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Film Festivals & Indie Films. If you want to keep up with the latest festival news, art house openings, indie movie content, film reviews, and so much more, then you have found the right channel. Fascinating Facts About Your Favorite Horror Movies. Today’s the day when we pull out all of the scary movies in our collections and pile them up in preparation for a Halloween horror movie marathon. But before you grab the popcorn and dim the lights, bone up on your horror knowledge with these 4. COUNT ORLOCK ONLY BLINKS ONCE IN NOSFERATU. In the nine minutes of screen time Max Schreck has as Count Orlock in F. W. Murnau’s classic Nosferatu (1. THE EXORCIST WAS THE FIRST HORROR FILM TO BE NOMINATED FOR A BEST PICTURE OSCAR. The horror genre has never gotten much love from the Academy. Though there still seems to be a bias against scary movies during awards season, The Exorcist earned 1. Oscar nominations in 1. Best Supporting Actress nod for Linda Blair, who was just 1. ROBERT ENGLUND WAS NOT THE FIRST CHOICE TO PLAY FREDDY KRUEGER. Wes Craven reportedly planned to have a stuntman play the seemingly immortal youth- hater known as Freddy Krueger, but (wisely) opted to go with an accomplished actor for the role instead. The Latest Horror Movie News Served Fresh Daily Since 2005. Burning Man Horror Movie in the Works Starring Tara Reid Deleted “Jeepers Creepers” Scenes Include Director Cameo, Alt Ending & The Creeper Speaks! IMDb editors highlight the stories, faces, and trending stars that had us buzzing this week. Check out our picks from the week. His first choice was the brilliant British character actor David Warner, who you'll no doubt recognize from Time Bandits, Titanic, and various incarnations of Star Trek. Warner had to pass on the project, which opened the door for the truly excellent Robert Englund. PSYCHO IS THE FIRST AMERICAN FILM TO FEATURE A TOILET. Psycho is the first American film to show a toilet on screen. It's also the first American film in which we hear a toilet being flushed. STEPHEN KING WASN’T A FAN OF THE SHINING. In 1. 98. 3, Stephen King told Playboy, “I’d admired . Parts of the film are chilling, charged with a relentlessly claustrophobic terror, but others fell flat.”King didn’t like the casting of Jack Nicholson either, claiming, “Jack Nicholson, though a fine actor, was all wrong for the part. His last big role had been in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and between that and the manic grin, the audience automatically identified him as a loony from the first scene. But the book is about Jack Torrance’s gradual descent into madness through the malign influence of the Overlook—if the guy is nuts to begin with, then the entire tragedy of his downfall is wasted.”6. JAWS DOESN’T FULLY APPEAR IN A SHOT UNTIL ONE HOUR AND 2. MINUTES INTO THE MOVIE. While the lack of shark appearances works to heighten the tension in Jaws, the real reason the shark isn’t shown in full is because the mechanical shark that was built rarely worked during filming. Director Steven Spielberg had to create inventive ways (like Quint’s yellow barrels) to shoot around the non- functional movie shark. FAY WRAY THOUGHT SHE’D BE STARRING OPPOSITE CARY GRANT IN KING KONG. In his attempts to entice Fay Wray into starring in King Kong (1. Merian C. Cooper promised, “You're going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood.” “While my thoughts were flying toward the hope that Cooper might be waiting for Cary's . IT TOOK SEVEN YEARS TO GET ALIENS MADE. Why did it take seven years to get a sequel made? Lawyers and money, of course. Talk of a sequel began shortly after the original Alien (1. Century Fox over the distribution of the original movie’s profits. Fox, reluctant to make a sequel because it would be expensive, finally agreed to it as a way of settling the beef with the producers—basically, “We won’t give you any more of the first movie’s profits, but we’ll greenlight a sequel, and you can make money from that.” (Amusingly, the same producers plus James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd sued Fox again after Aliens, claiming the studio had used “creative accounting” techniques to avoid paying them.)9. BRIAN DE PALMA DIDN’T SEE SISSY SPACEK AS CARRIE. Though Brian De Palma was a fan of Sissy Spacek’s work, he was convinced that he had already found his Carrie in another actress. His decision to let Spacek audition at all was mostly out of courtesy to her husband, Jack Fisk, the film’s art director. I hung up and decided to go for it. When she was done, she waited in the parking lot while her husband reviewed her audition with the rest of the production team. After Fisk came out to tell her that the part was hers, “We sped off before anybody could change his mind,” Spacek said. ROMAN POLANSKI AND JOHN CASSAVETES HAD DIFFERENT IDEAS FOR ROSEMARY’S BABY. In her 1. 99. 7 autobiography, What Falls Away, Mia Farrow recounted the tense relationship between Roman Polanski and her Rosemary’s Baby co- star, writing that in the film’s climactic scene, “John became openly critical of Roman, who yelled, . Apparently, it was Ruth Gordon and her “consummate professionalism” that calmed the situation down. GEORGE ROMERO RECENTLY FOUND NINE MINUTES OF LOST FOOTAGE FROM NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD. While in Maryland for Monster- Mania Con this year, George Romeo shared that he recently unearthed a 1. Night of the Living Dead, which features approximately nine minutes of previously thought- to- be- lost footage at the jump cut in the basement, including “the largest zombie scene in the film.”1. SERIAL KILLER ED GEIN INSPIRED THREE MAJOR HORROR MOVIES. You’ve likely heard of Ed Gein. His house of horrors made headlines for years after he was sent to a mental hospital for his actions. They were so memorable, in fact, that he inspired some of the most iconic thrillers of all time: Psycho, The Silence of the Lambs, and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Among the items discovered at his Plainfield, Wisconsin farm were four noses, nine masks made of human skin, numerous decapitated heads, lampshades and bowls made of skin, lips being used as a pull on a window shade, and a belt made from nipples. Gein later admitted to only two murders and said most of the items had come from late- night cemetery raids. THE HALLOWEEN SCRIPT DIDN'T CALL FOR A SPECIFIC KIND OF MASK. The mask for Michael Myers was only described as having “the pale, neutral features of a man,” and for the movie the design was boiled down to two options—both were cheap latex masks painted white and bought for under $2 apiece at local toy stores by production designer Tommy Lee Wallace. One was a replica mask of a clown character called “Weary Willie” popularized by actor Emmett Kelly, and the other was a stretched out Captain Kirk mask from Star Trek. Carpenter chose the whitewashed Kirk mask because of its eerily blank stare that fit perfectly with the Myers character. THE BABADOOK SCARED THE HELL OUT OF WILLIAM FRIEDKIN. On November 3. 0, 2. Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook got a major publicity boost when The Exorcist director William Friedkin tweeted: “I've never seen a more terrifying film than The Babadook. It will scare the hell out of you as it did me.”1. A DOUBLE AMPUTEE WAS USED TO CREATE THE THING’S QUINTESSENTIAL SPECIAL EFFECT. One of the most memorable scenes in John Carpenter's The Thing (often referred to as the “chest chomp”) occurs when Dr. Copper (Richard Dysart) attempts to revive Norris (Charles Hallahan) with a defibrillator. As he presses the paddles to his patient’s skin, Norris’ chest opens up and Copper’s forearms disappear into the cavity, where they are severed below the elbow by a set of jaws inside Norris’ chest. In order to pull this off, special makeup effects designer Rob Bottin (known for his work on Robo. Cop, Total Recall, Se. Fight Club) found a man who had lost both of his arms below the elbow in an industrial accident. Bottin fit the man with two prosthetic forearms consisting of wax bones, rubber veins, and Jell- O. Then, for the wide- angle shot, he fit the man with a skin- like mask taken from a mold of Dysart’s face (. As the actor pulled his arms away, the Jell- O arms severed below the elbows. The rest is practical effects history. THE ORIGINAL ENDING OF FRIGHT NIGHT WAS MUCH DIFFERENT. The film’s original ending saw Peter Vincent transform into a vampire—while hosting “Fright Night” in front of a live television audience. THE STARS OF THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT USED GPS TRACKERS TO FIND THEIR INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DAY. Production programmed wait points in the GPS unit for the actors to locate milk crates with three little plastic canisters in them. Each plastic canister contained notes on where the story was going for each actor, who would not show the other two their paper. From that point they were free to improvise the dialogue, provided they followed the general instructions given to them. PARANORMAL ACTIVITY IS THE MOST PROFITABLE FILM OF ALL TIME. Often compared to The Blair Witch Project because of its low- budget nature and huge grosses, 1. The Blair Witch Project’s release, the original Paranormal Activity ousted the earlier horror film as the most profitable movie, based on return on investment (ROI). The Blair Witch Project cost about $6. Paranormal Activity’s initial budget was just $1. Blair Witch grossed $2. After grossing $6. Paranormal Activity made a 4. ROI. Of course that doesn’t factor in its final worldwide gross of $1. ROI). 1. 9. SCREAM WAS ORIGINALLY TITLED SCARY MOVIE. The original title of the film was Scary Movie, but it was changed to Scream by the Weinstein brothers in the middle of production. They allegedly decided on the change because Harvey Weinstein was listening to the Michael Jackson song “Scream” in his car with his brother Bob. They both liked the title for a horror movie. THE BLOB IS BASED ON A (SUPPOSEDLY) TRUE STORY. On September 2. 7, 1. The Philadelphia Inquirer ran an article with the headline . Rushing towards the landing site, the men stumbled upon a purple, jelly- like mass. Collins and Keenen immediately summoned two of their colleagues, who arrived just in time to watch the material evaporate without a trace. The FBI was contacted, a press conference was held, and the whole mess became a national laughing stock. Fast forward to 1. That year, producer Jack H. Harris was looking to make a creature feature, but he couldn’t come up with a decent premise. So he asked his friend, Irvine H. Millgate, to try and devise one. It can’t be a cheapy creepie, it’s gotta have some substance to it. Top 5. 1 Horror Movie Villains. It’s time to take a look at the onscreen villains who have disturbed our sleep for years. You know who I’m talking about: those characters that invade the mind’s corridors long after the credits roll; the ones who really deserve to be remembered and respected by fans. One thing every reader should note before launching into this piece is that determining the best and worst of the bunch felt absolutely impossible, and though we’ve made a valiant attempt at listing these ghouls in respectable order, exact placement is certainly arguable. You’re preparing to read about a multitude of different kinds of villains, and sometimes drawing comparisons feels like apples to oranges. How do you really determine which is more frightening: Michael Myers or Jaws? That’s like comparing a Bentley and a Lamborghini: two completely different pieces of art, each worthy of massive appreciation, each appealing to a different (in most cases) consumer. Radford (Midnight Movie): Midnight Movie is one of the most far out slasher flicks I’ve ever had the pleasure of viewing. Realistically, this movie doesn’t make a lick of sense, yet it’s a really fun flick that strays from the beaten path and attempts to provide audiences with something new to soak up. Radford is a nasty bastard with or without his awkward half skeletal mask, and that giant corkscrew contraption he uses to remove sizeable chunks of flesh from his victims is not only unique, it’s pretty damn cool. This strange meta flick serves as a throwback to yesteryear while cementing a pathway for the future. Why we haven’t seen Radford return since his introduction in 2. I’d pay to check out another Midnight Movie without hesitation. Chromeskull (Laid to Rest): The Laid to Rest films aren’t about story. If they leaned on intelligent thought and complex plot circuitry, well, they’d suck, outright. Fortunately for fans, Robert Hall is a self- aware filmmaker who didn’t set out to tell an amazing tale, he set out to create a wicked villain with one of the coolest facial accessories ever seen. He also aimed to give viewers some top notch, creative gore, and he certainly succeeded: both films offer some really wild graphic shots that outshine the majority of death scenes in similar works. I favor the initial Laid to Rest over the sequel, but realistically, you’re getting just about the same package from both productions. Kurt Barlow/Richard Straker (Salem’s Lot): I’m calling this one a tie: Barlow obviously spends far less time onscreen than Straker, but both are equally disquieting. What makes this duo so magical is the fact that it isn’t outright brutality in which births their eerie personas, it’s just. Sometimes less is more, and Stephen King leans on that idea wonderfully. I enjoyed Mikael Salomon’s 2. Rutger Hauer and Donald Sutherland is awesome as Straker), but for my money, Tobe Hooper’s initial adaptation is golden on every front. Don’t sleep on this evil pair: you may not wake human ever again! Dr. Decker (Nightbreed): Ah, the first inclusion of a Clive Barker creation; I tell you this man is a genius. Decker is pretty much a master of deception: a doc who moonlights as a serial killer. His mask is severely overlooked (and I still stand by the fact that the Collector’s mask was influenced by the doc’s), as it’s not just chilling visually, it’s almost a piece of Decker’s personality. As a whole, Nightbreed isn’t the most faithful adaption of Barker’s work, but it’s a fun, outlandish tale drenched in a darkness that only Clive can manufacture. Pumpkinhead: I think there’s a lesson to be learned from Pumpkinhead: don’t drive your dirt bike like a jack ass. We haven’t seen all too many genuinely good Pumpkinhead productions, but the first couple flicks are fun creepy affairs. The irony here comes in the fact that this massive, hulking creature that’s pushed as the pictures core of fright actually takes a backseat to the picture’s atmosphere. There are some absolutely great shots and set work in the original Pumpkinhead, and while I can’t deny that this monster is unquestionably frightening, it’s the tension that the build ups deliver that really pushes things over the edge. I just wish I could tell you the franchise as a whole kicked ass. Angela (Sleepaway Camp): The Sleepaway Camp franchise was hurled at audiences in the early 1. Hollywood. The initial picture immediately gained a serious level of notoriety due its unforeseen and jarring final sequence (please watch it if you haven’t already), and I can completely understand the spectacle. Some things you see coming, and some you don’t. This one definitely offered forth a climax that caught viewers on the jaw and left them staggering. While the story as a whole doesn’t offer much in the way of greatness, it’s silly fun all the same, and if you dig backwoods/camper slashers, a la Friday the 1. Sleepaway Camp makes for a rather entertaining experience. Don’t look into these films (the first two are far and away the best in my opinion) expecting something potentially legendary, just expect a good time and a fine villain. The Collector: I’m still baffled that critics and fans didn’t warm to The Collector upon initial release in 2. The story, although riddled with a few holes, was awfully entertaining, and served as a darker approach to the Saw concept (the flick was actually written as a piece of the Saw storyline, but studio execs opted to travel a different route, thank the higher powers that be. Clever, quick and strangely sadistic, The Collector is a fantastic villain with a damn cool look (oh those eyes) and he’ll be returning in November to add more bodies to his “Collection”. I’d recommend you take the time to check that one out: if it’s even half as good as The Collector, we’re in for a fine treat. Besides, who didn’t love his counterpart, Arkin? That guy was just awesome! The Gill Man (Creature from the Black Lagoon): Perhaps the most low- key monster of yesteryear to find a place on this list, there was always something about The Creature that creeped me out terribly. This hybrid river dweller/human. Although this unique creature never gained the cult following of fellow Universal monsters, he’s still an awfully creative piece of cinematic history that I’ll always cherish. Do not miss Universal’s 1. Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing and, yet again Fred Dekker’s The Monster Squad for some great appearances from this monster. David (The Lost Boys): I know The Lost Boys is a stylish flick that some people deem too “flashy” to be considered a great piece of cinema. I am not one of those people: this is an outright awesome flick that entertains from minute one to final credits. A stellar cast, clever script and awesome special effects make this an endearing gem that stands as one of the finest vampire installments of the 1. One of the major stars of the film is David (Kiefer Sutherland), the leader of a vampire biker gang and a monster looking to recruit new blood. I’ve got to say: David is an amazing character! This is one underrated vampire! You won’t spot David gracing many “best of” lists, but he’s more than worthy. Reefer Sutherland’s performance is pitch- perfect and it’s about time people acknowledged it. Harry Warden/The Miner (My Bloody Valentine): You know, it really doesn’t matter who sports the mask of the Miner: be it Harry Warden, Tom Hanniger, or Billy Crystal: it’s all about the sense of inescapable dread that sinks to the bottom of the stomach the moment that mask earns screen time. Of all the legendary masks horror freaks discuss on a regular basis (Myers, Voorhees, Ghostface, etc., etc.), this one is certainly one of the more frightening to behold. The odd thing is I can’t even fully explain why that is. Perhaps it is better that I don’t over- analyze things and just respect the Miner and his mask for what they are: kick ass, top notch additions to the genre! Don’t bypass the 2. I’ve seen in 3. 1 years! Captain Spaulding (House of 1. Corpses): I think it’s difficult to be both over the top and genuinely frightening in the same moment, yet Captain Spaulding manages such a feat with startling ease. I don’t think anyone alive could have done Spaulding justice quite like Sid Haig: the man was born to play this role. House of 1. 00. 0 Corpses offers up a handful of villains to deal with, and some are quite memorable, but not anywhere near as memorable as the seemingly bipolar Captain Spaulding, who made a nice return to the screen in Rob Zombie’s sequel The Devil’s Rejects, which doesn’t work quite as well as a homage piece, but stands as (arguably) the superior film. Sam (Trick . From his look, to his silent, ominous ways, this is a character to remember, and if you’re as twisted as me, hold close to your heart. Sam is wonderful, Trick . Please, please, let it happen in this lifetime! Jerry Dandrige (Fright Night): Villains aren’t traditionally as debonair as Jerry Dandrige, and that’s what sets him apart from the majority of vampires we see in film. Sure he works the sensual angle of the beast quite well, but he’s just a charming guy in general. When the transformation occurs however, this is one mean SOB who sets goals and sees them through, unless that goal happens to be the demise of Charley Brewster, the world’s most resilient dork. Chris Sarandon brought amazing presence to this character in 1. Colin Farrell managed to do just the same in Craig Gillespie’s shaky sequel (which would have been pretty awesome had they enabled Evil Ed to breathe, and eliminated the overtly cartoonish CGI) that hit the market last year. John Ryder (The Hitcher): If looks alone could kill, Rutger Hauer’s depiction of John Ryder would have amassed one hell of a body count. The guy far surpasses creepy, and his on/off switch is that of a true sociopath’s. It’s unfortunate that the 2. Dave Meyers – was so flat, because The Hitcher is the kind of story that sticks to your bones, weighing an entire frame down with dread, if it’s done right.
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