The Culture Czar (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Uh oh. Last December we wrote about how much I am Legend freaked us out (seriously, we think the workout our heart got during the film qualifies as aerobic activity). The movie, based on the 1954 Richard Matheson book and starring Will Smith, laid out a vision of New York City almost completely wiped out of humans after the spread of a virus (thanks a lot, Emma Thompson!). The movie left us wondering...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
Blu-Ray News: Warner Home Video have announced the US Blu-ray Disc release of I Am Legend (Ultimate Collector's Edition) on 9th December 2008 priced at $59.99 SRP. Will Smith stars in this adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel of the same name which arrives on Bl...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
News: Warner Home Video have announced the Region 1 DVD release of I Am Legend (Ultimate Collector's Edition) on 9th December 2008 priced at $49.92 SRP. Will Smith stars in this adaptation of Richard Matheson's novel of the same name which arrives on DVD f...
Comics And... (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Wrapping up the Indies Preview Review for October! IDW Publishing Richard Matheson's Hell House SC By Richard Matheson, Ian Edginton (W) Simon Fraser (A & C) To help Rudolph Deutsch forestall his death and learn the secrets of the afterlife, a team of experts must survive a night in Belasco House, or as the locals call it, Hell House. Exerting its dark influence on the group as they unearth the wretched...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Based on the short story by Richard Matheson, The Box stars Cameron Diaz as Norma Lewis and James Marsden as Arthur Lewis, a suburban couple with a young child who receive a simple wooden box as a gift, which bears fatal and irrevocable consequences.
Metroblogging Los Angeles (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Raymond Chandler. Charles Bukowski. Walter Mosley. Meh. Los Angeles’ true literary legacy is the zombie/vampire/supervirus/apocalypse genre, which novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson kick-started with his 1954 novel I Am Legend. Matheson’s story, set in 1970’s Los Angeles, follows the trials and tribulations of the seemingly sole survivor of a plague that transforms humans into vampires. The...
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008
As I’ve said before, Richard Matheson has probably influenced more writers than any other author alive. Three generations of men and women have borrowed both his singular storytelling skills and the peerless ways he structures his fiction, short and long alike. Barry Hoffman at Gauntlet Press has created a unique Matheson library of TV [...]
Dvorak Uncensored (Free subscription) | 08/20/2008
It's like Richard Matheson - of whom it was said, "He has the heart of a small child. He keeps it in a jar on his desk."
Soulfull Vibes (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
Last year, Will Smith starred in an update of Richard Matheson's future shock novel I Am Novel, which became the second-biggest non-sequel of 2007, and ever since then, there's been a lot of rumors... Visit Soulfull Vibes for more information
Desert of Zin (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
For the next few days you can hear the first episode of I Am Legend by Richard Matheson on BBC Radio 7. So far they’re up to episode four. Go there and listen to the story that the film should have been. A story much more sophisticated than the film ever was… Technorati Tags: Horror, Radio
Dark Party Review (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
Matheson’s Classic Sci-Fi Novel Is Really a Story About Sexual Perversion On the surface Richard Matheson’s “The Incredible Shrinking Man” is about an average man who shrinks one inch every week – and the horrors and challenges he faces as he gets smaller. There are encounters with house cats and spiders, confrontations with angry boys, and the difficulties of feeding and clothing yourself when
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
Mmm, the zombie: from folklore to literature, courtesy Richard Matheson , to movies, courtesy George A. Romero , to ... the dancefloor, courtesy the Hideout (for the moment we'll skip the cocktail incarnation ). Tonight you're invited to lurch and gnaw to the sounds of Charlie Universe and the Little Star Music Box and Undead DJ Narwhal. We assume that means that "Thriller" will get played at least...
Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
To name just a few of the novels: I AM LEGEND, THE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN, A STIR OF ECHOES, HELL HOUSE, WHAT DREAMS MAY COME. To name just a few of the movie and television projects: four Edgar Allan Poe films for Roger Corman, THE TWILIGHT ZONE scripts, THE NIGHT STALKER, DUEL, SOMEWHERE IN TIME. [...]
So anyway, (Free subscription) | 05/18/2008
I read Richard Matheson's I Am Legend a couple of years ago and enjoyed it (and have avoided the recent film version largely 'cause I'm sure they'll have changed the brilliant ending, thus making the title meaningless.) A couple of months ago I bought some SF Masterworks in a 3-for-2 offer at Forbidden Planet, and Matheson's 1956 novel The Shrinking Man is the second (after Behold The Man ) I read....
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
Eddie Murphy is set to star in another adaptation of Richard Matheson's The Incredible Shrinking Man . No...really. Free Fiction: To Begin, the Gods by Will Shetterly. CNN interviews Iain M. Banks . [via Locus Online ] This Week In Geek has an exclusive interview with Wil Wheaton . [via SFFaudio ] Peter Hodges interviews S. M. Stirling ( In the Courts of the Crimson Kings ). SciFiDimensions podcasts...
