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David Cronenberg’s Most Unforgettable Scenes – ‘Shivers’ Pool Orgy
7 May 2012 3:30 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
(Throughout the month of May, I will be posting Cronenberg’s best movie moments.)
Shivers (They Came from Within) (The Parasite Murders)
Directed by David Cronenberg
Screenplay by David Cronenberg
Canada, 1975
Originally released in the United States under the title They Came From Within, David Cronenberg’s debut feature proudly embraced his career long obsession with horrific body-conscious themes. Pre-dating Ridley Scott’s Alien, Shivers is an intoxicating sleazy and strange feature about parasites that turn humans into nymphomaniacal zombies as they move from host to host. Human sexuality has often provided a basis for some of the best horror films but no other director quite explores these themes like Cronenberg does. Cronenberg himself as said that Shivers is not an allegory about a sexually transmitted disease, but rather an anxiety-ridden fantasy about the consequences of the sexual revolution and a meditation on the power of lust. Shivers contains enough »
- Ricky
Win Passes To See The Raven In St. Louis
24 April 2012 9:06 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
The macabre and lurid tales of Edgar Allan Poe are vividly brought to life . and death . in this stylish, gothic thriller starring John Cusack as the infamous author. When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Poe.s darkest works, a young Baltimore detective (Luke Evans) joins forces with Poe in a quest to get inside the killer.s mind in order to stop him from making every one of Poe.s brutal stories a blood chilling reality. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues, which escalates when Poe.s love (Alice Eve, She.s Out of My League) becomes the next target. Intrepid Pictures. The Raven also stars Brendan Gleeson (In Bruges) and Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Faster).
Wamg is giving away passes to the St. Louis screening of The Raven on Thursday, April 26th.
Official Rules:
1. You Must Be In The St. Louis Area The Day Of The Screening. »
- Movie Geeks
Latest Poster for The Butterfly Room is Ready to Beat You Down
6 April 2012 5:59 AM, PDT | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Sledgehammers should be in every mother’s arsenal of parental weaponry. A good whack across the knees and kids will surely listen to every word you have to say. Below you’ll find the latest poster for Jonathan Zarantonello’s “The Butterfly Room”, which features Barbara Steele wielding the aforementioned hammer in an insanely menacing fashion. The film, which also stars Ray Wise, Heather Langenkamp, P.J. Soles, Adrienne King, James Karen, and Camille Keaton, explores the tumultuous relationship between a young girl and a creepy recluse. As you can probably imagine, things eventually get a pretty weird. For more information, check out the film’s official Facebook page. If you missed the teaser trailer we posted a while back, it has been included, as well »
- Todd Rigney
Barbara Steele Front, Center, and Deadly on New Butterfly Room Art
5 April 2012 4:04 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Just seeing the great Barbara Steele on a one-sheet for a new movie is enough to give this writer butterflies in the old stomach, and that's exactly what we get with this latest slice of artwork. Dig it!
Directed by Jonathan Zarantonello, The Butterfly Room boasts a cast that includes Barbara Steele, Ray Wise, Heather Langenkamp, Camille Keaton, Pj Soles, Adrienne King and James Karen. How's that for a who's who of horror stars? Add to that effects done by the Academy Award winning Afx Studio, and you've got quite the powerhouse of a project. Follow updates on The Butterfly Room Facebook page.
Synopsis
The movie stars Barbara Steele (Black Sunday, 8 1/2) as Ann, a reclusive elegant lady with an obsession for butterflies. She is surprisingly befriended by the eerily beautiful young Alice. Using her seductive innocence, Alice establishes a disturbing mother-daughter relationship with Ann. Lured into her twisted world, Ann »
- Uncle Creepy
Poster Debut for The Butterfly Room With Barbara Steele & Many Others
5 April 2012 2:25 PM, PDT | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
A poster for The Butterfly Room has made its premiere. The art features star - and genre vet - Barbara Steele - who will be introducing the movie at the 30th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival this weekend and will continue its festival tour at Helsinki’s Night Visions the weekend after that.
In the film, Ann, a reclusive elegant lady, with an obsession for butterflies, is surprisingly befriended by the eerily beautiful young Alice. Using her seductive innocence, Alice establishes a disturbing mother daughter relationship with Ann. Lured into her twisted world, Ann soon discovers that she is not the only recipient of the girl’s affections.
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Looking back at David Cronenberg’s Shivers
22 March 2012 10:01 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Beginning a series of David Cronenberg retrospectives, Ryan takes a look back at David Cronenberg’s debut commercial feature, Shivers...
There’s a streak of slyly black humour running through David Cronenberg’s 1975 debut, Shivers (Aka The Parasite Murders, Aka They Came From Within). Its premise, about slug-like parasites that turn the occupants of a luxury apartment block into sex-obsessed maniacs, appears to have been conceived specifically to provoke as many people as possible. But while its story elements are straight from schlock horror - there’s a mad scientist, rubbery monsters, a vampish Barbara Steele, lashings of gore and some suspect acting - there’s still that hint of intelligence and satire that would soon become synonymous with Cronenberg’s name.
Shivers opens with a wilfully shocking scene - an apparently derranged old man killing a schoolgirl, cutting her open with a scalpel, dowsing her abdomen with acid, and »
Not Available on DVD: House Of Dark Shadows
20 March 2012 8:16 AM, PDT | WeAreMovieGeeks.com | See recent WeAreMovieGeeks.com news »
This article originally ran here at We Are Movie Geeks in January of 2010 but with everyone gearing up for Tim Burton’s hotly-anticipated update opening May 11th, we’re re-posting and keeping our fingers crossed that this excellent 1971 feature film, based on the show, gets a long-deserved DVD release.
Dark Shadows, the gothic daytime drama that premiered on the ABC Television network in 1966, was distinguished from other soap operas by it’s presence of vampires, werewolves, witches, and ghosts. The show was a cult phenomenon and there were soon Dark Shadows board games, jigsaw puzzles, model kits, and other merchandise aimed at kids, even though it was adult women and college students who comprised it’s core audience. The breakout star of Dark Shadows was Canadian actor Jonathan Frid who played Barnabas Collins, the 200-year-old vampire and heir to the Collingswood estate (where the show took place) constantly in search »
- Tom Stockman
The Butterfly Room to Premiere in Brussels - New Stills!
9 March 2012 12:54 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
The highly anticipated film The Butterfly Room is finally out of post-production and ready to fly. With an amazing cast full of genre legends, The Butterfly Room will debut at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival and is looking for an autumn 2012 domestic release.
Directed by Jonathan Zarantonello, The Butterfly Room boasts a cast that includes Barbara Steele, Ray Wise, Heather Langenkamp, Camille Keaton, Pj Soles, Adrienne King and James Karen. How's that for a who's who of horror stars? Add to that effects done by the Academy Award winning Afx Studio, and you've got quite the powerhouse of a project. Follow updates on The Butterfly Room Facebook page, and dig the very impressive teaser trailer below.
Synopsis
The movie stars Barbara Steele (Black Sunday, 8 ½) as Ann, a reclusive elegant lady, with an obsession for butterflies. She is surprisingly befriended by the eerily beautiful young Alice. Using her seductive innocence, »
- Doctor Gash
'Dark Shadows': Helena Bonham Carter as Dr. Julia Hoffman
6 March 2012 3:15 PM, PST | Pop2it | See recent Pop2it news »
We're getting our very first look at Helena Bonham Carter as Dr. Julia Hoffman in the upcoming film, "Dark Shadows," and it's adorable. The film stars Johnny Depp and Eva Green and is based on the television show 1966-1971 gothic soap opera of the same name.
Dr. Julia Hoffman is the live-in psychiatrist to Michelle Pfeiffer's Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, the family matriarch. The character has been played by a number of actresses over the years, including Grayson Hall, Barbara Steele and Kelly Hu. In the show, she was originally one of the vampire Barnabus Collins (Depp), but became one of his biggest allies.
Are you guys looking forward to this film? Have you ever seen the original show or the nineties remake? We weren't too jazzed by the first picture of Barnabus, but this one is pretty darn cute. We love Carter and we can't wait to see what »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Video: Teaser Trailer for The Butterfly Room is Here
6 March 2012 6:58 AM, PST | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
The teaser for The Butterfly Room - a film we first alerted you to last year - made its premiere at the Film4 FrightFest at the Glasgow Film Theater, packed with horror fans. The 100 second clip shows how pinning butterflies can be a very dangerous hobby...
The movie is an all female dark fairy tale, featuring Barbara Steele, Heather Langenkamp, Erica Leerhsen, P.J. Soles, Camille Keaton and Adrienne King on screen together for the first time. For a full synopsis, follow this link!
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- ryanrotten@shocktillyoudrop.com (Ryan Turek)
Recognizing Women in Horror Year Round
1 March 2012 12:22 PM, PST | MoreHorror | See recent MoreHorror news »
by Colleen Wanglund, MoreHorror.com
February was Women in Horror Recognition Month and there are plenty of women that we recognize in horror year round.
Consider the “Scream Queens” we all know and love—Michelle Bauer, Janet Leigh, Jamie Lee Curtis, Linnea Quigley, Marilyn Burns, Elsa Lanchester, Brinke Stevens, Camille Keaton, Sybil Danning, Ingrid Pitt, Barbara Steele, Fay Wray, and Beverly Garland.
But there are countless other women, actresses, writers, directors, who you may not know and don’t get proper recognition.
Here's a short list of some female directors that deserve to be mentioned.
Barbara Peters - Humanoids From The Deep (1980)
Katt Shea - Stripped To Kill (1987), Dance Of The Damned (1988), Poison Ivy (1992)
Ida Lupino - The Hitch Hiker (1953)
Elizabeth Fies - The Commune (2009)
Jennifer Chambers Lynch - Boxing Helena (1993)
Fran Robel Kuzui - Buffy The Vampire Slayer 1992)
Kei Fujiwara - Organ (1996)
Antonia Bird - Ravenous (1999)
Jen and Sylvia Soska »
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