The Shining (1980) British Quad
Come join us for The Shining this weekend. The Carolina Theatre is still hosting their kickstarter campaign to raise funds to build an historic exhibit in the theater. Check out the kickstarter campaign now and share the link with your friends.
The Dark Half (1993) from www.stephenkingshop.com
To be fair The Shining is perhaps more a work of Stanley Kubrick while The Dark Half was a collaboration with George A. Romero. According to legend, Romero had a lot of conflict on the set with star Timothy Hutton. To be fair – Hutton puts on a tour de force performance in the dual role of George Stark and Thad Beaumont.
Watch The Dark Half this week. Donate to the Carolina Theatre’s Kickstarter tomorrow. Go see The Shining next Friday at Retrofantasma.
I’ll see you there. Today, it’s The Dark Half on Scary Movie Saturday! Get busy watching – or get busy dying.
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Christine Movie Poster
In honor of New Year’s Eve, I thought I’d do a post on “Christine.”
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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Stephen King's MAXIMUM OVERDRIVE!!!
Maximum Overdrive takes over Scary Movie Saturday! We’re working our arses off making scary movies of our own so go check out this campy 80′s classic in the meantime. FYI – Maximum Overdrive was actually Stephen King’s first directorial effort and featured a sizzling hot soundtrack.
Mind you, it doesn’t help that the movie is a totally insane mess – but man is it fun. It has Emilio Esteves, a Green Goblin truck and kids getting mowed down by drink machines. What more do you need to know? Go watch it now!!
Yesterday was Stephen King’s birthday. There is no other single writer or filmmaker repsonsible for giving me more restless nights and nightmares than Stephen King. Thank you for all of the horrors you have shared with us over the years and thank you for the horrors you have yet to unleash. Happy birthday, you evil bastard.
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This week we’re featuring that modern classic from the mind of the King of Horror. That’s right, today we’re featuring Stephen King’s The Mist on Scary Movie Saturday! Directed by Frank Darabount (Walking Dead) from Stephen King’s story and featuring the finest collection of practical and CGI monsters this side of Nightbreed. The Mist has been a favorite of MVP for it’s Lovecraftian influence.
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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.
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This week in honor of the upcoming Fright Night Film Fest in Kentucky next month – we’ve decided to bring you another Carpenter classic. This time out – it’s Stephen King that’s behind the wheel of the script with Carpenter taking the directorial reigns in Christine!
So what are you waiting for? You want to watch horror movies online for free? Well here’s a classic. Grab your burger, fries and get down to the sock hop – because Christine is about to wreck havoc on the unsuspecting populace! It’s Scary Movie Saturday!!!
Click more below to watch the movie at Mutantville.com!
The good scribes over at Slasher Studios have just posted a link to an interview with Eli Roth from the Daily News Los Angeles in which he discloses a list of his favorite horror films. Some of his choices seem to be no-brainers but a couple might surprise you. Check out the trailers to his choices below and then hop over to Daily News Los Angeles to read the complete interview with Mr.Roth.
“Sleepaway Camp” (1983): Ah, “Sleepaway Camp.” I remember watching this film at a sleepover with Lenny Mead and a bunch of friends in the mid-’80s, and when the movie ended we literally stood up out of our chairs and screamed at the top of our lungs until we ran out of air. I will not say why – and don’t go looking up the spoilers on the Internet because that will take all the fun away. Treat yourself to a wonderful surprise.
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. . . at 11:30pm. 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.
