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29 May 2012 11:00 AM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »

1981 was, of course, relatively early in the "slasher craze" that would soon run rampant throughout the decade, but less than a year after Friday the 13th (and about three years after Halloween), everyone with a camera, a cast, and a check would be banging out their own piece of stalker cinema. This year offered Halloween 2, Hell Night, The Funhouse, The Prowler, My Bloody Valentine, Happy Birthday to Me, The Final Terror, The Burning, Final Exam, and ... Night School, a patently generic knock-off that has a few noteworthy aspects -- although none of them are what you'd call "assets." The final feature from respected British director Ken Hughes (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Of Human Bondage, several others) and »

3 April 2012 1:56 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »

Frank Darabont is a legend in the world of film and one of the most underrated writer/directors of our generation. But for the last few years he’s been moving away from film towards the world of television. Everyone in Hollywood considers television a step back for such an established writer/director, but is that the right way to think?

His best known film The Shawshank Redemption was snubbed at the oscars in 1995 and barely even made its money at the box office (and only after being re-released the following year). Darabont has always had a topsy turvy relationship with Hollywood throughout his life, but did you know that before he even got a job in the film world he had already gained the rights to adapt a work of Stephen King?

Darabont was born in 1959 in a Refugee camp after his parents fled Hungary in 1956. They very swiftly »

- Fred Salmon

2 items from 2012