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Exclusive Interview: Doghouse Director Jake West
26 October 2009 12:38 AM, PDT
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“Now is not the time to stop objectifying women.” This sharp line of dialogue, delivered by a character staring at a group of living dead females, is a key moment in director Jake West’s Doghouse.
Danny Dyer, Noel Clarke and Stephen Graham star as a group of blokes undergoing a tough time of it with the opposite sex. Unable to communicate or articulate themselves properly with their girlfriends and wives – and with one of the gang undergoing a messy divorce – they decide to go on a lads weekend and re-connect with their maleness. Arriving in the quiet country village of Moodley, the gang stumble upon a military-operation-gone-wrong and the female population are now a ravenous bunch of mutant zombies.
With its tongue-firmly-in-its-cheek and playful use of stereotypes, West’s third feature is a comic exploration of the battle of the sexes. In fact, the battle becomes literal. Packed full of gallows humour,
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- Martyn Conterio
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Fangoria Week in Review 09.13.2009
12 September 2009 10:27 PM, PDT
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Happy Sunday, Fangorians! It's time for another look back at the past 7-days of blood-soaked horror goodness.
We've got the entire week broken down by category so that you can catch up on anything you might've missed - including an advance review of Jennifer's Body, some big exclusives from Fangoria Musick, and all the latest news from the world of horror.
Get caught up below the jump!
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Exclusive Video: Clive Barker talks Book Of Blood!
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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A Look Back at Dario Argento’s Inferno
10 September 2009 9:56 AM, PDT
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Clearly one of the benefits of living in New York City is the sheer amount of amazing film screenings that happen year-round. Last weekend the Brooklyn Academy of Music (a.k.a. Bam) presented three films by the Italian Master of Horror, Dario Argento.
Friday was designated to one of his early giallo works, Four Flies On Grey Velvet (1971), the third installment of what fans have come to refer to as the director’s “Animal Trilogy”. Until its recent American DVD release, 4 Flies’ had been almost impossible to see and had been floating around strictly in bootleg form for years. I however was fortunate enough to catch a decent print of it at an Ennio Morricone retrospective at the Film Forum back in February of ’07. Due to the fact that I have already seen it projected and because it happens to be one of my least favorite Argento films, I
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (The Horror Professor)
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Double dose of Argento screenings in NYC
17 August 2009 9:58 AM, PDT
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New York City-area fans of Dario Argento will have two chances to check out the maestro’s movies on the big screen next month. Most notably, Anthology Film Archives (32 2nd Avenue) will be presenting screenings of a rare Technicolor print of his 1977 masterpiece Suspiria.
These showings will take place Friday-Sunday, September 11-13 at 7:30 and 9:30 nightly. The adventures of Suzy Banyon (Jessica Harper) in a haunted dance academy won’t look better than this! Go here for ticket information. The previous weekend, Brooklyn’s BAMcinématek at the Bam Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue) hosts Dario’s Inferno, a mini-retrospective of three of Argento’s features. 1971’s Four Flies On Grey Velvet will be showing Friday, Sept. 4 at 6:50 and 9:15 p.m.; Suspiria plays Saturday, Sept. 5 at 3, 6 and 9 p.m.; and 1980’s Inferno screens Sunday, Sept. 6 at 3, 6 and 9 p.m. Go here to purchase tickets.
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
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Giallo (Film Review)
13 July 2009 12:53 PM, PDT
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From deep red to grey velvet, the cinema of Dario Argento drips with pungent pigmentation. Vivid color is deployed for texture and sensuality. The primary hues of Suspiria’s Tans Academy pulsate with a primal femininity. The densely filtered light in Inferno creates a heady dreamscape saturated with dangerous allure. And then there’s the fluid crimson, often held in sharp relief against white walls, reflective glass or pale flesh. Argento stains his imagery with baroque fanaticism, a crazed Fauvist painting frenzied nightmares from his psychedelic palette. At first, it comes as no surprise that he has named his latest film after a block of solid color: Giallo (yellow).
This is the shade many associate with the Italian director, who made such significant contributions to the giallo genre as The Bird With The Crystal Plumage and Tenebrae. Gialli were stylish whodunits with an excess of violence and gore, based on
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Kloda)
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Giallo trailer
7 July 2009 4:21 PM, PDT
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It should be difficult for true horror fans to discuss the genre and not mention influential veteran Dario Argento.
The Italian master has dabbled in various material during his lengthy career (he co-wrote Leone's Once Upon A Time In The West, for example), but is undoubtedly best known for his "giallo" works like Suspiria, Tenebre, Deep Red and Inferno. He's taking a page from his own book with his latest, bluntly titled Giallo.
The movie features Oscar-winner Adrien Brody as an
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- Dave Davis
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An Academic look at the Horror Genre...
29 April 2009 4:35 PM, PDT
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One of the perceptions about Academic Conferences is that they are dry dusty affairs with about as much excitement as ball of coughed up cat hair. However within the last decade, the perception is frankly untrue. More and more professors and academics are looking toward popular culture to study and talk about and horror is no exception. In fact, horror may be one of the biggest areas of study within the academy these days. Films, game, and sequential art studies are “popping” all over campuses. (I know guy here at Texas Tech University who is doing his dissertation on narrative structure within the Friday The 13th movie series. So for all you Fangoria readers, there do seem to be niches within the academy that is growing and growing.
Just a few weeks back, The Southwest Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association met for its 30th meeting in Albuquerque New Mexico.
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