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Want to Make a Horror Movie? Attend the Horror Film Boot Camp!

Want to Make a Horror Movie? Attend the Horror Film Boot Camp!

Are you serious about wanting to write, direct, or produce a horror film but are having trouble putting your project together? Do you feel close to getting a horror film project going but are held back by gaps in your knowledge, skills, and connections? Then the Horror Film Boot Camp could [...]

The Saw Maze

The Saw Maze

Upon being summoned by a strange small man on a bike, we found ourselves at Thorpe Park.  We meet others in the game in the bar (a good start) and drinks were free (even better), but we were being put at ease, only for the games to suddenly pounce upon us?
We knew we were in [...]

‘North Face’ pays homage to mountain films of yesteryear

‘North Face’ pays homage to mountain films of yesteryear

“North Face” (THREE STARS out of four stars) pays tribute to the almost forgotten genre of so-called mountain films. The German movies flourished in the 1920s and ’30s and were packed with melodrama, romance and ice-capped beauty. “North Face,” playing this weekend only at the Detroit Film Theatre, is the old-fashioned, [...]

Corey Haim’s Final Films Reveal Late Actor’s Comeback Plans

Corey Haim’s Final Films Reveal Late Actor’s Comeback Plans

Haim had a full slate of upcoming projects that included romantic comedies, thrillers and 3-D slasher films.
As fans, family and the Hollywood community continue to comprehend the news of Corey Haim’s sudden death on Wednesday, details are emerging about some of the many projects the ’80s icon had been working on. [...]

Martin Scorsese: master of the Hitchcock tribute

Martin Scorsese: master of the Hitchcock tribute

It’s fair to say Martin Scorsese is king of the film nerds; every movie he has ever made is packed with references and allusions to earlier masterworks, everything from The Red Shoes to King of Kings. He has outdone himself with his new film, Shutter Island: he has taken the Hitchcockian [...]

Dead Meadow Pay Homage to Horror Films in Concert DVD

Dead Meadow Pay Homage to Horror Films in Concert DVD

The guys in psychedelic rock band Dead Meadow all share a love for Hammer films, 1960s horror movies and Vincent Price flicks, and with the March 23 of ‘Three Kings’ on Xemu Records, they get to pay a bit of homage to them. ‘Kings’ is a live record of the band’s back [...]

Lost Boys actor Corey Haim dies aged 38

Lost Boys actor Corey Haim dies aged 38

The Lost Boys actor Corey Haim has died aged 38, the Los Angeles coroner’s office has confirmed.
A spokeswoman said he passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning at Providence St Joseph Medical Centre.
A post-mortem will determine the cause of death and no other details have been released as yet.
The [...]

Charles B. Pierce, Director of ‘Boggy Creek,’ Dies at 71

Charles B. Pierce, Director of ‘Boggy Creek,’ Dies at 71

DOVER, Tenn. (AP) — Charles B. Pierce, an independent filmmaker whose inexpensively made documentary-style 1972 horror movie “The Legend of Boggy Creek” influenced the hit film “The Blair Witch Project” decades later, died on Friday at a nursing home here. He was 71.
His death was confirmed by Wayne Anglin of Anglin Funeral [...]

Viggo Mortensen Replaces Christoph Waltz On New Cronenberg Film

Viggo Mortensen Replaces Christoph Waltz On New Cronenberg Film

“Verrry interestink, ja?” In a bit of non-Freudian analysis, it appears Viggo Mortensen is joining up with his old friend, Dave “Deprave” Cronenberg, for a movie titled The Talking Cure. We reported a few months ago that Kiera Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Christoph Waltz were badgering the Canadian horror maestro [...]

SAW Alive – Face your fears again in 2010

SAW Alive – Face your fears again in 2010

Horror UK is excited to announce that we have been invited to the Grand opening of the new SAW Experience at Thorpe Park tomorrow evening.
We will be writing up our experience of the event, if we make it out of there alive!
Set to be the world’s most extreme horror attraction, SAW Alive will test [...]