Yahoo Movies has a five-minute clip of the opening of ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM. It appears to pick up literally right where the previous film left off, with a dead Predator giving birth to an Alien chest-burster. Then the Predator spaceship crash-lands back on Earth; a face-hugger gets out and attacks a human hunter and …
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In response to the SWEENEY TODD trailer, Lewis Lazar of the Chicago Sun-Times works himself up into a state of righteous indignation over the alleged “bait-and-switch” strategy of the marketing campaign: From what we know about the movie from its marketing strategy to date and from a small body of critics and VIPs who have …
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Despite the inauspicious title, SHROOMS is a pretty good Irish horror film that I saw at Screamfest. Apparently, Destination Films has picked up the U.S. release rights. You can visit the official website here or view the trailer below. NOTE: The website is not very informative, but if you do visit, by all means make …
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Joe Dante began his writing career in the sixties for Castle of Frankenstein magazine, and I think it would be safe to say that COF was quite influential on most of the writers who eventually ended up writing at Fred Clarke’s Cinefantastique magazine. However, Dante began his actual filmmaking career in the trailer dept. of …
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Check out the trailer for the Wachowski Brother’s live-action version of the old afternoon cartoon show…
MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN is a filmic adaptation based on the Clive Barker story of the same name (which appears in the first volume of his “Books of Blood” series). Director Ryuhei Kitamaura (who practically exploded with screen with far-out monster action in GODZILLA: FINAL WARS) is the director, so I can only imagine that the …
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RooTV.Com has the teaser trailer for THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS. It contains no footage from the film, but there are a few lines of dialogue that do a good job of setting up your anticipation: “Starting tonight, people will die,” breathes the Joker, adding with a chuckle, “I’m a man of my word.”
The trailer for THE MIST – Frank Darabont’s screen adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, about a group of people trapped in a store surrounded by a mist filled with monsters – is playing before HALLOWEEN. If you don’t want to sit through the whole film just for a chance to see the trailer (and who …
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It has been twenty-seven years since Italian horror director Dario Argento filmed INFERNO (1980), the second of his “Three Mothers” trilogy, which began with SUSPIRIA in 1977. Now, he has completed MOTHER OF TEARS, and you can see the trailer below. What’s cool about the trailer is that it seems to deliver the goods that …
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