Listed below are five great horror movies that are hardly ever mentioned when talks of great horror movies arise. Part of my reason for coming up with this list was to avoid a potentially horrific situation in the future. Say I find myself in a room full of movie geeks 20 years from and not one of them has heard of any of these movies. Can you imagine what a sad day that would be?
It is my hope that this list will float throughout the blogosphere and land on others radars, thus spreading the word about these must-see and rarely mentioned horror films. Hopefully with the publishing of this list I have taken one step further towards avoiding that horrific outcome mentioned above and have given people an alternative to the popular classics.
Who Can Kill A Child? (1976)
Forget about Children of The Corn,Village of The Damned
I am less convinced, however, that the world needs a “Sin City” sequel. Frank Miller’s movies are belabored and are rarely fun to watch (someone still needs to answer for “The Spirit“).
Nonetheless, via TotalFilm, here’s a pair of promo posters for each flick:
Because I know you’re just dying for an extended, four-minute clip of the new “Amazing Spiderman” movie. Andrew Garfield, Rhys Ifans and Emma Stone star. Marc Webb directs the reboot of the Marvel hero’s adventures.
And did someone say “New Posters?” Yeah … I got those too.
With director Tim Burton’s reboot of the 1960s horror soap “Dark Shadows” about to debut on domestic screens, TotalFilm takes a look at the filmography of Johnny Depp, who plays vampire Barnabas Collins in the feature.
The film news site rates Depp’s 2011 turn in “The Tourist” as his onscreen nadir in its countdown of this 15 best and worst screen moments. On the English-language debut of director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives Of Others), the site rules:
“Sadly, The Tourist fails to replicate the German filmmaker’s previous success. Depp stars as a maths teacher who falls for Angelina Jolie in Venice, and gets drawn into a convoluted plot that’s basically an uninspired reheating of 2005 French flick Anthony Zimmer.”
Depp’s best, big screen star turn comes in the 1994 biopic (and one of my favorite movies of all time) “Ed Wood,” where Depp plays the 1950s schlockmeister with a manic energy and infectious enthusiasm. Again a Burton vehicle, it’s a love-letter to the 1950s and the B-Movies that no doubt shaped the director’s own sensibilities.
This is news that makes me very, very happy indeed.
Brit film site HeyUGuys reports this morning that Harry Potter producer David Heyman is teaming up with Studio Canal to finally bring author Michael Bond’s beloved bear to the multiplex.
Here’s the nut graf:
“The film will be a mixture of CG and live action, a move which is unsurprising given the ground laid by the Garfields and Smurfs of this world. No casting has been announced yet, perhaps Stephen Fry will have a cameo and maybe Noel Fielding will make good on his desire to play the Peruvian cousin of Paddington.”
Here’s the teaser poster for “Victim,” the new movie from BAFTA-winning actor Adam Deacon. It’s the debut feature from director Alex Pillai.
And here’s a synopsis:
“A young man’s attempt to break out of a cycle of violence. When country-girl Tia comes to stay with her cousin in the city, little does she realise that her naivety will disturb the delicate balance of cousin Davina and her group of friends. Living the good life on a career of crime, Davina’s friend Tyson struggles to be a parent to his teenage sister Nyla. Getting to know Tia allows Tyson to see a way out of his violent life. But Tia’s blossoming romance is a consequence that Davina had not envisaged, and Davina begins to plot a terrible revenge.”
Here’s the comely actress in the upcoming crime thriller from Louis Leterrier.
TotalFilm reports that the movie “follows the exploits of a team of illusionists who stage their performances as cover-ups for a series of daring bank heists, showering their lucky audiences with their ill-gotten gains as they attempt to stay one step ahead of the law.”
Sorry about the absence. I’ve been taking care of some stuff on the homefront and that’s kept me away from the blog. But let’s get right down to business with the entirely unsurprising news that it was a banner opening weekend for “The Avengers.”
Director Joss Whedon’s super-team flick rampaged through the domestic box office, taking in a truly insane $200.3 million, Box Office Mojo reports. By way of comparison, the previous opening weekend record belonged the “Harry Potter & the Deathly Hallows,” which took in a paltry $169.3 million in its first three days.
With director Tim Burton’s reboot of the 1960s horror soap “Dark Shadows” on the way to the multiplex, the New York Times takes a look at the original show and what made it so unprecedented for its time.
Here’s the nut graf:
“There’s been a lot of supernatural drama on television since the demise of the original “Dark Shadows,” in 1971, but even under the influence of a powerful spell you would have a difficult time coming up with another show that roamed so freely and so recklessly through the underworld of horror pulp. Though nearly forgotten now, the series’s conflicted vampire, Barnabas Collins (played by Jonathan Frid, who died last month), was its biggest draw — at the time, he was more popular than the comparably peculiar Mr. Spock of “Star Trek”— but he was hardly the only unlikely denizen of the soap-opera town of Collinsport, Me. Over the course of 1,225 half-hour episodes Collinsport, a demographic anomaly even by the standards of New England, rolled out the Welcome Wagon for a staggering number of witches, warlocks, doppelgängers, mad scientists, werewolves, and, of course, ghosts, who seemed to descend in waves, like tourists in foliage season.”
Listed below are five great horror movies that are hardly ever mentioned when talks of great horror movies arise. Part of my reason for coming up with this list was to avoid a potentially horrific situation in the future. Say I find myself in a room full of movie geeks 20 years from and not one of them has heard of any of these movies. Can you imagine what a sad day that would be?
Forget about Children of The Corn, Village of The Damned
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