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Interview With The Vampire: Taking the Road Less Traveled
Adapting Anne Rice’s sensual, sprawling and incredibly detailed novel, Interview With the Vampire, for the screen was a daunting task indeed. The production was a bit dark and stor…
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October 29, 2010Comment28 Days Later: High-Class, Low-Budget Horror
Upon the success of 28 Days Later, Danny Boyle was credited with revitalizing the zombie movie. There’s something else he should be credited with revitalizing: the art — and the i…
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October 28, 2010Van Helsing’s Monster Jamboree
Who wouldn’t want to see a movie that featured not one, but three of Universal’s classic monsters: Dracula, Frankenstein’s Monster, and the Wolf Man? Such a gathering is the stuff …
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October 27, 2010Shaun Of The Dead: Secret Zombie References In The Film
You probably caught most of the zombie movie references in Shaun of the Dead, but did you catch these?
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October 27, 2010A Nightmare On Elm Street: The Making Of A Remake
We’ve all been chased by something horrible in our dreams, and we (quite naturally) long to re-live that terror. If we’re still running from the thing, we’re still alive. And the q…
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October 26, 2010Sleepy Hollow: Fictionalizing Fiction, The Movie vs. The Book
Where does Washington Irving end and Tim Burton begin? We compare the two Legends.
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October 25, 2010The Five Most Unsettling Moments in Splice
The sci-fi horror film Splice isn’t afraid to go to extremes. Here are the five moments where it really went there.
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October 25, 2010The Amityville Horror Is A Sham, And That’s That
The Amityville Horror is a great ghost story. It’s also a damn lie.
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October 21, 201010 Facts About The Shower Scene Of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho
The famous shower scene in Psycho has spawned myths and legends. Time to get clean on the facts.
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October 20, 2010Freddy vs. Jason: There Can Be Only One
We trace the long, hard road from development to production of Freddy vs. Jason and take a look at some other “Vs.” projects that never came to be.
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October 19, 2010Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds: Pre-CGI Ingenuity
How was something like The Birds made before the age of computer graphics technology? You got a bunch of real birds, trained them as much as you could and hoped for the best.
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October 19, 2010Bloody Hell in America: Behind The Prom Scene In Carrie
Here’s how you can destroy a high school gym with Karo syrup, rubber cement, monofilament wire and a crane.
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October 15, 2010Hostel: Where Did Eli Roth Come From?
He’s been credited as being the godfather of “torture porn.” We expose the man behind the Hostel curtain.
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October 15, 2010Secret Pea Soup Recipe From The Exorcist And Other Secrets Revealed
In this article we take a behind the scenes look at how with a little old fashioned elbow grease, they pulled off some of the classic effects shots in The Exorcist.
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October 14, 2010Six Favorite Traps From the Saw Movies
Upon the coming of Saw 3D, we look back at our favorite traps from the Saw movies, from the Reverse Beartrap of the first Saw to the Shotgun Carousel in Saw VI.
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October 14, 2010