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}
From Fear.NET: Shutter Island opens this Friday, and a lof of folks are probably wondering how director Martin Scorsese — who's tackled all kinds of film genres in his forty-plus year career — will handle a traditional thriller. Having seen the film, I can say that despite what its trailer promises, it's pretty far from traditional, but still terrific; and it wears its genre influences proudly on its sleeve. (In fact, with apologies to The Departed, I think the film is probably Scorses's best since Casino.) Of course, the Oscar-winning filmmaker isn't exactly a stranger to our neck of the woods. His Cape Fear was a pretty straightforward excursion into terror, and, upon close inspection, his entire oeuvre is littered with moments scarier than what's offered by most of today's horror movies. So in honor of Shutter Island, we here at FEARnet present the twelve Scariest Moments in Martin Scorsese Movies. Why only twelve, instead of the more frightening number that follows it? Because you, dear reader, are hereby invited to vote for your own after you watch Shutter Island this weekend. Its bound to give you a few chilling ideas.
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.
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!
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We’ll only be screening the film for this one-week only, so please check it out!
