Archive for August, 2008
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August 30, 2008
If you head on over to BDTV, you can watch an exclusive video interview with Trent Haaga, writer of Deadgirl, which will have its World Premiere this September at the Midnight Madness section of the Toronto International Film Festival. A horror/thriller about two teenagers who make a shocking discovery that not only threatens their friendship but also their lives. In a forgotten room of an abandoned asylum, they find a beautiful woman tied to a bed, and soon come to realize she is anything but dead. Click here for all TIFF news.
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August 30, 2008
One of my favorite actors of the ’90s (K-PAX, why?!), Kevin Spacey (pictured inside), has joined the cast of Moon, which will be directed by David Bowie’s son Duncan Jones, according to io9. He will be starring alongside Sam Rockwell, Kaya Scodelario, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Malcolm Stewart and Dominique McElligott. Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter while stranded on the moon for a three-year period. Read on for a longer synopsis.
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August 30, 2008
DEXTER finally returns to Showtime Sunday, September 28th at 9PM et/pt and to promote the show, Showtime has created a series of faux covers for popular magazines (what if Dexter rocked the cover of Rolling Stone). Read on to take a look or check out the trailer by clicking here. In the show Michael C. Hall plays a like-able Miami police forensics expert that moonlights as a serial killer of criminals who he believes have escaped justice.
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August 29, 2008
After being removed from the web a few weeks ago, the first official clip from Lionsgate’s Repo! The Genetic Opera has returned and can be found inside. Read beyond the break to watch Paris Hilton sing “Mark It Up”, one of the various tracks from Darren Lynn Bousman’s horror musical. The film hits limited theaters on November 7th and will play the Toronto After Dark Film Festival in October.
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August 29, 2008
Here is the final Saw V poster, which is in theaters October 24th. Enjoy!
SYNOPSIS:
In the fifth installment of the SAW franchise, Hoffman is seemingly the last person alive to carry on the Jigsaw legacy. But when his secret is threatened, Hoffman must go on the hunt to eliminate all loose ends.
CAST:
Tobin Bell Jigsaw
Costas Mandylor Hoffman
Scott Patterson Agent Straum
Betsy Russell Jill
Mark Rolston Erickson
Carlo Rota Charles
Julie Benz Brit
Greg Bryk Mallick
Laura Gordon Ashley
Meagan Good Luba
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August 29, 2008
It was announced today that artist Earl Geier is illustrating the upcoming book by author Michael Vance. Published in early 2009, Weird Horror Tales will be an homage to pulp magazines from the ‘20s, ‘30s, and ‘40s such as Horror Stories and Weird Tales.
“Michael Vance offers up thirteen tales of Lovecraftian horror with a deft [...]
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August 29, 2008
It’s the war to settle the score! This explosive feud ignited when I stumbled across some less then flattering reviews of one of my all time favorite flicks, the 1984 Charles E. Sellier Jr. classic – SILENT NIGHT DEADLY NIGHT! I’d like to throw down with these chumps triple threat style with a terrible trio of SNDN reviews.
Check out a pissworthy write up from the Onion AV Club, a classic pissed off review from Siskel & Ebert, and the deranged ramblings of yours truly. I’ll let anyone who has the GUTS to make their way through this holiday holocaust decide which review is the winner.
LET THE BLOODSHED BEGIN!!!
CONTESTANT # 1: Onion Av Club
4. SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (1984)
The idea of a horror movie about a Santa-suited serial killer seems more distasteful than offensive now, but Silent Night, Deadly Night had the misfortune of arriving in the middle of the ’80s slasher-film glut, and it almost single-handedly killed off the genre. Critics and cultural commentators were already up in arms about the succession of increasingly gory, sleazy post-Halloween slasher flicks, many of them arbitrarily tied to beloved holidays. While Silent Night, Deadly Night was as silly and generic as any of them?right down to the childhood trauma that caused the villain’s psychosis?a fed-up populace mobilized, threatening to boycott newspapers that carried ads for the film, and picketing outside theaters that screened it. Distributor Tristar Pictures quickly pulled all advertising, and then the movie itself. In the years that followed, slasher movies grew tamer and tamer, steering clear of sacred cows no matter how ripe they may have been for the slaughter.
CONTESTANT # 2: Siskel & Ebert
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CONTESTANT # 3: Brain Hammer
SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT (1984)
This family favorite begins on Christmas Eve 1971. The Chapman family ? Jim, his wife Ellie, and their two young sons Billy and infant Ricky are making a pilgrimage to visit Jim?s institutionalized Father. Along the way Billy asks Mommy if he can stay up to see Santa Claus but she tells him that it would be naughty to stay up past his bed time. She tells her son that Santa doesn?t bring presents to naughty children, and that Santa has a big suprise for him that night.
When they get to the hospital the family is saddened to find Jim?s Father in a state of catatonia. He sits in silence, dazed and staring into space. When the Doctors and Billy?s parents leave the room to discuss his Grandfather?s condition they leave Billy alone with the harmless old man. That?s when the twisted old fruit (played by Will Hare of ENTER THE NINJA legend!) suddenly snaps to life to warn Billy about the dangers of Santy Claus. He asks Billy if he?s scared, and then tells the wide eyed boy that he should be because Christmas Eve is the scariest damn night of the whole year. He then informs the terrified tot that Santa only brings presents to boys and girls that have been good all year ? the rest he PUNISHES! When Billy sheepishly tells his Grandpa he hasn?t been good all year the mean old bastard tells Billy if he sees Santa tonight he?d better run for his life!
When the rest of the Chapman clan returns Grandpa goes back to staring into space as if nothing happened. The family leaves, and Billy promises to his Grandpa that he will be good from now on. On the long car ride home Billy reveals to his Mommy what Grandpa said about Santa Claus wanting to punish him. Mommy gets angry and calls Grandpa a crazy old fool. This causes Billy to gasp and warn Mommy that it?s naughty to say bad things about old people. Billy then warns his Mommy that Santa will want to punish her too.
We then meet a two bit thief in a Santa outfit. After filling up his tank at a gas station the evil impostor Santa pulls an armed robbery that ends in murder and earns him a lousy 31 dollars. Scumbag Santa?s car later breaks down and The Chapman?s have the misfortune of running into him on their way home. Jim pulls over to offer a little roadside assistance and gets a bullet in the head. Then the very bad Santa pulls Ellie out of the car so he can expose her breasts before slitting her throat. Little Billy runs away and watches all of this transpire as he hides in some bushes across the road.
We then flash forward three years and find the two boys attempting to adjust to life inside the Saint Mary?s Home For Orphaned Children. Billy has a profound hatred and fear of Christmas that gets worse every year. The sensitive Sister Margaret wants to get the boy professional help, but the domineering and abusive Mother Superior (Lilyan Chauvin) prefers more brutal means of keeping Billy in line. Bad little Billy gets an eyeful of sex when he sneaks a peek at a pair of orphans fucking upstairs. Mother Superior catches the kids in the act and proceeds to beat the devils with her large leather belt! She then turns her attention towards Billy and informs him that when we do something naughty we must be punished. Punishment is necessary. Punishment is absolute. Punishment is good.
Mother Superior practices what she preaches and routinely beats Billy silly and ties him to his bed at night. Her brutal methods seem to have a calming effect on the boy, but it all unravels at the big Christmas Day bash when Mother Superior attempts to force Billy to sit on Santa?s lap. Billy freaks out and unleashes a devastating right hook that knocks the jolly old fat man on his ass! Billy runs upstairs and cowers in his room, where he awaits his inevitable punishment from Mother Superior.
We then flash forward yet again, this time several years. Sensitive Sister Margaret attempts to get the now 18 year old Billy a job at the local toy store around Halloween time. The store?s ambiguously gaay owner Mr. Sims is reluctant to hire an orphan but quickly changes his mind when he gets a steaming eyeful of Billy, who has grown into a big buttery slab of blonde beefcake. Billy gets a job working in the stockroom, and we spend some quality time with him as he drinks milk, smiles, and stocks the store shelves during a delightful musical montage set to the tune of a blustery blues ballad entitled The Warm Side Of The Door.
We first get a glimpse of Billy?s inner torment when the sight of a Santa Claus banner makes him cower with disgust. Billy begins slacking off at work and staring into space like a moon goon. He wrestles with the memories of his parent?s violent murders, which he fuses with his own repressed feelings of sexuality. Things go from bad to worse when Mr. Sims forces Billy to dress up as Santa when the original store Santa breaks his leg while ice fishing. The sight of himself in a full Santa Claus outfit is enough to drive the already disturbed young man completely insane!
At first, Billy seems like a natural in the role. No one suspects that Billy?s secret to keeping the kids that sit on his lap quiet is that he whispers threats of punishment into their little ears. Later that night the after hours Christmas party turns deadly when Billy stumbles upon an attempted rape in the stockroom. Billy stops the attempted rapist from jamming his yule log into the girl?s stockings by strangling him with Christmas lights. When the girl fails to show Santa the proper gratitude and calls Billy a crazy bastard instead he proceeds to gut her with a box cutter. Mr. Sims investigates and gets a hammer in his brain for his efforts. That leaves this one haggard old skank (her name escaped me) alone to repeatedly yell MISTER SIMS?!? over and over again until Billy shows up to chase her down with an axe and then put her out of her misery with a bow and arrow.
We are then introduced to Denise ? a sexy and short lived babysitter played by the one and only Linnea Quigley (Return Of The Living Dead). Denise is nice enough to spend some quality time wandering around in only a pair of cutoff shorts before Billy punishes her for being such a naughty little slut by impaling her on the antlers of a mounted deer head in the living room! Billy then has a brief run in with Denise?s Van Patten-esque and apparently deaf (he was downstairs while the front door was smashed in and his girlfriend was being slaughtered and didn?t hear a thing!) boyfriend before sending him crashing through a window. His next victim is an obnoxious sled stealing bully that gets swiftly beheaded. His freshly decapitated corpse is enough to make his partner in crime to break down into tears and unleash some of the best male screams in all of horror history!
As Billy?s body count increases, sensitive Sister Margaret and the cops try to track him down. An unfortunate officer shows up at the orphanage looking for Billy and accidentally shoots a deaf old man that was playing Santa for the children. The cop apologizes to Mother Superior for the mistake and warns her that a killer is on the way. He then pads out the final reel of the film by wandering around the grounds before Billy finally slams an axe into his chest. Billy then decapitates a snowman and heads inside the orphanage for a final deadly showdown with Mother Superior.
I am a HUGE fan of this eternally controversial 1984 effort from director Charles E. Sellier Jr. I consider this to be one of the all time great slasher flicks. Exceedingly well made and disturbing from start to finish, it manages to be both polished and sleazy at the same time. This is easily one of the most infamous horror films of all time. When originally released in December 1984 it was met by numerous protests from angry parents. Critics like Siskel & Ebert also went out of their way to crusade against the film. The end result was some originally brisk box office before the film was quickly pulled from theaters and shelved until the spring of 1985 when it was briefly rereleased.
Despite, or more likely because of the controversy, the film was a financial success. The unrated vhs release proved to be a big seller, and a long running series of increasingly ridiculous and unrelated sequels followed. This franchise assured SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT a permanent place in horror history. This is essential holiday viewing in the Hammer household.
Listen to your Grandpa Boy! Watch this clip!
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>KEEP THE BLOOD FLOWING!!!
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August 29, 2008
Every day millions of teenage girls sign onto the internet to; act like idiots on YouTube, socialize with their friends, and do whatever teenage girls do on the internet. Every day millions of perverts sign onto the internet onto to watch teenage girls on YouTube, talk to teenage girls on the internet, and do whatever else perverts do on the internet. I imagine keeping up on the latest teenage trends is tiring. You don’t want to get caught talking about Miley Cyrus dating Nick Jonas, because OMG that it so not true, Cyrus is a skank. Jonas is like dating Selina Gomez. U R so STUPID!
So its time to shelve your Harry Potter books, and read our quick guide on How to Pick Up Teenage Girls Using Twilight. Like the Anarchist Cook Book, just because we told you how to make a bomb doesn’t mean we think you should do it and use it to blow people up.
We’re kidding, this is just a quick guide to the new Twilight movie, but who else would be interested in something like this besides teenage girls and perverts? And I’m willing to bet we get more perverts than teen girls here at HYB!
Twilight 101:
Twilight the book (via wikipedia): Twilight is a young adult vampire novel written by author Stephenie Meyer, originally published in hardcover in 2005. It is the first book of the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella “Bella” Swan who moves from Phoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington, and finds her life in danger when she falls in love with a vampire, Edward Cullen.
Twilight the movie(via wikipedia): Twilight is being adapted into a film by Summit Entertainment. The film is being directed by Catherine Hardwicke and stars Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson as protagonists Isabella Swan and Edward Cullen, respectively. The screenplay was adapted by Melissa Rosenberg. The movie is set to be released in North America on November 21, 2008
The Characters (via Filmgrenade.com)
Bella Swan – Played by Kristen Stewart — Isabella “Bella” Marie is the daughter of Charlie Swan and Renee Dwyer. Charlie and Renee were married at a very young age, and Bella was born soon after. After some time they divorced and Bella moved to Phoenix, Arizona with her mother. Bella’s mother eventually married a baseball player named Phil, and this made Bella feel like she was holding her mother back from living a good life. So she decided to move back to Forks, Washington with her father. Once she gets to Forks she meets and falls deeply in love with the a boy named Edward Cullen. She soon finds out that Edwards and his family are vampires but decides to stay with him where they continue to fall deeper for each other.
Edward Cullen – Played By Robert Pattinson — Edward Anthony Masen Cullen is the human son of Elizabeth and Edward Masen born on June 20, 1901 and died in 1918. Edward suffered from the Spanish Influenza when he was 17 years old. The only one who could save him was a mysterious young doctor named Carlisle Cullen. The only way to keep Edward alive was to transform him into a vampire. Both of Edward’s parents had eventually died from the Influenza pandemic. He was reborn and currently lives in Forks, Washington with his adoptive vampire family. His new parents Esme and Carlisle, and siblings Alice Cullen, Emmett Cullen, Rosalie Hale and Jasper Hale.
Dr.Carlisle Cullen – Played By Peter Facinelli — Dr. Carlisle Cullen is a Vampire who is seen as a father figure to the Cullen family. He was born in the 1640’s and lead an attack on a group of Vampires. He crossed paths with one vampire and ended up getting bitten and turned into one himself. Carlisle hated being a vampire and tried to kill himself in many different ways and obviously failed every time. He became desperate and tried saving himself when he crossed paths with wild animals which he attacked. Carlisle discovered that he could survive off of animal blood instead of humans. Carlisle works in Forks hospital and no longer has a flavor for human blood. One day in the Early 1900s, he came across a teenager suffering from influenza and decided to save him because of his begging mother.
Esme Cullen – Played By Elizabeth Reaser — Esme Cullen is Carlisle’s wife and was once a human as well. Carlisle turned her after she attempted to commit suicide due to her sons death from a lung infection. She is the second person Carlisle turned and is a very loving person. She accepts Bella right away and is grateful for her being there for Edward. She is the adoptive mother to Edward, Alice, Jasper, Rosalie, and Emmett.
Jasper Hale – Played By Jackson Rathbone — Jasper Whitlock also known as Jasper Hale to non-family was born in 1844. He was involved in the Civil War on the Confederate side at the age of 17, but he lied and said he was 20. He was quickly promoted to a Major and served during the 1st Battle of Galveston. While evacuating women and children he saw three women who turned out to be vampires (Nettie, Maria and Lucy). They decided that he would be a perfect member for their vampire army.
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August 29, 2008
The Digital Bits reports some disheartening news. According to the website, Genius will finally release the Grindhouse films, Planet Terror and Death Proof, on Blu-ray Disc on 12/16 (SRP $28.95). Extras, however, appear to be identical to the prevoius DVD editions – therefore, no trailers will be included (what the f*ck!) From groundbreaking directors Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez comes the ultimate film experience: a double-bill of thrillers that will recall both filmmakers favorite exploitation films. Grindhouse will be presented as one full-length feature comprised of two individual films helmed separately by each director. Tarantinos film, Death Proof, is a rip-roaring slasher flick where the killer pursues his victims with a car rather than a knife, while Rodriguezs film explores an alien world eerily familiar to ours in Planet Terror. Welcome to the Grindhouse – itll tear you in two.
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August 29, 2008
If you head on over to BDTV, you can watch the international trailer for J.T. Petty’s The Burrowers, which features your first clear look at the creatures in the film, which were created by Almost Human FX (who worked on all of Apatow’s films). Lucky attendees of the Midnight Madness portion of this year’s TIFF will be treated to the world premiere of the film in September. After a family is brutally murdered in their home, a group of ranchers and infantry men embark on a crusade to find the killers. When a mysterious killer attacks their ranks, they discover that carnivorous creatures are hiding beneath the surface of the earth waiting to feed on their flesh. Click the title above for loads of stills or click here for all TIFF news.
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