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Reality vs. Bullshit The only fact about any of the Amityville Horror films is that the DeFeo family was murdered in their sleep inside the house on 112 Ocean Avenue. The real horror is what the surviving relatives of the murdered Defeo’s must endure every time one of these lousy films is made. Hollywood cynicism goes beyond making bad films and trying to pass them off as good or worse yet, classics. The real cynicism is from the studios that torture the DeFeo family and make a buck off a terrible situation. As a result, I wonder, has any studio that made these films ever donated a few posthumous bucks to the DeFeo family for their trouble? I’m not one for reparations, but many of these films invoke the DeFeo name. Maybe a scholarship or two set up in memory of the victims? A lot of people made a lot of money off this family’s tragedy. As a result, they
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The teaser for the new Wolf Creek mini serieshas surfaced. The minseries, consisting of six one-hour episodes, is being directed by Tony Tilse and Greg McLean. McLean also directed both ‘Wolf Creek’ and ‘Wolf Creek 2’. John Jarratt will be returning to his role as the twisted killer, Mick Taylor. In the series, Mick Taylor targets an American family on vacation. Eve, played by Lucy Fry (Vampire Academy), a 19-year-old-woman, survives the massacre and sets out on a mission of revenge. In the teaser we see Eve sharpening her blade and is ready to take revenge against the man who killed her family, Mick Taylor. Wolf Creek also stars Deborah Mailman (Offspring), Miranda Tapsell (Redfern Now), Dustin Clare (Strike Back), Jake Ryan (Wentworth) and Jessica Tovey (Wonderland). The series will appear exclusively on Stan in mid 2016.
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A&E’s new supernatural series, Damien, follows The Omen’s Damien Thorn (Bradley James) as an adult. He has lived his entire life unaware of who he really is, but now, he must come to terms with being the anti-christ. The first season, consisting of ten episodes, will premier in 2016. Bradley James, who played the role of Liv’s love interest in iZombie, will star along side Omid Abtahi (Argo), Megalyn Echikunwoke (The Following), David Meunier (Aquarius) and Barbara Hershey who played the role of Lorraine Lambert in Insidious: Chapter 2. Scott Wilson, who you may recognize as Hershel from the hit series The Walking Dead, also appears in Damien. The show will not only continue the story that began in The Omen, it will feature aspects of the original story, including footage from the 1976 film, tying everything together.
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Vampires Are Back “Barlow! He’s a vampire! He must be destroyed!” — David Soul, Salem’s Lot That’s a line of dialogue from the cheesy and absolutely fun 1979 mini series, ‘Salem’s Lot. While it comes nowhere near the elegance and terror of the Stephen King novel, it totally avoids the cynicism and emptiness of the 2004 remake with Rob Lowe and Donald Sutherland. When you have vampires, especially scary vampires, why is there a need for sexual predator fathers and teachers? This was not a subject of the book, so why did the 2004 remake need to add this dimension? It’s like the Amityville Horror films (which none, and I mean ZERO are good horror films) you have all these ghosts, why does the house have to explode or someone chases someone with an axe or commit incest? Aren’t the ghosts scary enough? At least the original 1979 B movie gave us a puking a nun and a wonderful hamfisted
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A camping trip goes awry as newlyweds Mike and Wit are suddenly joined by Mike’s brother, Sean, a former marine, in the psychological horror-thrill ride “Preservation.” They awake from their first night on the trip to find that everything has been stolen from their campsite. A weekend in the woods suddenly becomes a game of survival for the three. The film is littered with classic horror stereotypes which makes it a particularly fun watch, especially for horror fans! For me, the movie fell short in the realm of reality, and what “traditional hunters” actually do on a hunting trip. A great example of this is when the group arrives at their hunting spot and realize it is closed. To quote the characters, “That’s never stopped our family before,” and they enter anyways. With that said, the common horror movie stereotype-stupidity of these three is what makes this film a great horror film. The “closed” sign is the typical warning in
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This Wednesday, on the season finale of GSN’s Hellevator, the competition gets bloody. Watch as three team members dig through maggot filled pies and dead mice to decode a secret message, and see them search for parts of a ladder in buckets filled with blood to make their escape. Will they walk away with $50,000 or will the gore be too much to stomach? Each week a team of three come together in the hopes of scoring a bag of cash, but they must face a series of frightening challenges, terrifying sights and overcome everything that the hosts, horror icons Jen and Sylvia Soska, send their way. The teams enter an elevator, at each floor one contestant must get off and face whatever twisted challenge the Soska sisters have cooked up, to win a cash prize. If they don’t make it back in time the elevator moves on, leaving the challenger stranded with what ever is lurking their in the
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If this past year at the box office has taught us anything, it is that dinosaurs STILL rule the earth! One could say that dinosaurs are Earth’s first REAL monsters…. “Carnosaur,” “Dinosaur Hell,” “Dinosaur Island,” “Dinosaur Lake,” “Extinction,” are just a few of the horror films that come to mind when I think of these prehistoric beasts… and of course there is the “Jurassic Park,” but a new documentary on Netflix shows you the nightmare one paleontologist, Peter Larson, and his team went through after discovering the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil in history. The film documents the past 25 years of Larson’s life fighting with local land owners and the United States Government. Larson ends up fighting for the fossil’s freedom and his own. The documentary has a great juxtaposition about it, which really helps tell a sad story and makes you feel for not only the paleontologist, but also for the fossil, Sue. Todd Douglas Miller’s “Dinosaur
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Let me start off by saying “Proxy” is not your standard horror film, however, it is an extremely violent, disturbing thriller, that leads horror viewers into a new subgenera of horror films. I warn ALL viewers that this film is EXTREMELY violent, some of this violence is present in the first 5 minutes of the film, before the main title even pops up on screen. “Proxy” centers around the life of 3 individuals who have all suffered a loss, in one way or another. There are a lot of new faces in this film, however there is one very familiar face to horror fans, Kristina Klebe, better known as Rob Zombie’s Lynda in his version of “Halloween.” The films main star Alexia Rasmussen (Esther Woodhouse) does a great job at playing a typical loner, who when asked who her best friend is, she states, “her fish.” The film is a little artsy, but absolutely beautiful. The film opens with a
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Chris Carter explains that the X-Files is back due to fan demand in this exclusive Fox clip! Duchovny (Mulder) and Anderson (Scully), talk more about what it is like to be a fan and have the show come back after nearly 15 years of being off the air. The behind the scenes first look promises that episodes 1 and 6 will be about the original shows mythology, while episodes 2-5 will be “monsters episodes…” Does this mean we will see the two agents chasing spooks across the country like they used to? The X-Files revival premiers on January 24th. Gillian Anderson’s “Show & Tell” X-Files Comes to Blu-Ray
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The SyFy channel is currently developing a new series based on Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook’s Dark Horse comic Harrow County. Dominion and Twelve Monkeys writer, Becky Kirsch, will be penning the adaption. Horror County focuses on Emmy, who has always known that the woods surrounding her home is filled with goblins, ghosts and the undead. On her 18th birthday, Emmy learns that she is the reincarnation of a powerful witch. Now the town’s people are set on killing her, again, like they did in previous life. To survive, she must embrace who she really is and her dark powers.
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Reality vs. Bullshit The only fact about any of the Amityville Horror films is that the DeFeo family was murdered in their sleep inside the house on 112 Ocean Avenue. The real horror is what the surviving relatives of the murdered Defeo’s must endure every time one of these lousy films is made. Hollywood cynicism goes beyond making bad films and trying to pass them off as good or worse yet, classics. The real cynicism is from the studios that torture the DeFeo family and make a buck off a terrible situation. As a result, I wonder, has any studio that made these films ever donated a few posthumous bucks to the DeFeo family for their trouble? I’m not one for reparations, but many of these films invoke the DeFeo name. Maybe a scholarship or two set up in memory of the victims? A lot of people made a lot of money off this family’s tragedy. As a result, they
Continue reading →
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The teaser for the new Wolf Creek mini serieshas surfaced. The minseries, consisting of six one-hour episodes, is being directed by Tony Tilse and Greg McLean. McLean also directed both ‘Wolf Creek’ and ‘Wolf Creek 2’. John Jarratt will be returning to his role as the twisted killer, Mick Taylor. In the series, Mick Taylor targets an American family on vacation. Eve, played by Lucy Fry (Vampire Academy), a 19-year-old-woman, survives the massacre and sets out on a mission of revenge. In the teaser we see Eve sharpening her blade and is ready to take revenge against the man who killed her family, Mick Taylor. Wolf Creek also stars Deborah Mailman (Offspring), Miranda Tapsell (Redfern Now), Dustin Clare (Strike Back), Jake Ryan (Wentworth) and Jessica Tovey (Wonderland). The series will appear exclusively on Stan in mid 2016.
Continue reading →
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A&E’s new supernatural series, Damien, follows The Omen’s Damien Thorn (Bradley James) as an adult. He has lived his entire life unaware of who he really is, but now, he must come to terms with being the anti-christ. The first season, consisting of ten episodes, will premier in 2016. Bradley James, who played the role of Liv’s love interest in iZombie, will star along side Omid Abtahi (Argo), Megalyn Echikunwoke (The Following), David Meunier (Aquarius) and Barbara Hershey who played the role of Lorraine Lambert in Insidious: Chapter 2. Scott Wilson, who you may recognize as Hershel from the hit series The Walking Dead, also appears in Damien. The show will not only continue the story that began in The Omen, it will feature aspects of the original story, including footage from the 1976 film, tying everything together.
Continue reading →
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Vampires Are Back “Barlow! He’s a vampire! He must be destroyed!” — David Soul, Salem’s Lot That’s a line of dialogue from the cheesy and absolutely fun 1979 mini series, ‘Salem’s Lot. While it comes nowhere near the elegance and terror of the Stephen King novel, it totally avoids the cynicism and emptiness of the 2004 remake with Rob Lowe and Donald Sutherland. When you have vampires, especially scary vampires, why is there a need for sexual predator fathers and teachers? This was not a subject of the book, so why did the 2004 remake need to add this dimension? It’s like the Amityville Horror films (which none, and I mean ZERO are good horror films) you have all these ghosts, why does the house have to explode or someone chases someone with an axe or commit incest? Aren’t the ghosts scary enough? At least the original 1979 B movie gave us a puking a nun and a wonderful hamfisted
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesReviewsStreaming TV
A camping trip goes awry as newlyweds Mike and Wit are suddenly joined by Mike’s brother, Sean, a former marine, in the psychological horror-thrill ride “Preservation.” They awake from their first night on the trip to find that everything has been stolen from their campsite. A weekend in the woods suddenly becomes a game of survival for the three. The film is littered with classic horror stereotypes which makes it a particularly fun watch, especially for horror fans! For me, the movie fell short in the realm of reality, and what “traditional hunters” actually do on a hunting trip. A great example of this is when the group arrives at their hunting spot and realize it is closed. To quote the characters, “That’s never stopped our family before,” and they enter anyways. With that said, the common horror movie stereotype-stupidity of these three is what makes this film a great horror film. The “closed” sign is the typical warning in
Continue reading →
NewsReviewsStreaming TV
This Wednesday, on the season finale of GSN’s Hellevator, the competition gets bloody. Watch as three team members dig through maggot filled pies and dead mice to decode a secret message, and see them search for parts of a ladder in buckets filled with blood to make their escape. Will they walk away with $50,000 or will the gore be too much to stomach? Each week a team of three come together in the hopes of scoring a bag of cash, but they must face a series of frightening challenges, terrifying sights and overcome everything that the hosts, horror icons Jen and Sylvia Soska, send their way. The teams enter an elevator, at each floor one contestant must get off and face whatever twisted challenge the Soska sisters have cooked up, to win a cash prize. If they don’t make it back in time the elevator moves on, leaving the challenger stranded with what ever is lurking their in the
Continue reading →
DocumentariesIndieMoviesReviewsStreaming TV
If this past year at the box office has taught us anything, it is that dinosaurs STILL rule the earth! One could say that dinosaurs are Earth’s first REAL monsters…. “Carnosaur,” “Dinosaur Hell,” “Dinosaur Island,” “Dinosaur Lake,” “Extinction,” are just a few of the horror films that come to mind when I think of these prehistoric beasts… and of course there is the “Jurassic Park,” but a new documentary on Netflix shows you the nightmare one paleontologist, Peter Larson, and his team went through after discovering the largest, most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil in history. The film documents the past 25 years of Larson’s life fighting with local land owners and the United States Government. Larson ends up fighting for the fossil’s freedom and his own. The documentary has a great juxtaposition about it, which really helps tell a sad story and makes you feel for not only the paleontologist, but also for the fossil, Sue. Todd Douglas Miller’s “Dinosaur
Continue reading →
IndieMoviesReviewsStreaming TV
Let me start off by saying “Proxy” is not your standard horror film, however, it is an extremely violent, disturbing thriller, that leads horror viewers into a new subgenera of horror films. I warn ALL viewers that this film is EXTREMELY violent, some of this violence is present in the first 5 minutes of the film, before the main title even pops up on screen. “Proxy” centers around the life of 3 individuals who have all suffered a loss, in one way or another. There are a lot of new faces in this film, however there is one very familiar face to horror fans, Kristina Klebe, better known as Rob Zombie’s Lynda in his version of “Halloween.” The films main star Alexia Rasmussen (Esther Woodhouse) does a great job at playing a typical loner, who when asked who her best friend is, she states, “her fish.” The film is a little artsy, but absolutely beautiful. The film opens with a
Continue reading →
DocumentariesMoviesNewsParanormalStreaming TV
Chris Carter explains that the X-Files is back due to fan demand in this exclusive Fox clip! Duchovny (Mulder) and Anderson (Scully), talk more about what it is like to be a fan and have the show come back after nearly 15 years of being off the air. The behind the scenes first look promises that episodes 1 and 6 will be about the original shows mythology, while episodes 2-5 will be “monsters episodes…” Does this mean we will see the two agents chasing spooks across the country like they used to? The X-Files revival premiers on January 24th. Gillian Anderson’s “Show & Tell” X-Files Comes to Blu-Ray
Continue reading →
BooksComic Books/Graphic NovelsNewsReviewsStreaming TV
The SyFy channel is currently developing a new series based on Cullen Bunn and Tyler Crook’s Dark Horse comic Harrow County. Dominion and Twelve Monkeys writer, Becky Kirsch, will be penning the adaption. Horror County focuses on Emmy, who has always known that the woods surrounding her home is filled with goblins, ghosts and the undead. On her 18th birthday, Emmy learns that she is the reincarnation of a powerful witch. Now the town’s people are set on killing her, again, like they did in previous life. To survive, she must embrace who she really is and her dark powers.
Continue reading →
