“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, [...]
March 11, 2010 | Posted in
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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. [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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.
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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 [...]
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“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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Wiltshire-born film producer Jonathan Stow is celebrating the release of his debut horror film, starring Gremlins star Zach Galligan and model Danielle Lloyd.
The 30-year-old, who has been working in the film industry for six years on blockbusters including The Wolfman, Dark Knight and Pirates of the Caribbean, produced his first film, [...]
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Vincenzo Natali, the horror auteur behind the cult hit Cube and the less popular but equally interesting Cypher, is gaining some underground word-of-mouth hype for his new horror sci-fi hybrid Splice, which was an audience favorite at this year’s Sundance. The film is scheduled to be released this summer for [...]
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