Dawn of the Dead
CreepShow, Dawn of the Dead, original Twilight Zone, George A. Romero, Ken Foree, and Adrienne Barbeau headline inaugural horror fest
Horror comes to my hometown this weekend with the inaugural edition of Saturday Nightmare’s Weekend of Horrors, taking place at the historic Loew’s Jersey in Jersey City. This is the perfect venue for the event, offering enough classic touches, dark hallways and retro bathrooms to make any classic horror movie festival feel right at home. …
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The Thing remake gets two cast members
Mary Elizabeth Winstead and Joel Edgerton are set to star in The Thing re-imagining, according to HeatVisionBlog. The 1982 John Carpenter-directed Kurt Russell cult movie, and the 1951 Howard Hawks film The Thing From Another World, both take inspiration from a 1938 short story, Who Goes There? published in the pulp magazine Astounding. Matthijs Van …
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Details on The Thing prequel story line, plus a new casting call
A very detailed casting call for director Matthijs Van Heijningen’s (Red Rain) Thing prequel has been posted on SpoilerTV. The story line centers on a remote Antarctica outpost (presumably the Norwegian one that we last saw a dog being chased from by rifle-toting madmen in a helicopter), where an alien spaceship is discovered far beneath …
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Magnet nabs release rights for George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead
Magnet Releasing, the genre division of Magnolia Pictures, recently announced that it has acquired U.S. rights to George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead, the latest in the legendary and beloved cult series of zombie films, which premiered at the Venice and Toronto Film Festivals earlier this year. Romero, one of the most influential and …
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Frozen poster hits, along with details on the icy horror
Anchor Bay Films has released the official one sheet for the suspense thriller Frozen, which is due to be released in theaters on February 5, 2010. Kevin Zegers (Transamerica, Dawn of the Dead), Shawn Ashmore (X-Men, The Ruins) and Emma Bell (Dollhouse, Supernatural) star in this intense suspense thriller, from Hatchet writer and director Adam …
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Cult Cinema Icons Roger Corman, Malcolm McDowell, George A. Romero, Tony Todd, John Waters, Jeffrey Combs, Ken Foree, Dee Wallace and Slipknot to attend massive Las Vegas horror festival this month
This is the “thrilla dilla” of horror events, as far as I’m concerned. Cult Cinema Icons Roger Corman, Malcolm McDowell, George A. Romero, Tony Todd, John Waters, Jeffrey Combs, Ken Foree and Dee Wallace; plus film screenings at The Palms Hotel Casino, which sports Ghost Bar; located just across from The Rio, with their incredible …
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George A. Romero's Land of the Dead film trailer
The trailer is on the film’s web site: www.landofthedeadmovie.net/ The film is out June 24, 2005. Stars include Dennis Hopper and John Leguizamo.
