Looking at Speculative Fiction from Another Dimension.
Apr 7, 2013
Since the new Evil Dead movie is out, I thought we’d have some fun with the original Evil Dead movie. I think most people are familiar with it so I’m going to post more videos of interviews and clips. Let’s start off with the original trailer! That was fun! Here’s a cool video with Sam Raimi: Some more Sam Raimi! Here are some quotes: In...
I can’t believe we haven’t done a post of Takashi Miike’s Audition yet. I was looking through a list of the top horror movies of all time. There were only 2 in the top 20 that we haven’t covered and one of those was Audition . This is one of the few posters I’ve posted that scares me. I’m not a big fan of needles, which is...
As New Year’s Eve approaches, I wanted to focus on Terror Train since it takes place on New Year’s Eve. Terror Train was directed by Roger Spottiswoode and stars Jamie Lee Curtis, Ben Johnson, Hart Bochner, Vanity and none other than David Copperfield. Roger Spottiswoode has also directed Under Fire, Shoot to Kill, Turner & Hooch, Air America,...
This week we focus on The Return of the Living Dead which was released in August of 1985. This film was directed by and the screenplay was written by none other than Dan O’Bannon. Mr. O’Bannon got his start when he and John Carpenter collaborated on Dark Star. He also wrote the story and screen play for Alien, two stories for the film Heavy Metal...
It is rare on Mutantville.com that we come out and declare a movie an instant classic or a masterpiece – but in the case of the latest work from the Wachowski Syblings and Tom Tykwer – that is just the case. Over the past month, we’ve had the chance to see Cloud Atlas in the theaters – not once but twice. With each viewing, the movie...
This Sunday we’ll focus on Mario Bava’s Black Sunday (seems appropriate right?). The film was released in the US on February 15th, 1961 (nice Valentine’s Day movie). According to Wikipedia, This is credited as Mario Bava’s directorial debut even though he directed a few movies he wasn’t credited for. Black Sunday stars Barbara...
