CineMacabre Movie Nights are back THIS THURSDAY, January 19 @ 9:30 p.m. at The Toronto Underground Cinema (186 Spadina Avenue – Toronto) with a new twist on the zombie subgenre, Howard J. Ford and Jonathan Ford’s THE DEAD, presented by Rue Morgue and the Toronto Zombie Walk. Shot on location in Africa and in the tradition of George A. Romero, The Dead has been called “Night of the Living Dead reimagined as a Sergio Leone western. A knockout!” by The Village Voice.
One night only! Classic trailers! Killer prizes!
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The folks behind the Classic Horror Campaign, including Rue Morgue’s own Richard Gladman, are taking over the Rock Inn in Brighton, England this Saturday to bring you eight solid hours of horror movies, book signings, giveaways, and all the things that make pubs such wonderful places to be. This weekend’s event, aptly dubbed Frighten Brighton, will feature a triple-bill of fright films, starting with a 2pm screening of 1974′s Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (directed with style by the great Terence Fisher),with a specially-recorded intro by Hammer Horror star Shane Briant…
Cult film DVD/Blu-ray distributor Severin Films has teamed with France’s Metaluna productions to create The Theatre Bizarre, a horror anthology film which will feature Grand Guignol-inspired shorts from the likes of directors Douglas Buck (Cutting Moments), Buddy Giovinazzo (Combat Shock), David Gregory, Karim Hussain (Subconscious Cruelty), Tom Savini (Night of the Living Dead remake) & Richard Stanley (Dust Devil).
You know zombies are mainstream when you can write about them in school. Rue Morgue caught up with Toronto-based academic Andrea Subissati to discuss her newly-published book When There’s No More Room In Hell: The Sociology of the Living Dead, which formed the basis of her Carleton University MA thesis.
Thirty-two years ago this week, a certain little indie film called Halloween was first released to theatres. Making its premiere in Kansas City on October 25th, 1978, John Carpenter’s low-budget tale of a homicidal maniac who escapes from a psychiatric institution and returns to his hometown where he stalks a trio of teenaged girls would go on to break box-office records and become one of horrordom’s most iconic films. So, to celebrate the film’s 32nd birthday, here’s a look at some of the collectibles Halloween and its sequels have inspired.
Artist Chet Zar has a fiend-tastic new print for sale. Entitled “Night” This special collectors edition is signed and numbered by the artist and would make a great gift to your recently deceased.
Printed on velvet fine art paper, it’s a limited edition of 100.
It’s actually very frustrating when one re-watches a film’s credits, purposely to find the name of the composer responsible for the eerie music, only to find no composer credit whatsoever.
Who wrote the music? Where did it come from? Did someone muck up the credit list?
In the case of Night of the Living Dead (1968), it’s been known for years that George Romero used stock or library music, which gave the film a very weird sense of watching some lost black & white classic, but without the heavy-handed bombast associated with giant bugs, or a Day-Glo Lon Chaney Jr.
Five years ago I had the pleasure of meeting Heather Gillies at the Festival of Fear. The Ontario artist’s collection of cute but creepy clown dolls was bizarre, but I had to have one. Now she’s back in the Artist Alley, peddling her wicked wares.
On the eve of his new zombie film Survival of the Dead hitting theatres (briefly) before its Aug. 31 debut on DVD and Blu-ray, we caught up with horror legend George A. Romero (does he need an introduction?) to discuss his new projects, get his thoughts on remakes and dispel a few rumours.
Night of the Living Dead: Reanimated, an animated remix of George Romero’s zombie classic, will be screening July 22nd at the Toronto Underground City. Price of admission is a DVD, all to be donated to the Toronto Public Library.
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