Stanley Kubrick directs Malcolm McDowell on A Clockwork Orange.
“One of the things that gave me the most confidence in trying to make a film was seeing all the lousy films that I saw. Because I sat there and thought, Well, I don’t know a goddamn thing about movies, but I know I can make a film better than that.”
~~Stanley Kubrick
Several of this year’s selections for the Fright Night Film Fest have come from MVP’s stomping ground of North Carolina! We thought we’d give a quick shout out to our fellow Carolinian filmmakers by sharing their trailers with you! So without further ado here are the trailers for Michael Sharpe’s Monomaniacal, Desdemona 6 from Last Call Pictures, Hot Pink Jesus from Mad Ones Films, and Ghost Trek from Michael Plumides and Robert Filion.
“I don`t want to be in the mainstream. I don`t want to be a part of the demographics. I want to be an individual. I wear each of my films as a badge of pride. That`s why I cherish all my bad reviews. If the critics start liking my movies, then I`m in deep trouble.”
~~John Carpenter
Check out John Carpenter’s latest film The Ward now playing on VOD. Come meet John Carpenter at this year’s Fright Night Film Fest in Kentucky on July 22 – 24th.
“It’s not the house that’s haunted!”
That’s the tagline to the new haunted house horror film from the producer of Paranormal Activity and writer and director of SAW – Insidious. James Wan directs this tight little spookshow about a young family trying to cope with the effects of unwanted supernatural presences in their lives.
Be on the lookout for a nice supporting role from ghost assault survivor Barbara Hershey (The Entity) as the supportive mother that calls in the psychic to help out. Insidious pays homage to all of the great haunted house films of the past and keeps the audience jumping and guessing from beginning to end. Streebo gives Insidious a 7 out of 10 on the Streebo Scream-o-meter. Go see it while you can!
Check out my full review below.
A few weeks back Mutantville.com was contacted in reference to a banner exchange with VHS Wasteland. You’ll note that there banner now appears on each page of the site in the left navigation. And what a cool site it is.
As many of you are aware, this humble writer is a huge VHS collector. So it was a natural that I begin contributing to such a worthwhile archive. As of today, April 07, 2011, I have joined the contributing staff of VHS Wasteland. They classify any contributors of VHS scans staff, so don’t worry, I’m not leaving your home for horror, Mutantville.com.
My first rare VHS Horror scan is The Possessed. Check it out in all it’s hi resolution glory right here or by clicking the thumbnail. I’ll be adding a new cover each and every week. I’d recommend browsing their archive pages as well as they have truly interesting looking covers for films so rare even I have never heard of them.
As for my first contribution, The Possessed, I cannot call it a good film but it certainly is one of the strangest films I’ve seen. It came out on the heels of The Exorcist and tries it’s best to cash in by stealing virtually every FX gag of the original. I hope to add a full review in weeks to come. For now enjoy this really sweet looking cover.
In preparation for this article this reviewer has read half a dozen other reviews by people who supposedly are “Expert” critics. I have found them all at a polar opposite positions to my own. One such reviewer wrote “Just a dull mix of leather-clad girls shooting a group of generic enemies”. Wow. I have no idea what film she watched because there was nothing dull about Sucker Punch. That came from a female so I guess it’s a bit more understandable, but it comes off as really catty to me. Clearly, Sucker Punch is the male version of female empowerment. Still any true fan of action on the screen CGI or otherwise has to appreciate the look and pacing of this film.
The story slips seamlessly between reality, melodrama and fantasy and works on all 3 levels.While watching humanoids in NYC give Grace Randolph their thoughts on the new Zack Snyder film “Sucker Punch” via Indymogul.com, I realized that there are certain catch words that anyone can say to make themselves seem more intelligent when creatively bitching about a film. One of these is “story”. Fans love to bitch about story even if they have no idea what a great one really looks like. Honestly, I think the multi-tiered story confused people. So, in their minds it can’t be that the film’s true depth of “story” slipped by them. It must be that the films story was poor to begin with. While I’m not proposing the story was truly great, it’s far from awful and it is original.
Sucker Punch tells us the story of ‘Baby Doll’, a young girl who, after the death of her mother has been framed for the murder of her younger sister and sent to a mental institution by her abusive stepfather.
While she’s there, she hides away in an alternative reality and teams up with a group of other girls at the institute to help her escape. They must, along with a mysterious stranger, fight through fantasy worlds to get the five items they will need to be free.
Upon our first jaunt in the fantasy world we’re given the characters true dramatic arc which will play out for the rest of the picture. “Your journey will set you free.” Baby Doll is imprisoned, both in reality and in her mind. Her dramatic need is too become free. It won’t be easy and will require great sacrifice. The so called, action set pieces we are treated to throughout the rest of the film are a metaphor for this and do they ever look great.
Mech Warriors, Steampunk Nazi Zombies, WW2 Style Air Battles, Dragons, Hi tech futuristic robot battle sequences and more. I ask you, what’s not to love? See this film in theaters. IT IS EPIC! At the end of the day, it all comes down to “Did the film entertain me?” Personally, speaking, yes. This film was very, very entertaining. Check it out
Recent reports have revealed that the long awaited adaptation of H.P.Lovcraft’s At The Mountains of Madness from Guillermo Del Toro has been put on indefinite hold. This is a sad sad day as Del Toro is a fave of MVP and often cited as the best director working in the horror genre today. Del Toro’s horror output has been sadly non-existent since the 2007 release of Pan’s Labyrinth.
Just this week, MVP was thrilled to discover a new trailer for At The Mountains of Madness – not from Del Toro – but from a group called Cthulhu Films. In the past, Lovecraft adaptations have not fared well as the unspeakable horrors described in Lovecraft’s prose fail to impress when adapted to the big screen. There have been notable exceptions such as From Beyond, Dagon, or Call of Cthulhu – but for the most part, Lovecraft’s horrors are best left unseen. Let’s hope that is not the case with this latest adaptation.
Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs
Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs
Author:oscary2008
Last week at Nevermore Film Festival at the Carolina Theatre in Durham, we saw “Silence of the Lambs” on the big screen! It was the first time I’d seen it in a theatre and I heard some sounds I didn’t hear on my not so big television at home. I’d forgotten that Roger Corman made an appearance in the films as well. Anthony Hopkins is so awesome in this film.
I found the trailer, some interviews, some reviews and other cool information about “Silence of the Lambs.” Enjoy!
Trailer – The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Movie Trailer
jdbrecords: essential 90s – the silence of the lambs
It’s Oscar weekend, so it seems timely to revisit one of the Academy’s most unique Best Picture choices: Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs. Even after many uses of its famous scenes in montages, clips, and parodies, …
Publish Date: 02/26/2011 11:42
http://jdbrecords.blogspot.com/2011/02/essential-90s-silence-of-lambs.html
This interview has some cool insight for actors…
Anthony Hopkins:Picasso… interview with Jimmy Carter
Brillant actor….SIR Anthony Hopkins…one of the best EVER really……..So well spoken and elegant.. Doing an interview with an actor is like doing a scene..he makes anyone in a scene with him look better! Anthony Hopkins fantastic as PIcasso….s…
Anthony Hopkins Inside The The Actors Studio Part 1
Anthony Hopkins Inside The Actors Studio
Jim Ferguson Interviews Jodie Foster for Silence of the Lambs
ReelRave is the online destination for interviews with today’s biggest movie stars talking about today’s biggest movies www.reelrave.com
On Director Jonathan Demme by Charles Napier
www.ExploreTalent.com Actor Charles Napier discusses working with the great film director Jonathan Demme – The Silence Of The Lambs – (Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins) – Philadelphia – (Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington) – The Manchurian Candidate (Meryl St…
Lambs still screams | Movie Feature | Halifax, Nova Scotia | THE COAST
Twenty years on, five-time Oscar winner Silence of the Lambs endures.
Publish Date: 02/24/2011 3:00
http://www.thecoast.ca/halifax/lambs-still-screams/Content?oid=2261428
The Silence Of The Lambs – 20th Anniversary « moviegeekblog
The Silence Of The Lambs – 20th Anniversary (via moviegeekblog) Posted on 3 February, 2011 by Jarle Petterson The Silence Of The Lamb (1991) (20th Anniversary Review) Dir: Jonathan Demme With: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, …
Publish Date: 02/01/2011 19:22
http://moviegeekblog.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/the-silence-of-the-lambs-20th-anniversary/
Take a peek at the trailers for the films in this year’s Nevermore Film Festival lineup.
Friday the 13th
Silence of the Lambs
Darkman
Rubber
El Monstro Del Mar
Vanishing on 7th St.
Mold!
Black Death
Dark Souls
All About Evil
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
Unaware
Alice Jacobs is Dead
November 26 – 28, the Carolina Theatre in Durham is bringing you the “Groovy B-Movie” Weekend Marathon! You will be treated to a selection of B-movie gems shown in glorious 35mm ranging from The Amazing Spider-Man to Frogs to Gargoyles to Inframan to The Incredible Melting Man and Grizzly! They’re all coming to you for the low price of $5 per movie or $20 for an amazing all access pass!
Here’s a glimpse of some of the B-Movie madness coming your way:
The Amazing Spider-Man
http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/the-amazing-spider-man/
Frogs trailer
http://www.moviedeaths.com/frogs/jason_crockett/
Grizzly
New York Times Review
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9906E7DC1F3CE334BC4B52DFB366838D669EDE
The Incredible Melting Man
New York Times Movie Review
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E07EFDD1230E632A25757C0A9639C946990D6CF
Inframan
http://www.badmovies.org/movies/inframan/
Retrofantasma Reviews
http://mutantville.com/blog/1679/retrofantasma-celebrates-twelfth-anniversary-with-slasher-double-feature/
Retrofantasma Celebrates 12th Annivesary with Slasher Double Feature.
http://mutantville.com/blog/1239/devil-comes-down-to-a-happy-ending-with-retrofantasma/
Devil Comes Down to a Happy Ending with Retrofantasma.
For more information check out the official website for the Carolina Theatre here.
