by Mighty Worm on December 1, 2008
Happy December 1st!
And to celebrate why not stroll over to the Creepy Christmas Film Festival, which is offering up 25 days of weird and creepy holiday shorts. A new film every day!
They are also offering up their own brand of creepy advent calendar.
Today’s inaugural film isn’t anything great, but it gives an idea of what is to come. There are some interesting filmmakers in the line-up (which can be found after the jump), so check it out and have yourself a bit of xmas spooky every day all month long.
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by Mighty Worm on October 28, 2008
Halloween is almost upon us! Now is the time to get serious about finally carving that pumpkin, finishing up that costume (if you didn’t already have a party this past weekend), hitting that haunted house you keep putting off, and of course - seeing some scary movies!
Many of you have probably already seen SAW V (the box office #’s would seem to say so). For those who haven’t - skip it. If your a big SAW-franchise fan, by all means, go for it, but for those simply looking to catch a horror movie or two, there are much better ways you could spend your time.
A drastically more interesting choice would be LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, QUARANTINE and/or the Clive Barker double feature at the New Bev. [click to continue...]
by Mighty Worm on October 22, 2008
One of my favorite time wasting websites is Hulu.com, which allows you to stream an increasingly more and more impressive array of TV shows and movies - for free! I don’t have TiVo, so this is how I keep up on a majority of the shows I watch.
October is Huluween over at Hulu, where they have selected a fun array of horror movies, like The Blob, Christine, Toxic Avenger, and Horror Express, and Halloween related episodes of shows like The Simpsons, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Addams Family, Girls Next Door, and Scare Tactics, all for your free consumption. And those are just a few examples of what’s available.
The playlists are broken up into the weeks of the month. We’re currently in week three, but the previous two weeks’ material is still available for viewing. And more material will of course be coming next week.
by Mighty Worm on October 12, 2008
The DVD case for the 10th Anniversary Edition of HALLOWEEN: THE HAPPY HAUNTING OF AMERICA proudly proclaims “A Must-See For All Halloween Fans,” and I think I’d have to agree. Though by extension I’d also have to say that it’s probably only for true Halloween fans.
I’m not sure exactly how to categorize HAPPY HAUNTING. It’s technically a documentary I suppose, but it feels more like an episode of a cable infotainment series - kind of a Wild On: Halloween, sans the boozing and bikinis of course.
Our genial host is actor and horror aficionado Daniel Roebuck - who I’ll always remember from RIVER’S EDGE, but many readers might recall as the doomed-to-explode Arzt from TV’s “LOST” - who takes us on a journey across America to visit various popular haunted attractions.
These walk-through segments are buffered with some talking-head bits from Halloween experts and also some horror icons like Robert Englund, Alice Cooper and Tom Savini. This is actually the area of the movie I was most surprised by, as I’d cynically expected it to just be a lame gimmick to get some familiar names on the slipcase. But all involved actually relate some really fun personal Halloween stories, with Englund even divulging the origins of the jack-o-lantern.
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by Mighty Worm on October 6, 2008
Scream 2008, Spike TV’s third annual awards show dedicatd soley to horror, sci-fi and fantasy, won’t air until October 21st (on Spike, of course), but leading up til then you can flex your mighty opinion by voting for your favs, if you are so inclined.
While I can’t say the nominee choices are great (30 Days of Night for Best Horror Movie? Are you f’ing kidding?) the award categories themselves are a solid and logical batch - Best Director, Best Villain, Best TV Show, etc - with some uniquely fun ones scattered in too, like “Most Memorable Mutilation” or “Holy S@#$! Scene of the Year.”
For an idea of what to expect from this year’s ceremony check out the highlight montage of Scream 2007 after the jump. [click to continue...]
by Creepy on October 4, 2008
In this newest of DirectTV’s ads utilizing footage from classic films, Craig T. Nelson reprises his role from “Poltergeist” telling the audience, “Forgetting to switch to DirectTV? Yeah, that’s gonna haunt me,” as Heather O’Rourke stands at the foot of his bed. O’Rourke died at the age of 12 a few months after wrapping work on “Poltergeist 3.”
On a related note of trivia, did you know that both O’Rourke and Dominique Dunne, who played her older sister in “Poltergeist,” are both interred at Pierce Brothers Westwood Memorial Park?
[h/t Hunter Stephenson at Slashfilm]
by It Came from New York on September 29, 2008
Raleigh Studios hosts the 8th annual horror film festival that started it all. And Denise Gossett wants to scare you!
Denise Gossett is the mastermind behind Shriekfest. Nine years ago she starred in a horror film called Chain of Souls. When she asked the producers and director what their plans were for releasing the film, she was shocked to hear it was going straight to video. She suggested submitting it to film festivals.
To her surprise, the filmmakers told her there were no film festivals dedicated to the horror genre.
I thought, ‘How can that be?’ There are so many horror fans. I did some research and found what they said was true for the US. There were a few in other countries but really nothing notable or well known. So I came up with the idea for this festival. [click to continue...]
by Creepy on September 19, 2008
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