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2010:
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The detritus of old Horror/Thriller history can be found here.
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JULY
These are archived news items, many of them outside
of this website, so overtime, the links may not work.
JULY 24
From AnnaMaria White
THE ROCKETEER SOARS AGAIN
In New Mini-Series From IDW
San Diego, CA (July 24, 2010) – IDW Publishing, a premier publisher of graphic novels and books, is pleased to announce today an all-new, four-issue miniseries featuring Dave Stevens' beloved character, The Rocketeer. Coming in 2011, IDW's The Rocketeer mini-series will be written and drawn by some of today's finest comics creators, including Mike Allred, Kurt Busiek, John Cassaday, Darwyn Cooke, Michael Golden, Gene Ha, Michael Kaluta, Garry Leach, Bruce Timm, Bill Willingham, and many more. Alex Ross will supply stunning covers on each issue.
The Rocketeer by Dave Stevens was first published in 1982, and appeared sporadically into the mid 1990s. Despite this infrequent publishing schedule, the series developed an intensely devoted fan-following that treasured each new installment. Tragically, Stevens passed away in 2008 after a lengthy battle with Leukemia. In remembrance of this brilliant artist, a substantial portion of profits earned from this new mini-series will be donated to Hairy Cell Leukemia research by the estate of Dave Stevens, the creators involved, and IDW Publishing.
"Dave Stevens was an incredibly talented artist and a wonderful person," said IDW Special Projects Editor Scott Dunbier. "I would like to think that he would be happy with a book like this, one that pays such loving tribute to his greatest creation."
The Rocketeer #1 (of 4) will be available in stores in 2011. |
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JULY 23
HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
One of the luckiest kids (now man) in the world
Actor Daniel Radcliffe (THE TAILOR
OF PANAMA, HARRY POTTER [all]), is 21. Daniel is set to star in HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE for 2008 and HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS in 2010.
Actor Charisma Carpenter (BUFFY THE
VAMPIRE SLAYER [TV], ANGEL [TV], CHARMED [TV], VERONICA MARS [TV], VOODOO MOON) is 40. Look for her upcoming Horror Thrillers HOUSE OF BONES and VIVID.
Actor Eriq LaSalle (INFERNO INDIRETTA, JACOB'S LADDER, COLOR OF NIGHT, ONE
HOUR PHOTO, CRAZY AS HELL, INSIDE OUT) is 48. Eriq Lasalle has shared
many movies as well as a birthday with
Actor Ronny Cox (THE HAPPINESS CAGE,
DELIVERANCE, THE CAR, GRAY
LADY DOWN, THE BEAST WITHIN, ROBOCOP, TOTAL RECALL, SCISSORS,
SPAWN [TV], DEEP BLUE SEA,
Y2K, CRAZY AS HELL) who is 72. Ronny shares a July birthday with
his TOTAL RECALL director, Paul Verhoeven. |
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JULY 22
HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
Actor Willem Dafoe (WILD AT HEART, eXistenZ, AMERICAN PSYCHO, SHADOW OF THE VAMPIRE, SPIDER-MAN [ALL], THE RECKONING, ONCE UPON A TIME IN MEXICO, THE CLEARING, CONTROL, INSIDE MAN, THE WALKER, ANAMORPH, ANTICHRIST, DAYBREAKERS, CIRQUE DU FREAK) is 55.
Look for Willem's expected 2011 release of JOHN CARTER OF MARS.
Actor Franka Potente (RUN, LOLA, RUN, ANATOMY, THE BOURNE IDENTITY, ANATOMY 2, I LOVE YOUR WORK, BLUEPRINT, THE BOURNE SUPREMACY, CREEP) is 36. |
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JULY 21
HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAY TO -
SFX Artist John Nelson (TERMINATOR 2, STAY TUNED, SO I MARRIED AN AXE MURDERER, WOLF, ANACONDA, EVOLUTION, THE MATRIX: RELOADED, THE MATRIX: REVOLUTIONS, I, ROBOCOP, IRON MAN) is 57. |
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JULY 19
YOU DUG IT
Once in a great while a star leads a solid cast of indie actors and it does great. It especially does great when directed by a hot director like Chris Nolan (MEMENTO, BATMAN BEGINS, THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS). You really dug INCEPTION, popping it into #1 to the tune of $62 million in its first weekend!
You continue to dig DESPICABLE ME, which dropped only 41% from #1 last week to #2 this week. At a two weekend total of $118 million, it has nearly broke even at the box office.
In its third week, you are also digging TWILIGHT: ECLIPSE slowly dropped from #2 to #4. In only 3 weekends it has amassed nearly 4 times its budget putting it right in the profit zone and demonstrating that a Horror Thriller director like David Slade (HARD CANDY, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT), can keep the franchise thriving.
YOU BURIED IT
You are showing about as much love for PREDATORS as you did for JONAH HEX, and I don't blame you. What a teeth grindingly bad ending.
Next Week: How will you feel about SALT and VALHALLA RISING? |
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HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAY TO -
And On Sunday -
Since her TeeVee show, this birthday girl has been driving her career deeper into Horror, Thriller, Mystery and Suspense. Happy Birthday to
Actor Kristen Bell (DEEPWATER, VERONICA MARS [TV], PULSE, ROMAN, HEROES [TV]) who is 29. Look for the expected 2009 release of ASTROBOY.
Actor Vin Diesel (SAVING PRIVATE RYAN, THE IRON GIANT,
BOILER ROOM, PITCH BLACK,
THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS, THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK, BABYLON A.D.) is 43. Vin has an upcoming Sf Thriller for 2008, BABYLON A.D.
Director Paul Verhoeven (THE 4TH MAN, ROBOCOP, TOTAL
RECALL, BASIC INSTINCT, STARSHIP
TROOPERS, HOLLOW
MAN) is 71. |
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JULY 16
HAPPY
HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAY TO -
Actor Donald Sutherland (CASTLE OF THE LIVING DEAD, DR. TERROR'S HOUSE OF HORRORS, DIE! DIE! MY DARLING!,
BLOOD RELATIVES, DON'T
LOOK NOW, INVASION
OF THE BODY SNATCHERS [1978], EYE OF THE NEEDLE, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, THE PUPPET MASTERS,
OUTBREAK, VIRUS, FINAL
FANTASY, SALEM'S LOT [TV], AN AMERICAN HAUNTING, PUFFBALL, and way more in mystery and suspense)
is 76. |
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JULY 15
QUICK BITES
CRYPTSHOW
Is a Film Festival specialized in Fantasy and Horror films. We are one of a kind on the city of Barcelona and our intention is the divulgation and support of the fantasy genre, mainly in its short film form with an Official competition section, but also in literature, painting, comic books, music, etc.
The programing team of the festival have been aware of the good reviews of "Red Velvet" throught the internet and we are very interested in screening it at this year's edition.
"Red Velvet" will screen Saturday, July 17th . . . with Spanish Subtitles for the first time!
Visit Cryptshow for more.
FeoNote: Read my review of RED VELVET.
AND
Allowing Alumni
Scott Nicholson has released the urban fantasy thriller Speed Dating with the Dead, inspired by his experiences hosting a paranormal conference in 2008.
A man's promise to channel his dead wife goes haywire when he stirs up demons at a paranormal conference--and at the White Horse Inn, even angels can't be trusted.
From the author of DRUMMER BOY, THE SKULL RING, and THE RED CHURCH. More information on the novel and the real haunted inn at HauntedComputer.
PLUS
Hello After Dark Fans,
San Diego Comic-Con is just around the corner and we hope to see you there! Visit our booth anytime (Booth # 4035) starting Wednesday, July 21st through Sunday, July 25th at the San Diego Convention Center.
Drop by forums.horrorfestonline.com to read what others have to say.
ALSO
Girls and Corpses Magazine Summer Alien Autopsy Issue has landed!
Our ALIEN AUTOPSY issue features: a 'REAL' ET captured by actor/comedian HARLAND WILLIAMS; horror star Dr. CAMDEN TOY (Buffy The Vampire Slayer) and Sexy scientists PENNY DRAKE and MARTA ZOLYNSKA; a JERSEY GORE photo spoof with scream queen BROOKE LEWIS and HEATHER TOCQUIGNY; famed horror director TAKASHI MIIKE (AUDITION, IMPRINT); director ELI ROTH (CABIN FEVER, HOSTEL); Mindrape artist Mark Cooper; an interview with DOYLE of The Misfits; The comic art of Tone Rodriguez (VIOLENT MESSIAHS) and more gags, hot girls, cold corpses and aliens than an Area 51 barbecue!
For a free preview: GirlsAndCorpses. |
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HAPPY
HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
Writer Bill Hussey (THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY) is 33.
Writer Christopher Golden (THEIF OF HEARTS, STRAIGHT ON TILL MORNING, PROWLERS, THE BORDERKIND, CRASHING PARADISE, BALTIMORE, SOULLESS, THE FERRYMAN, MIND THE GAP, WILDWOOD ROAD, and a lot more) is like 60 or something. Look for his expected 2010 release, DEATH'S EXCELLENT VACATION.
Actor Terry O'Quinn (SILVER BULLET, THE STEPFATHER [all], BLACK WIDOW, PIN, THE FORGOTTEN ONE, DELIVER THEM FROM EVIL [TV], AMITYVILLE: A NEW GENERATION, LIPSTICK CAMERA, SHADOW WARRIORS, SHADOW CONSPIRACY, THE X-FILES, MILLENIUM [TV], HARSH REALM [TV], ALIAS [TV], LOST [TV], and way more) is 58. Terry shares a July birthday with the man who actually WROTE the STEPFATHER story, the late Donald E. Westlake. |
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JULY 14
HAPPY HORROR
THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO-
Actor Sid Haig (SPIDER BABY, BLOOD
BATH, WONDER WOMEN, THX 1138,
BEYOND ATLANTIS, GALAXY OF TERROR, THE AFTERMATH, HOUSE OF 1000 CORPSES, KILL
BILL Vol. 2, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD 3D, DEAD MAN'S HAND, Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN, BROTHERHOOD OF BLOOD, THE HAUNTED WORLD OF EL SUPERBEASTO, DARK MOON RISING) is 70. Look for Sid Haig in the upcoming 2010 releases of RAZOR. Also look for Sid in the expected 2011 Horror Thriller releases of GO STRAIGHT TO HELL and FIRST PLATOON.
Today's birthday boy is one of the small handful of producers in Hollywood where, when it comes to Horror Thrillers, "Gets It!" Happy Birthday to,
Producer Joel Silver (WARRIORS, JEKYLL
AND HYDE... TOGETHER AGAIN, LETHAL WEAPON [all], PREDATOR [all], DIE HARD [all], TALES FROM THE CRYPT [TV], DEMOLITION MAN, DEMON KNIGHT, CONSPIRACY THEORY, THE
MATRIX [all], THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL [1999], THIR13EN GHOSTS, GHOST SHIP, GOTHIKA, HOUSE OF WAX, V FOR VENDETTA, THE REAPING, THE INVASION, RETURN TO THE HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, ORPHAN, WHITEOUT, THE HILLS RUN RED, SHERLOCK HOLMES, THE BOOK OF ELI) is 58. Joel's plate is always full. Look for the expected 2010 releases of THE FACTORY and UNKNOWN WHITE MALE. Look for the expected 2011 releases of PROJECT X, LOGAN'S RUN, THE APPARITION, THE GAMEKEEPER (announced in 2009, still pending). And look for the expected 2012 release of FORBIDDEN PLANET. |
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JULY 13
HAPPY HORROR
THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO-
Actor Harrison Ford (THE CONVERSATION, THE POSSESSED, APOCALYPSE NOW, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK, BLADE RUNNER, INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM, WITNESS, FRANTIC, INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, PRESUMED INNOCENT, PATRIOT GAMES, THE FUGITIVE, CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER, WHAT LIES BENEATH, INDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL) is 68.
Actor Robert Forster (THE DARKER SIDE OF TERROR, THE BLACK HOLE, ALLIGATOR, GOLIATH AWAITS, MANIAC COP 3, POINT OF SEDUCTION, SCANNER COP II, UNCLE SAM, AMERICAN PERFEKT, REAR WINDOW [1998], PSYCHO [1998], OUTSIDE OZONA, MULHOLLAND DR. [1999], SUPERNOVA, MULHOLLAND DR. [2001], DRAGON WARS: D-WAR, RISE: BLOOD HUNTER, HEROES [TV], KALAMITY) is 69.
Actor Al Santos (JEEPERS CREEPERS 2, MUSTANG SALLY, LOST SIGNAL, KILLER MOVIE) who is 34.
Look for Al in the expected 2010 Thriller, IMMORTAL CYCLE SPEED DEMONS.
Actor Patrick Stewart (EXCALIBER, DUNE, LIFEFORCE, DEATH TRAIN, THE CANTERVILLE GHOST, STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT, CONSPIRACY THEORY, MASTERMINDS, DAD SAVAGE, X-MEN [ALL], STAR TREK: NEMESIS, CHICKEN LITTLE) is 70. |
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JULY 12
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Spain Gothic Festival
Holy living crap! This September 17-18, 2010, at the Sala Penelope in Madrid is the Spain Gothic Festival I!
Featuring the bands, Diary of Dreams, Qntal, Angels & Agony, Colony 5, Madre Del Vizio, Lacrimas Profundere, Merciful Nuns, Ahrayeph, Cureproject, Date at Midnight, Love In Cage, Der Blaue Reite, Los Carniceros Del Norte, Opera Glasses, ZeitgeistZero, and Endless Asylum!
For full information, check out Myspace.com/SpainGothicFestival.
It helps if you can read Spanish, but its cool if you don't. |
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YOU DUG IT
The #1 movie this weekend was expected to be a #1 movie, but the expectations fell far short of the $20 million extra on the box office which went above and beyond anyone's expectations. DESPICABLE ME, which opened to 3,476 screens, takes place in the land of mad scientists, their mad inventions, and their mad plans. In this case, the lead villain, Gru, plans to steal the moon. You dug it to the tune of over $60 million box office.
You continue to dig TWILIGHT: ECLIPSE, which still plays on 4,469 screens. Falling 51% in its second week to #2, TWILIGHT has already earned over 3 times it's budget including distribution costs. Not even AVATAR achieved that in the same amount of time. Sequels rarely perform as well as the first and third sequels usually break the charm if one was set by the second. Having a director at the helm who understands Horror Thriller is clearly having an effect.
You also seem to dig PREDATORS, which made #3. Despite the huge audience cache behind both the PREDATOR franchise and the name of Robert Rodriguez (who presents it), 20th Century Fox gave it little confidence, releasing it only to 2,669 theaters. A nearly non-stop winning, A-List director like Rodriguez has earned the 3,000+ to 4,000 screen opening, but he didn't direct it. And Fox didn't feel that this one was worth too much risk. We'll know by next week whether or not you really dig it or you were digging its memory.
YOU BURIED IT
You buried nothing this week, but let's see what happens next week, July 16th, with,
INCEPTION.
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HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
Actor Claudia Katz (SPIDER-MAN [all], WAY OF THE VAMPIRE, THE BLACK DAHLIA, FLIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD) is 39.
Writer Michael Marano (DAWN SONG) is 45. Visit him at MySpace.com/Michael Marano.
Writer Jeffrey Reddick (FINAL DESTINATION, RETURN TO CABIN BY THE LAKE, TAMARA, DAY OF THE DEAD [2008]) is 40.
Actor Michelle Rodriguez (3A.M., GIRLFIGHT, RESIDENT EVIL, CONTROL, LOST [TV], AVATAR)
is 32. Look for her upcoming Thriller MACHETE, with an expected 2010 release.
And On Saturday -
I bid a last Happy Birthday and fond farewell to
Musician Ronnie James Dio (HEAVEN AND HELL, THE MOB RULES, HOLY DIVER, DEHUMANIZER, and way more) who would have been 67 today. |
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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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