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Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Editorial: The Change in the Horror Industry

Adam Green
The horror industry is changing, it's going through a change of age. Wes Craven, John Carpenter and other noteworthy directors are getting up there in age and sadly wont be around in the next 30 years. So who's next ? who will take the torch? well, we have already seen the change. Directors like Ti West (The House of The Devil, Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever) Adam Green (Hatchet series, Frozen, Holliston) and Adam Wingard (V/H/S, S-V/H/S, Your Next) along with Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2: Dead End, Holliston) have already started there career in the horror industry and those are the people who show great potential to be the next great thing in horror. We have also seen the great Blumhosue Production rise up, being a powerful force since Paramount acquired the Paranormal Activity rights. With hits like the Paranormal Activity series, Insidious and Sinister all being a huge money maker as well as receiving acclaim from the horror industry. Jason Blum and his production company Blumhouse productions are driving force in this industry.
The next couple years though I expect we will see a movie break out like Paranormal Activity did to the public (Horror fans knew about way before Paramount picked it up) and the director of that particular movie break out as Oren Peli and Jason Blum did.
Fede Alvarez 
And i think this has already happened with director Fede Alvarez with his Evil Dead remake. With the announcement of Evil Dead II Fede Alvarez could rise up higher then Jason in terms of his films recognition. Hell, I'd give this guy The Exorcist rights cause i bet he would do one fucked up remake of it that would be welcomed by the horror junkies all over the world. Its going to be an interesting change in the industry that were gonna being seeing in the next 10 to 15 years.


 

Dark Skies

Director Scott Stewart returns to the big screen with Jason Blum for Dark Skies and the result is Disappointing not just for fans of Blumhouse And Sci-Fi horror but also at the box office.

The story is simple, normal family dealing with financial hardships encounters weird moments that question their sanity. 
This movie takes slow burn to a new level. It's a good 30 minutes before things get going and it feels even longer with needless character back story. As the film goes on it starts going against its own premise for example we are told and reminded that this family is struggling with money, but everyone has an iPhone, they have a huge house, the dad has one of the high end Apple Macs. And when all the creepy stuff happens the Father (Josh Hamilton) then goes out and buys top of the line security cameras that would make Paranormal Activity 2's security cameras to shame.
The acting is good between Hamilton and Kerri Russel as they play a couple that has their marriage strained by these incidents. The conflicts are acted out beautifully but its J.K Simmons character that steals this movie as he plays the expert the family consults after everything else they have done is exhausted. He saves the movie from being a complete bore fest, he plays the role with such grace u can't help be feel sorry for him because his role is so short.
Some of the dialogue here is some of the worst I've heard in a while. One character in particular, a red headed 15 year old douch bag drove me insane with lines like "I had this one girl on my jock." and "did u feel her titis? Man, you gotta go down town, that's what I do with all my ladies." I wish the aliens had captured him and anal probed his ass. If this movie ended with that red head getting anal probed it would be my favorite film of the year so far.
The third act of the film plays like the earlier half where the the family goes out and buys guns and a dog with the money I guess they all of a sudden have.
There is one great scene in the finale in which they could have ended it and I would have given it higher praise but nope, they pull a "IT'S ALL A VISION" bullshit that just makes you throw your hands up and go mother fuck!
This movie had such potential to be cool and deliver a scary alien home invasion film but nope, they blew it. It feels like Insidious without the cool, it's like an old X Files episode of the later seasons that got thrown out.

1.5 out of 5
 -Fearless Froude 

Scream Factory giving us a Treat and no Trick this Halloween

The cool cats at the Scream Factory are putting some of the best classic films on blu ray and there newest announcement of Blu rays are nothing short of exciting. It was announced today that the 1979 haunted house classic The Amityville Horror will be coming to blu ray along with its 1982 prequel Amityville II: The Possession and Amityville 3-D also known as Amitville III: Demons.
No word on what special features these blu ray transfers will hold but we will be able to pick them up around Halloween.

SyFy Anal Probing us with New alien drama projects

This year will probably go down as the year of the Alien.
With Blumhouse's Dark Skies and now SyFy ordering up some new alien dramas every conspiracy theorists should be happy.

The following are the titles for the new shows:
  • High Moon 
  • Orion 
  • Shelter 
  • Silver Shields 
  • Infinity 
  • Sojourn 
  • Clandestine 

Source: Deadline.com

Django Unchained Actor writing Horror Anthology for SyFy

SyFy will reveal a new scripted television series tonight written by Jamie Foxx and produced by his company Foxxhole productions.
The series will debut during SyFy's annual 31 days of Halloween programming.
There is no title yet but it will be in the same vein as The Twilight Zone and Tales From the Crypt.


Source: Deadline.com

CW's Cult is Pulled.

The CW's new show Cult which focuses on a an investigation into people who die and disappear around a show within a show (Yeah, i know confusing premise on paper)  has been pulled from its time slot on Friday for the next three weeks according to Dreadcentral.
 The show had been struggling since its premier on February 19th 2013, where it aired Tuesday at 9:00 p.m.
On March 8 2013 the CW announced that the show would be moved to a Friday at 9:00 p.m. time slot. Now it looks as if the show is going to be put down. Though no official cancellation has been announced the series has been pulled from the time slot and replaced with re runs of Oh Sit and The Carrie Diaries.

Shock Stock 2013

Shock Stock is coming back to the London Convention Center and ready to bring the horror.
The convention is a weekend of all things horror starting on April 12th and ending on the 14th. Some of the most prominent people in the horror genre are all going to be in attendance like Christiana Lindberg, Magneta herself Partricia Quinn and the Maniac Cop Robert Z'Dar.
There are also going to be a handful of special events that will make you bleed with excitement such as a screening with Partricia Quinn of The Rock Horror Picture Show.
Also on tap is the Christiana Lindberg ' Life in Cult Cinema EXPOSED" retrospective.
And yes, yours truly ME, Fearless Froude will be there, so come out say Hi and lets all have a great weekend.

For more information on this exciting horror convention weekend visit
http://www.grimbrothers.com/

Dark Skies to anal probe you on Blu Ray

Anyone see Dark Skies in theaters? No? ohhh you, that one guy, well, hi, I was the other guy in the theater. This Sci-Fi flick flopped big time coming in at #4 during its opening weekend. Now we can take the the film home and have our very own anal probe session on Blu ray as
Dark Skies will be released on blu ray May 28th, 2013.

Friday the 13th will be of Insidious nature

The office Title Card for Insidious Chapter 2
The sequel to James Wan's Insidious has hit another date change.
 Insidious Chapter 2 was originally slated for release August 30th 2013 but was pushed back for technical reasons to September 20th 2013. Now Box Box Office Mojo is now reporting that Friday September 13th 2013 is the new date that Insidious Chapter 2 will haunt theaters every where.
 
James Wan also has another highly anticipated film coming this year called The Conjuring starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga. The film is produced by New Line Cinema and will be released July 19 2013.