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JANUARY
These are archived news items, many of them outside
of this website, so overtime, the links may not work.
JAN. 20
HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAY TO -
You can make scary Horror movies and you can make gory Horror movies - you can even make supposed Horror movies that are actually neither. But this birthday boy consistently makes the creepiest Horror movies ever! Happy Birthday to
Writer/Director David Lynch (ERASERHEAD, THE ELEPHANT MAN, BLUE VELVET, TWIN PEAKS [TV], LOST HIGHWAY, MULHOLLAND DR., INLAND EMPIRE) who is 62.
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JAN. 18
QUICK BITE
Two Horror Thriller movies open in the U.S. this weekend: CLOVERFIELD and TEETH.
From Loren Rhoads
IN THE FLESH
On Saturday January 19th at 2 p.m. Dark Delicacies will hold a signing for three "very talented women of horror": Maria Alexander, Christa Faust, and Loren Rhoads. We will be signing our new book, Sins of the Sirens: Fourteen Tales of Dark Desire. It’s my first-ever book signing, so please come by and say hi.
Dark Delicacies is located at
4213 West Burbank Blvd,
Burbank, CA 91505
On Saturday, February 23rd at 3 p.m., Borderlands Books will host a reading from Sins of the Sirens by Loren Rhoads and Maria Alexander. You want it dark? You want it sexy? Come and get it live.
Borderlands Books is at
866 Valencia Street,
San Francisco, CA 94110.
SINS OF THE SIRENS
This week Dark Arts Books announced the arrival of SINS OF THE SIRENS, a four-woman anthology that includes Maria Alexander, Christa Faust, Mehitobel Wilson, and me! I'll have four stories in the book, including the X-rated version of "Still Life with Shattered Glass" and the impossible to find "Last-Born," along with some succubus action and bad times at the Burbank airport. I am extremely excited about this book. Hope you’ll check it out!
WHAT'S BECOME OF ALICE?
Several years ago, it was made known that there would be a movie based on the video game Alice, a critically acclaimed re-invention of Alice in Wonderland that finds its heroine returning to a dark and sinister version of Wonderland as a young adult after her family is killed in a fire. Understandably affected and unhinged by both the events in the real world and her surreal adventures on the other side of the looking glass, Alice is now a disturbed individual. Director Marcus Nispel (2003's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) and Sarah Michelle Gellar have long been attached to the project, which has been floundering in development limbo since its inception.
Continued at RadioFree.com.
More info at FirstShowing.net.
HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
He rocks and he socks with-a so much soul ... I'm talking about today's birthday boy who, if you don't know about him, Get to KNOW him!
Writer/ Director/ Producer/ Editor/ Actor Takeshi "Beat" Kitano (YASHA, JOHNNY MNEMONIC, TOKYO EYES, BROTHER, BATTLE ROYALE, FIREWORKS, BATTLE ROYALE II, IZO and more) is 61.
Writer D F Lewis (editor NEMONYMOUS, WEIRDMONGER) is pretty freakin' old. Nahh, he's just 60 - which is pretty freakin' old. You should be so lucky to get that old. In one more year he will stop aging because, in all of human history, no one has ever been older than 61. Oh some SAY that they are older than 61, but they LIE! NO ONE ever get's older than 61, they just get uglier. Eventually we all die of ugliness or by ugliness. It's just an ugly fact of life and I should know: my name is Feo. But back to Lewis who is also a MySpace friend. Visit him at MySpace.com/ megazanthus
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JAN. 17
HAPPY HORROR
THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
This writer has set his sights on writing Horror or Thriller or Supense and Mystery movies and little else. Happy birthday to
Screen Writer Michael Helgeland (FRIDAY THE 13th [TV], A NIGHTMARE ON ELMSTREET 4, 976-EVIL, HIGHWAY TO HELL, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, CONSPIRACY THEORY, BLOOD WORK, MYSTIC RIVER, THE ORDER) who is 47. His off again on again Horror Thriller screenplay, CIRQUE DU FREAK, based on the novel by Darren Shan, is in pre-production and scheduled for a 2009 release.
CIRQUE DU FREAK will be directed by Paul Weitz (American Pie, American Dreamz). Yeah... sigh... yeah...
On the plus side, CIRQUE DU FREAK will star SALMA HAYEK (FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, THE FACULTY, DOGMA)!
Goth artist Dr. Mangor (Art & SFX for various movies, games, and other multimedia) is 37. He's also a friend at MySpace.com/Mangor.
Writer & Artist Jason Thibault (OPTIMUM WOUND COMICS) is 37. Visit him at MySpace.com/OptimumWound.
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JAN. 16
HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
THE Horrormiester of movie making bar none!
Director/ Producer/ Composer John Carpenter (ATTACK
ON PRECINCT 13 [1976], HALLOWEEN, THE FOG, ESCAPE
FROM NEW YORK, HALLOWEEN II, THE
THING, CHRISTINE, BIG TROUBLE
IN LITTLE CHINA, THEY LIVE, IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, GHOSTS OF MARS, and more!) is 60.
Actor David Chokachi (THE UNSPEAKABLE [TV], PSYCHO BEACH PARTY, WITCHBLADE [TV], BATS: HUMAN HARVEST) is 40.
Comic Artist/Writer Garth Ennis (THE PUNISHER, HELLBLAZER) is 38.
Actor Richard T. Jones (THE TRIGGER EFFECT, EVENT HORIZON, KISS THE GIRLS, AUGGIE ROSE, PHONE BOOTH, TWISTED, COLLATERAL, CUTTING ROOM, TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES [TV]) is 36.
SFX Artist / Director Greg Strause (GLASS HOUSE, TERMINATOR 3, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, CONSTANTINE, VENOM, FLIGHTPLAN, THE FOG [2005], ÆON FLUX, XMEN III: CRAPPED BY RATNER, 300, ALIENS VS PREDATOR: REQUIEM) is 33.
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JAN. 15
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Even the Washington Post uses feoamante.com for research when it comes to their articles, as seen on this page. The reference in question is writer Mike Oliveri's review of the 1984 Thriller movie, THE HITCHER.
From Horror Mall and Robert Dunbar
RETURN TO DELIRIUM
IN DELIRIUM II is a sequel to the original IN DELIRIUM, which was edited by Brian Keene. As with the first volume, this second one is a tribute anthology to Delirium's proprietor, Shane Staley, and is composed of stories written by authors who have been previously published by Delirium. The project was conceived and put together by John Everson.
This book is signed by ALL contributors! Three signature sheets full of autographs!
Contents:
Introduction: Coming Home Again / John Everson
Surgery / Tananarive Due
The Garbage Man / Brett McBean
The Dancing Doll / Melanie Tem
Still Life With Walls / Martin Mundt
The Night Three Dead Rock and Rollers Saved the World From Hunter S. Thompson / Patrick Lestewka
HIGH RISE / Robert Dunbar
The other ghosts didn't like her.
"Why are you making that noise?" She'd accost them in the hallways or just come gliding into their apartments with a rude remark. "That's just stupid. Why are you doing that?" She challenged everyone and had no time for traditional haunting behavior. The wailing; the bleeding: it all bored her. Her scorn fairly blasted them, and the other spirits complained incessantly.
Even more appallingly, she always wanted to have sex with them . . .
- Excerpt from HIGH RISE by Robert Dunbar
TV Eye / John Pelan
Chopper’s Hands / Gord Rollo
Quincunx / Michael T. Huyck, Jr.
Black Iron / Rick Hautala
Drunk with Lust, Sick From the Taste / Bryan Eytcheson
Garbage / Steve Rasnic Tem
Tricks of Light / Sandy DeLuca
Concrete Gods / Kealan Patrick Burke & Harry Shannon
I Am Yesterday and I Am Today / Brett Alexander Savory & David Niall Wilson
Forever / Tim Lebbon
The Stars Shine Without Me / Matt Cardin
Joy / Wrath James White
Crazy for You / Brian Keene & Michael Oliveri
Delirium Books 1999-2006 Bibliography & History of Firsts / Brian Keene, H Michael Casper, Matt Schwartz
SUNDANCE INTERVIEW WITH TEETH DIRECTOR MICHAEL LICHTENSTEIN
January 15, 2008
by Alex Billington
One of the films everyone was raving about at last year's Sundance Film Festival was the indie horror comedy TEETH. If you really need to be reminded about what the film involves, then why not: vagina dentata! A young girl in high school discovers she's got teeth "down there" and learns to use this to her advantage (guys and girls take note). A year ago at Sundance I caught up with the film's director, Mitchell Lichtenstein, and talked about all things Teeth and his inspirations, among many other things. Now a full year later just as the film is finally being released into movie theaters (on Friday, January 18th) and right before this year's Sundance kicks off, I present to you my interview with Mitchell Lichtenstein. Curious to know more about Teeth? I'm sure you are!
Continued at FirstShowing.net.
TOP TEN TUESDAY: THRILLER
I search the top 10 books on amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com under the search words, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, or Suspense. This week's search word is Thriller, and these are the top ten returns that appear on these book sites.
THRILLER
amazon.com
1. THRILLER: STORIES TO KEEP YOU UP ALL NIGHT - The hardcover version edited by James Patterson (unchanged from December)
2. THRILLER: STORIES TO KEEP YOU UP ALL NIGHT - The paperback version edited by James Patterson and David Liss (unchanged from December)
3. ALL FALL DOWN - by Carlene Thompson (unchanged from December)
4. MICROBE - by Bill Clem (new to the top 10)
5. HIT AND RUN: A THRILLER by Casey Moreton (up from #6 in December)
6. THE UNQUIET - by John Connolly (new to the top 10)
7. DEATH PENALTY - by William J. Coughlin (new to the top 10)
8. MORTAL REMAINS: A MEDICAL THRILLER - by Peter Clement (down from #7 in December)
9. VIGILANTE VIRUS - by R. Leland Waldrip (new to the top 10)
10. SHADOW OF A DOUBT - by William J. Coughlin (new to the top 10)
THRILLER
bn.com
1. THE APPEAL - by John Grisham (new to the top 10)
2. THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET - by Brian Selznick (new to the top 10)
3. THE PILLARS OF EARTH (Mass Market Paperback) - by Ken Follet (up from #5 in December)
4. BLASPHEMY - by Douglas Preston (new to the top 10)
5. BLAZE: A POSTHUMOUS NOVEL - by Richard Bachman (new to the top 10)
6. WORLD WITHOUT END - by Ken Follet (up from #7 in December)
7. DOUBLE CROSS - by James Patterson (down from #3 in December)
8. SIZZLE AND BURN - by Jayne Ann Krentz (new to the top 10)
9. THE SHOOTERS - by W.E.B. Griffin
10. THE 6TH TARGET - by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (new to the top 10)
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JAN. 14
A GOOD WEEKEND FOR UWE BOLLS
Is a bad weekend for Guillermo Del Toro. Del Toro's latest production, THE ORPHANAGE, didn't even crack the top ten this past weekend, but that can be forgiven because it only opened on 707 screens. IN THE NAME OF THE KING: A DUNGEON SIEGE TALE, opened on 1,631 screens - 294 more than The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggie Tales Movie - which outperformed the Uwe tale even though it opened at #9. The Bolls movie opened at #14! Yikes!
Despite opening at #16, THE ORPHANAGE or EL ORFANATO brought in about $2,891 per screen, outperforming Alvin and the Chipmunks in the #5 slot.
Uwe's flick brought in about $2,000 dollars per screen. That's about 200 people per screen or, in the case of about 5 showings per day, 40 people per showing. So that's about 326,200 people nationwide or 6524 people per state. To put it another way, more people probably passed through your neighborhood chain grocery store in one day than watched Uwe Bolls' movie in your entire state! I have to wonder, since the movie trailers never mention Uwe's name, what percent of the audience had no idea they were watching a Bolls flick? I'm guessing that, of those 40 people per showing, half of them probably said during the opening credits, "Oh crap! This is a f*cking Uwe BOLLS movie?" Imagine the echo in such an empty theater.
TEABAGGED, BUTT-CHECKED, AND BOOBLED FOR YOUR SAFETY
FeoNote: It's not Horror, Thriller, Mystery, or Suspense, but when it's this damn weird, I just gotta let you know about it!
By Adam Frucci
This Takata airbag design is… interesting. Essentially, if you get in a car accident your face will be thrust quickly between two giant, inflatable ass cheeks. Or are they giant breasts? Depending on what you're in to, you could see it either way.
Continued at Gizmodo.com
ELIJAH WOOD WANTS TO GO BACK AGAIN
Published by Shawn Adler on Friday, January 11, 2008 at 3:10 pm.
Attention Cate Blanchett (THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY, THE GIFT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, HOT FUZZ), Viggo Mortensen (THE PROPHECY, THE LORD OF THE RINGS), Orlando Bloom (THE LORD OF THE RINGS, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN), and Sean Astin (THE LORD OF THE RINGS): You've gone "There." Now get ready to go "Back Again" - at least according to Elijah Wood's conversations with "Hobbit" maestro Peter Jackson (THE FRIGHTENERS, KING KONG).
Continued at MTV.com
TOMORROW'S DVDS TODAY!
This is what's coming out tomorrow, Tuesday, January 15, on DVD.
Television -
CRISS ANGEL, MINDFREAK: THE COMPLETE SEASON THREE - The magician that even leaves other magicians wondering "How the hell did he DO that?"
HIGH DEFINITION:
BLU-RAY -
Not
HD DVD -
Squat
And these are the movies coming out on DVD
ALREADY DEAD - A revenge flick wrapped up as a Suspense Thriller.
THE ATTIC - Please read the review.
AUTOPSY - Cunning murder mystery from Spain and 1972.
AWAKENING FROM THE DEAD - From Serbia comes this unusual tale of a single zombie: Not the cannibal kind.
COLD HEART CANYON - Not to be confused with the novel by Clive Barker. This thriller is uh... is uh... Ahem! Well, it's another in the fine line of movies distributed by Maverick Entertainment.
EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS - Good story, but the Ray Harryhausen effects - which were incredible for their time - seem hokey today.
GHOST SON - Hey! It's Lamberto Bava! Even if it should happen that you CAN go wrong with this picture, you'll have fun doing it! Stars Laura Harring (THE BLACK SCORPION, MULHOLLAND DR., WILLARD [2006]) and Pete Postlethwaite (ALIEN3, THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK, DARK WATER, THE OMEN [2006]).
IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA - The Ray Harryhausen Octopus with six tentacles! Could this be the new CLOVERFIELD?
MELISSA - A crackling whodunnit from 1974 where a man is accused of his wife's murder. But if he is innocent, then whodunnit?
MONSTROID: IT CAME FROM THE LAKE - From 1978 comes this John Carradine (SHOCKWAVES) SciFi creature feature and Hack Horror trope Scenario 1d: The Immortal Maniac Killer.
NAKED PREY - Movie star, Cornell Wilde (NO BLADE OF GRASS, GARGOYLES), didn't set out to make one of the most brutal and bar raising Horror movies of all time in 1966: he was really trying to make a social commentary on the nature of humankind.
In doing so he created this classic which remains a powerful peice of Horror Thriller cinema over 40 years later.
RED EYE - Not to be confused with the mediocre plane flick with Jodie Foster, this Korean Horror Thriller is a chilling little number about a Ghost Train.
SKULL DUGGERY - From 1978 comes this gory blood-soaked warning of what can happen if you dabble in the occult art of role-playing board games.
TEENAPE GOES TO CAMP - Aw man is this digital flick ever cheap! They don't even TRY to hide the godawful special effects, which make this movie possibly so bad its good.
TRACK OF THE MOONBEAST - From 1976 comes this creature feature of Hack Horror trope Scenario 3b.
THE VARROW MISSION - Dammit! Can't I even go into one haunted house and not run across aliens from outerspace? This cheapie SciFi from 1978 is another in the so bad its good category.
HAPPY
HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAY TO -
And On Sunday -
One of our favorite elves,
Actor Orlando Bloom (LORD
OF THE RINGS, PIRATES
OF THE CARIBBEAN) is 31.
And On Saturday -
In Music and Movies this birthday boy does it all. He writes, choreographs,
sings, directs, acts, and the man is all about - make NO mistake
- Horror! Happy Birthday to
Music Maker/Movie Maker Rob Zombie (Music: HELLBILLY DELUXE, AMERICAN
MADE MUSIC TO STRIP BY, SINISTER
URGE. Movies: HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN) who is 42.
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JAN. 11
HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAY TO -
Actor Kyle Richards (THE CAR, EATEN ALIVE, HALLOWEEN, THE WATCHER IN THE WOODS, HALLOWEEN II, ESCAPE) is 39.
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Contributors to Feo Amante are going places! Check it out below!
Starring Adrian Paul
(THE HIGHLANDER),
Bokeem Woodbine, and Ling Bai (THE CROW), This Alternate History
movie is part Horror, Part crime, part S.F. and all Vampires.
From the screenplay by alumni
Christos N. Gage
and
Ruth Fletcher Gage.
Brian Keene was one of the first reviewers at feoamante.com and has gone on to become one of the fastest growing Horror writers in publishing.
Harry Shannon began writing for us in the new millennium and has gone on to write mass market novels and pen the motion picture,
DEAD AND GONE
Scott Nicholson had a career before us, but he wanted to contribute anyway! |
Haunted
Links:
| The
Chancery House |
Dancing Skeletons
Sure, why not? |
Evil
On A
Budget
Every Evil Overlord has to start somewhere. |
Evil Overlord,
Inc.
Valuable advice for setting up your own world dominating empire. |
GoreLets
Once this site buries its hook in you, you won't want to pull
it out.
Flash Enabled. |
Halloween
Midis - Music - and Wavs |
| The
Haunted Graveyard |
| The
Haunted Playhouse |
Hell2U
Hell, Michigan. It's a beautiful little place that's a helluva lot of fun to visit. |
The Hilarious House of Frightenstein
I've never met a soul who remembers this whacked out show, yet Canadians
Bill Strutt and Ben Kane have created this excellent tribute site. |
The
Monster Dance
Sigh... for those of you who really crave kitsch. |
The
Monster Mash
More dancing monsters. This time with lyrics. |
The
Moonlit
Road |
MustDie
A Russian site. I don't know what they are saying, but it looks so COOL! |
Necropsy
A fledgling Horror site hosted on the Louisiana State University
servers. Not much there so far, but the roster of reviewers, including
S.T. Joshi, is impressive. |
Rather Good
Not Haunted or Horror but being this twisted, where else would he
have a link? |
The
Ossuary In Sedlac
A massive and ornate building made of human bones. |
Screams From The Abyss
Few images, mostly text. It's a 24 hour, 7 day a week Geoff Cooper
Bitch-Fest! |
Spectrum
Of Fantasy
Is back online! A Russian site, with pages in English and/or Russian.
Uses Shockwave! |
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