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Lucas' Horror Movie Terror
28 October 2009 5:16 AM, PDT
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Actor Josh Lucas's childhood terrors have left him too frightened to watch horror movies - even if he is in them.
The 38 year old has starred in a string of scary films, including Brad Anderson slasher Session 9 and 2000 thriller American Psycho.
But Lucas admits he is too terrified to sit through any gory scenes and won't even watch his own work.
He tells the New York Daily News, "I won't see scary movies. I've been in them and then I've been like, 'Whoa, this is too scary for me!' I guess I've held on to those little childhood moments - when you're in the dark and there's a rattle outside your house and you're thinking there's a monster under your bed."
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Good Halloween Movie Double Features
24 October 2009 8:00 PM, PDT
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With Halloween on the horizon, a lot of people might be planning a shindig of some sort to celebrate. Most will have costume parties, which is terrific, as they usually involve scantily clad females pretending to be something ordinary like a prison guard or dental hygienist, but really sexy. These parties will also most likely contain disturbing, horror-themed food-stuffs, and an increasingly gory display of body parts strewn across the premises like something out of a bad crime scene.
(I tell you, if I had money, I would invest in a Halloween store, as they seem to make mint and only have to work 3 months of the year).
There are also large groups of nerds out there (myself included) who enjoy subjecting their friends to horror movies they may have not yet seen, or seen with a group of people, which is the best way to experience most horror flicks.
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13 Actually Scary Movies
20 October 2009 9:52 AM, PDT
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Halloween is the time of year when horror movies are dusted off, rented from a video store, or placed in the queue for some late-night, pitch-dark viewing. But there are scary movies and then there are scary movies.
Check out 13 Actually Scary Movies for the top choices if you're looking for a true fright this season.
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The Descent | A Nightmare on Elm Street | Let the Right One In | Suspiria | The Shining | Session 9 | Paranormal Activity | The Thing | Trick 'R Treat | 28 Weeks Later | Rec | The Exorcist | Drag Me to Hell
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Halloween and Horror Books Every Fan Should Own
18 October 2009 1:22 AM, PDT
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Horror fans love this time of the year. For those of us not living in La, there's the chill in the air, the colorful leaves, pumpkins everywhere, dead cornfields to explore … if you dare. So, in honor of Our official holiday, I have come up with a list of books and some movies every horror fan should at least take a look at, if not outright add to your book or DVD library.
Without further ado (and in no particular order):
Creepy Places to Visit:
Creepy Crawls: A Horror Fiend’s Travel Guide by Leon Marcelo, Santa Monica Press, 380 pages
I Love this book!! Leon Marcelo travels the world, literally, to find places of horror both real and fictional. Rome to visit the Dario Argento Profondo Rosso Shop then to George Romero’s Pennsylvania and H.P. Lovecraft’s New England. Marcelo also covers Stephen King country, Poe’s Baltimore,
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Brad Anderson attached to direct The Living and the Dead
15 October 2009 2:32 AM, PDT
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According to Comics2Film at Mania.com [1], director Brad Anderson (The Machinist, Session 9) is set to direct a feature based on the 128 page epic and terrifying graphic novel by Robert Tinnell and Todd Livngston, the creators of The Black Forest [2] and The Wicked West [3]. Brad Anderson who has become known for his work on edgy thrillers like Session and The Machinist (and more recently directing episodes of Fringe) seems the perfect candidate given its premise. The Living and the Dead which actually began as a screenplay before sold to Speakeasy Comics, takes place in nineteenth century Europe and focuses on a perverse madman who lures his victims to be tortured and killed as part of his twisted performance art.
MTV News caught up with Robert Tinnell, who revealed that Victor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein also plays a major role within the story. "This is about twelve or
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Brad Anderson to Adapt 'The Living and the Dead'
14 October 2009 11:23 AM, PDT
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Brad Anderson (Machinist, Session 9), is looking to adapt the graphic novel The Living And The Dead for Solipsist Films, reports Mania.
Robert Tinnell and Todd Livngston created the book that focuses on a monstrous character who engages in the nineteenth-century version of snuff theater, luring innocent people in a Grand Guignol of flesh and blood. Anderson is currently at work on Vanishing on 7th Street with Hayden Christensen and John Leguizamo.
You are a simple, country doctor in a small village. You have a beautiful wife and a wonderful son the perfect life. Only they don't know that in your past, you did a very bad thing! People died because of it, and you were forced to flee and live incognito...More
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Brad Anderson Adapting Living and the Dead
14 October 2009
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Todd Livingston and Robert Tinnell's graphic novel "The Living and the Dead" will get new life on the big screen. According to Mania, director Brad Anderson ( Session 9 , The Machinist ) will tackle an adaptation for Solipsist Films.
Here's a synopsis that was released in 2005 when Speakeasy first published the story: You are a simple, country doctor in a small village. You have a beautiful wife and a wonderful son . the perfect life. Only they don't know that in your past, you did a very bad thing! People died because of it, and you were forced to flee and live incognito. Now, in an opportunity to redeem yourself, you unwittingly unleash a brutal and perverse murderer, a deviant sociopath hell bent on using innocent people in a Grand Guignol of flesh and blood.a
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Brad Anderson To Direct 'The Living And The Dead' Adaptation
14 October 2009 5:32 AM, PDT
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Brad Anderson has signed on to direct the film adaptation of “The Living And The Dead,” a graphic novel by writers Todd Livingston & Robert Tinnell and artist Micah Farritor.
Anderson—perhaps best known for his work on “The Machinist” and “Session 9”—has more recently left his mark on TV by directing several episodes of “Fringe.” He is currently directing the horror/thriller “Vanishing on 7th Street” with Hayden Christensen and Thandie Newton.
Mania is reporting that Anderson will direct “The Living And The Dead” for Solipsist Films. Livingston & Tinnell have also written the screenplay adaptation of their graphic novel.
Originally released in 2005 by Speakeasy comics, “The Living And The Dead” takes place in nineteenth century Europe and focuses on a perverse madman who lures his victims to be tortured and killed as part of his twisted “performance art.”
MTV News caught up with “The Living And The Dead” co-writer Robert Tinnell,
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Horror Review: ‘The Hills Run Red’
9 October 2009 12:30 PM, PDT
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The Hills Run Red, sadly, has almost nothing going for it or to recommend it. Its a combination of the worst elements of the latest genre of horror filmmaking and not a very well put together combination of them either. The story, if it can be called that, follows four young adults who’ve set off to make a docudrama about an obscure, unfinished horror films called The Hills Run Red. Along the way they encounter citizens of a small town where the original film was made and, of course, trouble follows.
What happens during this film can be best described as a mismatched, cliched unfolding of coincidental and needlessly violent and bloody events that taken as a whole, signify almost nothing. Usually, at least in the better films of this genre, you hope the audience feels some empathy or, at the very least, pity for the poor characters trapped in this scenario.
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Anderson to Helm The Living and the Dead
8 October 2009
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Helmer Brad Anderson ('The Machinist', 'Session 9') is to take up the directorial duties on an adaptation of popular graphic novel 'The Living and the Dead'. The book, created by, Robert Tinnell and Todd Livingston, is about a guy who is involved in 19th-Century 'snuff theatre' and lures innocent victims to 'a Grand Guignol of flesh and blood'. The story was originally intended as a movie with a screenplay being prepared by the writing duo, however,
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Brad Anderson adapting The Living And The Dead
8 October 2009 12:35 AM, PDT
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Brad Anderson, who directed The Machinist and Transsiberian, has signed up to direct an adaptation of graphic novel The Living And The Dead.
Indie production company Solipsist Films is behind the project, which will take Robert Tinnell and Todd Livingston's tome as its source.
The plot finds a shady character who lures innocent folk into Grand Guignol performances that turn out to be 19th century versions of snuff movies.
It sounds like rich territory for the man who starved Christian Bale and made Session 9.
"Todd and I are...
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Brad Anderson to Adapt Graphic Novel The Living And The Dead
7 October 2009 11:13 AM, PDT
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Brad Anderson (”Session 9″, “The Machinist”) has now signed on to direct the filmed adaptation of the graphic novel “The Living and the Dead”. The graphic novel by Robert Tinnell and Todd Livingston started off as a screenplay before turning into a comic and has now been revisited by the two creators with the news of Anderson coming on board. You can get all of the details when you click on the jump.
In their exclusive report, Comics2film at Mania.com reports that the 2005 graphic novel focuses on a monstrous character who “engages in the nineteenth-century version of snuff theater, luring innocent people in a Grand Guignol of flesh and blood.” In all fairness, they didn’t have reality TV in the 19th century. The story sounds pretty pulpy, Gothic, and Hammeresque to me and knowing that Anderson is going to be behind the camera makes me think that this could be pretty great.
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Fangoria Week in Review 10.04.2009
3 October 2009 10:10 PM, PDT
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If it's Sunday it must be Saw, then that means its time for another Fangoria Week In Review. We're turning back the clock to look back on the past seven 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. It was a review-heavy week as we entered October to highlight some great films for your Fall queue, and the news continued to flow about the biggest event in Fango history - the Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors, which invades Las Vegas on Halloween Weekend.
Get caught up below the jump!
Fangoria Trinity Of Terrors: Palms Casino Resort, Las Vegas, Nv - 10/30-11/01/2009
Latest Trinity Updates:
Sneak-Preview: Trinity Of Terrors Collector's book!
George A. Romero's Survival Of The Dead to screen at the Trinity Of Terrors!
Black Devil Doll to screen at the Trinity Of Terrors!
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First report, photos from Little Murder
1 October 2009 5:10 PM, PDT
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Deep in the heart of downtown Detroit, director Predrag “Gaga” Antonijevic is conjuring up a slice of the South. The much-lauded Serbian filmmaker is lensing the supernatural thriller Little Murder, his second English-language movie, in the Motor City despite the fact that it’s set in New Orleans, post-Katrina.
Antonijevic and co. are bringing to life the story of an alcoholic cop (Josh Lucas from Session 9 and the upcoming Tell Tale, seen in the exclusive pics here) who is observing a suspect (Iron Man’s Terrence Howard) from a house inhabited by the ghost of a murdered cellist (Lake Bell of TV’s Surface and Boston Legal). “It’s not an obvious plot,” Bell tells Fango, “but a strange little movie where every day that goes by, I learn more about what, tonally, we’re making. When you’re dealing with supernatural elements or spirits and things like that,
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Fall Frights: Session 9 (Film Review)
1 October 2009 1:51 AM, PDT
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In the spirit of Halloween '09, we're breaking out reviews (some new, some old) of some Fall Frights you may want to work into your monthly viewing.
Originally Published 4/18/2001:
There are three pieces of news attending the release of Session 9:
The Location: Director Brad Anderson, who scripted with Steve Gevedon (who also appears in an acting role) was inspired to make Session 9 by the real, abandoned Danvers State Mental Hospital, in which the action is set. Seeing the movie makes one wonder why no one has used the place before; not only is the overall building shaped like a bat (with long "wings" stretching out from the main structure), but it's chockablock with twisty corridors, dark, scary basements and a pretty scary history of patients abused with barbaric "treatments." Anderson and Gevedon have come up with a great starting premise: A group of men arrive at
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Gingold)
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Introducing AOL's SlashControl!
11 September 2009 10:45 AM, PDT
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I know Cinematical readers are just like our writers in that they need a steady supply of free movies and television 24/7. That's why sites like Hulu and Netflix Instant have been a gift from the Powers That Be, as you can see almost anything your heart desires at the weirdest times of the day or night. Now you'll have a new instant watch option with AOL's SlashControl.
SlashControl has just launched this week, and has partnered with more than 30 sites to bring you lots and lots of free television shows and movies. You'll be able to access content from ABC, CBS, CW, Showtime, Hulu, A&E, The History Channel, National Geographic, Crackle and the WB, and that's just the beginning. The site is very well designed, and has a search function that's even faster than Hulu's, so you can quickly kick yourself for not watching Session 9 while it was still available.
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Latest Casting for Brad Anderson's "Vanishing On 7th Street"
5 September 2009 6:55 AM, PDT
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Hayden Christensen will be joining John Leguizamo and Thandie Newton in Brad Anderson's ("Session 9", "The MacHinist") next thriller, "Vanishing On 7th Street", which begins lensing in Detroit, Mi on October 12th.
Written by Anthony Jaswinski, here's the plotline for the psychological thriller: In an instant, Mankind disappears and in a matter of hours four remaining survivors are drawn together to try to figure a way out of the apparent apocalypse happening around them.
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Top Ten Underrated Films (Of All Time)
2 September 2009 11:15 AM, PDT
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Great movies sometimes do not hit it off with the audience upon first viewing. Not even the sublime Citizen Kane found much appreciation on its release in 1941, taking over twenty years and critical re-discovery in order for everybody to agree it was a pretty special movie.
Cult films are different (and this is not a list of cult movies) – those do tend to find an audience (usually people who become hardcore fans) allowing the film to become celebrated in alternative ways – as opposed to garnering a multitude of awards.
This is a list drawn up of films I consider under-rated; overlooked; not thought about; dismissed, and so forth. I am not suggesting they should be regaled as masterpieces anointed and placed in a cinematic pantheon of greatness.
Compiling lists is very tough and as this is limited to a mere ten films, some wonderful films did not make final cut.
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Trio in shadowy thriller
27 August 2009 12:01 PM, PDT
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Hayden Christensen (Jumper), John Leguizamo (Ice Age) and Thandie Newton (2012) are in talks to star in Vanishing on Seventh Street, a thriller with horror overtones to it.
Brad Anderson of Session 9 noterity is slated to direct the film from a script written by himself and Anthony Jaswinski. THR states that the story takes place in a city where "shadowy forms cause residents to inexplicably disappear. Five survivors fight to stay alive while grappling with the meaning of existence." I'm trying not to think of Dark City when I read that premise but it's pretty hard to stop myself.
Anderson plans on filming the movie in Detroit which is a pretty good choice for what is supposed to be a "once-thriving" city. The motor town has seen its population crash as the residents that can afford to leave escape to the outskirts or right out of the region. There are
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Casting Notes: Christina Hendricks and Hayden Christensen Join New Projects
27 August 2009 11:34 AM, PDT
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Here are two quick casting notes that, in a busier week, might normally just make Page 2. But hell, any excuse to post a photo of Christina Hendricks is a good one, so I'm going to run with this. Also, news on Brad Anderson's (Session 9, The Machinist) new project, which just got Hayden Christensen in the lead.
First up, Hendricks has been cast opposite Katherine Heigl and Josh Duhamel in the romantic drama (not even a romantic comedy, it seems) called Life as We Know It. The film, to be directed by Greg Berlanti (Everwood, Dirty Sexy Money and Green Lantern producer) follows "two unattached adults whose worlds are turned upside down when their mutual best friends die in an accident and name them as caregivers of their orphaned daughter." Hendricks is the best friend of the two leads, so does that mean she's the one that dies? Why
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