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The jump scare is an art itself. The masterful way in which a scene can transform from calm and tranquil into terrifying and tense. Few films have truly perfected the use of a jump scare, but when used successfully, your heart is guaranteed to skip a few beats. From films as early as Carrie to the recent films such as …

Admit it. Even if you’re a seasoned horror veteran, there’s that one film you won’t watch alone or at least without the lights on as it’s so scary to you. For me it’s The Eye. I can’t take the suspense of the elevator scene, I always have to keep the lights on or someone else in the room with me. …

Ghost stories were my first introduction to all things spooky and scary – M R James stories (and their television adaptations) used to keep me awake at night, straining my eyes to see spooky patterns in the curtains or wallpaper that were almost definitely ghosts. Ghosts are terrifying for so many reasons: They are often intangible so cannot be physically …

With all the lists floating around, especially in the “scariest movies of all time” lists, I thought we were due for a “recent” scariest films list. If not for purely the sole purpose of driving a fewer new rentals where they might rightly be deserved to just siphoning thru all the mishmash to point out a few scary favorites. As …

SYNOPSIS: When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman’s dreary home and no one will explain or even acknowledge the menacing woman in black he keeps seeing. Ignoring the towns-people’s …

BAFTA nominated director Tom Harper (The Scouting Book for Boys, Channel 4’s “Misfits”) has signed on to direct The Woman in Black: Angel of Death, the next installment in the series of the worldwide box office hit The Woman In Black. The announcement was made today by Simon Oakes, President & CEO of Hammer and Vice-Chairman of Exclusive Media, Guy …

Arrives on Blu-ray™ & DVD May 22nd Culver City, CA (April 16, 2011) – Daniel Radcliffe stars in THE WOMAN IN BLACK, the hit CBS Films ghost story that scared up more than $53 million at the box office, which will be released on Blu-ray™ and DVD by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment on May 22nd. In the supernatural thriller, Radcliffe …

Hammer’s chilling ghost story The Woman in Black shattered UK box office expectations during its three day opening weekend (Fri-Sun), grossing an estimated £3.1million with a per screen average of £7500 for distributor Momentum Pictures. This weekend’s three day gross makes The Woman in Black the highest opening ever for a Hammer film in the UK and the biggest British …

SYNOPSIS: A young lawyer travels to a remote village to organize a recently deceased client’s papers, where he discovers the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance. REVIEW Daniel Radcliffe stars in his first breakaway performance since his days of Harry Potter magic wrangling as lawyer Arthur Kipps. Based on a Susan Hill novel, this Hammer Film production takes …

It sure is nice having HAMMER back in the horror game. They’ve been releasing some pretty stand out fare and it looks like their next one THE WOMAN IN BLACK is going to uphold that long standing tradition. A new TV spot hit online earlier and I thought you all might want to take a peek. Just as a reminder, …

THE WOMAN IN BLACK is the story of a young lawyer named Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) who travels to a remote village to organize a recently deceased client’s papers, and discovers the ghost of a scorned woman set on vengeance. The images show a mature looking Radcliffe clad in a drab black suit walking with suitcase in hand through a …