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NYFF 2010 presents CLINT EASTWOOD’S ‘HEREAFTER’

At this years New York Film Festival, Clint Eastwood’s HEREAFTER project, due to be released on October 22nd, gets the honorary privilege to close out the event. Committee chair and program director for the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Richard Pena, said: “As so beautifully evident in ‘Hereafter,’ Clint Eastwood continues to make the most daring, provocative films in America. …

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Check out the ‘RESIDENT EVIL: AfterLife featurette

Before RESIDENT EVIL: AFTER LIFE hits theaters in September, here’s a 3 minute clip that takes you behind-the-scenes. RE-AL stars Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, and Wentworth Miller. In a world ravaged by a virus infection, turning its victims into the Undead, Alice (Jovovich), continues on her journey to find survivors and lead them to safety. Her deadly battle with the …

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Film Review: Arnold (1973)

SYNOPSIS: Karen Llewelyn is the new gold-digging bride of a corpse. She marries Arnold at his funeral and continues to get his money as long as she stays by his coffin. Meanwhile, various oddball relatives after Arnold’s wealth are being killed in a creative variety of ways. REVIEW: A rare classic and somewhat of a cult film that never made …

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Film Review: Salo 120 Days of Sodom (1975)

(Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma) SYNOPSIS: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma (Salò or the 120 Days of Sodom), commonly referred to as Salò, is a controversial 1975 Italian film written and directed by Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini with uncredited writing contributions by Pupi Avati. It is based on the book The 120 Days of Sodom …

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House of the Wolfman – A wild classic on DVD SEPT. 28TH

Be prepared for a classic black and white horror flick to be released on DVD this September when Universal Monsters brings you HOUSE OF THE WOLFMAN. Ron Chaney, John McGarr, Michael Thomas, Billy Bussey, Craig Dabbs, Beano and Rod Spencer star in this tale of five strangers who are invited to a castle under the pretense that one may inherit …

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CASTING NEWS FOR 5TH SEASON OF ‘DEXTER’

Entertainment Weekly has announced the star of Prison Break and Burn Notices, Chris Vance, will be coming on board to guest-star on at least three episodes of DEXTER Season 5. According to the magazine, Vance will play “Cole, a meticulous, physically fit, well-spoken personal aide to a famous businessman.” Chris will also join other notable new additions to the cast …

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Film Review: Man Bites Dog (1992)

SYNOPSIS: A satirical look at how the media affects and promotes violence in modern society. Spoofing reality television, a fascinated documentary crew follows a charismatic yet unrepentant serial killer on his murder sprees. The crew attempts to objectively document the horror, but as the violence escalates, they ultimately get sucked into participating. Man Bites Dog won the International Critics’ Prize …

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Jacques Tourneur

There were some good but usually fairly conventional fantasies produced by the commercial cinema in the forties. But in the middle of all this was one small oasis of the unusual: The low-budget low-key horror movies produced by Val Lewton for RKO Radio Pictures between 1942 and 1945, and made by a small, fairly autonomous unit, saving money where possible …

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Book Review: A Host Of Shadows – Author Harry Shannon

A Host Of Shadows – Harry Shannon “Everyone carries a shadow,” wrote analyst Carl Jung, “and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.” Few of us see the shadow with any clarity. Turn around for a peek, it slips away. Our violent, sexually tinged fantasies are indulged regularly in darkened theaters, …

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Fear

What is fear? We hear the word and already our heart starts pumping a bit faster, we can feel our sweat glands begin to open, our palms get sweaty and get that all too familiar gross clammy feeling. FEAR can be broken down into an acronym, False Evidence Appearing Real. This is something any and all motivation speakers will tell …

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Top 30 Horror Films of the Last Decade

(BECAUSE TOP 20 ISNT ENOUGH!!) (Not in any particular order) Hey there horror fans, it’s that time of the year when we all reflect on what and where the previous years have brought us.. You’ll read alot of lists this time of year, though that doesn’t mean that they are the final say but rather an individual’s perspective. We wanted …

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New announcement from Cargo Cult Press!

BAD MAGICK by Nate Southard & Steven Shrewsbury (Limited Edition) With only 150 copies being produced this edition will go fast so order soon. In 1901, famed mystic Aleister Crowley passes through a barbaric land known as El Paso, Texas. There he meets a one-armed confederate and a Russian monk known as Rasputin.  Together, these outcasts stand witness to the …

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Film Review: Heavenly Creatures (1994)

SYNOPSIS: “Based on the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two close friends who share a love of fantasy and literature, who conspire to kill Pauline’s mother when she tries to end the girls’ intense and obsessive relationship.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: From the time of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles to the more recent Menendez brothers and O.J. Simpson, …

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How To ‘Make’ A Monster

How does one identify a monster? The question is easier to answer by example than definition. In movie terms, a monster is something unnatural, dangerous and out of control. King Kong (1933), the Frankenstein (1931) monster, Godzilla (1954), Dracula (1931), Ray Harryhausen’s cyclops from The Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad (1958), the Alien (1979), The Mummy (1932). That’s the monster A-list, …

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