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666: Sequels Gone Wrong

12 October 2009 9:37 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

When a horror movie finds success at the box office, it's almost guaranteed to get a sequel. And that sequel often becomes more sequels, which have an unfortunate tendency for becoming increasingly stale. By the time a horror franchise reaches a sixth installment, it's usually operating in zombie mode (meaning, crying out for a beheading).

In less than two weeks, Saw VI heads to theaters — with no plans of wrapping up the series. Saw VII is already in pre-production and plans are in place for Saw VIII. If the Saw franchise has any chance of continuing, it had better learn from the mistakes of other "part six" horror sequels.

Check out 666: Sequels Gone Wrong, where we offer six critical lessons Saw VI can learn from other long-running horror franchises.

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The Most Notable 3-D Movies Of All Time

28 September 2009 1:58 AM, PDT | MTV Movie News | See recent MTV Movie News news »

With the success of 'Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs,' the forecast is good for the genre's comeback.

By Larry Carroll

Robin Wright Penn and Ray Winstone in "Beowulf"

Photo: Paramount Pictures

In 1952, television was increasingly keeping people on the couch and out of movie theaters, so Hollywood desperately turned to a process called "Naturalvision," and 3-D movies were born. Convinced that their best hope to win audiences back was by making things leap off the screen, dozens of 3-D movies were greenlit immediately. But just a few years later, bad scripts and gimmickry had effectively killed the fad.

These days, "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" is riding high at the box office for the second straight frame, the "Toy Story" films are being re-released this weekend in three dimensions, and such high-profile blockbusters as "Avatar," "A Christmas Carol" and "Alice in Wonderland" will all be coming at you soon, »

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Careening Towards 'The Final Destination' In Photos

28 August 2009 9:30 AM, PDT | MTV Movies Blog | See recent MTV Movies Blog news »

"The Final Destination" is out today. The title implies that this is it for the series, now four strong, though horror titles have a tendency to be misleading. "Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday" and "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare" are certainly the worst offenders, but there are others. Our very own John Constantine proved today that there are still plenty of ideas left to mine for the franchise.

Here we have a pair of image galleries for your viewing enjoyment. First up is a set of film stills, in which you'll see an assortment of young, beautiful people looking scared for their lives. With good cause too. After the jump, you'll see those same beautiful people smiling radiantly on the red carpet of the "Final Destination" premiere. Click the image to check out the associated gallery.

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- Adam Rosenberg

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Huff Post Review: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

14 July 2009 11:17 AM, PDT | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2009 153 minutes Rated PG by Scott Mendelson Without question, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the best out-and-out sixth chapter of any franchise since Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Granted, the competition isn't very stiff (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, Police Academy 6: City Under Siege, etc), but it's still remarkable how well this long-running series has held up. So when I say that this sixth film is perhaps my least favorite film of the franchise, it is only tepid criticism at best. When a film this good can be considered the weakest of six, that says something about the consistency of quality running through the Harry Potter series. A token amount of plot - Harry Potter is still recovering from the shocking death of Sirius Black during... »

- Scott Mendelson

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Watchmen's Rorschach to Play Freddy Krueger

4 April 2009 8:52 AM, PDT | Reelzchannel.com | See recent ReelzChannel news »

Freddy Krueger, the fingers-tipped-with-razors, sweater-wearing, nasty-complexioned psycho killer from Wes Craven’s fright-fest franchise, A Nightmare on Elm Street, is returning in a new series of films, courtesy of New Line Cinema. In the new films, the classic movie monster will be played by Jackie Earle Hayley, who powerfully portrayed Rorschach, super-powered vigilante of Zack Snyder’s Watchmen (2009).

In the original film from 1984, Krueger stalked and killed teenagers in their dreams, killing them in the real world. Krueger has appeared in six Nightmare sequels and in Freddy vs. Jason, the 1993 crossover film with Jason Voorhees, the villain of the Friday the 13th franchise. According to Box Office Mojo, the Nightmare franchise is the third-highest grossing horror franchise in film history, with a lifetime gross of $307,420,075.

Samuel Bayer is directing from a script by Wesley Strick. Shooting is expected to begin in Chicago in May.

Next Showing: A Nightmare on Elm »

- BrentJS Sprecher

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Before the Oscars, They Belonged to Us, Part 3

26 February 2009 2:51 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »

Disclaimer: This article may contain sarcasm; irony and “LOLs” proceed with caution.

The Final Chapter (read Part 2 here)! We have Howard the Duck, Freejack and Shyamalan flicks on the list; these are never good signs. Nonetheless we are bringing it all to you in full-color and in 3-D. (Ed. Note: Due to the economy, 3-D has been dropped and will be replaced by Smell-o-vision — check for your scratch and sniff cards in about 4-6 weeks.) Best Sound went to rage-zombie veterans Ian Tapp and Richard Pryke, leaving Mark Weingarten who worked on Rejuvenatrix in the dust. The Sound Editing section contains one too many references to Ron Silver, and at least two references to a Roger Corman film.

The visual effects category pulled on our heartstrings this year due to the loss of Stan Winston, who was noted en memoriam along with other heroes, Vampira, Leonard Rosenman and Charles H. Schneer »

- Heather Buckley

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6 articles from 2009

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