Archive for July, 2015
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July 17, 2015
British actor Aubrey Morris, best known for playing probation officer Mr Deltoid in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange, has died aged 89. He also had roles in cult horror film The Wicker Man, Lisztomania and Woody Allen comedy Love and Death during his five decade career. Morris played the gravedigger in Robin Hardy's 1973 film The Wicker Man, which starred Edward Woodward and Sir Christopher Lee.
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July 17, 2015
Teddy Tahu Rhodes and Antoinette Halloran have a history of violence. The last time they shared a stage, in 2009, it was in Bruce Beresford's production of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire , as Stanley and Stella.
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July 16, 2015
Early in his career, Lance Henriksen worked for six months with influential French filmmaker Francois Truffaut when both men acted in director Steven Spielberg's classic 1977 sci-fi fantasy "Close Encounters of the Third Kind." Henriksen played Robert, assistant to Truffaut's inquisitive French scientist Dr. Lacombe.
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July 16, 2015
Janet Leigh's screams in the famous shower scene from the film "Psycho" are often cited as the most frightening put on the silver screen. The 1960 film was directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
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July 16, 2015
Whose screams rise the hairs on the back of your neck? Janet Leigh's famous shower screech in "Psycho?" One of the many her daughter Jamie Lee Curtis belted out in the "Halloween" films? Or maybe you prefer Danielle Harris' versions? A new study says one thing's for sure: the vocalizations of all these scream queens scare us because they target a special acoustic "sweet spot" in our brain, designed to snap us to attention to possible danger. "If you ask a person on the street what's special about screams, they'll say that they're loud or have a higher pitch," said senior author David Poeppel, professor of psychology and neural science at New York University.
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July 16, 2015
If having the pants scared off you seems like a sexy proposition, get ready for your nightmarish dreams to come true. On Saturday Burlesque Nouveau will present The Dark Side of Burlesque , a terrifying tease show in which a bevy of talented performers pay tribute to the macabre with nods to Silence of the Lambs , The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and more horror classics that go "bump-bump" in the night.
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July 16, 2015
Everyone knows that 2015 is the year that Marty McFly and Doc Brown journey to in Back to the Future Part II . While we may not have hoverboards or Jaws 19 , we are getting a new 30th anniversary Blu-ray and DVD release of the Back to the Future trilogy, which isn't a bad consolation prize.
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July 16, 2015
Two new posters for ALLELUIA! THE DEVIL'S CARNIVAL have just been released, and you can check them out below! The musical-horror film directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and staring David Hasselhoff , Emilie Autumn, Paul Sorvino , Adam Pascal , Ted Neeley , and Barry Bostwick , among many more, will kick off a traveling circus tour with its premiere in Los Angeles on August 11th before continuing in cities across the U.S. and Canada throughout the fall. After triumphant collaborations on 2008's Repo! The Genetic Opera and 2012's The Devil 's Carnival: Episode One, cult filmmakers Darren Lynn Bousman and Terrance Zdunich are back with the second installment to their fantasy-musical film franchise.
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July 16, 2015
Bruce Campbell and Lucy Lawless talk to Hero Complex editor Meredith Woerner about their new Starz series "Ash vs. Evil Dead." Bruce Campbell and Lucy Lawless talk to Hero Complex editor Meredith Woerner about their new Starz series "Ash vs. Evil Dead."
