3 articles from 2009
Terror Tidbits (Fango #289): What’s Scary?
30 November 2009 1:06 PM, PST
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All my life I’ve been going to see scary movies, beginning with 1950s black-and-white monsterfests like The Black Scorpion and Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (where the alien invaders look very much like the prawns in District 9), and although much has changed in my life since the days when it cost a quarter to get in and the butter on the popcorn was real, I find myself asking the same three questions.
First, why do so many so-called horror movies, even those with big budgets (maybe especially those with big budgets) not work? Second, why do genre fans such as myself so often go in with high hopes and come out feeling unsatisfied…and, worse, unscared? Third, and most important, why is it that others—sometimes those most unheralded others, with teensy budgets and unknown, untried actors—do work, surprising us with terror and amazement?
Oh, and here
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Stephen King)
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Watch This: Tim Burton Interviews Ray Harryhausen
20 September 2009 7:03 PM, PDT
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It's charming to watch a director with his own fanbase become a fan himself, sitting down with someone he admires and conducting an informal interview. Thanks to the blog AustinTranslation, we've found a three-part interview on YouTube in which director Tim Burton chats with special-effects master Ray Harryhausen about the ways in which Harryhausen designed creatures and spacecraft of all sorts for classic science-fiction and fantasy movies like Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Mighty Joe Young and Jason and the Argonauts. You can check out the three clips after the jump. After you've watched the clips, read the blog entry on AustinTranslation, since it includes artwork from Gustav Dore, a big influence on Harryhausen.
The three interviews total about 25 minutes, and the talk ranges from flying saucer design to the reasons why audiences sympathize with the creatures in monster movies, to the odd ways Harryhausen has collected sound effects. Burton
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- Jette Kernion
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Fantasy Movie Producer Schneer Dead At 88
26 January 2009 1:32 AM, PST
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Producer Charles Schneer, best known for his collaborations with legendary
special-effects wiz Ray Harryhausen, died on January 21 in Boca Raton, Fl at
age 88, his daughter said Sunday. His films with Harryhausen included It
Came from Beneath the Sea (1955), Earth vs. the Flying Saucers
(1956), 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957),The 7th Voyage of
Sinbad (1958), The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960), Sinbad and the
Eye of the Tiger (1977), and Clash of the Titans (1981). Among
his 25 films, he also produced Hellcats of the Navy in 1957,
featuring Ronald Reagan and the then Nancy Davis, his future wife, in their
only screen appearances together.
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