Published by Kyle Krueger November 22nd, 2009
in INTERVIEWS.
Clay Borris may not be a name you recognize immediately, but trust me, you’ve seen his work. A veteran of film and television, Borris has been writing, acting and directing since the early 1970s. In 1981, he wrote, directed, produced and starred in the film Alligator Shoes. He is most well known for Quiet Cool, a 1986 film from New Line about an unconventional New York cop. He also directed the genre flick Prom Night IV: Deliver Us From Evil, and was Second Unit Director on the now classic Wrong Turn. In addition, he’s directed numerous episodes of genre television mainstays like Forever Knight and Highlander (TV). Over the last few years, he has done more television than anything, but has taken time to talk to us today about his return to the silver screen.
Horror Yearbook: Tell us about your latest project.
Clay Borris: It’s called Picture the Sound. It’s about a blind woman who by chance becomes a world famous photographer. I based the screenplay on a short film I did.
HYB: What was your inspiration for the story?
CB: A friend of mine saw a blind man buying a camera in a camera store. He told me about it and I instantly visualized the movie. So we sat down and wrote the script, and we shot the short in a couple of days.
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After finding demonic and dark drawings from a fellow Gilbert, Jeremy begins drawing again for the first time since his parents died. He takes this dark direction for his inspiration as well. Jeremy tries being a bit nicer to Tyler when he finds out that he might be dealing with stuff at home that makes him carry so much anger. Meanwhile, Stefan and Damon find they have some leftover business in town just when they were about to leave for good. There’s another vampire in town and the sheriffs found a body he left behind. It doesn’t take long for Damon to figure out it’s Logan, who the Salvatore brothers thought to be dead, and everyone else thought he simply left town. Logan attacks Damon and demands answers, craving to be a day walker like Damon and Stefan are. He doesn’t bother keeping a low profile, trying to get attention from Elena’s aunt, Jenna. Elena and Stefan finally get together, but just in time for Elena to find out the secret of why Stefan was attracted to her in the first place.
Antichrist created quite the stir when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. I can understand uneasiness after watching the film, but the massive critical ignorance upon its premiere is somewhat shocking. I understand the average movie viewer getting aggravated with its slow-moving pace, very subtle approach to conveying meaning and its message, and the non-literal nature of the film. The critics who bashed the film, ignoring beautifully artistic visuals, meaningful content, and the massive number of imagery and symbolism and focusing on the brutal violence and sexualizing, either drastically missed the point, and that all of these things compliment each other, or they just decided to penalize it for the horrific, torturous turn the film took. Luckily, the beauty and brilliance of this film has been acknowledged since then.
Published by Kevin Touch November 20th, 2009
in MOVIE REVIEWS (ALL) and NEWS.
No matter how much horror fans hate it there is only one thing that matters today, the Twilight Saga: New Moon sequel is in theaters!!!! YAY!!! OMG!!!
Stephenie Meyer’s vampire soap opera has already broken Star Wars: Episode III: Revenge of the Sith’s advance sales record on MovieTickets.com’s list of the Top-10 Advance Ticket Sellers of All-Time, and will most likely break a few more box office records before its run is over.
Writer, director, producer Jake Kennedy has created a haunting and an intensively intrusive film that will stand still in time as forever frightening. With the help of a phenomenal, well-introduced cast, Penance’s subtle approach into this bleak disturbing world breaks the constant rut and regurgitation of what ill-tempered critics label this sort of film as “torture porn” in a form of written negativity. However from what I viewed, I can’t follow my fellow critics and label Penance as “torture porn“. Yes, Penance has its fill of half naked female strippers. Yes, it is chalked full of extremely graphic violence. Yes, it resembles in look and feel of that of Eli Roth’s Hostel films. Yet, I can’t call it torture porn. There in lies a meaningful point that Hostel films, and sometimes the SAW series, seem to lack with the sinister characters. Beyond the fulfillment of pleasure sought out of the humiliation, the whipping, the mutilation and, the eventual, murdering of these women, there holds a certain driven force that bounds the lead captor Geeves aka the Butcher of Baker.
Published by Tornado Trailer Ted November 19th, 2009
in NEWS.
Shock Till You Drop got the scoop on the status of Silent Hill 2. The planned sequel suffered a “hiccup” after screenwriter Roger Avary was sentenced to one-year in jail for his involvement in a 2008 fatal car crash. Producer Don Carmody told Shock in an exclusive interview, “We’re just debating whether we can wait for [Roger]. He’s writing the script for sure.”
Actress Radha Mitchell has voiced interest in starring again, but director Christophe Gans will not be returning as Carmody plans to make the franchise more accessible to newer fans.
Published by Press Release Robot November 19th, 2009
in NEWS.
Daybreakers in theaters January 8, 2010! Two-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke plays Edward Dalton, a researcher in the year 2019, in which an unknown plague has transformed the world’s population into vampires. As the human population nears extinction, vampires must capture and farm every remaining human, or find a blood substitute before time runs out.
Published by wil November 19th, 2009
in HORROR ON THE TUBE - TV.
I already stated that I think the TV show Scream Queens is one of the worst reality series ever, however, it just got a little more interesting.
Jamie King (My Bloody Valentine) and Tim Sullivan (2001 Maniacs) will be joining acting coach John Homa for the second season. There is no one who loves Tim Sullivan more than Tim Sullivan, making him the perfect Reality TV show judge or mentor.
Director Jason Stutter’s Diagnosis: Death arrives on DVD December 29th, 2009.
A supernatural force brings together two lost souls undergoing radical treatment at an experimental drug-testing facility. When the facility is locked down for the weekend and the drugs take effect, the human guinea pigs experience sinister hallucinations pointing to a horrific double murder. Unsure of where reality stops, the apparitions become more and more threatening until the only way to leave the facility alive is to solve the haunting secret.
Check out the trailer and stills from the movie below!
Published by wil November 18th, 2009
in NEWS.
Since the source is kind of dodgy it is probably safe to file this one under the rumor category. A Shock Till You Drop reader sent them an E-mail claiming that Rob Zombie’s Werewolf Women of the SS will not be made into a feature length film because it is too “shocking to show the American people.”
Published by Steven Tee November 18th, 2009
in CONTEST.
Round 2 of the Tiny Killer Icon Tournament has begun and our little bundle of maniacs are ready for more flesh and blood. We are down to 16 contenders and, so far, this tournament is shaping up to be one hell of a contest!
Published by wil November 18th, 2009
in NEWS.
Kane Hodder, Heather Langenkamp and Freddy himself Robert Englund have all been interviewed for the upcoming Nightmare documentary Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy. For a complete list of all the interviews completed visit Nightmareonelmstreet.com or the official Never Sleep Again website.
Published by Kevin Touch November 18th, 2009
in Scream Queens/Hot Babes.
I may be taking a risk publishing these pictures again but they’re so worth it. Originally we posted these Leighton Meester photos on November 13th, but GQ magazine asked that we remove them. Their E-mail said they were not supposed to be published until November 18th. Anyway a lot of other websites started re-publishing them today, so I guess that means we can too. If not I beg GQ not to sue us and to be more clear in their E-mails!
We just want to share the sexy goodness of Meester from the December issue of their magazine. Check out the hot pictures below.
Do you think GQ is peeved because I keep calling their pictorial “slutty?”
2009 is pretty much finished theatrically for horror films (unless you count New Moon). However, there is the Ninja Assassin and The Road, for post-apocalyptic fans, –probably one of the best end of the world books I have read since I Am Legend — to keep us busy in November. The horror/comedy Transylmania in December, and don’t forget the potential biggest cinematic disappointment for the next ten years, Avatar. None of them are really horror films but they’re the next best thing. Horror fans will have to wait until the first weekend of 2010 for the great looking vampire film Daybreakers to hit theaters.
Published by wil November 17th, 2009
in Horror MOVIE TRAILERS/VIDEOS.
Back in March of 2009 our official scumbag and celebrity nude expert Chris Cooper showed me the short, Attack of the Staph Spider (read review) by Aramis Sartorio. While I normally hate short films I instantly fell in love with it and wished it were a feature length movie… Well I got my wish.
Sartorio just sent us over the cover art and trailer for The Gruesome Death of Tommy Pistol, the feature length version of Attack of the Staph Spider. The short and the trailer have a very fun Troma type vibe and Aramis Sartorio delivers a Bruce Campbell worthy performance in both. The film stars Mia Tyler (2005 Celebrity Fit Club), Caleb Emerson (Die You Zombie Bastards), Kimberly Kane (Adult Star), and Aramis Sartorio (Breath of Hate).
