Archive for September, 2008
Ravenous Trailer
Captain John Boyd has been sent to a remote outpost in Sierra Nevada following a military disgrace in the Mexican-American War. There, his group run into Colqhoun, a starving and half-frozen Scottish traveler who tells a wild tale of cannibalism. His group, it seems, was led astray by a guide, snowed into a cave, and finally descended to eating one another. He fled from the evil Colonel Ives. Boyd determines to apprehend Ives, but when he follows Colqhoun back to the cave, events take a more dangerous turn, and Colqhoun turns out to be not quite all he claimed to be.
Session 9 Trailer
Danvers Lunatic Asylum. Opened in 1855. Condemned in 1984. And for the men of the Hazmat Inc., it may become a nightmare come to life…
LionsgateLIVE: “SAW V” trailer (and submit your own trailer contest)
SAW V hits theaters October 24th!
Lionsgate Films is now promoting the forthcoming SAW V horror film, along with a contest thru their LionsgateLIVE site on YouTube. SAW V stars Tobin Bell, Julie Benz and Scott Patterson. Click on the link above for more info.
Does Survival Horror Really Still Exist?
You’re picking your way through the destitute skeleton of an abandoned building. All around you, decaying, discarded décor reminds you that people lived and worked here once, just as it prompts you to wonder what happened to them. Strange noises and crawling damp seep through the rotted walls.
Your backpack is stuffed with cryptic objects you inexplicably picked up in your exploration – unsettling to look at and obscure in their application, they somehow hold the solutions to the puzzles that impede your progress, if only you can figure them out.
It’s dark, you’ve got a weak flashlight, a short knife, maybe a length of steel pipe you picked up along your way. And you have a sinking feeling that at the end of the next corridor, death is lurking in the shape of a shambling, deformed monster. But you press on through the dispassionate madness, driven by unraveling mysteries and the unresolved ghosts of your own past.
This is survival horror – does it still exist?
Alan Ball Preps Horror Film, Looks Towards 1930s For Screwball Sex Comedy
It’s taken Alan Ball nine years after his Oscar win for “American Beauty” to make his way back to the big-screen. Hopefully, it’ll be a much shorter trip the third time around, the “Towelhead” director laughed.
“I have two scripts that I wrote years ago, both of which I still believe in. I’m actually thinking of trying to produce one and not direct and there’s another one that I’d like to direct,” he revealed to MTV News.
Although he insists that for the immediate future he’s focusing on writing the second season of “True Blood,” his vampire series which premiered recently on HBO, Ball thinks it’s possible one or both could become big movies in the not so distant future. So what the heck are they about?
The 10 best horror movies you’ve never seen…
If there is one universal constant it’s that finding a decent horror film is an exercise in futility. Horror movies by design are cheap, lousy, and short on gray matter, unless of course that gray matter is being bashed out of someone’s skull. They’re entertainment at it’s most base rank, which is probably why they’re usually the most fun to watch, in large groups if necessary.
Now that October has officially clawed it’s way onto the calendar, and it’s the month of dying trees, German beer festivals and horror movies being released like undersized trout, it’s time to recommend a few horror flicks you may never have heard of before. Are these great films? One or two are, maybe. They are entertaining horror movies though, fully tested in the home market, (well my home market) and for the most part much better than the big studio horror releases we get every few months. What they do have in common is that these films aren’t so well known, so if you’re alot like I am, and finding a movie that nobody has heard of before is a big deal, then these 10 movies might just be what you’re looking for.
Hammer Films rises from the grave with Irish horror
WHEN it came to bringing things back from the dead, nobody did it better than Hammer House of Horror. Now the long-buried film company is resurrecting itself to shoot its first chiller in more than 30 years, in Co Donegal.
With the help of almost €1m of funding from the Irish Film Board (IFB), Hammer Films, which produced gothic horrors such as Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein, has chosen an Irish film by a novice writer as its first horror flick to go into production since 1976’s To the Devil a Daughter, starring Christopher Lee.
Since last week, the village of Pettigo has been transformed into a film set, with make-up and wardrobe lined up along the main street, while people are cast in white plaster for ghoulish effect. For the duration of the shoot, Pettigo has become the fictional Irish town of The Wake Wood.
Hammer is a legendary British film brand that was launched in 1934 then, after a period of inactivity during the second world war, delivered a hugely successful run of monster movies in the 1950s, including classics such as The Curse of Frankenstein, with Lee and Peter Cushing, The Quatermass Xperiment and The Mummy.
Fewdio
Here’s an interesting short film I found floating around the web today. It’s called Fewdio. Here is a brief synopsis: There were supposed to be no photos of Albert “The Carnivore” Carneghy, and for good reason.
The Signal
If I understand correctly, the story is based on a winning entry at the 48-hour Film Festival by co-writer/co-director Jacob Gentry and based around the general idea of the world going mad because of some mysterious signal that’s being broadcast through various television and radio stations. Written and directed by three different people, the guys managed to pull off a lot in such a small budget. The film was originally supposed to have a Summer ’07 theatrical release, then it was pushed to the Fall, before it eventually landed on an early ’08 limited theatrical run.
The Broken
Many of you will be aware of Sean Ellis’ previous work Cashback, in which a man daydreams about being able to stop time and subsequently decides to disrobe a number of attractive females. As a feature debut it certainly made its mark, however Ellis’ second outing into feature films is more subtle, and as a result, not as noticeable.
We begin with Lena Headey’s Gina at a family dinner only to be interrupted by the dining room mirror inexplicably smashing, all is ignored however and things carry on as before. It’s after this dinner that Gina becomes aware of someone who looks unexplainably like her and so decides to follow her. One of her stalking outings ends in a car crash and she ends up in hospital, only to be released with a heightened sense of paranoia of those closest to her. Read the rest of this entry »
