Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction Films
The voice of Cinefantastique Online. Updates about what is happening on the website, along with opinion and analysis of the state of the horor, fantasy, and science fiction genres.
As you may have noticed, Cinefantastique Online is offering a heavy dose of Korean horror today. In honor of the nationwide release of DRAGON WARS (which had its Hollywood premier last night), we’re offering a handful of retrospective reviews on recent Korean imports: the recent excellent monster movie THE HOST; THREE…EXTREMES, an Asian anthology featuring an episode …
At the Venice Film Festival, where he was premiering the latest (and presumably last) version of BLADE RUNNER, Ridley Scott proclaimed that science fiction cinema is dead, offering “nothing original…we’ve seen it all before.” When you consider that Hollywood’s idea of a sci-fi blockbuster these days is TRANSFORMERS, you can hardly blame Scott for copping …
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American Life TV, which targets aging viewers with fond memories of the ’60s, has purchased the rights to four science-fiction television series produced by the late Irwin Allen: VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA, LOST IN SPACE, THE TIME TUNNEL, and LAND OF THE GIANTS. Beginning September 6, the shows will air on Thursday night, …
In a post titled “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar,” slasher movie fan Final Girl objects to this Bonnie Ruberg column in the Village Voice, which floats the idea that, judging by the trailer for RESIDENT EVIL 5, which features a white hero mowing down hordes of black zombies, the latest incarnation of the famous videogame …
I’m a little bit old school when it comes to enjoying genre movies: I believe they deserve to be seen on the big screen, where the special visual and sound effects can really blast your senses into another dimension. Yes, I own a big screen TV and a DVD player (and even a laserdisc player …
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Variety informs us that New Regency has picked up the film rights to Virulents, a graphic novel about soldiers in Afghanistan who encounter vampire-zombies. The obscure Virgin Comics title (I couldn’t’t find it on Amazon.com) made its debut this February; you can find its rather threadbare webpage here. The film version will be scripted by John …
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Doing a little catch-up on news I missed when it was news, I find this interesting article by Anne Thompson in Variety: “No horror story for studio genre labels.” The gist of the piece is that hardcore horror movies are petering out, so the studio genre labels dedicated to making them (Fox Atomic, Sony’s Screen …
DARK SHADOWS fans – at least the ones I know – are rejoicing at the news (announced in Daily Variety and at a recent ShadowCon) that Johnny Depp has signed a deal to co-produce a feature film version of the 1960s Gothic soap opera. Warner Bros. is teaming with Depp’s Infinitum-Nihil and Graham King’s GK …
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What’s in a name?” Shakespeare asked. Apparently quite a lot, as I happened to run across two posts recently (one by Chris Stangl, one by Gloria Steinem), both of which object to particular labels applied to certain films. First, Chris Stangle, at the Exploding Kientoscope, objects to the term “torture porn,” even though he did …