By Behind The Scenes TV on Oct 29, 2009 in Classic Movies, Horror | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Aug 31, 2009 in Classic Movies, Filmmaking, Horror | 1 Comment
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 [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Jul 31, 2009 in Filmmaking, Horror | 0 Comments
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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By Behind The Scenes TV on May 22, 2009 in Horror | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on May 21, 2009 in Horror, New Movies | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Dec 3, 2008 in Commentary, Horror, New Movies | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Apr 10, 2008 in Actors, Horror, Interview, New Movies | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Mar 21, 2008 in Actors, Horror, New Movies | 0 Comments
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 [...]
By Behind The Scenes TV on Mar 17, 2008 in Commentary, Horror | 0 Comments
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 [...]