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Hammer Launch YouTube Channel With Free Films, Give Us Early Look At The Quiet Ones | Bleeding Cool Comic Book, Movies and TV News and Rumors

Perhaps the biggest draw will be some full-length films from their back catalogue, now available to stream in full and for free. So far you can chose from The Quatermass Xperiment, The Last Page (aka Man Bait), Captain Kronos, Dick Barton Special Agent and The Man In Black - which has nothing to do with recent Hammer hit The Woman In Black beyond the labels.
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Cool!
 
Review: 'The Apparition' Is A Hauntingly Inept Chiller | The Playlist

In "The Apparition," a profoundly dull and uninteresting horror movie from the usually above-average Joel Silver genre machine Dark Castle (home to things like the crucially underrated "House of Wax" remake and the splatter-fu oddity "Ninja Assassin"), a group of smart aleck grad students unwittingly open a gateway to a vaguely defined supernatural realm and release some kind of ghost… or boogen… or something. And as a horror movie conceit, this one is pretty cool – testing tweedy academia's hubris against the ethereal spookiness of the spiritual unknown. It's just that "The Apparition," which is horrible instead of horrifying, doesn't do anything with the concept. Instead, it's a plodding, undercooked, and old-fashioned (not in a good way, either) chiller that will bore you to tears instead of scare you to death.

With a premise as potentially nifty as the one presented "The Apparition" (it could have been a cool "Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" deal, but updated with today's technological omnipresence, scientific expansion and world-weary cynicism), you think at least some amount of fun could have been wrung out the proceedings. Unfortunately, from about two seconds after the title card flashes and up until its limp, existential finale, "The Apparition" makes no attempts to transcend or even enliven its genre. [D]
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It's unfortunate that these crap horror flicks are constantly the ones getting all the exposure. :(
 
Apparition, The (2012) | Horror Movie, DVD, & Book Reviews, News, Interviews at Dread Central

That's not to say that The Apparition is a total dud; Felton, despite his limited screen time, once again delivers some stellar work, and Lincoln and his DP Daniel C. Pearl (who shot the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre for Tobe Hooper) have crafted a beautiful film that was shot on 35mm, giving The Apparition great depth and vibrancy as well as a nice old-school feel to it that really demonstrates why it would be shame for 35mm to disappear completely.

You just don't see many movies on the big screen anymore that feel like The Apparition does, and that is definitely something to appreciate about Lincoln's approach for his first time at the helm.

There are also a few clever moments in The Apparition that demonstrate Lincoln had some engaging ideas as a storyteller; nothing I'd want to give away because they venture into spoiler territory so all I will say is that he managed to cook up a surprise or two in the third act that were rather surprising even for me and made clothes hangers scary again (and definitely not in a Mommie Dearest way either).

But as a whole The Apparition is clearly a film meant for the teenage date night scene, which is totally fine - those audiences deserve some scares, too - but hardened horror fans should keep that in mind before buying their tickets. The movie isn’t scary and plays it way too safe, making for an underwhelming experience for this horror fan and a film I'd recommend as a rental more so than something worth plunking down $12-$15 a ticket to see. Mainstream audiences will probably enjoy The Apparition, but I'm looking forward to seeing what Lincoln does his next time at the helm when hopefully he won't have to work within the confines of a PG-13 rating.
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Kinda sad...what could have been.
 
orpheus said:
Dude, that sig creeps me out! :(

I don't like creepy ass clowns, lol! :P
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Game of Thrones star Jason Momoa joins David Hayters Wolves

The musclebound "Game of Thrones" star Jason Momoa has joined David Hayter's upcoming lycanthrophic thriller "Wolves."

The film stars Lucas Till ("X-Men: First Class") as a young, newly-transformed werewolf who flees home for a mysterious small town called Lupine Ridge, where he comes face-to-face with a host of other supernatural elements.

Momoa will play the film's main villain role, an alpha male werewolf who controls the town
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Kingsqueen shall be pleased.
 
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Smiley Heads to AMC Theatres; New Clip and Still Released | Horror Movie, DVD, & Book Reviews, News, Interviews at Dread Central

From the Press Release
AMC Theatres and Fever Productions have announced an exclusive partnership on the national theatrical release of the highly anticipated horror/thriller film SMILEY from director Michael Gallagher (“Totally Sketch”). Beginning October 12th, AMC will exclusively release the film theatrically through its AMC independent platform on 28 screens in 14 markets including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Houston, and Atlanta. The release will also be supported by a marketing campaign from AMC.

SMILEY, co-written by YouTube sensation Gallagher and Glasgow Phillips (“South Park”) and produced by Michael Wormser (Some Guy Who Kills People) of Level 10 Films, has an enormous fan base to call on. Gallagher and his YouTube partners on “Totally Sketch,” as well as the other performers in the film including Shane Dawson (“Shane Dawson’s TV”) and Toby Turner ("The Annoying Orange"), have over 11 million subscribers, 2.2 billion views. and 4 million plus fans on Facebook/Twitter combined. The trailer has accumulated over 15 million views since its debut.

The story of the film follows a mentally fragile college student named Ashley (Caitlin Gerard from Magic Mike and The Social Network) who, after learning of an urban legend in which a mysterious serial killer named “Smiley” can be summoned through the Internet, must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim. SMILEY also stars Melanie Papalia (“Endgame”) and Andrew James Allen (“Make It or Break It”), with Roger Bart (“Desperate Housewives”), Keith David (The Thing), and Liza Weil (“Scandal”) rounding out the cast.



Los Angeles:
AMC Ontario Mills 30; AMC Orange 30; AMC Norwalk 20; AMC Universal Citywalk 19; AMC Burbank Town Ctr. 8
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Yipes, nice mask.
 
The Profane Exhibit: Another Director Added, New Stills from Segments by Stivaletti and Vigalondo | Horror Movie, DVD, & Book Reviews, News, Interviews at Dread Central

From the Press Release:
Ruggero Deodato (Cannibal Holocaust) joins Jos? Mojica Marins (Coffin Joe), Nacho Vigalondo, Ryan Nicholson, Andrey Iskanov, Michael Todd Schneider, Sergio Stivaletti, Marian Dora,Yoshihiro Nishimura, Richard Stanley, and Uwe Boll as directors of segments of The Profane Exhibit with more still to be announced.

Deodato, whose segment is titled "Bridge," is an Italian film director and screenwriter, best known for directing violent and gory horror films. Deodato is infamous for his 1980 film Cannibal Holocaust. This is his return to horror after leaving it in the 80's.

The "Bridge" soundtrack is being done by Killjoy of the death metal band Necrophagia.


The Profane Exhibit is an extreme international horror anthology film that was conceived, written, and produced by David Bond and Manda Manuel. Legendary horror writer Ray Garton wrote the wraparound segment, and Scott Swan (Showtime’s "Masters of Horror") wrote the screenplay. Jeremy Kasten, director of such films as the recent Wizard of Gore remake, serves as the film’s editor.

In addition to the two stills above from "Bridge," below you'll find one image each from from Sergio Stivaletti's "Tophet Quorum" and Nacho Vigalondo's "Sins of the Father," respectively. For more info check out the official The Profane Exhibit Facebook page, and follow them on The Profane Exhibit Twitter feed (@ProfaneExhibit).
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Yeah...click the link for the stills, one of them I should not post here.
 
So weird that I actually know the director of Smiley. He was the youngest of all of us aspiring filmmakers and usually got ribbed the most because of it. We quoted Anchorman a lot.
 
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First Trailer for SIGHTSEERS from KILL LIST Director Ben Wheatley | Collider

The first trailer for Kill List director Ben Wheatley‘s dark comedy Sightseers has gone online, and it’s pretty damn nutty. The film stars Steve Oram and Alice Lowe as a seemingly nice couple who are taking a trip through the British Isles in his Abbey Oxford caravan. As gleaned in the trailer, the journey soon turns into a killing spree/sex romp, the likes of which you’ve probably never seen before. An appropriately creepy use of Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love” plays over this wondrously weird trailer that makes the film look like a really fun ride. Edgar Wright is an executive producer on the pic, and fans of his work should get a kick out of this hilariously strange story.
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Kill List was a mixed bag, especially if you need your movies to have resolution/make sense...this looks a little more clear cut at least.
 
Is Sam Raimi working on a new top-secret horror film? | Blastr

"I'd like to make another horror movie, I'm writing one with my brother right now. I'm really looking forward to it." Of course, they couldn't let him drop a bomb like that without giving some details.

Raimi continued, "I'm beginning to think I should not have said anything because I don't want to start looking at it from the outside and looking at it analytically. So, we're going to keep writing it. It's a very simple story about a character, we're trying to figure out what they want, it's all of the basic stuff—how they come involved with this darker force.There's nothing much to tell [yet], I've got a three-page treatment we're working off of right now."

We can't wait until we know the whole story. We thoroughly enjoyed the underrated Drag Me to Hell and would love to see something else in that vein.
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Doc...are ya getting excited yet?
 
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