Horror UK

Dead Meadow Pay Homage to Horror Films in Concert DVD

Sylv — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:10:19 +0000

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 catalog and a few new studio songs, and it’s accompanied by a DVD of concert footage combined with short vignettes that follow a storyline throughout.

In the vignettes, bassist Steve Kile, guitarist Jason Simon and drummer Stephen McCarty play three men loosely based on the biblical idea of wandering nomads. “Through their different faults and issues they all meet at the same place and they’re being judged by the darker side of things,” Kile tells Spinner. “You can almost look at it as this moral sort of tale, but really it was just a way to create some trippy scenes with a live performance.”

The live footage comes from Dead Meadow’s May 30, 2008, concert, recorded by the filmmakers of Artificial Army, who Kile says shard the band’s vision for the film. “It’s really hard to find people to play in a band with, let alone to find people to be like, ‘Can you take all these crazy, sometimes stupid ideas we have and make them into a visual?’” he says. “But when we met the Artificial Army guys, it ended up really working out.”

Living in Los Angeles gave the band the opportunity to utilize a couple of noteworthy filming locations, including a 900-acre plot of land on the coast of Santa Barbara and the Arthur Elrod house used in an old James Bond movie. “It’s one of those places where you can push buttons and entire walls move,” Kile says of the house. “There are a lot of really classic movie locations you could use, that I think a lot of major productions these days don’t use because it’s been done before. But being a band trying to kind of ape some of this historical feel to it? For us it’s perfect.”

Kile says the overall film should give new listeners and longtime fans a chance to see who the band really is more than a decade into its career. “For the time and place it was [filmed], I feel that it’s a great representation of how we played the music at the time,” he says. “And when you mix vignettes and other fun stuff, I hope people really get a chance to appreciate the personality and the things that go into our music.”

Source by: Spinner UK

Lost Boys actor Corey Haim dies aged 38

Sylv — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:04:32 +0000

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 Canadian-born star’s first role was in the 1984 hit Firstborn. In recent years, he appeared in reality TV show The Two Coreys.

The series, which also starred Haim’s friend Corey Feldman, was cancelled in 2008 after two series.

The pair, who both have battled drug problems in the past, starred in the 1988 movie License to Drive together and became well known for their on and off screen partnership.

In recent years, Haim had spoken to press about his battle with addiction.

After Firstborn, Haim landed a role in the 1985 TV movie A Time to Live and also appeared in several episodes of the TV show Roomies.

He went on to become a teen heartthrob after starring in the 1986 film Lucas, alongside Charlie Sheen and Winona Ryder.

Haim starred alongside Kiefer Sutherland in The Lost Boys, about a group of friends who do battle with a band of teenage vampires.

Source by: BBC News

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

Sylv — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:59:23 +0000

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 Home. No cause was specified.

Mr. Pierce grew up in Hampton, Ark., and as an adult lived in nearby Texarkana, where he was running an advertising agency when he made the movie that became a hit at drive-in theaters and gained him fame.

“The Legend of Boggy Creek” was based on the local legend of a Sasquatch-like creature known as the Fouke Monster, said to live in or near the small Arkansas town of Fouke. Shot in a quasidocumentary style that included interviews with local residents as well as dramatizations of their supposed encounters with the creature, the film was an acknowledged influence on “The Blair Witch Project,” the hit 1999 horror film that took a similar approach.

“We just wanted to make a movie that tapped into the primal fear generated by the fact-or-fiction format, like ‘Legend of Boggy Creek,’ ” Daniel Myrick, one of the directors of “Blair Witch,” said in a 1999 interview with The Tulsa World.

Mr. Pierce’s daughter Amanda Squitiero said autobiographical notes made by her father indicate that “The Legend of Boggy Creek” was made for $160,000 and ultimately made $25 million.

Among the other films Mr. Pierce directed were “Bootleggers,” “The Town That Dreaded Sundown,” “Winterhawk,” “The Winds of Autumn,” “Grayeagle,” “The Norseman,” “The Evictors” and “Sacred Ground,” as well as “Boggy Creek II.”

As a writer, his credits include the story for the 1983 Clint Eastwood film “Sudden Impact.”

Viggo Mortensen Replaces Christoph Waltz On New Cronenberg Film

Sylv — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:54:50 +0000

“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 for roles in his latest. Deadline Hollywood have it that Waltz has waltzed off with his Best Supporting Actor Oscar and Mortensen has waltzed in.

It’s been a while since Cronenberg bestowed a horror film on the world and has spent most of the last decade making psycho dramas and even thrillers! A History of Violence was brilliant and Eastern Promises was, well, alright.

The Talking Cure is based on a play by director, scriptwriter, playwright, tinker, tailor, soldier, spy Christopher Hampton. The film charts the splitting off of Freudian analysis and Jungian analysis over a case involving a troubled young girl (no doubt, hysterical). Jung is played by ace Irish thesp Michael Fassbender, whereas Viggo Mortensen will be sporting a pointy beard, spectacles and Austrian accent as Sigmund Fraud, I mean Freud!

Cronenberg has pencilled in a May start date with a tentative release date for early next year.

Source by: filmshaft.com

SAW Alive – Face your fears again in 2010

Sylv — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 20:15:42 +0000

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 you to Face Your Fears in a new year round live horror maze featuring 6 iconic scenes from the terrifying ‘SAW’ films!

Extreme thrills for extremely low prices!

Book your tickets now to the Nation’s Thrill Capital.

Buy today & print your tickets at home to beat the Easter rush, and be one of the first to endure SAW Alive, our extreme year round live action horror maze – new for 2010!

Horror film debut for producer from Colerne

Sylv — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:07:52 +0000

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, Cut, in just two weeks in the Peak District.

Mr Stow, who grew up in Colerne, before moving to London when he was 20, said: “The film is a horror thriller, a full feature film which was filmed in one shot.

“We wanted to do something that broke the mould and was different to the usual horror film.”

He said that the film crew, which was made up of 45 people, stayed at a hotel in the Peak District to film the piece at a cottage within a tight time frame and managed to do it in just over 30 attempts.

Mr Stow said: “It was very difficult to film it all in one shot. We rehearsed again and again and again because as soon as someone misses a line or the special effects don’t work in, say, the 70th minute we have got to stop and do it all again.

“We managed to get the shot on the last night and it was practically perfect.”

He said that it was great to work with Mr Galligan, who is well known for his role in the Gremlins film series.

The director, Alexander Williams, also approached Miss Lloyd and she was keen to accept her film debut.

“Zach fitted the role really well and wanted to give it a go. He said it was one of the most unbelievable experiences of his life, which was amazing as he has a lot of experience in the industry.

“Danielle Lloyd was lovely, It was her first experience at acting and she was really game.”

The filming took place in March last year and there was a small cinema screening in Derby (where the director is from) last month.

Cut will be released on dvd on Monday.

Source by: Wiltshire.co.uk

Summer Release for Vincenzo Natali’s ‘Splice’

Sylv — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:03:59 +0000

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 your genetic-splicing pleasure.

Elsa and Clive, two young rebellious scientists, defy legal and ethical boundaries and forge ahead with a dangerous experiment: splicing together human and animal DNA to create a new organism. Named “Dren”, the creature rapidly develops from a deformed female infant into a beautiful but dangerous winged human-chimera, who forges a bond with both of her creators – only to have that bond turn deadly.

Source by: The Film Stage and IMDB

Ridley Scott’s Alien Prequel in 3D, Possible Trilogy

Sylv — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:35:07 +0000

It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything about Ridley Scott’s upcoming Alien film which categorically will be a prequel, not a sequel. If that wasn’t monumental enough we’ve got some new info that claims the film will be released in 3D, which can be seen as a good thing or a bad thing depending on your perspective.

Over at the UK website Shadow Locked, they released the latest Alien news via an interview with art director Roger Christian. They asked him about the creative direction Scott was looking to take for the next film. He went on to leak info about a the movie being in 3D as well as…brace yourselves, a possible prequel trilogy! We might have another three Alien films on our hands that will take place before the events in the original. Will it be like the second Star Wars Trilogy? God, I hope not.

Here’s what Christian had to say, “Ridley’s doing the next Alien in 3D. Ridley told me some of his ideas when we were here in Toronto. He has a very clear understanding of where this should go. They kind of stopped dead one of the greatest horror franchises there’s ever been, and it had legs to go on. So I’m hoping he’ll revive another three. The world certainly wants it, and the fans want it – everybody.”

Christian did confirm that he and Scott had a meeting but gave no official word on whether or not he’d be working on the new movie. I loved the original Alien series, wait back up, I loved the first three definitely not counting Alien vs. Predator. But I’m not sure if I want to see another trilogy. We don’t necessarily even need the prequel so to make another three would be pushing it.

Do you think there’s enough Alien story to cover a new trilogy? Do you think they should make a 3D prequel?

Source by: ScreenCrave

New A Nightmare on Elm Street Banner

Sylv — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:31:43 +0000

A new poster has been released for Samuel Bayer’s A Nightmare on Elm Street and it features a full sized Freddy Krueger. In the other posters for the film we’ve only been exposed to a shadow of his face or his hand, but this time around we get to see his entire figure. It looks like the director and Platinum Dunes are really trying to tap into Freddy’s old school horror image, and it’s working.

The original film was directed by horror legend Wes Craven and was released on November 16, 1984. The remake will drop on April 30th, and will star Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner, Katie Cassidy, and Thomas Dekker as a group of suburban teens being haunted and killed in their sleep.

Similar to the original story, in this film Krueger is hunted down by the parents of a small town and burned alive for his heinous crimes against children. As his final act of revenge he decides to continue his killing spree but inside the subconscious of kids where no one can save them.

Source by: Screen Crave

Most Popular Horror Feature Films

Sylv — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:53:45 +0000

1.		7.4/10 The Crazies (2010) About the inhabitants of a small Iowa town suddenly plagued by insanity and then death after a mysterious toxin contaminates their water supply. Dir: Breck Eisner With: Radha Mitchell, Timothy Olyphant, Danielle Panabaker Action \| Drama \| Horror \| Sci-Fi \| Thriller 101 mins.
2.		6.4/10 The Wolfman (2010) Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf. Dir: Joe Johnston With: Benicio Del Toro, Anthony Hopkins, Emily Blunt Horror \| Thriller 102 mins.
3.		5.2/10 Legion (2010) An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in humankind… Dir: Scott Stewart With: Paul Bettany, Dennis Quaid, Charles S. Dutton Action \| Fantasy \| Horror \| Thriller 100 mins.
4.		The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010) Lovestruck teenager Bella must choose between her vampire boyfriend Edward and werewolf Jacob. Dir: David Slade With: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner Fantasy \| Horror \| Romance \| Thriller
5.		A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) A re-imagining of the horror icon Freddy Krueger, a serial-killer who wields a glove with four blades embedded in the fingers and kills people in their dreams, resulting in their real death in reality. Dir: Samuel Bayer With: Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner Fantasy \| Horror \| Thriller
6.		6.0/10 The Box (2009) A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don’t know. Dir: Richard Kelly With: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella Drama \| Horror \| Mystery \| Sci-Fi \| Thriller 115 mins.
7.		4.6/10 New Moon (2009) After Bella recovers from the vampire attack that almost claimed her life, she looks to celebrate her birthday with Edward and his family… Dir: Chris Weitz With: Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner Drama \| Fantasy \| Horror \| Romance 130 mins.
8.		7.9/10 Zombieland (2009) The horror comedy Zombieland focuses on two men who have found a way to survive a world overrun by zombies… Dir: Ruben Fleischer With: Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone, Woody Harrelson Action \| Comedy \| Horror 88 mins.
9.		6.7/10 Daybreakers (2009) In the year 2019, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind. Dir: Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig With: Ethan Hawke, Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill Action \| Drama \| Horror \| Sci-Fi \| Thriller 98 mins.
10.		6.3/10 Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant (2009) A young boy named Darren Shan meets a mysterious man at a freak show who turns out to be a Vampire. After a series of events Darren must leave his normal life and go on the road with the Cirque Du Freak and become a Vampire. Dir: Paul Weitz With: Chris Massoglia, John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek Action \| Adventure \| Comedy \| Fantasy \| Horror \| Thriller