| Some classic horror movies are better than new Hollywood's horror movies | | Posted Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:00:46 AM by Alex Molin | Have you watched new horror movie trailers and than get disappointed from the movie itself? The trailers of "Cabin Fever", "Freddy vs. Jason", "Fear Dot Com" or "28 Days Later" where awesome but the movies were disappointing.
Horror movies reviews and reviewers are missing time after time.  You might find the classic horror movies more thrilling than latest top Hollywood horror productions. Some of the best horror movies are in the popular sub-genre of haunted house movies.
The haunting shouldn't stop in the haunted house and its inhabitants, the best movies are the ones in which you are haunted by the movie itself after it ends.
Here are some classic horror films that stood the test of time.
1928- "The Wind" by Victor Sjostrom'. Psychological terror and images that will stay with you days after you've watched it.
1932 - "The Old Dark House" by James Whale. A witty satire about fatalism with a comic sidw.
1934 - "The Black Cat" by Edgar G. Ulmer. Full of schemes and desires, it's a classic horror parable about the Great War.
1960 - "Psycho" by Hitchcock. The movie that made people swear-off showers and avoid small motels.
1965- "Repulsion" by Roman Polanski. Feministic satire about a lonely, loony and hallucinating heroin.
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| | | Scary movies represent audiences' greatest fears | | Posted Friday, October 27, 2006 7:07:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | In case you missed the constant reminders from our president, we live in a world of terror. Serial killers sing hymns as they are executed. People are tortured in secret prisons. Atrocities are committed against innocent people in Darfur. Occurrences like these are terrifying, but based on the world's love for scary movies, fear is something people actually enjoy and will pay for. "(Scary movies) encapsulate our taboos and forbidden desires," said Amy Leal, a professor of English and textual studies. "They are what we are terrified to face." Kendall Phillips, a professor of rhetorical studies and author of "Projected Fears: Horror Films and American Culture," said our cultural fears are represented in scary movies. This representation was first seen in the "Universal Studios monster movies" with Dracula, Wolfman, Frankenstein and Dr.... | |
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| | | Why I love Halloween words | | Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 7:03:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | I'm not really sure where my fascination with horror movies came from, although I'm sure it had something to do with my brother, who always made me watch "Nightmare on Elm Street" when I was young. Now even my now four year-old nephew seems to be quite the horror movie buff. When The Weekender staff was asked to come up with a list of three to five horror movies that are our favorites, I was, without a doubt, in my element. I thought this could be the only time that I could share not only my love for horror movies, but also my love for everything Halloween. And I'm not just talking about the movie … Halloween is by far my favorite holiday. Ask any of my friends, and I'm sure they'd say it's because I'm "Goth." (For the record, I'm not). But I will admit that right around this time every year, I start my horror movie countdown.... | |
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| | | 'Wicker Man' is a horrible remake | | Posted Sunday, September 10, 2006 5:05:56 PM by Blog57 Team | | "T he Wicker Man" is, like this year's other big horror remake, "The Omen," a reminder of that pre-"Halloween" era when horror movies were about something, and not just exercises in pure, motiveless evil. It's a horror movie couched in anti-communalism, anti-paganism and anti-feminism, a comic nightmare of a world gone horribly wrong. For men. So it was a perfectly clever idea, the hiring of the cinema's leading misogynist, Neil LaBute, to remake the 1973 film about a mysterious island where all the women are strong, the men silent and subservient, and the children, just a tad creepy. It doesn't quite work out, because LaBute ("In the Company of Men") or his studio lost its nerve and couldn't decide whether to make the film ironic, horrific or just a goof.... | |
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| | | For the men, a world gone wrong | | Posted Monday, September 04, 2006 7:20:31 AM by Blog57 Team | | "The Wicker Man" is, like this year's other big horror remake, "The Omen," a reminder of that pre-"Halloween" era when horror movies were about something, and not just exercises in pure, motiveless evil. It's a horror movie couched in anti-communalism, anti-paganism and anti-feminism, a comic nightmare of a world gone horribly wrong. For men. So it was a perfectly clever idea, the hiring of the cinema's leading misogynist, Neil LaBute, to remake the 1973 film about a mysterious island where all the women are strong, the men silent and subservient, and the children, just a tad creepy. It doesn't quite work out, because LaBute ("In the Company of Men") or his studio lost its nerve and couldn't decide whether to make the film ironic, horrific or just a goof. Horror movies are often laugh-out-loud funny.... | |
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| | | Bring back those 50s horror movies | | Posted Friday, August 18, 2006 1:08:15 AM by Blog57 Team | | Those 1950s horror movies were great; even if they all were pretty much the same. Made during the height of the cold war, Earth would be attacked by aliens and the world powers, most notably the United States and the Soviet Union who would take their fingers of their respective nuclear buttons, would all get together to discuss the impending invasion. These meetings would inevitably take place at the United Nations where, with much trepidation the countries would agree to all share their military secrets. In the end, a united Earth would join together to wipe out the intergalactic attackers and the world, usually minus New York City, London and Tokyo, would be saved. Those days, not to mention the optimism of the 50s and the Soviet Union, are long gone. If we?re going to bring these movies back, they?ll have to be changed to reflect the reality of the times.... | |
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| | | Horror film `Pulse' weak | | Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006 3:03:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | Hollywood is so enamored of all things J-horror -- Japanese horror movies -- that it has burned through American remakes of The Ring and The Grudge, and is now scraping the bottom of the sake cup. Pulse is the remake of a 2001 J-horror film that was derivative and pokey even before Hollywood got its hands on it. Horror maven Wes (Scream) Craven was brought in to adapt the script. The minute he figured out that the Japanese title of the film, Kairo, might well translate into ``Watching my wet kimono dry in the morning sun,'' he knew he was in trouble. So what he did to jolt some life into this tale of college kids who have the life sucked out of them after stumbling into a computer program was turn it into a Night of the Internet Dead. It doesn't work.... | |
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| | | Toronto Announces Marvelous Midnight Slate | | Posted Thursday, July 27, 2006 9:01:28 AM by Blog57 Team | | As our regular readers know by now, I'm pretty much a ravenous lunatic when it comes to horror movies. So when a big festival comes out and announces their "Midnight Screening" selections, I get pretty geeked out. (Doubly so when it's a festival I'll actually be attending.) Sundance, SXSW, and even the Philly Film Fest deliver fantastic late-night fare, but Toronto manages to kick some serious genre tail every year. (In 2005 they delivered Evil Aliens, Isolation, District B13 and Hostel; in 2004 it was Dead Birds, Creep, Kontroll, The Machinist and Saw -- among others.)And it's that time of year again! Just yesterday the festival announced all ten of their Midnight Madness selections, and there's only ONE that I've already seen! Yes! (That one, by the way, is J.T. Petty's rather enjoyably disturbing S&Man.)In addition to some nasty-sounding horror flicks from New Zealand (Black Sheep), Spain (The Abandoned), USA (All the Boys Love Mandy Lane), South Korea (The Host), France (Sheitan) and the UK (Severance), Toronto will also offer the epic piece of Danish animation called Princess and the North American premiere of Sacha Baron Cohen's Borat! (Yes!) Last but not least is an anthology chiller called Trapped Ashes, which comes from directors Joe Dante, Sean Cunningham, Ken Russell, Monte Hellman and John Gaeta -- and that's the flick I have a big red circle around.... | |
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| | | 'Monster House' opens door for next generation of horror lovers | | Posted Saturday, July 22, 2006 3:02:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | By ROGER MOORE, The Orlando Sentinel "Monster House" is a horror movie with training wheels. Because hey, somebody's got to hook that next generation of scare-addicts.And this "Monster House" is a real fun house. It's a 3-D animated kids' film built on classic gothic horror lines, a jokey, spooky "Goonies" for the new millennium.It's about jumping to conclusions about creepy neighbors, guilt and learning to have courage.Oh, and it's scary. Seriously, if your child's still in the cartoons-can-give-me-nightmares phase of childhood, save yourself the grief. Wait for "Barnyard."D.J. (Mitchel Musso) is just old enough to consider skipping Halloween. He's an only child whose voice is changing, which means he's not as up for kiddie games with his pal Chowder (Sam Lerner).D.J. also has too much time on his hands.... | |
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| | | BLEEDING THROUGH: 'Love In Slow Motion' Video Posted Online - July ... | | Posted Wednesday, July 05, 2006 1:11:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | BLEEDING THROUGH's video for the song "Love in Slow Motion" has been posted online at this location. The clip, which was filmed last month in the California desert, continues the band's homage to gritty Americana horror. Directed by Zach Merck (SHADOWS FALL, CONVERGE) and Kevin Leonard (HIMSA, DIECAST), both the "Love In Slow Motion" video and BLEEDING THROUGH's clip for the song "Kill to Believe" are a loving tribute to the work of George Romero ("Night Of The Living Dead") and Tobe Hooper ("Texas Chainsaw Massacre"). Merck explains how he came up with the concept. "When we met with the band they explained that a number of their peers were going the rock & roll route with their music and getting more polished," he said. "With this album they were returning to a rawer and darker sound. I took that to mean instead of doing a bigger and glossier video that we return to the roots of the gritty and lo-fi horror movies that inspired us as kids." The first video for "Kill To Believe" showed BLEEDING THROUGH vocalist Brandan Schieppati and his on-screen bride breaking down in front of an unusual diner that included patrons chained to their tables, Marta (keyboards) as a knife wielding psychotic waitress and hulking, sinister backwoods brothers.... | |
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| | | EZTakes Has Published the World's Largest Catalog of Downloadable DVD Movies | | Posted Saturday, July 01, 2006 3:01:54 PM by Blog57 Team | | Easthampton, MA (PRWEB) June 30, 2006 -- EZTakes announced today that it has reached a critical milestone by publishing over 500 downloadable DVDs, which is by far the world's largest catalog of movies that consumers can buy, download, burn to disc and play on almost any standard DVD player. The EZTakes collection includes full-length independent films of all genres, fitness and educational videos, as well as a large number of classic, cult, horror and Bollywood movies. Many of the recent additions to the EZTakes site are titles that won top honors at major film festivals, such as Cannes, Berlin and Sundance. A number of EZTakes titles are also Academy Award winners and nominees. .... | |
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