Featured in Heather Wixson's holiday gift guide, the new book Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television could be the perfect stocking stuffer for the horror fan in your life this holiday season, but Spectacular Optical is giving you the chance to take your gift one step further with their interactive book tour this December that includes screenings, lectures, and other live celebrations tied to the book's seasonal themes:
Press Release: For many, Christmas is an annual celebration of goodwill and joy, but for others, it’s a time to curl up on the couch in the dead of winter for a good old-fashioned fright. The festive holiday season has always included a more somber side, and scary tales of child-stealing demons to ghost stories told ‘round the fireplace go back to pre-Christian celebrations. These long-standing traditions have found modern expression in the Christmas horror film, a unique...
Press Release: For many, Christmas is an annual celebration of goodwill and joy, but for others, it’s a time to curl up on the couch in the dead of winter for a good old-fashioned fright. The festive holiday season has always included a more somber side, and scary tales of child-stealing demons to ghost stories told ‘round the fireplace go back to pre-Christian celebrations. These long-standing traditions have found modern expression in the Christmas horror film, a unique...
- 12/4/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
For many, Christmas is an annual celebration of goodwill and joy, but for others, it’s a time to curl up on the couch in the dead of winter for a good old fashioned fright. The festive holiday season has always included a more somber side, and scary tales of child-stealing demons to ghost stories told ‘round the fireplace go back to pre-Christian celebrations. These long-standing traditions have found modern expression in Christmas horror film and television shows, a unique and sometimes controversial subgenre that cheerfully drives a stake of holly through the heart of cherished Christmas customs.
Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television, the latest book by Canadian micro-publisher Spectacular Optical, offers a definitive, in-depth exploration of the history of these subversive film and television presentations that allow viewers to engage in different ways with the complicated cultural history of the Christmas season.
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Yuletide Terror: Christmas Horror on Film and Television, the latest book by Canadian micro-publisher Spectacular Optical, offers a definitive, in-depth exploration of the history of these subversive film and television presentations that allow viewers to engage in different ways with the complicated cultural history of the Christmas season.
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- 9/7/2017
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Dolemite
• Release Date: Available Now on Blu-ray/DVD combo pack
• Written By: Jerry Jones, Rudy Ray Moore
• Directed By: D’Urville Martin
• Starring: Rudy Ray Moore, D’Urville Martin, Jerry Jones, Lady Reed
Dolemite is a flick stacked to the rafters with “shouldn’t”s. A man of Rudy Ray Moore’s build shouldn’t be able to pull down the insane amounts of trim he does. A man that knows so very precious little about martial arts (R.R. Moore again) shouldn’t be attempting those high kicking moves. These people that are about as far away from being actual actors (with a few exceptions) as my house is from Venus shouldn’t be reading reams of dialogue. Actually, this whole production shouldn’t be entertaining or even watchable, but holy hell is it ever!!
The long and short of the tale is this: (maybe) pimp and club owner...
• Release Date: Available Now on Blu-ray/DVD combo pack
• Written By: Jerry Jones, Rudy Ray Moore
• Directed By: D’Urville Martin
• Starring: Rudy Ray Moore, D’Urville Martin, Jerry Jones, Lady Reed
Dolemite is a flick stacked to the rafters with “shouldn’t”s. A man of Rudy Ray Moore’s build shouldn’t be able to pull down the insane amounts of trim he does. A man that knows so very precious little about martial arts (R.R. Moore again) shouldn’t be attempting those high kicking moves. These people that are about as far away from being actual actors (with a few exceptions) as my house is from Venus shouldn’t be reading reams of dialogue. Actually, this whole production shouldn’t be entertaining or even watchable, but holy hell is it ever!!
The long and short of the tale is this: (maybe) pimp and club owner...
- 5/5/2016
- by DanielXIII
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
There are good movies, bad movies, and plenty of movies in between — and then there are movies like Dangerous Men. It’s a charmingly inept action/drama that’s utterly uninterested in predictability or following the norms of narrative film-making. Characters come and go, main plot points are dropped randomly while others are picked up, and it was filmed over two decades. Two decades for an 80 minute movie with zero narrative cohesion! It’s pretty magical in its own special way, and as the credits make clear, it’s all due to writer/director John S. Rad. Drafthouse Films helped reintroduce it to the world, and their Blu-ray/DVD release features interviews, a documentary on the film’s rebirth, and a fittingly funny and ridiculous commentary track. It’s not for everyone, but it’s definitely for someone — and you know who you are. Keep reading to see what I heard on the Dangerous Men commentary. Dangerous Men...
- 4/27/2016
- by Rob Hunter
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
One of the more intriguing films listed in this year’s just-announced South By Southwest Film Festival lineup is Zero Charisma. Why? Well, partly because it’s an indie-comedy about role-playing games (and it’s not every day you get to see one of those). And partly because it’s directed by Andrew Matthews and Katie Graham, who worked as, respectively, the director of photography and the editor on the excellent 2009 Troll 2 documentary Best Worst Movie. (Zero Charisma is also exec produced by Best Worst director and producer, Michael and Lindsay Stephenson.)
Below, you can read the official synopsis...
Below, you can read the official synopsis...
- 1/31/2013
- by Clark Collis
- EW - Inside Movies
I'm not sure why, but in the 1980's people sure seemed to have a thing for sledgehammers. There was Peter Gabriel's song, a TV series, and even a San Diego theatre group that formed late in the decade. But before all of that was writer/director David A. Prior's 1983 film Sledgehammer, the topic of this week's Motion Picture Purgatory.
Starring Ted Prior, Linda McGill, and John Eastman, Sledgehammer tells the tale of a young boy who murders his mother and her lover with a hammer. Ten years later a wave of teenage murders plagues the same area.
Intervision Pictures Corp. released this first shot-on-tape slasher movie for the home video market this past May featuring an audio commentary with director David A. Prior, audio commentary with Bleeding Skull creators Joseph A. Ziemba and Dan Budnik, "Hammertime" featurette with Destroy All Movies!!! author Zack Carlson, "SledgehammerLand" featurette with Cinefamily...
Starring Ted Prior, Linda McGill, and John Eastman, Sledgehammer tells the tale of a young boy who murders his mother and her lover with a hammer. Ten years later a wave of teenage murders plagues the same area.
Intervision Pictures Corp. released this first shot-on-tape slasher movie for the home video market this past May featuring an audio commentary with director David A. Prior, audio commentary with Bleeding Skull creators Joseph A. Ziemba and Dan Budnik, "Hammertime" featurette with Destroy All Movies!!! author Zack Carlson, "SledgehammerLand" featurette with Cinefamily...
- 10/7/2011
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Michael Stephenson did something that’s kind of amazing: build a career out of appearing in what might be the worst film of all time. The actor and director toiled in relative obscurity for nearly two decades after the release of Troll 2, until he made the acclaimed documentary Best Worst Movie, which chronicled the history and cult status of the infamous horror debacle. There was word back in February that he’d tackle narrative filmmaking with a movie called Destroy, but he isn’t leaving the documentary format for good.
Collider says that he’s developing a new documentary, centered on homemade haunted houses and the people who make them. A title hasn’t been announced yet, but the name “Homemade House of Horrors” is being used in conjunction with the project, as the picture on the side tells you. I don’t know how everyone else feels, but that sounds perfect to me.
Collider says that he’s developing a new documentary, centered on homemade haunted houses and the people who make them. A title hasn’t been announced yet, but the name “Homemade House of Horrors” is being used in conjunction with the project, as the picture on the side tells you. I don’t know how everyone else feels, but that sounds perfect to me.
- 8/18/2011
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
It’s Monday and here are your DVD & Blu-Ray Releases for May 10th! We have a good release week for genre fans. For those of you that didn’t buy the Alien Anthology on Blu-Ray, the individual films are released this week as well as some other key titles that you should definitely pay attention to! Click on Read More to find all the releases.
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- 5/9/2011
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
This week, on a very special episode of Reject Radio, we talk with people that want to live forever and punks who throw rocks at their faces all night long. The minds behind the book “Destroy All Movies!!!,” Zack Carlson and Brian Connolly, talk about how punks have been portrayed in movies from 8Mm to Zombie Nightmare. Barry Ptolemy, director of Transcendent Man, shares with us the challenges of shooting a documentary, the joy of getting to know Ray Kurzweil, and the recipe for eternal life. Plus, Katey Rich from Cinema Blend and Germain Lussier from /Film go head-to-head in our movie news quiz, and we all end up talking about Hunger Games. Naturally. Loosen up your tie and stay a while. Listen Here: Download This Episode On This Week’s Show: The Reject Radio Movie News Pop Quiz [The Beginning - 13:30]: Katey Rich vs Germain Lussier. A battle of titans if there ever was one. It...
- 3/16/2011
- by Cole Abaius
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
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