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Review: 'Malefic' by Luis Royo
26 December 2009 11:54 AM, PST
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Malefic
By Luis Royo
Nbm, 96 pages, $32.99
Reviewing what is essentially an art book is tough if you’re not an artist since so many of the proper words and phrases can prove elusive. Also, if you have only a passing familiarity with the artist, you might lack the experience to judge the work. Still, if you like art, like fantasy and science fiction, the hope is that the package is compelling enough for you to buy it and learn more.
The 59 year old artist Luis Royo is perhaps best known in America for his work in the 1980s in Heavy Metal. His popularity there led to countless paperback cover paintings and then his work in trading cards, culminating in several sets from Comic Images to spotlight him.
In 1994, Royo’s first collection of work, Malefic, was released and has since gone on to be an international best seller. Now, coming in February from Nbm,
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- Robert Greenberger
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Metallica Score Best-Selling Album, Beating Shania Twain
23 December 2009 10:32 PM, PST
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This week, one of Metallica's albums is named the top-selling album in the Nielsen SoundScan era. Their 1991 self-titled studio album "Metallica" has sold more than 15,490,000 copies, surpassing previously best-selling effort, Shania Twain's "Come on Over" which pulled in around 15,487,000 units to date.
This achievement gives the band the No. 1 position on Nielsen's "release to date" chart and makes them the first hard rock act to top the list as the previous champs were ranging from mainstream pop, rock and country musics. Whitney Houston's "The Bodyguard [Original Soundtrack]" ruled the chart in 1991, Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" topped the list in 1996, and Shania Twain's "Come on Over" led the pack in 2001.
Beside pulling in an impressive selling number, "Metallica" album has also earned the James Hetfield-fronted band a Golden Gramophone for Best Metal Performance with Vocal at 1992 Grammy Awards. At the same year moreover, they took home Best
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Invictus Review
23 December 2009 9:15 AM, PST
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Short Version: Invictus is a drama of hope that tugs on some cliched emotional strings.
Screen Rant’s Kofi Outlaw reviews Invictus
Invictus is Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial offering, adapted from the book Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation, by John Carlin. The screenplay was written by Anthony Peckham (Sherlock Holmes) and the film stars Matt Damon as Francois Pienaar (the real-life captain of the South African Rugby team during the mid-90s), and Morgan Freeman in a gripping performance as Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black President of the post-apartheid era.
The film tells the true story of Mandela’s early days in office, as he fights to bridge the gap of hate and mistrust that has existed for so long between South Africa’s white and black citizens. While Mandela is waging that uphill battle on every front of state and government,
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- Kofi Outlaw
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Resident Evil 5 Desperate Escape Dlc Announced
19 December 2009 7:35 AM, PST
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Not too long ago, we announced the first of two new Resident Evil 5 campaigns: Lost in Nightmares. Now we’ve finally received details on the second RE5 campaign titled Desperate Escape. Desperate Escape has you playing Jill Valentine and Bsaa Agent Josh Stone as they escape from the Tricell facility after Chris and Sheva go on to pursue Wesker.
The second costume pack will also be released the same day as Desperate Escape featuring a new Heavy Metal costume for Chris and a Business costume for Sheva. These new costumed versions of Chris and Sheva will be playable in The Mercenaries Reunion along with Josh Stone. With the other two revealed costumes (Warrior Chris and Fairy-Tale Sheva) also being available in The Mercenaries Reunion that brings the total number of announced new characters for The Mercenaries Reunion to 5 with another 3 still a mystery.
Desperate Escape will be coming to the
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- Sebastian Gaweda
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Slipknot Short Film Snuff
18 December 2009 11:25 PM, PST
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AOL just premiered Slipknot’s short film “Snuff” directed by M. Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan and photographed and co-directed by P.R. Brown. The short film stars Malcolm McDowell (Rob Zombie’s Halloween, A Clockwork Orange), Ashley Laurence (Hellraiser) and Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor. The song featured in the film is from Slipknot’s album “All Hope is Gone”.
Band Biography: Slipknot is an American metal band from Des Moines, Iowa. The current line-up includes Sid Wilson, Joey Jordison, Paul Gray, Chris Fehn, Jim Root, Craig Jones, Shawn Crahan, Mick Thomson, and Corey Taylor. They are recognized as one of the pioneering bands in the New Wave of American Heavy Metal.
The band formed in late 1995 [...]
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Dan O'Bannon, co-screenwriter of Alien, passes away
18 December 2009 11:04 PM, PST
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For a kid that grew up in the 1970s and 80s on monster movies, the name Dan O'Bannon was one I was familiar with. His first screen credit was being a co-writer on John Carpenter's Dark Star, an ambitious student science fiction film whose influence had a big impact on the genre. Maybe it didn't have the biggest budget but the movie was big on ideas.
But O'Bannon became a master to me when, as a nine-year-old, my Dad took me to see Alien in 1979. Together with co-writer Ronald Shussett, and certainly with the brilliant film director by Ridley Scott, creature design by H.R. Giger and so many others, Alien became the towering masterpiece of O'Bannon's career, a creation of dark perfection that will likely still be praised a hundred years from now by film buffs.
Yesterday Dan O'Bannon passed away at the age of 63, still in what should have been his middle age.
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- Patrick Sauriol
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A389 Records' 6th Anniversary Bash in Baltimore
18 December 2009 3:08 PM, PST
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We just got word of a great concert coming up on January 8th and 9th in Baltimore, Maryland. The Fangoria team will be there checking it out. We hope you can come out and join us. If not, be sure to check the Fangoria site afterwards for some killer coverage.
Self- billed as The Show That Ends The World, A389 Records is throwing their sixth anniversary bash on January 8th and 9th with a lineup that includes the most infamous of those bands known as Holy Terror and a Norse metal deity (by way of Canada). The main show on Saturday January 9th at The Sonar will feature sets by legendary artists who have had releases on the A389 label, including Integrity, Ringworm, Gehenna, Starkweather, Pulling Teeth and newly signed Seraphim. This show should be a lot of fun, and Fangoria hopes to see you there!
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Bekah McKendry)
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Remembering the late, great Dan O'Bannon
18 December 2009 8:28 AM, PST
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This unassuming, multitalented film-maker, who has died aged 63, was best known as the brain behind Alien. But he was so much more
Yesterday, following a short battle with an undisclosed illness, Dan O'Bannon sadly passed away aged 63. While his name should be vaguely familiar to cinemagoers as the writer and creator of Alien, to fans of genre films it should be tattooed somewhere on their person. O'Bannon was part of the fabric of genre films, a fixture. Though his star never rose above a certain elevation, in his own unassuming fashion he was a game-changer in more ways than Avatar will ever manage.
I've always had as much an interest in the nuts-and-bolts technical and artistic side of the movie-making process as in the finished films themselves. In the 1980s I wasn't alone: there were plenty of magazines, such as Cinefantastique, Fantastic Films and Starburst that were full of interviews with behind-the-camera workers.
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- Phelim O'Neill
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Dan O’Bannon 1946 – 2009
18 December 2009 6:35 AM, PST
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American screenwriter and sometime director Dan O’Bannon has passed away in Los Angeles. He was 63. O’Bannon’s contribution to cinema is mainly within the science fiction genre and his screenplay ‘Star Beast’ provided the basis for the landmark classic Alien (1979).
He also provided screenplays for Total Recall and Screamers; based on original works by writer Philip K. Dick. In his early career he worked alongside John Carpenter on Dark Star, even starring as Sgt. Pinback. O’Bannon worked on Star Wars as a special-effects man.
In the 1980s, he directed the fun zombie horror flick Return of the Living Dead. His second (and last) attempt in the director’s chair resulted in The Resurrected, based on H.P. Lovecraft’s The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. His other screenwriting work includes Blue Thunder, Lifeforce, Invaders From Mars and Heavy Metal.
However, he entered into film history with Alien. Written with Ronald Shusset,
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- Martyn Conterio
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Screenwriter Dan O’Bannon Dead at 63
17 December 2009 10:45 PM, PST
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A legendary screenwriter of science fiction and horror, Dan O’Bannon, best known for writing Alien, passed away today at the age of 63. Bannon broke out back in 1974 with the lo-budget sci-fi flick Dark Star, which was director John Carpenter’s first major film. O’Bannon not only wrote the script for Dark Star, he also edited, art designed, acted in, and handled the special effects on the film.
Then he wrote Alien, which would be his biggest film both critically and commercially. But oddly enough, O’Bannon’s most ardent fans, while they unabashedly love Alien, seem to support the guy more for his smaller cult movies like Dark Star, Dead & Buried, Blue Thunder, his segment “B-17″ in Heavy Metal, and for The Return of the Living Dead, a film he also directed.
Thanks to Harry at Ain’t It Cool for breaking the bad news and writing a nice little obit.
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- Matt Goldberg
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An Interview with Repo! star and The Molting mastermind Terrance Zdunich
17 December 2009 5:12 AM, PST
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Fans of director Darren Lynn Bouseman’s Repo! The Genetic Opera – and at this point, the cult is legion – are familiar with the name Terrance Zdunich. The tall, blonde actor/artist co-wrote both the film and the original stage musical on which it was based, starring in both incarnations as the wicked, mysterious, Zydrate peddling Graverobber.
When I interviewed Zdunich for the feature I did on Repo! in Fangoria last year, I of course asked him what was next on his plate, a standard line of questioning. I was surprised to learn that instead of immediately chasing his new cinematic muse, he was going to pursue his first love…comic books.
Well now, the dust has settled, pen has kissed page and the results is the gorgeous, nightmarish, 12 part graphic series The Molting, a self published peek into Zdunich’s fevered psyche that plays like a scorching Tennessee Williams tale re-envisioned as a domestic abattoir.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
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Overkill – Ironbound (Advance Musick Review)
17 December 2009 3:56 AM, PST
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Somebody forgot to tell Overkill it’s about time to take a powder. If anything, the New York/ New Jersey thrash icons take a powder keg and light the damn thing on fire with their latest slab, Ironbound. (out February 9 via E1 Music) Dd Verni’s characteristic frog-burping bass stamps this one true, while the band as a whole hasn’t exercised this much continuous speed and dexterity in ages. While Overkill has churned out reliable products in their elder years such as Killbox 13, Relixiv and Immortalis, it’s almost astonishing Ironbound is this fierce.
When your 16th album absorbs the first 14-plus minutes with merely two songs—and largely set on a fast crush at that—you know the rule book is not only set aside, it’s torched with flagrant disdain. “The Green and Black” (apparently a personal ode to the band’s logo and trademark stage lighting
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Ray Van Horn, Jr.)
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Movies We Love: Heavy Metal
9 December 2009 5:00 AM, PST
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Heavy Metal (1981)
Oh, wow ... good Nyborg!
Synopsis
This animated anthology film, which pays tribute to Heavy Metal magazine, consists of nine risque comedy, sci-fi, action, fantasy and horror stories. Each story is loosely connected to the others by a single ubervillain — a talking green orb called the Loc-Nar.
Why We Love It
Unlike many movies lauded by aging stoners, Heavy Metal actually makes for pleasant viewing while dead sober.
All right, it's primarily pleasant for viewers of the male persuasion. It appeals to base manly urges, showcasing guys with big guns and gals with bigger knockers, fighting and fucking to a cheesy classic rock soundtrack. Heavy Metal didn't even try to throw feminists a bone. Unless you count the tale of Taarna, who's literally a *cough* well-developed female protagonist ... who transforms the act of girding herself for battle into a complete unmotivated strip-tease.
That, of course, is the point. Heavy Metal is an unapologetic, politically
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- J.L. Sosa
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Cameron Plugs Into Eastman's "Heavy Metal"...
8 December 2009 6:43 AM, PST
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"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" co-creator Kevin Eastman, publisher of 'illustrated adult fantasy' art magazine "Heavy Metal", recently said that director/producer James "Avatar" Cameron will co-executive produce Eastman's developing "Heavy Metal" animated film adaptation, with Cameron interested in directing one episode.
Other creatives interested in developing single animated episodes are directors David "Fight Club" Fincher and Zack "Watchmen" Snyder.
Mark "Kung Fu Panda" Osborne is also interested in developing a comedic segment with Jack Black.
"Heavy Metal" magazine originated in the mid-1970's, when publisher Leonard Mogel of "National Lampoon" fame was in Paris to start a French edition of Nl and discovered the sex/violence French science-fantasy magazine "Métal Hurlant".
Mogel licensed a Us version, retitled it "Heavy Metal" and debuted his glossy mag in 1977, displaying English translations of graphic stories previously published in "Métal Hurlant" by Enki Bilal, Jean Giraud (aka 'Moebius'), Phillippe Druillet, Milo Manara, Richard Corben and Philippe Caza.
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- Michael Stevens
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King Diamond – House Of God reissue (Musick Review)
5 December 2009 12:56 PM, PST
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The legendary King Diamond began this decade of career with an album that may not rank as high musically as his more renowned work such as Abigail, Them and Conspiracy, but of the entire lay of ghost yarns haunting Diamond’s power metal odes, House Of God may yet be the most provocative.
To posit a situation where Jesus Christ was merely tortured but not killed on Golgotha, then hauled away in clandestine to a crypt within a French Medieval castle is a ballsy maneuver to set up Diamond’s morality play in House Of God. The famed Rennes le Chateau House Of God draws from boasts its own speculative history as the pinpointed site triggering many conspiracy theories, the most famous of late being The Davinci Code. The secret society Priory of Sion (officially born in 1956), founded by Father Berenger Sauniere after renovating the ancient castle, is reported to
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Ray Van Horn, Jr.)
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Poster Friday Pt.1: Avatar, The Road & Tons More!
4 December 2009 9:59 PM, PST
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Happy Friday everyone! For our first Friday of of the last month of 2009, and our biggest Poster Friday collection ever (separated into two parts), we’ve again gathered the latest posters to come out for this week’s poster round-up.
I took a holiday last weekend (a rare event) so that means Screen Rant’s wall this week now includes two weeks worth of new one-sheets separated among two posts. This set (part one) includes Star Trek, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, Cash, Main St., The Electric Slide, The Devil’s Double, The Horseman, Nine, A Single Man, District 13: Ultimatum, The Road, The Lovely Bones, The Wolfman, Avatar, Greenberg and 44 Inch Chest.
We also have a little bonus for Thor.
Let’s get to it.
To start, here’s a cool looking retro poster for Star Trek featuring the original Enterprise that started it all. The image
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- Rob Keyes
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Podcast: Until the Light Takes Us (Aaron Aites & Audrey Ewell)
4 December 2009 10:46 AM, PST
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Pressed for time, since I'll be moderating tonight's 7pm and 9:15pm Q&As of Until the Light Takes Us at NYC's Cinema Village, I'll cut straight to my own La Weekly review from last fall, when co-directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell's doc played at the AFI Fest:
Heavy metal begat the speedy tempos of thrash, and thrash begat the double-kick drumming and extreme distortions of Norwegian black metal—an unexpectedly melodic subgenre that in turn begat a ’90s underground scene that was notoriously eclipsed by murder, suicide and large-scale arson. Filmmaking team Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites spent two years in Norway investigating what’s left of the Black Circle, the "unholy cult" (as the newspapers stained them) of eloquent young musicians in corpse paint, who congregated at an Oslo record store opened by Mayhem guitarist Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth, who was later stabbed to death by one of their own.
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Mudvayne – Mudvayne (Musick Review)
29 November 2009 10:18 AM, PST
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Over the years Mudvayne has been a complex band to figure out. Kudos for having the confidence in themselves as musicians to ditch the early-on gimmickry inflating the aura of their first few albums. However, on the past two outings for these guys, Lost And Found and The New Game, Mudvayne shunned more than their costumes.
While Mudvayne literally pounds the tar out of their live sets, their last couple albums took noticeable strides towards Aor rock-friendly meadows and dangerously settled into a repeated script of maudlin pop rock. Well-written tunes, yes, but for a band of Mudvayne’s undeniable caliber, these guys were keeping their thumbs pressed far too hard on the trigger. Settling for a nestled spot between 3 Doors Down and Trapt on the radio playlist is good for keeping their machine afloat. As far as creating memorably acute and expertly-flung prog metal well-hinted with earlier efforts such as L.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Ray Van Horn, Jr.)
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Forgotten Films: A Boy and His Dog
26 November 2009 12:09 PM, PST
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Forgotten Films [1] is a semi-regular feature on Film Junk where we explore interesting movies that have fallen off the radar or slipped through the cracks over the years.
With all the post-apocalyptic movies that have been coming out lately, I thought it would be a good time to look back at one of the lesser known classics of the genre, L.Q. Jones' A Boy and His Dog. Based on the novella by Harlan Ellison, the movie takes place in the year 2024, after not one but two additional world wars have been initiated by humanity -- the latter of which leaves the Earth devastated by nuclear missiles. As a result, a large part of the movie presents a familiar desert wasteland setting that has come to be associated with post-apocalyptic tales over the years.
A young, pre-Miami Vice Don Johnson stars as Vic, an 18-year-old nomad who lost his
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King Diamond – Voodoo reissue (Musick Review)
26 November 2009 11:59 AM, PST
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Isn’t it bizarre how an artist like King Diamond, once considered the most dangerous performer on the planet next to Mayhem, now comes through the current metal revival not only easier on the ears but less inherently evil? When you have Dimmu Borgir, Gorgoroth and an entire legion of Burzum followers setting the darker side of metal on a far more tenebrous course, then crazily enough, King Diamond is now simply our demon-painted pal, metal’s equivalent of The Crypt Keeper.
In fact, there are quite a few Tales From The Crypt (much less The Serpent And The Rainbow) yarns akin to King Diamond’s 1998 offering Voodoo. At this point in the King’s career, his popularity was relegated to the cult holdout leagues in North America, while everywhere else on the globe his reign as supremo horror metal dude hardly dwindled. No wonder his productivity was in fifth gear at the time.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Ray Van Horn, Jr.)
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