Sure, there were FX in the 1956 sci-fi film "Invasion of the Body Snatchers." But director Don Siegel 's Cold War classic was more about paranoia than spaceships or tentacled beings.
Earlier this year, FANGORIA offered up ten of our top recommendations from the 2015 festival circuit to look out for in 2016. Fortunately, half of those fright films were either released or picked up for distribution and might just be available before the year is out.
From Greta Garbo to Renee Zellweger, are our reactions to Hollywood's most famous faces determined by evolution? Robbie Collin writes. I'm sorry to do this to you, but I want you to picture the face of former US presidential hopeful Ted Cruz.
The latest batch of new and notable movies now available for streaming seem to be centered on crimes, or acts of violence or trespass, yet each of these 12 films explore the subject in unique and distinctive ways. One director uses violence to elicit fear in one movie and heartbreak in another.
Director Tim Burton sank his hands and feet into the cement at the TCL Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Thursday, marking a genre-bending resume which has straddled stop-motion, action fantasy and ghoulish horror. The 58-year-old was recognized for a career spanning three decades which has seen him Oscar-nominated for animated features "Corpse Bride" and "Frankenweenie" and garlanded with numerous other awards for his ecletic ouevre.
Writer/director and world class cineaste Tom Holland is no stranger to genre fans. Holland is the writer of celebrated films like Psycho II, The Beast Within and the writer/director of Fright Night, Child's Play and the ace Stephen King adaptations Thinner and The Langoliers .
We'll soon find out if The Disappointments Room is another hit for D.J. Caruso , but in the meantime here's a sneak peek clip to help you decide if it's a chamber you want to enter. The Caruso-directed psychological thriller stars Underworld 's Kate Beckinsale, Lucas Till, Mel Raido, and Gerald McRaney.
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Opening tomorrow in theaters Nationwide from Relativity Studios is director D.J. Caruso's haunted kids movie The Disappointments Room , a wrenching domestic Gothic horror movie starring Underworld 's Kate Beckinsale and written by former Prison Break star-turned-writer Wentworth Miller, whose 2013 chiller Stoker was one of the best horror films of that year. Dana and her husband Dave are trying to save their ailing marriage and move, with their son Jeremy, into a dilapidated country manor near an aging Eastern seaboard town.