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The Foywonder's Ten Worst Horror Films of the Decade
23 December 2009 8:31 PM, PST
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The first decade of the new millennium has come to an end, and that means it is now time for film sites all over the web to begin posting their various retrospectives and lists recalling the decade that was. I generally as a rule dislike such lists because they are always so subjective. Then I said screw it and took it upon myself to do one of my own naming the ten worst horror movies of the past decade. Besides, people love bitching on the Internet about lists like this, and who am I to deny readers yet another excuse to get into pointless flame wars over personal opinions.
Of course, this list is just my personal opinion which is not legally binding ... unless Proposition 304 passes. And we all pray that it will.
I set two rules when putting this list together: Only horror movies that received fairly wide theatrical
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'Twilight' vamp Kellan Lutz flying to Globes Young Hollywood bash
7 December 2009 6:21 PM, PST
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When the Hollywood Foreign Press Association throws their Golden Globes Young Hollywood party, all of young Hollywood shows up.
Even -- rumor has it -- "Twilight" hunk Kellan Lutz and tabloid tootsie Lindsay Lohan.
Nobu will also be packed Tuesday with the likes of LiLo, Heroes" Masi Oka , Adam Rodriguez, Alexander Skarsgard, Alison Brie, Anna Kendrick, Ashley Tisdale, Brittany Snow, Chelsea Handler (wait...) Emilie de Ravin, Gabrielle Union, Jenna Fischer, Jessica Capshaw, Jordana Brewster, Julia Jones, Katee Sackhoff, Katerina Graham, Kayla Ewell, Paula Patton, Robin Thicke, Ryan Eggold, Rutina Wesley, Sarah Jane Morris, Shannyn Sossoman, Shenae Grimes, Tyrese Gibson and, whew ....Whitney Cummings
The Dish Rag will be there on the red carpet arrivals line -- if only to find out who half these young stars are -- and we'll go inside the party for the announcement of the 2010 Miss Golden Globes.
Last year's lucky young lady was Demi Moore's daughter Rumer Willis.
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Moviegoers Stingy with Scrooge
8 November 2009 5:22 PM, PST
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It was a miserly start to the Holiday movie season as the high profile movie positioned to bring the most cheer, A Christmas Carol, stumbled a bit out of the gate. Overall weekend business was off 14 percent from the same timeframe last year, when Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa landed, and was on the low end for early November.
Haunting approximately 6,500 screens at 3,683 sites, A Christmas Carol churned out an estimated $31 million, selling fewer tickets than Elf and The Santa Clause 2 and far fewer than star Jim Carrey's last Christmas movie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas. On the other hand, Carol's opening grossed more than The Polar Express, the previous performance-capture animated Christmas movie from director Robert Zemeckis that chugged strongly throughout the 2004 season despite its disappointing $23.3 million start, but that picture was muted by The Incredibles whereas Carol had no such direct competitor. According to distributor Walt Disney Pictures' exit polling,
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Banderas 'Wins' Worst Film Award
30 September 2009 9:16 AM, PDT
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Antonio Banderas' action film Ballistic: Ecks Vs. Sever has topped a new poll to find the worst film of the past decade.
The Spanish actor's 2002 movie, co-starring Charlie's Angel Lucy Liu, is number one on the 100 Worst of the Worst list, compiled by Rottentomatoes.com.
Critics gathered thousands of reviews from the last 10 years for the countdown.
Japanese horror flick One Missed Call closely trails Banderas' film at two, while Roberto Benigni's Pinocchio and comedies King's Ransom and National Lampoon's Gold Diggers round out the countdown at numbers three, four and five respectively.
Other notable entries are Heather Graham's Killing Me Softly in 12th place and John Travolta's Battlefield Earth at 27th.
Chris Klein and LL Cool J's sci-fi film Rollerball followed Travolta's flop at 28.
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Rotten Tomatoes' Worst Movies of the Decade
28 September 2009 2:18 AM, PDT
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It's a little early for an end-of-the-decade list, but Rotten Tomatoes has unveiled the 100 worst movies of the past ten years. As you might expect, it's quite a doozy. I'll spare you the 90 "best" movies on the list and jump ahead to the worst reviewed films of the decade, ranked in order beginning with the most offensive:
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)
One Missed Call (2008)
Pinocchio (2002)
King's Ransom (2005)
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers (2004)
Suberbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 (2004)
Strange Wilderness (2008)
3 Strikes (2000)
Redline (2007)
Witless Protection (2008)
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- Colin Boyd
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Rotten Tomatoes Picks the Worst Movies of the Decade
25 September 2009 12:27 PM, PDT
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When it comes to reviewing movies, I've always found that one of the most difficult things is not deciding whether a movie is good or bad, but rather, deciding whether a movie is bad or downright terrible. Make no mistake, there are many different levels of bad movies, but does anyone really care to get down to the nitty gritty of debating which ones are slightly better than others? It just seems like a colossal waste of energy.
Fortunately, the good folks over at Rotten Tomatoes [1] have recently decided to sift through their vast review archives to give us the definitive Worst of the Worst list [2] for the past 10 years in film. I don't think there are too many surprises here, although the good news is that I think quite a few of these are movies that no one has seen. Maybe now they'll finally find the audience they deserve!
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What's the Worst Film of This Decade?
25 September 2009 11:02 AM, PDT
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Ya know, it doesn't feel like we're nearing the end of another decade, does it? There's no special millennium celebration or Y2K nonsense to get excited about, so it seems people are just sorta whatever about the past decade as if it wasn't very monumental or iconic, except for the part where our African-American president said something geeky about Star Trek. But I bet all the best end-of-the-decade content is yet to come, and it looks like Rotten Tomatoes is getting things started by presenting us with the worst (reviewed) films of the decade ... which they probably should've waited a couple more months to launch since, ya know, we still haven't seen Avatar (I'm kidding Jim - I'm kidding! Calm down!).
So what's the worst reviewed film of the decade? Well, that honor goes to --drum roll please -- 2002's Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, starring the always enticing duo
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- Erik Davis
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Horror on DVD: Thomas Dekker in From Within
7 August 2009 3:32 PM, PDT
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Thomas Dekker from the Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles goes from fighting cyborgs from the future to battling evil curses in director Phedon Papamichael’s horror movie “From Within”. The film will be released on DVD in the UK from E1 Entertainment on 24th August 2009. It’s already available in the States through the After Dark Horrorfest label.
Written by Brad Keene (The Grudge 3) and directed by Phedon Papamichael (better known as the Director of Photography on numerous Hollywood hits including Oliver Stone’s W., 3:10 To Yuma, Walk The Line and Sideways), the gripping supernatural shocker, From Within, stars Thomas Dekker (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles; Laid To Rest), Elizabeth Rice (Mad Men), Adam Goldberg (Zodiac; Two Days In Paris) and Laura Allen (Dirt; The 4400) in a darkly disturbing tale guaranteed to put the frighteners on fans of recent horror blockbusters such as the Final Destination trilogy,
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Don’t Look Up – Trailer
6 August 2009 12:38 PM, PDT
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Don’t Look Up
Director: Fruit Chan
Rated: R
Opening: October 22, 2009
What happens when there is an unholy marriage between Japanese horror movies and the Americans who decide it’s time for a remake? All the fun of bathing with an electrical appliance, that’s what! Do You like people eating bloody eyeballs and evil babies falling right out of the womb? Because I sure as heck don’t! Someone must! Let’s find that someone and bludgeon them to death with the remake of Chakushin ari (One Missed Call).
And now we have the remake of Joyû-Rei, which translates to Don’t Look Up, for those of us who prefer less quality movies where you don’t have to read stuff at the bottom of the screen. Reading stuff is so passé! Especially when you can exchange it for American actors who use long pauses in the place of actual inflection:
“I…
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- Morrow McLaughlin
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Beer Drinkin' Gargoyles - Stone's Beer
11 July 2009 3:10 AM, PDT
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“I pity people who don’t drink. When they wake up in the morning, that’s the best they feel all day.”
—Frank Sinatra
Microbrewery: a brewery producing less than 15,000 barrels per year and usually concentrating on exotic or high quality beer.
If your knowledge of beer is limited to Bud, Coors or Miller, you might want to expand your horizons and sample some microbrews. Like most people, I started my love affair with beer in college (of course, I was, uh, 21—and I had the fake I.D. to prove it!). Being 19, I mean 21, I had no money, and so my tippling basically consisted of buying the cheapest swill available. Still in my early 20s (and still pretty much broke), I switched to Olde English (ah, my malt liquor days) and then moved on to Heineken (ah, my skunk beer days). Then, about eight years ago, I got into microbrews and craft beers,
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This Week on DVD: Knowing, Push, Nursery University
7 July 2009 9:32 AM, PDT
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Say what you will, but the biggest DVD release of the week is Nicolas Cage's latest masterpiece Knowing (and I'm only partially being sarcastic, since I actually liked the movie), along with David Goyer's The Unborn and the sci-fi/action/thriller Push starring Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning. Aside from that, there's Reclaiming The Blade (a documentary about swords), Nursery University (a documentary about "Ivy League" nursery school admissions), a new Mystery Science Theater 3000 collection, and a box set of the first six animated Charlie Brown TV specials. Also: Peter Benchley's The Deep and Grumpy Old Men on Blu-ray. Are you planning on buying or renting anything this week?
Knowing [1] (DVD, Blu-ray [2])
The Unborn [3] (DVD, Blu-ray [4])
Push [5] (DVD, Blu-ray [6])
Five Fingers [7]
Night Train [8] (DVD, Blu-ray [9])
Coco Chanel [10]
Dead Wood [11]
One Missed Call 3: Final [12]
Nursery University [13]
Reclaiming The Blade [14]
The Peacekeepers [15]
Kath & Kim: Season 1 [16]
Matlock: The Third
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- Sean
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Your Weekly Cinema-scope: A Cinematic Look at Your Astrological Chart for July 6th-July 12th
6 July 2009 11:15 AM, PDT
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Welcome to your weekly movie horoscope with Madame Millie Kilakilarney. She will point you in the direction of the DVDs you need to watch this week according to the astrological charts she keeps on her bedroom wall. If it's in the stars or on store shelves, she knows about it!
Aries (March 21st-April 19th): You are a scamp. And guess what? People love you for it. I'd scold you for your uncouth behavior, but it seems that people not only expect it out of you, they can't wait for their turn at your disrespectful initiative. Go ahead, be a dick. Just don't get any on you. If you know what I mean. Keep that edge about yourself, just don't over step your boundaries. Sure, its fun to be crass for a while. But you might want to rethink the direction of your lovingly constructed hate missiles. If they hit the wrong target,
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Weekly DVD & Blu-ray Chopping List - Releases for 7/7/2009
5 July 2009 12:09 PM, PDT
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So you're 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 at retail this week - available Tuesday, July 7, 2009 in this weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List - updated with all the last-minute additions and deletions.
Presented this week with Exclusive "branching" coverage with trailers, interviews, and reviews for select titles!
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Dead Wood (special edition): Lionsgate
Anxious to get out of the city, two couples pack up and head out for a long weekend in the woods. Events take a turn for the worse when a girl mysteriously appears at their campsite looking for her missing boyfriend. The nightmare has only just begun, and they soon find themselves lost in
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134 New Names Invited to Join the Academy
1 July 2009 1:08 AM, PDT
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Yesterday came the yearly announcement from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as it extended 134 invitations to several artists and executives "who have distinguished themselves by their contributions to theatrical motion pictures" read the press release. Of course all of them can decline, but I wouldn't necessarily expect that to happen as all who accept the invitation will be the only additions in 2009 to the Academy's roster of voting members.
"These filmmakers have, over the course of their careers, captured the imagination of audiences around the world," said Academy President Sid Ganis. "It's this kind of talent and creativity that make up the Academy, and I welcome each of them to our ranks."
The list follows below and reading around the best analysis I saw of it came from Nathaniel Rogers at The Film Experience who, among other things, pointed out the addition of longtime Darren Aronofsky's
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Dark Knight Sequel Not Moving Forward
17 June 2009 8:00 PM, PDT
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I am a huge fan of the reboot of Batman. It proves that when you put time, talent and money beyond breathing new life into a franchise it can work. Not like some of the horror remakes we have seen, Prom Night, One Missed Call for example. Unfortunately it seems that all our hopes for a sequel are pretty much gonig to have to be put on hold.
According to Batman on Film the sequel is not moving forward because there is no story at this point. The plan was to bring Heath Ledger back in Batman Begins 3 ( or whatever we are going to call it ). His tragic death not only rocked Nolan the direct
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Takashi Miike's Samurai Film 'Thirteen Assassins' Gets a Greenlight
11 May 2009 6:38 PM, PDT
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Beloved cult Japanese director Takashi Miike has gotten the funding and producers needed to finally make Thirteen Assassins, his samurai film. Based on Eiichi Kudo's 1963 film of the same name, the film is set in the shogun era and follows 13 assassins who come together for a suicide mission to kill an evil lord. Producers Jeremy Thomas and Toshiaki Nakazawa are teaming up to fund and produce the project, both of whom have a glowing background. Nakazawa produced this year's foreign language film Oscar winner Departures, Thomas produced Bernardo Bertolucci's The Last Emperor, which also won Best Picture.
For those unfamiliar with Miike, the filmmaker broke into the cult side of things here in the Us with crazy films like Audition, Dead or Alive, Ichi the Killer, and the original One Missed Call. He most recently directed the spaghetti western Sukiyaki Western Django, that Quentin Tarantino had a cameo in,
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One Missed Call: Final arrives on R1 DVD
5 March 2009 5:04 PM, PST
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It’s been a long while coming, but the final instalment of the popular One Missed Call horror series, started many moons ago by Miike Takashi, is soon to arrive on R1 DVD. This time around directing duties fall on TV director Aso Manabu. Much like the previous two films, terror begins with that special ring tone and a phone message foretelling a horrible death. But for this last outing the filmmakers have added a Battle Royale type twist to proceedings, as the cursed friends are pitted against each other in a race to save themselves, making for a good twist, on your typical vengeful ghost flick. A group of Japanese high school students go on a school trip to Korea, but little do they know, what awaits them is not fun and games. The students begin to receive cell phone messages with pictures and details of their upcoming deaths.
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Remakes And Sequels: Have We Reached Overload Yet?
27 February 2009 8:28 PM, PST
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Now to start off no one can say that remakes and sequels are a new thing - it’s a notion that has been around for almost a hundred years. The first example of either (that I could find) being 1916’s Fall of a Nation (a sequel to the of 1915 film Birth of a Nation).
But lately (perhaps over the last 15 years or so), they have come not only to full fruition and thus extremely noticeable as a trend - but also they seem to be getting made left, right and center. Now why is that? Why is that it’s only recently that it’s become so popular to remake or make a sequel out of something?
Well let’s start with remakes…
The earliest remake (again, that I could find - I apologize if I’ve overlooked something) is 1919’s Marked Men (a remake of the 1916 film The
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The Uninvited (Film Review)
30 January 2009 11:29 AM, PST
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In the mini-pantheon of Asian-horror remakes, The Uninvited winds up being more welcome than last year’s underachieving triumvirate of One Missed Call, The Eye and Shutter. Well-crafted enough that it doesn’t feel like an opportunistic knockoff, it suffers less in comparison to the Korean original, A Tale Of Two Sisters, than from the fact that the story ingredients of both are familiar from numerous past genre films.
I should pause here to note that I wasn’t one of the many who admired Kim Ji-woon’s Sisters; where plenty of viewers saw a subtle suspenser that slowly but surely ratcheted up the creep factor, I saw an enervatingly paced film where not much happened—certainly not much that hadn’t been done before and better in other domestic-fear fare from Korea and Japan—and “paid off” in a show-offy, incoherent series of revelations. The Uninvited (which, to confuse things,
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Movie Review - 'The Uninvited'
29 January 2009 11:41 PM, PST
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The Uninvited
Starring Emily Browning, David Straithairn, and Elizabeth Banks
Directed by The Guard Brothers
Rated PG-13
Remakes of Asian horror movies and supernatural thrillers have polluted movie theaters based on the commercial and critical success of one film: The Ring.
Since 2003, we’ve been subjected to The Grudge, Shutter, Alone, One Missed Call, Mirrors, The Eye, Dark Water, and, well, you get the point. None of them have built on what The Ring created, an overwhelming sense of creepy dread dressed in the clothes of a slick American suspense flick.
How can this genre still be around after all its sophomore, junior, senior, graduate, and post-graduate slumps?
There is life in its newest entry, The Uninvited, but you have to wait 75 minutes to find the pulse. This remake is based on the Korean film A Tale of Two Sisters and is directed by Charles and Anthony Guard, billed here as The Guard Brothers,
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