The Signal is a pretty great and definitely unusual small horroresque movie that I caught at this year’s LA Screamfest. When a strange signal begins to be emitted from all broadcast devices like TVs and radios, people start to go psychotically nuts, murdering the shit out of each other. Presented as a triptych of interwoven … Continue reading
It feels good to like a Tim Burton movie again. I’ve spent most of the last decade on the outside of Burton’s films, unable to get past his empty stylistic tics and his obsession with fathers, growing more and more convinced that the guy had turned into nothing so much as an imitation of himself, … Continue reading
I’m on the record as saying that the original Hellboy is, in my opinion, one of the lesser Guillermo del Toro movies. Of course when your greater films are masterpieces like Pan’s Labyrinth and The Devil’s Backbone, even your lesser films are pretty fucking good. Now there’s Hellboy II: The Golden Army, and I must … Continue reading
Yesterday we showed you the first TV commercial from Cloverfield, and some folks on our message board commented that it didn’t seem like the spot was selling the monster. Well, Paramount ain’t that dumb – they’ve got a second spot and it’s all about the monster. It’s mostly iterations of the same footage we’ve seen, … Continue reading
At 67 with a major career behind him, John Hurt doesn’t have much to lose by speaking frankly. And while he doesn’t quite rag on Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in his new interview with Premiere.com, he certainly doesn’t come across like an overscripted publicitybot like so many actors with new … Continue reading
Sam Raimi is going back to his horror roots with his next movie, directing a low(er than Spider-Man 3‘s) budget supernatural thriller he cowrote with brother Ivan way back in 1992, right after they wrote Army of Darkness. Called Drag Me To Hell, the film is about someone who gets cursed (The Curse was the … Continue reading
We have an exclusive clip from Michael Haneke’s remake of his own film, Funny Games, which is going to be premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and then hitting theaters in February. Two creepy young men take a family hostage in their own home and begin torturing them by making them take part in … Continue reading
Last night I was talking to CHUD’s box office guru Andre Dellamorte about Cloverfield, the JJ Abrams produced giant monster movie. I had recently heard that the last FX shots for the film were due yesterday, and with the movie only a couple of weeks away, I was figuring that screenings would have to start … Continue reading
When Ain’t It Cool broke the story that Christian Bale was in Terminator 4, playing John Connor, one of my sources became confused. That couldn’t be true, I was told – John Connor is barely in the movie. Turns out that it’s true, and that yes, John Connor is barely in the movie. Over the … Continue reading
I don’t remember when I began writing for CHUD. It was six years ago or so; sadly most of our archives are – at the moment – inaccessible. I do know that when I began writing for the site I would send in news stories to Nick or Dave and they would write little intros … Continue reading