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Texas Frightmare Weekend welcomes Alice Cooper, Tobe Hooper, Karen Black, and many more horror stars. Read more...

FRIGHT NIGHT Remake Gets Staked!

Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 01/06/2009

, the Screen Gems redo of FRIGHT NIGHT more closely resembled Tobe Hooper's THE FUNHOUSE in concept (which raised the question, "Why not just remake THE FUNHOUSE?"). Now that Holland's classic is safe, it appears that Culpepper and Co. have targeted another '80s horror fave - one that, thankfully, wasn't any good in the first place. To learn more, .

Mum & Dad: review

Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 12/26/2008

Waggishly billed as The Heathrow Terminal Five Massacre, here's another how-far-can-we-go horror for fans who like their gore not just well done but burned to a cinder.

Alice Does Dallas!

FEARnet: News & Reviews (Free subscription) | 12/22/2008

Rock's original monster-man Alice Cooper has just been signed up as a special guest at next year's Texas Frightmare Weekend convention, May 1st through 3rd in Dallas, Texas. The appearance...

21:00 The Omen

Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 12/18/2008

(2006) John Moore's re-make of the 1976 classic horror film stars Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick as Damien, the Antichrist.

Get Out the Vote

Last Plane to Jakarta (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008

OK, people, this is yr uncharacteristic non-music-even-havin'-anything-to-do-with post, but desperate times/desperate measures, etc. Seems Stacie Ponder, one of my favorite writers online (I refuse to say "favorite bloggers") who's also a regular at the AMC blog, got the notion to have a "who's the best final girl?" poll. It's a good question - the Final Girl as an archetype is loaded with all kinds...

Movie Review: The Strangers

Blogcritics: Video (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008

Knock-Knock. Who's there...? “Because you were home”—that’s the pragmatic explanation a masked psychotic butcher, one of a trio of aspiring coed murderers, softly and matter-of-factly provides when frantically asked by the captured Kristen McKay (Liv Tyler), and her boyfriend James Hoyt (Scott Speedman), why the trifecta is terrorizing the...

Forgotten Films: Lifeforce

Film Junk (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008

Forgotten Films is a semi-regular feature where we explore interesting movies that have fallen off the radar or slipped through the cracks over the years. Back in the late ’80s and early ’90s, there was always a pretty limited selection of VHS tapes in the sci-fi and horror section at my local video store. If you [...]

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: Hitchhiker

MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008

Tobe Hooper's Chain Saw Massacre (1974) is one of the big horror classics. It was made on a low budget, but direction, cinematography, the use of highly effective sounds, and the realistic cast are all mixed into a deadly cocktail. Early in the film, the main characters pick up a hitchhiker somewhere in the American South. It's an experience they won't easily forget, but also won't have to live with...

Salem's Lot (1979)

Ferdy on Films, etc. (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008

Salem’s Lot (1979) Director: Tobe Hooper By Roderick Heath When I was four years old, a TV station advertised this miniseries using the unusual touch of excerpting nearly a whole scene, one in which the monstrous vampire Barlow (Reggie...

The politics of horror

Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008

October 31, 2008Search The politics of horror Image 1 of 10 | | By Patrick Kevin DayThe Texas Chainsaw Massacre, 1974By the early 1970s, the image of hippies and the counterculture had skewed from flower children to Weathermen riots and Charles Manson's creepy ?family.? Playing on the fears evoked by twisting traditional family values, director Tobe Hooper gave audiences a bizarre family of cannibalistic...

The Exorcist - The Exorcist Voted Greatest Horror Film Of All Time

Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008

William Friedkin's The Exorcist has been voted the best horror film ever made in a new Halloween poll.The 1973 thriller, based on William Peter Blatty's book, topped ...

• Exorcist tops best horror film poll - Metro.co.uk

Film review: Ring

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008

Here it is, the original and best: a genuinely scary movie, and so thoroughly inappropriate for the larky mood of Halloween. Hideo Nakata's 1998 horror film Ring, though influenced by Tobe Hooper's 1982 something-in-the-TV-set nightmare Poltergeist, was an instant and original classic. It spawned a raft of remakes, similar films and spoofs, and heralded an influential Japanese horror mythology that...

A Few Great Pumpkins III—Fifth Night: Salem's Lot

ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008

Call this one: Tribute to a Face. This veiny blue monstrosity, the icon of Tobe Hooper's TV adaptation of Stephen King's best-seller Salem's Lot, took the Max Schreck template from Murnau's Nosferatu to its hideous endpoint. Crooked fangs, desiccated...

HERMANO SEGUNDO LOST IN LA LA LAND: DAY TWELVE

DOS HERMANOS (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008

Here is a little warning for any of you who may decided to come and spend some time in LA LA Land. Never, and I mean never start a conversation about sushi. Never. Bugger me can they bore the arse off you about it and how good it is here and how bad it is in the rest of the world (Japan, anyone?) particularly New York a place with which the people of The City of Angels seem to