Originally the movie Ouija was going to be huge, in terms of budget, before Universal (the studio releasing the horror feature) balked and almost abandoned the project. The story was tweaked, and it was brought in significantly cheaper, and the rest is history. It always mystified me why it was originally planned as a big-budget feature (other than […]
Bob Woodruff, Jr. and Alec Gillis of studioADI, the practical special effects house behind a lot of your favorite movies, including the Predator and Alien films, as well as the upcoming Kickstarter-funded practical horror film, Harbinger Down) are two men that clearly enjoy their work. You can see the devotion and craftsmanship that their effects shop brings to […]
“After The Dark Is A Visually Beautiful Movie, Undermined By Needless Pretense.” I actually saw John Huddles’ After The Dark four or five months ago before it turned up on Netflix, and it bothered me then, and it continues to do so (though it’s taken me awhile to understand why). Though I think I finally figured it […]
The Social Redroom is a fictitious social networking site that’s similar to others that you may already be familiar to, like Facebook. And like Facebook, The Social Redroom (which coincidentally(?) reminds me of ‘redrum;’ ‘murder’ spelled backwards) also does experiments on its users without their knowledege, all in an effort to find what it is that makes […]
Hollywood can be so fascinating. It seems that lately there’s a trend revolving around religious-based movies, from Noah to Exodus: Gods and Kings, God is in. This isn’t something that’s been ignored by either comedies, This Is The End, Rapture-Palooza (a really funny movie. Well worth checking out), dramas, and horror films. The most recent example of […]
Seeing The Women That Turn Up On British Television, I Think I Better Understand The Culture That Produced Margaret Thatcher I don’t know what’s in British water, but they have a knack for creating engaging, dynamic female characters for television. For me one of the best is Supt. Jane Tennison (Hellen Mirren) from multiple seasons of Prime Suspect. After Tennison […]
As Above, So Below, let’s be clear, isn’t a particularly good movie, but it is a damned entertaining one. The story, such as it is, revolves around Scarlett (Perdida Weeks), who’s searching for the clues that would lead her to the Philosopher’s Stone, which I should mention that her father was also searching for, before he hung himself. […]
This trailer really had me going for awhile. As I have written before, I think stories of ghosts, gods and demons are little more than ways to explain where the sun goes at night, why there’s thunder during a storm or what makes you sick. And that’s all well and good, but the thing is, I […]
The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Underworld is being rebooted. It’s been eight years since first entry in the trilogy (and two since the last film, Underworld Awakening). And while I don’t necessarily think that eight years is a long time between reboots, at least it’s more than between the transition from Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man 3 to Marc […]
The found footage horror movie, The Pyramid, makes a point of mentioning that it’s produced by Alexandre Aja, the director of the reboot of The Hills Have Eyes (possibly the most ‘wholesome’ horror film I have ever seen), Mirrors and High Tension, among others. What it doesn’t tell you is that it’s directed by Grégory Lavasseur, who’s Aja’s writing […]
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