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Crappy Family Horror Movies; Flicks You Won’t Gather Around Your Couch to Watch

The term “family horror film” is enough to send any hardened genre fan running in the opposite direction, but over the last few decades a slew of family horror classics like “Gremlins”, “The Witches”,...

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An Interview with the Legendary Uwe Boll!

Known mostly for helming a string of god-awful video game adaptations including Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead and In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale, there’s no question that German...

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Comic-Con ’11: ‘Twilight: Breaking Dawn’ Press Conference

A coterie of “Twilight” stars showed up for the heavily-hyped press conference at Comic Con early this morning to dish on Breaking Dawn: Part 1, the latest entry in the seemingly never-ending ‘tween...

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Comic-Con ’11: Troy Nixey and Guy Pearce Talk ‘Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark’

Just this evening at the San Diego Comic-Con I caught up with Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (review) helmer Troy Nixey, who made his feature-length directing debut with the film, a remake of the 1973...

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Comic-Con ’11: Craig Gillespie on ‘Pride, Prejudice & Zombies’ Progress

Speaking with Craig Gillespie at ongoing San Diego Comic-Con just a bit ago regarding Fright Night, his upcoming remake of the 1985 vampire classic, I managed to get the director to talk a bit about...

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Eli Craig Talks Possible ‘Tucker & Dale’ Sequel and Next Potential Project: A...

During my one-on-one sit-down interview today with Tucker & Dale vs. Evil director Eli Craig at Comic-Con – where he’s promoting the upcoming September 30th release of the hick-tastic horror/comedy...

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Comic Con ’11: ‘The Darkest Hour’ Will Be PG-13, Trailer, Concept Art!

Just left the Darkest Hour trailer debut at Comic-Con and I came away mildly impressed, and yet still unconvinced whether the film, now coming out December 23rd, will ultimately add anything new to the...

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Comic-Con ’11: ‘Underworld: Awakening’ Interviews w/ Kate Beckinsale, Len...

Cast and crew of the latest installment in the Underworld series, subtitled Awakening, were on-hand at Comic-Con this weekend to discuss the new 3D sequel, which is set for release on January 20th next...

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Comic-Con ’11: Interview with ‘Darkest Hour’ Director Chris Gorak: It’s...

At Comic-Con this weekend I had an opportunity to briefly sit down with director Chris Gorak, who made a splash at Sundance in 2006 with the low-budget indie thriller Right at Your Door and...

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Highlights From the ‘Locke & Key’ Panel (With A Bonus Rant From Creator Joe...

Amid the insanity drummed up by all the higher-profile projects at Comic Con this year, one of the more under-the-radar events at the convention this past week was a screening of the pilot for would-be...

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Comic Con ’11: Chat with ‘Tucker & Dale vs. Evil’ Director Eli Craig: “None...

At Comic Con to represent his upcoming independent horror/comedy Tucker & Dale vs. Evil over the weekend, first-time feature director Eli Craig took a moment to sit down with me at the massive...

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[Set Visit] The Longest, Most Insane Report From the Set of ‘Fright Night 3D’

Way, way back in September 2010, one unbelievably lucky B-D reporter (holla!) was drugged, tossed on a plane against his will and flown out to the set of Dreamworks’ Fright Night (releasing August...

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[Interview] Bloody Disgusting Selects: ‘Cold Fish’ Director Shion Sono

First coming to international prominence with his bizarrely gruesome 2002 satire Suicide Club, prolific Japanese director Shion Sono has helmed a dozen more films since then, though none have received...

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[Set Visit] This Is The Way The World Ends: Visiting the Filming Locations of...

Recently pushed from its original August release date to December 25, Summit Entertainment’s The Darkest Hour is a 3D alien invasion movie that takes place against the backdrop one of the world’s most...

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John Landis Tells B-D He’s Making Another Monster Movie!

Just hopped off the phone with John Landis about his new black comedy film Burke & Hare (coming out September 9th), and near the end of the conversation I asked the “American Werewolf in London”...

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[Special Feature] Top Kills From Previous ‘Final Destination’ Entries!

Coming out this Friday, New Line’s Final Destination 5 (official website) is the latest sequel in the horror franchise that with every entry sees a new set of unlucky characters ripped, shredded,...

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[Review] ‘Fright Night 3D’ Lacks the Soul and Charm of Its Predecessor

Coming out this Friday, August 19th, Dreamworks’ Fright Night 3D is a Craig Gillespie-directed remake of the hit 1985 vampire flick about a high school boy who discovers that a vampire has moved in...

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[Set Visit] Selene Comes Full Circle in ‘Underworld: Awakening 3D’!

Scheduled for release on January 20th, Underworld: Awakening is the upcoming fourth entry in the successful action/horror franchise that has so far grossed nearly $300 million worldwide. Shot in 3D and...

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[Set Report] MTV’s ‘Death Valley’‘Reno 911′ Meets ‘Dawn of the Dead’

Premiering tonight on MTV, Death Valley is a new mockumentary series that follows a group of officers working for the Undead Task Force (UTF), a law enforcement agency assigned to keep the denizens of...

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[Interview] ‘Shark Night 3D’ Cast: Sara Paxton, Dustin Milligan and Joel...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water…again, this weekend brings Shark Night 3D, director David Ellis’ contribution to the underwater horror genre. Recently BD sat down with several...

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[Interview] ‘Burke & Hare’ Director John Landis!

Currently playing on VOD, SundanceNOW.com and premiering in limited theaters (NY and LA) starting September 9th, John Landis’ dark comedy Burke & Hare tells the story of the titular real-life...

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[Interview] ‘Texas Chainsaw 3D’ Executive Producer and Scream Queen Christa...

From Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep to 2006’s notorious Wicker Man remake, low-budget “scream queen” Christa Campbell has certainly appeared in her share of horror films over the years. Now the busty...

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[Interview] ‘Straw Dogs’ Star Drew Powell

Director Rod Lurie has taken on an incredible challenge in remaking the 1971 Sam Peckinpah classic Straw Dogs, particularly when it comes to living up to the reputation of such a highly-regarded film....

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[Set Report] This Is The Way The World Ends: Visiting the Filming Locations...

Back in September 2010, Chris Eggertsen took a trip to Moscow to visit the set of Fox’s upcoming sci-fi film The Darkest Hour. Releasing on Christmas Day, it tells the story of four young foreigners...

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[Set Report] ‘Hostel: Part III’ Delivers An Even Darker Sin City

I arrived in Detroit to find it a ghost town. A major American city, emptied of people, skeletal skyscrapers jutting blankly against the callous sky. I was there to visit the set of Hostel: Part III,...

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[Set Report] This Is The Way The World Ends: Visiting the Filming Locations...

One day before the Christmas release of director Chris Gorak’s The Darkest Hour, we bring you the third and final chapter in Chris Eggertsen’s report from the film’s Moscow set. This installment...

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10 Great Jump Scares in Horror!

The thing about revisiting jump scares is, they’re just never quite as effective the second (or third, or fourth, or ninetieth) time around. So when putting together this list, I made a point of...

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10 Awesome Horror Movie Boogeymen Who Never Caught On

For every Freddy, Jason and Michael Myers, there are countless cinematic bugbears who remain frustratingly overlooked by mainstream audiences. As horror fans know, this has nothing to do with their...

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Top 10 Kills From the ‘Halloween’ Series!

Originally published on October 25, 2010. Of all the slasher franchises that have sprung up over the last 30 years, I find that I have the most personal connection with Halloween. The 1978 original was...

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10 Awesome Outcast Revenge Horror Movies!

Whether you were the one being the bullied or the one doing the bullying, all of us have at one point or another come face to face with the cruel potential of life’s social interactions. Listen, nobody...

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Ten Memorably Gory Moments in Non-Horror Films!

If you’ve ever found yourself watching some stuffy costume drama or family-friendly adventure movie and thought to yourself, gee, this film sure could use a few more disembowelments, then B-D’s list of...

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Bring on the Gore: Top Ten Practical Effects in Horror!

In 1984, a horror icon was born by the name of Freddy Krueger, in Wes Craven’s landmark horror classic A Nightmare on Elm Street. Key to the film’s success was the special makeup effects work by David...

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Interview with ‘The Ward’ Director John Carpenter

“Halloween”. “The Thing”. “They Live”. “Village of the Damned”…Ok fine, forget about that last one. Doesn’t matter. After dropping out of the feature-directing game for nearly ten years, the man who...

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Interview: ‘Super 8’ Director J.J. Abrams!

One of the most anticipated films of the summer is writer/director J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 (review), about a small Ohio town in 1979 that suffers a rash of bizarre occurrences following an explosive train...

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Interview: Cast of ‘Red White & Blue’!

Now out on DVD and Netflix Instant, writer/director Simon Rumley’s Red White & Blue (which I recommend to more open-minded viewers) tells the tragic story of three disparate Austin, Texas residents...

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Top 10 Horror Films with Big-Name Casts!

It’s a sad fact that many A-list actors are wary of starring in horror films, either out of fear they’ll be seen as “slumming it” by appearing in a genre so oft-maligned by snobby elites or because...

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Bloody Disgusting: Six Sites Remember the Class of 1981!

1981 was a landmark year for the horror genre, seeing as it did the release of such lauded genre classics as Sam Raimi’s The Evil Dead, David Cronenberg’s Scanners, John Landis’ An American Werewolf in...

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‘Kidnapped’ Director’s Post-Apocalyptic ‘Welcome To Harmony’: “’28 Days...

While speaking today with Spanish director Miguel Vivas, whose violent home-invasion horror/thriller Kidnapped is being released on VOD June 15th before going on to a limited theatrical release June...

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Interview with ‘Kidnapped’ Director Miguel Angel Vivas!

Spanish director Miguel Angel Vivas’ brutal home invasion horror/thriller Kidnapped has been described by some as a more-visceral version of Michael Haneke’s Funny Games, a film that makes the audience...

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Set Report: A Lengthy Trip Down Yet Another ‘Wrong Turn’

Just when you thought it was safe to wander off the beaten path once again, the murderous Hilliiker Brothers are back for another go-round with Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (coming out on DVD...

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Interview with ‘Enter Nowhere’ Director Jack Heller!

Back in May Bloody-Disgusting was invited to the first-ever screening of director Jack Heller’s independently-produced mystery/thriller Enter Nowhere, about three strangers who find themselves stranded...

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Dean Devlin Talks About the Failure of His ‘Godzilla’ 1998 Script

One of the more interesting conversations I had while covering the red carpet at the Saturn Awards in Los Angeles last night was with Dean Devlin (there to receive the Dr. Donald A. Reed Award for...

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Doug Jones On Guillermo Del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’: “He’s Not Gonna Rush It”

Ever since it was first announced a couple of years ago, fans of genre legend Guillermo del Toro have been eagerly anticipating his adaptation of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”, although not much in the...

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Michael Biehn, Rosanna Arquette Talk Xavier Gens’‘The Divide’!

On the red carpet for the Saturn Awards last night I ran into actor Michael Biehn (there to accept a Lifetime Achievement Award), who rose to fame in the 1980s after starring in James Cameron films The...

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Interview: Frank Darabont and Gale Ann Hurd Talk Season Two of ‘The Walking...

Currently gearing up for a highly-anticipated Season Two is Frank Darabont’s The Walking Dead, the wildly popular TV adaptation of the Robert Kirkman comic book series that debuted to stellar ratings...

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Bloody Gets Face-to-Face With Death on the Set of ‘Final Destination 5’!

Set for a quickly-approaching release date of August 12, New Line’s Final Destination 5 3D continues the long-running franchise with a whole new cast of characters to be sliced, diced and generally...

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Jon Knautz Says No Movement Yet on ‘Jack Brooks’ Sequel, Talks Next Project

Fans of 2008’s Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer have long been awaiting a sequel to the cult DVD hit, but unfortunately there hasn’t been much news on that since the first film dropped. Nevertheless, when I...

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BD Review: ‘Good Neighbours’ a Strong Thriller

Currently available for download on iTunes and other VOD platforms, writer/director Jacob Tierney’s Good Neighbors – which premiered at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival before being...

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Time to Revisit…‘Gremlins 2: The New Batch’

In this edition of “Time to Revisit…” I take a look back at Joe Dante’s underrated 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch, which came about four years too late on the heels of its hit predecessor but...

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Interview: ‘The Shrine’ Director John Kanutz

A cult hit on DVD, the 2008 horror/comedy Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer endeared up-and-coming genre director Jon Knautz to many in the horror community, and fans have been eagerly anticipating his next...

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