Archive for July 4th, 2008

Top Ten Haunted House Films

10. The Ghost and Mr Chicken (1966)– This Don Knotts film may very well be classified as a comedy, but there were several scenes that gave me the out and out willies as a kid. If you have never seen this movie, check it out. Don Knotts is a certified scaredy cat as well as a typesetter for his small town newspaper. But he longs to be a reporter so he is sent into the Simmons house to spend the night in the location of a murder/suicide that took place 20 years earlier. He will find his courage along with the solution to a mystery that has plagued this little town for so long. And just maybe, he will find some ghosts along the way.

9. This House Possessed (1981)– This TV movie isn’t exactly what most people think of in recent years as far as haunted houses go, but this is exactly what I most had in mind when I came up with the idea for this list. A rock star (Parker Stevenson) on the verge of a nervous breakdown is ordered to get some rest. Little does he know he house will fall in love with him, for lack of a better term, and go on a murderous rampage to stop anyone in its way. It’s a little bit of cheese but a whole lotta fun. I used to look forward to catching this one on late night TV back in the day.

8.  The Amityville Horror (1978) – Everyone is familiar with this film and it still stands in my eyes as one of the creepiest haunted house movies.  The Lutz family moves into an ideal home only to find out there are reasons it sold for so cheap.  Reasons to die for.

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Sometimes a film goes overlooked until buzz starts to pick up and gives the film momentum.  Such is the case with the upcoming UK Horror film Mum & Dad.  This little low budget film has never gotten any press on our site, but with a recent buzzworthy debut at Edinburgh and a very intriguing trailer I figured it’s time to hop on the bandwagon. 

Mum & Dad is said to be a very dark and disturbing black comedy/horror that is intended to make it’s viewers squirm.  Mum & Dad work at the airport with their two children Elbie and Birdie.  They dont have much and live off the things they can find in the airport.  A fellow airport worker named Lena, who is a Romanian immigrant, finds herself down in her luck and in need of a place to stay.  Birdie offers her a bed for the night and Lena accepts.  Little does she know that her trouble are just beginning as she is in for a world filled with hellish violence.  She will soon have to make a choice: become part Birdie’s sadistic family or die. 

Mum & Dad is Directed by Steven Sheil who’s only other directors credit is the 2002 horror short, Cry.  The film stars Perry Benson, Dido Miles, Olga Fedori, Ainsley Howard, and Toby Alexander.  The film has yet to get an offiicial release date but will be playing at Frightfest this year in the UK.  Check out the trailer for it below.

From Youtube and Scott comes a brand new Repo Genetic Opera trailer. Checkout the trailer below. The film will get its debut at Fantasia which Goon and I are working on getting into.Set in the not-so-distant future, the production tells the story of an epidemic of organ failures that devastates the planet, killing tens of millions. 

As scientists feverishly make plans for a massive organ harvest program, a multi-billion dollar biotech company called GeneCo begins to manufacture salvation- for a price- offering simple payment plans to those lacking the necessary funds to purchase new body parts outright.  But all financed organs are subject to default procedures, including repossession at the hand of the notorious organ repo men. 

We were the first to bring you guys the teaser poster for Dimension’s Eden Lake from Cannes. Today Film4 Fright Fest have gotten their hands on a couple new stills from the film. You can check them out below.

Nursery teacher Jenny and her boyfriend Steve, escape for a romantic weekend away. Steve, planning to propose, has found an idyllic setting: a remote lake enclosed by woodlands and seemingly deserted. The couple’s peace is shattered when a gang of obnoxious kids encircles their campsite. Reveling in provoking the adults, the gang steals the couple’s belongings and vandalizes their car leaving them completely stranded. When Steve confronts them, tempers flare and he suffers a shocking and violent attack. Fleeing for help, Jenny is subject to a brutal and relentless game of cat-and-mouse as she desperately tries to evade her young pursuers and find her way out of the woods. Exhausted and distraught, she finally arrives back to the safety of the town. And meets the parents…

A man is head of security at a department store plagued by unexplained deaths The store is also the target of demonstrators wanting compensation for an earlier staff fire tragedy. The man becomes intrigued by a disturbed woman. She claims her sister, who died in the fire, is exacting revenge, using mirrors as a gateway back into the living world.