Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Films
We cruise the eldritch, primoridal reaches of cyberspace, searching for ephemera distilled from the infinite vastness of the Internet ether, so that you don’t have to. Follow us as we explore these inky depths of space and time, discovering pearls of news in the realms of horror, fantasy, and science-fiction.
Anthony Hopkins, who won an Oscar for his memorably menacing performance as the monstrous Hannibal Lecters, tells Hollywood Reporter that he worries about Hollywood’s current obsession with computer-graphics and green-screen work. Hopkins is not opposed to the techniques, just concerned that they sometimes create a disconnect between performer and audience: “I’ve done a couple of …
Josh Marshall of the political blog Talking Points Memo compares the current throw-down between RNC Chairman Michael Steele and former Bush’s Brain Karl Rove to a kaiju slug-fest.
In an interview at Dread Central, director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo talks about AFTER.LIFE, the indepdent horror film receiving a limited platform release this Friday.
Here is the first theatrical trailer for SPLICE, the low-budget science fiction film that got picked up for release by Warner Brothers after generating interest at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Adrien Brody and Sarah Polly play geneticists who create a new life form that winds up growing at an alarming (perhaps unstoppable rate). …
Variety has a couple of brief items regarding the launch of CLASH OF THE TITANS, the weekend’s big fantasy extravaganza, based on the 1981 production from Ray Harryhausen and Charles Schneer. The new film had its premiere at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, where not only the cast and crew of the remake showed up …
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In a piece titled “White Ribbon looks like a period piece but draws from classic sci-fi,” critic Brandon Fibbs suggests that director Michael Haneke foreign-language Oscar-nominee “throbs with a spectral connction to a 1960 science fiction film that, were I to name it, would surely ruin this film’s dark, ambiguous surprise.” Haneke is perhaps best …
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Why do women enjoy horror movies? It’s an interesting question, and we found an answer in an unexpected place: a brief post at Iranian.com offers an explanation from a psychologist: “Fear can facilitate sexual responsiveness in women, whereas it inhibits it in men,” says Dr Glenn Wilson, a psychologist at King’s College London. Isn’t that …
John W. Morehead, who contributes to Cinefantastique when he can spare time from his own fine blog, Theofantastique (no, the similarity of names is not a coincidence) is interviewed on the Fangoria website, regarding his views on the nexus of horror and spirituality. Do the two really mesh? Morehead thinks so.
MTV.com’s Movies Blog has a brief interview with actor Jackson Rathbone, who compares his blockbuster TWILIGHT movies with his recent horror film DREAD, one of the After Dark Horrorfest’s “8 Films to Die For” recently released on DVD: Despite the fact that “Twilight” isn’t really a scary movie, Rathbone said there are similarities between “Twilight” …
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USA Today has posted an interview with the stars of the sci-fi comedy HOT TUB TIME MACHINE. While mostly a portrait of how John Cusack, Rob Corddry, and Craig Robinson riff off one another in a good-natured way, there is the occasional snippet of discussion about, you know, the actual movie they are promoting: Luckily, …