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The Pit and the Pendulum
Friday | August 29th, 2008 | 6:43 am | Posted by DrGore | No Comments
Edgar Allan Poe’s classic short story of judgment, condemnation, hope and redemption is realized in this stop-motion animated adaptation, executive produced by animation and visual effects legend Ray Harryhausen (Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Clash of the Titans), directed by animation veteran Marc Lougee (Director of Animation; Celebrity Deathmatch, Dinosapien). The short, shot at HD widescreen resolution with 5.1 surround sound, was produced through Lougee’s production company, Hand Made Heroes Film & Television, Toronto, ON, Canada with generous production support from…
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BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT
Friday | August 29th, 2008 | 6:01 am | Posted by DrGore | 1 Comment
So if anyone is in the Chicago area, you have to go and check out Blade Runner on the big screen once again. Its playing at the Music Box Theater! Not really horror new of any sort, but its a cassic on the big screen! Check out hte details below.
BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT
Back by popular demand on the big screen!
Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully prophetic since its debut, BLADE RUNNER returns in Ridley Scott’s definitive FINAL CUT, including…
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Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
Wednesday | August 27th, 2008 | 9:18 pm | Posted by DrGore | 1 Comment
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!’, a comedy-thriller featuring the ultimate battle between Strippers vs. Zombies to premiere on Blockbuster Online and Netflix.
Metuchen, New Jersey - In The Dark Entertainment Inc. and Passion River Films are proud to announce the release of ‘Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!’, a comedy-horror film that will be available on Blockbuster Online and Netflix on September 9, 2008.
‘Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!’ takes place when an unorthodox drug experiment conducted by a mad scientist transforms the residents of a small town
into flesh-eating…
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The Fly Becomes Opera
Wednesday | August 27th, 2008 | 9:14 pm | Posted by DrGore | 1 Comment
Horror movie The Fly becomes opera
Film director David Cronenberg took to the stage in LA alongside opera heavyweight Placido Domingo to launch the opera version of his 1986 cult hit, The Fly.
Over two decades on, the film has undergone a regenesis of its own and is set to be performed at the city’s Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in September.
Rather than singing, the operatic tenor will be conducting performances. Placido admits at first he was dubious about bringing the film to the…
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1.8 Days Now in Production
Wednesday | August 27th, 2008 | 9:09 pm | Posted by DrGore | No Comments
CAYCE, S.C. (AP) — A horror film written and directed by Columbia native Chuck Fallaw will be the first movie to shoot at a new production facility in Cayce.
According to Movie Tao Productions’ Web site, “1.8 Days” is the story of five people who want each other dead, but who have to band together to take on a common enemy.
Producer Josh Dease says shooting the movie at Genesis Studios in the city just across the Congaree River from downtown Columbia…
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Vampyr on DVD
Wednesday | August 27th, 2008 | 9:07 pm | Posted by DrGore | No Comments
Film horror has been riding high in recent years. We’re just wound up a couple of seasons of gore-horrors based on the theme of torture. Before that were the much different “J-Horror” pictures, modern ghost stories from Japan that generated much of their sense of dread from dreamlike, menacing imagery. And a few years before that we withstood a wave of self-aware slasher films featuring teenagers that try to survive bloody murder by applying lessons learned from earlier horror movies…
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[REC] Banned in NZ
Wednesday | August 27th, 2008 | 8:12 pm | Posted by DrGore | No Comments
A promotion for the horror film [REC] has been derailed by the Chief Investigator for the New Zealand Food Safety Authority.
The promotion centred around the ‘Extreme Bloody Mary’, a beverage which contained drops of real human blood.
Organisers were requested to cease with the promotion under Section 9 of the Food Act 1981 as it is prohibited to serve ‘food’ that is unsound, unfit or offensive for human consumption.
Contravening any of the provisions of section 9 of the Food Act commits…
