Before I get to my obligatory ‘best films of the year’ list, I’d like to take a moment to run down a list of films that are worthy of mention outside of the very best of the year. Some of these films are great pictures that missed the top-ten. Some are surprisingly good pictures that [...]
Director Rob Zombie has injected his Horror sequel Halloween II with plenty of gruesome kills and an unforgiving atmosphere that’s enough to send chills down any hardcore Horror aficionado’s spine, the film one of the most visually brutal yet wonderfully effective genre pictures in recent memory. Writer Rob Zombie has penned a terribly inept, barely [...]
It’s a chilly night in northern Wales, and on the set of the upcoming movie Sherlock Holmes, the famed detective is scampering around a candlelit, 400-year-old stone barn, trying to stab a robot. This is supposed to be one of the film’s most gripping moments: a plot-twisting showdown that finds a sword-wielding Holmes battling a [...]
A DVD horror film image that shows a deathly Brittany Murphy climbing out of a bathtub will be removed from kiosk screens by the distributor.
Redbox will take off the DVD cover art for the thriller flick Deadline following the young actress’s tragic death at 32. She collapsed in a bathroom before being pronounced dead of [...]
Beneath fog and moss-covered trees near the green metal bones of old Robertson Bridge, a group from near and far has gathered in service to the art of fear.
Actress Michelle Page’s character, Mara, is walking into danger, accompanied by seemingly nice Jon, played by veteran horror actor Bill Moseley. Mara has come to Oregon to [...]
There are two nearly universal facts when it comes to filmmaker David Cronenberg, the man who birthed the likes of “The Fly” and “Videodrome” into the world. The first is that, when watching one of his films, you will shift uncomfortably in your seat at least once from something that happens on the screen. And [...]
Funnyman Mel Brooks is one of this year’s Kennedy Center honorees.
“Early Show” co-anchor Julie Chen sat down with the writer, director, actor, composer, and producer, who has confronted racism, sexism and anti-Semitism, with laughter.
Brooks is one of this year’s five honorees rewarded for a lifetime of artistic excellence.
Brooks told Chen being funny is in his [...]
Over time, Hollywood has viewed the Christmas holiday as a prime opportunity to make money. The seasonal films used to be classy and family oriented, but as the years past they got more and more graphic. The days of It’s A Wonderful Life and The Bishop’s Wife are long gone and we’ve been forced to [...]
It will be last time fans get to see her on the big screen. This picture shows Brittany Murphy in her final role on psychological thriller Abandoned.
The star, who died of a heart attack on Sunday, plays a woman who believes her husband has vanished.
The film, which will be released next year, was the final [...]
This is a reminder that voting for the World Horror Convention’s own GRAND MASTER AWARD closes on DECEMBER 31, 2009.
Each year, registered members of the current World Horror Convention can vote for the prestigious Grand Master Award, which will be presented to an individual who has made a significant contribution to the horror genre in [...]
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