2010 People's Choice Awards Nominees Have Vampire Bite
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The 2010 People's Choice Awards nominees were just announced, and vampires left their mark everywhere, with Twilight, True Blood and The Vampire Diaries all receiving recognition. Also named were Paranormal Activity, Dexter and Supernatural. The show airs on January 6, 2010, and you can vote online for the winners (it is the people's choice, after all).
The End of the World As We Know It: The Six Types of Apocalyptic Horror Movies
Cillian Murphy in 28 Days Later.
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While 2012 isn't a horror movie, the concept of a global apocalypse has been fodder for horror movies for decades. Here's a rundown of the six major types of doomsday events that you're liable to come across in horror movies. Consider yourself warned.
R.I.P. Eastwick: TV Witches Canceled
Lindsay Price, Rebecca Romijn and
Jamie Ray Newman in Eastwick.
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Witches, we hardly knew ye. After only seven episodes, ABC has canceled its freshman dramedy Eastwick, a fluffy but enjoyable adaptation of the John Updike novel (and later film) that skewed more towards Desperate Housewives than towards horror. Oh well; my DVR will be pleased.
Source: Variety
Upcoming Sequel News: Hatchet 2, Scream 4, Creepshow 4, Howling 8? Or Is it 9? Does Anyone Care?
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Some recent news on upcoming horror sequels of note:
- Scream 4 will take place (appropriately) 10 years after Scream 3 -- thus no trying to pass off Neve Campbell as a college kid -- and the new (read: younger) cast member "will likely be the focus of the remaining two films in the trilogy."
- Hatchet 2 is on tap for 2010!
- Somebody somewhere is making something called Howling: Reborn While I'd be open to a big-budget, professionally done sequel/reboot to The Howling to help make up for the stinkers that followed in the series (part 5 was pretty good), this doesn't appear to be it.
- A fourth Creepshow film, entitled Creepshow 3D, is also under development. Unfortunately, it's from the folks who brought you the straight-to-video Creepshow 3 (not horrible but not great) and not the Stephen King/George Romero team that brought you the first two.
Sources: CinemaBlend.com, WorstPreviews.com, ShockTillYouDrop.com, Bloody-Disgusting.com
New This Week: The Echo, Samurai Princess, Twilight Stars Branch Out
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In a light week horror-wise, no genre films hit theaters, and only a handful land on DVD, led by the outrageous Japanese splatter-fest Samurai Princess, the English-language remake of the creepy Philippine ghost movie The Echo (Sigaw) and a pair of movies featuring Twilight supporting cast members Jackson Rathbone (Hurt) and Ashley Greene (Summer's Moon).
New Moon Clips and Behind-the-Scenes Featurettes!
Taylor Lautner and Kristen Stewart
in New Moon.
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Take a look behind, below, between and all up in the scenes of New Moon with these clips and featurettes.
Thinking Outside: The Box Movie Review
"This means something wet."
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The Box takes a relatively straightforward short story ("Button, Button") that had been featured in the '80s version of The Twilight Zone and warps it into a head-scratching metaphysical endeavor that still manages to be fairly engrossing despite its flaws. Read about it in my review of The Box.
So-So Encounters: The Fourth Kind Movie Review
"I remember everything, E.T."
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The Fourth Kind creates an intriguing alien abduction scenario but fails to deliver on its promise. Read about it in my review of The Fourth Kind.
Weekend Box Office: The Fourth Kind Tops The Box
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In a rare weekend with two major horror releases opening at the box office, The Fourth Kind pulled a mild upset of The Box, earning an estimated $12.5 million to The Box's weak $7.9 million. The Box had seemed destined to prevail over The Fourth Kind, with its larger budget, bigger stars and more famous director (not to mention the fact that it's just a better movie), but The Fourth Kind obviously struck more of a chord with audiences, perhaps riding the residual wave of Paranormal Activity by featuring its similarly styled "real footage." Final numbers are due late Monday.
TV Movie Highlight of the Week: The Killing Room
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This week, The Killing Room -- a direct-to-video flick that nonetheless sports a big-name cast (Timothy Hutton, Chloë Sevigny, Clea DuVall, Nick Cannon) -- premieres at 9:00 PM ET/PT on Thursday, November 12 on Showtime. It's worth a look for the interesting, if improbable and illogical, conclusion.