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Lost & Found: On the Production of “the Picco Incident”

  • August 21, 2012

[Photos credit: Nika Jasic]

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[Screenwriter Brad Abraham has worked the Sci-Fi beat before, pounding the pavement of a futuristic Detroit in RoboCop: Prime Directives, and engineering the end of the world in Stonehenge Apocalypse. But he found his newest project, The Picco Incident, to be the most challenging yet.]

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When is a “found footage thriller” not a “found footage thriller”?
When it’s called “The Picco Incident.”

January 2012: I’m freshly back from Paris, …

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Column: The Vault of Secrets: Island of Lost Souls (1932)

  • August 1, 2012

By Orrin Grey

Island of Lost Souls (1932). Directed by: Erle C. Kenton. Starring: Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen.

Welcome back to the Vault of Secrets, where, every month, we’ll be unearthing a classic (or not-so-classic) vintage horror film for your delectation. Our last few installments have featured movies that were probably camped in the less respectable end of our spectrum, but tonight’s film is bona fide, as evinced by its recent (and highly anticipated) Criterion release: Erle C. …

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Review: The Skin I Live In (2011)

  • July 19, 2012

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia

The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito). Director: Pedro Almodóvar Cast:  Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya

There are certain things we don’t expect people to do. Keanu Reeves to win an Oscar, Christopher Nolan to direct a romcom. Almodovar doing a horror film would be up there with those unlikely scenarios. But guess what? He did.

The Skin I Live In (La piel que habito), an adaptation of the short novella titled ‘Mygale…

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Column: The Vault of Secrets: 13 Ghosts (1960)

  • July 13, 2012

By Orrin Grey

13 Ghosts (1960). Directed by: William Castle. Starring: Charles Herbert, Margaret Hamilton, Rosemary DeCamp, Martin Milner.

Welcome back to the Vault of Secrets, where, every month, we’ll be unearthing a classic (or not-so-classic) horror film for your delectation. Before we start tonight’s film, raise your hand if you’re familiar with William Castle. Probably anyone reading this column, but, just in case, he was a prolific and popular producer/director whose pictures were better known for their gimmicks than …

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Column: Cthulhu Eats the Movies: The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

  • July 5, 2012

By Brian M. Sammons

[spoilers ahead]

The Cabin in the Woods (2012). Director: Drew Goddard. Cast: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison.

Okay, before you read any further, let me say that if you’re a horror movie fan, a lover of dark comedy, or just someone who worships at the altar of Joss Whedon (hallowed be thy name), then go see this movie. I mean it – STOP RIGHT NOW; do not read this review, or any review of this …

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