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Trinity Of Terrors: Know Your Spooksmodel - Part II
6 hours ago
For Part I of this series, click here.
In what’s become one of the most anticipated events on the Fangoria calendar, the annual Spooksmodel contest brings to the forefront ladies that are not just pretty faces, but a collection of women that are just as talented as they are beautiful.
This past April, amidst the blazing Los Angeles heat, attendees at our West Coast Fango Con bore witness to the crowning of the latest in an ever-growing contingent of multi-talented women that are gracing the Fango family. After a grueling audition process and even tougher West Coast crowd, Danni Doll, a Los Angeles native, was crowned queen of the bloody heap. This hometown girl captured the hearts and eyes of the crowd and judges (which included current Spooksmodel Shannon Lark) with an amazingly graceful dance routine that had everyone in awe of her finesse and prowess.
Danni, the self proclaimed “average monster loving, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Tony Flores)
Bsb: In Praise of Fright Night
7 hours ago
When you scrape away the death obsessed subtext and technicalities of the process, watching and loving horror films should be just plain fun, exhilarating fun, a complete escape into another parallel world that echoes our own. If it's not, if you find yourself labouring to find that simple joyous eye of the proverbial needle, well then, perhaps you should just give up the pursuit of terror geekdome altogether.
For me, speaking as someone who was literally born into a world where the people that done made me loved dark movies and weird entertainments and fully endorsed my obsessions with my growing "id", horror films will forever be tied to the sweetest moments of my youth. From those secret late night, school night, TV movie binges to sneaking into R rated films after buying PG tickets, horror was my first rebellion against the mainstream so embraced by my peers and the »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Chris Alexander)
Between the Buried and Me – The Great Misdirect (Musick Review)
7 hours ago
You’re either for or against what Between the Buried and Me has done to grind metal. The form is no longer dictated by continuously forked-rhythm mandates which Napalm Death and Morbid Angel gorged themselves upon for years. Between the Buried and Me’s Alaska opened up the possibility of new horizons amidst a brute ugly din of aggression and ridiculous bpms. Their 2007 masterpiece Colors proved grind metal had previously-unthinkable space to accommodate for brainy mathematics, blurring prog and outside-the-box genre shenanigans ala Mr. Bungle.
Fact of the matter, Between the Buried and Me is one of the metal revival’s most important groups along with Mastodon, Isis, Opeth and Dillinger Escape Plan. This is a band looking to not only break molds, but they seek a yin and yan battleground between refinement and chicanery. Almost everything Between the Buried and Me has sought to dabble with in the past »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Ray Van Horn, Jr. )
Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 11/10/2009
7 hours ago
Curious to know what frightful films and devilish discs will be available to view in the privacy of your own digital dungeon this week? Fango's got you covered.
Below the jump you'll find the full list of titles arriving in-stores this Tuesday, November 10, 2009 in our weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List.
It's a light week, but are there some gems? We'll let you decide...
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Devil Girl
Fay is a small town girl on a cross country road trip, trying to escape her own reality after the death of her father. After encountering a neurotic, drug abusing clown she finds herself sliding down a dark spiral. Soon, her road trip starts to devolve into a living nightmare. Trapped and desperate, she fights to regain her identity while navigating through a host of locals: a creepy motel clerk, »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
Box Office Report: November 6-8, 2009
9 hours ago
This weekend's box office numbers weren't exceptionally generous to the horror genre, but a few noteworthy genre pieces did draw some decent funds. The Milla Jovovich driven chiller The Fourth Kind opened to decent ticket sales, drawing $12.5 million dollars and claiming the number four spot in the box office top 10. Paranormal Activity also continued it's successful run, drawing another $8.6 million dollars ($97 million total earnings after seven weeks release), Paranaormal slid in the box office just behind The Fourth Kind at number five.
Surprisingly, The Box didn't open to quite the numbers some may expect. The intriguing moral thriller only earned $7.8 million dollars, falling in line directly behind Paranormal Activity. Saw VI, The Stepfather and Zombieland all managed to linger in the top 15, earning $2 million ($26 million dollars over three weeks), $1.875 million ($27 million dollars over four weeks), and $1.35 million ($73 million over six weeks) respectively.
I suppose the big kudos must go to »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Matt Molgaard)
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