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NOVEMBER NOV. 30
There are more Racial Cliche's happening in Horror Thriller movies in the last six years than at any other time in Horror Thriller. Christy Gluch writes in to talk about her discoveries regarding the UNFAIR RACIAL CLICHÉ ALERT. Sometimes, I even disagree with those folks who agree with me. I'm not trying to be a butt about this, I'm just trying to treat the URCA, as a theory, with a kind of clean respect, wary of throwing it around unreasonably, as you'll see when you read RESPONSE 2006.
12th ANNIVERSARY PARTY AT DARK DELICACIES If you will be in the Los Angeles, California area December 1, 2, & 3rd, you may want to know about the following: Saturday, December 2nd Dark Delicacies is located at
WORLD HORROR CONVENTION 2007 ANNOUNCES SPECIAL MEDIA GUEST OF HONOUR World Horror Convention 2007 is pleased to announce that screenwriter/author PETER ATKINS will be the Special Media Guest of Honour at the event in Toronto at the end of March. Born in Liverpool in 1955, Peter Atkins has lived in Los Angeles since 1992. He has published two novels, MORNINGSTAR and BIG THUNDER, and the short fiction collection WISHMASTER AND OTHER STORIES (1999). Along with fellow horror authors Glen Hirshberg and Dennis Etchison, he co-founded The Rolling Darkness Revue, an annual Halloween reading and music tour of bookstores on the West Coast. In 1988 he scripted HELLBOUND: HELLRAISER II, the first sequel to Clive Barker's ground-breaking horror film franchise, and he continued the exploits of Pinhead and his demonic Cenobites in HELLRAISER III: HELL ON EARTH and HELLRAISER: BLOODLINE. In 1997 he created his own franchise character when he wrote WISHMASTER. So far there have been three movie sequels based on his characters - and Atkins himself revisited the franchise when he adapted the first movie into the stage musical THE DJINN. Other features he has co-scripted include FIST OF THE NORTH STAR and PRISONERS OF THE SUN, and he has also written for television. For the first time in its seventeen-year history, The World Horror Convention is being held outside the United States. With a theme exploring "The Diversity of Horror", World Horror Convention 2007 will take place over March 29-April 1 at the TORONTO MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN EATON CENTRE, located in the heart of Toronto, Canada. The convention's official airline is AIR CANADA, a Star Alliance Member. Peter Atkins joins previously-announced Guests of Honour MICHAEL MARSHALL SMITH, the multiple award-winning author of such novels as SPARES, ONLY FORWARD, ONE OF US and the best-selling THE STRAW MEN trilogy; Among those authors and editors also scheduled to attend are MORT CASTLE, GEMMA FILES, JO FLETCHER, STEPHEN JONES, TIM LEBBON, BRIAN LUMLEY, L.H. MAYNARD & M.P.N. SIMS, DAVID MORRELL, MARK MORRIS, PETER STRAUB and F. PAUL WILSON, amongst many others. The convention already has more British and Canadian attendees than any previous World Horror, making it a truly international event, and PROGRESS REPORT #2 (which will include a Grand Master ballot form for those who have not yet voted via the website) will be mailed to all registered members in the next few weeks. THE 2007 HWA BRAM STOKER AWARDS PRESENTATION will be held at the convention on the Saturday evening. For details about how to purchase your tickets to this very special event, please consult the HWA or WHC websites.
NOV. 29
Few people can have a successful movie career of over 60 unwatchable movies in only 20 years. But today's birthday boy makes the cut Happy Birthday to Actor Jeff Fahey (PSYCHO III, THE SERPENT OF DEATH, IMPULSE, BODY PARTS, IRON MAZE, THE LAWNMOWER MAN, WOMAN OF DESIRE, TEMPTATION, FREEFALL, SERPENT'S LAIR, DARKMAN III: Die Darkman Die, LETHAL TENDER, DETOUR, REVELATION, THE SCULPTRESS, UNSPEAKABLE, DARK HUNTERS, CORPSES and far more) is 53. In 2001, our next birthday boy did a Thriller movie and discovered he liked it. Since then the last three of his four movies have been Horror or Thriller or Horror Thriller movies. So happy birthday to Actor David No (INVINCIBLE, REIGN IN DARKNESS, SUBTERANO, THE MATRIX RELOADED) who is 33. This Birthday girl has played in different genres of movies, but none so steady as Horror! Actor Anna Faris (LOVERS LANE, SCARY MOVIE, SCARY MOVIE 2, MAY, SCARY MOVIE 3, SCARY MOVIE 4) is 30.
NOV. 28 QUICK BITE For more info, read DVD RELEASES H6: DIARY OF A SERIAL KILLER. BOOGIEPOP PHANTOM: The Complete Collection SHADOW - DEAD RIOT THE BOXER'S OMEN HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAY TO -
NOV. 27 QUICK BITE Check out this article at EW.
NOV. 24
This weeks' PODCASTER features a conversation with Horror & SciFi Film Festival winners, Kelly Parks (Screenplay: HOWARD'S CROSS) and Jason Todd Ipson (Movie: UNREST). Also, if you are new to our podcasts, check out our burgeoning library of interviews with Writer / Director James Gunn (DAWN OF THE DEAD [2004], SLITHER) and actor Lance Henrickson (THE TERMINATOR, ALIENS, NEAR DARK, ALIEN3, ALIEN VS PREDATOR, ABOMINABLE).
THEY WRITE, YOU READ, THEN WRITE The Horror Writers Association has released a revised handbook designed to help writers improve their dark fiction and understand the market, as well as deepen their appreciation for horror literature. ON WRITING HORROR: A Handbook by the Horror Writers Association Much of the new material covers changes in the publishing industry since the original 1997 edition, including updates on modern collecting, movie scripts, video games, and marketing. The book also offers a philosophical grounding in the horror and dark fantasy genres, as well as the role of traditional tropes in the current publishing environment. Edited by Mort Castle, the book collects 46 essays on novels, short stories, non-fiction, and specialty material in areas like role-playing games or audio plays. It lists for $16.99 and is published by Writers Digest Books. From David Fraiser WordStorm is an on-going reading series that focuses on the spoken word whether it is in the form of poetry, short fiction, storytelling, improv, music and song. WordStorm is both a reading series and a fun and excitingly competitive spoken word competition. The readings will always be a mix of genres, and the sign-up for WordStorm will be in two categories, poetry and prose. The key elements will be quality writing and entertainment. The judges will be chosen from the audience for each WordStorm and audience participation is required. Sign up for WordStorm is between 6:30 and 7:00. Admission is $3.00 at the door. The money collected goes entirely to prize winners each night and towards our annual Super WordStorm Night in November 2007. The Bombay Lounge has a capacity of 40 people, so don't be disappointed, reserve ahead through the paypal link or take your chances at the door. All reservations must be picked up before 6:30 or they become void and spaces will be given out on a first come first served basis. AscentAspirations.ca/CafeSlam
NOV. 23
Of his 5 movies to date, 3 of them were Horror, so let's give a big Happy Birthday to Actor Oded Fehr (KILLER NET, THE MUMMY, THE MUMMY RETURNS, RESIDENT EVIL:Apocalypse, CHARMED [TV]) who is 36. Look for Oded's upcoming Horror movie for 2007, RESIDENT EVIL: EXTINCTION. Our next birthday boy has made a career in that category that is one step below direct to video: direct to cable. Good luck finding a video, but you may catch him at 2 or 3 in the morning sometime on Cinemax or something. Actor Maxwell Caulfield (THE SUPERNATURALS, MIND GAMES, PROJECT ALIEN, SUNDOWN: The Vampire In Retreat, DANCE WITH DEATH, WAXWORK II, ANIMAL INSTINCTS, MAXIMUM FORCE 2, ALIEN INTRUDER, THE PERFECT TENANT, FACING THE ENEMY) is 46. Look for Maxwell's upcoming Horror movie for 2007, CRY OF THE WINGED SERPENT. And this birthday boy is well known to fans of Italian Horror - and how! The Internet Movie Database has many of his horror credits listed as "SciFi" but, come on! Nearly all of them are alien monsters coming to earth and butchering everybody! Get real! Science Fiction? HA! Arthur C. Clarke that ain't! So Happy Birthday to Actor Franco Nero (I CRIMINALI DELLA GALASSIA, I DIAFANOIDI VENGONO DA MARTE, IL TERZO OCCHIO, LA MORTE VIENE DAL PIANETA AYTIN, GIORNATA NERA PER L'ARIETE, HITCH-HIKE, THE VISITOR, THE SALAMANDER, KAIMIKAZE 1989, THE GIRL, ALIEN TERMINATOR, DIE HARD 2, LA VOCE DEL SANGUE, MEGIDDO: The Omega Code 2, and I've gotta stop here because ol' Franco has made over 150 freaking movies!) who is 65 and still going strong. If you are one of those Horror fans whose tastes cross over into Westerns or Crime Dramas, Franco's other flicks won't leave you wanting. With 150+ films under his belt, the man has made crap and classics. Look for his new Thriller in 2007, BASTARDI. Writer Joe Eszterhas (JAGGED EDGE, BETRAYED, BASIC INSTINCT, SLIVER, JADE) is 62.
FOR SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FEO FANS ONLY: Through Feo Amante's Horror Thriller, Fox Atomic is inviting 30 of yall plus your guest to a free screening of the upcoming Horror film, TURISTAS. The screening will be in Los Angeles. In addition to those 60 folks, there will be one Grand Prize winner who will get all kinds of free swag from the movie. You do know about TURISTAS, right? It's about these tourists in Brazil. They go on this three hour tour. Yes, a three hour tour. No wait. It's more like this. Alex (Josh Duhamel) is accompanying his sister Bea (Olivia Wilde) and her best friend (Beau Garrett) for their first time abroad – young Americans who have come to exotic Brazil for fun, adventure and the promise of foreign pleasures. On a rickety bus rocketing up a twisting mountain road, they meet Pru (Melissa George), the only one among them who speaks the native language Portuguese, and Finn and Liam (Desmond Askew and Max Brown), who just want to experience for themselves the beautiful Brazilian women they’ve heard so much about. But when their driver loses control and they are lucky to escape with their lives, the new friends find their way to a cabana bar on a nearby beach where a party is just getting started. A hazy night of exotic liquors and sensuous dancing later, they wake up alone, their possessions gone, and only the faintest traces of the nightmare to come on their lips. Their anger turns to fear as they are led farther and farther from the possibility of escape. A dark secret waits for them in the lush jungle and underground caverns of the Brazilian mountains, and the more they try to escape it the deeper they are driven into a nightmare of human hunting and unspeakable crimes, where they must fight a primal battle for their lives in the most terrifying of all human traps. The film's cast is led by Josh Duhamel, Melissa George (DARK CITY, MULHOLLAND DR., THE AMITYVILLE HORROR [2005]), Desmond Askew (THE HILLS HAVE EYES [2006]), Max Brown (FALLEN ANGELS), and directed by Actor / Director John Stockwell (CHRISTINE, THE NURSE), who is kinda like a much older Josh Duhamel. So that's what it's all about. Wanna see this flick? Then send us an EMAIL - WITH YOUR NAME, ADDRESS, DATE OF BIRTH, AND PHONE NUMBER! One of those 30 winners will walk off with the Grand Prize of TURISTAS swag! All winners will be announced here. TEENY TYPE: Please note: Passes received through this promotion do not guarantee you a seat at the theatre. Seating is on a first come, first served basis, except for members of the reviewing press. Theatre is overbooked to ensure a full house. No admittance once screening begins. All federal, state and local regulations apply. A recipient of tickets assumes any and all risks related to use of ticket, and accepts any restrictions required by ticket provider. Fox Atomic, Filmradar.com and their affiliates accept no responsibility or liability in connection with any loss or accident incurred in connection with use of a prize. Tickets cannot be exchanged, transferred or redeemed for cash, in whole or in part. We are not responsible if, for any reason, winner is unable to use his/her ticket in whole or in part. All federal and local taxes are the responsibility of the winner. Void where prohibited by law. No purchase necessary. Participating sponsors, their employees & family members and their agencies are not eligible. NO PHONE CALLS!
No shit. Nature is freaky, FREAKY weird. And the more you know, the freakier and weirder it gets. At some point you just throw up your hands and say, "That's it! And you are going to tell me there is a godly PURPOSE to all of this? Not freakin' likely!" Read for yourself MIND CONTROLLING WASPS AND ZOMBIE SPIDERS.
ANOTHER FREAKIN' GEARHEAD Creative team Dennis Hopeless, Kevin Mellon & Ed Herrera introduce the world to GearHead, a wrench-wielding post-teenager with daddy-issues and more than a little pent-up aggression – in GearHead #1 coming in January from Arcana Studio. “It’s a story about family, responsibility and the corruption of REAL power,” says series writer, Dennis Hopeless. “It’s also about a hot girl who beats people with a wrench and the nearly-naked bureaucrats who’d like her to stop - a little something for everyone.” GearHead #1, solicited in November’s Previews is an origin story. Family secrets are revealed and a drag racer becomes a badass with the swing of a wrench. “It’s like an action movie if Michael Bay cared about plot and characters,” jokes penciller, Kevin Mellon. “Think ‘Pearl Harbor,’ if ‘Pearl Harbor’ was good.” Arcana’s take on the story: GEARHEAD #1 By Hopeless, Mellon & Herrera Shelby Cooper lives just outside a world of spandex politicians and electric cars - but F**K them and their world. She's a hot chick with a hotrod. She drives fast, talks trash and hurts people with a big-ass wrench. What does any of that have to do with super powers? Well... On a mission to find her brother and in search of the destiny she never knew she had, Shelby's life is about to get interesting. Join her on a 4-issue road trip that leads from the drag strip all the way to the White House. Like her father before her, she is GearHead.
THE BIRD OF THE HERMES IS MY NAME Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. is pleased to announce the release of the much-anticipated HELLSING ULTIMATE OVA SERIES. Based on the phenomenally popular and ongoing HELLSING Manga series, HELLSING ULTIMATE OVA SERIES is completely reanimated in the original comic style the creator, Kouta Hirano intended. HELLSING ULTIMATE OVA SERIES will be available on DVD beginning December 5, 2006. For over a century, the mysterious Hellsing Organization has been secretly protecting the British Empire from undead "freaks." When Integra Hellsing succeeded as the head of the organization, she also inherited the ultimate weapon against these undead enemies, a rogue vampire named Alucard. Armed with an enormous "anti-freak" gun and possessing mysterious and frightening powers, Alucard is forced to shoot Seras Victoria, a young policewoman held hostage by a vampire. "Do you want to live?" he asks Seras, whose very answer changes the course of her existence. Now reborn as Alucard's servant, Seras is torn between her conflicting humanity and her vampire urges as the story unravels in HELLSING ULTIMATE OVA SERIES. HELLSING ULTIMATE OVA SERIES will be available on DVD in both standard and a special limited edition. The limited edition DVD features include: Directed by Tomokazu Tokoro with animation by Satelight Inc., HELLSING ULTIMATE OVA SERIES has been hailed one of the most anticipated anime titles in 2006 (Anime Insider Magazine). For more information visit:HellsingUltimate.com.
NOV. 21
I don't know how many of you saw the CBS David Letterman Show last night, but both Jerry Seinfeld and Michael Richards were on last night - Jerry in person with David (gotta protect those precious DVD sales) - and Michael from a live satellite feed. Why did Michael go off on a racist tirade? To hear Michael tell it, he's not a racist and it isn't his fault. Whose fault is it? According to Michael, "There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how blacks feel about what happened in Katrina..." There you see? It's not Richard's fault. It's Bush's fault! It's all the fault of the U.S. today and Republicans in particular. I'm not kidding! He kept trying to deflect the blame from him to Bush! He went on to say "... why is the rage in any of us? Why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation." So his racist rant is based upon the damage by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans (far from being the only damage by that hurricane) and the war in Iraq. THAT made Michael Richards hate black Americans. Only he doesn't hate them "I'm not racist!" he says. Hmmm. Actually Richards very nearly blamed Bush directly except that David quickly cut him off with a question. How freaking feckless of all three of them! Phoney pandering asses! I say that because, right after Michael Richards' compartmentalized apology, Jerry went on to pitch the release of Season 7 of SEINFELD - Now available on DVD! That, in fact, may have been why Jerry was on in the first place. But to present it in such a manner made the entire act seem like, well, an act. One calculated so as not to negatively affect sales of the all new Season 7 of SEINFELD - Now available on DVD! Some (like Dave & Jerry - no, not the ice cream) have rushed to Richard's defense to say that Michael isn't really a standup comic, per se, and so he's not used to the stage and hecklers. B.S. Here is a video of Richards from an October 2006 show. Fact is, Michael Richards has been doing comedy ON STAGE before live audiences for over 25 years (clip from Fridays), and is an old friend of Seinfeld writer Larry David (also in this clip) as well as Jerry. Larry David was a co-creator of SEINFELD, of which the Season 7 DVD set, is now available! Watch the following clip where David Letterman tries to make excuses for Michael Richards: He feels for him, empathizes, nearly begs for understanding for Richards as if, instead of being a racist, he had cancer; instead of being a man who threatened people with violence based on the color of their skin, he had a terrible sickness. You know, Dave never gave Mel Gibson the chance to apologize for HIS drunken tirade against Jews. David never asked the physically handicapped Limbaugh to come on and say his piece concerning Michael J. Fox. It would seem, in Dave's world, that we must despise Gibson: his sorrow over his actions isn't real. Oh sure, he was drunk but he said exactly what he REALLY feels. Because when you're drunk ONLY the real truth in your heart comes out. Why, whoever heard utter nonsense coming out of the mouth of a drunk? Why, it just doesn't happen! But we must feel sorry for poor Richards, who was sober and didn't really mean to say exactly what he said? Because, when you're sober, ANYTHING could come out of your mouth??? We must despise Limbaugh! He's a ... well he's a popular Conservative, dammit! Isn't that enough? And he's also fat and deaf! He has to use some kind of choclea implant. And he has chronic, debilitating back pain! Ha! Ha! Fat, deaf, pain ridden Republican! And he takes prescription medicine for that pain! Why that means he takes drugs! So he's drug addled! Ha! Ha! Fat, handicapped and addicted to pain medication! Sort of - as it turns out, he committed no crime regarding the Oxycontin thing. But no matter. So you sit there and wonder why this horror of bigotry and racism in the U.S. endures? And who nurtures it? Watch the video and remember: No matter how vile you are, it's always a Republican's fault. UPDATE: CBS forced YouTube to pull Michael Richard's apology. You'll note that CBS has no problem with any David Letterman shows on YouTube except this one. CBS has no problem with Letterman's Mel Gibson gag. No problem with Craig's Curious George W. Goes to Vietnam gag. Just. This. One. Ostensibly, you can watch it at Dave's site on CBS, just not right now.
NOV. 20
The Horror Mistress of TheChanceryHouse.com wants you to know that she now has a new personal domain at LisaManetti.com. Lisa was a friend long before she became a MySpace friend. But now that she is, check her out at MySpace.com/LisaManetti. So now you know.
But lies in Mark McLaughlin's brain, sleeping. And what dreams! Feo Amante alumni, Mark McLaughlin, returns to his eldritch muse to bring you PICKMAN'S MOTEL. Publisher Shane Ryan Staley describes it thusly; Once upon a millennium, Mark McLaughlin, the Clown Prince of Horror, wrote a fiendishly funny Delirium Books chapbook entitled SHOGGOTH CACCIATORE AND OTHER ELDRITCH ENTREES, tales of cosmic dread liberally laced with wackiness. This time McLaughlin has prepared a more adult spin on the Mythos-go-round. In Pickman's Motel, you'll explore Arkham's bad side of town, a freaky neon playground of horny horrors. Learn the titillating truth about ghouls in the title story, and then laugh up a lung as you encounter every stand-up comic's worst nightmare: "The Heckler In The Ha-Ha Hut." McLaughlin tops off the collection by loading you into a time machine and sending you back to caveman days in "Tony Tar-Pit And Monkey-Face Joe Battle The Flying Mushroom-Devils: A Tale of Prehistoric Arrkhumm." So check into Pickman's Motel and find out what the nightlife in Arkham is really like!" If famed artist, Robert Williams, wrote like he paints, he'd be writing like McLaughlin. UNlike Mark's imagination, the Delirium Books press run is limited. For a taste of Mark, read his story ANECDOTE OVERHEARD AT THE LAST COCKTAIL PARTY EVER. Mark is also a MySpace friend. Visit him at MySpace.com/MonsterBook.
RACIST HORROR - HOLLYWOOD STYLE I used to be a stand-up comic. I still do open mike nights for fun now and then but I used to actually make a living at it for nearly five years. Good times. One of the tricky parts of doing stand-up is what kind of mood the comic before you left the audience in. If he was really awful, for example, the audience might be in a bad mood and it could be a lot of work for you to bring them back. Opinions vary however, and if you've seen the documentary COMEDIAN, about Jerry Seinfeld, you know he doesn't think it matters. He thinks anybody can follow anybody. That's not my experience but I'd be the first to concede he knows more about the business than I do. But, speaking of Seinfeld, I bet even he wouldn't have been crazy about following Michael Richards' (aka Kramer) recent performance at the Laugh Factory in L.A. Apparently a heckler made him really mad and he just lost it, spewing a variety of racial epithets at the African-American audience member. I tried to imagine being the next comic on stage, walking out in front of that shell-shocked audience (those who didn't leave). What do I say? Just start my act like nothing has happened? No, you have to acknowledge the tension before you can move on. But how? This is what popped into my head. I'd walk out and say, HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
NOV. 17
The first ever nationwide largest film festival ever, is also a Horror film festival. This weekend in 33 cities and over 500 theaters comes the AfterDark Horrorfest. For this weekend only, the AfterDark Horrorfest will be showing independent Horror Thriller movies on giant screens from coast to coast. Starting Monday, what the fans select as their favorites will become the encore show, Monday and Tuesday only. After that, they go direct to video. This could be your first and only chance to see these Horror Thriller films the way they were meant to be seen, on a giant screen. Am I going? Hell, I'm already there! Starting Monday, check us out for podcasts with writer Jacob Hair (Snoop Dog's HOOD OF HORROR) and writer / Director / Producer, Jason Todd Ipson (UNREST). This film fest should be seriously wicked.
Unlike the latest book by a murderous ex-jock and washed up actor, Feo Amante's new book IF I SLEPT WITH SALMA HAYEK THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED, is getting rave reviews! "Damn Yeah!" "Hands off my Salma, Feo!" "Kinky. She's really good. Or maybe not. YOU decide." "HA!" "Brilliant, dude! I love it!" "How can I get a signed copy...?" The editor, Judith Regan, of the book by the maniac who wrote about how he probably murdered his wife and an innocent man, then left the butchered bodies behind for his children, is now claiming that she published the book as a way for "revenge" against men. The hell? Regan further states that she "thought" the money from the book would go to the maniac's adult children. I gotta ask, You THOUGHT? YOU are the one who drew up and signed the contract, sweetheart. YOU are the one who made sure it went to a third party so the Ronald Goldman family couldn't touch it. So where did the money go, DITZ? FOX interviewed the maniac, who was suitably tearful as he said, "I can't do this. I can't have my kids hear me say this." Check out the things that the convicted killer didn't mind his kids hearing and seeing. For the full article, read the Nov. 16 post IF I DID IT ... Watch Weird Al Yankovic's DO I CREEP YOU OUT?
Solitude Publications is now accepted pre-orders for John Urbancik's second novel, BREATH OF THE MOON, for a December 2006 publication! This will be available in a limited (300 copy) and lettered (26) edition. All pre-orders will receive a FREE bonus chapbook, BONE ISLAND. Here's a little about BREATH: Teresa Grove lives in Central Florida, owns a bookstore, lives as normal a life as she can. She's special. She sees things the rest of us cannot. And she tries her best to pretend otherwise. But there are greater forces at work. Watching. Stalking. They seek love, they seek life, or they seek death, and after the Moon shifts her shade, they suspect Teresa will be able to give them what they want. Whether she likes it or not. The Moon is special, but the Moon is at war. And she is weakest when she becomes someone else. She's about to become Teresa Grove (or vice versa). Teresa stands to inherit the Moon's strengths and weaknesses, and also her enemies. She'll also have an uncontrollable power in the form of a kiss: to deliver either life or death. But it's not for her to decide which. It's the Breath of the Moon. Visit John at Dark Fluidity.
SOMEONE'S IDEA OF FUN Brazil. Beautiful women, pristine beaches, a friendly, open culture. Alex (Josh Duhamel) is accompanying his sister Bea (Olivia Wilde) and her best friend (Beau Garrett) for their first time abroad - young Americans who have come to exotic Brazil for fun, adventure and the promise of foreign pleasures. On a rickety bus rocketing up a twisting mountain road, they meet Pru (Melissa George), the only one among them who speaks the native language Portuguese, and Finn and Liam (Desmond Askew and Max Brown), who just want to experience for themselves the beautiful Brazilian women they've heard so much about. But when their driver loses control and they are lucky to escape with their lives, the new friends find their way to a cabana bar on a nearby beach where a party is just getting started. A hazy night of exotic liquors and sensuous dancing later, they wake up alone, their possessions gone, and only the faintest traces of the nightmare to come on their lips. Their anger turns to fear as they are led farther and farther from the possibility of escape. A dark secret waits for them in the lush jungle and underground caverns of the Brazilian mountains, and the more they try to escape it the deeper they are driven into a nightmare of human hunting and unspeakable crimes, where they must fight a primal battle for their lives in the most terrifying of all human traps. The film's cast is led by Josh Duhamel, Melissa George (DARK CITY, MULHOLLAND DR., THE AMITYVILLE HORROR [2005]), Desmond Askew (THE HILLS HAVE EYES [2006]), Max Brown (FALLEN ANGELS), and directed by Actor / Director John Stockwell (CHRISTINE, THE NURSE).
NOV. 16
One Texas evening in January, 1996 - before he even started dating his future wife - Feo Amante saw the movie FROM DUSK TILL DAWN. Now comes his startling, earth shattering, confession! "I'm not saying that I had slept with Salma Hayek," Feo Amante asserts. "That is not what this book is about. But if I DID have sex with Salma Hayek, WOW! This is how we did it. Not that we did." LISTEN (to the audio book), as Feo recounts, in tears, the moments that led up to his imagined tryst with Salma Hayek. READ (the regular book) as Feo remembers what Salma Hayek would have done that cool January evening in a swanky Houston, Texas hotel suite - had she only been there. VISUALIZE every square inch of Feo's glorious nekkid body! Salma's too! DECIDE FOR YOURSELF (using your brain, not some blog opinion), if Feo did, in fact, have sex with Salma Hayek (FROM DUSK TILL DAWN, THE FACULTY, DOGMA) - and he isn't saying he did! But IF he did, Wow! You just won't BELIEVE the things they did! Seriously, this is some really Hot Erotic Steamy stuff! - If they had actually done it. Which they didn't. But DAMN if they did ... Whew! Feo also comments on the hotel service - NOT that he was actually there, you understand. While this book is not yet in print, Feo expects to get more than $3 million in advance for it. After all, Feo never murdered anyone to write it; he hasn't spent the last 10 years laughing about the deaths of anyone he was suspected of killing; never attended - as a Guest of Honor - a convention which celebrated the 10th Anniversary of his murders, and he has never made a series of videos in which he dressed as a pimp and joked about butchering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. Truly a respected (?) publisher like Judith Regan would be delighted to pay more money to a writer who MAY have slept with Salma Hayek, than one who MAY have slaughtered two innocent people; left the bodies to be discovered by his children, and laughs to this day about how he got away with it - if just to clean herself of the filth she chose to wallow in. Surely a respected (?) Media corporation like FOX would pay Feo handsomely for such an interview, even though he isn't ACTUALLY saying he did it. Feo is hoping for a three book deal. Already in progress are his books Which of course, he didn't. But, Hoo boy, can you just imagine If! He! DID???
It has been a while since Fangoria has had a convention in Northern California, but at last they return and with all of the usual suspects! Horror celebrities on hand will include Writer Director Tim Sullivan (Snoop Dogg's HOOD OF HORROR) who will host panels on both 2001 MANIACS and his soon to be released, DRIFTWOOD. Also expected are, George Romero (THE LIVING DEAD films), Check out Fangoria's Weekend Of Horrors for more.
Some child actors have no problem working straight on through to adulthood. Happy Birthday to Actor Kimberly J. Brown (VAMPIRE PRINCESS MIYU, HALLOWEENTOWN [TV], HALLOWEENTOWN II: KALABAR'S REVENGE [TV], HALLOWEENTOWN HIGH [TV]) who is 22. Kimberly has an upcoming Horror film, BIG BAD WOLF, scheduled for a 2007 release. Some actors, like writers, never make it to the "A-List" but diligently work throughout their careers as a second or third tier actor; aka character; aka supporting actor. Today's birthday boy is such a person, laying a strong foundation into every role he plays. In the mid 1980's he largely traded his Western movie guns to play in Horror movies, and now he's been in enough to get birthday wishes here. Happy Birthday to Actor Clu Gulager (MYSTERY IN DRACULA'S CASTLE [TV], RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD, A NIGHTMARE ON ELMSTREET 2, THE OFFSPRING, THE HIDDEN, HUNTER'S BLOOD, UNINVITED, TEEN VAMP, THE WILLIES, THE KILLING DEVICE, THE PUPPET MASTER 5, FEAST) who is 77.
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