Jessica Biel Stands In The Shadow Of ‘The Tall Man’ August 31st

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 20, 2012 @ 8:34pm
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Martyrs director Pascal Laugier’s The Tall Man finally has a release date! If you’re a fan of Laugier (or Jessica Biel) you’re gonna want to mark your calendar for August 31st, 2012.

Per Jessica Biel Central, “The news comes after rave reviews from the Cannes Film Festival. The New York Times posted a blurb earlier this month with August releases, and listed ‘The Tall Man’ on August 31st. Now it has been confirmed by Producer, Kevin DeWalt, that the film will indeed hit theaters on August 31st. It has not been confirmed whether or not it is a limited or wide release.”

“Jessica Biel plays a nurse living in a small town where children have gone missing over the years, leaving no clues. One night, she finds her son’s bed empty and, desperately rushing downstairs, confronts a huge dark figure, with her son in his arms.” Teach Grant, William Davis, Samantha Ferris, Jodelle Ferland, and Stephen McHattie also star.

Director Gareth Edwards Offers An Update (Kind Of) On The Next American Godzilla Film

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 20, 2012 @ 6:24pm
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The new American Godzilla isn’t dead, it’s just in chrysalis.

Monsters director Gareth Edwards is still is attached to direct the latest revamp of Godzilla for Legendary Pictures and Max Borenstein is rewriting David Goyer’s draft. Speaking at the Kapow Comic Book Convention recently Edwards offered, “It’s going great and I’m genuinely excited about it. We’re just working really hard with Legendary, who have been fantastic. Thomas Tull has just been an absolute pleasure and nothing like the experience they warn you about when you go to Hollywood. I can’t say much other than I hope that we’ll have some proper news soon. So you won’t have to wait too long at all.”

He added, “Well, we are in the worst part of the whole film making process which is waiting. We spent almost a year working on the script and on different drafts, going back and forth trading emails with the production company and everything. I had this lucky chance of writing with Mark and so I feel like, it’s a strange feeling, because at the same time I feel like a lot has happened, but at the same time I’m so deep in the project…”

Making his first appearance in 1954 (Gojira) Godzilla is a giant monster that lives in the sea that comes from the ocean to feed on mankind. In 1998, TriStar Pictures produced a remake set in New York City, directed by Roland Emmerich and starring Matthew Broderick.

[Random Cool] Spoiler! Planet In ‘Prometheus’ Can Be Found Underneath Paris!

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 20, 2012 @ 5:43pm
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Obviously this is a joke, but I’m also referencing a very cool bit of promotion for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus – a subway stop.

Translated from Golem 13, “The Saint-Martin subway station has been closed since 1939, but the marketing team behind Prometheus has transformed it into the surface of Ridley Scott’s alien world. By the looks of it, passengers won’t be able to disembark; they’ll merely be able to snatch glimpses of it as their train passes by.”

The actual film is in theaters June 8. Noomi Rapace, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Sean Harris, Guy Pearce, Kate Dickie, Rafe Spall, Logan Marshall-Green, Benedict Wong, Emun Elliott, Ben Foster, Patrick Wilson all star.

Head inside for some more images and a video of the experience (that has a lot of “cuddling” at the end). READ MORE

The U.S. Will Get To Head Down A Vampire’s ‘Blind Alley’ Soon!

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 20, 2012 @ 5:04pm
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Blind Alley

Good news! Writer/director Antonio Trashorras’ vampire film Blind Alley will now be headed to the U.S. on VOD in the next few months.

Per Variety, “Phase 4 Films has picked up U.S. distribution rights to horror film “Blind Alley,” the directorial debut of Spanish screenwriter Antonio Trashorras. Pic will bow on VOD on Phase 4′s World Premieres platform by the fall.”

In the film (which stars Ana de Armas, Diego Cadavid and Leonor Varela), “In a tiny laundrette hidden down an alleyway, Rosa finds herself trapped, completely isolated and unable to escape the nightmarish situation of being attacked by a serial killer. At the break of dawn and after hours of anguish, immersed in the sadistic game of rat and mouse the killer has subjected her to, the young girl will discover something even more disturbing about the nature of her aggressor.” READ MORE

[BD Caption Contest] Last Week’s Winners! New Contest Pic Inside!

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 20, 2012 @ 4:49pm
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Who said I wasn’t fair?

First Prize – Winner is Benatar01 with ““That’s called a uvula Jack,…Everybody’s got one.”” Prize is a Blu-ray Copy Of The Mimic Trilogy.

Second Prize – Winner is IGETIGETBLOODY with “Even Jack Nicholson thinks Evans sh*tty winner picks are insane!” Prize is a Blu-ray Copy Of The Devil Inside.

Note, I picked the second one because it actually made me laugh. Winners, please DM me your US mailing address (no PO Boxes please).

Rules:

1. We pick a still from a movie. It’s included after the jump. You head to the comments section and submit your best one-liners, zingers, pathos riddled couplets etc…

2. You can enter as many times as you like and submit as many captions as you want, but each caption must be in a separate comment. Otherwise it will be too hard to tell where one caption ends and the other begins. Your entries can be posted anytime during the first five days after the still is announced (you don’t want to submit your winning zinger after we’ve picked the winner). Also any racist, sexist, homophobic or generally hateful jokes will be disqualified. You don’t have to be insanely PC – just use your best judgement.

3. We pick the winner and announce them and their winning caption when the next photo in the contest is posted. We will address you by your BD Infected name. You can then DM me your address and I will send you your prize in a timely manner (i.e. you should have it in about a week). You must be a US resident to receive your prize!

This weeks prizes are:

First Prize Blu-ray of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)

Second Prize DVD of Madison County.

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Stephen King’s ‘A Good Marriage’ Being Turned Into A Film, Who’s Read It?

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 20, 2012 @ 4:41pm
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If you read this site then there’s a good chance you like Stephen King and will be glad to know that A Good Marriage will be making its way to screens sometime next year. The original story comes from King’s “Full Dark, No Stars” compendium and Peter Askin (Trumbo) has been hired to direct.

Per Screen Daily, “Atlas International has added Stephen King adaptation ‘A Good Marriage’ to its Cannes slate.
Peter Askin will direct the psychological thriller based on a short story from King’s book Full Dark – No Stars, winner of the 2010 Bram Stoker Award for Best Collection. Will Battersby produces.”

In the book, “When her husband of more than twenty years is away on one of his business trips, Darcy Anderson looks for batteries in the garage. Her toe knocks up against a box under a worktable, and she discovers the stranger inside her husband. It’s a horrifying discovery, rendered with bristling intensity, and it definitively ends a good marriage.”

The project is casting. Have any of you guys read this story? How is it and who do you think should be in it?

This Trailer For ‘Storage 24′ Won’t Be Collecting Any Dust

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 20, 2012 @ 4:18pm
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Good news out of Cannes for fans of Johannes Roberts horror film, Storage 24, because it’s been sold in a number of territories.

Per Variety, “London-based international sales agent Independent has closed multiple deals on helmer Johannes Roberts’ ‘Storage 24.’ It sold to Klockworx in Japan, Focus & Co. in South Korea, IPA in Thailand and Vietnam, Lark Films in Hong Kong, Bier Film in Turkey and WEG in India… The film pre-sold before Cannes to Universal for the U.K., Australia, New Zealand, German-speaking Europe, Scandinavia and Benelux.”

Storage 24 stars Noel Clarke (“Doctor Who”) and Laura Haddock (The Inbetweeners) and is written by by Clarke, Davie Fairbanks and Marc Small. The film “is set in London after a military cargo plane has crashed, leaving its highly classified contents strewn across the city.”

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First Imagery From Spanish Slasher ‘After Party’!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on May 20, 2012 @ 12:38pm
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It was recently announced that Telespan 2000, Telecinco Cinema and Film Factory all teamed on Spanish slasher After Party. Now, we’ve added the first ever imagery below.

A smart genre shocker, After Party stars a young Spanish cast — Luis Hernandez (Three Steps Above the Sky) and Ursula Corbero (Paranormal Experience 3D).

“It turns on a teen idol TV actor who wakes up with three girls after a wild party and, trapped in a house, receives cell phone vids of the real-time deaths of other party revelers, also locked up in the house. But things may not be quite how they seem.”

First-time director Miguel Larraya directs, but Spanish genre specialists occupy key crew positions: After Party cinematographer is Pablo Rosso, d.p. on the REC franchise, composer is Lucas Vidal (Sleep Tight) and fx supervisor is Isidro Fernandez (Extraterrestrial). Screenplay is by Larraya and Fernando Sancristobal. – Variety

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Cannes Sales Art, Long Synopsis For ‘The 4th Reich’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on May 20, 2012 @ 12:30pm
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Bloody Disgusting has been the very first to tell you about AV Pictures’ The 4th Reich, especially since the information has been readily available and updated on the AV website since the beginning of the year. With Cannes under ways, the casting information has been readily available to everyone, with Sean Bean (“Game Of Thrones”, LOTR), special effects wizard/actor Tom Savini (From Dusk Till Dawn), and Craig Conway (The Descent) all starring for director Shaun Robert Smith (The Forgotten Ground). Next up, AV has released a small piece of sales art that you can dig on inside. THR recently added that the movie was purchased by U.K. sale to eOne Entertainment and is scheduled to shoot this summer and U.K. Bean will play a charismatic British sergeant major in the film.”

The script, “details the story of a brigade of British soldiers sent into occupied mainland Europe who find themselves up against an enemy created by Nazi scientists as an all-powerful fighting force for what would be the 4th Reich.”

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Full Length Short Premiere: Take A Trip Aboard Creature-Filled ‘Vessel’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on May 20, 2012 @ 5:00am
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Clark Baker has provided Bloody Disgusting an excluisve first look at his short film Vessel, an ambitious sci-fi horror project in the vein of Alien, The Thing and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Vessel features a blend of old school, practical creature effects and slick, modern day VFX.

“The story focuses on Liberty Airlines’ Flight 298 and its passengers. Shortly after takeoff, the passengers encounter an otherworldly force and thrown into a fight for their lives!”

Watch it below and tell us what you think!

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Ali Larter, Scott Speedman& Bill Pullman Blast ‘Beyond Apollo’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on May 19, 2012 @ 10:41pm
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More Cannes goodness as we’ve landed first word and art from Beyond Apollo, which is based on the award winning book by Barry N. Malzberg that captures the eerie isolation of delving into the unknown, begs us to ask the unanswerable, and marks the separation between the real, unreal and surreal.

Directed by Michael Grodner, Beyond Apollo stars Ali Larter (“Heroes”, Resident Evil, Final Destination), Scott Speedman (Underworld) and Bill Pullman (Independence Day, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Lost Highway).

Stealth Media Group is selling the film produced by Aaron Ockman (Children of the Corn: Genesis, Hellraiser: Revelations), with Cloverfield director Matt Reeves executive producing. Get more at the official website.

“The first two-man mission to Venus is aborted in mid-flight and abruptly returns back to Earth. When rescue crews go to retrieve the space capsule, they make a startling discovery: The Captain is missing, there is no sign of his body whatsoever – and strangely enough, the lone surviving astronaut has no clue about what took place.

Beyond Apollo tells the riveting story of when that astronaut, Harry Evans, returns to earth and must answer to the authorities about what really happened on board the doomed flight to Venus. His mind-bending struggle to figure that out is a harrowing journey through the possibilities: Was the Captain murdered? Did he commit suicide? Or were alien beings responsible for his demise? The answer, as Evans will eventually discover, is far more terrifying than anything he could possibly imagine.”

Principal photography is scheduled to begin in the fall. READ MORE

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This Is What I Want From The Next Multiplayer Resident Evil

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Posted by Adam Dodd on May 19, 2012 @ 2:51pm
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Capcom’s two experiments with a multiplayer-centric Resident Evil haven’t been terribly successful. The first Outbreak sold well, but the reviews weren’t all that great and its sequel sold half as well, essentially killing the series until Operation Raccoon City came along. Unfortunately, ORC doesn’t really share much with the Outbreak series outside of four-player co-op. Read on for what I’d like to see Capcom do with the next multiplayer Resident Evil, whether it ends up being the long-requested Outbreak File #3 or an Operation Raccoon City sequel.
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‘Truman Show’ Director Moves Into Haunted Castle Horror ‘The Keep’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on May 19, 2012 @ 2:01pm
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Peter Weir (The Truman Show, Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World) is the latest attached to direct contemporary gothic thriller The Keep, adapting Jennifer Egan’s 2006 bestseller in a film set in a mysterious medieval castle somewhere in Central Europe, says Variety.

“‘The Keep’ turns on two estranged American cousins who reunite to set up an alternative resort, stirring childhood traumas and phobias in a haunted castle.” It has been described as The Ring meets Inception.

Shooting next spring, The Keep is set up at Said Ben Said’s Paris-based production-sales outfit SBS Productions, which is also producer of Brian de Palma’s Passion.

Weir is writing the screenplay. Budget is around $30 million. READ MORE

Danny Roebuck Goes Crazy On Bugs In Rob Zombie-Directed Amdro Commercial

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Posted by MrDisgusting on May 19, 2012 @ 1:54pm
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You guys seem to enjoy when Rob Zombie directs commercials, so here’s one for Amdro starring Danny Roebuck.

‘Stake Land’ Director Preps Two Thrillers, ‘Cold in July’ & ‘Night Hunter’

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Posted by MrDisgusting on May 19, 2012 @ 1:07pm
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French shingles Wild Side Films and Memento Films are partnering on genre helmer Jim Mickle‘s next two projects: Cold in July and Night Hunter, Variety reports. Wild Side will distribute in France; Memento Films will handle international sales.

Mickle’s previous film, Stake Land, won the Toronto Midnight nod in 2010. The helmer is about to start shooting We Are What We Are, an English-language remake of Jorge Michel Grau’s cult cannibal pic Somos lo que hay, which was pre-sold by Entertainment One for U.S. and U.K. distribution.

An adaptation of Joe R. Landsdale’s novel, the Texas-set Cold in July is described as a suspenser in the vein of A History of Violence and Blood Simple.

Night Hunter is an original script penned by Mickle and his regular scribe partner Nick Damici. Set in 19th-century America, it is described as a mix of The Grey, “Game of Thrones” and The New World.

Cold in July will shoot first, aiming for a start date in Q1 2013.

Liev Schreiber And Olivia Williams Agree To Spend Their ‘Last Days On Mars’

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 19, 2012 @ 10:32am
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Irish helmer Ruairi Robinson – a renowned commercial director – has just started shooting his first feature film The Last Days on Mars, based on a script by Clive Dawson. Filming will take place in Jordan and at Elstree Studios in the UK.

The film stars Liev Schreiber (Scream 2, X-Men Origins: Wolverine) alongside Olivia Williams (pictured above;The Sixth Sense, Rushmore), Romola Garai (One Day, Atonement), Elias Koteas (Shutter Island, Zodiac), Tom Cullen (Weekend), Goran Kostic (In the Land of Blood and Honey, Taken) and Johnny Harris (Snow White and the Huntsman).

The thriller, which was previously titled The Animators, “follows the story of an astronaut crew on Mars on the verge of a major breakthrough having collected rock specimens that reveal microscopic evidence of life.

In their last hours on the planet, two astronauts go back to a cavernous valley on the surface of Mars to collect further evidence for their discovery, but a routine excavation turns deadly when one of them falls to his death and his body is taken as a host and re-animated by the very life form they sought to discover.“

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First Official Look At ‘Birdemic II: The Resurrection’!

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Posted by MrDisgusting on May 19, 2012 @ 12:55am
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First discovered by Bloody Disgusting (not by Tim & Eric, oh no, no, no, noooo), Birdemic became a horror household name. The humor came from director James Nguyen’s serious approach, although most believe it was staged (I assure you it wasn’t).

That’s the issue with Birdemic II: The Resurrection; now that Nguyen is in on the joke, can a sequel be just as good-bad? I doubt it. Still, Alan Bagh and Whitney Moore both return, so why not?

Anyways, an official website and Facebook have been launched sharing the first ever still from the sequel that recently shot around the Los Angeles area.

In the sequel, “Bill is a struggling filmmaker; Gloria is an aspiring actress. Rod, a Silicon Valley millionaire, finances Bill’s film, a dream come true until eagles and vultures attack Hollywood and it’s up to Rod, his girlfriend Nathalie, new friends and old to mount the resistance. Who will survive? Birdemic II, you asked for it.” READ MORE

The Poster Darren Lynn Bousman’s ‘The Barrens’ Shows Some True Blood

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 18, 2012 @ 8:55pm
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It’s been a while since we’ve heard much about Darren Lynn Bousman’s psychological horror The Barrens, which stars Stephen Moyer, Mia Kirshner, Erik Knudsen, J Larose, Allie MacDonald, Max Topplin and Peter DaCunha. Now we’re getting word that the film will be playing Cannes and we have a look at the sales poster.

In the film Moyer plays “a man who takes his family on a camping trip to the more than 1 million acres of dense forest known as the New Jersey Pine Barrens, where he becomes convinced they’re being stalked by the legendary winged monster that looks like a deformed hybrid of several different animals.”

The legend of The Jersey Devil has been passed along for hundreds of years, as the creature has risen from obscurity to take its place alongside the Loch Ness Monster, Big Foot and the Chupacabra.

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Johnny Depp And Edgar Wright’s ‘The Night Stalker’ Has A Writer

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 18, 2012 @ 8:25pm
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Edgar Wright (Shaun Of The Dead, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World) was announced as the director for The Night Stalker a few months back. Disney is eyeing the remake of the ABC telepic and series as a potential star vehicle for Johnny Depp (Dark Shadows, A Nightmare on Elm Street) to play intrepid tabloid reporter Carl Kolchak.

Now comes word that D.V. DeVincentis (High Fidelity, Gross Pointe Blank) will be the screenwriter on the project. Per The Hollywood Reporter “D.V. DeVincentis has been tapped to write Disney’s big-screen adaptation of ‘The Night Stalker’. Stalker is one of the more high-profile projects in the works at the studio because Johnny Depp is attached to star and Edgar Wright is attached to direct.”

I’m guessing that Devincentis will be plowing through his drafts while Wright preps and shoots The World’s End with Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. So we’re probably looking at 2013 for World’s End and 2014 for The Night Stalker.

The original ’70s movie and series starred Darren McGavin. He covered crime for a tabloid and his cases always led to supernatural perpetrators that included zombies, vampires, werewolves and aliens. Of course, neither his editor nor anyone else would believe him or allow him to run what seemed like outrageous stories. But Kolchak would put himself in grave danger each episode.

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[Special Feature] Where Are All The Great Werewolf Movies?

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Posted by EvanDickson on May 18, 2012 @ 8:23pm
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The werewolf is the most under-appreciated and misused of all of the classic horror creatures. Sure, we get all kinds of movies with werewolves in them, but more often than not those films seem more concerned with mentioning werewolves and then showing some bizarre half-assed approximation of them. Like they’re checking off a box on a list.

Obviously one of the most recent and popular misuses of the werewolf would be in the Twilight films, but dissecting those is like taking candy from a baby and I don’t want to spend too much time on it. Suffice to say – they look more like foxes, transform in the daytime, communicate via telepathy and are generally pretty lame. They’re also prone to jorts, which makes them almost like Native American Incredible Hulks who turn into dogs instead of big green guys.

But it’s not up to some teen franchise to carry the torch of one of our best monsters. That falls under the stewardship of actual horror films. So why do most of them drop the ball so badly? Incompetence certainly plays into it and is probably the biggest factor, but there’s still a lot of people with actual talent out there missing the mark. Why?

One of my theories is that too many of these movies seem overly concerned with adding a unique spin or futzing with the rules. I’m not saying there’s not room for that – any genre should be open to reinterpretation. But there are so few great “classic” werewolf movies that maybe we should concentrate on getting a few more of them under our belts. I think that needs to happen before we can expect any spin or subversion of the genre to have any real impact, because right now we’re spinning and subverting something with such a decentralized compass that it just feels random. For example, if you’re going straight into your Nazi Demon Werewolf movie without even exploring some of the inherent possibilities the creature’s metaphor, you’re doing it wrong.

Let’s talk great werewolf movies. And why The Howling might not be one of them. Head inside for more. READ MORE