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Taylor Lautner returns for New Moon
7 January 2009 7:07 PM, PST
According to The Hollywood Reporter, young actor Taylor Lautner (pictured) has been signed to reprise his role of werewolf Jacob Black in New Moon. Summit Entertainment is fast-tracking the sequel to its vampire hit Twilight for release next November.
The Jacob casting issue had been a hot one for on-line fans of Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight book franchise, some of whom believed Lautner to be too slightly built to play Jacob in New Moon; in the novel, the lycanthropic character bulks up and enters into a romantic relationship with teen heroine Bella. “The characters in Stephenie’s books go through extraordinary changes of circumstance and also appearance,” director Chris Weitz wrote on Meyer’s website, “so it is not surprising that there has been speculation about whether the same actor would portray a character who changes in so many surprising ways throughout the series. But it was my first instinct that Taylor was,
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Bella Morte: Beautiful Death (Musick Review)
7 January 2009 6:50 PM, PST
Bella Morte has become a solid fixture in the Gothic rock genre as one of the new touring and writing monsters of our subculture, creating solid, hard-hitting sounds that are unapologetic, at times brash and at others deeply inspirational. Their unique mix of Electronic, Goth, Deathrock, Punk and Metal make for a bittersweet and heavy blend of tracks that entrances people from multiple genres. Always attempting to adapt their style and never be stagnant, the act recently released Beautiful Death, an intriguing and deep new album that hearkens back to their more romantic and traditional Gothic rock roots.
Beautiful Death opens with the bands latest single for Metropolis records, "Find Forever Gone". Andy shows a softer and deeper side to his lyrical repertoire in this very slow and beautiful gothic dance track. "Can't Let This Die" opens with a slow electronic melody and then pulls you in for the killing riff,
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Exclusive Clip from Just Buried
7 January 2009 6:00 PM, PST
With Chaz Thorne's award-winning horror/comedy Just Buried (see Fearful Feature here) getting ready to arrive on DVD later this month, Fango just snagged the first in a series of exclusive clips from the film, which stars Rose Byrne (28 Weeks Later) and Jay Baruchel (Knocked Up, Tropic Thunder).
Synopsis: "Oliver (Jay Baruchel) is destined for an uneventful life until the day he and his brother Jackie breeze into town to attend the funeral of their estranged father. To everyone's bewilderment, Oliver inherits his father's estate - a funeral home.
Oliver learns from the handyman Henry (Graham Greene) that the home is on the verge of bankruptcy. That night, his life gets increasingly complicated when he takes a drunken drive with the bewitching embalmer Roberta (Rose Byrne) and collides with a hiker.
Roberta cleverly disguises the fatality as an accident, providing Oliver with his first paying customer and launching the
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His Name Was Jason (DVD Review)
7 January 2009 12:28 PM, PST
Sometimes you wanna go where you know everybody’s name. For diehard fans, that’s the fun of revisiting Friday The 13th. Even if you’ve heard or read some of the stories contained in His Name Was Jason at conventions, in books like Peter Bracke’s Crystal Lake Memories and the documentaries, etc. included on the 2004 Friday DVD box, there’s still a weird lust for some of us to search for undiscovered livers and gizzards in the franchise’s body.
On the other corkscrewed hand, those who haven’t had the chance to check out the books and documentaries are in for a serious treat with His Name, out February 3 in a double-dvd set from Anchor Bay (Pre-Order Here). Director Dan Farrands (screenwriter of The Girl Next Door and Halloween: The Curse Of Michael Myers) and writer/producers Anthony Masi (who explored another archetypal slasher with Halloween: 25 Years Of Terror
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Perkins’ 14 Horrorfest NYC autograph signing
7 January 2009 12:17 PM, PST
One of the most intriguing entries the third annual After Dark Horrorfest, running January 9-15 at theaters nationwide, looks to be Perkins’ 14. The nature of its inception—it was born out of an on-line competition in which horror fans submitted their own pitches, voted for cast members and even designed the poster—has made the film eagerly anticipated by the fear community.
Those who attend the 6 p.m. screening this Sunday, January 11 at New York City’s AMC Loews Village 7 (66 3rd Avenue at 11th Street) will get a chance to meet the cast and one of the creators in person. An autograph signing accompanying this show will feature director Craig Singer (helmer of the first Horrorfest’s Dark Ride) and actors Michale Graves, Mihaela Milhut, Gregory O’Connor, Patrick O’Kane, C.J. Singer and Torri Singer. In addition to this and the other previously scheduled showtimes, Singer let us
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Exclusive trailer, photo: ghost movie The Beacon
7 January 2009 10:50 AM, PST
Producer Sally Helppie and writer/director Michael Stokes gave Fango an exclusive trailer and first photo from their new fright feature The Beacon; check ’em both out below. It’s the second feature from Helppie’s Texas-based Sabbatical Pictures, which previously made the Stokes-scripted violent actioner Exit Speed (coming on Peace Arch DVD March 3).
The Beacon stars Teri Polo (also soon to be seen in Joe Dante’s The Hole) and David Rees Snell as Bryn and Paul Shaw, who are trying to put their life back together following the death of their child. After they move into the Beacon Apartments, Bryn starts experiencing visions of a little boy who died there, and comes to believe that freeing his spirit will allow her to contact her own dead son through him. “I love mayhem movies like Exit Speed,” Stokes tells Fango, “but The Beacon is intentionally old-school, with a character-driven story,
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The Unborn (Film Review)
7 January 2009 7:49 AM, PST
Coming as it does at the end of an awards-film season full of Holocaust dramas, The Unborn’s release seems appropriately timed. Writer/director David S. Goyer’s entry in the possession-film stakes eschews the subgenre’s usual Catholic trappings in favor of a demon with its roots in both Jewish mythology and the WWII persecution of that religion.
Not that it demonstrates a particular sensitivity toward the subject; a line like “It has fallen to you to finish what began at Auschwitz” can’t help but give a viewer pause no matter what the context. And in the end, the Jewish elements are just window dressing on a film stocked with well-worn horror conventions, yet one that behaves like it’s the very first movie to feature a creepy kid, an elder in a nursing home who must be consulted for crucial dark information and a teenaged girl slowly
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Boom! Studios & MySpace offer Hexed #1 for Free
6 January 2009 11:01 PM, PST
Hitting comic shops today from Boom! Studios is their new series Hexed (see full list of this week's horror comics here). It's also hitting MySpace Comic Books, where you can read the entire issue for free in a "try-before-you-buy" promotion that begins at 11am Pst. Want more details? Check out the info, and a video from Mark Waid after the cut.
Hexed Details:
"It's said there's no honor amongst thieves. Add to that a thief operating in the occult underground, and it's a whole different kind of nasty! Luci Jennifer Inagcio Das Neves, Lucifer for short, takes a new job that will expose her to the macabre underbelly of the city, and a secret that she'd rather nobody know. A brand new series by Michael Alan Nelson, the critically acclaimed author of Fall Of Cthulhu, hot new art talent Emma Rios and colorist Cris Peters! Available with two covers by Emma Rios and Joe Pekar.
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Sideshow Collectibles Win The Dead Winners!
6 January 2009 10:12 PM, PST
Fangoria is proud to announce the winners of the Sideshow Collectibles Win The Dead contest! For those playing along at home, the correct answer to the question was Zombiegeddon!
Thanks to everyone who entered, we got some great responses (and some really whacked ones as well!). And now, can I get a drum roll please...
Winner #1
"I am a Huge fan of your mag, and I collect horror action figures so this would be freaking awesome. Please pic me :)
As always, More Brains!!!!!!!!!!!"
Pedro Zabala of North Carolina
Winner #2
"My God, these would make my horror room and collection complete!
Thanks for such an amazing opportunity."
Tony Carroll of Kentucky
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Black Light Burns: Cover Your Heart/The Anvil Pants Odyssey (Musick Review)
6 January 2009 10:00 PM, PST
On Monday, Fangoria Musick Welcomed new staffer Doctor Raven to the crew. In his first review he took a listen to the new album from Combichrist (see review here). For his second helping, he enters the sonic realm of Combichrist's current tourmates, Black Light Burns.
Wes Borland of Limp Bizkit fame left the former “Rap-Metal” act in 2001 to begin working on solo projects that wouldn’t limit his own personal creative outlets. Having reported to have always been a fan of darker alternative rock music, he set out early on with the act Big Dumb Face. Having toured with Trent Reznor, Marylin Manson and The Crystal Method on various projects, Borland now creates his own brand of dark Industrial under the name Black Light Burns. 2007 saw the release of their first album, entitled Cruel Melody. Cover Your Heart is their 2008 disc, featuring cover interpretations of some of Gothic rock and pop’s signature songs,
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Send your beloved a Bloody Valentine
6 January 2009 5:34 PM, PST
Valentine’s Day is over a month away, but Lionsgate’s release of My Bloody Valentine 3D is just around the corner on Friday, January 16 (with special early showings the night before). So the folks behind the film (which we review here) are offering a way to, uh, touch the heart of someone you love.
Check out the movie’s YouTube page here to send a personalized My Bloody Valentine 3D greeting to that special person. You can also find a couple of trailers (including the one seen below) there; the film’s official website can be seen here. Check out Fango #280, on sale this month, for a set-visit article on My Bloody Valentine 3D.
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Release updates on Mutant Chronicles and Splice
6 January 2009 3:26 PM, PST
Fango got the word that Magnolia Pictures has picked up the U.S. rights to Mutant Chronicles, the grisly sci-fi action-thriller based on the popular role-playing game. The film will be distributed under Magnolia’s genre-centric Magnet banner.
Mutant Chronicles will first appear as a video-on-demand title from Magnolia parent the Wagner/Cuban Company’s Ultra VOD service, premiering Friday, March 27. It’ll then receive limited theatrical release on April 24; as we reported here, the movie will have its broadcast premiere on the Sci Fi Channel later this spring. Dead Of Night’s Simon Hunter directed from a script by Event Horizon’s Philip Eisner, with The Mist’s Thomas Jane (pictured), Hellboy’s Ron Perlman, Devon Aoki and John Malkovich starring. “Mutant Chronicles is a blast,” says Magnolia president Eamonn Bowles. “It’s an action-packed thriller with a dynamite cast and very impressive production values. We’re thrilled to
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First photos, comments on Last House remake
6 January 2009 2:56 PM, PST
Rogue Pictures and Universal have released early images from The Last House On The Left, the remake of writer/director Wes Craven and producer Sean S. Cunningham’s classic 1972 shocker, and we also got ahold of a messy gore shot; you can see them below the cut. Craven and Cunningham are among the producing team on the new feature, which has yet to be assigned an official release date.
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Directed by Greek filmmaker Dennis Iliadis
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Exclusive first look: New Autopsy trailer!
6 January 2009 1:16 PM, PST
After Dark Films gave Fango an exclusive sneak peek at the latest trailer for Autopsy, one of the 8 Films to Die For in its 2009 Horrorfest. The frightful festival runs for a week at theaters nationwide starting this Friday, January 9.
The directorial debut of Adam Gierasch, who scripted it with his Mother Of Tears/Toolbox Murders writing partner Jace Anderson and Mortuary’s E.L. Katz, Autopsy is about a group of young people who get into an auto accident and wind up in a hospital of horrors (where the staff includes Terminator 2 veterans Robert Patrick and Jenette Goldstein, pictured below with Ashley Schneider). Check out the After Dark site linked above for theaters and other Horrorfest info, and see Fango #279, on sale now, for exclusive previews of Autopsy and others of the 8 Films.
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Exclusive pics: Movie-within-the-midnight Movie
6 January 2009 11:50 AM, PST
As Jack Messitt’s Midnight Movie hits DVD today via Peace Arch Entertainment, the director has passed on some exclusive images from the movie-within-the-movie, The Dark Beneath. Check ’em out below the cut!
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The Dark Beneath is the faux feature directed by and starring Midnight Movie’s villain Ted Radford, who comes alive and emerges from the screen to claim new victims when Beneath is screened as a late-night attraction. You can find out more about it here, and check out Midnight Movie’s official website
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German goremeisters team up!
6 January 2009 11:45 AM, PST
Fango got word from a source who would know that two of the most notorious German genre directors are about to collaborate. Timo Rose (pictured) and Andreas Schnaas will co-direct a movie with the working title of Unrated, set to lens in their home country in March.
No relation to German filmmaker Frank Montag’s Uncut (which recently filmed in NYC), Unrated is described as “an English-language supernatural flick with ghosts, demons and Timo and Andreas’ requisite gore.” Rose’s credits include Barricade, The Fearmakers and the upcoming Beast, while Schnaas has helmed the likes of the Violent Shit flicks, Demonium, Nikos The Impaler and the new Don’T Wake The Dead. We’ll bring you any Unrated updates we find out!
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A book with Bad Taste
6 January 2009 11:41 AM, PST
There have been numerous books published about Peter Jackson’s Lord Of The Rings saga, but Wallflower Press has gone back to Jackson’s roots. The British publisher has issued Bad Taste, a study of the New Zealand filmmaker’s splattery debut feature.
Written by Jim Barratt (ironically, a former member of the gore-averse British Board of Film Classification!), the 144-page paperback is an in-depth look at Bad Taste’s grassroots production and how it became a hit at the Cannes Film Festival and then with fans worldwide, launching both Jackson’s career and a new wave of “splatstick” movies. The book can be ordered from Wallflower’s site here or at other on-line stores.
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Valentine, Hellbound & more signings at CA’s Dark Delicacies
6 January 2009 11:38 AM, PST
Burbank, CA’s horror store Dark Delicacies has announced a strong lineup of genre signings for January. It kicks off this Saturday, Jan. 10 at 2 p.m. with director Tony Randel, scripter Peter Atkins and composer Christopher Young autographing Anchor Bay’s 20th Anniversary Edition of Hellbound: Hellraiser II (see our review here).
The same day and time, Splatterpunk author John Skipp and new writing partner Cody Goodfellow put their pens to copies of their novel Jake’S Wake. Then at 3 p.m. on the 10th, comics faves Steve Niles and Bernie Wrightson sign their graphic novel, Dead, She Said.
Friday, Jan. 16 at 7 p.m. will see a special After Dark Films event, with Autopsy writer/director Adam Gierasch and writer Jace Anderson signing Autopsy posters and more guests from the other movies to be announced. Another one-sheet event, for My Bloody Valentine 3D, follows on Saturday, Jan. 17 at 2 p.m.
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Sonic Unleashed (Video Game Review)
6 January 2009 11:32 AM, PST
Classic video-game characters never die, it seems; they just go to the dark side. Sonic, our favorite speedy blue hedgehog, has embraced his werehog side in the latest of the long-running series.
Sonic Unleashed (available for PlayStation 2 and 3, Xbox 360 and Wii, reviewed here on PS3) begins with a spectacular CG movie of Sonic in outer space battling the evil Dr. Robotnik, I mean Eggman, for control of the fabled Chaos Emeralds. Eggman manages to trap and strip Sonic of his super powers, and he watches helplessly as Eggman uses the Emeralds to fire a beam of energy at an Earthlike planet, breaking apart the seven continents and releasing the Dark Gaia, which he plans to use to control the world.
Sonic finds that he has been exposed to pure Chaos Emerald energy, and as a side effect it has awakened his inner werehog. Eggman sends the spent Emeralds, and Sonic,
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Combichrist: Today We Are All Demons (Musick Review)
5 January 2009 10:56 PM, PST
Andy Laplegua brings us another gem of brutal and punishing synth beats in the new Combichrist release Today We Are All Demons. After the highly successful release of the single “Get Your Body Beat” and their 2007 double-disc set What The F*** Is Wrong With You People?, Combichrist cements themselves as one of the new masters of Industrial rock with their latest release.The aggro-tech act begins 2009 with a whirlwind tour promoting the new album, along with taking on former Imperative Reaction drummer Trevor Friedrich.
Today We Are All Demons opens with the track “No Afterparty”, a recorded series of sound bytes of what I’m sure was a promoter's worst day getting arrested. If you can’t laugh at the situation, you’re taking yourself too seriously. “All Pain is Gone” kicks the teeth in on what promises to be a truly pulse-pounding industrial album. Andy’s passion for his
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