Not exact matches
So you can only imagine my
horror when this ghastly Adidas Stan Smith wedge popped up on my
screen, during what I can normally describe as a pleasurable online shopping experience
at Hudson's Bay.
in a sheer white floral lace dress by Yanina Couture, punctuated with pointy - toe Kurt Geiger London pumps and a bright fuchsia clutch,
at a special
screening for FX's American
Horror Story Freakshow in L.A.
While it underperformed
at the box office it has gained a cult status in the likes of Rocky
Horror Picture Show with midnight
screenings throughout the year and country and people dressing up as characters from the musical.
Frustratingly, this predatory aspect of their relationship is mostly ignored, in a sunny tale that is packed with laughs (albeit fewer than you'll find
at an actual
screening of «The Room,» where people throw things
at the
screen and shout the dialogue's quips on cue, a la «The Rocky
Horror Picture Show»).
For over a decade, sold out audiences have enjoyed Rocky
Horror - like participation consisting of hilarious traditions such as
screen - shouting, football playing, throwing spoons
at the
screen, rooting on the shockingly long establishing pans of San Francisco, and generally laughing hysterically
at the film's clunky pseudo-Tennessee Williams dialogue, confused performances, and bizarre plot twists, like the mother - in - law character whose breast cancer ought to play like it matters a great deal, but really comes off as a non-sequitur.
Horror movie characters aren't generally known for their brains, but these ones make enough bad choices that audiences won't be able to help yelling
at the
screen (
at least ours couldn't).
It's unusually unnerving and disturbing, not for high - concept visions of a world gone bad or fantastical on -
screen depictions of
horror and violence, but for the imposing awareness that this could all actually happen to anybody, anywhere,
at any time.
Even though this film isn't necessarily a
horror film, it might be one of the most terrifying films
screened at SXSW because the subject matter is all too real.
Doors open
at 6:30, and the event will begin with a
screening of Halloween
at 7 pm with the Rocky
Horror Picture show to follow
at 9 pm.
The night also saw a new look
at the John Krasinski - directed
horror film that stars himself and his off -
screen wife, Emily Blunt, as a couple protecting their kids from monsters that use sound to attack.
On Monday night, Modern
Horrors ventured to Austin, TX for a unique, experiential
screening of Trey Edward Shults It Comes
at Night (review).
What You Need To Know: A sensation
at Midnight Madness
at TIFF way back in 2011, we'll finally get to see low - budget
horror «You're Next» on
screens late this summer.
Actress Kathy Bates attends The Paley Center For Media's 34th Annual PaleyFest Los Angeles «American
Horror Story «Roanoke»
screening and panel
at Dolby Theatre on March 26, 2017 in Hollywood, California.
Retrospectives / Re-Performances The Count (Peter von Bagh, 1971)
at IFFR
Horror Film 1 (Malcolm Le Grice, 1971/2012)
at Leeds Art Gallery Chika Hiroba (Underground Square, Keiya Ouchida, 1970)
at Nippon Connection Melancholia (Lav Diaz, 2008)
at AV Festival The Illiac Passion (Gregory Markopoulos, 1967)
at BFI Southbank Handsworth Songs (John Akomfrah, 1986)
at Close - Up Film Centre Anna (Alberto Grifi & Massimo Sarchielli, 1975)
at Tate Modern The Movement of People Working (Phil Niblock, 1973-1991/2012)
at AV Festival
Screen Play (Takahiko Iimura, 1963/2012)
at Place M Gallery Shlosha Yamim Veyeled (Three Days and a Child, Uri Zohar, 1967)
at Tokyo FilmEx
Set to
screen at the ongoing Toronto International Film Festival is Sadako vs Kayako (read our review), which pits the
horror icons from both The...
The new anti-bullying Halloween
horror film The Terror of Hallow's Eve will have its world premiere
screening next month
at London's FrightFest, and an official trailer has arrived online.
We got the opportunity to interview Howarth a few days ago
at the epic gathering of Halloween icons
at the 2015 Flashback Weekend Chicago
Horror Convention, during which the composer expressed his very serious desire to provide the soundtrack for Michael Myers» next big
screen comeback.
To support the home entertainment release of The Conjuring 2 (the all - time highest grossing
horror film in Australia), Roadshow have produced a prank video
at a warehouse
screening in Sydney that conjured up some hilarious reactions.
Jordan Phipps is making big waves this year in the genre community, with a stellar performance in this year's festival favorite Close Calls and a lead role in the upcoming Halloween
horror anthology 10/31, so we were thrilled to catch up with Jordan on the Orange Carpet for quick interview following our
screening of Close Calls
at the 2017 Halloween International Film Festival in Kill Devil Hills, NC, where she would go on to win the Best Actress award.
Finally, there is «Raw» (March 7, 8), a
horror film that has been on the radar on many genre fans ever since a controversial
screening at the Toronto Film Festival where the grisly imagery on display supposedly caused some viewers to faint.
Among the anticipated highlights
at the ongoing San Diego Comic - Con (SDCC), for
horror fans was tonight's world premiere
screening of The Woods, from director and writer duo of Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett (You're Next), but the whole event just became bigger than anyone imagined, as it has been revealed tonight that the film is actually called Blair Witch and it is a sequel the 1999 found footage classic The Blair Witch Project!
The film is also to
screen at other international film festivals which include Imagine: Amsterdam Fantastic Film Festival, Skopje Film Festival, Macedonia, Dundee
Horror Film Festival, Scotland, Fright Night Film Fest in Kentucky USA, which is the largest genre festival in mid America.
Amenabar (Snuff) is a master
at establishing mood, leaving most of the
horror off
screen.
It also helps if you've attended a few
horror conventions, as the industry serves as the backdrop of the entire movie, making the Smothered world premiere
screening this past Friday
at the Mad Monster Party convention in Charlotte, North Carolina just that much more fitting.
Mindadze's awful film follows a series of characters so completely and utterly stupid that I wanted to yell
at the
screen like a
horror movie.
You're Next — Thanks to its premiere
screening at Fantastic Fest, You're Next became one of the most hyped movies in the
horror community for almost a year and a half before it played again
at SXSW 2013.
Zack Parker's indie
horror film Proxy was just recently announced to
screen at the Toronto International Film Festival and in order to build some hype they have released the film's official festival trailer and it looks damn good.
At the specialty box office, A24's buzzy
horror movie «Green Room,» starring Patrick Stewart as a diabolical neo-Nazi club owner, grossed an estimated $ 215,000 as it expanded onto 30
screens a week ahead of its nationwide release.
It induces a genuine, shivery thrill
at the prospect of a horrific event imagined three times over — the hero's appreciation of his predicament is eclipsed only by his
horror at his lover's ordeal, and both of those theoretical atrocities are overshadowed in the mind of the viewer, who is surely imagining how it would feel to actually live through what's depicted on
screen.
Elsewhere among independent releases, Kevin Smith's quirky
horror comedy «Tusk» debuted on 602 theaters and brought in $ 886,144 for a $ 1,339 per -
screen average that put it
at No. 15 nationwide.
After surviving a night in the woods for an experiential
screening (event recap, review) of Trey Edward Shults» sophomore feature It Comes
at Night, we sat down with him to discuss the very personal nature of the film, his approach to making such an atypical
horror film, the very interesting backstory behind the house featured in the film, and much more.
Saturday, July 26 «American
Horror Story: Coven» Fox Booth Signing Panel: 7 p.m. — 8 p.m.
Screening and Q&A: Fans will get an inside look
at the most recent installment of «AHS» with cast members Angela Bassett, Kathy Bates, Michael Chiklis, Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Emma Roberts, and Executive Producer Tim Minear.
As EW points out, Wood is not only the former Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, but also has plenty of
horror movie experience from both sides of the camera — as an actor in Robert Rodriguez's The Faculty and the excellent 2012 remake of Maniac, and as a cofounder of indie -
horror company SpectreVision, where he has helped a diverse array of projects to the
screen, including A Girl Walks Home Alone
at Night and most recently The Greasy Strangler, which will be released in theaters and on demand this Friday, Oct. 7.
A joint effort between a company known as The Collective and (of course) our friends
at Bloody Disgusting, «BD Selects» hit
screens of various sizes with solid acquisitions like Yellowbrickroad, Rammbock, Cold Fish, Atrocious, and (especially) The Woman, but it's nice to see the BD Selects team casting a wider net and reeling in some weirdly likable
horror / comedies like Deadgirl / Cheap Thrills screenwriter Trent Haaga's Chop.
Among the movies showing in town that can be broadly categorized as thrillers, two represent murder and mayhem with particular enthusiasm: the neatly constructed Funny Games, a home - invasion fable playing
at Facets Multimedia Center for one week, and the erratic effects vehicle The Beyond, a supernatural
horror rerelease
screening midnight Friday and Saturday
at the Music Box.
THE BLU - RAY DISC A movie noteworthy, if
at all, for being the
screen debut of Chloe Moretz, The Amityville
Horror comes to Blu - ray from MGM (via Fox) in a status quo 2.35:1, 1080p transfer.
He does a very good job
at providing just enough on -
screen darkness that viewers can sense the dread and
horror of the situations, but not too much that it proves too difficult to stomach.
Despite an upcoming appearance
at this years Film4 Frightfest, the future still looks bleak for Stephen Sommers» big -
screen adaptation of the first of
horror author Dean Koontz» ODD THOMAS series of novels.
At the Glasgow Film Festival, I talked to McArdle about making the leap from music video directing to narrative feature filmmaking, creating the aesthetic of dreams vs. reality, the influence of
horror cinema on her film, and depicting female friendship on
screen.
While I generally ignore all action, adventure,
horror, thriller, and genre films these days, and I don't think I've gone to the theatre solely to drool
at a hot guy on
screen since high school, Jake Gyllenhaal is one of my weaknesses.
This
horror - comedy — one that many have emulated over the years but that virtually none have been able to equal — is one of the best cinematic mash - ups ever made, and when it was announced that Mondo would be
screening the film
at Fantastic Fest with Rick Baker in attendance (and a special print created by Olly Moss), I knew I had to be there.
And it's not like showing this sort of gore is an achievement in
horror either; wincing
at a woman screaming while someone flosses her gums until they tear apart is a natural reaction, not evidence that the people putting it on
screen have any talent.
After attending a
screening for Jim Hosking's debut feature (review here), Modern
Horrors had the opportunity to sit down with director Jim Hosking and lead actors Sky Elobar and Michael St. Michaels
at the SXSW Film Festival.
He'll be heading to the Cannes Film Festival next month with «Mandy,» the Panos Cosmatos - directed
horror film that earned acclaim
at Sundance and will
screen in the Directors» Fortnight sidebar.
Creep After
screening at FrightFest 2014, Patrick Brice's micro-budget
horror went straight to Netflix in the UK.
Despite an upcoming appearance
at this years Film4 Frightfest, the future still looks bleak for Stephen Sommers» big -
screen adaptation of the first of
horror...
«The Disaster Artist» somewhat chronicles the beginning of the friendship between Wiseau and Sestero, which led to the disasterpiece known as «The Room,» a film that's now shown
at midnight
screenings around the country and mocked much like the «Rocky
Horror Picture Show.»
Overall, SUSPIRIA ranks as my favorite 4K restoration from Kino Lorber, bringing back to the
screen (this week
at the Landmark Inwood in Dallas) in pristine form one of the most harrowing
horror films ever produced.
The Texas Theater presents a rare
screening of a 35 mm print of the classic art house
horror flick Possession (1981), 9:30 pm, August 19,
at the theater.
Richard Drumm entered the dark to check out new Irish
horror film «From the Dark», which
screened at the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival.