First Screening Of Dario Argento’s Giallo

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Dusk

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Like a broken record, every new film from Italian Maestro Dario Argento is unrealistically built up by his fans and then torn down when the movie materializes. Let’s face it cats, no film from the guy, not THE THIRD MOTHER and certainly not his upcoming GIALLO starring Adrian Brody, will be the Second Coming Of Vintage Argento. Time travel does not exist. Therefore, I repeatedly chant to myself: “He is keeping Gialli alive, He is keeping Gialli alive”.

The Edinburgh International Film Festival presented a tease of its upcoming slate today. It was revealed Dario Argento’s latest, Giallo, will be making its world premiere under the event’s “Night Moves” program. Other titles in this category can be found here. A full fest schedule launches on May 6th. The event runs from June 17th – 28th.

Giallo teams Argento with another pair of American screenwriters – Sean Keller and Jim Agnew – for this throwback to his early works. Adrien Brody and Emmanuelle Seigner star as a detective and a woman looking for her sister who was kidnapped by a killer nicknamed “Yellow.”

Source: STYD

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Sorority Row Girls Talk Bloody Deaths

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Dusk

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In this MTV article, the chicks from SORORITY ROW (2009) talk about the gris/gore quotent as being higher then that of the original. That may be true for many of the deaths which were pulled off with a mix of blood and suspense, but I can’t really see anything topping The Head In The Toilet, can you? Read on for an excerpt:

“There are some pretty sweet deaths in the script, I must say,” Margo Harshman, one of her sorority sisters in the flick, added. “There are some pretty twisted, gnarly ones.”

“But trust me, reading the script — with how sweet the death scenes are — it makes you want to die,” Leah Pipes (“The Sarah Connor Chronicles”) laughed. “You have to see them. They are so clever. It’s like, ‘Wow! I would never have thought of that!’ ”

“There’s smashed faces, burned-off faces,” Harshman explained.

“I have two words,” volunteered Pipes. “Oral fixation.”

“Oh, that’s a bad one,” Patridge grinned. “It is rated R!”

Although the trailer makes it look like Audrina ends up on the wrong end of one of those death scenes, the girls are keeping quiet about who lives and who dies. According to Patridge, it’s these twists that make this movie such a roller-coaster ride.

“Whenever we watch the trailer, we are like, ‘Oh my gosh!’ ” Patridge laughed. “I was always a big fan of ‘Scream,’ and I feel like ‘Sorority Row,’ for all [the younger] kids, it’s their ‘Scream.’ There’s a killer [and] you don’t know who it is. It keeps you guessing.”

Full Article w/Video: MTV

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A Tasty Selection of Vintage Slasher Trailers

Posted on May 1, 2009 by Christian Sellers

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Click on the above image to visit our MySpace page to view a selection of tasty slasher trailers from the eighties. Among this grizzly selection you’ll see Nightmare in a Damaged Brain, Slaughter High, Final Exam, The Boogeyman, Don’t Answer the Phone and many more…

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A Retro Slasher’s Salute to Percy Rodrigues

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Thomas Ellison

percyPercy Rodrigues was THE voice for slasher and horror movie trailers in the 70’s and 80’s. His work includes the trailers for Popcorn, Madman, The Dark, Deadly Blessing, Return of the Living Dead, the Jaws series, and many others. His deep, rich voice and dramatic pauses could make the dullest horror movie sound like the most horrifying film to ever hit theaters.

Rodrigues was born in Canada in 1918 and was of African, Portuguese descent. He acted in theater, film, and television for decades but it is his voice work that is best remembered by genre fans. Sadly, Mr. Rodrigues died in 2007 at the ripe old age of 89. Before he passed away, Rodrigues was interviewed for the Jaws documentary The Shark is Still Working, which is due to receive a theatrical release in May. As a fan of Percy Rodrigues, I’m looking forward to finally putting a face with the voice when I watch the documentary.

The following is a brief list of my favorite Percy Rodrigues lines. The . . . represent dramatic pauses.

1. “Now, just when you thought it was safe to back into the water . . .the legend continues.” (Jaws 2) This is probably his most famous line as it crossed over into mainstream use for years.

2. “Popcorn. Buy a bag . . .go home in a box.” (Popcorn) One of my all time favorite tag lines.

3. “It is as if God created the Devil and gave him . . .Jaws!” (Jaws)

4. “Madman. There is no escape.” (Madman) Rodrigues did the voice work for most of Madman’s tv commercials and those are very entertaining as well.

5. “None of man’s fantasies of evil can compare with the reality of . . . Jaws!” (Jaws and Jaws 2) This line was so good that it got used in the trailers for the first film and first sequel.

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Popcorn (1991)

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Christian Sellers

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There’s good and there’s bad and then somewhere in between there’s Popcorn. Released long after the golden era of the slasher boom, Porky’s star Mark Herrier’s tongue-in-cheek directorial debut mixes ’50’s schlock with ’80’s splatter with mixed results Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday to Me (1981)

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Christian Sellers

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John Dunning and Andre Link had already scored a hit with their Canadian slasher My Bloody Valentine when Happy Birthday to Me was released in May, 1981. Despite being filmed first, Happy Birthday to Me was delayed for some time, before making a respectable amount at the box office Continue reading →

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CRYSTAL LAKE’S BLOODY LEGACY pt.2 – Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Christian Sellers

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Director: Steve Miner
Writer: Ron Kurz
Starring: Adrienne King, Amy Steel, John Furey, Kirsten Baker, Stu Charno, Marta Kober Continue reading →

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Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Christian Sellers

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Of all the slasher movies to meet controversy in the 1980’s, perhaps the most loathed of these was the festive tale Silent Night, Deadly Night, which was picketed by angry parents and pulled by the studio. Still unreleased in several countries, this tale of a homicidal Santa Claus was not the first festive slasher Continue reading →

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Pieces (1981)

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Christian Sellers

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Back in the early 1980’s Italian cinema seemed content with capitalising on and plagiarising American movies, starting with Lucio Fulci’s Zombi 2 (which claimed to be a sequel to Dawn of the Dead) and coming to a head through the work of Joe D’Amato, possibly the most hack director that country has ever offered Continue reading →

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Hell Night Gallery

Posted on April 30, 2009 by Christian Sellers
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