This week is all about mashups and hybrid genre fare, with Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter receiving a wide theatrical release and a crop of low-budget direct-to-video …
Drive a truck through a graveyard over the zombies.
Hot off the press, we’ve got a first look at a trailer for Ethan Hawke’s Sinister (opening October 5) that looks promising and a second trailer for Resident Evil: Retribution (opening September 14) that shows a lot more of the over-the-top spectacle entailed in the latest entry in the video game-based franchise.
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Fans of slasher movies might not be able to peel their eyes off of the screen long enough to read too many books, but if they can, The Slasher Movie Book is well worth the effort. Packed to the gills with vivid full-color photos and often obscure poster artwork, it’s a small paperback coffee table book that traces the development of the violent subgenre from the exhibitionism of the 19th century French Grand Guignol theater to the German crime (krimi) thrillers of the ’60s, the Italian giallo mysteries of the ’60s and ’70s, the “golden age” of slashers during the late ’70s and early ’80s and the current glut of sequels and remakes.
Fans of slasher movies might not be able to peel their eyes off of the screen long enough to read too many books, but if they can, The Slasher Movie Book is well worth the effort. Packed to the gills with vivid full-color photos and often obscure poster artwork, it’s a small paperback coffee table book that traces the development of the violent subgenre from the exhibitionism of the 19th century French Grand Guignol theater to the German crime (krimi) thrillers of the ’60s, the Italian giallo mysteries of the ’60s and ’70s, the “golden age” of slashers during the late ’70s and early ’80s and the current glut of sequels and remakes.
Fans of slasher movies might not be able to peel their eyes off of the screen long enough to read too many books, but if they can, The Slasher Movie Book is well worth the effort. Packed to the gills with vivid full-color photos and often obscure poster artwork, it’s a small paperback coffee table book that traces the development of the violent subgenre from the exhibitionism of the 19th century French Grand Guignol theater to the German crime (krimi) thrillers of the ’60s, the Italian giallo mysteries of the ’60s and ’70s, the “golden age” of slashers during the late ’70s and early ’80s and the current glut of sequels and remakes.
When World War Z was announced, it seemed like must-see fare, but expectations seem to be slipping by the week. First, it was declared that the big-screen adaptation of the Max Brooks novel about a global human-zombie war -- seemingly edgy fare -- would get the dreaded PG-13 treatment. Then, its release date was bumped back six months, from December 2012 to June 2013. And just this past week, Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof, riding high off the success of his script for Prometheus, was hired to rewrite portions of World War Z...
Two sizable stars have been added (or are close to being added) to a pair of eagerly anticipated upcoming TV shows:
Missing the Saw movies? Well, the producers of that franchise have returned with the small-scale feature The Tortured, which turns the tables on the typical “torture porn” scenario. Starring Erika Christensen and Jesse Metcalfe as grieving parents seeking vengeance for the death of their young son, the film gets a limited theatrical release this Friday. Read about it in my review of The Tortured.
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