The big news from the weekend is that the Spielberg, Aabrams collaboration – Super 8 was a smashing success – taking the number one spot at the box office and bringing horror back to mainstream audiences.
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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.
From Fear.net: Making a horror movie can be a surreal experience. You spend long hours performing terrifying atrocities in front of the camera. Then the director yells “Cut!” and suddenly you’re headed over to the snack table to have a cup of coffee with the person you just disemboweled.
But sometimes, the line between making a realistic horror film and finding yourself knee-deep inside one gets a little too blurry and bloody for comfort. Here are ten of our favorite examples:
PEEPING TOM (1960). Here’s the good news: you get to star in your own movie. Here’s the bad news: the director likes to film his stars as he kills them, so he can capture their true expressions of fear. Talk about method acting. But hey, a gig’s a gig
via FEARnet’s Top 10 Horror Movies Inside Horror Movies – FEARNet.
From Fear.net: Some say that clowns get a bad rap. Theory being that a few bad apples have used the guise of the otherwise trustworthy buffoon for their own maniacal missions, trading in red noses and balloon animals for killer candy and deadly ice cream.
So what do you think? Are they misunderstood friends to children and favorites of circus-lovers everywhere or rainbow-clothed jesters of Satan? Check out our list of the most evil clowns around and you be the judge. But beware when they knock you dead, they really knock you dead.
Violator – Spawn
Short on height, but big on girth, this demon-turned clown wants nothing more than to enlist some souls into Satan’s army.
via FEARnet’s Top 10 Creepy Clowns – FEARNet.
From Fearnet.com:
We all remember the movies that scarred us for life. From killer clowns to ghost tales to Willy Wonka’s trippy tunnel of terror, these sinister villains and monstrous creatures sprang from television sets and theater screens to wreak havoc in our nightmares. Some of them still do. Face your dormant childhood fears by revisiting ten of our favorite scary kidcentric flicks, and tell us if they still keep you up at night.
It (1990)
As if clowns weren’t scary enough on their own, Stephen King had to go and make them even worse. Enter Pennywise the Dancing Clown, a shape-shifting, ubiquitous and all-powerful being that dwells in the sewers and devours children by feeding on their greatest fears. This two-part miniseries scared the bejeezus out of the children (and adults) of the ‘90s. Let us remind you why:
via FEARnet’s Top 10 Films That Traumatized Your Childhood – FEARNet.
From FEARnet:
Sequels get a bad rap, and rightfully so – most of the time. The horror genre is especially rife with sequels, with many franchises so heavily spun-off that they have stopped being numbered. Not all sequels suck, and to prove it we found ten that are at least as good as the original – if not better.
Dawn of the Dead
The second of George Romero’s original zombie trilogy, Dawn of the Dead is inarguably the best of the three. A group of survivors take refuge in a shopping mall, but eventually decide to make a break for it. While not a sequel in the strictest sense, it is a damn fine movie.
Hostel II
A surprisingly good follow-up to the unimaginative original (which, in turn, was a rip-off of Saw), Hostel II focuses less on the slaughter of nubile coeds, and more on the men who buy the opportunity to do the slaughtering. While no less violent or gruesome, it offers a different perspective than most slasher flix.
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
The seventh installment in the Nightmare on Elm Street series is a case study in twisted post-modernism. Heather Langenkamp, Robert Englund, and Wes Craven play themselves in the real world. Heather gets threats that echo Freddy Krueger’s M.O., and she needs to reprise her role as Nancy to defeat Freddy. Again. One of the most imaginative horror movies, sequel or otherwise.
via FEARnet’s Top 10 Horror Sequels – FEARNet.
