Published on: 16th March, 2010
No one has ever tried to argue about the artistic merits of Troll 2, Claudio Fragasso’s camp and ridiculous cult classic that has often been referred to as one of the worst movies ever made. It certainly sits well amongst his other less-than-impressive output – After Death (Oltre la morte) being one of the biggest [...]
Published on: 16th March, 2010
Even at sixty-seven, Martin Scorsese refuses to slow down and keeps jumping from one project to another. Following on from the gangster epic The Departed, the live concert Shine a Light and the horror/thriller Shutter Island, he is set to take a new direction for his next feature, The Invention of Hugo Cabret. Based on [...]
Published on: 15th March, 2010
Next year will mark the thirtieth anniversary of Joe Dante’s The Howling and now the franchise is preparing for a reboot. Unlike many classics that are getting the Hollywood remake treatment, the werewolf saga is set to produce its seventh sequel with Joe Nimziki’s The Howling Reborn. Following a fifteen-year break since 1995’s straight-to-video Howling: [...]
Published on: 13th March, 2010
With its July release date looming closer, publicity on Nimród Antal’s reboot of Predators has started to build up.
An official site has gone live to whet fans appetites and it includes an exclusive behind the scenes video, in which producer Robert Rodriguez discusses how he approached restarting the franchise once again.
Shock Till You Drop, meanwhile, [...]
Published on: 8th March, 2010
With Hollywood digging up every old fossil from the 1970s and ’80s and giving them the attractive MTV makeover, fans of old school schlock may be interested to know that there are still the occasional sequels produced. Whilst the follow-up to The Lost Boys may have been a total disaster, one classic that is set [...]
Published on: 6th March, 2010
Looks like Hollywood’s obsession with remakes is rubbing off on other countries now, as Britain’s Hammer Films have announced that they plan to bring back some of their classics for modern audiences. Having already acquired the rights for the Swedish vampire flick Låt den rätte komma in/Let the Right One In, the studio have now [...]
Published on: 5th March, 2010
When remakes, reboots and sequels become tiresome there is always one way to resurrect a fledging franchise… the prequel. If the story has run its course, why not show fans how it all began? Sadly, however, this technique never seems to work, as prequels very rarely live up to their predecessors and become as unnecessary [...]
Published on: 4th March, 2010
If the last Spawn movie is to be remembered for anything it is the soundtrack. Blending rock groups (such as Marilyn Manson and Metallica) with dance artists (like The Crystal Method and Moby), the accompanying album proved a big hit with the alternative crowd back in 1997. But the movie itself was something of a [...]
Published on: 4th March, 2010
There are zombie movies and then there are George A. Romero zombie movies. Having re-invented the genre in the late 1960s with the seminal masterpiece Night of the Living Dead, he was returned to the concept time and time again with the spatter epic Dawn of the Dead and the criminally underrated Day of the [...]
Published on: 4th March, 2010
Whilst slasher fans remain blindly optimistic about the fate of Freddy Krueger this April (Friday the 13th became a phenomenal success, despite being an abomination), some of us have already accepted that this upcoming remake is going to be nothing less than a disaster. Platinum Dunes have a track record of all-style-no-substance horror movies that [...]