Tales from the Darkside was a horror anthology television series. The show debuted in 1983 and lasted for four seasons and even sparked a major movie in 1990, starring Deborah Harry and Christian…
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The Butcher Brothers’ The Thompsons is the upcoming follow-up to The Hamiltons and I for one really liked that one so I am all for a sequel and now I can unleash a brand new poster for that film. Check it out below.
The original cast return in the sequel to reprise their roles – Cory Knauf, Samuel Child, Joseph McKelheer, and Mackenzie Firgens.
Synopsis: “In the sequel a bloodbath at a gas station in the desert puts the family on the run, eventually seeing them resurface in the U.K. under a new identity as ‘The Thompsons’. Desperate for protection in this unfamiliar country, the Thompsons seek out the help of a shadowy underground rumored to be sympathetic to vampires.”
Israel’s firsti slasher film spreads its way onto our shores February 28th, 2012 via Image Entertainment. Cover art can be found on the right and enlarged for detailed viewing! No official special features have been announced at this time. Please stay tuned for further developements (if any)!
Premise:
A brother and sister in their twenties run away from home after their dark secret is discovered. They find temporary refuge in a deserted nature reserve. When the sister falls into a hunting trap, set by a psychotic killer, the brother sets out in a race against time to rescue her. A forest ranger and his old dog, two apathetic cops, four tennis players and a murderer, wandering carefree amongst his traps, will all be gradually drawn into a whirlwind of misunderstandings, fears and violence.
Trailer:
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www.upcominghorrormovies.com/movie/rabies
IMDb Page:
www.imdb.com/title/tt1754000/
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There were a few reasons I proposed this series – other than simply thinking it fitted in – when I began writing for Horror Movies. I wanted an excuse to find and watch some of the nasties I hadn’t seen, I wanted to suggest that some deserved reappraising, and I wanted to make sure more people knew about this strange, hard to find, terribly underrated film.
In this series I’m taking a look back at the films that, in the early 1980′s, were caught up in the Video Nasties moral panic in the UK. When video first arrived in the UK it was not covered by our censorship laws, and that, combined with the reluctance of the studios to embrace the technology, meant that many of the early releases were lurid, uncensored, horror films.
The tabloid press mounted a campaign against the films, and with a new right wing government in power and the growing influence of pro-censorship campaigner Mary Whitehouse, the Director of Public Prosecutions was instructed to draw up a list of films liable to prosecution under the Obscene Publications Act. I’ll be looking at every one of the 74 films that made this list, giving you a snapshot of the controversy around each film before watching and reviewing it.
The Ban
VTC really didn’t help themselves with the box cover for their release of this strange film, giving it the tagline ‘a young woman’s nightmare of incest and castration’, that, along with an ambiguous title, would likely have been enough to get it on the list. The film was prosecuted under the Obscene Publications Act, but the prosecution failed and it was dropped from the DPP list shortly after.
The Witch Who Came From The Sea has remained a somewhat elusive title, both the 2004 US release (which was a special edition boasting a commentary by cinematographer Dean Cundey, who also supervised the film’s restoration, and was Spielberg’s DP of choice for some time) and the uncut 2006 UK release (which was only available in the second ‘Box of the Banned’ collection) now deleted.
The Film
Most video nasties that flirt with surrealism do so not by design but through sheer ineptitude (yes, Don’t Go In The Woods, that’s you I’m glaring at), but The Witch Who Came From The Sea is surreal by design, and uses that surreality to depict its main character’s state of mind in a truly impactful way. Unlike most of the films on the list the ‘nasty’ here isn’t so much visceral violence as it is psychological disturbance.
The story is about Molly (Millie Perkins), a disturbed, alcoholic woman in her mid 30′s, obsessed with TV, living in a seaside town in the US. She has a strange and disturbing relationship to love and sex, fantasising about everyone she sees on TV (everyone on TV is ‘beautiful’) and sleeping around in her small town. Molly’s fantasies turn violent, but we soon come to find out that her ‘dreams’ may in fact be real, and that a dark past, connected to father she says was lost at sea, may have something to do with what is happening.
Millie Perkins was launched into Hollywood at 21, with an acclaimed performance in the 1959 film of The Diary of Anne Frank. It is hard to conceive of a role further from that one than that of Molly, in fact the distance is so vast that it’s almost a distracting thought in watching some of the more extreme scenes in Witch. By the time of this film Perkins had dropped off the Hollywood radar so completely that when a writer working on a where are they now piece inquired of the Screen Actor’s Guild where she was he was told that she was dead. That’s deeply unjust, because her performance here shows an actress of great skill and nuance. I don’t wish to damn her with faint praise, but this may be the best performance on the DPP list (only Camille Keaton gets close). Molly’s disturbance, and her increasingly profound retreat into the fantasy world of TV (“You don’t know if it’s true or not unless it’s on television”) are brilliantly, and often movingly, rendered by Perkins, who creates great sympathy for this character, who is, after all, a murderer.
There are many reasons that The Witch Who Came From The Sea quite legitimately troubled both the DPP and the BBFC. Most profoundly there is the film’s back story; a tale of Molly’s childhood abuse at the hands of her Father, which is briefly, but incredibly confrontationally, depicted on two occasions. The very existence of those scenes – though their purpose, and their achievement, is to shock and disgust rather than to titillate – is enough by itself to show why the film ran into trouble. Then you have to combine it with a great deal of scenes combining a naked Millie Perkins with sexual violence (Molly kills by castrating men) and the BBFC bugbear of blood on breasts and, however serious the film is, however much it’s a psychological drama rather than a horror film, it’s pretty obvious why it landed on the nasties list.
Director Matt Cimber (widower of Jayne Mansfield and a prolific director of softcore films) manages to be Lynchian before that was even a thing people aspired to be. The use of reverb gives the are they/aren’t they dream sequences an effective dislocation, and he achieves a sense of unease even in the clearly real world scenes. There are a few cheesy effects (a solarised dream sequence, for example) and the limited gore isn’t that convincing, but given what must have been a tiny budget, the visuals are strong. Of course that’s also down to DP Dean Cundey, whose work also helps maintain an eerie balance between real and surreal.
This is one of the titles that makes me give thanks for the DPP list, films like Cannibal Holocaust, I Spit on Your Grave, The Evil Dead and The Beyond would have survived without it, but this? This would have vanished without a trace and become, at best, a barely known curio. Happily, if inadvertently, censors preserved the title, preserved interest in it, and made sure it never became, as it well might have, a lost film of sorts. It may not be easy, but track this film down. It’s a strange and disturbing piece of work, but you’ll seldom have seen anything like it.
8 / 10
Two official images have been released from J.J. Abrams Super 8 and in Abrams fashion the images reveal… Nothing. But thats what I like, keep us guessing. I’d rather have absolutely no idea as to what the monster looks like instead of it being plastered all over the Internet.
Synopsis: “In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. Shortly after, unusual disappearances and inexplicable events begin to take place in town, and the local Deputy tries to uncover the truth – something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined.”
Super 8 is directed by J.J. Abrams, produced by Steven Spielberg and stars Kyle Chandler, Elle Fanning, Noah Emmerich, Ron Eldard, Gabriel Basso, Joel Courtney, Ryan Lee, Zach Mills and Riley Griffiths.
Super 8 hits theatres on June 10, 2011
David R. Ellis’ Shark Night 3D at one time was going to be titled Untitled 3D Shark Thriller as Ellis hated the title of Shark Night but I guess thats a thing of the past.
Anyway thanks to the studio we have the first high-res image from the upcoming Shark Night film which features Sara Paxton in quite the predicament.
Shark Night 3D is set to hit theatres via Relativity this September 2nd. The film stars Dustin Milligan, Joel David Moore, Chris Carmack, Katharine McPhee and Sara Paxton.
Synopsis: “A group of friends spend a weekend at a lakeside house only to find that a danger lurks beneath the waters. Yet their biggest fear is realized when they discover that the lake’s shark inhabitants are not their only enemy. When attempts to skip town fail, one by one, these college kids — or the ones that are left — will have to battle their enemies head on in order to survive.”
Craig Gillespie’s upcoming remake of Tom Holland’s absolute classic Fright Night still has a few more months to go till we can witness his take on the film, but 
until then take a gander at a couple of stills from the remake courtesy of the guys over at Moviefone.
I have to say these images haven’t really 
changed my view on the remake but perhaps it could live up to the original, we shall see.
Anyway the images consists of Colin Farrell (Jerry Dandridge), Anton Yelchin (Charlie Brewster), Imogen Poots (Amy Peterson) and Christopher Mintz-Plasse (“Evil” Ed).
Synopsis: “Senior Charlie Brewster (Anton Yelchin) finally has it all going on: he’s running with the popular crowd and dating the most coveted girl in his high school. In fact, he’s so cool he’s even dissing his best friend. But trouble arrives when Jerry (Colin Farrell) moves in next door. He seems like a great guy at first, but there’s something not quite right—but everyone, including Charlie’s mom (Toni Collette), doesn’t notice. After observing some very strange activity, Charlie comes to an unmistakable conclusion: Jerry is a vampire preying on the neighborhood. Unable to convince anyone, Charlie has to find a way to get rid of the monster himself in this Craig Gillespie-helmed revamp of the comedy-horror classic.”
Fright Night hits theatres on August 19, 2011.
You guys remember the Ed Wood film, Plan 9 From Outer Space? Quite often with Ed Wood, well for me anyway, his films were so bad they were actually really good. It kept me entertained for a few hours anyway, and I’m sure many of you, just like me are spitting at the thought of another remake.
Now this of course, is not the first time we have heard about this, Meh has wrote about this upcoming remake on numerous occasions and on reading up about the remake, I actually really want to see this happen.
Anyway, according to the guys over at The Roanoke Times, filming of Plan 9 (The title of the remake) begins today in Roanoke, Virginia which is being directed and produced by John Johnson and hopes to wrap up by April 25th. They will then release the film via Darkstone Entertainment on DVD worldwide.
“Essentially, he’s taken Wood’s idea, in which aliens revive the dead to attack the living in a plot to take over the world, and written his own version. His goal is to create a straightforward, low-budget, horror picture tinged with humor. He cites iconic1980s flicks such as “Fright Night” and “Lost Boys” as models.”
If any of you guys happen to live in the Roanoke area and are interested in being an extra for Plan 9 you can shoot an email over to casting@darkstone-ent.com
For more information head on over to the official Plan 9 website.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJh-gdpJxJo
Opening in 10 days are eight brand new flicks under the new After Dark Originals banner, which will give the films a limited theatrical run from January 28th to February 3rd before getting a DVD or SyFy release later in the year. For the current list of theaters that will be running the films click here.
You can check out the festival trailer below, which features footage from all eight of the movies. Below the trailer you’ll find synopsis for the films and you may click the titles to read more information and view pics and individual trailers.
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Everytime I write about Twilight a little part of me dies inside. That said I have enough respect for our readers to be aware that a ton of you like Twilight and for that I present the first photo from Breaking Dawn. Summit just emailed me the first photo which will make some of you excited and others perhaps.. puke a little in your mouth.
Any way you cut it Twilight has Vampires and just like we covered Scary Movie and Black Swan we will cover this thing called Twilight. Enjoy.. or not! Twilight Breaking Dawn will hit theaters November 18th.
