The Number 23

1575-poster
release date February 23 2007
studio New Line Cinema
director Joel Schumacher
writer Fernley Phillips
starring Jim Carrey, Virginia Madsen, Danny Huston, Logan Lerman, Rhona Mitra, Maile Flanagan, Patricia Belcher, Lynn Collins, Mark Pellegrino, Tara Karsian
rating
R
site number23movie.com
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Weinsteins Circling ‘An American Werewolf in London’ Writer?

Although no details were revealed, the LA Times is reporting that the Wesintein Company is in talks with a writer Fernley Phillips, best known for scripting Jim Carrey’s horrid The Number 23, to give a modern spin to An American Werewolf in London. Our own sources tell us that Bob and Harvey Weinstein are really looking to depart from John Landis’ 1981 horror comedy that told the story of two American tourists in England who are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists. This begs a single question: why? (more…) READ MORE

00′s Retrospect: Dead on Arrival — Ten Horror Duds of the Last Decade

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: this has been a great decade for horror films. Anyone who doesn’t think so simply hasn’t been paying attention. Of course, those successes likely wouldn’t have felt as sweet had there not been about four or five times as many bad ones, and following from that observation I’ve sifted through the cinematic garbage bin to put together this list of the worst. We’re not talking direct-to-DVD bargain-bin burners here; we normally expect those to be bad. We’re talking studio-released, mostly moderate-to-big-budget disasters with a lot of marketing and moolah behind them. These aren’t the hand grenades; these are the atom bombs whose explosions of craptastic-ness were too big to ignore. They’re listed in order of release rather than badness, since there’s just no way to rank these suckers in any meaningful order. They’re all terrible in their own unique and special way. (more…) READ MORE

Nearly 40 Hi-Res ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ Screen Grabs, FULL Synopsis!

Update: Full synopsis below! For those of you who just cannot wait for New Line Cinema to release brand new stills from their forthcoming A Nightmare on Elm Street reboot, we’ve screen grabbed nearly 40 hi-res action shots from the first trailer that debuted earlier tonight. You can dig on ‘em all below, feel free to grab ‘em and use them for your desktop image, phone backgrounds… whatever you want! Directed by Samuel Bayer, Freddy Krueger (Jackie Earle Haley) returns to theaters April 30, 2010. (more…) READ MORE

First Casting for Neil Marshall’s ‘Doomsday’

It’s not quite horror, but it IS Neil Marshall! Rhona Mitra (Skinwalkers, The Number 23) has signed on to star in Rogue Pictures’ Doomsday, a futuristic action thriller that will be Neil Marshall’s follow-up to his much-buzzed-about horror movie The Descent, according to the Hollywood Reporter. “Doomsday,” written by Marshall, is set three decades after a lethal virus tore through a major country, leading to the country’s walling off. When the virus, known as the Reaper, resurfaces in another country, an elite group is dispatched to the infected country to find a cure. There, they end up shut off from the rest of the world and must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare. Mitra plays the leader of the elite group. Production is slated to begin in early 2007. Read on for a sexy pic of Rhona. (more…) READ MORE

Official Score: 2 / 5