Some people complain Hollywood movies have been dumbed down. If anything, they're getting too intellectual, especially the endless stream of belated sequels to late-20th century hits.
For some viewers, it's haunted houses with creaking doors and menacing apparitions. Others want something more grounded in reality, like a stealthy killer with a large knife.
The forthcoming film was announced in 2015 with Dwayne Johnson starring as the lead character and is intended to be a follow-on from the 70-year-old director's original 1986 movie, which starred Kurt Russell and went on to become a cult classic despite initially disappointing at the box office. Carpenter believes that little respect will be paid to his story and instead the title has been selected so to be a well-known vehicle for Johnson.
Filmmakers Jen Soska, centre, and Sylvia Soska appear on the set of Rabid, their remake of David Cronenberg's classic horror, in Toronto. If there's a book on how to be a female storyteller who's inoffensive to the Hollywood establishment, twin sisters Jen and Sylvia Soska would probably send a chainsaw through it in one of their films.
Ernie Ball is helping us get in the Halloween spirit with this new video featuring ex-Chelsea Grin/Born Of Osiris guitarist, Jason Richardson. Taking the John Carpenter Halloween theme to a whole new level of shred, Richardson's technical proficiency is put on full display here.
Now considered a classic, "The Black Cat" was the first movie to feature Universal's two prized assets, Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, and the studio's excitement was palpable. It's "the monster of 'Frankenstein' plus the monster of 'Dracula,' plus the 'monstrousness' of Edgar Allan Poe," the ads boasted, "all combined by the master makers of screen mysteries to give you the absolute apex in super-shivery."
A man, looking terrified, exhausted, and a little bit crazy, rushes headlong into traffic on a congested highway, screaming at motorists to beware of a coming invasion. "Can't you see?" he screams to the indifferent motorists around him.
To find out, movie-ticketing site Fandango surveyed more than 1,000 movie fans about the films they were most likely watch on October 31, and sent the findings to Business Insider. The top choices might surprise you, since they aren't titles that bring the scares, like Netflix's new hit series " The Haunting of Hill House, " but much tamer fare.
Opera Australia's new account of Brian Howard's 1983 opera Metamorphosis , based on the famous Kafka novella, is stunning. Imaginative, engrossing and beautifully performed, it chillingly portrays the psychological disintegration and alienation of Gregor Samsa and the journey to callous disregard of his once-loving family.