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Doctor Who: Dreamland - preview images plus David Warner talks role as evil alien

2 December 2009 1:18 PM, PST | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »

Veteran actor David Warner has spoken about his role in the new Doctor Who animation Dreamland, which features the David Tennant incarnation of the Time Lord.

Warner played Ed Dillinger (aka Sark/Master Control Program) in 1982's cult sci-fi classic Tron and voiced the villainous Ra's Al Ghul in the Batman and Batman Beyond animated series.

He's also starred in films such as The Omen and Titanic and next year is set to reprise his role as Kenneth Branagh's father in BBC series Wallander.

In Dreamland - which is on the BBC website and airs on BBC2 this Saturday, December 5 - the 68-year-old voices the evil, cockroach-like alien Lord Azlok, as you can see in our exclusive sneak preview images below.

Warner (pictured right), a former Warwickshire actor, revealed it's not his first voyage into the world of Doctor Who, as he's previously done audio adventures playing the Time Lord. »

- David Bentley

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Pat Seals of Flyleaf Shares His Top Ten Horror Films

9 November 2009 10:24 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

As we've mentioned previously, November 10th is the release date of the band Flyleaf's new CD, entitled Memento Mori, and to help celebrate the occasion, their bass player, Pat Seals, has taken time out of his hectic schedule to prepare for Dread Central readers a list of his Top Ten favorite horror films.

Nothing relieves the stress of the holidays -- or anything really -- like a good horror flick, and Pat certainly has prepared an eclectic catalog that shows he knows his shit about our genre.

Without further ado, here's Pat's list (click each image to see the full poster):

1. The Addiction (1995) - Dir. Abel Ferrara, Starring Lili Taylor

This is my favorite vampire movie. It is the best. The best. Morality and the darkness of human nature are the focus, and Lili Taylor's performance is brutal. Plus, Christopher Walken waltzes in for a philosophical cameo. The »

- The Woman In Black

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Tortured Overtures: Horror Film Score Themes of the 1970s

3 November 2009 12:12 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Undertones: Volume 7 It's the time of the year again where folks' minds turn to the macabre and the ghoulish; where death is celebrated rather than feared and of course, when dusty copies of horror films are taken off the shelf to terrify and amuse. So, in honor of the Halloween season it would seem only right that this installment of Undertones concern itself with the scores of horror films or, more specifically, those that emerged during a particularly groundbreaking and ultra-violent decade of cinema - the 1970s. Many of the horror films of the 1970s did not involve supernatural beings such as vampires, werewolves and swamp things, but the terrors of home and society at large. The menacing figures of films such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Hooper, 1974) and Halloween (Carpenter, 1978) may have worn crazy masks and looked decidedly 'un-human' but the messages these films posited concerned themselves with that of »

- Ricky

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Geek Deal: The Omen Collection Blu-Ray for $45

24 October 2009 1:41 AM, PDT | Slash Film | See recent Slash Film news »

Today's Amazon Gold Box Deal of the Day is The Omen Collection Blu-Ray for only $44.99, 65% off the $130 list price. The 4-disc set includes The Omen (1976), The Omen 2: Damian, The Omen 3: The Final Conflict, and The Omen 666 (2006). The deal includes free shipping, but is only available until midnight. Disc 1: Omen 666 Blu Ray Disc 2: Omen Blu Ray Wide Screen **Commentary by Director Richard Donner & Editor Stuart Baird **Commentary by Director Richard Donner & Brian Helgeland (Screenwriter of Man on Fire) **Commentary by Film Historians Lem Dobbs, Nick Redman and Jeff Bond **The Omen Revelations Bonus View with Trivia Track **Introduction by Director Richard Donner from 2006 **Deleted Scene:Dog Attack with Comentary by Director Richard Donner and Brian Helgeland **666: The Omen Revealed **Screenwriters Notebook **An Appreciation:Wes Craven on The Omen **The Omen Legacy **Curse or Coincidence **Theatrical Trailer **Still Gallery Disc 3: Omen »

- Peter Sciretta

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Lists of Doom Xxviii: Ari of Destrophy

19 October 2009 7:18 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Greetings Fango Fiends! It's time once again for another installment of Fangoria Musick's Lists Of Doom - the column where we track down some of your favorite (or soon-to-be favorite) bands to get their thoughts on on the world of horror, and which films scare them.

For our 28th installment we caught up with Ari - vocalist/guitarist of Des Moines' Destrophy. One of the Midwest's hardest-working bands, Destrophy's self-titled album (and first for Victory Records) will hit retail on October 26th. So what scares Ari? Great White Sharks? Satanic Children? Nuclear Man?

Find out below!

1. An American Werewolf In London (1981), Director: John Landis.

Definitely my favorite werewolf incarnation- more like bear-wolf!  Actually the Nazi ghouls might have scared me more than anything.

2. The Exorcist III (1990), Director: William Peter Blatty.

The scene in the hospital.  A full minute of silence.  Best scare ever.

3. Alien (1979), Director: Ridley Scott.

One of the »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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The Family That Slays Together: Ten Domestic Slashers

15 October 2009 9:27 AM, PDT | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »

If you feel like you've seen this week's new slasher flick "The Stepfather" before, you probably have, even if you're not a fan of the 1987 original starring "Lost"'s Terry O'Quinn. That's because the family-bands-together-to-fend-off-the-one-member-who-turns-on-the-rest trope is at the heart of dozens of horror movies.

Need proof? Here's a list of ten different types of immediate and extended family members and a notable cinematic example of each going medieval on their loved ones.

Killer Mom

I'd wager that everybody has said "My parents are crazy!" at least once in their lives. But the filicidal mother in 2008's "Baby Blues" is so far gone into Crazytown that she'll make you want to call your own mom to apologize for ever implying she was nuts. Colleen Porch plays the killer in question, an exhausted mother of four with a truck-driving husband, who snaps one day and begins picking off her own children slasher movie-style; at one point, »

- Matt Singer

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Discuss: Creepiest Movie Soundtracks

7 October 2009 3:45 PM, PDT | Cinematical | See recent Cinematical news »

"Listen to this!" A friend pressed the ringer on his BlackBerry, and it played the theme to The Omen, "Ave Satani" by Jerry Goldsmith, which he'd assigned to a particularly heinous client of his. Another friend had, for a time, assigned a relative the unforgettable score from Halloween as composed by writer/director John Carpenter himself. And I'm sure somewhere there is someone with the theme from The Exorcist, which was written by Mike Oldfield.

Ringtones aside, there's no denying that a deft soundtrack or score can ratchet up the tension in any movie, especially one that uses droning noises and other disturbing, almost subliminal effects that can slip past the viewer and straight into our brain. Some of my favorite spooky soundtracks sure to make the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end include the above, naturally, but there are a few that need some love as well. »

- Jenni Miller

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BBC Reveals Animated 'Doctor Who'

23 August 2009 10:56 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

The BBC has released the first image from a new animated spin-off of Doctor Who. The image (below) shows the Doctor as he will appear in the new series, which is called Dreamland.

The Doctor will be played by David Tennant and will presumably match Tennant's incarnation of the character in Doctor Who. Tennant's interpretation is the latest to air in the live-action BBC series and has been hugely popular. He has, however, passed on the role to Matt Smith for the next season of Doctor Who.

Alongside Tennant's Doctor in Dreamland will be a new companion, Cassie Rick, played by Georgia Moffett (Doctor Who, Spooks).

Dreamland was written by Phil Ford, who has also penned episodes of the Doctor Who spin-offs Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures. The plot sees the Doctor stumble on a mysterious alien artefact at a diner. This leads him to Roswell and a confrontation with the ruthless Viperox, »

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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 8/04/2009

2 August 2009 9:55 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.

Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, August 4, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List - updated with all the last-minute additions and deletions.

Note: Clickable links lead to Amazon.com

Alien Uprising

A suspected prisoner uprising brings Marines to the prison planet of Rove 12, but nothing is what it seems. The few surviving prisoners are hiding from a ruthless, blood thirsty creature. Now the prisoners and the marines must fight together to get off the planet Alive!

Art Of The Devil 3

Panor, a seductive rural teacher, longs to live a normal, peaceful life like everyone else in her village. But her beauty becomes her biggest curse as she becomes the object »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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Peter Sarsgaard: Witnessing the Orphan

24 July 2009 2:30 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

As the genres of 'Killer kid' movies and 'family in jeopardy' flicks always revolve around a troubled mother overcoming her personal demons to save her family from the invader trying to tear it apart, the fathers are usually clueless victims. They don't notice that their family is under attack and poo-poo their wives' suspicions as paranoia... Until they are targeted in the climax. As the architect father in Orphan, John Coleman (Peter Sarsgaard) is no exception.

To actor Peter Sarsgaard's credit, despite playing a Dad more oblivious than the fathers in Poison Ivy, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle and The Ties That Bind combined, he manages to make him sympathetic all the same. "He shows his intelligence offscreen," the actor jokes. "His intelligence is in his work! It's almost like the most commonplace thing in the world to the man is that around his house, he wants everything to stay at this decibel. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Pat Jankiewicz)

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Children Of The Corn (Blu-ray Review)

23 June 2009 8:45 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Just months before Linda Hamilton battled The Terminator in 1984, she fought for her life against the Children Of The Corn, led by Isaac (John Franklin), one of the genre’s creepiest kids ever. Children is one of over 50 adaptations of Stephen King stories to have been released over the years, and it remains a cult favorite. It has spawned six sequels (including Isaac’S Return) and been given the remake treatment (please, Hollywood, stop!) by one of the original’s producers, Donald P. Borchers, for a forthcoming Syfy TV premiere—and now it’s back on an Anchor Bay Blu-ray, which will first be available exclusively at Best Buy June 30 ahead of its general release August 25.

Burt (Peter Horton), fresh out of medical school, is driving through the Nebraska back roads with girlfriend Vicky (Hamilton) in tow, en route to an internship interview. When they accidentally hit a young boy »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Glen Baisley)

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Fangoria’s Devilish Dads: Ten Satan as a Father Flicks

20 June 2009 9:37 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Sure, we all know about Satan. Ruler of hell, punisher of sinners, pitchforks, fire, and general all around big meanie. But Satan seems to have a soft spot when it comes to making babies. He is always trying to populate the world with little snot nosed brats of pure evil. As Fangoria salutes Father’s Day and horror film fathers, we give a nod to the most evil dad of them all.

Skip the love, forget the marriage, here comes Satan with a baby carriage…

The Devil's Advocate (1997)

Al Pacino (Satan) takes Keanu Reeves under his wing at a demonic law firm. Oh, big shock, the devil is a lawyer, and in a Star Wars-like twist he also turns out to Reeves’s daddy. Al Pacino: I’m your father and the devil. Who-hah! Keanu Reeves: You’re my father and the devil? Whoa!

Rosemary's Baby (1968)

A woman in »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (Bekah McKendry)

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Lists of Doom IX: Dominik Stammen of Born From Pain

17 April 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Welcome to the ninth installment of Fangoria Musick's Lists Of Doom, our new column where we'll be catching up with some of our favorite bands and giving them a place to talk horror. Since this is Fangoria, we're gonna pick these musician's brains to find out what scares them.

For part 9, we caught up with Dominick Stammen, guitarist of Born From Pain - one of the premiere forces in European Hardcore. Dominick took a few moments during the band's current European tour to give Fango the rundown of his top 10 horror films, and why they still scare him.

1. Alien Quadrilogy

I've just watched the first part again. Considering the release date, it's amazing how good everything still looks. Still very creepy after all these years, definitely an all-time classic! Alien 3 might be the best out of the four, but I love them all!

2. Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola, »

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An Original Feature: 8 Remakes that should never have happened - Part 2

30 March 2009 6:31 AM, PDT | FilmShaft.com | See recent FilmShaft.com news »

Welcome to the second installment of "8 Remakes That Sould Never Have Happened," an original feature on Original Sharp Says.

Today I complete the list with (in my opinion) four of the worst remakes ever to grace the silver screen, so brace yourselves, take a deep breath, and find out which remaining four remakes I've deemed so bad, that they should never have been allowed to happen:

#5 – Halloween (1978)/Halloween (2007)

The Original: Halloween takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age (and without motive) stabbed his older sister to death. Locked away for many years in a mental hospital Michael escapes one night and returns to his hometown to continue his killing spree.

What went right? : In 1978 John Carpenter created what has been called “Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made,” Halloween brought us the slasher genre, and introduced »

- info@originalsharpsays.com (Craig Sharp)

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'The Last Hard Men" Score- The Final Word

1 March 2009 8:56 PM, PST | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

We keep getting letters from readers around the world that add interesting insights into the fact that Fox reused portions of Jerry Goldsmith's previous scores for the 1976 western The Last Hard Men. Now comes this informative letter:

My name is Gergely Hubai. I'm a Hungarian film music author.

I feel that I must clarify this particular story. This is what happened: Jerry Goldsmith never worked on The Last Hard Men (he was working on The Omen at that time). What happened was that Andrew. McLaglen requested an avantgarde score from composer Leonard Rosenman, which was eventually thrown out because it turned out it wasn't what he was looking for. Apparently he wanted to reflect the early 20th century setting by having contemporary avantgarde music playing in the picture or something to that effect. Eventually the studio pulled out a number of cues from previous Goldsmith Westerns, including 100 Rifles and Stagecoach. »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

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Ten Horror Movies You Should See Instead of "Friday the 13th"

16 February 2009 11:44 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

I don't need to tell you how awful the Michael-Bay-produced remake of the 1980 slasher classic is going to be. (I haven't seen it yet myself, but c'mon.) So, this week, instead of shelling out 12 bucks to suffer through a third-rate remake of a second-rate horror film, devote your time to watching one of these infinitely more inspired movies.

Suspiria (1977)

It's been said thousands upon thousands of times before, but it's worth repeating: this is truly one of the most artful horror movies ever made. Seriously, watch the first 20 minutes and tell me if you've ever seen a death scene so beautifully choreographed.

The Fly (1986)

At the heart of this slightly campy deliberation on obsession is a tender love story, it just so happens to involve giant, mutated bug-human-hybrids and a teleportation experiment gone horribly wrong. (This one also demonstrates the rare instance »

- Inna Mkrtycheva

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