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DVD releases for Oct. 27 - Nov.3, 2009

3 November 2009 2:56 PM, PST | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

Are you ready for a massive list of must-view DVD titles from the last two weeks? Good, let's go!

F. Javier Gutiérrez's apocalyptic Before the Fall (amazon), about a small town in the south of Spain that finds out they have 72 hours before a meteorite destroys the earth. Our Cali correspondent Hal got a chance to see the film and called it a "good exploration of how much we should protect innocence," and I can't wait to finally check it out.

Another film that's been around for a while, but is only now hitting DVD is Dead Air (amazon). About a douchey radio dj who has to deal with a virus outbreak, the film sounds a lot like Pontypool, but I imagine it is far more literal minded.

On the TV front we've got a couple sets worth looking at. The bloody, bestselling Afro Samurai: Complete Murder Sessions »

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Adapt This: 'FreakAngels' By Warren Ellis & Paul Duffield

21 October 2009 2:32 PM, PDT | MTV Splash Page | See recent MTV Splash Page news »

The Story: "FreakAngels" by Warren Ellis (W) and Paul Duffield (A) - Avatar Press

What It's About: A group of super-powered misfits carve out their way in a flooded post-apocalyptic London that they helped destroy.

Personal issues and histories gradually complicate their situation as the story zooms out to show who and what lies beyond their urban fortress community of Whitechapel.

Why It Works: Post-apocalyptic landscapes have been all the rage for years now, but there has yet to be a definitive steampunk-styled future on the big screen that really combines ultra-imaginative prop design with a setting as bleak as "Children of Men" or "The Road." The story has the same underlying breed of mystery event that's behind "Heroes" with the young-adult rage issues that make the kids in "Lord of the Flies" or "Battle Royale" so vicious.

If crowds will flock to see vampire kids in "Twilight" and witch »

- Brian Warmoth

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Review: The Tournament

20 October 2009 11:11 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

The ideal action film contains more than just kick ass combat and carnage... it should also have a smart script and characters that make us care whether or not they survive or end up with a grenade shoved up their ass. But as with most ideals the films that accomplish all that can be counted on two or three hands. That short list would include flicks like Die Hard, Lethal Weapon (1 & 2), Terminator (1 & 2), and all three Bourne movies.  The best we can hope for in most cases though is an extremely high degree of ridiculousness, one-note characters, and non-stop action scenes that shock and awe us into glee-filled submission. Welcome to The Tournament... Every seven years thirty of the world's best assassins descend upon an unsuspecting small town and spend the next twenty-four hours trying to kill each other. The last hit-man (or hit-woman) standing receives a $10 million cash prize and the title of King Shit until »

- Rob Hunter

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Fight Scene From ‘The Tournament’ Kicks Ass For The Lord

18 October 2009 5:06 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

The Tournament is one of the year's best action movies. Yup, I said it. It releases on Tuesday, and I'll have a full review up on the same day, but for now trust me when I say this is one very cool and bloody romp. Unbelievable and highly implausible sure, but filled with fantastic fights, gunplay, and bloody squib-filled bodies. Every seven years thirty of the best assassins in the world descend on a small town where they proceed to fight to the death for a giant cash prize. Each player is surgically embedded with a tracker and given a handheld Gps so they can see the other assassins. The town is wired with closed-circuit cameras, the phone lines are rerouted to prevent pesky interference from law enforcement, and a room filled with wealthy gamblers watches the whole thing on CCTV and places their bets on who will win this year's contest. It's »

- Rob Hunter

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Scream Fest 09: Review of The Tournament

18 October 2009 11:56 AM, PDT | QuietEarth.us | See recent QuietEarth news »

Year: 2009

Directors: Scott Mann

Writers: Jonathan Frank / Nick Rowntree / Gary Young

IMDb: link

Trailer: link

Review by: Hal MacDermot

Rating: 7.4 out of 10

Once every seven years, thirty of the world’s most deadly assassins gather together and fight for the grand prize of ten million dollars – there can be only one winner, only one survivor.

Normally this genre of Battle Royale-esque movie is set on an exotic island, or a mystic m’larkey temple, and here’s why I knew I was in for something different right from the start, The Tournament is set in no-m’larkey-at-all working class Middleborough, in the rainy North of England. Scott Mann’s action packed debut feature stars Robert Carlyle as a drunken priest mistaken for a hitman, and the beautiful Kelly Hu as a real hit woman. For a $12 million budget, you get a good bang for your buck. There are a »

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Lists of Doom Xiii: Bubble of Bury Your Dead

23 May 2009 9:14 AM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »

Alright Fango Fiends, it's time for another installment of Fangoria's Lists Of Doom - the column where we track down some of your favorite (or soon-to-be favorite) bands to get their thoughts on on the world of horror.

As a Memorial Day-weekend treat (and to celebrate "lucky 13" here on 'Lists), we caught up with Bubble, the bassist for Bury Your Dead, a band we've dug for a long time, and one we think you'll dig too. Their latest album, It's Nothing Personal arrives in-stores this Tuesday, so it seemed like a perfect time to talk some horror.

Bubble's List Of Doom:

1. Hellraiser III: Hell On Earth (1992)

"That whole series of movies is legendary. Hellraiser is innovative and clever. So much imagination and a deep story line. So awesome!"

2. Freddy Vs. Jason (2003)

"Classic vs. Classic! Plus the end fight scene is unreal"

3. Dead Alive aka Braindead (1992)

"Lawnmower + zombies = fuck yeah !"

4. Army Of Darkness (1992)

"Shop smart. »

- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)

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Ten Horror Movies You Should See Instead of "Friday the 13th"

16 February 2009 11:44 AM, PST | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

I don't need to tell you how awful the Michael-Bay-produced remake of the 1980 slasher classic is going to be. (I haven't seen it yet myself, but c'mon.) So, this week, instead of shelling out 12 bucks to suffer through a third-rate remake of a second-rate horror film, devote your time to watching one of these infinitely more inspired movies.

Suspiria (1977)

It's been said thousands upon thousands of times before, but it's worth repeating: this is truly one of the most artful horror movies ever made. Seriously, watch the first 20 minutes and tell me if you've ever seen a death scene so beautifully choreographed.

The Fly (1986)

At the heart of this slightly campy deliberation on obsession is a tender love story, it just so happens to involve giant, mutated bug-human-hybrids and a teleportation experiment gone horribly wrong. (This one also demonstrates the rare instance »

- Inna Mkrtycheva

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