“Kong: Skull Island” Limited Edition Prints by Francesco Francavilla
Francesco Francavilla has created a very cool limited edition print for Kong Skull Island. There are actually two versions that you can see at Mondotees.com.
Category: Horror
“28 Days Later”: The Intimacy of Horror
28 Days Later: The Intimacy of Horror is a well made examination of how Danny Boyle amped up the horror through the use of intimacy.
39 Things We Learned from Bill Paxton’s “Frailty” Commentary
Rob Hunter and Film School Rejects present 39 Things We Learned from Bill Paxton’s Frailty Commentary. Here are three of my favorites…
8. He made the film for multiple viewings. “The first time you sit through Frailty you get pulled into the story kind of subjectively, and there’s this whole kind of creep factor. But on your second viewing there’s a lot of satisfaction as there are a lot of clues laid out in front of the viewer.”
35. The script originally showed the visions — each demons sins — at the time of their abduction/murder, but James Cameron watched an early cut and suggested they shift them all to the end. “He said ‘You gotta remember film is so literal that you’re going to split the audience, and a lot of them are gonna believe that dad really is seeing all this stuff, and you don’t want that to happen because you want them to go with Fenton.’”
36. Why is the ax called Otis? One, he wanted audiences to know that the ax adult Adam uses in the end is the same one his dad used, “so I wanted to mark it some way.” And two, giving it a name anthropomorphizes it and makes it a character of sorts.
The Final Trailer for “Kong: Skull Island” is Here!
Today we have the final trailer for Kong: Skull Island.
“Here Alone” Poster & Trailer
Here Alone just made my list of Movies to See.
Rabid (1977)
Rabid (1977)
Director: David Cronenberg
Screenplay: David Cronenberg
Stars: Marilyn Chambers, Frank Moore and Joe Silver
The Pitch: “Hey, let’s make a low-budget horror movie!”
Tagline: You can’t trust your mother…your best friend…your neighbor next door…
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
In an effort to save Rose [Chambers], the victim of a motorcycle crash, a doctor performs experimental plastic surgery. Rose recovers with a taste for blood and her victims become zombies.
If you can survive the micro budget, bad acting and silly story then you might enjoy Rabid.
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10 Facts About “Night of the Living Dead”
Matthew Jackson and Mental_Floss present 10 Facts About Night of the Living Dead. Here are three of my favorites…
2. GEORGE ROMERO WAS HEAVILY INSPIRED BY I AM LEGEND.
Armed with Russo’s flesh-eating concept, Romero went to work, pairing it with a story he’d been working on that “basically ripped off” Richard Matheson’s apocalyptic horror novel I Am Legend. Russo later recalled that Romero returned with “about 40 really excellent pages,” including the opening in the cemetery and the arrival at the farmhouse. Russo set to work on the rest, and Night of the Living Dead began to come to life.
8. JONES FOUGHT AGAINST AN ALTERNATE ENDING THAT WOULD HAVE SAVED BEN.
One of the film’s most famous elements is its grim ending, in which Ben, having survived the night, is shot by the sheriff’s zombie-hunting posse and thrown on the fire. At one point, a happier ending for the film was considered, but Jones fought it and won.
“I convinced George that the black community would rather see me dead than saved, after all that had gone on, in a corny and symbolically confusing way,” Jones said. “The heroes never die in American movies. The jolt of that, and the double jolt of the hero being black seemed like a double-barreled whammy.”
9. IT’S IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN BECAUSE OF A CREDITS ERROR.
Night of the Living Dead might be the most famous public domain movie of all time, but it was never intended to be. The Walter Reade Organization, which distributed the film, wanted to release it under the title Night of the Flesh Eaters, but lawyers representing the makers of 1964’s The Flesh Eaters threatened a lawsuit, so the title was changed to Night of the Living Dead. When the title changed, though, copyright notices were not added to the opening titles or to the end credits. Though the filmmakers have fought it in federal court, the film is still in the public domain.
Thinner (1996)
Thinner (1996)
Director: Tom Holland
Screenplay: Michael McDowell and Tom Holland
Stars: Robert John Burke, Lucinda Jenney, Bethany Joy Lenz, Howard Erskine, Joe Mantegna and Stephen King.
The Pitch: “Hey, let’s make a movie adaptation of Stephen King’s Thinner.”
Tagline: Let The Curse Fit The Crime.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
When an obsese small town attorney accidentally runs over a gypsy woman, his friends (a judge and town cop) set things up to get him off without a charge. The gypsy leader then places a curse on the three men that will leave them dead after suffering horribly.
My problem with Thinner is that there is no one to root for. All of the leads are bad people. The lawyer, his wife, his friends — even the gypsies. Also about three quarters in the film changes into an action/revenge movie with lots of shooting and blowing up things… but since you don’t know or care about the characters…
An somewhat interesting misfire…
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The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
Director: Joe May
Screenplay: Lester Cole & Curt Siodmak (as Kurt Siodmak)
Stars: Cedric Hardwicke, Vincent Price, Nan Grey and Alan Napier.
The Pitch: “Hey, let’s make another Invisible Man picture!”
Tagline: More strange thrills… More eerie chills… More awesome suspense
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Sentenced to die for a murder he didn’t commit, Geoffrey Radcliffe (Price) escapes death row by taking the invisible man serum. Will Radcliffe be able to prove his innocence before invisibility drives him mad?
Although Vincent Price is the Invisible Man, you won’t see much of him in this starring role. ; )
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The Birds (1963) directed by Alfred Hitchcock; starring Rod Tayler, Jessica Tandy; Suzanne Pleshette and introducing Tippi Hedren / Z-View
The Birds (1963)
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Screenplay: Evan Hunter from The Birds by Daphne Du Maurier
Stars: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Suzanne Pleshette, Jessica Tandy, Charles McGraw, Ruth McDevitt, Lonny Chapman, Joe Mantell, Malcolm Atterbury, John McGovern, Karl Swenson, Richard Deacon, Elizabeth Wilson, Bill Quinn, Doreen Lang, Alfred Hitchcock and Veronica Cartwright.
Tagline: Suspense and shock beyond anything you have seen or imagined!
The Plot…
Something strange is happening in Bodega Bay.
Birds have randomly attacked individuals. At first it is thought to be a coincidence. Then a farmer is found dead, with his eyes pecked out and other wounds that appear to be caused by birds.
And now the birds are gathering…
Thoughts (Beware of spoilers)…
Another classic from the master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock. This is one of a few movies I was always allowed to stay up and watch even on a school night as a kid.
Most of the birds seen in the film are real. Hitchcock said that 3,200 birds were used during filming. They were combined with mechanical birds and special effects. Hitchcock used several effects houses including MGM, Disney and FOX.
Hitchcock wanted the film to close with out a “The End” title card to leave the audience with a sense of unresolved terror.
The Bodega Bay school house where scenes were filmed was reportedly haunted. When Hitchcock was told this he was thrilled to be filming there.
Hitchcock’s movie and Du Maurier’s story only share a bayside town setting and birds attacking humans. Du Maurier’s story takes place in Britain with a man protecting his wife and two children at their isolated cottage.
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Backtrack (2015)
Backtrack (2015)
Director: Michael Petroni
Screenplay: Michael Petroni
Stars: Adrien Brody, Jenni Baird and Bruce Spence
The Pitch: “Hey, let’s make a ghost movie with Adrien Brody!”
Tagline: Nothing haunts like the past.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Psychologist Peter Bower (Brody) is having a terrible time dealing with the death of his daughter. He was teaching her to ride a bike when he became distracted and she was struck by a truck and killed. Bower begins to have dreams of the dead and even starts to see them while awake.
As Bower sorts out the meaning of his visions, he also tries to remember what distracted him and lead to the death of his daughter. Bower believes that they are linked. Following the clues, he returns to his boyhood home and a secret that ties it all together.
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Split (2017)
Split (2017)
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Screenplay: M. Night Shyamalan
Stars: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Haley Lu Richardson and Betty Buckley
The Pitch: “Hey, M. Knight Shyamalan has a cool idea for a movie!”
Tagline: Kevin has 23 distinct personalities. The 24th is about to be unleashed.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Kevin Wendell has 23 different personalities. One of them kidnapped three girls and locked them in a remote location. All they know is that a new personality, ‘the beast’ is coming and they are considered sacred food.
M. Knight is back! The twist ending has received a lot of buzz and is a cool reveal more than a twist. With that said, I watched the movie thinking that one of the girls was actually one of Kevin’s personalities. I really believe that M. Knight wanted us to lean that way… but I was wrong. It’ll be interesting to see how M. Knight re-visits this story-line.
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Kyle Holtz’s Predator Print!
Kyle Holtz created this very cool Predator print that is available in a limited edition of 87.
Source: XombieDirge.
“The Thing from Another World” (1951) / Z-View
The Thing from Another World (1951)
Director: Christian Nyby, Howard Hawks (uncredited)
Screenplay: Charles Lederer based on the story Who Goes There by John W. Campbell Jr.
Stars: Kenneth Tobey, Margaret Sheridan, Robert Cornthwaite, Douglas Spencer, James Young, Dewey Martin, Robert Nichols, William Self, Eduard Franz and James Arness, Billy Curtis.
Tagline: What do you know about it? What does science know about it? What does ANYONE know about THE THING?
The Plot…
A small band of scientists and soldiers stationed in the Arctic discover a flying saucer buried in the polar ice. Not far from the ship they find an alien also frozen in the ice. When they bring the block of ice containing the creature back to their base camp, they have no idea the horror that is in store.
Thoughts (beware of spoilers)…
There are more uncredited stuntmen (14) on this picture than credited actors (11).
Although the thing is on screen for less than three minutes, the film’s Make-up Artist (Lee Greenway) spent five months making eighteen sculptures of the monster before Howard Hawks was satisfied with one.
The Thing from Another World is a Classic!
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