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2010:
- SEPTEMBER -
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SEPTEMBER
These are archived news items, many of them outside
of this website, so overtime, the links may not work.
SEPT. 20
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Author Matthew Warner Says
Darkstone Entertainment of Charlottesville, Virginia, has released volume one of THE LOVECRAFT CHRONICLES. It contains three short films, two of which I co-wrote: Dumas and Leviathan. It also comes with a limited-edition booklet of a tie-in short story I wrote, titled Raven.
The premise of this series, created by John Johnson, is that the boundaries between our world and those of literary horror creations have weakened. Now, the monsters are coming to life. It's up to the far-flung descendants of the famous writers who wrote them to restore the natural order—by any means necessary.
THE LOVECRAFT CHRONICLES will be on sale at several horror conventions this fall, beginning with this weekend's Monster Mania in Hunt Valley, Maryland.
For more info, go to MatthewWarner.
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Hollywood Xpo, October 15 – 17 at the Hilton Universal City, Features Appearances by Over 100 Stars, Reunions, Screenings & More!
(Hollywood, CA) Over 100 stars – including two American legends – iconic comics super hero creator Stan Lee and foremost science fiction and fantasy author Ray Bradbury - plus 40 luminaries from various incarnations of Star Trek and other top TV series and films -- will all appear at Hollywood Xpo, the first-annual multimedia, popular culture convention for fans of science fiction, fantasy and horror, film, TV, comics, online entertainment, literature and music. Hollywood Xpo will take place October 15 – 17, 2010 at the Hilton Universal City, 555 Universal Hollywood Drive, Universal City. Event hours are Friday and Saturday, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. and Sunday 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
For more info, go to HollywoodExpo.
PLUS
The "Boobs and Blood Film Festival"
is coming to Los Angeles on September 24-26, 2010 at the legendary New Beverly Cinema. This promises to be a fun filled weekend of amazing screenings, music, giveaways, comedy, burlesque, blood, and you guessed it... boobs! We are honored to be screening "Pervert!" on Saturday, 9/25 and are pleased to announce that star Mary Carey will be attendance.
This is a rare opportunity to see 'the most outrageous movie ever made' on the big screen with Mary and the cast and crew, including Sean Andrews and director Jonathan Yudis. We will also present a clip from our current movie "Sex Galaxy" -- the uncut love scene -- with an appearance by starlet Puma Swede. This should be a blast!
For more info, go to BoobsandBlood.
ALSO
The Pros and Cons of Tron: Legacy
We jump into the MCP to discuss whether this film is awesome or not.
As we reach the final stretch of the filmgoing year (try not to think about the passage of time, try not to think of the passage of time...), the buzz machine will begin on what is, arguably, the final genre blockbuster of the year: Tron: Legacy.
Continued at Film.com.
WASSMOR
"Monsters" Sets Standard for Guerrilla Filmmaking
LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Director Gareth Edwards' sci-fi pic "Monsters" is being hyped as this year's "District 9," which does the movie a disservice as it sets it up against an unrealistic standard.
Both belong to the category of "elevated genre," where horror, sci-fi and monster movie tropes are smartly used to tell a not-so usual story.
But the movies are leagues apart, beginning with the $15,000 budget for "Monsters," arguably the most amazing example of guerrilla filmmaking this year.
Continued at ABCNews.
FINALLY
"SANTA SANGRE" to make U.S. DVD/Blu-ray debut
One of the most-desired titles by Stateside disc collectors has long been Alejandro Jodorowsky's shocking and fascinating 1989 feature SANTA SANGRE. Now, Fango has received word that the acclaimed hallucinatory fantasy-chiller will make its American DVD/Blu-ray debut early next year.
Severin Films will release the discs January 25, 2011, derived from a restored print of the uncut European version. There will also be more than five hours of extras on the two-DVD set and Blu-ray, accompanying the saga of a young man, once a circus performer with his family, who escapes from an asylum and helps his armless mother get murderous revenge.
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YOU DUG IT
For now, gone are the days when M. Night Shyamalan could deliver #1 weekends. Of the three live action movies that opened on a typically slow September weekend, M. Night's production, DEVIL, opened at #3. That ain't bad, but we'll see next week if you really dig it.
THE EXPENDABLES finally fell off the Top 10 charts after you dug it for 6 weeks, moving from #8 to #12.
You can't stop digging INCEPTION. Now in its 10th week, this 2D feature film jumped back up from #10 to #8 after losing 278 screens! Clearly a movie to be reckoned with, it made the leap on only 1,305 screens, which is anywhere from over a thousand to a couple of hundred screens fewer than any movies in the top 9 through 15!
YOU BURIED IT
No surprise here. As typical of the whole series, and with Paul W.S. Anderson back in the director's chair, RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE opened high with a mediocre ticket take in its first week and dropped like a stone in its second. The RESIDENT EVIL series has its cult audience in the U.S., but they are too small for the budget. Good thing RE has a world market in its favor. With a ticket sales drop of 62.5% in only its second week, it needs all the heroic life saving measures it can get.
Robert Rodriguez' MACHETE went into free fall in its 3rd weekend, dropping from #4 to #10. Making less than $1,000 per screen, losing 59.1% in ticket sales from last weekend.
In only its 4th week, THE LAST EXORCISM dropped off the top ten, falling from #7 to #14 and losing over 63.5% in ticket sales.
NEXT WEEK'S PLOTS
Though only in limited release, we'll see if you dig BURIED.
Also be on the lookout for the limited release of ENTER THE VOID.
Stats from BoxOfficeMojo and IMDb.
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HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
Actress Asia Argento (DEMONI 2, LA
CHIESA, TRAUMA, LA
SINDROME DI STENDHAL, IL
FANTASMA DELL'OPERA, LES MORSURES DE L'AUBE, RED SIREN, THE KEEPER, LAND
OF THE DEAD, LIVE FREAKY DIE FREAKY, TRANSYLVANIA, MOTHER OF TEARS) who is 34.
And On Sunday -
R! Avast there ye scurvy dogs! Wish some happy birthdays to
SFX artist, Horror columnist & Gadabout, Spooky Dan (Horror reporter. SFX: DEEP BLUE SEA, PSYCHO BEACH PARTY, FINAL DESTINATION 2, RESIDENT EVIL: APOCALYPSE, CURSED, FINAL DESTINATION 3, SLITHER, WRONG TURN 2: DEAD END, 2001 MANIACS: FIELD OF SCREAMS) who is 37. Visit him at MySpace.com/ MacabreSociety.
Writer Tanith Lee (MORTAL SUNS, VIVIA, THE CLADIA JOURNALS, THE BOOK OF THE DAMNED, THE BOOK OF THE MAD, RED AS BLOOD, FACES UNDER WATER and way more) is 64.
Actor Kevin Zegers (IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, SPECIMEN, SHADOW BUILDER,
KOMODO, FEAR OF THE DARK, WRONG
TURN, DAWN
OF THE DEAD [2004], THE HOLLOW, 50 DEAD MEN WALKING, FROZEN) is 26.
Look for Kevin's upcoming Horror Thriller for 2011, VAMPIRE. Kevin is currently filming THE ENTITLED. R!
And On Saturday -
Writer Brett Ellen Block (DESTINATION KNOWN, THE GRAVE OF GOD'S DAUGHTER, THE LIGHTENING RULE) is 37. Visit her at MySpace.com/ BrettEllenBlock.
Actor Billy Drago (VAMP, HUNTER'S BLOOD,
HERO AND THE TERROR, DARK BEFORE DAWN, CYBORG 2, LUNARCOP, NEVER SAY DIE,
A DOLL IN THE DARK, CONVICT 762, THE CIRCUIT, IMPRINT) is 61.
Actor James Marsden (CAMPFIRE TALES, DISTURBING
BEHAVIOR, GOSSIP, X-MEN [all],
THE 24TH DAY) is 37. James shares a September birthday
with his director from X-MEN, Bryan Singer.
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SEPT. 17
HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
Writer David Bain (various short stories) who is 40.
Director Bryan Singer (PUBLIC ACCESS, THE
USUAL SUSPECTS, APT
PUPIL, THE
X-MEN, X-MEN
2) is 45.
Actor / Horror Host / Gadabout Cassandra Peterson (FRIGHT NIGHT [TV], JEKYLL AND HYDE...TOGETHER AGAIN, ELVIRA MISTRESS OF THE DARK, THE ELVIRA SHOW [TV], ELVIRA'S HAUNTED HILLS) is 59. Look for her in the upcoming Thriller, HER MORBID DESIRES.
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SEPT. 16
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO -
Writer John Urbancik (A GAME OF COLORS, SINS OF BLOOD AND STONE [W/Michael Oliveri]) is 39.
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SEPT. 15
HAPPY THRILLER BIRTHDAY TO -
Actor Tommy Lee Jones (EYES OF LAURA MARS,
BLACK MOON RISING, THE PACKAGE, UNDER SIEGE, THE FUGITIVE, BLOWN AWAY, THE
CLIENT, NATURAL BORN KILLERS, VOLCANO, MEN
IN BLACK, U.S. MARSHALLS, DOUBLE JEOPARDY, RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, MEN IN BLACK II, THE HUNTED, THE MISSING, IN THE ELECTRIC MIST) who is 64.
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SEPT. 14
QUICK BITES
Toronto Notebook: Thandie Newton & Hayden Christensen, All Pumped Up for Horror
Though they're stalking the red carpet for Toronto's Midnight Madness program with the creepy Vanishing on 7th Street, Thandie Newton and Hayden Christensen both have happy memories of Toronto.
Continued at EOnline.
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'Haunted house' exploits real horror
Pennhurst shouldn't become a Halloween attraction.
For most of the last century, people with disabilities were considered "defectives" and forced into state institutions such as the notorious Pennhurst State School and Hospital in Spring City, Chester County, where neglect and abuse ran rampant. That began to change in 1977, when a judge ruling on a lawsuit against Pennhurst led by the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia held that the forced institutionalization of people with disabilities was unconstitutional. That led to the facility's shuttering in 1987.
Continued at Philly.
PLUS
Toronto International Film Festival: The spirit moves John Carpenter again
John Carpenter needed a break. It was 2001, and his latest film, the outer space thriller "Ghosts of Mars," had just flopped — at the box office and with critics. Creatively stymied and just plain exhausted by Hollywood and the moviemaking process, the director decided it was time to step away from the camera.
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HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
Actor Sam Neill (SLEEPING DOGS, OMEN III: THE FINAL CONFLICT, POSSESSION, DEAD CALM, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER, DEATH IN BRUNSWICK, HOSTAGE, JURASSIC PARK, IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, SNOW WHITE: A TALE OF TERROR, EVENT HORIZON, JURASSIC PARK III, DAYBREAKERS) is 63. Look for Sam in the expected 2010 2011 release of TELEPATHY and in ICE.
Actor Callum Keith Rennie (TIMECOP, THE OMEN [TV], WHEN THE DARK MAN CALLS [TV], UNFORGETTABLE, MASTERMINDS, LAST NIGHT, eXistenZ, THE LAST STOP, MEMENTO, DA VINCI'S INQUEST [TV], TRAPPED [TV], PAYCHECK, THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT, BLADE: TRINITY, UNNATURAL & ACCIDENTAL, THE INVISIBLE, THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE, HARPER'S ISLAND,
CASE 39) is 50.
Actor Nicol Williamson (THE SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION, THE CHEAP DETECTIVE, THE HUMAN FACTOR, EXCALIBER, VENOM, BLACK WIDOW, THE EXORCIST III, SPAWN) is 74.
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SEPT. 13
From Maddy Dawson
HACK/SLASH
Los Angeles, CA, September 13, 2010 - Halo-8 Entertainment has picked up the rights for award-winning filmmaker Matt Pizzolo (GODKILLER) to adapt the Tim Seeley comic book HACK/SLASH in the illustrated-film style Pizzolo designed with Emmy-winning producer Brian Giberson for GODKILLER, which opened theatrically in 11 cities earlier this year and sold through its first DVD pressing at San Diego Comic Con in July. Pizzolo intends to begin by adapting the HACK/SLASH series "My First Maniac," currently being published in comic book form by Image Comics. Halo-8 is planning to release the illustrated-film in 2011 as a double-feature with Pizzolo's previously announced adaptation of Seeley's LOADED BIBLE comic book.
Seeley said "I'm happy to have my two babies in the same crib, with a unique HACK/SLASH and LOADED BIBLE double feature. Viewers can get their horror and sacrilege in the same lovin' spoonful."
Pizzolo said "Tim is not only a master storyteller but he's also completely nuts, and that combination makes for some fantastic comics. As a longtime fan of the series, it's a ridiculously exciting opportunity."
HACK/SLASH tells the ongoing adventures of Cassie Hack (daughter of the evil slasher known as The Lunch Lady), who rejected her mother's murderous ways and instead devoted her life to hunting down slashers with her partner Vlad. "My First Maniac" is the newest HACK/SLASH mini-series, going back to the beginning Year One-style and detailing Cassie's very first case.
LOADED BIBLE takes place after nuclear Holy War has decimated North America and left it populated by legions of vampires. When humanity's last stronghold New Vatican City is withering under the vampires' assault, the Church gives their people a hero by cloning Jesus Christ Himself... but all is not as it seems for the Test Tube Messiah as he's drawn into a web of betrayal, bloodshed, and seduction.
For a quick peek at ill-film styles, check the Godkiller sizzle-teaser posted on Vimeo
"Illustrated Film" is a new experimental-animation format designed by Pizzolo and Giberson that mixes motion comics with elements of anime, radio drama, and video games. Utilizing the sequential artwork from the comic book, the Illustrated Film adds motion animation, 3D CGI, visual effects, elaborate sound design, music, and dramatic voice performances. The format was developed for the dystopic transmedia series GODKILLER, which starred voice performances by genre-heroes Lance Henriksen (TERMINATOR, ALIENS, NEAR DARK), Danielle Harris (Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN, Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN II), Bill Moseley (HOUSE OF 1,000 CORPSES, THE DEVIL'S REJECTS), Nicki Clyne (Battlestar Galactica), Tiffany Shepis (ABOMINABLE), punk icon Lydia Lunch (Hardcore), and rockstars Justin Pierre (singer Motion City Soundtrack) and Davey Havok (singer AFI).
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You seem to dig RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE. Actually shot in 3D, this may have made an impression on you as U.S. audiences placed it squarely at #1 during an otherwise lackluster time of the year. And though that may sound like small potatoes, consider that at a $27 million dollar ticket take, RE:A took in more than four times as much as #2.
You continue to dig THE EXPENDABLES, which drops by 50.9% and two places from #6 to #8. Not bad though for 5 weeks at the box office.
And after 9 weeks you are STILL digging INCEPTION, which holds fast to #9 for the second week in a row. Seems audiences still aren't ready to put this one in the box.
Not all of you are digging THE LAST EXORCISM, but enough of you are to have it only slip from #4 to #7 in its 3rd week with a 53% drop in box office.
YOU BURIED IT
Robert Rodriguez' MACHETE slips from #2 to #4 with a staggering 63% drop in ticket sales. As a film maker, this is Robert's second failure in the past 3 months (PREDATORS was the first). Whatever the reason, Robert's going through a pretty bad time for movies right now and I sincerely hope he pulls out of it before he brings SIN CITY 2 to the screen. Those hot actresses in SIN CITY aren't getting any younger and some are having kids!
STILL ON THE SLAB
It must be noted that THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE, had it's second Under-the-Top-10 bounce. TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE, based on performance, added a whopping 791 screens for this weekend, and rose an amazing 71.6% in ticket sales. All of which moved it up from #26 to #18. After 11 weeks at teh box office, this makes it the #1 seller of the three TWILIGHT movies. Let's hear it for director David Slade!
NEXT WEEK'S PLOT
DEVIL. Though this has M. Night Shyamalan's name all over it, he didn't direct it and he didn't write the screenplay. It's from a story of his and he produced. So maybe this time it will actually be a good movie?
To get you in the mood for evil elevator movies, might I suggest THE SHAFT?
Stats from BoxOfficeMojo and IMDb.
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HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO-
And On Sunday
Horror Writer Kathryn Ptacek (GHOST EYES, SHADOWEYES,
[editor] WOMEN OF DARKNESS, WOMEN OF DARKNESS II) is...well she ain't gettin' any younger!
In no time flat he has become the GoTo guy for action thrillers. Happy Birthday
to-
Actor Jason Statham (SNATCH, GHOSTS OF MARS, THE TRANSPORTER, COLLATERAL, CELLULAR, TRANSPORTER 2, CRANK, DEATH RACE 2000, CRANK 2, THE EXPENDABLES)
who is 38.
Look for Jason in the upcoming 2010 Thriller, BLITZ.
And again in 2011 with THE KILLER ELITE.
Since 1994, this veteran actor has turned his career toward Horror and Thriller
movies. Happy Birthday to
Actor Ian Holm (ALIEN,
KAFKA, NAKED LUNCH, FRANKENSTEIN, LOCH NESS, eXistenZ,
BLESS THE CHILD, FROM HELL, LORD OF THE RINGS, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW) is 79.
And On Saturday -
Are there really stuntmen who make their careers largely in Horror Thrillers? Yep. Here's a Happy Birthday to
Stuntman Zach Hudson (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER [TV], CHARMED [TV], ANGEL [TV], SPIDER-MAN, MEN IN BLACK II, SPIDER-MAN 2, THE ISLAND, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MAN'S CHEST, PIRATES OF THE CARIBEAN: AT WORLD'S END) is 38.
Writer James Newman (HOLY ROLLERS, THE WICKED) is 37.
Director Brian De Palma (SISTERS, PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE, OBSESSION, CARRIE, THE FURY, DRESSED TO KILL, BLOW OUT, BODY DOUBLE, RAISING CAIN, MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, SNAKE EYES, MISSION TO MARS, FEMME FATALE, THE BLACK DAHLIA) is 68.
Remember that cute little girl in JURASSIC PARK? Well, guess what?
Actor Ariana Richards (TREMORS, GRAND TOUR: DISASTER IN TIME, JURASSIC PARK, THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK, TREMORS 3) is 31.
Actor Tiffany Shepis (TROMEO AND JULIET, CITIZEN TOXIE: THE TOXIC AVENGER IV, SCARECROW, DEATH FACTORY, TED BUNDY, DELTA DELTA DIE!, ABOMINABLE, CORPSES, and way more) is 31.
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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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