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Thoughts on... Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers (1988)
31 May 2012 12:09 AM, PDT | Flickeringmyth | See recent Flickeringmyth news »
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers, 1988.
Directed by Michael A. Simpson.
Starring Pamela Springsteen, Renée Estevez, Brian Patrick Clarke, and Valerie Hartman.
Synopsis:
The camp killer is back to ensure everyone has a safe and happy summer – or not.
Unfortunately, it is near impossible to discuss Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers without revealing the ending of Sleepaway Camp (1983). I strongly advise anyone with even a passing interest in these films to at least watch the first before reading onwards - you have been warned. Set several years after Sleepaway Camp, the events of that film have now passed into legend and the story is retold around campfires. Nearly everyone has heard of Angela Baker - the young gender-confused boy who slaughtered her fellow campmates. There are rumours that Angela Baker is still alive today, having undergone sexual reassignment surgery she is now a girl - although one that is severely psychologically »
- flickeringmyth
Looking to Horror-fy Your House? Check Out Horror Decor's Latest Collection of Pillows and More!
21 May 2012 3:15 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Are you looking to do some genre-infused decorating around your house but are maxed out on toys and collectibles?
Then you are definitely going to want to head over to Horror Decor's website for their latest collection of throw pillows and other accessories that pretty much has something for anyone who fancies themselves a horror fiend.
Horror Decor recently launched a brand new collection of throw pillows that pays homage to many longtime beloved flicks and some new modern classics as well including films like Friday the 13th (original and remake), A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Child's Play, Scream, Shaun of the Dead and Ghostbusters.
There are some unusual pillow choices as well that should delight quite a few of you out there including a Dr. Herbert West pillow (Re-Animator), a Sheriff Grimes pillow ("The Walking Dead"), an S-Mart pillow from Army of Darkness, Sam from Trick 'r Treat, »
- thehorrorchick
Review: Madison County (DVD)
17 May 2012 8:07 AM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
A group of college students go on a trip to visit a reclusive writer who wrote a book about a local serial killer. This writer just so happens to live in the middle of nowhere, and these kids are hoping to interview him for a thesis paper. Instead, they meet a predictably bleak end at the hands of a maniac in a pig mask.
Writer/Director, Eric England loves horror movies so much that he opened his debut feature, Madison County, with the ending of the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Unfortunately, that is just the start of a film that is a collection of clichéd characters, situations, and dialogue.
Everyone in the movie is attractive and that’s about all the only compliment I can give the cast. The acting is decent for what they are all asked to do, but the problem is that all of these »
- Derek Botelho
Paramount Sets June Release for The Loved Ones, Trailer/Poster Revealed!
7 May 2012 11:09 AM, PDT | iconsoffright.com | See recent Icons of Fright news »
Insurge Pictures, Paramount’s genre label for micro budget films has finally slated Sean Byrne’s incredible Australian horror flick The Loved Ones for a June 1st release. Independently shot in 2009 where it soon after played dozens of film festivals (there was even a screening at this years past SXSW in Austin, TX) to great acclaim from both critics and audiences, leading Paramount to swoop in and acquire it. I’ve had the good fortune of seeing this already and it’s equally amazing and horrific. Think The Texas Chain Saw Massacre mixed with teen angst drama and a barrage of bloody, unflinching torture. This is by all means a phenomenal film and not one to be missed, we’ve got the trailer that just premiered today below as well as the theatrical one-sheet! Be sure to catch this when it plays in your city during it’s limited release June 1st! »
- Justin Edwards
Indie Spotlight
5 May 2012 9:36 AM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
We’re back with the latest installment of the Indie Spotlight. We have so much to cover that this will be the first of two spotlight features this weekend. Today’s items include information on Zombie Dawn‘s theatrical run, a heavy metal cruise, an interview with Elina Madison, and more:
Updated Theater List for Zombie Dawn: New dates and locations have been announced for Zombie Dawn in Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, and others cities across the country.
“Zombie Dawn is an action horror Spanish language film that has won praise for its presentation and kudos for the film makers in assembling such a feature while working with only a micro budget.”
For screening details, visit: http://www.zombiedawnmovie.com/
Terror of Dracula: The independent horror film Terror of Dracula is now available on DVD, but there are a couple of upcoming screenings. The film plays tonight at The Mayfair Theatre in Ottawa, »
- Jonathan James
Stay Up Late with the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Summer Midnight Movies Series
5 May 2012 12:18 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
If you're a New Yorker who stays up late, this news is for you. The Film Society of Lincoln Center has announced the lineup of its new Midnight Movies series running every Friday night in June, July, and August. Most are horror films, but even those that aren't deserve attention.
The voracious maw and mysterious subversives of horror and sci-fi are let out after dark in what's sure to be the most terrifying program of the summer. Here's the full schedule; for more info visit the official Film Society of Lincoln Center website.
Star Wars Uncut
Casey Pugh, 2012
Fri Jun 1: 11:59 pm
Galactic Premiere!
For this crowdsourced, shot-by-shot fan-film remake of George Lucas’ Episode IV – A New Hope, 473 volunteers reshot or animated their assigned 15-second sections as they saw fit. The result is one of the Internet’s true cinematic wonders.
Tobe Hooper, 1974
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- The Woman In Black
'The Hospital' to Begin Production in August
4 May 2012 4:07 PM, PDT | MoreHorror | See recent MoreHorror news »
By MoreHorror.com
You know bad things always happen in hospitals. Well, at least in creepy films they do.
Check out the details below about an upcoming "paranormal meets slasher" horror flick called, you guessed it, The Hospital.
From The Press Release:
Allied Horror, in association with Lazy Donkey Films, has begun pre-production on their new horror/paranormal masterpiece titled The Hospital, starring genre staples such as John Dugan (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Scott Tepperman (Ghost Hunters International), Jim O’Rear (The Dead Matter), and Daniel Emery Taylor (Return Of The Swamp Thing).
Known for horror hits such as Stephen King’s The Boogeyman, The Deepening, and Scream Farm, Allied Horror and Lazy Donkey Films promise to offer something that genre audiences haven’t seen before while, at the same time, incorporating familiar elements to delight horror fans everywhere.
The Hospital mixes the paranormal and slasher genres and can best »
- admin
The Hospital to Begin Filming This Summer
3 May 2012 12:33 AM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Lazy Donkey Films has announced plans for an upcoming project titled The Hospital. Gathering some horror veterans and filming in locations rumored to be truly haunted, The Hospital is scheduled to begin production in August.
Hospitals are rarely settings for feel good moments. Sure, you've got the occasional exception to the rule like when, from her hospital bed, Adrian said, "Win, Rocky, win!" in Rocky II. But normally hospital scenes are more like what Shane discovered while trying to save Rick in the beginning of "The Walking Dead" or the unforgettable hospital moment from Let the Right One In. Now an entire film called The Hospital? That's gotta be trouble.
The film was written by Jim O'Rear and Daniel Emery Taylor. Taylor will also co-direct the film with Tommy Golden. To follow info on this film from day one, like the official The Hospital Facebook page.
From the Press Release
Allied Horror, »
- Doctor Gash
‘The Hospital’ to Film at Haunted Sites
2 May 2012 8:55 AM, PDT | Horror News | See recent Horror News news »
Allied Horror, in association with Lazy Donkey Films, has begun pre-production on their new horror/paranormal masterpiece titled The Hospital, starring genre staples such as John Dugan (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), Scott Tepperman (Ghost Hunters International), Jim O’Rear (The Dead Matter), and Daniel Emery Taylor (Return Of The Swamp Thing).
Known for horror hits such as Stephen King’s The Boogeyman, The Deepening, and Scream Farm, Allied Horror and Lazy Donkey Films promise to offer something that… More »
- HorrorNews.net
32 Things We Learned From ‘The Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ Commentary
26 April 2012 10:00 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
The Commentary Commentary you are about to read is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths. Okay, not really, but there’s certainly a fair amount of slashing and running and screaming in the woods. This week we’re covering The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and everything director Tobe Hooper had to say about the production along with director of photography Daniel Pearl and Leatherface himself, Gunnar Hansen. We chose The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, because Total Recall last week left us for something a little more happy-go-lucky, something that isn’t riddled with copious amounts of blood and body parts being ripped off. Shockingly, there’s a ton more of that stuff in the Arnold movie than here, but it’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre that makes you want to cleanse yourself after. The movie, for the lack of shown blood it has, does »
- Jeremy Kirk
Time Out Name 'The Exorcist' Greatest Horror Movie Ever: Read Top 10 Lists From Guillermo Del Toro, Drew Goddard, Ti West & More
13 April 2012 7:38 AM, PDT | The Playlist | See recent The Playlist news »
Today sees the opening of "The Cabin In The Woods," one of the freshest, most enjoyable horror movies in years, one that we can only urge you to go see (read our review here). To mark its release, Time Out have polled critics, programmers and filmmakers as to their favorite horror movies, and collated their finds in a mammoth list.
Topped by "The Exorcist," it's an excellent read, and one you'll want to sit down with over the weekend, and as a taste, below you can find the top ten picks of ten of the most notable filmmaker contributors. You can find the full list, as well as picks from many, many more interesting figures, from Antonio Campos and Joe Dante to Simon Pegg and Rob Zombie, over at Time Out's site. And why not weigh in with your own ten picks over in the comments below?
Roger Corman ("The Pit & The Pendulum, »
- Oliver Lyttelton
Hey Montreal: Come Check Out ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Tonight at Grindhouse Wednesdays
11 April 2012 8:51 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
Alright Montreal, now is the time to support your local film scene. With so many of our best video stores and cinemas closing down, we need to support events like this. Grindhouse Wednesdays returns Tonight, April 11 2012 with the genre defining classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
When someone hears the title The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, they might just pass it off as just another inane slasher flick, but in fact Texas is much more; it’s a relentlessly agonizing, bleak masterpiece of horror cinema. Texas isn’t merely interested in scaring its audience; it’s an intelligent and visceral experience which examines the darker impulses found in people, a movie where unspeakably horrific acts take place mostly outside of the frame.
Shot on a tiny budget of $83,000, director Tobe Hooper’s stylish debut achieves maximum effect through a combination of Daniel Pearl’s appropriately gritty cinematography, shrieking sound design, and an »
- Ricky
'The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: A Family Portrait- Revisited' Review
9 April 2012 5:20 PM, PDT | MoreHorror | See recent MoreHorror news »
By Jason Lees, MoreHorror.com
My love of all things Chainsaw knows no bounds. I love the movie and everything about it. I think it’s a time capsule of an era of filmmaking we’ll probably never see again. I also think it’s still one of the scariest damned movies ever made.
Having said that (repeatedly) I should also point out that this means I watch and read just about everything I can on the film. That means documentaries and books, and I’m always on the lookout for reviews and interviews. One of my faves is by John Bloom that’s floating around the internet.
It’s not exactly that hard these days to find stuff on Chainsaw. It used to take some serious searching through old Fangorias and Gorezones to find little bits of info. Now all it takes is wi fi or a dvd player. »
- admin
Watch Tobe Hooper's "The Heisters"
5 April 2012 5:32 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
In late 2010, a panel of judges that included John Carpenter, Wes Craven, John Landis, George Romero, Guillermo del Toro and Eli Roth put The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) at the top of Total Film's list of the "Greatest Horror Movies Ever Made." But five years before Tobe Hooper would carve his signature on the genre, leaving a proud and permanent scar, he made a feature for $100K called Eggshells — which, for decades, was believed to have been lost. But in 2009, a print was discovered and presented at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Hooper's hometown, and it's since seen the occasional festival screening — but never a full-blown release. Until now.
Mubi's proud to be teaming up with Watchmaker Films to present a proper worldwide release later this month of what Hooper himself describes as "a real movie about 1969, kind of verite but with a little push, improvisation mixed with magic. »
10 Commonly Overlooked Horror Films Worth Seeing
31 March 2012 12:43 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
When I was a kid, I used to love a scary movie. I remember catching the original The Haunting (1963) one night on Channel 9’s Million Dollar Movie when I was home alone. Before it was over, I had every light in the house on. When my mother got home she was screaming she’d been able to see the house glowing from two blocks away. The only thing screaming louder than her was the electricity meter.
That was something of an accomplishment, scaring me like that. Oh, it’s not that I was hard to scare (I still don’t like going down into a dark cellar). But, in those days, the movies didn’t have much to scare you with. Back as far as the 50s, you might find your odd dismemberment and impaling, even an occasional decapitation, but, generally, the rule of the day was restraint. Even those rare dismemberments, »
- Bill Mesce
Indie Horror Month Interview: Writer/Director Christopher R. Witherspoon Talks Rage, His Previous Life as an Effects Artist and More
30 March 2012 5:24 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
For his feature film debut Christopher R. Witherspoon takes to the streets of Portland, Oregon to unleash his own inner demons in the violent thriller Rage, which features anonymous stalker "The Biker", who hunts down an unsuspecting man after a harmless taunt results in vicious terror.
Writer/director Witherspoon also stars in the flick as the faceless killer, and in honor of his newest project Dread Central caught up with the up-and-coming filmmaker to hear more about his career as well as his experiences working on Rage and what's up next for him.
Read on for our interview with Witherspoon below, and for more check out the official Rage website.
Dread Central: For those who may be unfamiliar, can you tell us a bit about your background, what got you into filmmaking and your career before Rage?
Christopher Witherspoon: As far back as I can remember I’ve wanted to make films. »
- thehorrorchick
Indie Spotlight
25 March 2012 12:10 PM, PDT | DailyDead | See recent DailyDead news »
We’re back with the latest installment of our Indie Spotlight. Today’s feature includes a write-up and interview from Kristian Hanson’s visit to the Dead Inside premiere:
Mega Shark vs Mecha Shark Announced: The Asylum officially announced the third film in their Mega Shark series:
“The Asylum has officially greenlit production on Mega Shark Vs. Mecha Shark, a much anticipated third installment in the ‘Mega Shark’ franchise, following Mega Shark vs. Giant Octopus in 2009 and Mega Shark vs. Crocosaurus in 2010. When Mega Shark returns in this all-new feature film, the government releases the top-secret Mecha Shark to defeat the franchise’s popular monster in a fierce battle that threatens the planet.
‘The fan response to the Mega Shark franchise has been rabid,’ said The Asylum partner Paul Bales. ‘In addition to a very persuasive online petition, we found that Mega Shark has taken on a life of her own. »
- Jonathan James
First Info and Artwork for Delirium
17 February 2012 11:52 AM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
We see a lot of great indie horror work here at Dread Central. But every once in awhile we get a look at something that stands out, something that looks like it's got a chance to rise above and be the next micro-budget film to set the world on fire. Judging by its trailer, Delirium might be it.
We are beginning to become accustomed to the fact that, from time to time, horror films made on tiny budgets are going to go crazy at the box office. Looking back, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween, The Blair Witch Project and Paranormal Activity are all films that fall into the category of surprise runaway hits. Delirium could be next. Take a look at the amazing trailer below and see if you don't agree that the film has fantastic potential.
Currently in post-production, Delirium is looking at a release date around June of this year. »
- Doctor Gash
The James Clayton Column: make me a Marvel
16 February 2012 2:54 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance kicks off the year’s comic book movies, leading James to wonder, which Marvel character should he transform into first…?
Most days I get up, look in the mirror and say “Urgh. I’ve seen this face before. I’m bored of seeing this face. I don’t want to see this face again.”
The mirror never recreates the “Man or Muppet” musical number from The Muppets, so I don’t get to face a singing doppelgänger puppet in the Jim Henson mould. For some musical action I suppose I could always channel Tommy - The Who’s rock opera made cinematic by Ken Russell - and smash the mirror (“Go to the mirror, boy!”), but then I’d inevitably end up with seven years’ bad luck.
Instead, bored of the reflection, I depart and search for excitement elsewhere. I’ll go and find something »
Percept Pictures to Release Bollywood Found Footage Film Entitled ?
12 February 2012 1:07 PM, PST | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Not since Prince changed his name to that symbol thing have we been so flummoxed as to what to call something. In an attempt to keep the mystery surrounding a new found footage picture at a high, Indian film company Percept Pictures has decided to call its new film ?.
It seems the creators of the film, Yash Dave and Allison Patel, have a real overseas Blair Witch on their hands as you can see by the trailer below (they even have the snotty, runny nose close-up crying scene. And did I not hear the distinctive whining sound effect from the beginning of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre at the start of that trailer? Someone please verify that for me!) ? looks quite intriguing and you can check it out online as it will be released on YouTube on February 17.
Thanks to Dread Central reader and our man on the street, Avery G, »
- Doctor Gash
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