Pumpkinhead glow in the dark print from Cinema Overdrive.
We received our weekly update from Matt at Cinema Overdrive this past week and were pleasantly surprised to see that they have two new prints available for your edification. Horror geeks get ready to cream your shorts because this week Cinema Overdrive has not one – but TWO brand new prints for you based on the classic B-movies Alligator and Pumpkinhead. What better time to feature them than on a special edition of Collector’s Corner. Check out the prints after the leap.
In honor of being at Con Carolinas with Brinke Stevens next weekend, we’re featuring “Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama” this week in the Classics Corner. Classic Corner? Really? You maybe asking. I know, I know. This isn’t The Exorcist, Halloween or Nosferatu…but it’s late 80′s horror!
Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama was directed by David DeCoteau and written by Sergi Hasenecz. It stars Andras Jones, Lennea Quigley, Robin Stille and Brinke Stevens! So check out some clips, articles, etc… Enjoy!
This week we cover “The Hills Have Eyes” which was written and directed by Wes Craven. IMDB stated that “When originally submitted to the MPAA, the film was given an X-rating which would have relegated it to the porno circuit and severely hurt the box-office returns. Wes Craven cut the film enough to secure an R rating, and the original director’s cut is thought to be no longer in existence.”
“The Hills Have Eyes” stars John Steadman, Janus Blythe, Peter Locke, Russ Grieve, Dee Wallace, Susan Lanier, Brenda Marinoff, Robert Houston, Martin Speer, James Whitworth, Michael Berryman, Lance Gordon and Cordy Clark. Enjoy the trailer, interviews and reviews below!
For this edition of “Compare and Contrast” I’ll take a look at both version of “The Hills Have Eyes“. First up, Wes Craven’s original 1977 film. The film opens with an old guy named Fred closing up his gas station/junk yard(?). …
Hot off the heels (or a few year later actually) of the infamous The Last House on the Left, Wes made the film we’ll talk about today, The Hills Have Eyes in 1977. Now here is one of the few times I come across a movie where I had …
That’s right MVP, This post is about George A. Romero’s “Dawn of the Dead!” This is probably my favorite Romero film. It has blood, guts, zombies and it’s fun! At the Fright Night Film Fest, we were able to see a panel of actors from the film. It was fun to hear stories about production. Mutantville was also at the George A. Romero Film Festival in Charlotte, NC and were able to hear Romero talk about Dawn of the Dead.
DAWN OF THE DEAD (George A. Romero, 1978) – Movie Program from Japan. In honour of George A. Romero’s 71st Birthday today, here are some page examples from the movie program for the original cinematic release of the inimitable DAWN OF …
Dawn of the Dead (1978) In this day and age you can’t move for zombies; zombies on the television, zombies at the cinema, zombies in your comics zombies even in your Lego, Christ even flash mob zombies while you’re trying to have a …
This is a rare interview with George A. Romero conducted at his home by a visiting Japanese crew. Be sure to visit our website at www.revok.com to check out more rare and hard-to-find DVDs and movie memorabilia. Any questions or comments? contact us …
See the one and only Hare Krishna Zombie from the original Dawn of the Dead at Spooky Empire 2010 being interviewed by his ghoulfriend Deadly NightShade from the show “These Ghoulish Things…remind me of you.
Finally, Dawn of the Dead remains relevant because of its insightful commentary on consumerism. In 1978, shopping malls didn’t saturate the North American urban landscape like they do today, but Romero saw the concept of the mall as a …
Ok…to finish this out, I have to put one more clip…It’s when we interviewed Dead Pit.com at the Fright Night Film Fest in Louisville, KY. This interview is entertaining…I catch myself watching it…and I was the one holding the camera!
Mutantville.com – We caught up with CK & Uncle Bill at Fright Night Film Fest. You may be familiar with the dynamic horror talk radio duo from Deadpit.com Tweet along with the Mutantville Players at Twitter! twitter.com Be our cyber-buddy on Facebook…
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Dario Argento’s film “Suspiria” is one film I always remember from my crash course in horror films from Streebo. During pre-production, production, post production of “C for Chaos”(and even now), Streebo has educated me on horror from around the globe. While filming we would sometime let me be really intense with the colored light. He would often cite “Suspiria” as a source of inspiration. So I was looking around and thought I’d provide some information about the film to those that may not be familiar with it or those wanting to hear other’s opinions.
Susperia, directed by legendary Italian horror director Dario Argento, is the first film in the Three Mothers trilogy along with Inferno (1980) and La Terza Madre (2007). Argento, along with Goblin who wrote the musical score, …
Suspiria is considered by many to be the best work ever by Dario Argento. The use of lighting, camera angles, close-up and music (performed by The Goblins with input from Argento himself) create a sinister and surreal shroud of dread …
He’s a great director but I don’t think any reimagining will match the 1977 masterpiece that is Dario Argento’s SUSPIRIA. If you haven’t seen this horror classic for some reason, take a chance on it and watch it more than once. …
From The Dig by J. Riddle: Roger Corman has been called a lot of things. Shrewd. Miserly. Maverick. He’s been given titles like King of the Cult Film, King of the B-Movies, and the Pope of Pop Cinema. The last is probably the most appropriate, and not just because it sounds cool and Corman says he likes it. For over 50 years, Corman’s particular breed of low-budget, action-oriented, socially conscious exploitation fare has graced the cinema, to the persistent delight of audiences and, in turn, to his significant profit. He’s brought his talents to bear on every genre under the sun, and has even invented a few of his own. He has a finely-tuned eye for talent–it’s only a little exaggeration to say it would be easier to list the big name Hollywood directors, writers, actors of recent decades who didn’t get their start with Corman than those who did.
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.
From The Dig by J. Riddle: Roger Corman has been called a lot of things. Shrewd. Miserly. Maverick. He’s been given titles like King of the Cult Film, King of the B-Movies, and the Pope of Pop Cinema. The last is probably the most appropriate, and not just because it sounds cool and Corman says he likes it. For over 50 years, Corman’s particular breed of low-budget, action-oriented, socially conscious exploitation fare has graced the cinema, to the persistent delight of audiences and, in turn, to his significant profit. He’s brought his talents to bear on every genre under the sun, and has even invented a few of his own. He has a finely-tuned eye for talent–it’s only a little exaggeration to say it would be easier to list the big name Hollywood directors, writers, actors of recent decades who didn’t get their start with Corman than those who did.
