Coming to Syfy this fall is Ghost Wars, a new paranormal-themed series which features an incredible cast including Vincent D’Onofrio, Kim Coates, Meat Loaf, Avan Jogia, and Kandyse McClure. While in San Diego last weekend at Comic-Con, Daily Dead briefly spoke with Ghost Wars creator and executive producer, Simon Barry, and he discussed the challenges of creating a unique supernatural story for television, working with his ensemble, and he teased the new series’ unusual spin on ghosts and defying fans’ expectations of those kinds of entities in their entertainment.

It seems like, from the trailer, this is a very much different approach to the supernatural that a lot of other shows are doing or have done in the past. Can you talk about the challenges of taking on a story like this and some of your inspirations behind Ghost Wars?

Simon Barry: Yeah, well, I grew up on...

YouTuber Niklas Kelliher saw an opportunity, reached out to grasp it, and turned it into something real and exciting. Kelliher figured that he could take the audio from the trailer for Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead 2: Dead by Dawn and… Continue Reading →

The post Someone Laid the Evil Dead 2 Trailer Audio Over Footage From The Shining…and it Works! appeared first on Dread Central.

At this past weekend’s Overlook Film Festival, Roger Corman was on hand to receive the “Master of Horror Award,” presented by Mick Garris. There are few people in the movie industry that have had the long lasting effect that Roger Corman has, and I was honored to speak with him during the festival to get his thoughts on modern filmmaking, seeing his older films digitally restored, and he also gave his advice to young filmmakers looking to stand out from the pack.

Congratulations on receiving the Master of Horror Award at the Overlook Film Festival. It’s such a great team behind the festival and I’m happy to see you as the first in hopefully a long line of “Master of Horror” recipients.

Roger Corman: I'm very pleased because I know the festival. I know this is the first time it's been held here, but I've known Mick Garris for many years,...

Earlier this week, Warner Bros. screened the first trailer for the highly anticipated film The Dark Tower at CinemaCon, and it definitely got me even more pumped up for the movie. We posted a reaction video talking about what we saw, and there was something I thought I saw in the footage from the film, but it happened so fast I wasn't sure if I saw what I thought I saw.

Then I started talking to other people, who confirmed that what I saw was actually there, and it made me happy to learn that I wasn't just seeing things. There is a little Easter egg in the footage that connected The Dark Tower to Stephen King's The Shining.

In the trailer for the film, we see the young character Jake talking to a psychiatrist. We see a few shots from the office as they are talking and one of...

The shower murder in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho” sits alongside the opening of “Citizen Kane” and the climax of “2001: A Space Odyssey” as one of the most famous movie scenes in history, but the reasons are both obvious and elusive. Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 proto-slasher film jarred audiences with the sudden death of leading lady Janet Leigh midway through, in a grisly, taboo-shattering bout of nudity and knifing at the ends of a shadowy, cross-dressing Norman Bates. As a complex narrative strategy and a subversive stunt, it kickstarted decades of conversations, so it’s surprising it took so long for someone to make a movie about it.

Enter “78/52,” the latest film-history deep-dive from Alexandre O. Phillipe (“Doc of the Dead,” “The People vs. George Lucas”). A compendium of appreciations, close readings, and reminiscences on the bloody death scene and its lasting impact, Phillipe’s brisk cinematic essay consolidates the enthusiasm...

Simon Brew Sep 2, 2016

Premiere magazine highlighted 10 movie executives to watch in 1990. So what happened to them?

In its May 1990 issue, the sadly-missed Us version of Premiere magazine published an article, highlighting ten young movie executives, and suggesting that these were people with very big futures ahead of them in the industry.

Given that much is written about movie executives, without actually digging much deeper to find out who they actually are, I thought it was worth tracing what happened to these ten, and – 26 years later – whether Premiere was correct in saluting them as the future of the industry. So, er, I did...

Lance Young

Senior production VP, Paramount Pictures

Pictured in the article on an office swivel chair with some snazzy purple socks, Lance Young, Premiere wrote, had been “groomed for big things since joining Paramount at the age of 23”. He was 30 at the time the article was published, and...

Ever since his first feature film, Saw, was unleashed on unsuspecting audiences at Sundance in 2004, James Wan has continued to leave an indelible mark on the world of modern horror, creating two successful franchises—the aforementioned Saw and Insidious—and crafting several other truly remarkable genre efforts along the way, including Dead Silence and Death Sentence.

This weekend, Wan is hoping for a franchise three-peat with The Conjuring 2, his stunning sequel to 2013’s highly successful supernatural tale about the work of Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) Warren, two paranormal investigators who tackled evil time and time again throughout their careers. The follow-up film takes the couple to Enfield, England, where they must help the Hodgson family deal with an entity that is relentlessly tormenting them, especially young Janet (Madison Wolfe), who has become a pawn for the angry spirit.

During the recent press day, Daily Dead had...

Since any New York cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.

Metrograph

A full-career Brian De Palma retrospective is now underway. Sisters and Carrie play on Friday, and Saturday brings The Phantom of the Paradise — but that’s not even half of the first weekend.

Prints of Gilda, Space Jam, and shorts by Charles and Ray Eames screen this Saturday.

Museum of the Moving Image

Discover the...

The book that was turned into a movie is now becoming a full-fledged opera! Stephen King's The Shining is becoming an opera, and when I say that I should emphasize Stephen King. While Stanley Kubrick's film adaptation version is more renowned, composer Paul Moravec tells NPR the original book lends itself more to opera:

“Stephen King’s original novel is all about love, death and power. And those are the three foundational components for an opera.”

The production will take place over three acts. Right now, the Minnesota Opera is in charge, but there are plans to travel so maybe you'll get to see it in your city! Until then, take a preview listen of what you can expect!

facebook

twitter

google+

Oscar-winning screenwriter Akiva Goldsman signs up to adapt Stephen King's The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep...

Another Stephen King project has taken a step forward on its journey to the screen, with the news that Akiva Goldsman is set to adapt Doctor Sleep.

Doctor Sleep is King’s sequel to The Shining, taking place many years after the original events at the Overlook Hotel. Goldsman, who’s penned projects as wildly different as Batman & Robin and A Beautiful Mind (the latter winning him an Oscar) is taking on screenwriting duties on Doctor Sleep.

Stephen King is executive producer on the movie, although there’s no word of a director just yet. We will, of course, keep you posted as we hear more…

The Tracking Board.

Check out Den of Geek T-Shirts Here Movies

facebook

twitter

google+ News Simon Brew 1 Apr 2016 - 06:33 Doctor Sleep Stephen King Akiva Goldsman...

facebook

twitter

google+

Sarah Wayne Callies chats to us about The Other Side Of The Door and The Walking Dead...

When I first spoke to Sarah Wayne Callies in 2014 for the release of the joyous disaster movie delights of Into The Storm, it took a while to adjust to the completely different persona she exudes in real life, compared to the often quiet and maternal characters she’s played over the years. Filled with a blunt and refreshing honesty, she’ll happily share experiences – good and bad, while punctuating the air with an occasional swear word, making her an incredibly easy person to talk to.

We caught up with her, complete with cold, to discuss her latest role in The Other Side Of The Door, a horror movie that is as much a tragic family drama, as it is a grisly ghost story. Directed by Brit Johannes Roberts, the story...

“Meat’s meat and a man’s gotta eat!” Heed the battle cry of Farmer Vincent Smith, maker of the finest smoked meats around. People would come from far and wide to purchase his delectable fritters, unaware that his special ‘ingredient’ was plain folk, like you and me. 35 years ago, Vincent and his Motel Hell cut off a slice of Americana and served it up in theaters, with a heaping help of humor for good measure. Cannibalism was never this down home friendly.

My initial memories of Motel Hell formulated around two images: The front cover of Issue #9 (November 1980) of Fangoria magazine, the new horror monthly that specialized in the kind of gruesome images that it’s gentler forefather, Famous Monsters of Filmland, wasn’t comfortable delving in to. Upon the cover was a picture of a man in bib overalls, wearing a pig’s head and brandishing a blood...

Special Mention: The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Directed by Jim Sharman

Screenplay by Richard O’Brien and Jim Sharman

1975, USA

For the unfamiliar, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is the film adaptation of a popular musical stage production composed and written by Richard O’Brien, a struggling actor at the time who was best known for his performances in such musicals as Hair and Jesus Christ Superstar. For O’Brien, The Rocky Horror Picture Show was an homage to drive-in double features and science fiction B-movies of the fifties, and ironically, the film itself went on to become the ultimate midnight movie. To this day, screenings held in and around its anniversary as well as on Halloween sell out. It has never been pulled by 20th Century Fox from its original 1975 release, and it continues to play in cinemas four decades after its premiere, making it the longest-running theatrical release in film history.

Considered the world’s largest genre film festival and running over three weeks long, Fantasia is celebrating its 19th edition this year and the lineup is pretty incredible. This year’s fest runs July 14 through August 4 and will see over 130 feature films including more than 20 world premieres. Legendary filmmaker Sion Sono is delivering three new movies with Tag, Love & Peace, and Shinjuku Swan, meanwhile Tales of Halloween and A Christmas Horror Story are bringing horror anthologies back to the big screen. In addition, the festival will offer up the Montreal premiere of Marvel’s highly anticipated Ant-Man, the world premiere of Israeli horror flick Jeruzalem, the world premiere of Assassination Classroom and the first Canadian screening of the Canadian/Kiwi festival hit Turbo Kid. The festival is rounded out with screenings of Big Match, Crumbs, Deathgasm, The Demolisher, Experimenter, Cooties, We Are Still Here, The Editor, Cub, He Never Died,...

Next week marks the 35th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, and it will be screening during the 16th season of Film on the Rocks on June 9th. Also in this round-up: a Dark Was the Night trailer and listing information for the house from Poltergeist.

The Shining 35th Anniversary Screening: Press Release -- "Denver Film Society and Denver Arts & Venues announced the line-up for the 2015 edition of Film on the Rocks (Fotr). Presented by Pepsi, the 16th season includes nine events throughout the summer. Each film is preceded by a live concert and local comedian, courtesy of Comedy Works.

"Memorial Day weekend is the traditional start to Summer and Film on the Rocks is a Colorado Summer tradition," said Britta Erickson, Festival Director for the Denver Film Society. "We are so excited to kick off the season on the holiday weekend and bring cult-classic and fan-favorite films, great...

by Grace Fontaine

MoreHorror.com

You gotta love indie horror. There is something so warm and comforting about genre entries that fly under the radar, it's like a fluffy duvet while sitting on a couch drinking hot cocoa on a cold winters' eve when the snow falls outside, the rain drives against the windowpane and the wind whirls outside.

It Follows despite being made in 2014 has only recently been released after swimming around the depths for a while trying to find a distributor and thankfully, RADiUS-twc took a chance on David Robert Mitchells' delicious bastard child of 1980s' supernatural horror with a taste of 1970s' grindhouse. In that could essentially be as PSA against unsafe sex and STDs. It Follows is a swift, loving piece of the throwback and an optimistic window into the future of potentially great horror fare and not a slap across the face with a mackrel.

Earlier this week, we gave you details on first wave of special experiences and events taking place at the 2015 Stanley Film Festival. We now have details on their impressive slate of features, short films, and additional special events, including screenings of The Final Girls, Deathgasm, Stung, The Invitation, and We Are Still Here.

We're teaming up with the festival for live coverage and special opportunities for Daily Dead readers, so be sure to check back all month for contests, features, and more.

"April 2, 2014 (Denver, Co) - The Stanley Film Festival (Sff) produced by the Denver Film Society (Dfs) and presented by Chiller, announced today its Closing Night film, Festival lineup and the 2015 Master of Horror. The Festival will close out with The Final Girls. The film, directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson, is the story of a young woman grieving the loss of her mother, a famous scream queen from the 1980s,...

For decades, Estes Park, Colorado has been a destination for road-tripping horror hounds, as Stephen King was struck with the idea for The Shining while staying at the Stanley Hotel. But since 2013, fright fans have had another big reason to pay the famous hotel a visit: the Stanley Film Festival.

After screening feature films both old and new and hosting special guests galore in their first two years, the third annual Stanley Film Festival is quickly approaching, and we're teaming up with the festival for live coverage and special opportunities for Daily Dead readers.

Today, we have the first details on the special experiences and events that will be taking place during all four days of the festival, including musical acts, scare zones, trivia, and a special screening of The Rocky Horror Picture Show:

"March 31, 2015 (Denver, Co) - Set at the historic Stanley Hotel, inspiration for Stephen King's The Shining,...

For decades, Estes Park, Colorado has been a destination for road-tripping horror hounds, as Stephen King was struck with the idea for The Shining while staying at the town's Stanley Hotel. But since 2013, fright fans have had another big reason to pay Estes Park and its famous hotel a visit: the Stanley Film Festival.

After screening feature films both old and new and hosting special guests galore in their first two years, the Stanley Film Festival is approaching once again, and we're teaming up with the festival for live coverage and other special opportunities for Daily Dead readers.

We've been told to keep an eye out for a full list of events and screenings next week, but, until then, we're giving two lucky Daily Dead readers a pair of Horror Marathon passes for the festival.

"Set at the notoriously haunted and historic Stanley Hotel, inspiration for Stephen King's The Shining,...

It influenced Stephen King's seminal horror novel, The Shining, and was the basis for a 1976 film starring Karen Black and Oliver Reed. Valancourt Books is now paying tribute to one of the most notable haunted house stories ever put to paper with their new edition of Robert Marasco's Burnt Offerings, featuring an introduction by Stephen Graham Jones. If you haven't picked up a copy yet, we have an excerpt from the 1973 horror novel in our latest round-up, along with details on how you can be a volunteer at this year's Stanley Film Festival and a look at images from the Great Lakes-set horror film, The Dark Below, which recently wrapped principal photography.

Burnt Offerings: "Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their cramped and noisy Queens apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for...

Back in August, I released a mix tape consisting of the best tracks, from the best movie soundtracks and best scores of the first half of 2014. This here, is the entire mix consisting of the best songs heard in movies all year long.

Note: If you’ve already heard the first half, simply skip ahead one hour in. Enjoy!

Playlist:

Phase 1

Guardians of the Galaxy Clip

The Band – “The Weight” (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Clip

Superhuman – “Where It Ends” (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes)

Alexandre Desplat – “Godzilla Main Theme”

Marco Beltrami – “We Go Forward” (Snowpiercer)

Snowpiercer Clip

Hot Blood – “Soul Dracula” (Only Lovers Left Alive)

Only Lovers Left Alive Clip

James Brown – “Papas Got A Brand New Bag” (Get On Up: The James Brown Story)

Get On Up Movie Clip

Elvis Presley – “You’re the Devil in Disquise...

We love Legos – from the blocks, to the video games, to the movie, the little bricks will always have a home in our hearts. We especially love the creativity that various stop-motion animators have used to bring famous film scenes to life in block format – and this new clip might be the greatest of them all. Stop-motion animator Morgan Spence has crafted this two minute long video re-creating some of cinema’s most iconic scenes using Lego blocks. From E.T. to The Shining, there’s basically something for every cinematic taste in this new clip. The project, which was commissioned by Warren Elsemore – author of Brick Flicks: 60 Cult Movie Scenes & Posters Made from Lego – shows that with a little dedication and ingenuity, almost...

Read More...

Following the success of The Lego Movie earlier this year, it's no surprise that more people have become smitten by the building block toy all over again. And Warner Bros. Pictures is going to keep bringing the Lego fun coming with a Ninjago spin-off coming in 2016, a Lego Batman spin-off in 2017 and The Lego Movie 2 arriving in 2018 (as we reported yesterday). But today, we're bringing you some classic movies getting the Lego treatment. Teenage stop-motion animator and Lego fan Morgan Spence has recreated scenes from films like has recreated scenes from films like Singin' in the Rain with Lego pieces. Watch! Here's a cool compilation of classic movies in Lego form (via Gizmodo): Spence was ommissioned by Warren Elsemore, author of the book Brick Flicks: 60 Cult Movie Scenes & Posters Made from Lego, for this little project, and the result is something really cool. You'll see Pulp Fiction, The Shining,...

Page 2 is a compilation of stories and news tidbits, which for whatever reason, didn’t make the front page of /Film. After the jump we’ve included 36 different items, fun images, videos, casting tidbits, articles of interest and more. It’s like a mystery grab bag of movie web related goodness. Header Photo: ”Sam Raimi” Figure by […]

The post Page 2: Sam Raimi, Star Wars, Frozen, Star Trek, William Shatner, Ouija, Korra, The Shining, Baron Munchausen appeared first on /Film.

Hulu Plus has just launched the trailer for its latest horror acquisition, Crawlspace, and you can check it out with just a quick click of your mouse. Isn't technology grand? I remember the days when we had to go to movie theatres to see trailers, and even then we couldn't rewatch 'em!

Weeks ago Hulu Plus signed a deal with digital studio Vuguru for exclusive subscription VOD rights to three films, one of which is the horror flick Crawlspace. Dig on the eye candy below.

Crawlspace will debut on Hulu Plus this Thursday, June 5th.

Originally known as Hideaway, the film was directed by Josh Stolberg. Steven Weber ("The Shining", "Desperation"), Jonathan Silverman, Lori Loughlin, Nicole Moore, and Sterling Beaumon star in the film about a killer terrorizing a family living in his foreclosed house.

Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!

Got news? Click here to submit it!

Subscribe to the Dread Central YouTube Channel!

This week sees the VOD and limited theatrical release of Delivery: The Beast Within and we caught up with director Brian Netto and producer Adam Schindler for the latest installment of our Q&A series. Continue reading to learn about the horror movies that inspired them, their experience making Delivery, and what’s next for the two filmmakers:

Thank you very much for taking the time to talk with us. Can you tell our readers about what convinced you two to team up for Delivery: The Beast Within?

As: It was a pretty easy decision, actually. Brian and I have been good friends for 25 years. We had been writing scripts and working alongside our manager, Marc Manus in trying to sell them… that elusive spec sale. But we really wanted to be filmmakers. When the idea for Delivery came about, it just felt like the perfect storm. It allowed us...

You never know what kind of hidden terrors you can stumble across on the streaming service Hulu, but one thing's for sure... this latest tidbit of news will be anything but hidden. Read on for details.

Variety is reporting that Hulu signed a deal with digital studio Vuguru for exclusive subscription VOD rights to three films, one of which is the horror flick Crawlspace.

Crawlspace will debut on Hulu Plus over the coming weeks.

Originally known as Hideaway, the film was directed by Josh Stolberg. Steven Weber ("The Shining", "Desperation"), Jonathan Silverman, Lori Loughlin, Nicole Moore, and Sterling Beaumon star in the film about a killer terrorizing a family living in his foreclosed house.

Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!

Got news? Click here to submit it!

Subscribe to the Dread Central YouTube Channel!

Crawl around in the comments section below!

One of the most revered films around the Dread Central offices is Stanley Kubrick's masterful take on Stephen King's The Shining. Cinephilia and Beyond dug up some continuity Polaroid photos used to keep track of the on-set mayhem, and we have a look at them for you here!

Based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel, Kubrick’s tale of a family man and would-be writer (Jack Nicholson) going mad as winter caretaker of the cursed Overlook Hotel is a seminal work of the genre.

Kubrick’s film has been described as a masterpiece of modern horror and is widely considered to be one of the most terrifying movies ever made. However, at the time of release both Kubrick and lead actress Shelley Duvall were nominated for Razzie Awards for the film.

Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!

Got news? Click here to submit it!

Shine on in the comments section below!

While dramas of drum players (Whiplash) and Somali pirates (Fishing without Nets) dominated the actual awards when it ended, the 2014 edition of the Sundance Film Festival was one of the most horror-friendly major fests in a long time. Programmers didn’t just relegate horror to the beloved Midnight slots, placing films with genre themes throughout the line-up, even in the coveted U.S. Competition and Next programs. At every turn, someone was talking about a horror film in Park City, whether it was a debut like Ana-Lily Amanpour’s vampire western A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, a festival regular like Adam Wingard with The Guest, or competition films Life After Beth, Jamie Marks is Dead, and Cold in July. And even with high-profile flicks like Cooties, What We Do in the Shadows, Killers, and Dead Snow: Red vs. Dead, the most-buzzed midnight film was a debut, Jennifer Kent’s excellent The Babadook.

In the horror genre, homes and structures are oftentimes as iconic as the villains and characters - the locations where the evil goes down becoming characters in and of themselves.  When you think of movies like The Evil Dead and The Shining, for example, some of the first images that likely pop into your head are that of a desolated cabin in the woods and the snow-covered Overlook Hotel.  Films like Poltergeist, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Halloween and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre all have equally iconic settings, instantly recognizable to anyone who has seen them.

Artist John Stewart faithfully recreates these and other iconic horror locales, with scale models that are completely made from scratch.  Each piece of each model is cut, carved, sculpted, textured and painted by the artist, using absolutely no prefabricated parts.  Framed with metal and wood for stability, and outfitted with lighting effects, each of...

 

At the tail end of last year, Gregory Burkart presented you with his top 10 favorite horror inspired music videos of the year, a gory collection of horrific imagery mashed together with delightful sounds; a combination that I personally can't get enough of.  Be sure to go back and check out his picks, if you missed that post or just want to re-watch some kickass videos.

Today, I've queued up ten more awesome horror-themed music videos that I think you're going to like.  So instead of sitting here and talking to you any further, I invite you to turn up the volume and dig in!

Franz Ferdinand: "Evil Eye"

This here is actually the video that inspired this whole list.  Released just a few days ago, Franz Ferdinand's new video "Evil Eye" is an absolute must-watch, a blood-soaked ode to those cheesy '80s shot-on-video horror flicks that we all love so much.

(EW)

“You can’t be Happy all the time.” Watch this unique trailer for the comedy Escape From Tomorrow from director Randy Moore. In a world of fake castles and anthropomorphic rodents, an epic battle begins when an unemployed father’s sanity is challenged by a chance encounter with two underage girls on holiday.

Alex Billington from First Showing.net said in his Sundance review, “This film is wacky and insane in every way, and its been getting comparisons to The Shining for good reason.”

So much for the ”The Happiest Place on Earth.” This crazy trailer is a funny shove towards the ridiculousness of the need to go to one of the parks year after year after year. Once was enough for me, but, hey, to each his own.

So contrary to Disney Pictures upcoming Saving Mr. Banks and Tomorrowland.

Escape From Tomorrow debuted in January at the Sundance...

Are you like so many would-be filmmakers out there? Do you have a great concept, but don't know what to do with it. Then your prayers are answered. Burbank, CA will be hosting the Great American Pitchfest and Screenwriting Conference from May 31-June 2 and you need to be there.

Aside from getting a chance to pitch your great film idea, there are opportunities to attend master classes in screenwriting and other aspects of filmmaking as well as meet some impressive writers and directors working in the business today, such as the great Tom Holland (Child's Play, Fright Night), Mick Garris ("The Stand," "The Shining") and loads more.

For more information check out the official Great American Pitchfest and Screenwriting Conference website.

Visit The Evilshop @ Amazon!

Got news? Click here to submit it!

Start pitching in the comments section below!

Cemetery Dance's special edition of Stephen King's The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep, sold out in record time. If you missed out, here's a look at a few color interiors from artist Vincent Chong that include an introduction to two main characters, Abra Stone and Rose Flanagan.

Author Brian James Freeman posted the following photos on his website, and Cemetery Dance provided a bit more elaboration:

Vincent Chong has turned in the rest of his original color interiors for [the] special edition of Doctor Sleep by Stephen King, which sold out just one week after it was announced, and [here's] a little sneak peek at ... main characters Abra Stone [and] Rose Flanagan, who is known as Rose the Hat by the True Knot, the nomadic family she travels with.

We don't know what's up with the train, but it sure is plenty spooky! And the bottom two images are better looks at the alternate...

At the beginning of the month we showed you Scribner's Us artwork for Stephen King's The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep, and now we have a look at what UK folks will be getting from publisher Hodder & Stoughton. Doctor Sleep is being released on September 24th, 2013, and we can't wait!

Synopsis:

Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

On highways across America a tribe of people called "The True Knot" travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that...

Today is author Bram Stoker’s birthday. The man who wrote Dracula would be 165 years old today, if he had the same affliction he gave his most famous character. In honor of Stoker’s birthday, we’ve found some of the best spoofs, parodies, and satires on Dracula. Because dammit, birthdays should be fun!

Count Duckula

Count Duckula - Opening Theme [HQ]

A favorite cartoon of mine growing up, Count Duckula was a duck version of Dracula. Every now and again, he would die, but could be resurrected once a century. The most recent resurrection didn’t go according to plan. Instead of blood, ketchup was used. Thus, this incarnation of Duckula was a vegetarian who was more interested in becoming a star than in starting blood wards.

Dracula: Dead and Loving It

Dracula: Dead and Loving It (Trailer 1995)

As a sort of “follow-up” to the wildly successful Young Frankenstein, Mel Brooks...

With Halloween right around the corner, we're counting down the days by posting five fun facts about our favorite fright flicks.Today's featured film is "Saw."1. Leigh Whannell not only wrote the first film, but starred as Adam (above right), the photographer locked in a bathroom with Dr. Lawrence Gordon (Cary Elwes, above left). Whannell went on to produce the following six films.2. To escape from the reverse bear trap, Amanda (Shawnee Smith) has to stab and dig through the stomach of her cellmate to find the key. His "guts" are actually a pig's uterus. 3. When Adam begins to smash Zep (Michael Emerson) with the toilet lid, he is actually hitting a garbage bag full of fake blood. 4. The only dummy used in the movie was the burnt corpse of Mark Wilson (Paul Gutrecht), who died while trying to save himself from a slow-acting poison in his body. All the...

While we were bummed to learn that Stephen King's The Shining sequel, Doctor Sleep, has been pushed back to September of 2013, we do have his pulpy whodunit Joyland to look forward to a few months earlier in June. Check out the newly released cover art!

Excerpts from the Prior Press Release:

Hard Case Crime, the award-winning line of pulp-styled crime novels published by Titan Books, will release Joyland, a new novel by Stephen King, on June 4, 2013. Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.

Called "the best new American publisher to appear in the last decade" by Neal Pollack in The Stranger, Hard Case Crime revives the...

Stephen King's The Shining sequel, entitled Doctor Sleep, is being released on September 24th, 2013, by both Scribner and Hodder & Stoughton as opposed to the originally announced date of January 15th, 2013. Hell, we waited this long; what's a few more months?

Synopsis:

Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

On highways across America a tribe of people called "The True Knot" travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when they are slowly tortured to death.

Drew Goddard’s The Cabin in the Woods (2012) has been a huge critical and commercial success but has not yet been reviewed in these columns – though released commercially in India about a month or so ago. Although The Cabin in the Woods is nominally a teen horror film in the mold of Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead (1981), it not only uses another kind of narrative – perhaps consciously derived from The Truman Show (1998) – to frame itself but also invokes whole sub-categories from the horror genre to assume the shape of a quiz or puzzle for film buffs.

The teen horror story part of the film revolves around five young people who go off on a picnic to a cabin somewhere in the mountains. At the last gas stop before their destination, a decrepit old man mumbles that it will be easier for them to reach the cottage than get back...

When it comes to the power of movie magic, one of the greatest ingredients for creating a memorable theatrical experience is the film's score, no matter how big or small.

I'm a little biased on this subject because I am a huge film score nerd. For me, a movie isn't "great" unless it also has the music to match. Where some people might be excited to see "Dark Shadows" because it's another Tim Burton/Johnny Depp quirky collaboration, I get excited because I know that we will likely get more movie music from prolific composer Danny Elfman, who delivered us the memorable scores for Burton's "Batman," "Edward Scissorhands" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas," among countless others.

Much like Burton's working relationship with Depp, the director and his composer have a shorthand when it comes to working out a film score. And by "shorthand," that means that they don't really have...

It looks like 2013 is going to begin with a bang as Stephen King's The Shining sequel, entitled Doctor Sleep, is being released on January 15th by Scribner. Just in case you're on the fence, check out the book's newly released synopsis right here.

Synopsis:

Stephen King returns to the characters and territory of one of his most popular novels ever, The Shining, in this instantly riveting novel about the now middle-aged Dan Torrance (the boy protagonist of The Shining) and the very special twelve-year-old girl he must save from a tribe of murderous paranormals.

On highways across America a tribe of people called "The True Knot" travel in search of sustenance. They look harmless—mostly old, lots of polyester, and married to their RVs. But as Dan Torrance knows, and tween Abra Stone learns, The True Knot are quasi-immortal, living off the “steam” that children with the “shining” produce when...

Darren Lynn Bousman’s remake of Mother’s Day wrapped up filming in 2010. While the movie was available in the UK last year, fans have been anxiously awaiting this week’s Us Blu-ray/DVD release.

I’ve caught up with Darren Lynn Bousman a couple of times for The Devil’s Carnival, and had a chance to ask him some questions about Mother’s Day and The Barrens:

With as busy as you’ve been with The Devil’s Carnival, I’m surprised you have time to work on and promote other projects.

Darren: It’s insane. I’m in a van right now driving across the country to Ohio. We’re in Canada and about to cross the border.

When we talked last time, you said that Mother’s Day was one of your favorite films that you’ve directed. What in particular made this such an enjoyable...

The sixth game in the series harks back to the tone of the original Resident Evil, with an undertone of body horror and graphic gore

I can remember exactly where I was when I first saw the zombie dogs jump through the window in the original Resident Evil. I was in the Edge magazine office, after hours, alone, with only a decrepit security guard creeping about the place for company. It was the first time a video game had genuinely made me jump with shock. It would certainly not be the last time the series would do that to me.

In October, Capcom will release the sixth title in the main Resident Evil series. This time the globetrotting plot follows Leon Kennedy, Chris Redfield and mercenary Jake Muller (shock horror – the son of Albert Wesker!) in a bioterrorist drama featuring a new menace, the C-Virus. Each character has a partner,...

Well hello there! Welcome to this week's installment of The Ae Movie Club, the most eclectic collection of eccentric characters since Wadsworth poured after-dinner drinks in the study. ("Not the cognac - just in case!")

I'm a very bad club president (self-appointed), because I didn't see a single one of the movies opening this week. Forty lashes with a wet Twizzler for me. But never fear! There's still plenty of cinematic fat to chew.

For starters, I've got a new Fast Five celebrating romance in honor of today's release of The Vow. I've got a great report from a recent Rocky Horror revival where star Barry Bostwick got more into character than expected (it's seriously awesome), as well as some seriously Vintage Beefcake courtesy of a studly leading man of days past.

It Came From Instant Queue questions Netflix's recommendation algorithm, The Iron Lady gets the Limerick Review treatment, and...

Ghost House Pictures, the company run by Sam Raimi and Robert Tapert, is getting ready to shoot a remake of The Evil Dead down in New Zealand, with Fede Alvarez directing from a script he co-wrote. (And one that Diablo Cody revised.) We know that the basics of the story are much like those of Raimi's original The Evil Dead: five young friends go to a remote cabin for a weekend where they are besieged by a supernatural evil. We've had a few details, too, about how this version will differ from the original. I won't recount those above the jump for the spoiler-averse. Along with a repeat of those details below, we've got a report that includes a lot more information about the film. This is also potentially very spoilerish stuff, and it will show just how different the new Evil Dead will be. Put it this way:...

Sony’s remake of Sam Raimi’s former college project turned cult horror film The Evil Dead has been given an April 12th, 2013 release date. The casting search is now underway to find some young horror victims before filming takes place next March, reportedly in New Zealand.

No actors are yet on board but we do know the behind-the-scenes talent with newcomer Fede Alvarez (who directed the short film Panic Attack that has some notoriety) making his feature film debut on a script interestingly penned by the Oscar-winning Juno and Jennifer’s Body scribe Diablo Cody.

The approach with the new take on The Evil Dead, which remember Raimi is himself producing and is fully supporting, is for a more straight up horror take on the original premise with no “quick quips, camp humour and cool-as-ice hero” (there’s no Bruce Campbell in this one) and their intention in tone...

Last week, we brought you news of Sony and Filmdistrict teaming up with Ghost House Pictures to distribute The Evil Dead remake and of the possibility of VFX master Greg Nicotero’s involvement with the film. While casting is underway, we’ve finally got some details on the actual story that director Fede Alvarez wrote with Rodo Sayagues that Diablo Cody contributed character and dialogue revisions to that Cody described as “unbelievably violent.”

This remake has been met with concern and excitement by Evil Dead fans. Even though Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, and Rob Tapert are behind this remake, fans are still wary. The latest on the story comes from Moviehole with the news that this film will be a serious horror film similar in tone to The Shining:

“The good news is, I guess, this sounds like a good horror movie. Is it the Evil Dead we know and love though?...

Moviehole managed to get a hold of the certain plot details on the upcoming remake of the cult horror classic “The Evil Dead.” The remake will be directed by Fede Alvarez, who was personally picked by Sam Raimi to redo his 1981 college project. One note from Moviehole was this remake will not be with the campy humor and cool-as-ice hero. It’s a serious horror movie, which would be more like “The Shining.” The writer described it to be “real folks with real world problems.” So don’t expect another Ash hero that was played magnificently by one of my favorite actors—Bruce Campbell. So what’s the move going to be about? Well, we do know that strange things will happen to a bunch of friends in a cabin in the woods (apologies to Mr. Joss Whedon). And definitely it will probably have something to do with the book...

Plot - The story centers on five friends holed up at a remote cabin where they discover a Book of the Dead with a demonic force unleashed possessing each until only one is left to fight for survival. - Bloody Disgusting When the Evil Dead remake begins filming in New Zealand this March you can expect a lot less humor than what the fans of the franchise are accustomed to. According to a source at Movie Hole the film will resemble Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Stephen King's The Shining more than anything Sam Raimi produced. Laughs will be tough to come by as the characters in this version will be much more grounded in reality, which is something that Diablo Cody the screenwriter eluded to just a few days ago. I'm not sure how the fans of the series will react when they realize there is no Ash-like hero...