Archive for July, 2012
Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
July 31, 2012
© Warner Bros.
With the steady stream of remakes over the past decade-plus, horror movie fans should know by now that nothing is sacred. With that in mind, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that a seemingly untouchable classic like Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining is, in fact, touchable. You can breathe a bit easier, though, in knowing that there’s no plan to actually remake the 1980 Stephen King adaptation (at least, not yet). Rather, according to the LA Times, Warner Brothers is exploring the possibility of making a prequel to The Shining, focusing on “what happened before Jack Torrance…his wife and their psychic son arrived at the haunted retreat where Torrance soon descends into violent madness.”
Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
July 30, 2012
© Detention Films
This week, Detention — one of the best horror/suspense releases of the first half of 2012 — hits home video, along with ATM, the zombie flick Dead Season, the twisty thriller Scalene, a host of Asian re-releases and (sigh) Sand Sharks.
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Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
July 30, 2012
© Toei
Call it "the Hunger Games Effect." An American remake of the 2000 Japanese cult film Battle Royale -- itself based on a 1999 novel by Koushun Takami about high school students forced to fight to the death on a deserted island -- died on the vine following the tragic 2007 Virginia Tech shootings. The original movie wasn't even officially released on home video in the US until earlier this year.
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Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
July 29, 2012
Adelaide Clemens in
Silent Hill: Revelation.
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Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
July 27, 2012
Laurence Fishburne in
Contagion.
Photo: Claudette Barius © Warner Bros.
NBC's Hannibal has just received a big-name bump with the casting of Laurence Fishburne as Jack Crawford, head of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit and boss of agent Will Graham. Crawford was most notably portrayed by Scott Glenn in The Silence of the Lambs, with Dennis Farina and Harvey Keitel also playing him in Manhunter and Red Dragon, respectively.
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Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
July 27, 2012
Laurence Fishburne in
Contagion.
Photo: Claudette Barius © Warner Bros.
NBC’s Hannibal has just received a big-name bump with the casting of Laurence Fishburne as Jack Crawford, head of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit and boss of agent Will Graham. Crawford was most notably portrayed by Scott Glenn in The Silence of the Lambs, with Dennis Farina and Harvey Keitel also playing him in Manhunter and Red Dragon, respectively.
Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
July 27, 2012
Laurence Fishburne in
Contagion.
Photo: Claudette Barius © Warner Bros.
NBC’s Hannibal has just received a big-name bump with the casting of Laurence Fishburne as Jack Crawford, head of the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit and boss of agent Will Graham. Crawford was most notably portrayed by Scott Glenn in The Silence of the Lambs, with Dennis Farina and Harvey Keitel also playing him in Manhunter and Red Dragon, respectively.
Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
July 26, 2012
© The Weinstein Co.
Perhaps due to the desperation that comes from being a perpetual third-place network, NBC is turning into the de facto horror/suspense channel. In addition to Grimm, in the coming year, NBC will be airing updated versions of The Munsters (Mockingbird Lane), Hannibal Lecter (Hannibal) and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde (Do No Harm), and now comes word the peacock network has officially ordered 10 episodes of a Dracula adaptation that has been in the works since early this year.
Posted by About.com Horror & Suspense on
July 26, 2012
Director James Wan and Cary Elwes
on the set of'
Saw.
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