CyberSurfing 01//01/08

TMCA to Screen Documentaries and Horror Movies: MehrNews.Com informs us that the Cinematheque of Tehran’s Museum of Contemporary Art will include some horror titles for the 2008 winter season:

The silent horror movie “The Golem: How He Came into the World” by Paul Wegener and Carl Boese and “Nosferatu, A Symphony of Horror”, the German Expressionist film by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, will be screened on January 3 and 5 respectively.
Other films slated to be screened at the venue include Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.’s “The Blob”, The Omen (1976) by Richard Donner, William Friedkin’s “The Exorcist” and also the Iranian documentaries “Days without Calendar” by Mehrdad Oskuii, Sudabeh Mojaveri’s “Inana” and “Mountain’s Sad Song” by Hamed Khosravi.

Japanese Horror Film Gets a Hollywood Makeover: ClickTheCity.Com offers up one of those articles that really doesn’t need to be written, explaining how some Hollywood producers have remade ONE MISSED CALL for U.S. audiences. I say it “doesn’t need to be written” because the filmmaker comments are so predictable that you could have written them yourself without bothering to interview: basically, they found a good Japanese film, copied the plot, and changed the details to make it more palatable to a Western audience.
By the way, Happy New Year!

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