Archive for April, 2008
De Palma’s The Fury Getting Remade
Another remake has just been announced today and this time it is a rather obscure title. Personally I have actually never even seen this film so this is hard for me to weigh in on. Variety announced earlier today that Fox 2000 has tapped Brian McGreevy and Lee Shipman to pen a contemporary reimagining of the 1978 supernatural horror film.
The original featured Kirk Douglas and John Cassavetes. The film was based on a novel of the same name written by John Farris. The new version will center on a young man with heightened kinetic powers who is abducted by the government in order to take advantage of his special gifts.
Spooks: Omega Team Comic Art
This July Devils Due will be expanding the world of the Spooks comic by releasing Larry Hama’s 99-cent Spooks: Omega Team #0. The first three issues of Spooks have all sold out so if you managed to get your hands on a copy keep that one in the bag and board.
Dimension not-so Extreme at Blockbuster?
So here is an interesting story that I thought about writing a forum thread about but never got around to. Today while browsing the web I saw an article with similar sentiments to mine and made me realize I am not the only one who noticed this. So I decided it’s time to write up an article and inform horror fans of this before they fall victim to it as well.
Zombie Trailer
A zombie is found aboard a boat belonging to a famous scientist. Peter West, a journalist, travels to the Caribbean with Ann, the daughter of the scientist. When they arrive at Matul Island, they find the doctor and discover a terrifying disease. It turns Islanders into horrifying zombies which devour human flesh and seem indestructible.
Philosphy of A Knife Is Coming
Philosphy of A Knife is a film that I have been eagerly anticipating for quite some time. I was really blown away by how brutal Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre was that something as vicious as that could happen. For those of you not up to snuff both of those films are based on fact. The story of Philosphy of a Knife is about Unit 731 and the tortures that the Japanese did on prisoners at the time. All kinds of experiments were done on the people to test the extremes that a body could take before someone would die.
The director has made a couple of other films from Unearthed that I am sure you have heard of including Nails and Visions of Suffering, Andrey Iskanov. Apparently the film has a running time of around four hours and because of the absolute brutality of the film they will not be bringing this to any film festivals. I would think it would be very unlikely to even get accepted.
Now on July 8th, Unearthed will be releasing the film on DVD in two different ways. You can either buy the one disc version that will only include the film or a very special edition. This other version will be a limited edition of 5000 numbered copies and comes in a two disc set with music video’s, behind the scenes, deleted scenes and much more. As they did with Aftermath it will also have much nastier cover art as well.
Below you can check out the trailer for the film but let me warn you right now that this is really graphic and definitely not safe for work.
Venom Review
Jim Gillespie returns to the horror genre after I Know What You Did Last Summer with Venom, and not since Jeepers Creepers had I been this enthused about a horror icon, but then again we haven’t had a supernatural killer since Jeepers anyway. What? You’ve never heard of this? No surprise, considering Dimension Films only released it to 489 theaters. They didn’t even start promoting it or even bothered updating the official site until the last week of its release; typical for Dimension since they barely promote any of their films now-a-days.
The Gift Review
I’d just like to say first off that this, aside from The Matrix, has to be Keanu Reeves best performance. I think that beard he grew somehow made his acting better. Anyway, I liked this movie. It wasn’t a horror film, but a thriller with a lot of chilling elements in it. I feel sorry for the people that go to see this movie expecting it to be a full out horror film.
Too All A Good Night Review
Before Silent Night, Deadly Night, there was To All a Good Night, a film that came out around the same year as Christmas Evil was released. This is supposedly the first film to have the killer wear a Santa outfit, which was later recreated in the previously mentioned films. Last House on the Left villain David Hess makes his directorial debut with this, which turns out to be one of the more less-known killer-Santa movies. At least me it was. The film is basically your typical 80′s slasher — its Christmas break for the horny girls at the Calvin Finishing School and those who remained behind plan out a huge party, and invite a bunch of guys over (who for some reason flew there by a private plane?) and bodies start piling up. The movie really isn’t all that bad considering the deaths were pretty decent, and so was the gore. We get a decapitation, axe to the head, strangulation, throat slash and propeller death to name a few. The twist at the end might catch some off guard, but I had a hunch about it before it was revealed.
The Beyond Trailer
Set in an old Victorian hotel in New Orleans built on top of a ‘gateway to hell’, a supernatural tale of horror in which zombies come back to life, eyeballs spring out of their sockets, tarantuals attack and primordial streams of acid flow forth in most unpleasant ways.
