The situation is even worse when a Horror classic becomes a series. It is a truism that the more films you make around the same premise, the fewer fresh ideas come to the table.
One can get to watch the best of world cinema as the 16th Mumbai Film Festival begins on October 14. The MAMI organised film festival will be held from October 14-21 and will include 180 films from 65 countries like Germany, France, Australia, Egypt and Poland. The extravagant festival will be a huge platform that will go on for 192 hours spread over 8 days at 3 venues.
Whether you know her best as Mary, one of the infamous Sanderson Sisters in Hocus Pocus , or as the voice of Peggy Hill on King of the Hill , it's likely you've run across Kathy Najimy's comedic talents more than a few times.
"There are going to be deaths," Stowe told me earlier today while promoting Genzyme's Lights, Camera, Take Action on MS , an education and empowerment campaign for people living with multiple sclerosis . "I wouldn't be surprised if Victoria's one of them."
Norman Reedus, left, and Angus Scrimm are New York City Horror Film Festival's 2014 lifetime achievement award recipients. Norman Reedus of "The Walking Dead" will be honored with a lifetime achievement award at the New York City Horror Film Festival next month.
Based on Lawrence Block's bestselling series of mystery novels, 'A Walk Among the Tombstones' stars Liam Neeson as Matt Scudder, an ex-NYPD cop who now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. Based on the eponymous book by Lawrence Block , A Walk Among The Tombstones follows Matthew Scudder , a former NYC detective who now is an unlicensed private investigator, who "helps" people who don't have anyone to turn to for assistance.
As A Nightmare on Elm Street heads for its 30th anniversary this fall, midnight screenings and other tributes have revived the 1984 classic once again. In the years since its original release, writer-director Wes Craven has alluded to a real-life inspiration called SUNDS, or "sudden unexpected death syndrome."
Our review of this week's Dracula Untold doesn't inspire much hope : "This Dracula Begins -style sword-and-fangs curio plays like someone said, 'What if we took a vampire flick but did a find-and-replace swapping out all that bare-neck sensuality for some video-game ass-kicking?'" But for every genre-entry failure, there are numerous other modern vampire movies that manage to plumb and toy with the creature's mythology in imaginative ways. The breadth of the directors featured in our slideshow -- from French auteur Claire Denis to Germany's Werner Herzog to American mavericks Jim Jarmusch and Francis Ford Coppola -- speaks to the wide variety of voices that have tackled the genre with such ingenuity in recent decades.
One of the more interesting type of film - Horror or otherwise - is what aficionados call the "one room" film. These are movies where the majority of the story takes place in one location; like a hotel room, an apartment, or a house.
