Horror: ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’ Trailer (YARM~ but done by Del Toro!)
MiM readers know the original scared the living crxp out of me as a kid on the ABC 4:30 movie after school…I briefly had it posted here til the copyright police came :0( But seeing the rubber looking creatures rid me of the TERROR the memories of the film still induced…it looks like Guillermo has decided I have had enough sleep and need to be Afraid of the Dark…again..
The USA trailer for the reairing of the original~ poor Kim Darby no one, not even her husband (Ellery Queen! Jim Hudson!) would believe her…
Horror YARM: ‘Let Me In’ trailer (‘Let the Right One In’ remake)
Surely one of the fastest YARMs evah~ (Yet Another ReMake)..looks good I am glad to say! h/t DigitalSpy
…a little Swedish vamp flick called Let The Right One In (we thought it was absolutely brilliant) is getting redone for US audiences. Chloe Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee stand in for Lina Leandersson and Kåre Hedebrant in Let Me In, directed by Matt Reeves and due out in cinemas this October. Click ‘play’ below to watch the teaser trailer.
A Nightmare on Elm Street reviews…
Ouch. First Spill:
Then the NYPost, Kyle Smith:
…To the audience suckered into paying to see this, here’s why your generation sucks. A book for first-graders by Carl Reiner was called “Tell Me a Scary Story, But Not Too Scary.” Young adults going to this movie are, mentally, first-graders with a higher tolerance for gore.
Going in, you know the story and pretty much what’s going to happen in every scene (Freddy is going to pop up in varying settings). A girl gets in the bathtub and everyone waits for the finger-knives to appear so they can issue a properly prepared-for shriek. That’s pretend scared.
Now that there have been eight Freddy movies, 12 Jasons and 10 Halloweens, it might be time to declare that kids like to see the same stuff over and over. (When Generation X sat through all this, at least it was new, or new-ish.) But just as you can’t tickle yourself, you can’t really be scared unless you honestly don’t know what’s next. Teens are so uncertain all the time that they crave movies where everything is as pre-arranged as soccer practice. When you start to notice that full-on predictability has become unpleasant to watch, you might just have arrived at the moment of your moviegoing maturity.
Though Freddy is basically the same guy as in the 1984 original, his back story is different. For a few minutes the movie threatens to become interesting — then retreats. (Mild spoilers follow.)…
Horror YARM: “The Howling:Reborn”
I remember Dee Wallace Stone’s little furry upturned nose at the end of the original. Wonder how Andrea Mitchell would look turning into a werewolf? She has the personality for it, lol. This YARM is set for release next Halloween.
Indie producers Joel Kastelberg and Moonstone Entertainment’s Etchie Stroh are re-launching the werewolf franchise as “The Howling: Reborn.” Former studio marketing exec Joe Nimziki, who worked at New Line, MGM and Sony, will make his feature directorial debut from his own script.
Pic’s due to start shooting in February for a Halloween release, with plot details under wraps.
The original “Howling,” directed by Joe Dante from a script by John Sayles, was released in 1981 and spawned six sequels. Dee Wallace-Stone starred as a news anchor stalked by a serial killer who turns out to be a werewolf.
Steve Lane and Bob Pringle, who served as exec producers on the original, will also exec produce “The Howling: Reborn.”…
*Original Howling trailer courtesy of smattbq1973
Trick ‘r Treat screening – Q&A with Michael Dougherty: why is Hollywood afraid to produce original films? Plus Sneak Peek of Trick ‘r Treat!
Courtesy of WeaverFilms
Q/A Part II and 9 minute sneak peek of TRT after the break:
Update: SciFiWire’s Todd Gilchrist slaughters Zombie’s sequel in review…Halloween 2 review roundup…
Update: WOW! Todd Gilchrist’s review on SciFiWire is as brutal as Zombie’s gore splashed grunting kill scenes:
Comparing Halloween to Halloween II is a little bit like debating the comparative value of two bowel movements. Both are equally worthless, but the first was excruciating while the second just uncomfortable—although it’s unclear whether there’s an actual difference, or you were simply prepared for the pain after having gone through the experience once already.
That said, Halloween II is in fact better than its predecessor, which means that the series went from abominable to merely unwatchable, and which means that “fans” of the 2007 reboot may indeed enjoy it. But anyone uninitiated with Rob Zombie’s brand of grainy hillbilly brutality would be better served by eating a bran muffin and steering clear of this particular horror film, because it’s a compliment to call it a piece of crap…(go read the whole thing!)
This line from the review perfectly encapsulates what I find lacking in the GROSS factor horror today found in Saw, Hostel, and Zombie’s remakes of classic Carpenter:
…But it’s also a sure sign of desperation that the only moment in which the writer-director really references Carpenter’s films is in the final scene, when he uses the original’s familiar piano refrain to emphasize a character’s deteriorating sanity, and unfortunately, underscore the difference between jarring shock-exploitation and genuinely disturbing suspense: no matter how graphically one can depict a scene of violence, its impact will never compare to the lasting effect of an image, much less an entire film, in which a palpable mood is created and then successfully communicated to its audience….
These are spoiler free…
Courtesy of MutantvillePlayers
Courtesy of RandBreviews
The reviews consistently dislike the Zombie take on Dr Loomis in H2….Zombie seems to deliberately make the audience dislike the characters…is this supposed to make us develop a sympathy for Michael b/c everyone else is so awful? dunno….
Moderate in the Middle 