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Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

Psycho movie poster

Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is our focus this week on Classics Corner! Whenever I see list of greatest horror movies of all time, Psycho is near the top of the list. Just take a look at this trailer.

Psycho Trailer (1960)

This is the original teaser trailer for Alfred Hitchcock’s slasher film PSYCHO. I DO NOT OWN THIS VIDEO OR THE RIGHT’S TO THIS VIDEO. ALL RIGHTS TO UNIVERSAL STUDIOS.

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Vampire Motivational Posters!

Vampire Motivational poster

Hopefully I’m not getting addicted to these posters, but I decided to feature some more this week. Do you have a better sub-headline? List it in the comments below!

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Zombie Motivational Posters Anyone?

Zombies Motivational Poster

Saw a motivational poster earlier today and it made me wonder about zombie related posters. I found some for you guys. Enjoy!

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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Poster Deal

Texas Chainsaw Massacre poster

This week was sparked by an awesome deal I found on Amazon. They have a 24″x36″ Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Who Will Survive) Movie Poster for less than $4! Go to convention and try to get a big poster for that. Anyway, finding the poster inspired me to put up some facts about the film and a few videos.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (not pronounced mass a crey…that’s country speak) was released in 1974. I would have seen this in the theater but I was only 6 months old and they wouldn’t let me in. Another example of the man trying to oppress me. As most of us know, the film was directed by Tobe Hooper. Tobe also wrote the film with Kim Henkel. The film starred Marilyn Burns, Allen Danziger, Paul A. Partain, William Vail, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow and Gunnar Hansen. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a teen feel good movie about a group of friends that visit their grandfather’s house and are hunted down by a family of cannibals. Of course the main character that is remembered from the family is Leatherface who wields a chainsaw and wears a mask made of human skin.

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Friday the 13th part 3: 3D So Realistic, You’ll Wet Your Pants

Friday the 13th part 3

Bass, snare, clap, clap, clap…Bass, snare, clap, clap, clap. That’s right it’s the theme song from Friday the 13th part 3 (also written part III). Not every horror movie has such a funky discoesque beat during the beginning credits but I think that helps you know immediately that this will be a fun time. Now when I hear that song, I think of driving up to Boone, NC with Streebo to watch a 35mm print of the movie. One of the things that is the coolest to me is the 3D. In honor of the recent Friday the 13th we’re going to feature this film this week.
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Ab-Normal Beauty by the Pang Brothers

Ab-Normal Beauty poster

Ab-Normal Beauty, also known as, Sei mong se jun was released in 2004 and was written by Oxide Pang Chun and Thomas Pang. It was directed by Oxide Pang Chun. You may remember the Pang brothers from the post I did on The Eye. For me one of the things that I liked the best about this movie was the way it was shot. I liked the compositions and the lighting. They had some crazy Suspiria-esque lighting at times. There are some cool angles as well. Credit for the cinematography goes to Decha Srimantra. He also shot The Eye!

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The Seventh Curse or Yuan Zhen-Xia yu Wei Si-Li: Another Classic Chinese Horror Movie

The Seventh Curse movie poster

As we move closer to Chinese New Year, I thought we’d focus on the classic Chinese horror movie, The Seventh Curse or Yuan Zhen-Xia yu Wei Si-Li (it’s Chinese title). This film stars a few people that are pretty much household names (well at least to Hong Kong cinema fans like us here at Mutantville). It stars Maggie Cheung which you will remember from Police Story, Police Story 2 and Supercop with Jackie Chan. It also stars Chow Yun Fat who has stared in many films such as Confucius, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Bulletproof Monk, The Replacement Killers, God of Killers, etc… The movie also stars Ken Boyle, Siu-hou Chin, Yuen Chor, Joyce Godenzi and Shu-yuan Hsu. The Seventh Curse was directed by Ngai Kai Lam. The screenplay was written by Jing Wong, who has 156 writing credits on IMDB including Legend of the Red Dragon with Jet Li, God of Gamblers with Chow Yun Fat, City Hunter with Jackie Chan, Last Hero in China which is another Jet Li film which he also directed with Yuen Woo-ping (How cool is that?). This film was released in 1986.

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The Eye (Gin Gwai): Celebrate Chinese New Year with a Chinese Horror Movie

The Eye or Gin gwai (original title) 2002 movie poster

As Chinese New Year approaches on January 23, 2012, I thought I’d explore a few Chinese Horror movie classics. The Eye or Gin Gwai (original title) was released in 2002. The movie was directed by Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang. They are also known as the Pang Brothers. They also wrote the film along with Jojo Hui. The Eye stars Angelica Lee, Lawrence Chou, Jinda Duangtoy, Yut Lai So, Candy Lo and Edmund Chen.

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New Year’s Eve Horror with John Carpenter’s Classic Film – “Christine”

Christine Movie Poster

In honor of New Year’s Eve, I thought I’d do a post on “Christine.” It was directed by John Carpenter and written by Stephen King. Bill Phillips wrote the screenplay. “Christine” stars Keith Gordon which you may also remember from “Back to School” with Danny Elfman in Oingo Boingo (I’m starting a 5 degrees of Danny Elfman game!). Now to tie this back into modern horror, he has directed 10 episodes of “Dexter.” The film also stars John Stockwell, Alexandra Paul, Robert Prosky, Harry Dean Stanton and David Spielberg.

Christine begins in 1957 in Detroit with Christine on the assembly line. We see that Christine is a bright red Plymouth Fury. She doesn’t even wait to be out of the factory before she starts hurting people. 20 years later we meet our main character, Arnold Cunningham (no relation to Ritchie Cunningham). Of course he’s kind of nerdy and doesn’t have many friends. Arnold (aka Arnie…we’re friends so we can call him that) starts to fix a broken down Christine. He stores her at a local garage to restore her. Arnie begins to change as he works on the Fury. His girlfriend and best friend decide to destroy the car on…wait for it…New Year’s Eve (see how I tied the whole New Year’s thing in? hehe).

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Christmas Evil aka You Better Watch Out (1980)

Christmas Evil aka You Better Watch Out

In 1980, “Christmas Evil” which is also known as “You Better Watch Out” was released. It’s about a boy that loves Christmas and is scarred emotionally. He is a toy maker that snaps and goes on a Christmas killing spree.

Evil Christmas stars Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull, Andy Fenwick, Brian Neville and many others. It was written and directed by Lewis Jackson. Many people put this as number 1 on their list of Christmas horror movies! What do you think?

Christmas Evil (Promotional Clip)

Harry Stadling (Brandon Maggart) is obsessed with Christmas! In fact he wants to “be” the authentic Santa Claus, with a real suit, sleigh and reindeer. Ever since he learned the “truth” about Santa, he’s tried to make Christmas a reality. Growing up …

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