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From FEARNet: WB provides us with a look at a new A Nightmare on Elm Street banner today. The Platinum Dunes reboot of the Wes Craven classic hits theaters April 30th 2010.
via New ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ Banner – FEARNet.
The 1980’s may have been the high water mark for horror poster art. One used to be able to walk through the halls of the local video store and see a wide variety of horrific tableau’s adorning the boxes and posters promoting horror movies. In the new millennium, we are living in an era of bland posters and box art. A seemingly endless parade of floating heads and faces stare back at us from what now passes for movie posters. Where artists once strived to tell a story with a single image – now these “designers” seek to inundate us with the who’s who of actors in the film.
Poster art is truly a lost art form. That’s why it always thrills me to see the Japanese designs for Western films. They are simply the best produced poster works on the planet. Let’s celebrate this lost art form by taking a peek at a few fantastic designs from the land of the rising sun.
The boys over at Deadpit have been bringing us the best in horror talk radio for over four years now. This week, they are celebrating their 200th show and they need your help. Call in to the Deadpit hotline and share your Deadpit stories. Your story will be included on the upcoming anniversary show so act now! You have until Friday morning to call in with your funniest story, strangest gossip and your best convention stories. The number to call is 1-606-658-0185. Don’t wait! Go. Now!
The guys at Horrorbid.com have commented on the speculated end of Fangoria.com and Fangoria magazine. There are no hard facts out there – only specualtion – but one can hope that the seminal horror magazine has not closed it’s doors forever. Stay tuned to Mutantville.com for another Fangoria Unboxing video to celebrate the horror goodness that Fangoria has brought us over the years.
Click the link below to read the full article at Horrorbid.
Since we’re taking an MVP field trip this weekend to the Carolina Theatre to see The Dark Crystal and Army of Darkness – I thought we should prepare ourselves for some Evil Dead fun! What better way to get ready for the marathon than by revisiting this 90’s classic with your favorite horror hostess and mine – Miko Macabre! So put your primitive screwhead friends back in the closet, polish your chainsaw and hold on to your boomstick, it’s Army of Darkness night on Cryptique!
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In this clip – noted author Stephen King discusses writing horror.
From the Deadpit gang – via Jay Reel. It’s another Chester Grim Christmas!!!
There’s a modded version of Left 4 Dead out there – featuring Silent Hill. Check it out at youtube.
Check out this great video featuring the amazing, surreal and sadomasochistic visual stylings from Clive Barker’s video game masterpiece - JERICHO. The video is in German – so you’re safe from too many spoilers – unless you speak German that is.
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From Wearemoviegeeks.com: This past weekend, Netflix delivered me a documentary that I have been wanting to see ever since I missed it at SLIFF back in 2007. The film was ‘Spine Tingler: The William Castle Story’. For those of you that don’t know who William Castle is, I implore you to check out ‘The William Castle Collection’ that was recently released on DVD (click here to see it at amazon.com) which also includes said documentary. While the meat of the story is how a man who turned some B-Movies into Grade-A events at movie theaters by offering a thousand dollar life insurance policies to attendees of one of his films if they die of fright. While I have always been a fan of Castle and his gimmicks/promotions, this really made me reflect advertising of film past.
homicidalWhen films really started becoming mainstream, the majority of the films were carried by the actors and actresses who headlined or had top-billing for a film. While Castle never had this courtesy, he knew of a way to get people in the seats. He created gimmicks. Believe it or not, PSYCHO by Hitchcock had a gimmick of – which the documentary points out as well – not allowing anyone after the first 15 minutes of the film has been shown. William Castle’s audience participation gimmicks ended in 1965 with ‘I Saw What You Did’ where seat belts were installed in seats to keep you from jumping out of your seats from fright. His ideas made movie watching a bigger thing. He wanted you to experience the film, to make the film fun. He also showed Hollywood and other film makers on how they could promote a film regardless of the content and quality.
Read the rest of the article at the link below.
via I Heart Horror: The Gimmick | We Are Movie Geeks.