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14 June 2013 10:00 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Spider Baby | Hitchcock | To The Wonder | Perfect Friday | The Kid Stays In The Picture
This darkly humorous, deeply demented 1964 curiosity is a genuine cult phenomenon, one with a reputation that grows by the year. By the time it came out in 1968, hardly anyone cared. However, it's subsequently found an audience, so today we can enjoy it on a rather well-assembled Blu-ray.
It's usually classed as a horror film or a B-movie but this slice of American gothic doesn't fit neatly into either category. It concerns the Merrye family, a clan so inbred they have a rare malady named after them. Merrye syndrome affects one branch of this rotten family tree, causing regression ("A progressive deterioration of the mental faculty … a rotting of the brain, so to speak") to set in as they reach adolescence. Kept sequestered in a dilapidated house, three afflicted youngsters are protected by custodian Bruno »
- Phelim O'Neill
Three Genre Vets Join 'Town That Dreaded Sundown' Remake
8 May 2013 9:00 AM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Three horror vets join Alfonso Gomez-Rejon's remake of the 1976 slasher film The Town That Dreaded Sundown. The film is based on the true story of a serial killer that stalked a small Texas town in 1946. At least five people were killed and the perpetrator was never caught. Addison Timlin (Derailed, Zero Hour) has already been cast as the headliner. Joining her are Veronica Cartwright, Gary Cole, and Joshua Leonard.
Cartwright will play Timlin's grandmother, who raises her after her parents are killed in a car accident. In a career spanning over 50 years, Cartwright has had many roles in genre films, including The Birds, Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Candyman: Farewell to Flesh.
Cole will play a deputy who is chasing the hooded killer. Cole is probably best known for his role in Office Space, but to me, he will always be Lucas Buck from American Gothic.
Finally, »
- Alyse Wax
‘House of Cards’ Skit Kicks Off White House Correspondents’ Dinner
28 April 2013 3:50 PM, PDT | Tubefilter.com | See recent Tubefilter News news »
The annual White House Correspondents' Dinner took place yesterday, and among the usual gentle ribbing and insider humor that punctuates the ceremony (unless Stephen Colbert is involved), a skit featuring Kevin Spacey combined Netflix's successful House of Cards series with real-life Washington politics. The skit, which has been posted online in its entirety by C-span, has Spacey creating the seating chart for the dinner, for which he must call in favors and enlist help from his underlings. In addition to being quite funny, the skit is a testament to House of Cards' place in American pop culture. When it first came out, critics wondered whether it had the appeal to get discussed around the water cooler. Turns out it's gone a lot farther than that. Beyond the House of Cards skit, the dinner also featured a few other clever segments, all of which can be found on YouTube. Conan O'Brien »
- Sam Gutelle
The Vampire Diaries season 4 episode 19 review: Pictures Of You
20 April 2013 5:04 AM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Review Caroline Preece 19 Apr 2013 - 21:30
It's senior prom time in Mystic Falls. Here's Caroline's verdict on the latest episode of The Vampire Diaries...
This review contains spoilers.
4.19 Pictures of You
It’s been a couple of weeks since there was a party in Mystic Falls, so it must be time for the ladies and gents of the town (or at least the high school) to dust off all of their finery for senior prom. Episodes of The Vampire Diaries set around some kind of event are usually entertaining and, despite all of the same problems season four of the show has been stumbling over for nineteen weeks, this is no different.
Pictures of You works best if you ignore everything that Elena, Damon and Stefan are doing and, as they’re our three leading characters, that just illustrates how confused The Vampire Diaries has really become. No, this week »
- louisamellor
The Vampire Diaries Caption Contest 157
19 April 2013 10:14 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
Welcome to the 157th installment of The Vampire Diaries Caption Contest, where readers submit their best caption(s) for a photo from The CW drama! Ready to flex your witty muscles once again?
Follow the link to find out who won last week's edition of this TV Fanatic tradition, then prepare to test your skills again with a photo from The Vampire Diaries Season 4 episode, "American Gothic."
What is the Caroline thinking/saying in this photo? What about wounded Klaus? Just click "Comments" and leave your entry for the picture below. Leave as many as you like, funny or serious. We will select the winner around this time next week. Enjoy... and good luck!
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- matt@tvfanatic.com (TV Fanatic Staff)
The Vampire Diaries Sneak Peek: Having a Ball
15 April 2013 12:19 PM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
When The Vampire Diaries Season 4 resumes this Thursday, we'll pick up a little over a week since Elena snapped the neck of a waitress to close "American Gothic."
And in that time, the humanity-free blood sucker has refrained from murdering any more innocents... because Damon and Stefan have refrained from forcing her to alter her ways.
But as they adorably toss a football around in the following clip, we see the brothers discussing a plan to change that, with Stefan pushing them to put some kind of plan into action. And promising he'll leave town once it's accomplished.
Watch now and grade each sibling's throwing mechanics:
The Vampire Diaries Clip: Playing Catch
Sound off, Tvd Fanatics: Should Damon and Stefan try to turn Elena's humanity back on? »
- matt@mediavine.com (Matt Richenthal)
The Vampire Diaries Caption Contest 156
12 April 2013 9:48 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
Welcome to the 156th installment of The Vampire Diaries Caption Contest, where readers submit their best caption(s) for a photo from The CW drama! Ready to flex your witty muscles once again?
Follow the link to find out who won last week's edition of this TV Fanatic tradition, then prepare to test your skills again with a photo from The Vampire Diaries Season 4 episode, "American Gothic."
What is the Caroline thinking/saying in this photo? What about wounded Klaus? Just click "Comments" and leave your entry for the picture below. Leave as many as you like, funny or serious. We will select the winner around this time next week. Enjoy... and good luck!
»
- matt@mediavine.com (Matt Richenthal)
What Renaissance Pictures did for geek TV
11 April 2013 11:20 PM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Feature David Menzies 12 Apr 2013 - 07:00
Would we have had Mutant Enemy or Bad Robot without Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell and Robert Tapert's Renaissance Pictures? David thinks not...
After 1992's Army Of Darkness, another Sam Raimi feature film wouldn't emerge in theatres for another three years. What Raimi did with the time in between is anybody's guess - perhaps he wandered the world; maybe he dug through a peculiar collection of Spider-Man comics with most of the dialogue cut out. But what he certainly did with his Renaissance Pictures partners was bring to light a new frontier of genre TV (cue heroic music and a narrator saying, "This is the story of a time long ago – a time of myth and legend. When the ancient gods were petty and cruel, and they plagued mankind with suffering, only one man dared to challenge their power...")
While Hercules may be one »
- louisamellor
'Holy Ghost People' Acquired by XLrator Media Following SXSW Premiere
4 April 2013 1:04 PM, PDT | Indiewire | See recent Indiewire news »
"Holy Ghost People," the latest thriller from director Mitchell Altieri of the Butcher Brothers ("The Violent Kind"), has been picked up by XLrator Media. The company, who also distributed Altieri and Phil Flores' 2012 vampire film "The Thompsons," has secured all North American right to "Holy Ghost People." Read More: Meet the 2013 SXSW Filmmakers #35: Mitchell Altieri Directs a Congregation of Outcasts in American Gothic 'Holy Ghost People' Emma Greenwell of "Shameless" stars in the film as Charlotte, who goes on a search for her missing sister with the help of unstable ex-Marine Wayne (Brendan McCarthy). Her sister disappeared in the Appalachian Mountains where the Church of One Accord and its fiercly devout members are found. The church is led by a snake-handling preacher named Brother Billy (Joe Egender) who leads his congregation into harmful and even deadly pursuits of salvation. Wayne and Charlotte's journey on the mountain leads them to. »
- Cristina A. Gonzalez
The Vampire Diaries Round Table: "American Gothic"
3 April 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
The Vampire Diaries took a road trip to Pennsylvania on "American Gothic."
But you don't need to leave the comfort of your own home in order to rundown the latest Season 4 installment with our Round Table panelists.
Gather around below as Matt Richenthal, Miranda Wicker, Carissa Pavlica and Leigh Raines discuss the cure, the return of Elijah and a great deal more from the final Tvd episode until April 18...
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What was your favorite scene or quote from the episode?
Matt: The final one. I was shocked when Elena killed an innocent and genuinely intrigued by how Stefan and Damon will react to her threatened murder spree if they don't chill the eff out.
Miranda: One word: Elijah.
Carissa: Elijah talking to Elena about not being able to give up on Katherine in spite of everything, knowing it would hit home with her as to how both Damon and Stefan felt about her. »
- matt@tvfanatic.com (TV Fanatic Staff)
'Vampire Diaries' Star Talks Klaus, Boiling Bunnies
2 April 2013 4:00 PM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Easter is a special occasion. Families gather. Big meals are prepared. Children frantically hunt for Easter eggs. But if you’re The Vampire Diaries’ quick-tempered Klaus, celebrating the holiday may involve other gruesome traditions.
“Probably boiling bunnies,” offers actor Joseph Morgan with maniacal glee over the phone.
Klaus might bask in snapping necks and drowning parents, but in the last three seasons, the bloodsucking fiend has developed into one of The Vampire Diaries’ most complex and multifaceted characters. On Good Friday, Morgan spoke to me about Klaus’ love, flaws and The Originals backdoor pilot.
Klaus and Caroline (Candice Accola) are now officially “friends.” At this point, where are his head and heart when it comes to her?
Klaus is still very much enamored with her. Look, he felt he was dying and called Caroline. Not his sister. Not his brother. That says a lot about where he is in terms of his feelings towards her. »
- Bryan Cairns
The Vampire Diaries season 4 episode 18 review: American Gothic
2 April 2013 12:19 PM, PDT | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »
Review Caroline Preece 2 Apr 2013 - 11:14
Daniel Gillies makes a very welcome return in this week's episode of The Vampire Diaries. Here's Caroline's review...
This review contains spoilers.
4.18 American Gothic
Welcome back Elijah – we really missed you. With his mere presence, Daniel Gillies manages to make a pretty standard, talky episode of The Vampire Diaries memorable, meaningful and interesting. It makes you really glad that he’s sticking around for The Originals, doesn’t it?
As well as Elijah, American Gothic also saw the return of Ms Katherine Pierce, whom Elena and Rebekah catch up to in Pennsylvania. They’re after the cure but know they can’t get to it without some sneaking around and backstabbing beforehand, so the entire episode becomes a tactical game played between the three girls, with Stefan and Damon lagging behind as usual. After they controlled Elena’s actions for over three seasons, it »
- louisamellor
The Vampire Diaries, Ep. 4.18, “American Gothic”: Elijah reenters the fray in underwhelming episode
29 March 2013 12:52 PM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Vampire Diaries, Season 4, Episode 18: “American Gothic”
Written by Evan Bleiweiss and Jose Molina
Directed by Kellie Cyrus
Airs Thursdays at 8pm (Et) on the CW
This week, on The Vampire Diaries: Sheriff Forbes is very good at her job, Katherine and Elena have a chat, and Silas flexes some psychological muscle
Since the return of Katherine in “Down the Rabbit Hole”, and particularly since Elena turned off her emotions in “Stand by Me”, fans have been waiting to see Katherine and this new Elena share the screen. Nina Dobrev has proven herself time and again to be a talented and versatile actor- seeing her play against herself should be fun. Unfortunately, while her humanity-less Elena remains consistent and entertaining, Katherine feels less so, making their scenes together somewhat of a disappointment. It’s a tricky thing- it’s completely reasonable that Katherine has grown or developed since »
- Kate Kulzick
Top 7 moments from 'The Vampire Diaries' 4x18 'American Gothic'
29 March 2013 8:02 AM, PDT | Twilight Examiner | See recent Twilight Examiner news »
There was a lot of taunting and pain thrown around on "The Vampire Diaries" Season 4, Episode 18 ("American Gothic"). Elena (Nina Dobrev) and Rebekah (Claire Holt) are able to track that pesky Katherine down to a little dive town in the middle of nowhere, and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) aren't too far behind. But when Elijah (Daniel Gilles) shows up to complicate matters with his centuries-long crush on Katarina Petrova and a faux cure vial gets thrown in the mix, the plan gets shot to bits pretty quickly, leaving everyone in a lurch ... except Elena, that is. She could care less about anyone but herself. Speaking of which, Mister Original himself Klaus (Joseph Morgan) has to deal with some demons as this Silas character keeps popping up to torture him into handing over the cure. Caroline (Candice Accola) is the only one who can free him o. . »
- thetwilightexaminer
The Vampire Diaries Return Trailer: Is She Gone?
29 March 2013 8:00 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
The Vampire Diaries is on hiatus until April 18.
But, man, did "American Gothic" leave viewers with a number of questions until then:
Can Katherine be trusted? How will The Originals deal with the cure? Will Klaus and Caroline take their new friendship to a new level? What will Silas do next? And is Elena really gone?
That appears to be the case in the following CW promo, as the Mystic Falls prom is upon us, but Elena isn't exactly in the mood to celebrate with Damon. Watch now and try to figure out what you'll do over the next few Thursday nights:
The Vampire Diaries Promo: "Pictures of You" »
- matt@mediavine.com (Matt Richenthal)
TV Recap: 'The Vampire Diaries' Episode 418 - 'American Gothic'
29 March 2013 7:00 AM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
The Vampire Diaries Episode 418
Written By: Evan Bleiweiss & Jose Molina
Directed By: Kellie Cyrus
Original Airdate: 28 March 2013
In This Episode...
Rebekah and Elena take a break from hunting Katherine. After hitting three towns in two days, Elena is hungry. In a small town, she tries to eat a woman off the street. The woman recognizes her - as Katherine. Jackpot. It quickly becomes apparent that Katherine has compelled the whole town to bend to her will, and to pretend they don’t know Katherine unless it is Katherine talking to them. It’s good to be a doppelganger. It doesn’t take long to locate Katherine, and Elena and Rebekah hold her hostage at a diner. Elena sees Katherine has a meeting with someone named “Em” at 2pm, so she dresses as Katherine and goes to keep the meeting while Rebekah keeps an eye on Katherine.
It turns out that “Em” is Elijah. »
- Alyse Wax
The Vampire Diaries Review: Em Marks the Spot
28 March 2013 7:12 PM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
That damned cure.
It’s been a driving plot point ever since our beloved Elena became a vampire and, honestly, the whole thing started boring me episodes ago... until tonight’s “American Gothic” episode, written by Evan Bleiweiss and Jose Molina.
In the past on The Vampire Diaries, a road trip away from Mystic Falls often felt like a stand-alone episode in that there may have been a goal that fed into the overall plot but, in the end, it still felt a lot like filler to prolong getting to the good stuff.
But with Elena and Rebekah working together at the top of the hour to find the holder of the cure – bad ol' Katherine – the installment was filled with action, suspense and some definite movement in the plot; it also did what The Vampire Diaries Season 4 has failed to do for me a lot over the past few »
- jimhalterman@gmail.com (Jim Halterman)
'The Vampire Diaries' Recap: Which Doppelganger is the Evil One?
28 March 2013 1:54 PM, PDT | buddytv.com | See recent BuddyTV news »
The cure was finally found! Now, what will Elijah do with it? Will he do as Klaus suggested and have a family meeting? Or, does he love and believe in the reformed Katherine enough to force Klaus into giving the doppelganger her freedom? On "American Gothic," the cure may have been revealed, but the story of what will be done with it is far from over. The Salvatore brothers still want it for Elena, Rebekah wants it for herself, and Silas wants it to complete his mission. »
- editor@buddytv.com
Rehash, Clips, and an Original Music Contest for The Vampire Diaries
28 March 2013 12:00 PM, PDT | ScifiMafia | See recent ScifiMafia news »
That’s “original” music contest, not “Originals” music contest, so yes, you can enter! The Vampire Diaries has announced that it is accepting submissions of original music, the best of which will be featured in the season finale. Details are near the end of this week’s Rehash. We also have two clips and a TV spot for tonight’s new episode. Enjoy!
Featurette: The Vampire Diaries – Rehash: Because the Night
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TV Spot: The Vampire Diaries – American Gothic
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Clip: The Vampire Diaries – Do Over
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Clip: The Vampire Diaries – American Gothic
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The Vampire Diaries, starring Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, Nina Dobrev, Candice Accola, Kat Graham, Joseph Morgan, and Claire Holt, airs Thursdays at 8/7c on The CW. »
- Erin Willard
The Vampire Diaries Prom: You're Invited!
28 March 2013 11:15 AM, PDT | TVfanatic | See recent TVfanatic news »
Let's start with the bad news: The Vampire Diaries will go on hiatus until April 18 following tonight's (outstanding) episode, "American Gothic."
But now for some good news: When the series returns, we'll be off to the Mystic Falls High School Senior Prom!
Who will accompany whom? What will a returning Elijah be up to? And how will this installment lead into the following Thursday's backdoor pilot for The Originals? Read on for the official CW synopsis...
After making a decision that infuriates Klaus, Elijah proposes a life-changing challenge for Rebekah.
Caroline finds that her carefully laid plans for the perfect Senior Prom night are disrupted by Elena, so she turns to an amused Klaus for a solution. Determined to get through to Elena, Damon and Stefan both attend the prom, but the evening begins to spiral out of control despite their efforts.
When Elena suddenly lashes out in a way no one could have predicted, »
- matt@mediavine.com (Matt Richenthal)
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