Film fans in Nottingham have voted the music from the shower scene in Psycho as the scariest sound in movie history. and Jack Nicholson's chilling "Here's Johnny" line in The Shining to take first place in a poll of customers by hearing specialists Amplifon.
Eighty-three years ago in 1933, a small horror movie about a large ape came into the world and stole our hearts. A poor, abnormally large ape named Kong falls in love with a teeny, tiny human woman and the whole film is his quest to posses her.
Remember how let down you felt when The Blair Witch Project never even showed a witch? That "What, that's it?" feeling you had after the shot of the dude peeing up against the wall, having never really seen anything scary in the film, unless you count Heather Donahue's snot and twigs as really scary? The Witch , the Sundance award-winning directorial debut - and total masterpiece - from Robert Eggers, who also wrote the script, actually has a witch in it. She makes her first appearance very early on in the film, and she's doing a bad thing.
How could any operatic adaptation of The Shining eradicate memories of those iconic Stanley Kubrick film moments when Jack Nicholson is breaking down the door to kill his terrified wife and psychic son? The question was posed somewhat pointedly on Tuesday at the National Opera America Center, when the Minnesota Opera presented a media preview of one of the most curiously awaited operas in years - The Shining - with premiere performances in Minneapolis on May 7 to 15. The answer was simple: The opera is based not on the 1980 film, but on Stephen King's 1977 novel. Obviously, the story of a writer going crazy in a closed-for-the-winter resort has the kind of atmosphere and psychology for which opera was made.
Oliver Queen may have been in a happy place when this fourth season of Arrow began, but he reached another low point this week. His son was kidnapped by a villain that Ollie has repeatedly failed to take down over the past few months.
Starring: Vincent Price as Dr. Malcolm Wells Agnes Moorhead as Cornelia van Gorder Gavin Gordon as Lt. Andy Anderson John Sutton as Warner Lenita Lane as Lizzie Allen Elaine Edwards as Dale Bailey Darla Hood as Judy Hollander John Bryant as Mark Fleming Mike Steele as Victor Fleming Famed mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder gets more than she bargained for after renting The Oaks estate for the summer.
Well that was awkward! Colbert has the interview from hell after insulting Casey Affleck for being scruffy and getting the name of his new movie wrong What's so funny about an extremely distinguished dead judge, Mr President? Fury at Obama's gloating joke about replacing Justice Scalia on the Supreme Court that had a room full of governors laughing Clinton faces being subpoenaed for her entire secret email account as judge asks if she was trying to subvert the law Oklahoma teen laughed as he told cops how he and his brother killed their parents and three siblings, recorded it all and planned to become serial killers China is setting up radars on its man-made islands 'which will help establish control over sea and air space throughout the disputed region' High turn out causes chaos at Nevada caucuses: Voters flood polling stations amid claims of ballot shortages and 'double voting' as ... (more)
With Dimension Films having lost the "Halloween" franchise rights, where does the pale faced Michael Myers go next? To television it seems. Fangoria has posted a new rumor which suggests a potential "Halloween" limited event series is in early development as producer Malek Akkad and new rights holders Trancas International Pictures try to work out how best to exploit the property which has stumbled in its last few cinematic outings.
With only two months until Texas Frightmare Weekend strikes fear in the heart of the Dallas Area, the updates are looking to come fast and frightfully over the next several weeks.