Let’s take a break from the raging battle over the merits of Death Proof (see the Inland Empire post’s comment section below if you’ve got mucho time to kill) and get a quick lesson from Eli Roth on how to make an authentic-looking grindhouse trailer. I was struck by Roth’s trailer for his faux film [...]
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Dave Alexander on April 23, 2007 |
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Pakistan’s first ever gore film Zibahkhana (Hell’s Ground), and the first movie produced by DVD imprint Mondo Macabro, now has a trailer online. Man, this looks wild in a TCM-meets-Romero kinda way, and no half-assitude on the gore, either. I’m dyin’ to see it. For stills and more info, surf your bad self over to [...]
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Dave Alexander on April 21, 2007 |
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Watched Phantasm III tonight, then found this on YouTube. I’m really, really disappointed that whoever made this couldn’t work in even one “ball” joke. C’mon!
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Dave Alexander on April 19, 2007 |
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Edios Interactive Games is releasing a zombie game called Touch the Dead for the Nintendo DS. The “M-rated game — will invite players to ‘point-and-shoot their way out of a prison teeming with the undead.’” As you can see by the trailer video below (which seems to be the game with the earlier title Dead [...]
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Gary Pullin on April 18, 2007 |
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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the horror punk legends The Misfits. If you’ve been a long time reader of Rue Morgue, it’s no secret that most of us here at the magazine are huge fans of their music. Their influence on punk and metal is insurmountable. Personally, my introduction to the band was through [...]
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Dave Alexander on April 17, 2007 |
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Eli Roth takes a lot of flak from the horror faithful, but say what you will, the guy has balls, and here’s the proof. This video, which was posted by the fine cineastes at Popcorn & Sticky Floors, is a clip from an interview the guy did with Fox News around the time the Hostel [...]
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Dave Alexander on April 13, 2007 |
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I’ve wanted to write some sort of a tribute to Bob Clark since news of his death last week, but damn, I just didn’t know where to begin. Like so many others, I felt (and still feel) cosmically ripped off at what happened; that Clark was just starting to get the appreciation he deserved; that [...]
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Dave Alexander on April 13, 2007 |
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I did an interview with the Daily Nebraskan a few days ago about the grindhouse phenomenon and the movie Grindhouse itself. If you haven’t heard enough grindhouse-this and Grindhouse-that lately, give it a read here.
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Gary Pullin on April 11, 2007 |
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As a monthly publication, we’re faced with the challenging task of coming up with intriguing covers each and every time. I’ve always tried to take a conceptual approach to the subject matter, rather than just slapping on a press still or a generic head shot of the latest Hollywood pretty face. This ain’t Entertainment Weekly, [...]
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Dave Alexander on April 11, 2007 |
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If you’re in the Toronto area, you can catch some grindhouse-style double bills playing on weekends over the next six weeks. The double-dose of classic Cronenberg is cool, but I’m not sure that contemporary French horror film Haute Tension really works in the mix. Hopefully they’ve got some slightly less-on-the-radar programming on the horizon. Regardless, [...]
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Dave Alexander on April 10, 2007 |
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There was a piece posted on Wired yesterday titled “Are horror games redefining the genre?” The author, Colette Bennett says that she’s a fan of “WTF?” horror movies, such as Poltergeist and Event Horizon, which encourage the audience to ask “what the fuck” is in there (“that house” or “that spaceship,” etc.)? She argues that [...]
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Dave Alexander on April 9, 2007 |
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As Film Wad reports here, Quentin Tarantino is accused of stealing the idea for Grindhouse. There’s a write-up about it on the “real Grindhouse” website, and the trailer was available there but has been “removed by user.” You can download this version of Grindhouse for $0.99, and the filmmaker has some nasty things to say [...]
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Dave Alexander on April 9, 2007 |
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This past Saturday, the Globe and Mail ran a fantastic feature on Quentin Tarantino, in which writer Rick Groen makes the case that the director is actually devolving as a filmmaker. I don’t agree with everything in the article, but I think it’s a compelling argument given the evidence presented. After seeing Death Proof, I’d [...]
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