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2009 | 2008 | 2000
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Bsb: In Praise of Fright Night
8 November 2009 10:40 PM, PST | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
When you scrape away the death obsessed subtext and technicalities of the process, watching and loving horror films should be just plain fun, exhilarating fun, a complete escape into another parallel world that echoes our own. If it's not, if you find yourself labouring to find that simple joyous eye of the proverbial needle, well then, perhaps you should just give up the pursuit of terror geekdome altogether.
For me, speaking as someone who was literally born into a world where the people that done made me loved dark movies and weird entertainments and fully endorsed my obsessions with my growing "id", horror films will forever be tied to the sweetest moments of my youth. From those secret late night, school night, TV movie binges to sneaking into R rated films after buying PG tickets, horror was my first rebellion against the mainstream so embraced by my peers and the »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
Lee knighted by Prince of Wales
30 October 2009 12:45 PM, PDT | Digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Christopher Lee has been knighted by the Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace. The 87-year-old, who received the honour for his services to drama and charity from the Queen in June, was officially recognised today during the long-established investiture service, Sky News reports. Lee is considered to be one of the most prolific actors of his generation and has appeared in over 150 pictures. He is perhaps best known for his performances with co-star Peter Cushing in a string of successful Hammer horror films from the '50s and '60s, during which time he played famous monsters Dracula and Dr Frankenstein's creature (more) »
- By Tim Parks
Still more horror screenings for Halloween etc.
27 October 2009 9:59 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
The big-screen terrors just keep comin’ for Halloween and beyond as more revivals and special screenings have been announced. You can track back through our previous coverage starting here, and mark your calendars for the following recent announcements:
• New York City’s Maysles Institute (343 Malcolm X Boulevard/Lenox Avenue between 127th and 128th Streets) is in the midst of a series simply called The Horror!, focusing on documentaries pertaining to fright filmmaking, with all shows starting at 7:30 p.m. Tonight, Roy Frumkes will present Document Of The Dead, his chronicle of the making of George A. Romero’s classic Dawn Of The Dead (which will be shown after Frumkes’ post-document Q&A). Tomorrow, Wednesday, Oct. 28, there’ll be a rare chance to catch Joel DeMott’s Demon Lover Diary, the saga of the highly contentious production of the Michigan-lensed ’70s cheapie Demon Lover, starring Gunnar Hansen. Chris Smith’s American Movie, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold and Samuel Zimmerman)
Check out some retro Hammer Horror films this Halloween
21 October 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
If modern horror films just don’t do it for you then you’ll be pleased to know there’s an alternative to the likes of Cirque Du Freak: The Vampires Assistant and Saw VI this Halloween. Beginning on 28th October, London will play host to a two week festival celebrating the legacy of the campest of horror films – Hammer Horror. The production company which brought us awesome bone-chillers like Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein and The Mummy and stars like Peter Cushing, Hazel Court and Christopher Lee will once again take to the big screen. The festival will include spooky screenings of a selection of films, a free exhibition, video interviews and the launch of a new book. »
Check out some retro Hammer Horror films this Halloween
21 October 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | Boxwish.com | See recent BoxWish news »
If modern horror films just don’t do it for you then you’ll be pleased to know there’s an alternative to the likes of Cirque Du Freak: The Vampires Assistant and Saw VI this Halloween. Beginning on 28th October, London will play host to a two week festival celebrating the legacy of the campest of horror films – Hammer Horror. The production company which brought us awesome bone-chillers like Dracula, The Curse of Frankenstein and The Mummy and stars like Peter Cushing, Hazel Court and Christopher Lee will once again take to the big screen. The festival will include spooky screenings of a selection of films, a free exhibition, video interviews and the launch of a new book. »
Hammer Films to Publish Books
14 October 2009 12:20 PM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
There's an interesting article in Variety on Hammer Films. According to the article, Hammer has signed on with Pfd publishing, who will solicit new writers to bring fresh takes to old scares. The studio is most famous for its updates of Universal Classics horror films, which introduced a mixture of sex, violence and color film to their predecessors, and teamed Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. Hammer made a recent revival on the internet, and hopes to expand its name to the literary world now.
Older fans are likely to rejoice at this news, but I fear younger genre fans are more likely to know Lionsgate and Darren Bousman than Hammer and Peter Cushing. I don't know how popular the studio is in its home country of England, but the statements made by Pfd's CEO Caroline Michel that, "Hammer is an iconic household name with a loyal fanbase and the raft »
Brides Feast on Colonial's Spooktacular
6 October 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Ferocious female vampires feast upon Keene, New Hampshire at The Colonial Theatre's Spooktacular, Saturday, October 24. Curated by Saturday Fright Special, New Hampshire's first home-grown horror host show, the cornerstone of the event is a rare 35mm screening of the 1960 Hammer horror classic Brides of Dracula , starring Peter Cushing. The Spooktacular will also feature additional Hammer and other vintage monster movie trailers and other fearsome film goodies too frightful to mention, horror DVD and T-shirt giveaways and an original Brides of Dracula sketch from renowned artist S.R. Bissette. The costumed cast from Saturday Fright Special will be on hand to introduce the film and live "vampire brides" will hand out free vampire fangs to the first 50 patrons.... »
Spider-Man director takes on the Yeti
30 September 2009 3:07 PM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Spider-man director Sam Raimi is to produce a horror movie called Refuge about a Yeti terrorising a remote town.
British director Corin Hardy will helm the project, based on a script by British writer Tom De Ville, says The Hollywood Reporter.
Raimi's Ghost House Pictures has agreed to produce the movie for independent film studio Mandate Pictures.
The Yeti - also called the Abominable Snowman - is a mythical apeman native to the Himalayas. The creature is the equivalent of North America's Bigfoot or Sasquatch.
It won't be the screen debut for the Yeti. Several of the creatures were in last year's The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and it was also seen in 1954's The Snow Creature, 1957's The Abominable Snowman and in the animated film Monsters Inc.
Many movies and TV shows have featured Bigfoot. The excellent TV movie Snowbeast, from 1977, featured a man-eating, Bigfoot-like creature »
- David Bentley
Horror Addictionary: There Oughta Be A Word...
25 August 2009 3:05 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Sex and horror go together like...well, like two things that go really, really well together. The history of attracting young male viewers with a mix of gore and gratuitous breast shots dates way back, at least as far as the European fright films of the '60s. Many a young male horror fan can remember experiencing new sensations watching pale British beauties with plunging necklines saved and/or defiled by Hammer Studios' stars Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. Today, those same sensations are being offered to a new generation of young (and not so young) female horror fans. From Twilight to True Blood, shirtless guys are becoming as much a staple of the genre as topless gals, and we think there oughta be a... »
News: Doctor Who: The Dalek Collection
25 August 2009 6:57 AM, PDT | Kasterborous.com | See recent Kasterborous news »
Publishers of BBC DVDs 2entertain are set to release a new boxset featuring each Dalek adventure from Doctor Who since 2005 - and here's a first look at the cover! Confusingly it has been given the name of Doctor Who: The Dalek Collection - the same name given to the DVD set of Peter Cushing-starring Dalek films from the mid-1960s. Seven action-packed adventures plus an exclusive interview with David Tennant (no other extras) feature in Doctor Who: The Dalek Collection which is released on... »
- Christian Cawley info@kasterborous.com
'Shaun of the Dead' Star to Sell Dead
23 August 2009 11:20 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »
After a lengthy hiatus from features, it appears that legendary director John Landis has a new project lined up. One thing’s for sure, it sounds more in line with An American Werewolf in London than his more comedic works, like National Lampoon’s Animal House.
Landis, whose last theatrical release was the 1998 Susan’s Plan, is working on a black comedy called Burke and Hare, based on the real-life West Port murders. According to /Film, Shaun of the Dead and Star Trek’s Simon Pegg will star, presumably as either William Burke or William Hare.
Between 1827 and 1828, the murders of 17 individuals were attributed to Burke and Hare, both Irish immigrants. They supposedly "burked" — a term that would come to mean purposefully smothering — their victims, and sold the bodies to Edinburgh Medical College for dissection. After initially selling the body of a dead man, Burke and Hare suffocated ill or »
Pegg + Landis = Burke and Hare
23 August 2009 11:06 PM, PDT | EmpireOnline | See recent EmpireOnline news »
Simon Pegg's full-frontal assault on Hollywood looks set to continue, with the news from horror maestros Dread Central that he'll be heading up a new version of the gruesome Burke and Hare legend, directed by John Landis.William Burke and William Hare, to refresh your memory, were the nineteenth-century murderers with the resourceful motive of selling their victims to the Edinburgh Medical College for dissection by the students. They were caught in 1828, whereupon Hare was given immunity from prosecution for telling on Burke, who was promptly hung and publicly dismembered in the name of medical science.The story has made the screen several times before: not least as The Flesh and the Fiends with Peter Cushing and Donald Pleasance, The Anatomist with Alistair Sim, and The Doctor and the Devils with Timothy Dalton.But a new version is completely welcome if it means the return of John Landis, who, »
Warners digs up some cheesy gold on DVD
11 August 2009 2:05 PM, PDT | EW.com - PopWatch | See recent EW.com - PopWatch news »
Back in March, Warner Bros announced the creation of Warner Archives, a mail-order service that offered some of the more obscure titles from the studio's vaults on DVD for armchair cinephiles. Each month, the studio promised to dust off more films and add them to the list. We'll be honest, the first batch was loaded with a lot of mothball-scented curios that were never released on DVD for a reason. They were lesser films from big stars like Cary Grant, Clark Gable, and Greta Garbo. Sure, the Robert Osborne crowd would eat them up, but what about the rest of us with -- how should we put this -- less discerning tastes? Well, this month's arsenal of Warner Archives titles is for you! Here are some of the highlights. *Razorback: Highlander's Russell Mulcahy helms this 1984 killer pig movie is a wonderfully gory slice of Ozploitation. This is Grade »
- Chris Nashawaty
Fantasia ’09: They Sell the Dead
5 August 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Revisionist horror favorite Larry Fessenden (director of Habit, Wendigo and The Last Winter) returned to Montreal’s just-wrapped Fantasia film festival this year with two new films from his indie-horror production company Scareflix: Ti West’s incredibly atmospheric ‘80s horror tribute House Of The Devil (a smash success at Tribeca and a late but great addition to the Fantasia program; see review here) and Glenn McQuaid’s period horror-comedy tribute to British ‘60s/’70s horror classics, I Sell The Dead (another Fango rave; see here; I Sell The Dead goes into limited theatrical release this Friday and is concurrently available as a video-on-demand from IFC Films).
Fessenden was on hand with co-producer Peter Phok and first-time feature director Glenn McQuaid for their award-winning I Sell The Dead, a one-of-a-kind dark adventure film depicting the daily lives and supernatural woes of two lowlife body-snatchers, played by Fessenden himself and Dominic Monaghan »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Kier-la Janisse)
Stacie Ponder - A Primer to the Best of Hammer Horror Movies
21 July 2009 9:00 PM, PDT | amctv.com - Horror Hacker: Stacie Ponder | See recent amctv.com - Horror Hacker: Stacie Ponder news »
If you ask me, weekends were made for Hammer horror movies. Lazy, Sunday-afternoon air cries out for a gothic-flavored Dracula flick; lying on the couch and watching Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing battle it out while a busty broad in a flouncy top and a tight corset cowers in some castle corner, screaming, well... that's the good life, my friends. The veteran English production company offered more than their »
Fantasia 2009: Tommy Wirkola's Dead Snow
17 July 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »
- Up-and-coming Norwegian writer/director Tommy Wirkola (Kill Buljo) takes viewers on a tour of the beautiful snowy mountains of Oksfjord, Norway in his second feature film, Dead Snow. The thing is, Wirkola has also decided that the time is ripe for a revival of a horror subgenre many people thought would never re-surface: the Nazi zombie film (remember Shock Waves, with Peter Cushing and John Carradine?). By the end of this 90-minute splatter comedy, the beautiful white snow of the Norwegian Alps will be painted blood red. After a frenetic shaky-cam opening sequence excellently set to the tune of Edvard Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" in which we see a young woman running from someone - or something - in the mountains, we are introduced to a group of 6 med-school students heading to an isolated cabin for their Easter break. Before long, a mysterious stranger »
Unjustly Forgotten Horrror Movie of the Week: 1975's 'Legend of the Werewolf'
15 July 2009 8:05 AM, PDT | ESplatter.com | See recent ESplatter news »
Maybe with the "Wolfman" hitting screens from Universal, interest in werewolves will increase to the point that this very moldie oldie will be dusted off and given some kind of release. This now forgotten British werewolf film from the 1970s, borrows liberally from the Hammer production "The Curse of the Werewolf," profiling the life of a "wolf boy" and later werewolf from childhood to adulthood. One of the last horror films directed by the legendary cinematographer Freddie Francis, this came out the same year as "The Ghoul," another one of Francis' films starring Peter Cushing. Cusing would not be acting much longer, and was in only a few horror films like this before leaving the acting scene and passing away in 1994. Cushing plays a doctor in historic Paris who becomes fascinated by a series of brutal killings that, naturally, police believe were performed by a wolf. In fact, a disgruntled »
Exclusive: We Chat with Hammer Chief Simon Oakes about Christopher Lee's Return to Horror and the 'Let the Right One In' Remake!
3 July 2009 10:00 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
For longtime horror fans, there's something magical about the words "Hammer Horror." They conjure up images of Christopher Lee's feral Dracula, Peter Cushing's dashing Van Helsing, and countless buxom beauties in diaphanous nightgowns running through gothic castles and moonlit forests. For decades, Hammer was the premiere horror-film studio, giving us countless reasons to sit in darkened theaters. And since it stopped producing fright films, it seems there have been just as many attempts to bring Hammer back. The boldest attempt, however, is currently being orchestrated by producer Simon Oakes, who's readying Christopher Lee's return both to fright films and the world of Hammer with The Resident, along with... »
Doctor Who movie to be announced at Comic-Con?
2 July 2009 1:57 PM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Speculation is continuing to materialise, in true Tardis style, that a new Doctor Who movie starring David Tennant is soon to be announced.
Many fans are expecting the news to come at this month's San Diego Comic-Con.
David Tennant and Doctor Who lead writer and executive producer Russell T Davies will be at the massive sci-fi convention on July 26, along with executive producer Julie Gardner and director Euros Lyn.
Tennant is to appear in three remaining TV specials before his character regenerates into the 11th Doctor Matt Smith, with Steven Moffat taking over from Davies as showrunner.
But it's widely thought that 38-year-old Tennant would return to the role for the big screen.
Long-gestating plans for a movie adaptation of the hit sci-fi series have gained credence over the past few months.
Back in April, Tennant told the Sunday Times he had been offered a sci-fi project he was unable to discuss. »
- David Bentley
Revisiting Brides Of Dracula
30 June 2009 12:46 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
When Marianne (Yvonne Monlaur) frees the captive Baron Mienster (David Peel), she unwillingly unleashes all hell…or, just one really bad vampire. One way or the other, village people begin dropping like flies, and the charming Baron Mienster is responsible. Fortunately for our naïve female lead Marianne, the wise Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) arrives just in the nick of time. After assessing the situation, Van Helsing quickly determines there are vampires to blame for the mysterious deaths; it’s not long after, before the good Doc also realizes the mysterious Baron Mienster is the culprit. After the Baron has recruited a few attractive young ladies to join him in his life of vampirism, Van Helsing cuts all plans short by tracking the Baron down and feeding him a fatal dose of Holy Water.
Cushing is wonderful as the visiting hero Van Helsing, and Yvonne Monlaur is perfectly oblivious in the unsuspecting female lead. »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Matt Molgaard)
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