| Of all the films Dario Argento has directed, none is as elusive as his third and final fauna-titled FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET. The reasons for this are unclear as Argento was a hot property at the time he shot the film in the summer of 1971. Released theatrically by... | | As a twenty-three-year devotee of Dario Argento, I have only seen a small fraction of the films directed by Lucio Fulci. I first became aware of his work on June 6, 1982 when I saw the trailer for THE HOUSE BY THE CEMETERY before a theatrical double dose of POLTERGEIST.... | | George A. Romero recently celebrated his 4th decade in the film business. Originally attempting to make an Ingmar Berman-inspired coming-of-age film in the Middle Ages (SUMMER WITH MONIKA meets THE SEVENTH SEAL?), funding was (fortunately) not forthcoming due to investor insouciance and he ended up making the watershed NIGHT OF... | | HATCHET, which made its long-awaited debut on December 18 in the de rigueur “unrated” form on DVD, is a valentine for horror fans who grew up on the shenanigans of Leatherface, Michael Myers, Jason Voorhees, and Fred Kruger. Adam Green, a self-professed horror fanatic since he... | | Although it was released on DVD on June 26th, 2007, winter is the best time of the year to watch Bryan Norton’s terrific short film PENNY DREADFUL which has snagged many awards from Shriekfest, the First Run Festival, New York VisionFest, the Phoenix International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival, and... | |
Success begets remakes that reap big box office. Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN did well enough with its $75M-plus box office gross to prod other producers into making remakes of far less well-known horror films. The latest flick on the remake track is Lewis Jackson’s YOU BETTER WATCH OUT, better known as CHRISTMAS EVIL, starring Brandon Maggart as the distraught toymaker who becomes an evil Santa Claus and slays those he deems naughty and not nice. The film was distributed on DVD in 2000 by Troma and in 2006 on DVD by Synapse Films. Producers David Foster and Ryan E. Heppe, who are also involved with the remake of the original SILENT NIGHT, DEADLY NIGHT, have optioned the rights for the remake, which will probably go into production soon after the Writer’s Strike ends.
