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Clint Eastwood has tackled pretty much every genre you can think of as a director, from Westerns to sci-fi (who can forget Space Cowboys?) to cop thrillers and even war movies.
But the great man has never taken on horror – and if you think that we’re about to say ‘until now’, you’d be on the [...]
Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, this cold, cracking Swedish noir centers on a misfit boy, Oskar (Kare Hedebrant), befriended by a strange 12-year-old girl who recently moved in next door. However, as Eli (Lina Leandersson) explains it, she’s been 12 for “a very long time.” She also isn’t bothered by the frigid [...]
Filmax is to produce horror film Exorcismus with Luis De La Madrid directing and The Devil’s Backbone writer David Munoz working on the script.
Currently at the pre-production stage, the film will explore the popular horror theme of exorcism, focusing on a young girl, Suzy, whose erratic behaviour forces her family to bring in a priest [...]
“THERE ARE two types of people in the world,” a friend of mine once said, “those who get zombie movies, and those who don’t.”
My friend and I both love zombie movies, and conversely don’t understand people who don’t “get” them. My friend was talking about the modern zombie genre–which is characterized by bloody “gags” (heads [...]
If you hear the name Sandler, what’s the first thing you think about? Horror movies, right? No, I’m only kidding, however, as time goes by, the idea of a “Sandler Horror Movie” may not seem so far-fetched. The reason? Mr. Sandler’s first foray into the scary business, a flick called THE SHORTCUT that will soon [...]
People may scoff at what they see as a life wasted watching horror movies but come the apocalypse and the moment that the dead rise to walk the earth, it will be I who have the last laugh. While others, who are not so familiar with the living dead, nonchalantly stroll up to reanimated corpses [...]
A struggling artist from Sandgate has found a way to transform his unsold sci-fi horror novel into a ‘hyper-serialized’ multi-media platform. VPR’s Susan Keese talked with Hasso Wuerslin about his series, “The DeadBooks,” which spans 150 chapters, and includes 100 actors and lots of avant-garde world music set in the strange town of Landsgate, Vermont. [...]
The Plot- A TV reporter and her cameraman follow a crew of Barcelona fire-fighters during their night shift for a show called “While You Were Asleep”. I guess while we all were asleep some heavy, heavy stuff went down in an apartment building in Spain. Stuff like possible viral contagion, dead-ish people attacking and biting [...]
“House” is a thriller that ponders the question: Can you make a Christian-themed horror movie?
Horror movies often play around with the big themes of guilt, sin and redemption, and are set in a sort of purgatory of freewill and moral choices. What would the “Saw” franchise be without the guilt and punishment ethos at the [...]
Before Stephen King became the franchise he is, in the early 1970s, he was a high school English teacher who supplemented his meager earnings by writing short stories for now long-dead men’s magazines: Cavalier, Dude, Adam. But as he became a successful writer, he concentrated mostly on the novels that regularly vaulted him to the [...]
