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The Foywonder's Ten Worst Horror Films of the Decade
23 December 2009 8:31 PM, PST
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The first decade of the new millennium has come to an end, and that means it is now time for film sites all over the web to begin posting their various retrospectives and lists recalling the decade that was. I generally as a rule dislike such lists because they are always so subjective. Then I said screw it and took it upon myself to do one of my own naming the ten worst horror movies of the past decade. Besides, people love bitching on the Internet about lists like this, and who am I to deny readers yet another excuse to get into pointless flame wars over personal opinions.
Of course, this list is just my personal opinion which is not legally binding ... unless Proposition 304 passes. And we all pray that it will.
I set two rules when putting this list together: Only horror movies that received fairly wide theatrical
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Black Christmas (1974): A Retrospective
17 December 2009 2:13 AM, PST
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It’s the holiday season and, for most, that means it’s that very special time of year when you get see your family; That large group of people you hate and utterly despise but, do to some arbitrary blood relation, feel provoked to associate with at least once during the bleakest, darkest, and most devastatingly cold part of the year. And, as always, what makes the company of these cringe inducing kin barely tolerable is that wonderfully distracting invention known as the television. For most kids, the holidays mean more than just Santa, and gifts, and honey-glazed ham. It means you get to crowd around the tele (in much the same way that imaginary family, in those invented greeting cards, sit around a fire) and melt away your brain on usually mindless seasonal programming.
Now whilst most children grew up on flicks such as The Little Drummer Boy, Rudolph The Red-nosed Raindeer,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Michael Compton)
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Top Ten High School Horror Movies: 1996 - Present
4 December 2009 12:38 PM, PST
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This past fall saw the debut of the supernatural horror/comedy Jennifer’s Body, and with the film's Blu-ray and DVD release being only a few weeks away (December 29th), I thought it might be interesting to take a look back at some of the most successful high school horror films that have been released over the past 10 to 15 years.
Jennifer’s Body is a slick production, equipped with fresh young stars, a hip soundtrack, and, of course, strings of "clever" dialogue. And that’s the criteria I’ve chosen to adhere to when working on this top ten list. Some of the films included here aren’t necessarily my favorites, but they’ve been impactful and deserve the call-out all the same. At the risk of spoiling some of the choices, I chose 1996 as the eligibility year for the simple reason that it was the beginning of the glossy,
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Wyck Godfrey Discusses Producing "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" and the Decision Behind Three Directors
10 November 2009 3:18 AM, PST
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Producer Wyck Godfrey plays an instrumental role in bringing the film phenomenon "Twilight" to theaters. His background producing feature films, which range from "Behind Enemy Lines" to "When a Stranger Calls" prepared him for overseeing production on this blockbuster franchise. Two weeks before the highly anticipated release of "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" Godfrey sat down with MakingOf to share the decision behind bringing different directorial styles to each film, his close collaboration with director Chris Weitz and the team's focus on satisfying the film's rabid fans.
Click here to learn more about Godfrey's on-set experience and stay tuned all week for more "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" coverage - including an exclusive interview with screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg, behind-the-scenes content and more.
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Exclusive Video: Ti West Resides in The House of the Devil
27 October 2009 5:04 AM, PDT
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If this past weekend's box office was any indication horror fan's appetites might be changing. The type of films that fans have been gravitating towards over the last few years, the so-called "torture porn" genre, was well represented this past weekend with Saw VI but fans chose to see the The Blair Witch Project-style movie Paranormal Activity instead, which goes more for scares than gore. This could be a good sign for director Ti West whose new film The House of the Devil, which opens in theaters on October 30th, is a throwback to classic horror films like Halloween and When A Stranger Calls, and should give real horror fans a run for their money this Halloween season. We had a chance to speak with director Ti West and his leading actress, Jocelin Donahue, about their new film and the fate of Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever. To watch
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Why You Really Should Experience 'The House of the Devil'
26 October 2009 9:20 PM, PDT
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From its synth-heavy opening song and freeze-frame-filled beginning credits, Ti West’s The House of the Devil is a loving, respectful ode to the horror films of the 1970s and '80s. But don’t expect to get a warm, fuzzy feeling from all that affection; The House of the Devil is a gory, eerie film that doesn’t follow the templates set up by recent remakes of period favorites such as Halloween, Friday the 13th, and My Bloody Valentine. Instead of repackaging a familiar tale for contemporary audiences, director Ti West’s film revisits the era in a surprisingly fresh and authentic way.
Bearing a striking resemblance to Suspiria-era Jessica Harper, newcomer Jocelin Donahue plays Sam, a New England college student desperate for rent money so she can escape her roommate from hell. When she sees ads for a babysitter around campus, she thinks she may have found her salvation.
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Gadget of the week: Vtech I5871 phone from When a Stranger Calls
22 October 2009 4:17 AM, PDT
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It’s a wonder anyone can actually get a babysitter anymore as, if cinema has taught us anything, it’s that looking after someone else’s kids is hugely dangerous. Apparently a young woman in an unfamiliar house with badly-behaved sprogs has an allure that all local serial killers just can’t resist! Unsurprisingly, the same fate is duly doled out to teenager, Jill (Camille Belle, ex-squeeze of singing pin-up Joe Jonas) when she accepts a babysitting gig in 2006’s When a Stranger Calls and, similarly standard for the genre, the mysterious murderer terrorises his victim via the telephone. Still, at least it’s no tatty old phone, but the stylish Vtech I5871. Silver linings, eh?
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Gadget of the week: Vtech I5871 phone from When a Stranger Calls
22 October 2009 4:17 AM, PDT
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It’s a wonder anyone can actually get a babysitter anymore as, if cinema has taught us anything, it’s that looking after someone else’s kids is hugely dangerous. Apparently a young woman in an unfamiliar house with badly-behaved sprogs has an allure that all local serial killers just can’t resist! Unsurprisingly, the same fate is duly doled out to teenager, Jill (Camille Belle, ex-squeeze of singing pin-up Joe Jonas) when she accepts a babysitting gig in 2006’s When a Stranger Calls and, similarly standard for the genre, the mysterious murderer terrorises his victim via the telephone. Still, at least it’s no tatty old phone, but the stylish Vtech I5871. Silver linings, eh?
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Scary ass photography!
16 October 2009 3:17 AM, PDT
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This isn't movie-related per se but it's obviously inspired by some scary films and it's almost Halloween time and I thought I'd share. Photographer Joshua Hoffine has posted a series of shots to his official site that are just plain freaky. He lists his inspiration as horror films like Black Christmas, Halloween and When A Stranger Calls. After you take a look through the pics below, you can see the full gallery here and check out some behind-the-scenes pics at his blog.
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- Mike Sampson
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31 Days of Horror: Amusement
15 October 2009 1:09 PM, PDT
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Hello hello, the Coroner here with another installment of the Report, this time focusing on the direct to DVD and Blu-ray Amusement. The film is writer Jake Wade Wall's first foray into something original, he previously penned the remakes of The Hitcher and the atrocious When a Stranger Calls. Working with his own material, Wall does a decently good job, though with obvious flaws. Director John Simpson is similarly inexperienced, but manages to craft a pretty good movie with one section that is absolutely awesome.
This little film came out a good while ago and I've been meaning to catch up with it for months now. The cover is a spooky clown and it stars a couple of women, I mean how bad can it be? The story is broken up into basically three sections. The first serves as an introduction to our killer as he does what he does best - look kind of nerdy
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- Robert Fure
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Danielle Harris Cast in Night of the Living Dead
25 September 2009
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2009. Not a bad year for Danielle Harris ( video interview ) who spent an early part of it being stalked by Michael Myers again for Halloween II , then wandered through the vampire-riddled Stake Land . Next up, she's taking on zombies in Night of the Living Dead: Origins .
The actress revealed what role she's playing via her Twitter account this afternoon: "All you're good luck wishes worked! Guess who's gonna be Barbara?!"
Origins is a 3-D, CGI spin-off of the George A. Romero classic. Director Zebediah de Soto is delving in the backgrounds of the characters we know so well. When a Stranger Calls ' Simon West and Jib Polhemus are producing. For more on De Soto's approach click here !
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Robo.to Bundles Your Outgoing Calls With Video and More. Should We Worry?
21 September 2009 11:30 AM, PDT
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Remember that pivotal moment in the horror film When A Stranger Calls, when the babysitter gets the news that "The call is coming from inside the house?" It's a jaw-dropping revelation. If the new app Robo.to has anything to do with it, Jill would probably have a little too much information about who was calling.Available later this year for iPhone and Android phones, Robo.to skips the humdrum caller ID screen and gives the party receiving the call a slew of information--videos, photos, Twitter and LinkedIn profile updates, and current location. Don't forget to actually answer the call.New features tend to be about new revenue streams. With Robo.to, details about your friends and family, and who you call and text most, are stored in a contacts folder. Think about what would happen if an app merged that info with the data available on Facebook and Twitter--that
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Night of the Living Dead 3-D….Again!
16 September 2009 5:52 AM, PDT
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Three years ago, we were subjected to an atrocity that gave us a new spin and a white Ben in Jeff Broadstreet's Night of the Living Dead 3-D. With public domain rights, any Joe Shmoe can make his or her version of the classic 1968 George Romero film. That last statement is once again proven with the news of another 3-D version of the undead film. Directed by the unknown Zebediah de Soto and written by When A Stranger Calls remake director Simon West, this remake will be titled Night of the Living Dead: Origins. Sounds like a prequel doesn't it? Well, it kind of is and here is what I mean:
From The Hollywood Reporter website: "On the story front, De Soto, who wrote the script with David R. Schwartz, wants to update the tale partially by bringing out the characters’ backstories and make what he called 'an American-style anime.
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Night of the Living Dead in 3D Again?
16 September 2009 1:34 AM, PDT
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Didn't we just get treated to a 3D remake of Night of the Living Dead a few years ago, and didn't it pretty much suck to high heaven? Here we are once again, and for the record George A. Romero has nothing to do with this production either. This time it's being produced by Simon West, director of the abysmal remake When a Stranger Calls and the equally atrocious Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
Fortunately, Simon West will not be in the director's chair. Directing duties fall in the lap of Zebediah de Soto, who has also co-written the script. Zeb directed the short film "War Dogs" and was the man behind all of the promos you've seen online for such entities as us, Bloody-Disgusting, Screamfest La, and the site that shall not be named.
The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog broke the news of the coming of Night of the Living Dead: Origins.
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Let's Remake Night of the Living Dead in 3D ... Again!
16 September 2009 12:52 AM, PDT
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Didn't we just get treated to a 3D remake of Night of the Living Dead just a few years ago and didn't it pretty much suck to high heaven? Here we go again and, once again, George A. Romero has nothing to do with the production. But this time it's being produced by Simon West, director of the remake of abysmal When a Stranger Calls and the equally atrocious Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.
Fortunately, Simon West will not be in the director's chair. Directing duties fall in the lap of Zebediah de Soto, who has also co-written the script.
The Hollywood Reporter's Heat Vision blog broke the news of the coming of Night of the Living Dead: Origins. Yep, that's the title they're going with. That's because this take on the horror classic intends to "update the tale partially by bringing out the characters’ backstories and make what (de Soto) called “an American-style anime.
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Tyler Perry 'Can Do' Good at the Box Office
13 September 2009 5:30 PM, PDT
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Tyler Perry's Madea swung her weight at the box office again, handily topping a modest weekend at the box office with her latest appearance in Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself. The weekend also saw a passable start for the animated 9 and the failures of two thrillers, Sorority Row and Whiteout. Overall business was off seven percent from the same weekend last year, when Burn After Reading and Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys opened. I Can Do Bad All By Myself yanked an estimated $24 million out of approximately 3,200 screens at 2,255 sites. It was the third highest-grossing debut for a Tyler Perry movie, though slightly above average in terms of attendance, and a new high for one of his Fall releases, topping The Family That Preys ($17.4 million) and Why Did I Get Married? ($21.4 million). Though not named in the title like Perry's biggest hits, Madea was
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Fangoria Week in Review 09.06.2009
5 September 2009 10:01 PM, PDT
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Happy Labor Day Weekend, 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 advance reviews of Sorority Row & Daybreakers, a pair of Dexter interviews, a post-hii talk with Rob Zombie, and so much more.
Get caught up below the jump!
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Fearful Features & Exclusive Interviews:
Rob Zombie’s Halloween II postmortem, Blob plans!
Danielle Harris talks Stake Land
David Zayas on Dexter’s new season and more
From Beyond Re-animator: A Talk with Stuart Gordon
Scripter talks Dexter’s
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
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When A Stranger Calls (1979; DVD Review)
31 August 2009 9:13 PM, PDT
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Jill Johnson (Carol Kane) meets with the Mandrakis family to see that their children are looked after while they head out for dinner and a movie. Piece of cake, considering the children are already sound asleep upstairs. But Jill’s seemingly mundane evening of studies and telephone banter takes a turn for the worse, when Jill begins receiving a string of eerie telephone calls from some anonymous caller in which she is unable to identify.
Have you checked the children? The caller asks repeatedly. Hesitant to check on the children, anchored by fear - Jill telephones the police, who in turn arrange to have any future calls traced. As Jill continues to catch the creepy incoming calls, she begins hearing strange sounds from within the house. Before Ms. Johnson has the chance to learn the fate of the children upstairs, police phone her to inform her that those mysterious calls she’s been receiving,
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Matt Molgaard)
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Danielle Harris ('Halloween' 4 & 5, 'Rob Zombie's Halloween' 1 & 2)
28 August 2009 12:00 AM, PDT
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Danielle Harris stars in the new Halloween sequel by Rob Zombie. It’s a crap movie, but Danielle Harris, who was brought back into the franchise last year by Zombie for his remake, actually starred in the original Halloween 4 and 5, in which she played Jamie Lloyd, the target of Michael Myer’s wrath. In Zombie’s Halloween II, she reprises her role as Annie Brackett, the ill-fated friend of Lori Strode who bravely takes on nudity in an un-Jamie Lloyd way.
But Danielle Harris is much more than funny anecdotes about how much Donald Pleasance scared her when she was a kid because he was always drunk on the set and wearing a gross fake scar; she’s a clever woman with filmmaking aspirations of her own. She tells Pretty/Scary about how the Halloween franchise is now a part of her life...
Despite what you may think, Harris
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Exclusive: New Set report on Nightmare On Elm Street remake
20 August 2009 1:03 PM, PDT
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Part 1 of Fangoria's Exclusive look at the making of A Nightmare On Elm Street...
Security is very much in place on the set of the new Nightmare On Elm Street, as the filmmakers attempt to keep the 2010 Freddy Krueger under wraps. Literally. When Jackie Earle Haley arrives on the set of the film (set for New Line release April 30), it is in a darkened van that pulls up outside of Powell’s Book Store in Chicago. Billowing black robes and umbrellas suddenly appear, wielded by production assistants, shielding the actor from any unauthorized eyeballs as he makes his way through the midday sunlight from the van into the bookstore.
Inside, safe from curious onlookers, the wraps come off. Haley is in full makeup and costume. Freddy lives again.
Much in the spirit of the recent reduxes of Halloween, Friday The 13th and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, this Nightmare On Elm
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- no-reply@fangoria.com (Kim Howard Johnson)
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