Anchor Bay Films posted a new clip of After.Life on the official website today.
After.Life opens April 9, 2010 and stars Liam Neeson and Christina Ricci.
After a horrific car accident, Anna (Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral. Confused, terrified and feeling still very much alive, Anna doesn’t believe she’s dead, despite the funeral director’s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife. Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead and is the only one who can help her. Trapped inside the funeral home, with nobody to turn to except Eliot, Anna is forced to face her deepest fears and accept her own death. But Anna’s grief-stricken boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) still can’t shake the nagging suspicion that Eliot isn’t what he appears to be. As the funeral nears, Paul gets closer to unlocking the disturbing truth, but it could be too late; Anna may have already begun to cross over the other side.
Published by wil March 10th, 2010
in NEWS.
Wow two horror deaths in less than one week (If you count Corey Haim that is) . The Legend of Boggy Creek director, Charles B. Pierce, died on Friday at a nursing home. No cause was specified. He was 71.
Pierce’s low budget documentary-type horror flick, about a creature lurking in an Arkansas swam, paved the way for and influenced movies like The Blair Witch. Other horror credits include The Town That Dreaded Sundown, Boggy Creek II and the 1973 made for TV movie Killer Bees.
Published by wil March 10th, 2010
in NEWS.
I guess Corey Feldman won’t have to worry about Corey Haim messing up his Lost Boys sequels, with drugged-up hissy fits anymore. The actor died at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday of an apparent accidental overdose, according to the LAPD’s North Hollywood Division. Haim’s mother was with the actor at the time. He was 38.
Published by wil March 9th, 2010
in DVD/Blu-ray RELEASES.
While trying to dig up some details on the Daybreakers DVD and Blu-ray release, I tripped over some other interesting horror related Blu-ray news on Blu-ray.com.
When presented with the idea of converting The Exorcist into 3D, William Friedkin replied it would never happen, “providing I’m still alive.” Friedkin confirmed that the Blu-ray of The Exorcist is coming out this fall.
Published by Kevin Touch March 8th, 2010
in GOSSIP.
My favorite thing about Eli Roth is that horror fans are jealous of him. He’s not an overweight loser in a trench coat, or someone who always dresses in black and has bad tattoos — basically he doesn’t look like your typical horror fan. He also gets to do cool things like go to the Oscars with Quentin Tarantino and appear on Chelsea Lately. All things horror directors don’t normally get to do. And for some reason these things make a lot horror fans green with envy.
But why is he holding hands with Peaches Geldof at the Oscars!?! Gross! What was Eli thinking! I hoped he washed his hands afterwards.
If you do not know who Peaches Geldof is, Dlisted, the website where I stole these pictures from, says “just stick your finger up your b-hole, pull it out, smell it, and that pretty much sums her up.”
Published by Kevin Touch March 8th, 2010
in Scream Queens/Hot Babes.
Now that the boring Oscars are over, we can move on to more important things like Autumn Reeser’s new film with Antonio Banderas and Snoop Dogg. The Big Bang stars Banderas as an L.A. private detective who’s hired to find a missing stripper. The trail leads to the New Mexico desert, where the private eye finds a trail of bodies and contends with a brutal Russian boxer, three LAPD detectives and an aging billionaire looking to perfect the nuclear physics equivalent of the Big Bang.
Published by Kevin Touch March 8th, 2010
in NEWS.
In an effort to age down its audience the 82nd edition of the Oscars loaded up with teen presenters, and featured tributes to John Hughes and the horror genre.
The kids from Twilight, Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart, introduced a short video featuring clips from various horror films including: The Shining, Jaws, The Exorcist, Psycho, Nightmare on Elm Street, Child’s Play, Scream, Saw, Interview With the Vampire, The Birds, The Ring, Hellraiser, The Leprechaun and The Blair Witch Project. The segment ended with Carrie drenched in blood and a quick shot of Quentin Tarantino sitting in the audience.
The charismatic and cunning Spenser Mallon is a campus guru in the 1960s, attracting the devotion and demanding sexual favors of his young acolytes. After he invites his most fervent followers to attend a secret ritual in a local meadow, the only thing that remains is a gruesomely dismembered body—and the shattered souls of all who were present.
Years later, one man attempts to understand what happened to his wife and to his friends by writing a book about this horrible night, and it’s through this process that they begin to examine the unspeakable events that have bound them in ways they cannot fathom, but that have haunted every one of them through their lives. As each of the old friends tries to come to grips with the darkness of the past, they find themselves face-to-face with the evil triggered so many years earlier. Unfolding through the individual stories of the fated group’s members, A Dark Matter is an electric, chilling, and unpredictable novel that will satisfy Peter Straub’s many ardent fans, and win him legions more.
Published by Kyle Krueger March 6th, 2010
in Secondhand Terror.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it’s your good friend Kyle Krueger, the bastard grandson of a hundred maniacs, bringing you another discarded wonder. Today we’re looking at John Carpenter’s Body Bags.
The year is 1993. Four years after HBO began “Tales from the Crypt”, the people at Showtime wanted something terrifying to bring in viewers. Before he brought Cigarette Burns to the infamous “Masters of Horror” anthology in 2005, Showtime asked John Carpenter to shoot a pilot for a rival anthology series. He gave them “Body Bags”, featuring three thirty minute stories that had scares and laughs alike. Unfortunately, Showtime pulled the plug before it could ever air, so Carpenter released it as a stand alone “Creepshow” type film.
Here is the first decent trailer for George Romero’s Survival of the Dead. I don’t know why it is a “red band” trailer but it is.
Romero’s latest effort to ruin his own legacy premieres on VOD, Amazon, Xbox Live and Playstation April 30th and is in theaters on May 28th.
When the idyllic retreat of Plum Island falls victim to the zombie plague, a new breed of clan war breaks out. On one side is the camp who want to exterminate all the undead with a wickedly diverse array of brain-splattering head-shots. On the other devoted family members take the stance that “zombie-ism” is a disease, the undead have rights, and they must be kept alive until a cure is found. Unable to simply “agree to disagree,” the two clans go to war and make their island microcosm a whole hell of a lot bloodier. An undead parallel to the tribal wars that are plaguing our own society today, SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD exposes the futility of such conflict and the need for tolerance of the beliefs of others.
Published by Press Release Robot March 3rd, 2010
in HORROR EVENTS and NEWS.
The South by Southwest (SXSW) Film Conference and Festival has announced Austin-based filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and director Nimród Antal will present a “First Look” at their upcoming motion picture Predators, at SXSW on March 12, 2010.
The special presentation of Predators will take place at the Alamo Ritz Theater in downtown Austin, at 10:15pm. Doors open at 9:45pm, and the special event is only open to SXSW Badge-holders on a first-come, first-served basis. An audience Q&A follows the unveiling. SXSW Badges are still available for purchase at www.sxsw.com/attend.
Here is some exciting news from the revamped (again!) Fangoria website. Synapse Films has acquired the rights to The Dorm That Dripped Blood with “many other exciting titles” that they plan to announce in the next few weeks.
Synapse’s Don May Jr. told Fango, “We’re working with [director/producer] Jeffrey Obrow, and we’ve uncovered his original answer print, which is titled Death Dorm. He believes that when the film was released as Dorm That Dripped Blood, the theatrical distributor did some editing and changed things around, in addition to the name. Our print is the only 35mm version of the film with the Death Dorm title, and it may contain footage that nobody has seen in 30 years.”
Published by wil March 3rd, 2010
in Classic Horror Titties.
Unfortunately none of the actresses from Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare have appeared nude, so we had to skip it… But we do have Tracy Middendorf from Wes Craven’s New Nightmare, naked in El Cortez with Lou Diamond Phillips to make up for it.
Horror Yearbook is celebrating the return of A Nightmare on Elm Street’s on April 30, 2010 with Tit-tays! Up next Freddy vs. Jason.
An experimental biological weapon is accidentally dropped into the water supply of a small city in Iowa. This deadly virus is code-named “Trixie,” and causes its’ victims to quickly become incurably insane and homicidal. The freshly infected townsfolk begin setting their homes and families on fire, interrupt softball games with rifles, and wander around randomly stabbing helpless people with pitchforks. The government quickly steps in to quarantine the town and cover up the mess that they created. The insanity of the situation is escalated when the soldiers begin shooting non-infected citizens who attempt to flee the town in cold blood.
Published by wil February 25th, 2010
in NEWS.
It is time to let Paranormal Activity join the Blair Witch in the land of the well-hyped but forgotten films, but of couse Paramount can’t resist the urge to cash-in on its success by releasing a sequel.
Meanwhile Platinum Dunes producer Brad Fuller is probably already in negotiations for the rights to the remake, and Bloody Disgusting has been paid off the declare it the “Best and Scariest Sequel of the Decade!” (Right after Brad Miska mails in his quote claiming that Elm Street is the best film of 2010 of course.)
