Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: Based on a popular TV programme that explores the unseen and unexplainable, this big screen version follows a film crew to the eerie and mysterious location of Thailand. However, while shooting for a new TV programme series, the crew becomes totally unprepared for what they will encounter. REVIEW: At first start, I was gearing up to …
Read More »Film Review: Thirst (aka Bakjwi) (2009)
Rate this Film SYNOPSIS: Sang-hyun, a priest working for a hospital, selflessly volunteers for a secret vaccine development project intended to eradicate a deadly virus. However, the virus eventually takes over the priest. He nearly dies, but makes a miraculous recovery by an accidental transfusion of vampire blood. He realizes his sole reason for living: the pleasures of the flesh. …
Read More »Univ. of Baltimore Launching New College Course in Zombies this Fall!
New Course Explores Use of Zombies in Pop Culture Part of UB’s Minor in Pop Culture in School of Communication Design Grendel did it. So did Frankenstein, Dracula, Cujo, and the Golem. Eventually, all great literary and cinematic monsters leap from the page or screen into popular culture. And from there, it’s just a small step into the college classroom. …
Read More »Altitude Comes flying in on DVD / Blueray!
There’s something Up in the Air…ANCHOR BAY ENTERTAINMENT GAINS ALTITUDE ON DVD AND BLU-RAY™ Taking Off on Blu-ray™ and DVD October 26th BEVERLY HILLS, CA – There’s nothing like the rush of flying through the air, soaring through the clouds…and coming face-to-face with pure evil! A supernatural thriller that reaches new heights in terror, Anchor Bay Entertainment presents Altitude on …
Read More »Charity screening of THE THING at Stratford Picturehouse
A team of scientists in the Arctic are infiltrated by a shape-shifting alien which has the ability to replicate the appearance of the people it kills. This is arguably Carpenter’s most effective film, creating a real sense of claustrophobic paranoia through its isolated location, Ennio Morricone’s iconic score, and the distrust shown among the men as they try to work …
Read More »A Brief History Of Hammer
One of the most successful and prolific British production companies, Hammer Films has become synonymous with horror – most notably the unforgettable series of Dracula and Frankenstein films which were instrumental in launching the careers of my dear old friends Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Elevating the horror film in much the same fashion as the illustrious Ealing Studios did …
Read More »Film Review: The Golem (1920)
Rate this FilmSYNOPSIS: “In 16th-century Prague, a Jewish rabbi creates a giant creature from clay, called the Golem, and using sorcery, brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.” (courtesy IMDB) REVIEW: The Gothic tradition had always been stronger in Germany than anywhere else, ever since the Romantic Movement at the beginning of …
Read More »Georges Méliès
Horror cinema is almost as old as cinema itself, for the very good reason that fantasy is implicit in the very nature of film. Action can be slowed down or speeded up, people can be made to appear or disappear, scale can be altered so that people can become giants or mannequins, double-exposure allows one actor to play two roles …
Read More »Chiller Provides the “The Gates of Hell”!
With the Chiller Theatre Expo celebrating its 20th anniversary this October 29-31 at the Hilton Parsippany in New Jersey, another historic milestone will take place at the event, namely a 30th anniversary cast reunion of Lucio Fulci’s masterpiece CITY OF THE LIVING DEAD (aka THE GATES OF HELL). An unprecedented seven participants from this 1980 Italian shocker will be part …
Read More »THE EXPERIMENT on DVD & BD September 21
The All-Star Cast Includes Academy Award® Winners Adrien Brody and Forest Whitaker, Plus Clifton Collins Jr, Cam Gigandet, and Maggie Grace Experience It on Blu-ray Disc™ and DVD September 21 CULVER CITY, CALIF. (July 12, 2010) – Academy Award® winners Adrien Brody (star of the upcoming Predators; Winner of Best Actor, The Pianist, 2002) and Forest Whitaker (Best Actor, The …
Read More »The Kult: Best Seller goes to Film
Gharial Productions, a San Diego based production company, has just announced that they have just purchased rights for “The Kult” and will begin filming. The screenplay is based on the novel The Kult by UK author Shaun Jeffrey. Gharial Productions went into negotiations with Leucrota Press in late November and emerged with a solid contract offer and now acceptance. The …
Read More »2010: MOBY DICK – Asylum unleashes megawhale!
In Asylum’s style of bringing us big movie monsters popularized with the mega films, we get to witness the rebirthing of a legendary creature coming to us soon in 2010 A modern adaptation of the classic novel of the captain of a high tech submarine and his obsessive quest to destroy the prehistoric whale that maimed him
Read More »Hatchet: News on Blueray! – clip!
Joel David Moore (Avatar), Mercedes McNab (“Buffy The Vampire Slayer”), Richard Riehle (Office Space), and horror cinema legends Robert “Freddy Krueger” Englund, Tony “Candyman” Todd, with Kane “Jason Voorhees” Hodder as Victor Crowley, HATCHET is a gory throwback to the classic 1980s slasher/creature horror films. HATCHET on Blu-ray™ features an all new 1080p high-definition transfer of the unrated “Director’s Cut” …
Read More »The Victim: Michael Biehn passes out?
[dailymotion]http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xefdfh_the-victim-bts_shortfilms[/dailymotion] Yesterday B-D was on set of new psychological horror-thriller The Victim, directed by newcomer Brock Morse and starring genre faves Michael Biehn (“Aliens”, “Grindhouse”) and Danielle Harris (Rob Zombie’s “Halloween”, “Hatchet 2”), and we’ve now been given exclusive behind-the-scenes footage of a scene in which Biehn struggles with a crooked cop, played by Ryan Honey, during which Biehn the …
Read More »Nightbeasts LA Premiere at the Hollywood Egyptian Theatre
Nightbeasts has been selected to screen at the Arpa International film Festival at the historic Hollywood Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood California Sept 21-26. 2010. This will be the LA premiere of the film which stars Zach Galligan of {Gremlins) fame. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJWI4mTBbDE[/youtube]
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