Kathy Butler Sandvoss and Scott Thomas star in G.H.O.S.T. from Mutantville Productions.
Welcome back to another edition of Mutantville Mondays here on Mutantville.com! The Mutantville Players had another productive weekend of editing and working on promotional planning. As of this writing, we’re about three weeks deep into the final cut of G.H.O.S.T. and it’s coming along quite nicely. We’re anticipating another week or two of steady editing and the movie will be ready for the score and final sound design to be put in place.
As Halloween approaches, I thought that instead of focusing on one film on Classic Corner, why not post this horror movie list. If you are a long time follower of the Mutantville blog, you’ll notice that Streebo posted this list from IMDB’s Horror Forum way back in September, 2009. So keep that in mind that this is not a list of the best new horror movies, it’s a best of all time horror movie list.
If there is a horror film you think should be on the list and its not, comment below. To make this a little more visually stimulating, I will put some horror movie posters and pics throughout the list.
1) Dracula (1931) 32 worthy votes X 100%= 32 points
2) The Evil Dead (1981) 29 worthy votes X 96.67%= 28.033 points
3) Carrie (1976) 28 worthy votes X 100%= 28 points
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Welcome back to another edition of Fridays With MVP! There’s so much going on that it’s hard to figure out where to begin. There are more horror films hitting theaters this weekend, Turner Classic Movies has posted their Halloween schedule and The Carolina Theatre is gearing up for the Escapism Festival.
(Get your weekly MVP and horror news fix after the leap or go leap off a cliff!)
This week on Scary Movie Saturday we’re bringing you a classic work from Mario Bava – Black Sunday! Black Sunday is the definitive 60′s Gothic horror film starring Scream Goddess Barbara Steele and featuring a chilling opening sequence and stark painterly black and white compositions throughout. True fans of the horror genre need no explanation for this one as Mario Bava is revered far and wide and here on the Mutantville Mothership he holds a lofty position amongst the Patron Saints of Guerrilla Filmmaking.
This weekend Kevin Smith’s Red State is available on VOD while John Carpenter’s The Ward has hit Blu Ray and Netflix and lastly we get a double punch of Apollo 18 and Shark Night 3D playing in theaters across the nation. The team at MVP are hard at work moving several projects through various stages of production and foresee a long weekend of work ahead. There’s little time for updates so we’re going to share a few links with you then remind you to check out the Mutantville Productions Facebook fanpage and then let you enjoy yourself in the manner of your choosing.
In 2002, Neil Marshall exploded onto the scene with a wild werewolf movie called Dog Soldiers. Dog Soldiers tells the story of six British Army soldiers dropped into the Scottish Highlands to perform routine training exercises only to discover that something much more sinister is afoot – approximately seven afoot tall to be exact – with ears, fur and big pointy teeth! Find out what happens by watching the movie below.
Kevin Smith has set out to prove the critics wrong! After spending years making stoner comedies in his own little world called the Askiewniverse, Smith has broken his own mold and made a horror film close to his heart. Smith shopped the script for Red State around to all of the usual suspects but was only met with rejection. Smith raised the money to shoot the film on his own and at Sundance earlier this year decided he would distribute the film himself!
We’re one week away from this year’s Fright Night Film Fest where the guest of honor is none other than the Master of Horror himself – John Carpenter! There is a remake of Carpenter’s monster classic The Thing waiting in the wings – but we all know that there is no way it can rival the majesty and ferocity of Carpenter’s 1982 film. MVP thought we should cleanse the palate of bad horror by revisiting the original – remake that is.
John Carpenter’s nihilistic paranoia fueled monsterama splattered it’s way across movie screens in 1982 and left both audiences and critics shaking in fear and bewilderment. It was the summer of E.T. The Extra-terrestrial and the public wanted fuzzy, family friendly aliens. What they got with Carpenter’s reworking of Howard Hawks’ classic The Thing From Another World – was cold, humorless, and as vicious as a rabid pit-bull. The movie was almost universally panned and performed abysmally at the box office.
It wasn’t until years passed by that audiences gained appreciation in hindsight and began proclaiming John Carpenter’s The Thing a masterpiece. Today, you can support John Carpenter by watching his latest horror film – The Ward - playing in theaters and VOD sometime this weekend.
The name revealed little and the trailer to Super 8 revealed even less. The anticipation has been building for months. All we knew was that Steven Spielberg was producing and J.J.Abrams was writing and directing and the early reports were that it was good – very good. Well the Doctors of Horror at MVP were able to put Super 8 under the microscope and have come back with their own conclusion – not only is Super 8 super good – but it is the best horror film of 2011 so far!
Super 8 started off with a low Friday night gross of $11 million leading analysts to predict a low opening weekend – but word of mouth carried the nostaligia tinted ride straight to number one with a weekend total of $37 million surpassing expectations by almost $5 million.
Super 8 tells the story of a warm Ohio summer in 1979 when a group of adolescent filmmakers set out to win the local film contest with their latest horror film. Little did they know that during the course of shooting their film, they would witness a horrendous train crash and the subsequent military quarantine of the surrounding area – leading them on a journey to get to the root of the mystery. Super 8 stars Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Joel Courtney, Gabriel Basso, Noah Emmerich, Ron Eldard, Riley Griffiths, Ryan Lee and Zach Mills.
Tired of dying Easter eggs this weekend? Then get out to the Triad theatres this weekend to see a wave of movies filled with people that are dying to scare you! Tonight, the Carolina Theatre in Durham is hosting a double feature of The Changeling and Stephen King’s Pet Sematary and then tomorrow night Cinema Overdrive returns to The Colony with a double feature of John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 and Sam Raimi’s Thou Shalt Not Kill, Except . . .
Make your way to Retrofantasma tonight at the Carolina Theatre for this spooky supernatural double feature of two of the finest horror films ever made. The Changeling is up first at 7pm followed by Pet Sematary at 9pm. Get there early to sign up for cool door prizes as usual. Tickets are only $8 for both movies. As usual it’s more fun than you can shake your boomstick at!
From the Retrofantasma website: “Although set in the US, The Changeling was largely filmed in Canada. It was the first film to win Best Picture in the Canadian Film Awards after its name was changed to the Genie Awards. The story is based upon events experienced by writer Russell Hunter while he was living in the Henry Treat Rogers Mansion of Denver, Colorado. Director Martin Scorsese placed The Changeling on his list of the 11 scariest horror films of all time. Pet Sematary was the first filmed screenplay that Stephen King adapted from one of his own novels. King required the movie to be filmed in Maine and his screenplay to be followed rigorously. George Romero was originally set to direct but when filming was delayed, he dropped out. Tom Savini was offered the director’s chair, but turned down the project. Eventually, Mary Lambert stepped in. Shot for a $11.5 million, Pet Sematary would gross more than $57 million and become the highest-grossing horror film of 1989.”
And tomorrow night ring in Easter properly by watching a gritty double feature at The Colony in Raleigh starting with John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13 at 9:30pm and then Sam Raimi’s Thou Shalt Not Kill, Except. . . at11:30pm. Tickets for Cinema Overdrive are only $8.50 for both movies so you’d be crazy not to take advantage of it!
Check out the trailers below and then get thyself to the theater or else this Sunday you won’t wake up to the Easter Bunny , you’ll wake up in the Pet Sematary.
