I love horror anthology. From the more recent television series such as Fear Itself (2008) Masters of Horror (2005 -07) to the older classics such as Night Visions(2001) and Monsters (1988-91) to the films such as Creepshow 2 (1987) Tales from the Darkside (1990) Body Bags (1993) and Trilogy of Terror 2 (1996) NIghtmares and Dreamscapes (2006) and V/H/S/2. And now fresh off the season close of the latest American Horror Story anthology chapter, show creator Ryan Murphy is again teasing the horror afficinado culture dwellers with a new horror anthology entitled “Scream Queens” which has already cast a number of stars including Lea Michele, (Glee) Jamie Lee Curtis, (no introduction needed) Emma Roberts, (AHS:coven, Scream 4, WSe’re the Millers) Joe Manganiello, (True Blood)and even Abigail Breslin,(pictured below in Little Miss Sunshine 2006) as series regulars.teaser trailer for Fox’s upcoming anthology “Scream Queens”
I love horror anthology. From the more recent television series such as Fear Itself (2008) Masters of Horror (2005 -07) to the older classics such as Night Visions(2001) and Monsters (1988-91) to the films such as Creepshow 2 (1987) Tales from the Darkside (1990) Body Bags (1993) and Trilogy of Terror 2 (1996) NIghtmares and Dreamscapes (2006) and V/H/S/2. And now fresh off the season close of the latest American Horror Story anthology chapter, show creator Ryan Murphy is again teasing the horror afficinado culture dwellers with a new horror anthology entitled “Scream Queens” which has already cast a number of stars including Lea Michele, (Glee) Jamie Lee Curtis, (no introduction needed) Emma Roberts, (AHS:coven, Scream 4, WSe’re the Millers) Joe Manganiello, (True Blood)and even Abigail Breslin,(pictured below in Little Miss Sunshine 2006) as series regulars.
Friday the 13th reboot updates – budget, plot details, more
Originally the rumor was that the upcoming installment of Slasher Jason Voorhees was to be a shaky camera “Found Footage” style film, Paramount apparently hoping to out do New Line in terms of investment vs returns by keeping the budget small as they have done with a few of their recent films like The Purge and Project Almanac and hoping to ride the long ago crested wave that was the sub-genre. Personally I thought that it done correctly it might have been something interesting, or at the least something different in contrast to the rest of the franchise. But now it has been officially announced that both earlier rumors are not true. The film will not be found footage and will not have a micro budget, like The Purge (less than four million) but probably not more than Platinum Dune’s general budget maximum of around twenty million.
In story plot news according to horror movie reboot master producer Bradley Fuller the next film version may delve into the how and whys of Jason’s immortality which seems like it would immediately, if true would kill what I thought made the 2009 film which ironically Fuller also produced such a decent fresh film. I find it rather surprising that David Bruckner, a director with such a small career (he has only directed single segments “Crazy in Love” in The Signal 2007 and “Amature Night” in V/H/S 2012) as able to convince Fuller to immediately jump into the concept of Jason’s supernatural enigma.
For more information check out the article in Esquire (source)
Friday the 13th is scheduled for release on May 13th 2016.
Produced by Bradley Fuller (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2003, Amnityville Horror 2005, The Hitcher 2007, The Purge, Purge:Anarchy, Ouija, Project Almanac)
I love horror movie, here are some of my favorites
I am an unashamed horror film fanatic, it is my life long obsession. I have an insatiable hunger for the genre in all its incarnation, and while I do gravitate more strongly to some of the sub-genes more than others, for example;
I love serial killer films. (Some of my personal favorites include; Seven, Silence of the Lambs, Mr. Brooks,American Psycho, Bone Collector, Maniac (the 2012 limited released remake starring Elija Wood) , and “The Poughkeepsie Tapes”
which I consider a absolute masterpiece of lo-fi mokumnetary filmmaking. which was never actually theatrically release due to some of it’s more wonderfully terrifying themes and content, inculding but not limited to physical and psychological abuse, sexual assult and aggrivated bodily torture, all protrayed in a gritty, cinimatically realist lo-fi method. (click here to check out the trailer)
I enjoy but generally have a less appeal for the typical gore/slasher films. With some exceptions The 2006 american horror classic Hatchet I consider to be one of the best horror/slasher films since the Golden Age of slasher films back in the 1980’s and 90’s. check out the clip to get a small “taste” of why:
Other great slasher films include Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the 2003 remake) Rob Zombie’s Halloween, Freddy vs Jason, Candyman, Midnight Meat Train, Hellraiser, the original Scream, Trick ‘r Treat, and the original Urban Legend and the underrated 2008 film Amusement.
But my favorite horror genre is unequivocally psychological/supernatural horror, specifically ghost and haunted house horror.
fragile
My current all time favorite is FRAGILE (2005)
followed closely by Grave Encounters (2011)
Other not-to-be-missed Ghost/Haunted house films include The Grudge, the original Paranormal Activity, Ghost Story (1982) Insidious chapters one and two, The Conjuring, The Blair Witch Project, The Ring (american franchise,) Mama (2013) The Orphanage (2007), The Others (2001), Shutter (2008), and V/H/S 2 and Sinister. (Which has probably the greatest horror film soundtrack ever
x-ffiles returning to fox?
the #x-files has always held a special place in my heart. One of the few television series of the 1990s to hold up against the passing of time (nearly twenty years now since the original pilot episode only episode to show Jillian Anderson in her underwear.
It is one of the few franchises to effectively expand from television to film, fight the future and come back again never seeming to get lost under the weight of its own mythology.
Even though i distinctly remember coming out of the last film and literally remember hearing someone say “I cannot believe there were not any aliens.” the going rumor is that Mulder and Scully David Duchovny and Jillian Anderson are ready and willing to not only star in a third film, this one with ALIENS) but that they are both interested in returning to their iconic roles in a return to the series which made them household names series or even possibly a new series reboot. And denspite of the failed underwhelming offshoot attempts such as “the Lone Gunmen” and the creator Chris Carter’s spiritual spinoff “Millennium ” after everything …
Now, according to Fox TV Group Chairman Gary Newman, speaking recently at a presentation during the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, says that the outlook is “hopeful.” While speaking to USA Today, Mulder David Duchovny said he was excited and ready to return to the role that basically type cast made him famous, if albeit in a limited capacity, like a miniseries:
““I’m assuming that it will happen sooner rather than later now. We’ll see what form, how many [episodes]. Certainly I can’t nor would I be interested in doing a full season. It will be in some kind of limited form. We’re all old, we don’t have the energy for a full season.”
Likewise, Scully Gillian Anderson is interested in the idea of the series return, through her ever busy schedule may be a factor, she is currently starring in the masterpiece critically acclaimed NBC series “Hannibal” has recently been promoting her new novel “A Vision of Fire” and really badly wants to be included in the all-female cast of the upcoming “Ghostbusters 3.”
Personally while the idea of the x-files returning sounds good in theory, I am not sure where or how or even if it actually is a good ideal. I feel that there is not really anywhere interesting for the series (or a reboot, or miniseries) to go. It is said that when you dig up the past, all you get is dirty, and I would not want to see most nostalgic favorite television properties soiled.
It is one of the few franchises to effectively expand from television to film, fight the future and come back again never seeming to get lost under the weight of its own mythology.
Even though i distinctly remember coming out of the last film and literally remember hearing someone say “I cannot believe there were not any aliens.” the going rumor is that Mulder and Scully David Duchovny and Jillian Anderson are ready and willing to not only star in a third film, this one with ALIENS) but that they are both interested in returning to their iconic roles in a return to the series which made them household names series or even possibly a new series reboot. And denspite of the failed underwhelming offshoot attempts such as “the Lone Gunmen” and the creator Chris Carter’s spiritual spinoff “Millennium ” after everything …
Now, according to Fox TV Group Chairman Gary Newman, speaking recently at a presentation during the Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, says that the outlook is “hopeful.” While speaking to USA Today, Mulder David Duchovny said he was excited and ready to return to the role that basically type cast made him famous, if albeit in a limited capacity, like a miniseries:
““I’m assuming that it will happen sooner rather than later now. We’ll see what form, how many [episodes]. Certainly I can’t nor would I be interested in doing a full season. It will be in some kind of limited form. We’re all old, we don’t have the energy for a full season.”
Likewise, Scully Gillian Anderson is interested in the idea of the series return, through her ever busy schedule may be a factor, she is currently starring in the masterpiece critically acclaimed NBC series “Hannibal” has recently been promoting her new novel “A Vision of Fire” and really badly wants to be included in the all-female cast of the upcoming “Ghostbusters 3.”
Personally while the idea of the x-files returning sounds good in theory, I am not sure where or how or even if it actually is a good ideal. I feel that there is not really anywhere interesting for the series (or a reboot, or miniseries) to go. It is said that when you dig up the past, all you get is dirty, and I would not want to see most nostalgic favorite television properties soiled.
First, Friday the 13th, which is set to be released on May 13th, 2016 had already been rebooted back in 2009 and even though it made $90 million dollars against a $19 million dollar budget, surprisingly New Line Cinema never made a sequel and the rights had since returned to Paramount, which originated the franchise. And even though Jason is not my favorite slasher fiend (I am a Michael Myers and Pinhead guy) I did find the new perspective on Jason watchable. If only because they were smart enough to reinvent Jason’s Modus Operandi (his motivations and personality) from retarted mentally challenged backwards mindless hick into an emotionally and psychologically damaged and isolated character, who was smart enough to create a sophisticated series of underground tunnels as a safe haven which even included electric lights and power and simply wanted to be left alone, his murderous rampage had more to do with protecting himself and his homestead than mindless revenge spree killings.
so many REBOOTS
Movie Reboots seem to be all the rage in hollywood now days. Recently there has been the unnecessary Robocop, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Annie from last year, the “unknown” reboots included, the Equalizer, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
This year promised, reboots of Point Break, The Crow, the Transporter franchise, Mad Max:Fury Road, Poltergeist, the list goes on and on And there are an extremely large number of them in development, everything from “Indiana Jones” with Christopher Platt as the new lead being proposed over at Disney, to Ghostbusters, The Mummy, Hellraiser, and Kickboxer starring mma legend George St. Pierre just to name a few.
(A detailed list can be found over at Den of Geek which count a minimum of 57 current developmental projects! Anyway, two classic horror franchised which DO NOT need reboots have now been given release dates, Friday the 13th and A reboot of the Ring series to be titled “Rings.”
This year promised, reboots of Point Break, The Crow, the Transporter franchise, Mad Max:Fury Road, Poltergeist, the list goes on and on And there are an extremely large number of them in development, everything from “Indiana Jones” with Christopher Platt as the new lead being proposed over at Disney, to Ghostbusters, The Mummy, Hellraiser, and Kickboxer starring mma legend George St. Pierre just to name a few.
(A detailed list can be found over at Den of Geek which count a minimum of 57 current developmental projects! Anyway, two classic horror franchised which DO NOT need reboots have now been given release dates, Friday the 13th and A reboot of the Ring series to be titled “Rings.”
CBS orders pilot for Tv series based on film “Limitless”
The film “Limitless” was for me, a very fun surprise. When it was originally release back in 2011, it was one of the movies that had the misfortune of being somewhat poorly marketed. The trailers did not do enough to convey the film’s intriguing premise. And while it did have its minor flaws, and in spite of all the ‘blockbusters’ of 2011 (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows 2, X-men:First Class, Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Girl With The Dragon Tatoo, Super 8)
I still consider it one of the more interesting enjoyable films from that year. For anyone who has not seen it or forgot, a quick synopsis: A man (played by Bradley Cooper) steals discovers a new dug which allows him to use 100 percent of his brain and recall everything he “knows” which then allows him to succeed at anything he puts his mind to, however he learns too late that the side effects of long-term use of the drug (called NZT) are very dangerous. The film, like the book it was based on is an about the temptation of the pursuit of power and success even at dangerous costs mixed with an allegory of the perils of drug addiction.
Now reports have surfaced that CBS has green lit a pilot episode ‘sequel’ for a tv series based on the film. The synopsis for the series is reported as a new character ” Brian Sinclair, “discovers the mysterious drug NZT, and is coerced into using his newfound, powerful drug-enhanced abilities to solve weekly cases for the FBI.
Directed by Neil Burger (Limitless, Divergent, The Illusionist)
And produced by Bradley Cooper (The Hangover films, A-Team, Midnight Meat Train, Alias)with Alex Kurtzman (Star Trek: Into Darkness, Now You See Me, Amazing Spiderman 2) and Roberto Orci also as executive producers.
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