confirmed via his official MYspace page that he has indeed landed a roll in the upcoming reboot of the Spider-Man franchise. He will officially join the production, which is already in progress, on January 25th 2011. Directed by Marc Webb, the cast on the reboot already includes Andrew Garfield in the role of Peter Parker and Sally Field as Aunt May, but there is no word on which role Howell will … Continue reading
Taipei Film House SPOT is currently hosting a horror film festival titled Generation Horror and included in the lineup of horror films is the cult classic CARNIVAL OF SOULS and the notorious DEADLY SWEET. The film festivals begins its run today and will wrap up on January 28th 2011.
If you miss your chance to see the films at the festival then do not despair, you can catch them again courtesy of the Kaohsiung Municipal … Continue reading
Park Chan-wook, best known for his revenge flick, OLDBOY, joined forces with his brother Park Chan-kyong to shoot his latest film PARANMANJANG. The film runs for approximately 30 minutes and it was shot solely on an i-Phone and only cost 150 million won, roughly $133,000.
In an interview with reporters, Park Chan-wook credits the familiarity of the new technology with the strange, unsettling effects created on audience members because the medium is one “that viewers … Continue reading
The writer, director, and producer of THE AMATEUR MONSTER MOVIE, Kyle Richards describes his film as a no-budget, amateur comedy monster flick. Richards also stars in the film alongside Chris Ouchie, Dobie Maxwell, Kyle Richards, and Shawn Monaghan. The movie was shot in the Milwaukee area by King’s Tower Productions, and made its premiere in the city of its birth on Saturday. In celebration of the low-budget revolution in horror filmmaking, movie tickets were offered … Continue reading
THQ and Volition announced a new project titled inSANE at Spike TV Video Game Awards in December. inSANE is the first in a trilogy of horror themed games for the XBOX 360, PC, and PS3 platforms. inSANE also marks THQ and Volition’s first collaboration with director Guillermo del Toro (The Devil’s Backbone, Pan’s Labyrinth) in a multimedia project. According to THQ, the company will retain the intellectual property rights, and del Toro will hold the … Continue reading
After Dark Films have unveiled the poster for their upcoming film SCREAM OF THE BANSHEE. Starring Lauren Holly as Professor Isla Whelan and Lance Henriksen as Broderick Duncan, SCREAM OF THE BANSHEE is a new look at the Banshee mythos and will be released sometime in 2011.
Official Synopsis:
“An archeology professor unearths a dangerous artifact, unwittingly releasing a creature that is able to kill with the power of its … Continue reading
Starring Aaron Hursh, Jeff Rogstad, Wade Stover and Ryan Lalonde, Zombie! is a mock-reality TV show documenting the daily routine of young zombie Jim Turner (Hursh) who seeks to dispel zombie stereotypes. Director Paul Kell credits waking from a dream two weeks before shooting started and jotting down his concept about a zombie who was a normal guy for the plot of the film. The film portrays the zombie character as a real person in … Continue reading
The new poster for Kevin Smith’s RED STATE is titled Sarah, and it comes courtesy of Ma’s Meatloaf http://masmeatloaf.com/ who earned the right to premiere the poster after donating $1,000 to THARCE-Gulu http://tharce-gulu.org/. Including Sarah, there are now six posters for the film: The Father, The Sons, The Holy Ghost, The Virgin, and Caleb.
The term Red State is used to refer to a state in the United States of America … Continue reading
Kanye West’s Music Video “Monster” featuring Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, and Jay-Z was leaked to the web, and is filled with random, dead models hanging from nooses, sprawled across the floor and over furniture in various states of undress. Some of them are zombies feasting on the intestines of gutted men, while others are demonic schoolgirls playing jump rope behind Jay-Z while he raps and some are just plain dead.
Kanye West carries the severed … Continue reading
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 I am not talking about Sadism and Masochism or affectionately abbreviated S&M a favorite past time of… well that is a whole other story… Torture can be perceived as one of the earliest forms of entertainment.
Very popular during the Medieval ages [...]
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1987 was a great year for Charles Bukowski screen adaptations. Barbert Schroeder offered up Barfly, a low-life epic of squalor and drunkenness starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway. In the same year, Dominique Deruddere presented his debut feature, Crazy Love, [...]
