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HOLLYWOOD ADDRESSES HORRORPHILE!

May 29th 2008 01:54
Fear Itself title credit
I was contacted by the online publicity department of US channel NBC in regards to a new TV anthology, Fear Itself, where successful and respected horror directors deliver short horror movies; thirteen hour-long episodes to be precise. The first episode airs in the States, June 5.

Publicity explained that "Horrorphile.net was selected because we thought it’d be a great place to reach horror fans on the Web.". Fair enough. Keep it comin' I say!

The show is along the lines of the successful series Masters of Horror and directors include John Landis (An American Werewolf in London), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator), Mary Harron (American Psycho), Darren Lyn Bousman (Saw II-IV), Ronny Wu (Jason vs. Freddy), and Breck Esiner (upcoming remakes of Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Crazies).

In a publicity savvy move I was sent the link to a teaser clip from Breck Eisner’s episode, The Sacrifice, which kicks off the first season of Fear Itself. Mr. Eisner himself addresses me, Horrorphile, and my readers obviously, and then introduces the clip. I was well chuffed!

From the look of the short clip, there’s a distinct Silence of the Lambs serial killer feel, although the actual premise is thus: "Taking refuge in an isolated snow-covered fort, four criminals find secrets, dangers and three alluring sirens." Sounds promising.

Fingers crossed the series makes its way down under sooner rather than later.

Here’s the teaser clip:
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55th SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL horrorspective

May 28th 2008 00:54
Import/Export movie poster
It’s a rich bloody banquet this year! Compared to the six movies I fitted snugly under my Pleasure of Nightmares banner in last year’s festival, this year the number of “nightmare” movies within the Sydney Film Festival’s programme comes to a sensational eighteen! I’m very excited! Who knows, maybe next year they might even do a retrospective on a seminal horror director’s body of work … David Cronenberg, perhaps?

The 55th Sydney Film Festival runs from Thursday June 4th (Gala Opening Night) through until Sunday June 22nd. I haven’t had the opportunity to view any of the movies in advance as yet, but I will endeavour to preview as many as I can, or at least provide a review shortly after its screening.

Appleseed Saga: Ex Machina
Sat 14 June 8:15pm - Greater Union 9 | Sat 22 June 4:45pm - GU 8
This is an archetypal Japanese Manga anime directed by veteran mechanical designer Shinji Aramaki which features cyborgs and zombies in John Woo-styled shoot-outs. High calibre digital animation (“the equivalent of going from Windows 98 to XP”) with stunning costume and cityscape designs.

The Class
Fri 13 June 4:30pm - GU 9 | Sat 14 June 2:15pm - GU8
Estonian high school nightmare inspired by the Columbine massacre. A confronting film which utilises amateur actors who workshopped the script resulting in a powerful and authentic Award-winning study of bullying.

Crows: Episode 0
Sun 8 June 8pm – GU8 | Mon 9 June 8:30pm – GU9
The first of two new Takashi Miike movies, this one deals with high school gangsters. The punk-styled son of a Yakuza boss determined to rule the roost. Expect Miike’s trademark ultraviolence fused with his twisted sense of humour.
Donkey Punch
Donkey Punch
Fri 6 June 8:45pm – GU9 | Mon 9 June 8:45pm – GU8
Three brash young Leeds ladettes hit the beaches of Mallorca and end up in deep trouble on a yacht with a bunch of Brit lads. It’s a gory fight for survival in the vein of Dead Calm and Knife in the Water.

Fear(s) of the Dark
Sun 15 June 7:45pm – Dendy Opera Quays | Fri 20 June 9:30pm – DOQ
France has garnered ten of the world’s most cutting edge graphic artists and cartoonists and showcases them in a collection of truly creepy animations. Mesmerising and chilling in equal measures.
Funny Games Naomi Watts
Funny Games
Thu 5 June 9:20pm – State Theatre | Sun 22 11:30am – State
Controversial German director Michael Haneke has been seduced/coerced into remaking his contentious study of violence for the American market. Starring Naomi Watts and Tim Roth, it’s bound to be as manipulative and frustrating as the 1997 original.

Import/Export
Sat 7 June 8:45pm – GU 9 | mon 9 June 6pm – GU8
A German/Russian/Slovak/English co-production that’s set in a frozen industrial world as bleak and soulless as the content is explicit and provocative; two cautionary tales of 21st Euro commodification that are not for the fainthearted.

Let the Right One In
Let the Right One In
Fri 6 June 9pm – DOQ | Sat 14 June 8pm – DOQ
Based on the bestseller this Swedish teen romance meets horror movie is a new take on the vampire scenario. Two young misfit girls – neighbours - are drawn together and form a strange, unsettling bond.

Sukiyaki Western Django
Sukiyaki Western Django
Sat 7 June 8:30pm – GU8 | Thu 12 June 8:45pm – GU8
The second Takashi Miike flick, this time he tackles the Spaghetti Western in his first English-language movie. But of course it’s all about the crazy gangs and the ultraviolent feuds. Quentin Tarantino cameos.

Timecrimes Karra Elejalde
Timecrimes
Fri 6 June 8:30pm – GU8 | Sat 7 June 6:30pm – GU9
The Spanish are totally on top of horror right now! A B-grade Twilight Zone-esque time-travelling thriller that involves a mad scientist and a scissor-wielding maniac sheathed in a pink bandage (?!) that has to be seen to be disbelieved.

The Unseeable movie poster
The Unseeable
Fri 13 June 8:50pm – GU8 | Sun 15 June 8:30pm – GU8
A Buddhist ghost story with Gothic overtones from Thailand; sounds strange and spooky indeed! This is a moody tale from the director of the cult Tears of the Black Tiger and set in 1930s mansion on the outskirts of Bangkok.

A Page of Madness
Sun 22 June 4:30pm – State
A silent masterpiece of Japanese cinema from 1926 and believed lost for many years; it’s based on a story about a sailor who takes a job in a lunatic asylum. Insanity reigns supreme in this expressionist and radical rarity.

Redacted
Fri 20 June 8:30pm – GU8 | Sat 21 June 8:50pm – GU9
Director Brian De Palma re-visits the atrocity territory of Casualties of War, this time in Iraq. Presented as “found” footage from a camcorder, surveillance cameras, and websites, its volatile subject matter and distanced approach make it all the more harrowing.

The Innocents
Sat 21 June 2:15pm – State
As part of the Deborah Kerr retrospective is this restored print of the cult classic Gothic horror, co-scripted by Truman Capote and based on the novel The Turn of the Screw. A macabre and eerie film sensationally produced from 1961.

Phase IV
Wed 11 June 5:50pm – DOQ
The only feature (from 1974) directed by the legendary titles designer Saul Bass, it’s a strange and chilling vision of a creeping, crawling new world order that defines conventional genre, but sits somewhere in a Lynch-esque sf realm.

Stranded 1972 Andes plane crash
Stranded: I’ve come from a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains
Sat 21 June 10am – State | Sun 22 June 6:45 – State
This intense docu-drama re-accounts the 1972 Andes plane crash where survivors of a Uruguayan rugby team were forced to eat human flesh in order to survive. The Spanish director has known the survivors for many years and this connection has enabled him to craft the compelling truth.

To See if I’m Smiling
Mon 9 June 3:10pm – GU8 | Wed 11 June 6pm – GU8
This is a disturbing documentary about the appalling treatment of young Israeli women who are drafted at 18. It details their true stories in first-hand accounts, their close-up candidness making their ordeals feel all the more harrowing.

A Very British Gangster
Wed 18 June 4pm – State
The chilling true crime tales of a Manchester enforcer boss of Irish heritage. It’s a fascinating, larger than life portrait of a disturbing, but compelling figure whose motto was “Look after those that look after you, fuck off those that fuck off you”.


Sourced and adapted from the 55th Sydney Film Festival official programme. Visit the site for further information and the complete lowdown.
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... and for a few BLOODIED MORE

April 30th 2008 00:57
The Dark Lurking
A further handful of potentially potent new movies that are hitting the big screens and not-so-big screens now and in the near future:
The Broken Lena Headley
The Dark Lurking movie poster
The Broken finds Lena Headley as Gina, a woman who sees herself driving past on a busy London street. Creepily intrigued she follows the car to her own apartment and from there slides into a dark, unhinged reality that will haunt her most horribly. This is a psychological horror-thriller from second time director Sean Ellis.

The Dark Lurking is set 800 feet below the surface of the Antarctic where a subterranean research station has gone offline. Hundreds of ravenous and constantly mutating creatures are on the loose and eight researchers must find their way up through thirteen levels to reach safety. A low-budget Australian production described as Alien meets The Evil Dead directed by Greg Connors and starring Anthony Edwards.

Funny Games U.S. Euro movie poster
Funny Games U.S. is controversial German director Michael Haneke’s American remake of his own movie Funny Games (1997), which was a movie I had a lot of trouble with. The Dutch director of The Vanishing (1988) remade his own film for Hollywood, and compromised the ending so radically he basically eviscerated any real horror the original possessed. I have a feeling Haneke will attempt to keep his English-language version of Funny Games as close to the original as possible, which won’t make it any easier to digest. We’ll see.

100 Feet Famke Janssen
100 Feet is the new film from writer/director Eric Red who wrote The Hitcher (1986) and wrote and directed the little seen werewolf flick Bad Moon. Starring Famke Janssen as Marnie, a woman who kills her abusive husband in self-defence, then sentenced to house-arrest, only to discover her dead husband’s malevolent ghost is in the house dead-set on making her life an absolute hell.

The Tattooist movie poster
The Tattooist is co-written by Kiwi Jonathan King who gave us Black Sheep and directed by Peter Burger. It’s a supernatural tale about a deadly Samoan spirit released through the ancient art of the Pacific tatau. It stars American Jason Behr and New Zealand veteran Michael Hurst. It’s going straight to DVD in the States, but hey, I’m not surprised. Hopefully we’ll get a theatrical release down under.

Mother of Tears movie poster
Mother of Tears: The Third Mother, the hugely anticipated third part to Italian horror maestro Dario Argento’s trilogy of witchcraft. This has had its international release thwarted, possibly due to the less-than-stellar reception in the homeland. It will have a limited U.S. theatrical release in June, with the DVD coming out sometime later. With the track record of Argento’s movies releases in Australasia it is highly unlikely we’ll get to see it on the big screen which is a real shame, even if it does bark like the hound from hell.

Twilight movie poster
Twilight is one I’m not sure about at all, perhaps because it’s plot reminds me a little of my own vampire movie I made fifteen years ago; a young girl named Bella falls in love with a vampire, which sparks a rival vampire clan to pursue them, forcing Bella to decide if she too should become one of the undead. Based on the young-adult fantasy novels by Stephanie Meyer, directed by Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen and Lords of Dogtown), and co-starring the talented young Nikki Reed (who co-starred and co-wrote Thirteen). It'll probably suck, but hey ...

To finish off on a bitter note, here’s a comprehensive list of remakes I unearthed that are currently in states of pre-production, principal photography, post-production, or have just been released. It’s truly painful; It’s Alive, The Thing, The Stepfather, Scanners, Rosemary’s Baby, Piranha, Near Dark, Motel Hell, The Birds, Night of the Demons, My Bloody Valentine, Friday the 13th, Hellraiser, The Brood, The Creature from the Black Lagoon, The Evil Dead, The Entity, Don’t Look Now, The Changeling, Alice, Sweet Alice, Battle Royale, Long Weekend, The Crazies, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Suspiria, Raw Meat (aka Death Line), Hell Night, The Witches … even Attack of the Killer Tomatoes fer Chrissake!

And it gets worse; the extremes of Last House on the Left, Cannibal Holocaust and the dodgy pseudo-doco Faces of Death are also being remade. Nothing is sacred anymore in the realm of horror. If it can be exhumed and re-animated, then it shall be, but only because there is money to be made.

And mark my words, Alien and Phantasm will be plundered soon enough. Oh, the inhumanity!

Enough tears! Here's the trailer for The Dark Lurking:


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Some things WICKED this way come?

April 29th 2008 00:38
Zombie Strippers
Ever since the resurgence in modern horror movies took audiences by the throat and throttled them you can count on numerous new titles being released every month, mostly straight to DVD, but some manage to squeeze a short theatrical season if they’re lucky. Who knows when this glut of turgid filmmaking will subside?

It seems clueless producers and the ilk (who actually fancy themselves as zeitgeist puppeteers) have the notion that horror movies are the easiest and most profitable genre to plunder. Well, on one hand they’re right; horror movies can be made cheaply and effectively, and they can, if the marketing campaign is savvy and the movie was cast just so, make a killing at the box office. But more often than not the filmmakers botch it up from the get go


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MACHINE GIRL!!!

February 11th 2008 06:42
My apologies for the short post, but I’m recovering from my bucks weekender.

The Machine Girl movie poster
So in keeping with my scrambled eggs mind I’m posting this trailer to a new Japanese piece of deep trash called Kataude Mashin Gâru (which translates literally as The One-Armed Machine Girl, but will be shortened to The Machine Girl for Western audiences). It is directed by Noboru Iguchi (Death Trance
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1-18-08 ... Colossus ... Monstrous ... CLOVERFIELD!

January 13th 2008 22:55
One Cloverfield's early teaser images
Rather ironically a huge SuperTrash monster flick that had been very successfully viral marketed is about to be released, Cloverfield, and I’ve only just heard about it. Which rock have I been under?!

Since July of last year producer J.J. Abrams (TV’s Lost) has been leaking teasers and internet tentacles that hint at what his monster movie is about. Basically a massive leviathan emerges from the watery depths surrounding lower Manhattan and wreaks destruction on par with 9/11


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Stephen King's THE MIST and Gramma

November 23rd 2007 01:50
The Mist movie poster
One of Stephen King’s best novellas is The Mist which featured in his uneven collection of short stories, Skeleton Crew. It’s up there with The Body (filmed as Stand By Me), Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption, and The Running Man (sensational read written as Richard Bachman, but dreadful movie).

I was anticipating a movie would be made of The Mist; pretty much 98% of what King writes gets optioned, and it has been made, with a release date for down under early next year. It’s screenwritten and directed by Frank Darabont who made the most popular King adaptation, The Shawshank Redemption (which features high in imdb’s top ten all-time movies


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LA TERZA MADRE ... She is coming closer!

September 25th 2007 03:43
The Third Mother teaser poster
I am so hungrily awaiting the Australian release of Dario Argento’s hugely anticipated third and final part to his masterful witchcraft trilogy known as "The Three Mothers", I've got snakes writhing in my stomach! I’ve already written two “bait” posts on her dark self already!

First there was Mater Suspiriorum in Suspiria (1977


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HATCHET

September 12th 2007 02:19
Hatchet movie poster
A black comedy called Hatchet, described as “old school American” horror was completed last year, played the Tribeca film festival in New York City, plus numerous other fantasy/horror festivals around the world, received critical acclaim and finally saw a US and UK theatrical release for this and next month. Fingers crossed, once again, for a big screen release down under.

The plot is pretty straight forward: When a group of tourists on a New Orleans haunted swamp tour find themselves stranded in the wilderness, their evening of fun and spooks turns into a horrific nightmare


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SAMOAN EVIL SPIRIT and VAMPIRISM REVISIONISM

September 4th 2007 01:27
The Tattooist poster art
A new New Zealand supernatural chiller was just theatrically released in NZ last week, starring American Jason Behr (The Grudge, 2003). Directed by Peter Burger (a television director) and co-written by Matthew Grianger and Black Sheep (2007) director Jonathon King.

The Tattooist Jason Behr and Mia Blake
Jason Behr as Jake and Mia Blake as Sina
On the NZ website the premise is described as: “American tattoo artist Jake Sawyer (Jason Behr) explores and exploits ethnic designs from around the world. At a tattoo expo in Singapore, he glimpses the exotic world of traditional Samoan tatau in the work of the fiercely proud Alipati (Robbie Magasiva). Fatefully, Jake is attracted to Alipati’s beautiful cousin, Sina (Mia Blake


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HOME INVASION!

August 24th 2007 01:56
The Strangers movie poster
Tyronne over at Hunt Famous gave me a heads up on this movie, which is apparently still in post-production, although there’s a teaser trailer out (and a doozy too!) The Strangers is about a suburban home invasion. Home invasions scare the bejesus out of me. In the city I live in, Sydney, home invasions have increased over the last few years.

The Strangers is written and directed by Bryan Bertino, an actor turned first time writer/director. The premise is not new, let’s face it, psycho-killers terrorising strangers is not a new idea. In fact several movies come to mind; House on the Edge of the Park (1980), Funny Games (1997), Ils (2006), Panic Room (2002), Haute Tension (2003


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Mo' news on ZOMBIES and VAMPIRES

August 12th 2007 23:16
Day of the Dead (2007) zombie
As I’ve mentioned in a couple of previous posts George Romero’s zombie masterpiece Day of the Dead (1985) has been remade. However it is a very tenuous sequel, more in “names” than anything else. The remake has four characters who share the same name as characters from Romero’s original: Sarah, Miguel Salazar, Captain Rhodes and Dr. Logan. The title is really more of a cash-in than a legitimate sequel to Zack Snyder’s remake Dawn of the Dead (2004).

Day of the Dead (2007) cast members
A Day of the Dead (2007) cast member in post-wrap catatonia
In itself Romero’s Dawn of the Dead (1978) wasn’t a direct sequel to Night of the Living Dead (1968), but a continuation of the overall premise (an ever increasing zombie to human ratio). Day of the Dead (1985) and Land of the Dead (2006) were a further continuation. Synder’s remake of Dawn was a “re-envisioning”, thus taking the premise and basic plot and adding new elements (zombies running) and plot devices (zombie birth


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MO' BAIT: The GOOD, the BAD, and the UGLY

July 18th 2007 01:52
It is the winter of our discontent. Horror movies are being churned out faster than you can say twoallhumanpattiesspecialsauc elettucecheesepicklesonionson aseasmeseedbun! Never have I been privy – and not so privy – to so many horror movie productions. And yet, previous few actually have any bite. Sure, they bark a bit, some even wag their goddamn tails, but when it comes to the crunch, it ain’t human bone being splintered, it’s the movie’s backbone collapsing: sigh, another hyped, shite horror flick.

Here are a five horror productions in various stages of completion, all single worded titles (there’s something intrinsically alluring about a horror with a single word title), a couple with great promise, a couple of possible gobblers, and one that just grunts “Chomp


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Shedding light on DAYBREAKERS

July 17th 2007 00:05
generic vampire art
Aussie DIY director brothers Michael and Peter Spierig, whose ultra-low budget zombie flick Undead (2003) caused a small stir in the movie underground a few years back, are currently filming a Hollywood-distributed vampire flick on the Gold Coast, southern Queensland, called Daybreakers, due for release next year.

Ethan Hawke
Here’s the plot: In the year 2017, a plague has transformed most every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher (Ethan Hawke) works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind


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The pursuit of RISE: BLOOD HUNTER

July 12th 2007 02:26
Rise: Blood Hunter Lucy Lui blood
Nothing like a little blood sucking in the rain in the middle of the night
Writer/director Sebastian Gutierrez’s undead horror-thriller Rise: Blood Hunter (2007)began filming two years ago. In April of this year it played at the NYC Tribeca Film Festival, with a limited theatrical run in the states last month. Apart from Singapore and Turkey this month the only other scheduled release date is for Japan in August, so it looks like we’ll be seeing this sexy vampire revenge flick hitting the DVD shelves instead of the big screen down under.

Executive produced by Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures production company, and starring Lucy Lui as a journalist who wakes in a morgue to discover she’s one of the undead in purgatory. She seeks revenge on the sect that put her there, drinking a little blood and shedding her clothes along the way


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LESBIAN WEREWOLVES

June 29th 2007 00:28
Jack & Diane artwork
There’s a new movie currently in production in New York City. Not due for release until next year, it’s a little diddy called Jack & Diane; a romantic-horror, to be more precise. A second feature written and directed by a guy called Bradley Rust Gray. The only cast members confirmed are Ellen Page (Hard Candy) and Olivia Thirlby (United 93).

According to the director the synopsis is thus: “Diane (Page) is a shy and innocent seventeen-year-old with intensely fierce innards. She is desperate to discover sex but wants to fall in love first. Her pent up sexual frustration occasionally rips through her dreams in the shape of a werewolf. Jack (Thilby) is a scab covered skateboarding girl who hides a fragile heart. She holds an idealized version of love based on a tragic affair which took her brother’s life


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On the BLOOD TRAIL of 30 Days of Night

June 28th 2007 00:23
30 Days of Night teaser movie poster
The eagerly anticipated vampire flick 30 Days of Night, based on the graphic novel by Steve Niles, is set for an October release both in the States and in Australia. But New Zealand, where the movie was filmed, will have to wait until December.

The chilling tale is set in the extreme north, an isolated Alaskan town called Barrow, which is plunged into complete darkness each year for an entire month. When most of the inhabitants head south for the winter, a mysterious group of strangers appear: bloodthirsty vampires, ready to take advantage of the uninterrupted darkness to feed on the town’s residents. As the long night wears on, Barrow’s Sheriff Eben (Josh Hartnett), his estranged wife Stella (Aussie gal Melissa George), and an ever-shrinking group of survivors must do anything they can to last until daylight


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Horrors still to be UNLEASHED

June 17th 2007 23:41
With the Sydney Film Festival into its second week I thought I’d post some horror news, some of the upcoming features either about to be released overseas, or still in production, or have just been announced. More than likely moist of these will be released down under straight to DVD, but you never know …

Sisters (2006) movie poster
Director Douglas Buck has re-made the Brian De Palma 1973 horror Sisters, starring Chloe Sevigny and Stephen Rea. The psychotic and macabre story revolves around a pair of Siamese twins who are separated, with one forced to live a sheltered existence under the watchful eye of a controlling psychiatrist. The film went into post-production two years ago and recently screened at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, but no actual release date for the movie has been given yet


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Horrorphile's SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL picks

June 8th 2007 03:09
Okay, so it’s not the New York City Horror Film Festival, but there are several movies in the 54th Sydney Film Festival which opens tonight and runs until June 24th which look very interesting to say the least. Some are horror horror movies and some are films with distinct “horror” overtones or strong “horror” undertones.

Unfortunately only one of my picks was available to preview, the intense, yet dream-like Zoo. I’d seen Night Watch a year or so ago. The rest I’m selecting on the basis of what I’ve read about. I will aim to provide full reviews of my selection during and after the festival


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The SHAPE of Rob Zombie's HALLOWEEN

May 31st 2007 00:59
Halloween 2007 poster art
It’s one of the most highly anticipated horror releases in years, but the older horrorphiles are grinding their teeth with mixed emotions. They’ve only announced a North American release date at this stage: August 31st. It’d be kinda cool if Australasian audiences got it released down under on October 31st, y’know to soften the blow of expectation a little …
Michael Myers in Halloween 2007
Michael admires his deadly handiwork
Despite my initial contempt at one of my all-time favourite horror movies being remade, I am now slowly and steadily embracing the inevitable. Perhaps embrace is the wrong word. More like I’ve resigned myself. I’m not really a fan of Rob Zombie’s horror movies, House of 1000 Corpses (2003) and The Devil’s Rejects (2005), although I appreciate the passion he has for the genre and his take-no-prisoners approach.

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