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Birdemic: Shock and Terror: Critics Roundtable Podcast
Fear Has a New Name, and It's BIRDEMIC: SHOCK AND TERROR.
It’s the rare film that comes along and totally redefines the medium, but such a film is BIRDEMIC: SHOCK AND TERROR. From its striking visual style to its Oscar-worthy performances to its dazzling special effects to its powerful, environmental subtext, this tale of a small, [...]
The Innocents: Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast #4
The fourth installment of the Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast focuses its attention on the 1961 classic THE INNOCENTS. This ambiguous and haunting ghost story was produced and directed by Jack Clayton, based on Henry James’ novel The Turn of the Screw and William Archibald’s stage adaptation, The Innocents. Oscar-winner Freddie Francis supplied the atmospheric black-and-white photography, [...]
Upstaged By The Invisible Man: Gloria Stuart Interview
Recollections from the late actress on working with director James Whale on THE OLD DARK HOUSE and THE INVISIBLE MAN
Actress Gloria Stuart dies
Gloria Stuart with Boris Karloff in THE OLD DARK HOUSE
Gloria Stuart, who earned an Oscar nomination at the age of 87 for TITANIC, died Sunday night, September 26. The 100-year-old actress had been diagnosed with lung cancer five years ago, according to the Los Angeles Times. Although Stuart is most well known to modern audiences [...]
Disney announces new Frankenweenie release date
[ March 9, 2012; ] Walt Disney Pictures has announced that FRANKENWEENIE, previously scheduled for a 2011 debut, will instead make its bow on March 9, 2012.
Lair of the White Worm – From Novel to Film
Victorian author Bram Stoker holds a prominent place in horror history, all of it due to the publication of a single novel, Dracula, which has remained continuously in print for more than a century, providing a bloody fountain of inspiration for an undying legion of film and television adaptations. When a writer’s work has achieved that kind of [...]
Poking out the Eyegore Awards
Universal Studios in Hollywood hosted the Eyegore Awards on Saturday night, and it was a press event in the truest sense of the word – which is to say, an event that existed primarily if not exclusively in order to get the press to show up. In fact, as the press notes clarify, the Eyegore [...]
