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Teri McMinn Talks Meathooks, Chainsaws, and Massacres

4 June 2009 1:36 AM, PDT | From DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news

As any horror fan worth their salt knows, back in 1974, a little film was released (or unleashed) upon the public with the off-putting yet intriguing title, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Most horror folks have heard all the stories about the film including The Dinner Scene shoot and about the deal with Bryanston, which led to years of legal wrangling. The cast has, to one degree or another, stayed in the public eye and director Tobe Hooper, Dp Daniel Pearl and Production Manager Ron Bozman all moved on to other films, even an Oscar win.

But one cast member has remained mysteriously quiet. And she is the most iconic of them all – Pam, the girl on the hook. Every TCM poster has her image along with Gunnar Hansen’s Leatherface, but no one really knew what happened to her once the film was wrapped. Now, Teri McMinn, who so memorably played Pam,

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Jerichow - Movie Review

14 May 2009 3:25 AM, PDT | From Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news

A great modern neo-noir thriller with sparse, tight dialog and passion that boils right through to the final shocking ending Following his critically acclaimed .Yella,. up and coming director/actor Christian Petzold.s current potboiler .Jerichow. was nominated for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. On the surface the film has the plot and feel of the noir classic .The Postman Always Rings Twice.. In that movie, a roadside café owner hires a drifter to help out around the place. Soon the drifter is plotting with the man.s attractive wife to eliminate him from their lives. In .Double Indemnity. Fred MacMurray plots with Barbara Stanwyck to kill her husband and is found out by smart insurance man Edward G.

Ron Wilkinson

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Gay Of The Dead 12: Writer/director/actor Alan Rowe Kelly: Part 1

13 May 2009 3:35 AM, PDT | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news

I had never seen any of Alan Rowe Kelly’s films until he contacted me—literally moments after posting my first Gay Of The Dead blog. And yes, that is Alan in the photo to the left. Don’t worry, we’ll get to that later.

Kelly’s opening salvo to me was the grisly, intense and controversial A Far Cry From Home segment from the recently wrapped Gallery Of Fear anthology, which he co-wrote, co-directed and produced for his Southpaw Pictures. From there I jumped back to his first feature, I’LL Bury You Tomorrow, a loopy, sprawling, bloody feature that manages to wind storylines of seven main characters into one big crazy fest. After that, I popped in The Blood Shed, which starts off with a preteen kid being yanked in half and just gets more insane (see: awesome) from there.

After watching Kelly’s films and chatting

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Renée is Glamorous?

11 May 2009 6:00 AM, PDT | From FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news

I'm a little confused about why Renée Zellweger's publicist / management are working her so hard right now. There's no movie out. Is it to try and acclimate the media to the idea of loving her again, what with 3 films arriving this fall and 2 of them (My One and Only, My Own Love Song) supposedly acting showcases and thus... (gasp) Oscar possibilities? She's in the current Glamour magazine which purports to tell us who the 50 most glamorous women are. Zeéeee does not make the list despite being their covergirl. In the interview, she offers up this quote about what she's looking for in a man. I'm looking for an encyclopedia and a dictionary. A bit of the Boy Scouts Handbook. Um... Renée is looking for Professor Bertram Potts?!? 'Sugarpuss' O'Shea will not be pleased.

Zeéeee vs. Barbara Stanwyck? Zeéeee may be from Texas but Stanwyck was from Brooklyn, yo, and

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NATHANIEL R

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Pre-Code Wellman and Godard's Code Unknown

31 March 2009 7:17 AM, PDT | From ifc.com | See recent IFC news

William "Wild Bill" Wellman was always more renowned for his reportedly rough and tumble extra-cinematic resume (delinquent, pilot, stuntman) than for his mostly orthodox films -- from his nearly 40-year career, only a handful of astute genre epics remain lodged in the cultural front-brain today: "Nothing Sacred" and "A Star Is Born" (both 1937), "Beau Geste" (1939), and "The Ox-Bow Incident" (1943). They're all beautifully judged, visually eloquent and delicately acted films (compare Fredric March in "A Star Is Born" to the rest of his mannered '30s work, and you get a taste of Wellman's touch), particularly "Ox-Bow," wherein Dana Andrews and Henry Fonda are unnervingly in touch with the wages of frontier violence.

Still, Wellman worked long enough in the studio system to assure a certain homogeneity to most of his work, and so the payload of early Wellmans delivered in Warner/TCM's new Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume Three have as

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Michael Atkinson

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[DVD Review] Forbidden Hollywood Collection: Volume 3

29 March 2009 8:50 AM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

12.00 Normal 0 false false false En-us X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Forbidden Hollywood Collection: Volume 3 contains six movies, two documentaries and irresponsible levels of racism in an awesome purple box. Let's dig in.

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Other Men's Women is a very loose story of a lover's triangle, often venturing out into weird, pointless side-stories. In the first ten minutes of this James Cagney / Mary Astor vehicle, a diner waitress is threatened with a ketchup bottle, another is hit on with rampant disregard for common decency and then stood up after being promised wedding vows. When she storms off, her would-be hubby stands on the train tracks calling out to her and swearing her worth like she was a common baseball card, and not a fine young working girl serving eggs Benedict and white toast to train conductors. Contained herein is a veritable cinematic troth of delightfully sexist characters and dialogues. In one early sequence,

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Saul Berenbaum

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[DVD Review] Forbidden Hollywood Collection: Volume 3

29 March 2009 8:50 AM, PDT | From JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news

Forbidden Hollywood Collection: Volume 3

Six movies. Two documentaries. Irresponsible levels of racism. In an awesome purple box. Let’s dig in.

Movies:

Other Men’s Women is a very loose story of a lover’s triangle, often venturing out into weird, pointless side-stories. In the first ten minutes of this James Cagney / Mary Astor vehicle, a diner waitress is threatened with a ketchup bottle, another is hit on with rampant disregard for common decency and then stood up after being promised wedding vows. When she storms off, her would-be hubby stands on the train tracks calling out to her and swearing her worth like she was a common baseball card, and not a fine young working girl serving eggs Benedict and white toast to train conductors. Contained herein is a veritable cinematic troth of delightfully sexist characters and dialogues. In one early sequence, a pretty young thing is cutting her

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Saul Berenbaum

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The Art of Trash: An Interview with Viva filmmaker Anna Biller

22 February 2009 12:18 AM, PST | From Fangoria.com | See recent Fangoria news

Okay folks, here goes…

The following interview is a must read for fans of trash, cult and generally outlandish cinema. And sex. See, Viva, a mind blowing recreation of early Playboy magazine gloss and the sexploitation melodramas of Russ Meyer and H.G. Lewis fell onto my happy lap last week and, popping it in my player, I immediately fell in love.

The incredible, experimental, hilarious and hotter than hell in June psuedo-feminist exploitation film is Not horror, I know this, so quit your slit eyed gawking. But if you, like me, kneel at the sticky alter of drive in and grindhouse cinema than baby, you will flip your wig over this brilliant boob riddled masterstroke of experimental filmmaking.

The picture - out now on DVD courtesy of Anchor Bay (in Unrated & R-rated editions) - is the brainchild of writer, producer, director and star Anna Biller. It's a bold gamble that

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8 articles from 2009

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