A Christmas Carol
Posted by Horror Movies News on December 10, 2017With Christmas in mind, I figure it's time to take a look at the classics. This week, we're starting off with 'A Christmas Carol' .
With Christmas in mind, I figure it's time to take a look at the classics. This week, we're starting off with 'A Christmas Carol' .
It's the peak holiday shopping season and outside West Edmonton Mall, patrons are squawking and beaking off at each other as they fight for a spot to park. Scott Charlton noticed them in mid-November when leaving the mall after a day of work.
Charlie Sheen sued the National Enquirer and its parent company, America Media Inc., Friday for defamation over Corey Haim rape allegations. According to the Hollywood Reporter , the 52-year-old actor is suing the outlet after it published a story on November 8, that alleged the "Wall Street" star sodomized Haim when he was 13 years old during the shooting of "Lucas," when the two worked on the movie in 1986.
If you had to pick the five most famous words in his filmography, though, they would probably be: "You can't handle the truth." Jack Nicholson uttered that immortal sentence - penned by Aaron Sorkin - in the Oscar-nominated courtroom drama A Few Good Men , which premiered in theaters 25 years ago, on Dec. 9, 1992.
Victorian-era miser Ebenezer Scrooge is taken on a journey of self-discovery in the animated retelling of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol. He's a Christmas character with one of the most famous lines in literature.
Two hit low-budget films that marked the ascension of the "slasher movie" genre -- "Halloween" and "Friday the 13th" -- were built around special dates. So it was only a matter of time before someone came up with a Christmas slasher movie.
Sadly, quite a few longtime celebrity relationships came to an end this year. As 2017 winds down, we're looking back at the romances that just couldn't last.
One of the best of the many geeky developments of the 2010's has been the ongoing restoration of weird, old horror movies for release on Blu-ray. The glut of restorations has helped reshape the history of cult cinema .
Edgar Allen Poe might have had a bleak perspective on this month when describing it in The Raven but if he had been able to foresee this month in the cinema then he certainly would have referred to it as the sweet December. Seriously.