The first licensed playable character for Mortal Kombat X has been revealed and it's
another horror film icon, not unlike previous addition Freddy Kruger.
Not exact matches
2017 is already crammed full of fantastic
horror films on the horizon, including the return of beloved
horror icons like Chucky, Leatherface, and possibly even Jason Voorhees.
The
film boasts performances by Brea Grant (Rob Zombie's Halloween and H2, «Dexter,» «Heroes») and 80's
horror icon Barbara Crampton, who starred in From Beyond and Re-Animator before popping back up in modern
horror films such as Adam Wingard's You're Next and We Are Still Here.
OUR TAKE: Alexandre Aja (High Tension, Hills Have Eyes) is a pretty significant
horror icon - and this premise alone sounds like grounds for the kind of sick twisted fun Aja has with his
films.
A protégé of Dario Argento who matured to develop a unique style of his own while at once carrying the tradition of such Italian
horror icons as Mario Bava and Riccardo Freda, Michele Soavi almost single - handedly kept the slumping Italian
horror / fantasy tradition afloat in the 1990s with his strikingly original philosophical zombie
film Dellamorte, Dellamore (1994).
The original
film co-starred genre
icons Jeffrey Combs and Barbara Crampton, loosely based on
horror writer H.P. Lovecraft's short story The Outsider.
Along with a ton of other
icons of genre
film including legendary Italian
Horror director Dario Argento and the cast of SUSPIRIA and more!
Alien is revered as one of the greatest
horror films of all time, as well as one of the greatest
films set in space, so what happens when the director of the
film that originated the franchise returns to it to provide us back - story about one of the biggest monster movie
icons more than three decades after the fact?
From here on out, the
film is a gleefully bloody homage to B - grade
horror films of the past as the Gecko brothers and their hostages, with the aid of bar patrons Frost (Fred Williamson, doing a fun sendup of his image as a blaxploitation action
icon) and Sex Machine (Tom Savini) fight for their lives.
Icon Film Distribution and FrightFest, the UK's leading
horror fantasy
film festival, have announced the first
films which will be released under the curated banner «FrightFest Presents».
But even if the
film meanders more than it unnerves, more interested in creating elegant images and moments than tension or mood, the finale is perfectly orchestrated and it delivers a deliciously cruel poetic justice with echoes to Bava's Black Sunday, the
film that made Steele an
icon of Italian
horror.
The creative team behind the Paranormal Activity
films will be honored at this year's Screamfest
Horror Film Festival, with Oren Peli (above right) receiving the Trailblazer Award and Jason Blum accepoting the Future
Icon Award on behalf of Blumhouse Productions.
Keaton, the grand - niece of silent
film icon Buster Keaton, had previously appeared in six «giallo» Italian
horror movies.
We now have the first ever shot from the
film, directed by up - and - coming
horror icon Mike Flanagan, who was behind Netflix's Hush, not to mention Ouija: Origin of Evil and Oculus, Before I Wake and Absentia.
There has been quite a bit of confusion whether or not Robert Englund was actually going to be in the
film, we all assumed he was going to be in there with all the other
horror icons, but it's been confirmed by Robert Englund himself that he's not appearing in Death House at all.
«For fans of the original
film, it was an opportunity to walk through the scenes of a revered
horror film and be pursued by
horror icon Michael Myers.
Although the latter
film managed to locate the interconnected depth of two seemingly - unrelated
horror icons (the sins of the father as an invasion of the mind pitted against the unrestrained id, crying out for Mommy), Bride of Chucky only acts as the final confirmation that, even when injected with po - mo humour, Chucky isn't too interesting a character on his own.
A few other names to appear in the
film include Lin Shaye (Insidious), and
horror icon Brad Dourif (Child's Play, The Exorcist III).
It looks like Michael Myers is headed back to stalking victims across Haddonfield in a new Halloween
film, as two of the writers of the Saw series are revitalizing the famed
horror icon once more.
Icon Film Distribution (IFD) and FrightFest, the UK's leading
horror fantasy
film festival, have entered into an exclusive partnership that will see IFD releasing FrightFest curated
films under the banner «FrightFest Presents».
GAME FEATURES Four player co-op, featuring split joy - con local multiplayer on the Switch Simple Super Smash Bros. - style controls make for easy to learn but hard to master action Dynamically evolving difficulty adjusts to your in - game decisions
Horror juxtaposed against comedy with light - hearted parodies of beloved
film and game industry
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