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‘Survival of the Dead’ Lands a Release Date
21 December 2009 6:57 AM, PST
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As much flack as George A. Romero got for his poorly received Diary of the Dead, he’s still one of the most talented and singular voices in the business. His living dead flicks have always been his excuse to talk about current social issues that bother him, and he does so with style, which is why I can’t wait for his next: Survival of the Dead.
Luckily for us, Magnet Releasing has picked up Survival and scheduled it for a Spring release date — and a month earlier on video on demand networks.
From what I’ve heard about Survival of the Dead, Romero has grounded his latest zombie feature in a Western setting, which seems pretty nifty. Variety has a pretty good breakdown of plot description:
“Two powerful families maintain a semblance of order in the wake of the zombie holocaust. But as the inhabitants slowly die off,
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Two
16 December 2009 3:18 AM, PST
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Case 39
Opens: January 1st 2010
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Kerry O'Malley
Director: Christian Alvart
Summary: A family services social worker thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case - a troubled 10-year old girl whose parents try to kill her. The social worker decides to take her in herself until the right foster family comes along.
Analysis: Despite the presence of promising German director Christian Alvart ("Pandorum"), 'Case' has sat on a shelf since late 2006 and is finally being quietly shuffled out this year for one very good reason - it stinks. Having opened in Australia a few months back, reviewers utterly savaged the film as both incredibly dumb and utterly ludicrous. Lead star Renee Zellweger also scored personal criticism to a level rarely seen in film reviews outside of comments about Nicole Kidman's 'more alien than the
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- Garth Franklin
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The Notable Films of 2010: Part Two
16 December 2009 3:18 AM, PST
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Case 39
Opens: January 1st 2010
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Ian McShane, Bradley Cooper, Kerry O'Malley
Director: Christian Alvart
Summary: A family services social worker thinks she has seen it all until she meets her newest, most mysterious case - a troubled 10-year old girl whose parents try to kill her. The social worker decides to take her in herself until the right foster family comes along.
Analysis: Despite the presence of promising German director Christian Alvart ("Pandorum"), 'Case' has sat on a shelf since late 2006 and is finally being quietly shuffled out this year for one very good reason - it stinks. Having opened in Australia a few months back, reviewers utterly savaged the film as both incredibly dumb and utterly ludicrous. Lead star Renee Zellweger also scored personal criticism to a level rarely seen in film reviews outside of comments about Nicole Kidman's 'more alien than the
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- Garth Franklin
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Martyn’s Top Ten Vampire Films
11 November 2009 7:43 AM, PST
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The vampire has been a key figure in folklore, literature, television and cinema. Its popularity, at present, has never been so high. It is easy to see the appeal: immortality and sex. Since death is the fate that awaits us all, a creature that we invent and imbue with an indeterminate lifespan, captivates the collective imagination like no other. Due to sexual liberalism and relaxed censorship of the 1960s, the erotic sensibilities inherent in the mythology were allowed to fruition in cinema. What once was implied, could now be shown in all its sexy glory (see the films of Jean Rollin). Gothic horror and romanticism may be the classic home of the vampire, but in cinema, they have found a new place to spread wider-reaching nightmares.
In recent times, the everlasting monster has been tamed. Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Saga saw them turn into something akin to vegetarians and teen heart-throbs,
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- Martyn Conterio
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Sweatshop to Show as Part of Nychff
7 November 2009 8:17 AM, PST
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A veritable feast for fans of horror and dark fantasy, this month's New York City Horror Film Festival will host more than 50 films and shorts at the Tribeca Cinemas. The festival boasts works from F. W. Murnau and William Lustig, as well as the new film Sweatshop. Our readers should take particular interest in Sweatshop, as two of the men behind it are Icons friends Ted Geoghegan as writer, and America's Baddest Kid John Torrani in a producer role. Sweatshop shows on November 20, and I'll be there to cover the event for Icons.
Come out and show your support for Sweatshop and other horror films at the Nychff, a festival dedicated exclusively to horror lovers.
Read the official press release below, which includes contact information for the Tribeca:
New York, NY – November 5, 2009 – Organizers of The 2009 New York City
Horror Film Festival (Nychff) today announced this year’s feature film
lineup
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Bill Lustig to be Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
6 November 2009 3:05 PM, PST
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The Nychff is taking place this November in the Big Apple, and not only are they showcasing a solid horror line-up, they're also presenting a lifetime achievement award to one of our own.
The festival’s 2009 feature film presentations are:
Must Love Death (Feature / Horror / Comedy) / Directed by Andreas Schaap
Disappointed by love and suicidal, Norman arranges to meet a group of like-minded people. But when he arrives at the meeting, the alleged suicides go very wrong, and hilarity and blood start to flow freely.
Sweatshop (Feature / Horror) / Directed by Stacy Davidson
A group of rave promoters decide to throw a party in an enormous vacant factory... But when the oversexed friends throw back a few drinks and begin setting up, they soon realize a beastly all-seeing presence resides in this enormous place, and it drags a mammoth, inhuman weapon that serves only one purpose: to end the lives of anyone who trespasses here.
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Scream 2009 Recap: Reign of the Vampires and Space Crews
19 October 2009 9:11 AM, PDT
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True to its name, the Scream Awards is an award show where the winners are decided by the biggest scream, like talent shows of olden days, before text messaging and toll-free numbers were invented. In this case, Scream winners are decided by internet votes. It's not surprising to then see current trend-grabbing vampires dominate the show; but the awards, it seemed, are secondary. The highlights of the night are all the honorary awards, celebrating the legends of their own mediums.
It was a little disconcerting to notice that the award winners were all telegraphed by the adoring cheers of the audience, too. The more enthusiastic the cheers, the likelier for that person to win. Vampires are definitely in this year, with notable appearances/wins for Twilight, True Blood, The Vampire's Assistant and Let the Right One In.
The most telling part of the award show being entertainment first-recognition second is
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- Arya Ponto
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Trinity Of Terrors Updates & More!
18 October 2009 3:03 PM, PDT
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An amazing influx of stars have joined the already massive guest list, including the one and only Bruce Campbell, Buffy The Vampire Slayer's Kristy Swanson, original Fango editor Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin, Devil's Reject Bill Moseley, American Werewolf David Naughton and Night Of The Living Dead 1990's bad ass "Barbara" Patricia Tallman!
Tickets for our massive Halloween Weekend are now available online through http://www.trinityofterrors.com and through Vegas.com. You may also order tickets from Vegas.com by phone - 1-888-las-vegas (527-8342) 24 hours a day.
Need even more goodies? Then check out the unbelievably kick ass cover to the 32 page event program/autograph book by celebrated album cover artist Mr. Sam (Godhead, H.I.M., Iron Maiden)-
And now a little info about the Amazing free raffles we'll be doing all weekend long at the Trinity!
Everyone that attends, with any level ticket (Day, Weekend
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Halloween and Horror Books Every Fan Should Own
18 October 2009 1:22 AM, PDT
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Horror fans love this time of the year. For those of us not living in La, there's the chill in the air, the colorful leaves, pumpkins everywhere, dead cornfields to explore … if you dare. So, in honor of Our official holiday, I have come up with a list of books and some movies every horror fan should at least take a look at, if not outright add to your book or DVD library.
Without further ado (and in no particular order):
Creepy Places to Visit:
Creepy Crawls: A Horror Fiend’s Travel Guide by Leon Marcelo, Santa Monica Press, 380 pages
I Love this book!! Leon Marcelo travels the world, literally, to find places of horror both real and fictional. Rome to visit the Dario Argento Profondo Rosso Shop then to George Romero’s Pennsylvania and H.P. Lovecraft’s New England. Marcelo also covers Stephen King country, Poe’s Baltimore,
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Fantastic Fest 09: Another review of Survival Of The Dead
6 October 2009 8:47 PM, PDT
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Year: 2009
Directors: George A. Romero
Writers: George A. Romero
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: rochefort
Rating: 3 out of 10
"Survival of the Dead", George A. Romero's sixth entry in the ongoing zombie mythology he created with "Night of the Living Dead", is upon us. In "Diary of the Dead", George reset the timeline back to the initial days of the zombie outbreak, and you may remember a key scene in which the main characters were robbed by a group of Awol soldiers. "Survival" follows those soldiers as they head to an island where two long-feuding families are dealing with the zombie plague in their own unique way. One group believes we should kill 'em all, but the other side elects to chain up their undead kin and leave them be until somebody comes up with a cure. The zombies in each of Romero's movies have always been just the
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The Crazies Poster is Remarkably Sane
28 September 2009 6:41 PM, PDT
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George Romero’s got two categories, two modes of operating: the guy makes masterpieces and extremely flawed films with great ideas. The Crazies (one of the director’s lesser known works that was mashed together with Day of the Dead by Danny Boyle to create 28 Days Later) belongs in the latter category alongside Knightriders and Martin.
The central concept at work, however — biological infection leading people to madness — is one large enough to warrant a reworking by director Breck Eisner (Sahara) and screenwriter Scott Kosar (The Amityville Horror remake). Scheduled for release in February, 2010 — and barely publicized thus far — the new Crazies will star Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell.
Hopefully we’ll see a trailer soon that shows a little more imagination than this poster, which is neither crazy nor indicative of how close Eisner/Kosar are sticking to Romero’s original work.
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Fangoria Week in Review 09.20.2009
19 September 2009 10:00 PM, PDT
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If it's Sunday, then that means its time for another Fangoria Week In Review. We're turning back the clock to look back on the past seven days of blood-soaked horror goodness.
We've got the entire week broken down by category so that you can catch up on anything you might've missed. It was a review-heavy week filled with anticipated flicks like Joe Dante's The Hole, George A. Romero's Survival Of The Dead, along with Jennifer's Body, The Road, and more.
Get caught up below the jump!
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Full Schedule For Horror Realm Convention In Pittsburgh, Pa! September 18th-20th!
7 September 2009 9:59 AM, PDT
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To all our East Coast readers that are near the Pittsburgh area, we just got the full press release and schedule for the upcoming Horror Realm convention, which takes place September 18th through the 20th and features such guests as Bill Moseley, David Naughton, Ken Foree, Tony Todd, leslie Easterbrook, Tiffany Shepis, Robert Z'Dar and many more. Check out the full details below. Hit up the website at: http://www.horrorrealmcon.com
Horror Realm Convention Background
Horror Realm is an offshoot of Pittsburgh’s popular Zombie Fest, which was held in 2007 and 2008. In 2009, the name and format were revamped to distinguish the event as a convention encompassing all aspects of horror as well as zombie culture.
Entering its third year in 2009, Horror Realm has positioned itself as Pittsburgh’s modern horror
convention as a complement to the region’s long running Monster Bash, the international classic
monster movie conference and film festival,
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Vampire-con '09: Midnight Son
16 August 2009 6:05 PM, PDT
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After the double-header of Count Yorga and Lost Boys at this weekend's 1st Annual Vampire-Con, filmmaker Scott Leberecht unveiled his low budget horror film, Midnight Son, at a midnight screening. Despite a vampire protagonist, it is unrelated to the Marvel Comic, Midnight Sons.
The story of a security guard who may be turning into a vampire, it's atmospheric and the biggest names in the cast are character actors Tracey Walter and Larry Cedar. One can see elements of George Romero's Martin, Vampire's Kiss and Abel Ferrara's The Addiction.
Leberecht was charmingly blunt. "I wanted to do the cheapest movie I could come up with--scary and supernatural. I didn't have any love for vampires, it just felt right."
These vampires don't twinkle in the daylight--they burn. Sometimes the budget shows too much (Larry Cedar appears to be the only detective in a stationhouse),. but the ideas are interesting and
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[Movie Review] Thirst
30 July 2009 9:52 PM, PDT
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Park Chan-wook didn't set out to make a vampire film.
At least, that's what he told me when we spoke here in San Francisco, a week before Thirst opens. You can tell from watching the film that, despite it being a movie about a vampire, it is not a horror film, nor is it even a movie aboutvampirism.
What the film is can be summed up by its title. As with his popular Vengeance trilogy, including the international hit Oldboy, Park puts the theme front and center. It's a movie about thirst, a base desire present in all of us, fang or no fang; though I should note that the vampires in this film do not have fangs. They draw blood using tools, something carried over from George Romero's Martin, a movie Park claims to be his favorite vampire flick. It is mine, as well, and it's high compliment
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George A. Romero's Survival Of The Dead...
21 July 2009 3:41 PM, PDT
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One of the revelations in the earlier announcement of titles for this year's Toronto International Film Fest is that George A. Romero's ...Of The Dead has an official title.
Survival Of The Dead will make it's World Premiere at the Festival as a part of it's Midnight Madness Screenings (see the full announcement here), and thanks to the festival website (currently down for maintenance, but promising a relaunch tomorrow), we've got several new pics and additional details to share.
George A. Romero'S Survival Of The Dead
Production Company: Blank of the Dead Productions Inc.
Executive Producer: Peter Grunwald, Art Spigel, Dan Fireman, Ara Katz, Michael Doherty, DJ Carson, Bryan Gliserman
Producer: Paula Devonshire
Screenplay: George A. Romero
Production Designer: Arv Greywal
Cinematographer: Adam Swica
Editor: Michael Doherty
Sound: Stephen Barden, Jill Purdy
Music: Robert Carli
Principal Cast: Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Welsh, Devon Bostick, Kathleen Munroe, Richard Fitzpatrick
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Wrong Turn 3 preview, Trick ’R Treat star added to East Coast Fango con!
1 June 2009 8:51 AM, PDT
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Wrong Turn 3 director Declan O’Brien will be previewing his new Fox DVD splatter sequel at the fast-approaching East Coast edition of Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors, to be held June 5-7 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center (11th Avenue between 34th and 39th Streets) in New York City. O’Brien (pictured below with friend), the director of the Sci Fi Channel original movies Rock Monster, Monster Ark and Cyclops, will debut exclusive clips from Wrong Turn 3 (about another group of lost travelers facing off against inbred hillbilly maniacs) at the convention on Sunday.
In addition to his directing chores, O’Brien has also scripted Harpies, The Snake King and Savage Planet for Sci Fi. Stop by this site again over the next couple of days as we begin posting the full schedules (auditorium panels and film programs) for the Fango show.
In other convention news, Trick ’R Treat
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Smash Cut panel, Glass Eye Pix talent added to East Coast Fango con!
29 May 2009 12:31 PM, PDT
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A panel devoted to the Canadian slasher flick Smash Cut has been added to the lineup of the fast-approaching East Coast edition of Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors, to be held June 5-7, 2009 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center (11th Avenue between 34th and 39th Streets) in New York City. Representing the film will be stars David Hess and Jennilee Murray, plus director Lee Gordon Demarbre (Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter), writer Ian Driscoll and the Godfather of Gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis!
In Smash Cut (an ode to the films of Herschell Gordon Lewis, who has a cameo in the movie), Hess (pictured below) plays Able Whitman, a troubled filmmaker losing his mind in an extraordinary way. After accidentally killing an exotic dancer, he decides to use her body parts in his newest horror picture. But when her sister (played by porn star Sasha Grey) begins investigating, Able must
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Smash Cut panel, Glass Eye Pix talent added to East Coast Fango con!
29 May 2009 12:31 PM, PDT
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A panel devoted to the Canadian slasher flick Smash Cut has been added to the lineup of the fast-approaching East Coast edition of Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors, to be held June 5-7, 2009 at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center (11th Avenue between 34th and 39th Streets) in New York City. Representing the film will be stars David Hess and Jennilee Murray, plus director Lee Gordon Demarbre (Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter), writer Ian Driscoll and the Godfather of Gore himself, Herschell Gordon Lewis!
In Smash Cut (an ode to the films of Herschell Gordon Lewis, who has a cameo in the movie), Hess (pictured below) plays Able Whitman, a troubled filmmaker losing his mind in an extraordinary way. After accidentally killing an exotic dancer, he decides to use her body parts in his newest horror picture. But when her sister (played by porn star Sasha Grey) begins investigating, Able must
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Weekly Body Count by Bryan White
27 May 2009 1:31 PM, PDT
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Spirits Captured On Film [1]
I have this story that I like to tell after I’ve been drinking about the night that I was alone in our house and thought someone had broken in. I was scared shitless. There was very clearly someone wandering around the first floor of my house, turning lights on and making a big racket on [...]
Tags: [Bryan White [2], Film [3], Ghostwatch [4], Horror [5], The Amityville Horror [6], The Entity [7], The Sentinel [8], weekly body count [9]]
Trap Them and Eat Them [10]
[11]One of the many disadvantages of living in a place like New Hamsphire is that you have to live on the edge vicariously through the lives of people who live closer to the action through correspondence so it was a while before I got into the depths of crazy horror movies. Though I’d been watching [...]
Tags: [Black Emanuelle [12], Bodycount [13], Bryan White [2], Cannibal Holocaust [15], Cannibals [16], Eaten Alive [17], Female Vampire Killer [18], Horror [5], Jess Franco
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