Being set around Halloween, Scream VI was packed with immediately recognizable horror costumes. Jason Voorhees. Freddy Krueger. Michael Myers. Pinhead. Not to mention Ghostface. They were all in there. But during a party scene, one of the characters is wearing a costume you might not recognize. It’s a knight’s suit of armor, but made out of cardboard. That’s the same costume the protagonist in the 2007 horror comedy Murder Party (watch it Here) wears. If you didn’t recognize it, then we have to tell you all about Murder Party – because it’s the Best Horror Movie You Never Saw.
Murder Party was the feature directorial debut of Jeremy Saulnier, who has gone on to direct films like the revenge thriller Blue Ruin, the neo-Nazi horror film Green Room, and the mystery thriller Hold the Dark, as well as episodes of True Detective season 3. Saulnier also wrote the screenplay for the film.
Murder Party was the feature directorial debut of Jeremy Saulnier, who has gone on to direct films like the revenge thriller Blue Ruin, the neo-Nazi horror film Green Room, and the mystery thriller Hold the Dark, as well as episodes of True Detective season 3. Saulnier also wrote the screenplay for the film.
- 1/11/2024
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
It’s taken four years for Triumph of Death — the quartet that former Celtic Frost frontman Tom G. Warrior launched to celebrate his first band, Hellhammer — to release a music video, but they’ve done so just in time for Halloween. The clip presents a live performance of “Massacra,” a galloping black-metal blast off Hellhammer’s Apocalyptic Raids EP from 1984. “Away is the suuuuun,” Warrior bellows in the chorus. “Endless the night/Mankind’s massacra/Intelligence is dead.” The performance, which features on the band’s upcoming debut album, Resurrection of the Flesh,...
- 10/27/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Diablo 4 is all about the loot. Players can improve character stats and abilities, but builds and combat efficacy rely on equipment. The stronger the loot, the stronger its effects, but also the harder it is to find. The pinnacle of Diablo 4 equipment is so rare that you have to jump through quite a few hoops.
Like other loot-based titles, Diablo 4 equipment is divided into rarities. The weakest items, Common, are the most common (duh) and are generally only good for selling to merchants for coin or salvaging for upgrade materials. Meanwhile, Unique items are by far the most powerful but also the hardest to find. They aren’t literally unique since more than one player can own a copy of each item at the same time, but unless you know where to look (and are extremely lucky), you could go your entire Diablo 4 career without seeing or owning one. Thankfully,...
Like other loot-based titles, Diablo 4 equipment is divided into rarities. The weakest items, Common, are the most common (duh) and are generally only good for selling to merchants for coin or salvaging for upgrade materials. Meanwhile, Unique items are by far the most powerful but also the hardest to find. They aren’t literally unique since more than one player can own a copy of each item at the same time, but unless you know where to look (and are extremely lucky), you could go your entire Diablo 4 career without seeing or owning one. Thankfully,...
- 10/26/2023
- by Matthew Byrd
- Den of Geek
When Tom Gabriel Fischer looks back on his first band, the pioneering black-metal group Hellhammer, he still sounds rattled by the cold reception they got. “We were ridiculed,” he says in a low and sincere tone. “We weren’t taken seriously.”
When the trio formed in the early Eighties, underground metal could have been an Olympic sport. Bands like Iron Maiden and Metallica cranked up the genre’s speed and technicality with athletic drumming and intricate guitar riffs, and the bombastic showmanship of prog still lingered in its pyrotechnic solo breaks.
When the trio formed in the early Eighties, underground metal could have been an Olympic sport. Bands like Iron Maiden and Metallica cranked up the genre’s speed and technicality with athletic drumming and intricate guitar riffs, and the bombastic showmanship of prog still lingered in its pyrotechnic solo breaks.
- 8/15/2019
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
Already in select theaters, and set to debut on various digital platforms this Friday, February 22nd, Jonas Åkerlund’s Lords of Chaos is centered around real-life Norwegian black metal band Mayhem and its co-founder Euronymous (played by Rory Culkin), whose tragic rise and fall is explored here.
Daily Dead recently spoke with Åkerlund, who got his start as the drummer for Bathory and went on to nab several awards for his groundbreaking work in the world of music videos, and he discussed how personal this story was for him, and why he wanted to be the one to bring Lords of Chaos to the big screen. Åkerlund also talked about Culkin’s longstanding loyalty to the project, finding the balance to the “truth and lies” of this story, and more.
I would love to start off at the beginning, and talk about the journey of getting this film made, because I know it took years.
Daily Dead recently spoke with Åkerlund, who got his start as the drummer for Bathory and went on to nab several awards for his groundbreaking work in the world of music videos, and he discussed how personal this story was for him, and why he wanted to be the one to bring Lords of Chaos to the big screen. Åkerlund also talked about Culkin’s longstanding loyalty to the project, finding the balance to the “truth and lies” of this story, and more.
I would love to start off at the beginning, and talk about the journey of getting this film made, because I know it took years.
- 2/20/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
The influential black-metal band Mayhem will reissue their second album, 2000’s Grand Declaration of War, later this fall. The album, which came six years after their celebrated first LP, De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas, found the group incorporating elements of prog and art-rock into its typically grim sound.
Drummer Hellhammer and the band’s guitarist on the album – Blasphemer, who departed the group in 2008 – oversaw the remix and remastering, which was done by Paradise Lost producer Jaime Gomez Arellano. The record, due out December 7th, also features new artwork by Glyn Smyth.
Drummer Hellhammer and the band’s guitarist on the album – Blasphemer, who departed the group in 2008 – oversaw the remix and remastering, which was done by Paradise Lost producer Jaime Gomez Arellano. The record, due out December 7th, also features new artwork by Glyn Smyth.
- 10/10/2018
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
I recently had the opportunity to interview the directors of a very insightful documentary concerning the Norwegian Black Metal scene. Having a very healthy interest in this genre myself, it was amazing to get the chance to conduct an interview.
Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites took their interest in a niche musical genre to Norway itself in order to gain access to some of the leading figures of the industry.
Until The Light Takes Us is a fantastic look at a fantastical event. One that never has, and likely never will be, repeated. You meet the front runners of the scene and hear their personal accounts of the events that unfolded in the early 90′s black metal arena. Ewell and Aites explain here how the project came about and how it felt to interview some of the most infamous characters in modern music history.
FilmShaft: How did the film come...
Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites took their interest in a niche musical genre to Norway itself in order to gain access to some of the leading figures of the industry.
Until The Light Takes Us is a fantastic look at a fantastical event. One that never has, and likely never will be, repeated. You meet the front runners of the scene and hear their personal accounts of the events that unfolded in the early 90′s black metal arena. Ewell and Aites explain here how the project came about and how it felt to interview some of the most infamous characters in modern music history.
FilmShaft: How did the film come...
- 12/15/2010
- by Cheryl Carter
- FilmShaft.com
Until The Light Takes Us
DVD | 2-Disc DVD | Blu-Ray
Directed by Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell
Starring Gylve "Fenriz" Nagell, Varg Vikernes, Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg, Kjetil "Frost" Haraldstad
Factory 25
Released: October 19, 2010
It was the early 1990s, and for metalheads, change was in the air. "Alternative" was the buzz word being bandied about by music marketing, Grunge had taken over the charts, new bands and new sounds were coming... but among metal fans there was a desire to search and find something new and something different -- and many were looking for more extreme and brutal movements.
Enter the Norwegian Black Metal movement. A lot of metal fans were first introduced to this scene when news hit international media of Varg Vikernes (Burzum) being arrested and tried for burning a number of churches across Norway. The media across the world had a field day with the story, labeling the initially...
DVD | 2-Disc DVD | Blu-Ray
Directed by Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell
Starring Gylve "Fenriz" Nagell, Varg Vikernes, Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg, Kjetil "Frost" Haraldstad
Factory 25
Released: October 19, 2010
It was the early 1990s, and for metalheads, change was in the air. "Alternative" was the buzz word being bandied about by music marketing, Grunge had taken over the charts, new bands and new sounds were coming... but among metal fans there was a desire to search and find something new and something different -- and many were looking for more extreme and brutal movements.
Enter the Norwegian Black Metal movement. A lot of metal fans were first introduced to this scene when news hit international media of Varg Vikernes (Burzum) being arrested and tried for burning a number of churches across Norway. The media across the world had a field day with the story, labeling the initially...
- 11/12/2010
- by Greg Davies
- Geeks of Doom
From MTV.Com: My favorite Norwegian black-metal story, well-known by now to connoisseurs of the demented, is the one about the singer called — prophetically, as it turned out — Dead. Per Yngve Ohlin was his real-world name, and he fronted the influential black-metal band Mayhem. One day in the spring of 1991, at a house the group shared not far from Oslo, Dead blew his brains out with a shotgun. ("Excuse all the blood," his suicide note said.) His body was discovered by the band's guitarist, Euronymous, who of course realized the police would have to be called. Before doing so, though, Euronymous scurried out to buy a cheap camera, returned to the house, arranged the death scene a little more photogenically — the shotgun carefully positioned next to the corpse, with its frontal lobe still slopping out of the cranium — and snapped some pictures. He also gathered up a number of skull shards,...
- 12/4/2009
- by Kurt Loder
- MTV Movies Blog
Co-directors Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites weren't black afficianados when a friend of theirs at Amoeba Records in San Francisco turned the two indy-music fans onto a sub-genre, that strangely enough, these days is also being appreciated by even the low-fi and roots music scenes. Delving a little deeper, and becoming aware of the notorious history of true Norwegian Black Metal, which includes arson, suicide, and murder, Ewell and Aites decided the subject would be perfect for their feature debut.. So they set off for Norway, where they lived for two years, and ended up getting what I think is the clearest and most ambiguous look at what is often a very misunderstood subculture.
One thing that really sets Until The Light Takes Us apart from the few Black Metal docs that have come out over the past 10 years is the on-screen inclusion of Varg Virkernes, aka Count Grishnak of the band Burzum.
One thing that really sets Until The Light Takes Us apart from the few Black Metal docs that have come out over the past 10 years is the on-screen inclusion of Varg Virkernes, aka Count Grishnak of the band Burzum.
- 12/3/2009
- Screen Anarchy
The Alamo Guide
for November 19th, 2009
It’s totally fall, you guys! I know this, because my allergies have exploded with this cold front, it was 40 something degrees last night, And I Get To Eat Turkey Next Thursday! Oh so much turkey will I eat! With extra dressing and gravy. I will be doing this with my biological family, which, if you consider the other options we have at the Alamo, actually sounds pretty boring. While I’ll be way too full falling asleep staring at the football game that I don’t really care about on my grandparents couch, You can be way too full, falling asleep, staring at the Ut vs A&M football game that you probably Do care about at the Alamo Ritz! Or you can be watching any movie at any of our theaters, because our annual tradition still stands. We’ll be your second...
for November 19th, 2009
It’s totally fall, you guys! I know this, because my allergies have exploded with this cold front, it was 40 something degrees last night, And I Get To Eat Turkey Next Thursday! Oh so much turkey will I eat! With extra dressing and gravy. I will be doing this with my biological family, which, if you consider the other options we have at the Alamo, actually sounds pretty boring. While I’ll be way too full falling asleep staring at the football game that I don’t really care about on my grandparents couch, You can be way too full, falling asleep, staring at the Ut vs A&M football game that you probably Do care about at the Alamo Ritz! Or you can be watching any movie at any of our theaters, because our annual tradition still stands. We’ll be your second...
- 11/20/2009
- by caitlin
- OriginalAlamo.com
Stunning black metal documentary Until The Light Takes Us opens Friday!
Controversial, beautiful mindwrecker Antichrist opens Friday too!
This weekend, The Alamo Ritz will unveil two of the most masterfully made and potentially disturbing films of the decade!
Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist has already cemented a reputation for crowd-pleasing and stomach-turning from One Single Screening at Fantastic Fest ‘09. It is explicit, it is challenging, it is grotesque, it has been called offensive, misogynistic and dangerous…but it has also been called a masterpiece and perhaps the Danish auteur’s finest work.
Charlotte Gainsbourg (who won best Actress for the role at Cannes) and Willem Defoe star as an unnamed couple seeking comfort in their country home after the sudden death of their child. While in their forest retreat, as summed up by the unofficial slogan of Fantastic fest ‘09, “chaos reigns.”
Antichrist tickets are Here!
On the all-too-real side of the coin,...
Controversial, beautiful mindwrecker Antichrist opens Friday too!
This weekend, The Alamo Ritz will unveil two of the most masterfully made and potentially disturbing films of the decade!
Lars Von Trier’s Antichrist has already cemented a reputation for crowd-pleasing and stomach-turning from One Single Screening at Fantastic Fest ‘09. It is explicit, it is challenging, it is grotesque, it has been called offensive, misogynistic and dangerous…but it has also been called a masterpiece and perhaps the Danish auteur’s finest work.
Charlotte Gainsbourg (who won best Actress for the role at Cannes) and Willem Defoe star as an unnamed couple seeking comfort in their country home after the sudden death of their child. While in their forest retreat, as summed up by the unofficial slogan of Fantastic fest ‘09, “chaos reigns.”
Antichrist tickets are Here!
On the all-too-real side of the coin,...
- 11/19/2009
- by zack
- OriginalAlamo.com
New black metal documentary written and directed by Audrey Ewell and Aaron Aites Until The Light Takes Us is out in Us theaters December 4, 2009 (NYC), December 11, 2009 (Los Angeles).
Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans world-wide. Until The Light Takes Us goes behind the highly sensationalized media reports of "Satanists running amok in Europe" to examine the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this rebellion against both Christianity and modern culture. Watch the trailer...
To capture this on film, directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell moved to Norway and lived with the musicians for several years, building...
Part music scene and part cultural uprising, black metal rose to worldwide notoriety in the mid-nineties when a rash of suicides, murders, and church burnings accompanied the explosive artistic growth and output of a music scene that would forever redefine what heavy metal is and what it stands for to other musicians, artists and music fans world-wide. Until The Light Takes Us goes behind the highly sensationalized media reports of "Satanists running amok in Europe" to examine the complex and largely misunderstood principles and beliefs that led to this rebellion against both Christianity and modern culture. Watch the trailer...
To capture this on film, directors Aaron Aites and Audrey Ewell moved to Norway and lived with the musicians for several years, building...
- 11/11/2009
- by Superheidi
- Planet Fury
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