Slash Produced Horror Flick?

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Anchor Bay has picked up rights to Nothing to Fear, a horror movie that is acting as the feature producing debut of former Guns ‘N Roses guitarist Slash and his new horror label Slasher Films.

Producing with Slash are partners Rob Eric and Michael Williams. Anthony Leonardi III, a creature artist and storyboard artist who worked on Rango and the upcoming 47 Ronin, is directing the movie, which will begin shooting next month in Louisiana.

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Slash will also co-produce movie’s score.

According to Anchor Bay, Fear centers on “a family whose journey towards a better life in a small town is savagely derailed by a charismatic but emotionally conflicted man of the cloth.”

The movie is set in the town of Stull, Kansas, which according to Anchor Bay is rumored to be one of the seven gateways to Hell. (Can you say, 'Road trip?")

The movie is in pre-production and has Anne Heche, James Tupper and Willa Holland among the cast.

“We knew we wanted to work with Slash when he announced the formation of the label back in September at Toronto, and after having read this script, we are even more excited,” said Anchor Bay’s exec vp, acquisitions and co-production, Kevin Kasha, in a statement. “Anchor Bay Films is the perfect home for Nothing to Fear.”

Said Slash: “Anthony Leonardi’s vision of this story is exceptionally unnerving and dark. It will keep you totally engaged from the first second of the film to the last. It’s guaranteed to scare the hell out of you.”

Mid Season "Walking Dead" Poster

Gearing up for the February 12 return, AMC released a mid-season poster for "The Walking Dead" that takes aim at your face. Also dig on a pair of clips from episode 02.08 "Nebraska" here.

"The Walking Dead" tells the story of the weeks and months that follow a pandemic zombie apocalypse. County Sheriff Rick Grimes travels with his family and a small group of survivors, constantly in search of a safe and secure home. But the constant pressure of fighting off death on a daily basis takes a heavy toll, sending many to the lowest depths of human cruelty. As Rick struggles to keep his family alive, he will discover that the overwhelming fear of the survivors can be far more dangerous than the mindless walkers roaming the earth.

Shark Night 3D

Director David R. Ellis has moved from Snakes on a Plane to sharks in a lake, as proven with Shark Night 3D - a movie that was actually considered getting released as "Untitled 3D Shark Thriller." As if the silly title would've made any difference to this already absurd movie anyway.

The pic starts off like thousands of other genre efforts before it, as we follow a standard group of young friends on their way to a secluded cabin at a small-town lake. After naturally mixing it up with the unfriendly locals, they enjoy a little booze, music, and fun in the sun (as much as the PG-13 rating would allow anyway). It's all good times until one of'em gets their arm chomped off by a shark. The movie immediately kicks into survival mode, but we soon learn that it's not just the sharks that the group have to worry about, but also the crazed locals too.

As much as a threat the sharks were, it's really the locals that proved more of a menace to our leads than anything. If you can get passed the hollow acting and inane dialogue you'll notice that they're the reason why the sharks are in the lake to begin with and also the reason for the group being unable to leave the cabin to fetch help. On another note, as expected from a PG-13 shark movie, aside from a bloody stump of an arm there really isn't much else in terms of gore.

I didn't view the movie in 3D, so I can't comment on how it looked, although there were some clearly gimmicky sequences with objects flying towards the camera, which leads me to believe that I didn't miss out on much. There are a lot of preposterous scenes that make up the movie, like for instance a battle between a guy with a spear (who has one arm, by the way) and a shark in the middle of the night, but the worst is saved for last - literally - for those unfortunate enough to stick around until after the credits to witness a dreadful rap parody featuring the cast of the film *shivers*. We should all be glad it wasn't actually featured DURING the movie.

As ridiculous as the film was, it at least remained an interesting watch during my viewing experience and it didn't hurt that we got to watch the lovely Sara Paxton run around in a tight little bikini for over an hour. Sadly, Miss Paxton's rear wasn't enough to forget the plot-holes and irrationalities seen throughout the pic. Unless you're drunk and with a group of friends, I'd skip this one.by fright master

Best Female Horror Villains

Friday the 13th

Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer)

the original ‘Friday the 13th’ (1980), Jason wasn’t involved (except for a nightmare sequence) and the original 1980 film has the most credibility out of the entire franchise. Mrs. Voorhees (Betsy Palmer) stalks and murders the teenagers who are preparing Camp Crystal Lake for re-opening in many sadistic and gruesome ways. She is determined to make sure the camp does not re-open after her son, Jason (Ari Lehman), drowned in the lake because two staff members, who were supposed to be watching him, were having sex. The last counselor, Alice (Adrienne King), fends off Mrs. Voorhees long enough to grab a machete and decapitate her.

Mrs. Voorhees is a rarity in the horror genre, especially the slasher movie, because she is female, yet she shows the same delight in killing, and pulls off nastier murders than Jason ever did.

Stand out scenes include Kevin Bacon’s character (Jack) getting it in a really grisly way, and the entire last twenty minutes with Adrienne King’s character, Alice, and Mrs. Voorhees really going for it in a cat and mouse chase, hitting each other, and duelling to the death. source steven casey murray

Woman In Black (2012) February 10 2012

Young lawyer Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe) leaves his son in London to settle the legal affairs of the recently deceased Alice Drablow. He discovers that a series of inexplicable accidents and suicides have forced the parents of her village to barricade their children indoors, as if protecting them from an unseen foe. When Arthur stays the night all alone at the Drablows' foreboding house, he hears the screams of a drowning child and sees decaying children listlessly wandering the marshes. He will soon discover these haunting figures share the same date of death, and the same killer.

The ghost of a scorned woman, who was unable to save her beloved son Nathaniel from drowning, The Woman In Black, takes on a horrifying form. Set on vengeance, her veil hides gaping sockets eaten away by scavengers and her curse hides an even darker secret - whenever she is seen, a child dies.
the face of hostility from the local residents, Arthur dredges up Nathaniel’s skeleton and buries it with his mother, hoping the evil spectre will finally rest in peace. In a cruel twist of fate, the Woman In Black turns her claws towards Arthur’s young son. To avoid a fate worse than death, Arthur must now sacrifice everything he holds dear and save his child

"I Know What You Did Last Summer" A Look Back

Victims are piling up faster than the aptly named croakers in the picturesque little fishing village of Southport, N.C., but what's really brain dead there is the police force.

Though a killer attired in foul weather gear like a Gloucester seafarer off a package of frozen fish sticks has been gutting some of the local youth with a baling hook, their parents, employers and landlords apparently don't miss them enough to notify the police, who don't go to work until the final moments.


This isn't real life. It's the Grand Guignol of ''I Know What You Did Last Summer,'' laying its claim to succeed ''Scream'' as a high-grossing, blood-drenched date-night crowd-pleaser.

And why shouldn't it? Once again, the screenwriter is Kevin Williamson, working from a novel by Lois Duncan about four teen-agers haunted by a secret: their decision to dispose of the body hit by their BMW after a beauty contest on the night of Southport's Fourth of July Croaker Festival. Though it flies in the face of credibility and becomes downright silly by its end, ''I Know What You Did Last Summer'' knows its way around the rules of the popular horror-film genre: the prefiguring ghost story around the campfire, the teen-age sex that insures murder, the spooky killer, plenty of steamy shower rooms and crab vats, pop-up bodies, references to other films and television and an ending that sets the gurney for as many sequels as the public can stomach.

The teen-agers involved in the accident that touches off the bloodletting include the bright, college-bound Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt), who is the most reluctant of the four to vow to take to the grave the secret of what happened on the way back from Dawson's Beach. That night, her companions were her best friend, Helen Shivers (Sarah Michelle Gellar), who won the beauty contest; her boyfriend, Barry Cox (Ryan Phillippe), the belligerent, upper-class, alcoholic star athlete, and Ray Bronson (Freddie Prinze Jr.), the blue-collar fellow who is Julie's sweetheart.

When the next summer rolls around, a nerve-racked Julie returns to Southport to find the letter that gives the film its title and sets the four conspirators to fighting among themselves before they unite to try to evade and identify the stalker seeking bloody vengeance.

the director, respects the conventions of the genre. He devotes time to establishing the characters, spaces out the surprises and provides knowing aficionados with time to relish parental indifference and the remote old house where the gaunt sister (Anne Heche) of a pivotal character roams with a bloody knife.by lawrence van gelder

Remake Of "Fright Night"

Fright Night a classic vampire tale and

Hollywood saw fit to remake it and the very first review of the film has hit the web via Killerfilm. Wondering if the Fright Night remake will suck? Well you are about to find out. Read on if you want to know, or head elsewhere now.

What Fright Night got right in 1985 was everything. For every horror nut who grew up on the film, Charley Brewster was us. He spent his nights watching scary movies to the wee hours of the morning. School was tough and dating was migraine-inducing, but watching various monsters and beasts made everything right with the world. That is what made us happy, and to the day – it still does. The script was an homage to Rear Window and The Boy Who Cried Wolf with a dose of that planet 80′s free spirit.

FrightNight 3D, more like unnecessary post-conversion 3D, is in such a hurry that it forgets to tell any kind of story. There is absolute zero character development as the cardboard actors just go through the motion and it’s painful. The neighborhood feels like a leftover set from the The Stepfather, as opposed a real home on a real block. Roddy McDowell was the backbone of the original and played like a father figure to Charley.

Now he is just a boozing womanizer who doesn’t come to the rescue and is just an afterthought. Chris Sarandon does make a cameo, but suffers a bite to the jugular from CG-faced Colin Farrell (who is solo, no Billy Cole) and is spared the misery that I couldn’t get away from.