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We could simply cut and paste stories from Variety, but we don’t. We’re too amazing for that. We RETYPE articles from Variety…

CHUD LIVES!

The site’s been experiencing some rollercoaster activity on the server – we’ve been up and down all day and I’m not sure the ride is completely over yet. Please stick with us, as our host is working on the issue right now. Thanks! Also, when the site is down your emails are not reaching us. … Continue reading

A POSTER CATCHES THE SIGNAL

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

SAG-SPRAY

Here’s three things you have to remember with the Screen Actors Guild Awards: 1) the actors comprise the biggest bloc of AMPAS voters, 2) they accurately predicted Crash‘s upset of Brokeback Mountain, and 3) they inaccurately predicted Bobby‘s Best Picture nomination. Oh, and one more thing to consider: they went for Little Miss Sunshine over … Continue reading

THE GOLDEN TEASER!

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

CLOVERFIELD KEEPS RAMPAGING IN YOUR TV

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

HOW SAM RAIMI GOT HIS GROOVE BACK

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

EXCLUSIVE CLIP: FUNNY GAMES

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