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“The Shining” tops list of scariest movies »

Jigsaw, step aside. “The Shining” featuring Jack Nicholson as an axe-wielding psycho has topped a list of the scariest horror movies of all time.  With Halloween just days away, the writers at film website Totalscifionline.com compiled a list of the 100 greatest horror movies.
“Nearly 30 years after its initial release, The Shining remains an unparalled study in isolation, madness and paranoia,” said [...]

Director John Landis recalls filming ‘An American Werewolf’ in London »

Maggie Thatcher put a stake through the heart of the British film industry. When I was shooting An American Werewolf in London, Warren Beatty was shooting Reds here and there was also another little film in progress called Raiders of the Lost Ark. These were all made under a very useful tax-break agreement called the Eady [...]

My £45 hit film: Marc Price on his zombie movie Colin »

Marc Price’s film wowed the critics at Cannes and has won a deal for nationwide release. Not bad, he tells Sarfraz Manzoor, considering he juggled making it with his job at a courier firm – and it cost only £45.
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Drag Me to Hell: Sam Raimi’s Genre Curse »

 

If there’s one film magazine connected with the Cannes festival, it’d probably be Positif or Cahiers du Cinema, French journals whose passionate seriousness perfectly suits the movies that usually show here. This year, though, the festival’s journal of record should be the American horror-movie mag Fangoria.
The official Cannes selection has included all manner of genre films: a sexy vampire [...]

Drag Me to Hell: Sam Raimi’s Genre Curse »

 

If there’s one film magazine connected with the Cannes festival, it’d probably be Positif or Cahiers du Cinema, French journals whose passionate seriousness perfectly suits the movies that usually show here. This year, though, the festival’s journal of record should be the American horror-movie mag Fangoria.
The official Cannes selection has included all manner of genre films: a sexy vampire [...]

INTERVIEW: Friday the 13th stars including Jared Padalecki on remaking the horror classic »


Twilight: 10 reason why ‘Breaking Dawn should not be made into a movie »

 

While “Twilight” fans begin to debate the issues facing the filming of “New Moon” – the next installment in Stephenie Meyer’steen vampire series involving werewolves and a growth spurt that will require actor Taylor Lautner to appear 6′5″ and 25 years old on screen — an even more urgent problem nags:
The problem with “Breaking Dawn.”
With “Twilight” having banked $70.55 million in its first weekend of [...]

INTERVIEW: A Chat with The Ruins’ Laura Ramsey »

 
Amongst the cast of DreamWorks’ horror movie The Ruins, Laura Ramsey has the most experience with the horror and supernatural having appeared in Venom and The Covenant, which may be why her character Stacy is put through some of the most grueling and gut-wrenching situations in the new movie from Carter Smith, based on Scott [...]

Joshua Jackson rises from ’sub-sub’ stardom »

 
The horror movie “Shutter,” with a premise reminiscent of a “Twilight Zone” and filled with its share of “gotcha” jolts, seems at first blush like typical Hollywood fare.
What makes it more than a popcorn movie for American audiences, says the film’s star, Joshua Jackson, is that its Japanese director, Masayuki Ochiai, simultaneously made a different [...]

Who can save the horror film? »

 
Name a film that has scared the hell out of you. Does it haunt you to this day? I thought so. Were you terrified by the relentless tension, or a single terrific twist? Does it feature an iconic scene - Jack Nicholson chopping through the bathroom door, for instance; or a sausage popping out of [...]