Archive for July, 2010
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July 25, 2010
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While vampire fever has struck the US over the past two years, with Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries striking a chord with viewers, overseas another genre TV show has become something of a phenomenon. Being Human is a British show that began airing a few months after True Blood and the first Twilight movie debuted and tells the story of a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost living together in the same house, desperately trying to, well, be human.
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July 24, 2010
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July 23, 2010
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Saw 3D news has exploded this week, with a new poster, photo and release date and word that it will be the last in the franchise. Now, we finally get our first look at the trailer, which looks like it delivers what fans love: traps, traps and more traps (reportedly almost twice as many as any other entry in the series). Looks like Jigsaw and company are going out with a bang. And a squish. And a splurt. And a gush. And an ewwww…
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July 23, 2010
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Saw 3D news has exploded this week, with a new poster, photo and release date and word that it will be the last in the franchise. Now, we finally get our first look at the trailer, which looks like it delivers what fans love: traps, traps and more traps (reportedly almost twice as many as any other entry in the series). Looks like Jigsaw and company are going out with a bang. And a squish. And a splurt. And a gush. And an ewwww…
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July 22, 2010
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Although there previously had been reports of the storyline for the Saw franchise continuing into an eighth film, it appears now that the upcoming Saw 3D -- the seventh in the series -- will be the last. USA Today is reporting that the official announcement will come tomorrow at Comic-Con.
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July 22, 2010
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IFC Entertainment has scored another excellent foreign genre film with Exam, a riveting British thriller about a group of applicants for a prestigious job who are subjected to an unusual test to decide who gets it. Read about in my review of Exam, which will be available through IFC on demand starting this Friday, July 23.
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July 20, 2010
Photo: Dimas Ardian
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With the trailer for Sharktopus being released a few days ago and word coming down that SyFy is using fan input to build an upcoming movie, I got to thinking about some other hybrid creatures that could — and I dare say should — be featured in upcoming SyFy films. Yeah, that’s right; it’s a narangutan. Half orangutan, half narwhal. Ka-ching!
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July 20, 2010
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Daniel Radcliffe’s post-Harry Potter career looks like it will be starting in the horror realm. He’s signed on to star in Woman in Black, an upcoming 3-D remake of a 1989 British made-for-TV movie. Based on a novel by Susan Hill, the story follows a young lawyer (Radcliffe) who travels to a small town to settle the estate of a recently deceased widow, only to encounter a ghostly “woman in black” whom the townspeople are hesitant to discuss.
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July 18, 2010
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While Jeremy London is off getting “party kidnapped,” his twin brother Jason is filming direct-to-video horror movies like Sutures, the story of a group of kids partying in the middle of nowhere — stop me if you’ve heard this before — who are stalked by a killer. This time, though, there’s a whole black market organ harvesting angle, so it’s not quite as generic as it initially seems. Read about it in my review of Sutures.
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