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Big Apes, Big Cynema
Dino! “When Jaws die, nobody cry . When my Kong die, everybody cry.” – Dino DeLaurentiis, producer Younger viewers have almost no idea who legendary producer Dino DeLaurentiis was. Some saw him as the Italian forerunner of Michael Bay; creator of expensive, big budget, soulless films followed by similar producers like Alexander and Ilya Salkind, Peter Guber and Jon Peters, Jerry Bruckheimer as well as Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. DeLaurentiis said this about his humble beginnings in film: “After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world. If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the
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The Walking Dead And Fear The Walking Dead Launch Mysterious Viral Campaigns
The sixth season of The Walking Dead is only months away (October) and someone has come up with a viral campaign that started on Twitter. Hordes of people tied to The Walking Dead have been receiving strange packages containing pieces of of paper, letters in blood, damaged Polaroid pictures, locks of hair, keys and other strange objects, all shipped from Woodbury. That’s right, Woodbury. The pictures are being shared with the hash tag #PackageFromWoodbury. What does this mean? Now a phone number, 912-307-3075, is being shared on Twitter, believed to be for Fear the Walking Dead .When the number is called a changing prerecorded message is played. The first message: “The following message is transmitted at the request of the National Emergency Hotline. An unknown event is underway across the Eastern United States. Residents of Florida, South Carolina and Georgia are instructed to shelter in place, turn off the lights, lock all doors and remain quiet for their own safety.
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‘Jurassic World’ Writer Penning The Script For ‘Kong: Skull Island’
Derek Connolly, the writer of this year’s blockbuster ‘Jurassic World, has signed on to reopen parts of the script for Universal’s ‘Kong: Skull Island’, which is being directed by Jordon Vogt-Roberts. ‘Kong: Skull Island’ already has an impressive cast, including Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly (Guardians of the Galaxy), Tom Wilkinson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers), Corey Hawkins (Straight Outta Compton), Toby Kebbell (Fantastic Four) and Brie Larson of ’21 Jump Street’. Universal plans to begin filming this October and for the movie to debut in theaters March 10, 2017. In the film a team of explorers investigate a mysterious island, full of creatures, including the king of the Apes.
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Cynema: Godzilla vs. Gino
Go Go Godzilla “We spared no expense.” – Sir Richard Attenborough, Jurassic Park Rumors circulated Hollywood since the early 1990’s of an American Godzilla movie. Writers and directors left the project and by 1996, Toho and Sony/Tri Star came to terms and the producing team of Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich were anointed to bring a full fledged American Godzilla film to the US masses. He would attack New York City; it would boast a big name cast and incorporate state of the art visual effects. There would be no man in a giant rubber suit in this film since Jurassic Park raised the bar for giant reptilian creatures. Toho Knew In the wake of the successful 2014 reboot (which had its own issues), it seems like a cheap shot to take yet another swipe at the much maligned (and deservedly so) 1998 mess. This time it’s to see how this film fits the Cynema paradigm. It’s not Godzilla, it
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The Trailer For ‘The Witch’ Is Dark And Unnerving
‘The Witch’, written and directed by Robert Eggers, premiered at this years’ Sundance Film Festival. Studio A24, the studio behind ‘Ex Machina’, has just released the trailer for this period piece that will be released sometime next year. The trailer is dark, unnerving and teases of the horrors to come. In ‘The Witch’ old traditional fears of magic, witchcraft, and possession meet to make a dark tale that explores one family’s fears and superstitions. ‘The Witch’ stars Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Anya Taylor Joy, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger and Lucus Dawson. The movie, set in 1630’s takes place in New England. A farmer has been cast out of a colonial plantation, along with his family. they are forced to move to a remote piece of land bordered by a forest, rumored to be the home of witches and dark magic. Soon, strange things begin to occur, animals act oddly and crops wilt. A child disappears, only to return possessed. As
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‘Silence Of The Lambs’ House Up For Sale
Interested in owning a real piece of horror history? How about living in one? If you can come up with $300,000 you can own the infamous home where Buffalo Bill kept, murdered and skinned his victims in the 1990 classic ‘Silence of the Lambs’. Hannibal fans, don’t hyperventilate. The Bimmel house, located at 8 Circle Street, Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, is up for sale by the same owners who owned the home during the filming. Filming at the five bedroom home only took three days, but earned the home a spot on the list of the great homes of horror. If they don’t hand out lotion when they show the home, they’re making a mistake, just saying. If you are interested in making an offer you can contact Berkshire Hathaway Realty .
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From The Director Of ‘The Stangers’ Comes ‘There Are Monsters’
Director Bryan Bertino, who wrote, directed and produced ‘The Strangers’, is directing the upcoming horror movie ‘There Are Monsters’. So far, Elizbeth Moss (Mad Men), Scott Speedman (Underworld), Ella Ballentine (The Captive), Zoe Kazan and Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica) have signed on for the picture, which is set to hit theaters in 2016. The movie follows on a mother and daughter who are trapped. There is a ruthless, blood thirsty creature out in the dark and it’s something like they’ve never seen before.
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Cynema: Fright Night or…Why Remake When You Can Retitle?
A Valentine To Old School Horror Remaking a film falls under the old adage: “Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.” Netflix reviews or more accurately, article comments are dotted with such phrases like: “the film is old” or “it’s dated.” Better yet, “it’s foreign.” All three signify a concern in American pop culture: a fixation on the superficial and a refusal to give anything deemed “old” a chance, largely by a generation that prides itself on ignorance and is unappreciative for the previous work done by others that affords it the indifference it treats anything deemed unworthy of its attention. Horror is a breeding ground for remakes, but the focus of this article will be the 1985 horror hit “Fright Night.” The recent 3D remake of yet another 80’s horror film underscores not just the needless exercise in remaking films, but shows that audiences have become truly cynical in the product they pay for. There is
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The Scream Factory Presents The Editor
A movie editor gets involved in a string of murders in the film, ‘The Editor’. Tristan Risk, Sheila Campbell, Udo Kier, and Paz de la Huerta star in this film. ‘The Editor’ was co- written and co-directed by Adam Brooks along side Mathew Kennedy. ‘The Editor’ will be released on DVD on September 8th via Scream Factory.
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Midnight Snack by Terry M. West
Midnight Snack by Terry M. West is book five in West’s collection, the “Single Shot Short Story series”. I’m a big fan of short stories, generally speaking, and I was curious about the “late night exit” which would lead to a “hellish back road”. That could mean anything! I was especially curious about the odd diner on the cover of the ebook, so I picked it up with no small amount of eagerness. Book Description: In this highly-acclaimed horror novelette by Terry M. West, Calvin Winslow is an unhappily married man who takes a late night exit and finds a hellish back road. This story is just one of the dark tales featured in West’s critically-acclaimed collection, WHAT PRICE GORY. Midnight Snack is part of the Single Shot Short Story series which adds exclusive story notes and bonus content that you can only find in the Single Shot Story Series. This book was a fun, quick read. I’d recommend it
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Big Apes, Big Cynema
Dino! “When Jaws die, nobody cry . When my Kong die, everybody cry.” – Dino DeLaurentiis, producer Younger viewers have almost no idea who legendary producer Dino DeLaurentiis was. Some saw him as the Italian forerunner of Michael Bay; creator of expensive, big budget, soulless films followed by similar producers like Alexander and Ilya Salkind, Peter Guber and Jon Peters, Jerry Bruckheimer as well as Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich. DeLaurentiis said this about his humble beginnings in film: “After the war, there was no industry. We lost the war. We had our whole city destroyed. No money. No studio. No film. No camera. No equipment. We would shoot in the street. We had no actors. Nothing. But we wanted to do movies. And we did the best movies in the world. If you lived in a provincial town like Torre Annunziata, where there was nothing to do in the evening but go to the movies with your friends, the
Continue reading →
The Walking Dead And Fear The Walking Dead Launch Mysterious Viral Campaigns
The sixth season of The Walking Dead is only months away (October) and someone has come up with a viral campaign that started on Twitter. Hordes of people tied to The Walking Dead have been receiving strange packages containing pieces of of paper, letters in blood, damaged Polaroid pictures, locks of hair, keys and other strange objects, all shipped from Woodbury. That’s right, Woodbury. The pictures are being shared with the hash tag #PackageFromWoodbury. What does this mean? Now a phone number, 912-307-3075, is being shared on Twitter, believed to be for Fear the Walking Dead .When the number is called a changing prerecorded message is played. The first message: “The following message is transmitted at the request of the National Emergency Hotline. An unknown event is underway across the Eastern United States. Residents of Florida, South Carolina and Georgia are instructed to shelter in place, turn off the lights, lock all doors and remain quiet for their own safety.
Continue reading →
‘Jurassic World’ Writer Penning The Script For ‘Kong: Skull Island’
Derek Connolly, the writer of this year’s blockbuster ‘Jurassic World, has signed on to reopen parts of the script for Universal’s ‘Kong: Skull Island’, which is being directed by Jordon Vogt-Roberts. ‘Kong: Skull Island’ already has an impressive cast, including Samuel L. Jackson, John C. Reilly (Guardians of the Galaxy), Tom Wilkinson (The Grand Budapest Hotel), Tom Hiddleston (The Avengers), Corey Hawkins (Straight Outta Compton), Toby Kebbell (Fantastic Four) and Brie Larson of ’21 Jump Street’. Universal plans to begin filming this October and for the movie to debut in theaters March 10, 2017. In the film a team of explorers investigate a mysterious island, full of creatures, including the king of the Apes.
Continue reading →
Cynema: Godzilla vs. Gino
Go Go Godzilla “We spared no expense.” – Sir Richard Attenborough, Jurassic Park Rumors circulated Hollywood since the early 1990’s of an American Godzilla movie. Writers and directors left the project and by 1996, Toho and Sony/Tri Star came to terms and the producing team of Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich were anointed to bring a full fledged American Godzilla film to the US masses. He would attack New York City; it would boast a big name cast and incorporate state of the art visual effects. There would be no man in a giant rubber suit in this film since Jurassic Park raised the bar for giant reptilian creatures. Toho Knew In the wake of the successful 2014 reboot (which had its own issues), it seems like a cheap shot to take yet another swipe at the much maligned (and deservedly so) 1998 mess. This time it’s to see how this film fits the Cynema paradigm. It’s not Godzilla, it
Continue reading →
The Trailer For ‘The Witch’ Is Dark And Unnerving
‘The Witch’, written and directed by Robert Eggers, premiered at this years’ Sundance Film Festival. Studio A24, the studio behind ‘Ex Machina’, has just released the trailer for this period piece that will be released sometime next year. The trailer is dark, unnerving and teases of the horrors to come. In ‘The Witch’ old traditional fears of magic, witchcraft, and possession meet to make a dark tale that explores one family’s fears and superstitions. ‘The Witch’ stars Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Anya Taylor Joy, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger and Lucus Dawson. The movie, set in 1630’s takes place in New England. A farmer has been cast out of a colonial plantation, along with his family. they are forced to move to a remote piece of land bordered by a forest, rumored to be the home of witches and dark magic. Soon, strange things begin to occur, animals act oddly and crops wilt. A child disappears, only to return possessed. As
Continue reading →
‘Silence Of The Lambs’ House Up For Sale
Interested in owning a real piece of horror history? How about living in one? If you can come up with $300,000 you can own the infamous home where Buffalo Bill kept, murdered and skinned his victims in the 1990 classic ‘Silence of the Lambs’. Hannibal fans, don’t hyperventilate. The Bimmel house, located at 8 Circle Street, Perryopolis, Pennsylvania, is up for sale by the same owners who owned the home during the filming. Filming at the five bedroom home only took three days, but earned the home a spot on the list of the great homes of horror. If they don’t hand out lotion when they show the home, they’re making a mistake, just saying. If you are interested in making an offer you can contact Berkshire Hathaway Realty .
Continue reading →
From The Director Of ‘The Stangers’ Comes ‘There Are Monsters’
Director Bryan Bertino, who wrote, directed and produced ‘The Strangers’, is directing the upcoming horror movie ‘There Are Monsters’. So far, Elizbeth Moss (Mad Men), Scott Speedman (Underworld), Ella Ballentine (The Captive), Zoe Kazan and Aaron Douglas (Battlestar Galactica) have signed on for the picture, which is set to hit theaters in 2016. The movie follows on a mother and daughter who are trapped. There is a ruthless, blood thirsty creature out in the dark and it’s something like they’ve never seen before.
Continue reading →
Cynema: Fright Night or…Why Remake When You Can Retitle?
A Valentine To Old School Horror Remaking a film falls under the old adage: “Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.” Netflix reviews or more accurately, article comments are dotted with such phrases like: “the film is old” or “it’s dated.” Better yet, “it’s foreign.” All three signify a concern in American pop culture: a fixation on the superficial and a refusal to give anything deemed “old” a chance, largely by a generation that prides itself on ignorance and is unappreciative for the previous work done by others that affords it the indifference it treats anything deemed unworthy of its attention. Horror is a breeding ground for remakes, but the focus of this article will be the 1985 horror hit “Fright Night.” The recent 3D remake of yet another 80’s horror film underscores not just the needless exercise in remaking films, but shows that audiences have become truly cynical in the product they pay for. There is
Continue reading →
The Scream Factory Presents The Editor
A movie editor gets involved in a string of murders in the film, ‘The Editor’. Tristan Risk, Sheila Campbell, Udo Kier, and Paz de la Huerta star in this film. ‘The Editor’ was co- written and co-directed by Adam Brooks along side Mathew Kennedy. ‘The Editor’ will be released on DVD on September 8th via Scream Factory.
Continue reading →
Midnight Snack by Terry M. West
Midnight Snack by Terry M. West is book five in West’s collection, the “Single Shot Short Story series”. I’m a big fan of short stories, generally speaking, and I was curious about the “late night exit” which would lead to a “hellish back road”. That could mean anything! I was especially curious about the odd diner on the cover of the ebook, so I picked it up with no small amount of eagerness. Book Description: In this highly-acclaimed horror novelette by Terry M. West, Calvin Winslow is an unhappily married man who takes a late night exit and finds a hellish back road. This story is just one of the dark tales featured in West’s critically-acclaimed collection, WHAT PRICE GORY. Midnight Snack is part of the Single Shot Short Story series which adds exclusive story notes and bonus content that you can only find in the Single Shot Story Series. This book was a fun, quick read. I’d recommend it
Continue reading →