Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: Director Takashi Miike fashions an explosive drama in Audition. Shigeharu Aoyama (Ryo Ishibashi) has lived as a widower for too long and decides it’s time to marry again. But how will he find a wife? When a friend suggests he hold a fake audition to pick the right woman, he takes him up on it — …
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Scream for your Life! – A whole lotta horror coming your way!
TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX AND MGM HOME ENTERTAINMENT PREPARE FOR THE SCARIEST DAY OF ALL – HALLOWEEN WITH MOVIES THAT WILL MAKE YOU SCREAM FOR YOUR LIFE! Arriving On Blu-ray and DVD September 14th Street Date: September 14, 2010 Enjoy the newest Blu-ray and DVD releases of the films that have frightened audiences for generations, with an assortment of classic and …
Read More »Horror Gossip: 08.25.10
LET THE REAPING BEGIN Greetings all you wonderful pieces of meat… Yes, I called you all pieces of meat, because we are all edible and I’ve always wanted to go all Hannibal Lector on someone’s ass, just for the fun of it. Maybe I’m alone on all the cannibal carnage, but heck, I say try anything once. Anyways, I was recently mentioned in www.horrorinthehammer.com …
Read More »Book Review: The Sculptor – Author Gregory Funaro
Written by Gregory Funaro Published by: Pinnacle Fiction Publication Date: 2010 Format: Black / White – 385 pages Price: $6.99 In 1981, Thomas Harris wrote a novel entitled “Red Dragon” and a monster was created. I’m not just referring to the character of Hannibal Lecter — who went on to star in three more Harris novels, most famously “The Silence Of …
Read More »Film Review: The Keep (1983)
Rate This MovieSYNOPSIS: “Romania, 1942, a detachment of the German Army is sent to guard a mysterious Romanian citadel located on a strategic mountain pass. When soldiers begin to be mysteriously murdered, the SS arrives to deal with what is thought to be partisan activity. What the SS finds, however, is an evil force trapped within The Keep and a …
Read More »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, …
Read More »Interview: Sir Oliver Humperdink
Mike Joy: Horrornews welcomes Sir Oliver Humperdink. The question is why are we interviewing this famous pro wrestling manager about horror. The answer is simple, you’ve seen House of 1,000 Corpses, House of the Dead, House of Wax, and even House on Haunted Hill, but have you ever seen House of Humperdink? Sir Oliver Humperdink throughout his storied career as …
Read More »Dino De Laurentiis
Dino De Laurentiis is something of an enigmatic figure in film-making. Generally dismissed as a philistine, insolently nicknamed Dino De Dum-Dum by a British cinema magazine, he has nevertheless been described by director David Cronenberg (who is nobody’s ‘yes-man’) as “A very interesting man, one of the last of the old-style moguls. It’s pretty exhilarating working with him, because he …
Read More »Film Review: Alien (1979)
Rate This Movie SYNOPSIS: “When a mining ship lands on a planet to investigate upon a suspected SOS, the entire crew are unaware of the terror which they would unleash upon their ship. When a alien life-form attaches itself to the face of a crew member, the rest of the team act fast to try and separate the two organisms. …
Read More »Interview: Anthony Masi (His Name is Jason)
Anthony Masi is your average Gen-X fright fan who was there in the theaters of the eighties when profit-turning horror franchises featuring Freddy Kruger, Michael Myers, Leatherface, Pinhead and of course, Jason Voorhees were raking in duckets by the month, much less the entire decade collectively. What is not average about Masi is the access he’s had to the players …
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