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ATOM AGE VAMPIRE was a film that haunted me as a youngster. It seemed a very modern nightmare, a science fiction variation on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A well-meaning doctor who willingly turned himself into a monster to both prove his theories and possess the woman of his obsessive desire. The dark, oppressive atmosphere, [...]

So many summer blockbusters pander to their audience in the most excessive way that it is quite a relief to note that THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE is something of a formal experiment – a sort of Anti-Summer Movie. While films like JONAH HEX and PRINCE OF PERSIA work overtime to give the audience what it [...]

This week features a bold new experiment in podcasting, the likes of which have seldom if ever been seen in our lifetimes! At the end of this week’s Cinefantastique Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Podcast 1:20, we let the recorder run on just to see what happened. The result is the Cinefantastique Post-Mortem Podcast, a [...]

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE made its debut last night (technically this morning) with midnight screenings around the country. The vampire sequel took in $30-million, setting a record for a midnight movie debut. The previous record holder was the immediate predecessor, THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOON, which earned $26.3-million last November.

Read more about The Twilight Saga: Eclipse [...]

HATCHET – writer-director Adam Green’s gleefully gory homage to slasher films of the 1970s and ’80s – is coming to Blu-ray on September 7. The new disc will feature the unrated director’s cut, not the R-rated cut released briefly in theatres in 2007. Bonus features from the previous DVD release will be ported over, and add a new audio commentary will be added, featuring Green and actor-stuntman Kane Hodder.

ith no new horror, fantasy, and science fiction films opening nationwide this week, the Cinefantastique Podcast turns its eye on the 50th anniversary of a trio of terror from the year 1960: Alfred Hitchcock’s PSYCHO, Michael Powell’s PEEPING TOM, and Roger Corman’s HOUSE OF USHER. Relax and sit back in your time machine as Dan Persons, Lawrence French, and Steve Biodrowski offer their retrospective analysis of these classic films.

Poor pacing and weak continuity prevent WOLF MOON from being any kind of sleeper success, in spite of production values that are occasionally impressive for a little movie that apparently came out of nowhere. Fans of TWILIGHT will probably find the story too derivative and the violence too graphic, while general horror fans will be put off by the attempt to cash in on the teen-romance elements of the popular franchise. Fans of the cast’s familiar names and faces may be the only ones interested.

Joining the ranks of Italian prog rockers Goblin and film composers Norman Orenstein, Reinhold Heil & Johnny Klimek, John Harrison, and a battalion of library music composers whose work has accompanied the walking dead in their nights, dawns, days, lands, and diaries of the dead as brought to shambling life by George A. Romero, is [...]

Here is a new clip from THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE – titled “Battle Recut.” If you’ve always dreamed of seeing the undead rumble in the forest, aided by some transparent CGI – well, you dream has come true!

A couple days ago, R. Patrick Alberty weighed in on the subject of whether JAWS (1975) ruined the modern Hollywood blockbuster. The inspiration for Alberty’s piece was this editorial by Ross Douthat, defending JAWS and STAR WARS against charges made by John Podhoretz and David Edelstein. I wanted to weigh in on the subject, not [...]

Here’s the International Trailer for PREDATORS. WARNING: possibly Not Safe For Work – Contains expletives. PREDATORS opens July 9th, from 20th Century Fox.

Here’s the second released trailer for RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE.
Writer/Director Paul W.S. Anderson used James Cameron’s 3D Fusion Camera System to shoot this first 3D film in the video game-derived RESIDENT EVIL series.
RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE stars Milla Jovovich, Ali Larter, Kim Coates, Shawn Roberts, and Sergio Peris-Mencheta
It’s scheduled to be released in 2D, 3D and IMAX [...]

Elvira’s “B” Log announced that her MOVIE MACABRE show will be coming back to invade our home screens:
“It’s official! Elvira’s Movie Macabre will be making it’s return to television this Fall with all NEW episodes! All dates, times, and channels are TBA later this summer. The show is syndicated (national) so times & channels will [...]