That’s right, The Crazies is being released on DVD on June 29th, 2010. I’m sure I’ll remember this film for a long time because we (Mutantville) saw it in the theater with the legendary Matthew Ewald.
For the most part I liked it. The camera angles were good. Nice camera movement. Great zombie or infected make up though. It is a remake of the George A. Romero film. You’ll notice on the credits that Romero was an executive producer on the film. The original film came out in 1973. To make the new film period, everyone walks around in bell bottom pants to the disco soundtrack. Ok, none of that last sentence is true.
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With its lurid title and anti-government paranoia, The Crazies bears the stamps of the 1970s original from the start, but it fits our times remarkably well. We’re discovering poison in baby formula from China, so how much of a leap is …
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That time is upon us once again, oh true believers. Where it once took decades before the master of modern horror would release another film in his epic zombie series, now over the course of the past five years – George A. Romero has released three new dead films and counting! This weekend, George A. Romero’s latest zombie opus Survival of the Dead opens on VOD, Amazon, X-Box Live and in a limited theatrical run. The Mutantville Players were fortunate enough to catch an early showing of Survival of the Dead during an advance screening premiere at the historic Carolina Theatre in Durham, NC back on April 2nd, 2010. MVP was pleasantly surprised by Romero’s latest zombie yarn as it was a light-hearted departure from the nihilistic overtones of the previous entries in the “Dead” series. Fans expecting another dark and depressing bloodbath will most likely leave the theater disappointed – but fans of enjoyable zombie romps such as Shaun of the Dead, Dead Alive, and Return of the Living Dead should enjoy Romero’s latest zombie pic.
Check out the official trailer on Youtube:
Here’s a nice little sneak peek behind the scenes of the making of George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead. As an interesting side note – MVP was able to view this early footage way back in February of 2009 when George Romero hosted the American Zombie Film Festival here in North Carolina.
Hop on over to Break.com and listen as the master George A. Romero discusses his ideas for his latest effort Survival of the Dead. Romero discusses what has been called his neo-western approach taken in his most recent zombie film.
In case you don’t like George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead, that is fine – we all have different tastes – but if you say some kind of nonsense like Romero needs to stop making zombie films – then you need to stop critiquing movies and in the words of the immortal Captain Rhodes – you should CHOKE ON ‘EM! CHOKE ON ‘EM!!! Haters will hate.
Keep on making zombie films, George. We’ll keep watching!
UK filmmaker, Tom Young recently posted an announcement on his blog about the completion of his long Lynchian horror short – Be There In Ten:
It’s been a long time in the making for a short but Be There In Ten is finally done. I’ve cut a second, slightly longer trailer which is below – if you’re interested in getting a copy of the full movie you can contact me by email (details on my biog page); I’ll also post any details of screenings etc. here in the meantime. Depending how things turn out we may eventually post it on the web in any case, so watch this space.
The film is sort of a cross between a relationship drama and a horror, something I’ve tried to capture in the trailer. It clocks in at around 14 minutes and features grainy Super-8 footage shot around Southbank and Hyde Park, several ghosts, some Steadicam shots made on a dark, rainy night in Chiswick, plus a couple of star turns from the two leads, Sarah Winter and James Powell.
The music at the start of the trailer is the actual music used in the credits of the film (a more extended version of which I posted previously).
Shock Til You Drop just conducted an interview with the godfather of modern horror George A. Romero himself and they dropped the juicy tibdit of info that Romero has two more “Dead” films planned for the near future. Apparently these last two films will complete the arc begun in Diary of the Dead – much in the way that Land of the Dead concluded the arc begun back in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead. Shock Til You Drop will publish the complete interview in the very near future.
Back in 2007. Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino teamed up to make a two part feature film experience appropriately titled Grindhouse. Each director provided their own feature length film in the grindhouse cinema tradition including bad edits, missing reels, and noticeable film grain. It was a throwback film designed to not only be an enjoyable time at the movies, but to recall a point in history when the rejected films of society were celebrated in dollar theaters in big cities around the country. These films usually consisted of taboo subject matter including large amounts of sex, violence, and drug use and in some cases, all of those. This was a form of entertainment that a large portion of society wanted to see, but Hollywood was just not producing at the time. When Grindhouse came out in 2007, it inadvertently opened the flood gates to a style of filmmaking that would invoke a new renaissance of stylistic qualities.
From Fangoria.com: DVD content information as well as cover art for the supersized NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET documentary NEVER SLEEP AGAIN: THE ELM STREET LEGACY have been revealed, and you can see them after the jump. The two-disc set will street May 4, just in time to tie in with the NIGHTMARE remake.
CAV Distributing sent along the info on the double-DVD package, which will contain the four-hour NEVER SLEEP AGAIN and another four hours of bonus material. The documentary, directed by Daniel Farrands and Andrew Kasch, written by Thommy Huston and hosted by franchise star Heather Langenkamp (pictured above with Wes Craven), will explore all eight movies from Craven’s original NIGHTMARE through FREDDY VS. JASON, featuring new interviews with cast and filmmakers and never-before-seen behind-the-scenes footage, deleted scenes, FX tests, photos, production and promotional art, publicity material, etc.
Since we’re all still recovering from the Easter weekend, let’s take it easy today and enjoy this strange commercial with all of your favorite movie villains. Who knew Darth Vader, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, and Dracula had such soft spots? Check it out.
“The story centers on one angry dude, William Shadrach Sharpe, who sold his soul to the devil some 235 years earlier and has been killing for Satan’s minion ever since. Now Shadrach wants his soul back, and he ain’t foolin’ around. He arrives in the lawless town of Celestial to meet his nemesis—but this is no ordinary community. Everything has been nuked, the only thriving business is prostitution and the locals don’t take kindly to strangers—not to mention there are zombies about! What a mess.Sharpe lets us know what we can expect as far as DEVIL’S CROSSING’s ghouls are concerned: “The look of the zombies and the way they move is not your basic type,” he tells Fango, and he clearly knows his undead categories. “In 28 DAYS LATER you have your fast zombies, and the George A. Romero ghouls are fairly slow. These zombies twitch. They are not fast but they are constantly twitching, and that kind of gives you the feeling that at any moment, they could become fast. They have their own shuffle that is unique to DEVIL’S CROSSING. And they are all charcoaled and burnt up from nuclear war.”
io9 has posted a clip from Roger Corman’s recent Syfy flick Dinoshark!
Last week, Syfy aired the awesomely cheesetastic movie Dinoshark, directed by Roger Corman himself. And in this scene, Corman shows us why he is the master of stock footage repurposed for giant monster fu.
Let’s face it: Most of Dinoshark is padding, packed with random teen girl water polo players and idyllic shots of Puerto Vallarta. There’s a jovial feeling to the whole thing, as if Corman and his buddies really wanted a vacation in Mexico and got some resort to underwrite the shoot as long as they promised to do a lot of scenes highlighting tourism. We learn all about how you can go whale watching, snorkeling, boating, and parasailing. We see Corman and his pals eating tasty food with “scientists.” (Yes, Corman is in the movie, playing a “scientist” who trains dolphins and eats tasty food at a resort with his cute wife while sequencing Dinoshark’s DNA using a home PC.)
Anyway, back to what makes this scene so genius. You’re watching the surfing footage. You’re thinking, “Oh jeezus this is totally stock footage.” You’re watching more of the surfing. You’re starting to wonder how long this can go on. They’re still surfing! Still! Wait for it . . . wait for it . . . and . . . YES! Dude!
Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce is playing at the Carolina Theatre this Friday! Join the Mutantville Players as we make the trip out to see Mathilda May wreak space vampire havoc on the unsuspecting populace! Jim Carl of the Carolina Theatre sent out a reminder about the latest installment of RETROFANTASMA today:
Hey everyone!
RETROFANTASMA is tomorrow night, March 19th at the Carolina Theatre. It should be a fun and awesome show. We’ve got 1985’s LIFEFORCE and 1988’s KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE. There will be a re-screening of the 10-minute short film, SINKHOLE, (a Nevermore favorite) prior to LIFEFORCE. And as a special bonus, we will have a tribute to PETER GRAVES and COREY HAIM during the 15-minute Intermission.
We’ve just test-screened both 35mm prints, and they’re beautiful! No fading or scratches, just almost-flawless prints, as if they were kept in a time vault. It really will be a great presentation.
If you like animated films, then don’t miss A TOWN CALLED PANIC. It starts SATURDAY, MARCH 20th at the Carolina Theatre for one-week only. It’s a fantastic animated film from Belgium. It’s odd, to say the least, but a really fun film. Visit the film’s website at www.atowncalledpani
And if you like action movies, we’re opening DISTRICT 13–ULTIMATUM on Saturday, March 20th, as well. I checked the theatre listings in the newspaper and I think we’re the only theatre in the Triangle showing this film. It’s written by the great Luc Besson (The Big Blue, The Fifth Element, etc.) and our head projectionist, Thomas Reed, is screening the film as I write this e-mail. I popped my head into Cinema One a few minutes ago and asked him, “How is it?” He smiled and said, “This is AWESOME!” Thomas is a hard critic, so DISTRICT 13–ULTIMATUM must be pretty good to garner such a response. We’ll only be screening the film for this one-week only, so please check it out!
See you tomorrow night! There will be some really cool door prizes!
Jim
From the IMDb:
LIFEFORCE: Halley’s Comet returns to the solar system and the English/American team aboard the shuttle “Churchill”, making a close-up survey of the comet, discovers an alien spacecraft in the head of the comet. Inside the spacecraft are some large bat-like creatures and in three cocoons are three “dead” humans – two men and a woman. The “Churchill” takes the humans and a creature back to Earth. There the bosses of the project are amazed to find the shuttle burnt out and all but one of the crew – Carlsen – dead. The humans from the spacecraft suddenly awake and all those who come into contact with them are drained of their “lifeforce” and in time all the victims – including most of the population of London – are turned into zombies all preying on the horrified survivors for their “lifeforce”. It’s up to Carlsen and Major Caine of the SAS to stop them before the whole world turns into a big blood-hunt… Written by Lee Horton {Leeh@tcp.co.uk}
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