10. They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Written by James Poe and Robert E. Thompson
USA, 1969
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? is a wildly acclaimed 1969 American drama directed by Sydney Pollack that went on to receive nine Academy Award nominations. Like most of the films to appear on this list, it is based on a novel, a 1935 tome by Horace McCoy. Penned by James Poe and Robert E. Thompson, the film is an allegorical drama set amongst the contestants in a marathon dance contest during the Great Depression.
So how does a movie revolving around a dance competition relate to The Hunger Games? Much like The Hunger Games, the participants (all teens) are broken down into couples in hopes of winning and taking home the prize money, cash that’s much needed during such hard economic times. There is even a sleazy opportunistic Mc who urges...
Directed by Sydney Pollack
Written by James Poe and Robert E. Thompson
USA, 1969
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? is a wildly acclaimed 1969 American drama directed by Sydney Pollack that went on to receive nine Academy Award nominations. Like most of the films to appear on this list, it is based on a novel, a 1935 tome by Horace McCoy. Penned by James Poe and Robert E. Thompson, the film is an allegorical drama set amongst the contestants in a marathon dance contest during the Great Depression.
So how does a movie revolving around a dance competition relate to The Hunger Games? Much like The Hunger Games, the participants (all teens) are broken down into couples in hopes of winning and taking home the prize money, cash that’s much needed during such hard economic times. There is even a sleazy opportunistic Mc who urges...
- 11/17/2013
- by Ricky da Conceição
- SoundOnSight
Paul Hough's The Human Race depicts a brutal, inventive competition that turns even the most compassionate and kind-hearted members of society into ruthless killers, bloody, exploded messes or, in some cases, both. As usual with this particular genre of action film, there is a hero among them, but, in an inventive twist, this time the resident badass is a man on crutches with only one leg. He's played by Eddie McGee, a talented actor who is actually one-legged in real life, and who previously proved his action star credentials in the short film The Angel, also directed by Hough. The story is pretty simple. Thirty or so people black out and find themselves in a bizarre environment where a voice in their head tells them...
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- 4/15/2013
- Screen Anarchy
The Fantasia Film Festival held their press conference today to unveil their 2012 line-up and honestly we are still processing the information dump. Mitch Davis said during the press conference that the only way to properly describe the festival would be “to tie you to chairs, force feed you caffeine and sugar and talk to you for 17 days.” As usual, Mitch is simultaneously completely insane and completely accurate.
Last year, we published over 100 reviews/articles about/from Fantasia and recorded six podcasts. We intend to at least equal those numbers this year. Expect articles about our most anticipated films from several of us in the next few days, once we have time to study the 2012 Fantasia program book. (At 396 pages, you could use the damn thing to do wrist curls and I think that it has already been declared a Weapon of Mass Destruction by bugs everywhere.)
While you are waiting,...
Last year, we published over 100 reviews/articles about/from Fantasia and recorded six podcasts. We intend to at least equal those numbers this year. Expect articles about our most anticipated films from several of us in the next few days, once we have time to study the 2012 Fantasia program book. (At 396 pages, you could use the damn thing to do wrist curls and I think that it has already been declared a Weapon of Mass Destruction by bugs everywhere.)
While you are waiting,...
- 7/12/2012
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
An extremely gory still from filmmaker Paul Hough’s long-in-production sci-fi/horror feature The Human Race has landed online, and we have every blood-soaked pixel of it right here. Look for the flick at the 2012 Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada.
Gearing up for its 16th edition in 2012, the Fantasia International Film Festival is widely acclaimed as one of the largest and most influential genre film festivals in the world.
The Human Race stars Paul McCarthy-Boyington, Eddie McGee, Trista Robinson (Hell’s Belles), Fred Coury, and Domiziano Arcangeli as unwilling participants of a surreal and horrifying race for survival.
Written and directed by Paul Hough, son of John Hough (The Legend of Hell House, Witch Mountain), festival co-director Mitch Davis says of the selection of The Human Race, "We've been following Paul's work over the years with great enthusiasm, having screened both his extraordinary documentary The Backyard and his...
Gearing up for its 16th edition in 2012, the Fantasia International Film Festival is widely acclaimed as one of the largest and most influential genre film festivals in the world.
The Human Race stars Paul McCarthy-Boyington, Eddie McGee, Trista Robinson (Hell’s Belles), Fred Coury, and Domiziano Arcangeli as unwilling participants of a surreal and horrifying race for survival.
Written and directed by Paul Hough, son of John Hough (The Legend of Hell House, Witch Mountain), festival co-director Mitch Davis says of the selection of The Human Race, "We've been following Paul's work over the years with great enthusiasm, having screened both his extraordinary documentary The Backyard and his...
- 6/20/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Eddie McGee is a unique one. No, there's nothing all that unusual about being an aspiring actor and action star. There are lots of those. There are fewer who have one awards, like McGee has, but still. No, one makes McGee unique is that he's an action star with only one leg. And he's good.McGee turned a lot of heads a while back as the lead in award winning short film The Angel and he has now reunited with that film's director - Paul Hough - for an action feature titled The Human Race. The Human Race is about 80 people who find themselves in a foot race. They are given rules -If you are lapped twice, you will die. Do not step on the grass,...
- 6/16/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Filmmaker Paul Hough’s long-in-production, science-fiction/horror feature The Human Race will have its World Premiere at the 2012 Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, Canada, and we’ve got the skinny. Read on.
Gearing up for its 16th edition in 2012, the Fantasia International Film Festival is widely acclaimed as one of the largest and most influential genre film festivals in the world.
The Human Race stars Paul McCarthy-Boyington, Eddie McGee, Trista Robinson (Hell’s Belles), Fred Coury and Domiziano Arcangeli as unwilling participants of a surreal and horrifying race for survival.
Written and directed by Paul Hough, son of John Hough (The Legend of Hell House, Witch Mountain), festival Co-Director Mitch Davis says of the selection of The Human Race, "We've been following Paul's work over the years with great enthusiasm, having screened both his extraordinary documentary The Backyard and his more recent award-winning short film The Angel. The Human Race...
Gearing up for its 16th edition in 2012, the Fantasia International Film Festival is widely acclaimed as one of the largest and most influential genre film festivals in the world.
The Human Race stars Paul McCarthy-Boyington, Eddie McGee, Trista Robinson (Hell’s Belles), Fred Coury and Domiziano Arcangeli as unwilling participants of a surreal and horrifying race for survival.
Written and directed by Paul Hough, son of John Hough (The Legend of Hell House, Witch Mountain), festival Co-Director Mitch Davis says of the selection of The Human Race, "We've been following Paul's work over the years with great enthusiasm, having screened both his extraordinary documentary The Backyard and his more recent award-winning short film The Angel. The Human Race...
- 5/8/2012
- by Sean Decker
- DreadCentral.com
Filmmaker Paul Hough (who helmed the documentary The Backyard and horror short The Angel) has teamed with his dad John, veteran director of The Legend Of Hell House and The Incubus, on a Running Man-style thriller called The Human Race, which the younger Hough wrote and directed and his brother Jamie and John executive-produced (with Redge McGee). Fango nabbed an exclusive image and comments about the action/horror yarn; see below the jump.
- 12/9/2010
- by gingold@starloggroup.com (Michael Gingold)
- Fangoria
Camping. We can cite so many different reasons why we shouldn't spend time in the woods. It's a kind of foreign realm to us city folk. There are just too many variables. Especially at night. In the dark. With his new film Alluvial producer-director Geza Decsy and company are set to give us a whole new reason to fear what's out there -- ourselves.
Alluvial is a horror/survival film that chronicles the downward spiral of seven friends who, while camping in the godforsaken badlands of Panamint Valley, contract a mysterious illness, one which causes them to turn on one another in a mesmerizing display of skewed emotions and primal rage.
Already cast are Ken Lally ("Heroes", "Enterprise") and R.A. Mihailoff (Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3). Geza Decsy will produce with filmmaker Paul Hough (The Human Race, The Angel). Roy Knyrim’s Sota FX (The Abyss, Ed Wood, Of Gods and...
Alluvial is a horror/survival film that chronicles the downward spiral of seven friends who, while camping in the godforsaken badlands of Panamint Valley, contract a mysterious illness, one which causes them to turn on one another in a mesmerizing display of skewed emotions and primal rage.
Already cast are Ken Lally ("Heroes", "Enterprise") and R.A. Mihailoff (Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3). Geza Decsy will produce with filmmaker Paul Hough (The Human Race, The Angel). Roy Knyrim’s Sota FX (The Abyss, Ed Wood, Of Gods and...
- 7/8/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Paul Hough, director of the horror short The Angel, got in touch to invite our readers to take part as extras on the set of his latest project, The Human Race. The shoot takes place tomorrow, Saturday, May 2 at the Nelles Youth Correctional Facility, 11850 East Whittier Boulevard in Whittier, CA; extras are needed from 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
The Human Race revolves around ordinary, everyday individuals plucked out their lives and forced into the deadly title competition. As Hough describes it, “Your character is someone who was walking along the street. Suddenly a flash of light surrounds you, and you find yourself on a path next to a group of strangers. A bizarre voice in your head says, ‘If you don’t race, you die. If you step off of the path, you die. If you get lapped, you die.’ Immediately, someone steps off the path onto the grass,...
The Human Race revolves around ordinary, everyday individuals plucked out their lives and forced into the deadly title competition. As Hough describes it, “Your character is someone who was walking along the street. Suddenly a flash of light surrounds you, and you find yourself on a path next to a group of strangers. A bizarre voice in your head says, ‘If you don’t race, you die. If you step off of the path, you die. If you get lapped, you die.’ Immediately, someone steps off the path onto the grass,...
- 5/1/2009
- Fangoria
[Editor's Note: Multiple Personality Disorder Reports are news blasts to let you know about the stuff that didn't make it to the news page but still had us talking behind the scenes]
#1: Paramount to finally release Carriers!
Àlex Pastor and David Pastor's Carriers is finally getting a theatrical release by Paramount Vantage on September 4, 2009. The great looking plague flick stars Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Pine, Piper Perabo and Emily VanCamp. No doubt their decision to hold the film back has something to do with capitalizing on the Chris Pine buzz that will be around from Star Trek. Smart really. [via: Bloody-Disgusting]
#2: Kevin Macdonald takes on Romans and Asimov's "Eternity"
Kevin Macdonald has made a deal with New Regency to develop and direct "The End of Eternity" by Isaac Asimov. The "futuristic tale concerns a ruling class called Eternity whose members can manipulate time and alter history."
The State of Play director is also making "Eagle of the Ninth," a Roman military drama for Focus Features. [via: Variety]
#3: Statham ain't no Bronson but he will be The Mechanic
The 1972 hitman flick is a...
#1: Paramount to finally release Carriers!
Àlex Pastor and David Pastor's Carriers is finally getting a theatrical release by Paramount Vantage on September 4, 2009. The great looking plague flick stars Lou Taylor Pucci, Chris Pine, Piper Perabo and Emily VanCamp. No doubt their decision to hold the film back has something to do with capitalizing on the Chris Pine buzz that will be around from Star Trek. Smart really. [via: Bloody-Disgusting]
#2: Kevin Macdonald takes on Romans and Asimov's "Eternity"
Kevin Macdonald has made a deal with New Regency to develop and direct "The End of Eternity" by Isaac Asimov. The "futuristic tale concerns a ruling class called Eternity whose members can manipulate time and alter history."
The State of Play director is also making "Eagle of the Ninth," a Roman military drama for Focus Features. [via: Variety]
#3: Statham ain't no Bronson but he will be The Mechanic
The 1972 hitman flick is a...
- 4/24/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Once again a group of strangers awaken to find themselves in peril in Paul Hough's sci-fi horror hybrid The Human Race. So what are the stakes this time? It's run Or Die!
The Human Race is an exciting new sci-fi horror film from multi-award winning director Paul Hough (The Backyard, The Angel) and executive producer John Hough (Legend of Hell House, Escape to Witch Mountain). In the vein of Battle Royale and The Running Man, The Human Race is about a mass number of people who wake up in a strange arena and are forced by a nefarious intuition to run laps or face a hideous end.
The film stars Paul McCarthy Boyington (Altered), Eddie McGee (The Angel), Creep Creepersin (Orgy Of Blood), Fred Courey (Cindarella) and Domiziano Arcangeli (House Of Flesh Mannequins). Special FX will be done by Tom Devlin (1313Fx).
Shooting begins Saturday, April 25th. Check out the poster art below!
The Human Race is an exciting new sci-fi horror film from multi-award winning director Paul Hough (The Backyard, The Angel) and executive producer John Hough (Legend of Hell House, Escape to Witch Mountain). In the vein of Battle Royale and The Running Man, The Human Race is about a mass number of people who wake up in a strange arena and are forced by a nefarious intuition to run laps or face a hideous end.
The film stars Paul McCarthy Boyington (Altered), Eddie McGee (The Angel), Creep Creepersin (Orgy Of Blood), Fred Courey (Cindarella) and Domiziano Arcangeli (House Of Flesh Mannequins). Special FX will be done by Tom Devlin (1313Fx).
Shooting begins Saturday, April 25th. Check out the poster art below!
- 4/24/2009
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
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