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Top Ten Horror Films of the Decade
22 October 2009 12:33 PM, PDT | MovieSet.com | See recent MovieSet.com news »
Check out MovieSet’s Top Ten Horror Movies since 2000
According to my spiffy Hotel For Dogs calendar, this year is almost over. Now it would be the professional thing to wait the final months until unveiling this list, but I say nay! October is the time for horror so I apologize if the scariest movie comes out in these remaining weeks, but here are my Top Ten Horror Films of the Decade
#10 – Caché
This is more of an unconventional choice and that’s why I decided to place it so low. It’s not really a horror film, but it’s an unsettling movie with a few powerful scares. Georges is a talk show host who keeps receiving videotapes on his doorstep. The tapes show surveillance of him and his family. The director, Michael Haneke, is not interested in giving you a lot of answers, but he does keep you »
- Austin Lugar
Exorcismus gets rolling in Spain
20 October 2009 12:49 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
On Monday, October 5, shooting commenced on Exorcismus, the latest fear film to come out of Spain’s Filmax studios. As with so many Spanish genre productions of the last decade, this one is also directed by a relative newcomer to feature filmmaking, Manuel Carballo (taking over for originally slated Luis de la Madrid). And in common with most of the company's previous horror movies (such as Arachnid, Dagon, Darkness, The MacHinist and Beyond Re-animator), the movie is being filmed with a multinational cast in English, on locations in and around the city of Barcelona.
The cast includes Resident Evil: Apocalypse’s Sophie Vavasseur (pictured), Richard Felix from Filmax’s Fragile, which still has yet to see U.S. release, Hellraiser stalwart Doug Bradley and the first Resident’s Stephen Billington. The movie has already been presold to a dozen countries, including Mexico, Italy, Brazil, Poland, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador. Most »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Mike Hodges)
31 Days of Horror: The Orphanage
10 October 2009 1:14 PM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
The Orphanage (2007) Synopsis: Laura, a former orphan, returns to live in the old orphanage where she spent much of her youth in search of a place where she and her husband Carlos can raise their adopted son Simon. At some point, they intend to reopen the orphanage, but not before their son begins to make friends with a mysterious, non-existent kid named Tomas who he draws with a sack over his head. During a party to celebrate the orphanage's reopening, Simon disappears and Laura finally sees Tomas. Months later, Laura begins bringing in paranormal experts to uncover the mystery behind the orphanage and behind what happened to her son. Killer Scene: Probably one of the most jarring scenes that I've seen in a very long time is the scene in which Laura is chasing the woman she believes to have abducted her son. She sees the woman walking along a snowy street, pushing »
- Neil Miller
Andrew Douglas to helm The Perfect Assassin.
8 October 2009 5:09 AM, PDT | Movie Jungle | See recent Movie Jungle news »
British director Andrew Douglas is set to helm "The Perfect Assassin," a $14.6 million budgeted film made in association with Simon Crocker's Andrew Douglas Films. Producing are "The Orphanage" co-producers Joaquin Padro and Mar Targarona from Barcelona-based Rodar y Rodar and London Company Pictures' Robyn Slovo. The film which is Douglas' second feature, is set in the last months of Spain's 1936-1939 Civil War. Two hit squads - one in the republican side, the other Natioalist, are assembled to take out the same politician called Don Rojo. One side has mercilless killers, the other three Republican soldiers who are all in love with Rojo's daughter. »
New featurette for ‘Splice’ lands online
6 October 2009 12:58 PM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Cube director Vincenzo Natali returns with the sci-fi thriller Splice.
Presented by your friendly neighborhood Guillermo Del Toro, Splice stars Adrien Brody (The Pianist, The Brothers Bloom) and Sarah Polley (Dawn of the Dead) as Clive and Elsa, a pair of brilliant scientists whose cutting-edge experiments in genetic engineering make them superstars in their field. As devoted to their careers as they are to one another (awwwww), they start conducting unauthorized experiments (uh oh) with new animal species (ooooh no) that show great promise. They introduce human DNA into one of their creations, producing a creature that is greater than the sum of its parts: a rapidly developing animal/human hybrid that may be a step up on the evolutionary ladder. While this female creature inspires maternal feelings in Elsa, she evokes something far-from-paternal in Clive, something that poses a threat to them all. Then, when this seemingly perfect organism makes a final, »
- Erik Buckman
Sitges '09: My Sitges Story - Part 3
6 October 2009 12:33 PM, PDT | Fangoria | See recent Fangoria news »
Monday, October 5
I begin my first full week at the Sitges film festival (see last entry here) with a leisurely stroll into town. Several vendors hawking horror T-shirts and posters have set up shop outside the fest’s Brigadoon theater (where non-competition and video screenings are free for the locals), serving as a sort of mini-convention.
Two movies are on the agenda today. First up at the plush Auditori Melia is the Belgian/Canadian/French/German co-production Mr. Nobody, an excellent fantasy/quasi-sci-fi film that pretty much defies easy classification and synopsis. Urban Legend’s Jared Leto (never better) stars as a 117-year-old man (in totally convincing old age makeup), who, we are told, is the last mortal man alive on the Earth of 2092, where people now live forever. Gradually, the complexities of his back story are revealed as we experience multiple storylines of at least three different histories the character may have lived. »
- no-reply@fangoria.com (Tony Timpone)
Raimi Takes Refuge In Horror
24 September 2009 7:32 AM, PDT | cinemablend.com | See recent Cinema Blend news »
As a director, Sam Raimi will be busy for a while trying to make something worthwhile out of Spider-Man 4. But luckily for those of us who loved his Drag Me To Hell and want him to keep it up in horror, he's lending his producing talents to the genre. According to THR, Raimi will produce the supernatural horror film Refuge, about a remote mountain town attacked by a Yeti. Corin Hardy, a music video director whose work you get a sample of at Slashfilm, wrote the pitch for the film and will direct it. THR compares the relationship to the one that Guillermo del Toro established with Juan Antonio Bayona, allowing him to make the chilller The Orphanage, and it seems like a fair comparison. Of course, I'd rather someone shepherd Sam Raimi out of making Spider-Man movies at all, but if this is what we get, I can »
British Fantasy Awards Announced
24 September 2009 6:34 AM, PDT | thetorchonline | See recent thetorchonline news »
This past weekend at FantasyCon in Nottingham, U.K., The British Fantasy Society announced the winners of its annual British Fantasy Awards. Nominations are listed; winners are in bold: Best Novel Memoirs of a Master Forger, William Heaney/Graham Joyce (Gollancz) Midnight Man, Simon Clark (Severn House) Rain Dogs, Gary McMahon (Humdrumming) The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (Bloomsbury) The Victoria Vanishes, Christopher Fowler (Little, Brown) Thieving Fear, Ramsey Campbell (Ps Publishing) Best Novella The Reach of Children, Tim Lebbon (Humdrumming) Cold Stone Calling, Simon Clark (Tasmaniac Publications) Gunpowder, Joe Hill (Ps Publishing) "Heads", Gary McMahon (We Fade To Grey) "The Narrows", Simon Bestwick (We Fade To Grey) Best Television Doctor Who (BBC Wales) Battlestar Galactica (NBC) Dead Set (Zeppotron/Channel 4) Dexter (Clyde Phillips Productions) Supernatural (Warner Bros TV) Best Film The Dark Knight (Christopher Nolan) Cloverfield (Matt Reeves) Iron Man (Jon Favreau) The Mist (Frank Darabont) The Orphanage (Juan Antonio Bayona »
Guillermo del Toro Bringing Deadman to the Screen
31 August 2009 1:27 PM, PDT | ScreenRant.com | See recent Screen Rant news »
For those of you worrying right now that Guillermo del Toro is trying to reboot the work of Jim Jarmusch: stop worrying. It’s not going down like that. Instead, Bloody-Disgusting is reporting that del Toro is actually set to produce an adaptation of the DC Comics character, Deadman, for Warner Bros.
International director Nikolaj Arcel is reportedly set to helm DC/WB project.
In the DC Universe, Deadman is a circus trapeze artist named Boston Brand, who dresses up in a red suit and white makeup to perform under the stage name (you guessed it) Deadman. When Brand is murdered while performing his act, his spirit is held over by the Hindu goddess Rama Kushna, who endows Brand’s ghost with the ability to possess living bodies. Rama Kushna’s decree: for Brand to use his new powers to hunt down his murderer(s) and obtain justice.
So »
- Kofi Outlaw
American remake of ‘The Orphanage’ lands its director
15 August 2009 6:54 AM, PDT | ReelLoop.com | See recent Reel Loop news »
Spooky
Wendigo director Larry Fessenden will helm the American remake of Juan Antonio Bayona’s 2007 thriller El Orfanato (The Orphanage).
The Orphanage centers on a woman who purchases her childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the abandoned facility.
Once there, she discovers that the facility awakens her son’s imagination and a disturbing little friend with connections to the woman’s past.
Guillermo del Toro will co-adapt Sergio G. Sanchez’s original script for Yankee audiences. He also served as El Orfanato’s producer.
The original film quickly became a critical darling when it debuted and saw success with international audiences, including film fans on our American shores. New Line purchased the rights to give The Orphanage a makeover for the “Western” audiences. Success will no doubt be had by New Line as the American horror crowd will see just about anything except The Collector.
Horror movies are »
- Erik Buckman
Geek gossip: Green Hornet, Dune, 20,000 Leagues and more
9 August 2009 5:48 PM, PDT | The Geek Files | See recent The Geek Files news »
Taiwanese singer and actor Jay Chou is to replace Stephen Chow as sidekick Kato in the upcoming Green Hornet superhero movie starring Seth Rogen.
Earlier rumours had suggested that Korean actor Kwon Sang-woo was in line for the role, which had been played by Bruce Lee in the 60s TV series.
Chou said: "It's an overwhelming experience to take on a role made famous by Bruce Lee. I won't try to be Bruce Lee's Kato -- I will try to bring my own interpretation to the part."
Director Michel Gondry said: "Jay is incredibly unique and charming and fights like a wild dog. When I filmed him next to Seth, they had such great chemistry."
Green Hornet is set for release on July 9, 2010, in the USA and on July 23, 2010, in the UK. Seth Rogen co-wrote the film and will star as Daily Sentinel newspaper publisher Britt Reid who, by night, »
- David Bentley
Guillermo del Toro revisits thrills in ‘Julia’s Eyes’
8 August 2009 5:58 AM, PDT | Atomic Popcorn | See recent Atomic Popcorn news »
Mr. Sparky...is that you?
I will personally handle anybody who says Guillermo del Toro isn’t working hard for the money, West Side Story-style. (snap your arse off, mate) Though currently handling pre-production of The Hobbit, del Toro will reunite with Spanish firm Rodar y Rodar for producer duty on the “dark Spanish-language thriller” Los ojos de Julia (Julia’s Eyes).
“The thriller’s an excuse to talk about a woman who overcomes her limitations; it’s a journey of self-discovery,” says Rodar’s Joaquin Padro.
Directed by Guillem Morales, Julia’s Eyes will be shot from Julia’s Pov, a style reminiscent of Cloverfield, Rec and its American counterpart Quarantine. Del Toro helped land the film in the capable hands of Focus Features, International, and also helped oversee writing and casting.
According to Variety, del Toro says it “won’t be a simple schlock-a-thon.”
The team also produced »
- Erik Buckman
Guillermo del Toro Boards Julia's Eyes
8 August 2009 | shocktillyoudrop.com | See recent shocktillyoudrop news »
Guillermo del Toro, currently in New Zealand preparing The Hobbit , will produce the dark Spanish-language thriller Los ojos de Julia ( Julia's Eyes ) along with Barcelona's Rodar y Rodar. Del Toro and Rodar y Rodar previously collaborated on The Orphanage . Julia's Eyes , which will be directed by Guillem Morales, who also co-writes along with Oriol Paulo, will be produced by Rodar's Joaquin Padro and Mar Targarona and co-financed by Focus Features Intl. Universal Pictures International will release the film in Spain, Latin America and France. The movie, which has Belen Rueda ( The Orphanage ) and Lluis Homar ( Broken Embraces ) attached to star, tells the story of a woman slowly going blind as she investigates the mysterious death of her twin sister. Filming begins... »
Del Toro Comes on to Produce 'Julia's Eyes'
7 August 2009 6:54 PM, PDT | bloody-disgusting.com | See recent Bloody-Disgusting.com news »
While already reported on earlier this year, Guillermo del Toro (Hellboy, The Hobbit, Pan's Labyrinth), has come to produce the dark Spanish-language thriller Los Ojos De Julia (Julia's Eyes) along with Barcelona's Rodar y Rodar. What's interesting about the project is that it takes elements from Rec and is shot from Julia's Pov (nothing like a fresh concept). "Julia's Eyes," which will be directed by Guillem Morales, who also co-writes along with Oriol Paulo. The pic, which has thesps Belen Rueda ("The Orphanage") and Lluis Homar ("Broken Embraces") attached to star, tells the story of a woman slowly going blind as she investigates the mysterious death of her twin sister. Rodar also produced "An Uncertain Guest," Morales' feature debut, which mixed fact and delusion in its Edgar Allen Poe-like chronicle of a young man's guilt-driven descent into delirium. »
Another New del Toro Project: Julia's Eyes
7 August 2009 5:50 PM, PDT | DreadCentral.com | See recent Dread Central news »
Some people just don't know how to say no, and Guillermo del Toro seems to be one of them. The man has added yet another project to his overflowing plate, the dark Spanish-language thriller Los ojos de Julia ("Julia's Eyes"), which is set to begin lensing October 5th.
According to Variety, Del Toro, who is currently in New Zealand doing pre-production on The Hobbit, will produce along with Barcelona's Rodar y Rodar. The project, which sees del Toro and the Spanish shingle reuniting after their previous collaboration, The Orphanage, is the latest to draw on the seemingly bottomless well of young genre talent in Catalan capital Barcelona.
Julia's Eyes will be directed by Guillem Morales, who is co-writing along with Oriol Paulo. It will be produced by Rodar's Joaquin Padro and Mar Targarona and co-financed by Focus Features Intl. Belen Rueda (pictured, The Orphanage) and Lluis Homar (Broken Embraces) are »
- The Woman In Black
Podcast: I Sell the Dead (Larry Fessenden, Glenn McQuaid)
6 August 2009 10:22 PM, PDT | GreenCine Daily | See recent GreenCine Daily news »
Larry Fessenden's gap-toothed, shaggy-haired mug makes a memorable impression onscreen (Broken Flowers, The Brave One), and besides also being the cult filmmaker behind socially relevant horror gems like The Last Winter and Habit, Fessenden is a generous producer, too. For 20+ years, his production company Glass Eye Pix has helped emerging filmmakers get their projects off the ground, with a roster that includes Kelly Reichardt, Ira Sachs and Ti West (whose fantastically creepy The House of the Devil comes out later this year). Fessenden's latest production under his Scareflix horror banner is the morbidly entertaining I Sell the Dead, written and directed by former visual effects artist Glenn McQuaid, here playing homage to Hammer Studios, EC Comics and Young Frankenstein: Never trust a corpse. 19th century justice has finally caught up to grave robbers Arthur Blake (Dominic Monaghan) and Willie Grimes (Larry Fessenden). With the specter of the guillotine looming over him, »
Larry Fessenden Helming "Orphanage" Remake
6 August 2009 2:49 PM, PDT | www.ohmygore.com/ | See recent OhMyGore news »
Actor-producer-director Larry Fessenden has signed on to helm "The Orphanage", New Line's remake of the Guillermo del Toro-produced Spanish-language horror movie, says The Hollywood Reporter. Fessenden also has written the script with del Toro, who is producing the new film with Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson of Contrafilm. The 2007 film was directed by del Toro protege Juan Antonio Bayona and centers on Laura, who purchases her beloved childhood orphanage with dreams of restoring and reopening the long abandoned facility as a place for disabled children. Once there, Laura discovers that the new environment awakens her son's imagination, but the ongoing fantasy games he plays with an invisible friend quickly turn into something more disturbing. Upon seeing her family increasingly... »
'The Orphanage' Remake Finds a Director
6 August 2009 10:22 AM, PDT | FEARnet | See recent FEARnet news »
Now we have some good news and we have some bad news for you from THR. Good news first; Actor, producer, writer, director and all around great genre guy Larry Fessenden has been signed to direct a fairly high profile genre film. So what's the bad news you ask? Said film is the American remake of Juan Antonio Bayona's The Orphanage. There's more good news on this one though, so hang in there. Guillermo del Toro returns to produce (he produced the original Spanish version of the film) and apparently handpicked Fessenden for the job. Fessenden may not be a name that all of you are familiar with, but he has a long history within our genre, directing art house horror flicks like Wendigo, Habit, No Telling and... »
Larry Fessenden To Direct Orphanage Remake
6 August 2009 12:45 AM, PDT | toxicshock.tv | See recent toxicshock news »
Larry Fessenden has signed on to helm the Us New Line remake of “The Orphanage,” the 2007 hit Guillermo del Toro-produced Spanish-language horror flick. Fessenden also has written the script in collaboration with del Toro, who is producing the new film with Contrafilm’s Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson. The original film, directed by del Toro protege Juan Antonio Bayona, centered on a woman who returns to the orphanage where she was raise and discovers that her son’s new imaginary friend is in fact the same person who terrified her when she was a child there. Stay tuned for more news on “The Orphanage” remake right here at Shockya.com. By Costa Koutsoutis (Source: [...] »
- Costa Koutsoutis
Larry Fessenden To Remake Ja Bayona’s The Orphanage
5 August 2009 6:23 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »
Well. This is a surprise. Variety is reporting that Larry Fessenden has signed on to direct an English language remake of Ja Bayona’s horror tale The Orphanage with Guillermo Del Toro - who produced the original and groomed Bayona to direct - to once again fill the producer’s chair. I have no idea how I feel about this, honestly. I don’t think the original needs to be remade but I do enjoy Fessenden’s work, so whatever keeps the guy busy and paying his bills is okay with me, I suppose. One things is for certain: Bayona and Fessenden are very different directors so don’t expect anything along the lines of a shot-for-shot redo here if Fessenden is given any say at all.
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- Todd Brown
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