| release date | December 3 2010 |
| studio | Fox Searchlight |
| director | Darren Aronofsky |
| writer | Mark Heyman, John McLaughlin |
| starring | Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Sebastian Stan, Kristina Anapau |
| trailer 1 | Trailer #1 |
Yeah yeah yeah. I know that the “Scream Awards” celebrate other genres besides horror. But the thing takes place in October. And it’s called the “Scream Awards”. And it’s kind of weird that Super 8 is nominated for best “Scream-Play” since it has very few screams and certainly isn’t a very good screenplay to begin with. READ MORE
Out promoting Your Highness, director David Gordon Green told Indiewire that next on his agenda could be the long-gestured remake of Dario Argento’s Suspiria. READ MORE
Warner Bros. Pictures has pulled The Apparition, the Todd Lincoln-directed ghost story that stars Ashley Greene (Twilight), Sebastian Stan (Black Swan, The Covenent), Luke Pasqualino, Julianna Guill (Friday the 13th, Altitude), and Tom Felton (Rise of the Apes, 13 HRS, The Disappeared), from its 2011 release slate. Following couple who are haunted by a supernatural presence that is unleashed during a college experiment, the movie has been shifted to an undetermined 2012 date. There’s no story behind the shift other than a game of Tetris. READ MORE
Michael Stephenson was the child star of the 1990 horror pic Troll 2, a movie so infamously bad, he used the experience to write and direct Best Worst Movie, about the film becoming a cult phenomenon. In a twist of fate, that documentary enabled Stephenson, 32, to line up financing for his first narrative feature, a dark comedy titled Destroy, reports Heat Vision. READ MORE
Years after originally being announced, it looks as if executives at Ivan Reitman’s Montecito Pictures are finally moving forward on Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, a long-gestating film based on Stephen Rebello’s 20-year-old book about. (It previously had drafts written by Rebello and Black Swan writer John McLaughlin.) Normally I’d be like “eh,” but the LA Times is reporting that Sacha Gervasi, director of the incredible Sundance documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil, is in discussions to write and direct a scripted film based on a chapter in the career of Sir Alfred. Among Rebello’s many insights is that the 1960 hit Psycho was a departure for the North by Northwest director, a more explicitly shocking film that was meant to compete with other low-budget horror pictures — The Blair Witch Project of its day, at the Times suggests. (more…) READ MORE
I’ve been pretty fortunate over the years as I’ve been able to attend many film festivals, and see a hefty amount of flicks before they receive distribution. If we’re to continue to be the #1 source for horror, we need to stay ahead of the curve. While the best & worst lists of Bloody Disgusting contributors mainly focus on films already released in theaters/DVD/Blu-ray/VOD, my list carries quite a few titles you’ve yet to see. Keeping constant to my previous lists, inside you’ll find my top 10 films that I saw in a theater this year. Based on my picks, I can’t pretend that I’m not concerned about the state of our genre. With the exception of Overture Films, the studios came up extremely short this year. Sigh. (more…) READ MORE
I’ve been pretty fortunate over the years as I’ve been able to attend many film festivals, and see a hefty amount of flicks before they receive distribution. If we’re to continue to be the #1 source for horror, we need to stay ahead of the curve. While the best & worst lists of Bloody Disgusting contributors mainly focus on films already released in theaters/DVD/Blu-ray/VOD, my list carries quite a few titles you’ve yet to see. Keeping constant to my previous lists, inside you’ll find my top 10 films that I saw in a theater this year. Based on my picks, I can’t pretend that I’m not concerned about the state of our genre. With the exception of Overture Films, the studios came up extremely short this year. Sigh. (more…) READ MORE
There really is no more effective form of movie advertising than the trailer, and putting a good one together probably isn’t as easy as it looks. In a mere two minutes the studio must boil down the film’s basic premise and provide audiences with enough visual and aural flash to compel them to cough up their hard-earned money to see it. With the barrage of movie trailers we see every year very few manage to get it quite right, but those that do are often more compelling than the movies themselves. To commemorate the year in film advertising, B-D’s Chris Eggertsen has sifted through the trailers released in 2010 to put together his list of the ten best – the truly memorable horror spots that made us sit up and take notice. (more…) READ MORE
There really is no more effective form of movie advertising than the trailer, and putting a good one together probably isn’t as easy as it looks. In a mere two minutes the studio must boil down the film’s basic premise and provide audiences with enough visual and aural flash to compel them to cough up their hard-earned money to see it. With the barrage of movie trailers we see every year very few manage to get it quite right, but those that do are often more compelling than the movies themselves. To commemorate the year in film advertising, B-D’s Chris Eggertsen has sifted through the trailers released in 2010 to put together his list of the ten best – the truly memorable horror spots that made us sit up and take notice. (more…) READ MORE
Out of all the lists I’ve done for the site, this year’s best-of compilation was easily the most difficult to write. When I first starting thinking about this way back in August, I was hard pressed to come up with five films that I liked, let alone ones that were strictly horror. But by the time we crossed over into December and all was said and done, my tally sheet was much harder to sort through but for a different reason: I had to narrow a list of twenty-two films down to ten, with an extra three as honorable mentions. Even after I had run them through my normal list of criteria of what I think makes a film great, my count-down order changed numerous times, and only one question helped me determine the iteration you’re looking at now: if I had the option to march right back into the theatre after watching any of these to see it again, which ones would I watch first? Immediately, the fight between a killer tire and ballerina had a winner, and my decision as to whether or not a powerful film was worth including if it made me depressed for days afterwards became clear. (more…) READ MORE
Last year, I had about 20 movies that I would feel comfortable placing in my top 10. This year, I struggled to even FIND 10. While I obviously like all of my choices, it’s pretty damning of the year’s genre output that I had fairly major issues with most of the movies on my “best” list, with only the top 3 really being movies that I was thinking “best of the year!” when I saw them. Ideally they would all be A-movies, but some of these barely register as Bs. The worst list was much easier – barely a week went by without me being massively disappointed with something. And 2011 doesn’t look to be too much better; if I had included films I saw at festivals (i.e. unreleased as of yet), my list wouldn’t really change much. There’s just way too much mediocrity out there as of late, and looking over this list and next year’s schedule, I fear a 90s style wasteland may be fast approaching. Try harder, studios and filmmakers. (more…) READ MORE
Last year, I had about 20 movies that I would feel comfortable placing in my top 10. This year, I struggled to even FIND 10. While I obviously like all of my choices, it’s pretty damning of the year’s genre output that I had fairly major issues with most of the movies on my “best” list, with only the top 3 really being movies that I was thinking “best of the year!” when I saw them. Ideally they would all be A-movies, but some of these barely register as Bs. The worst list was much easier – barely a week went by without me being massively disappointed with something. And 2011 doesn’t look to be too much better; if I had included films I saw at festivals (i.e. unreleased as of yet), my list wouldn’t really change much. There’s just way too much mediocrity out there as of late, and looking over this list and next year’s schedule, I fear a 90s style wasteland may be fast approaching. Try harder, studios and filmmakers. (more…) READ MORE
A film’s poster (also known as a one-sheet) is often the first impression we get of a movie, making it an incredibly important tool in building advance buzz. The job of these posters is two-fold: a) to catch our attention and get us interested in learning more about the film in question; and b) to give us at least a basic sense of what the film is about. While multiplexes are littered with generic one-sheets that might as well have been spit out by a computer, there are always a select few that manage to get it right, and like years past B-D has compiled a list of the best from the past year. Whether the films turned out to be worthy of the artistry that went into marketing them is another question entirely, which just goes to show that sometimes even the worst movies are backed by a savvy marketing team, whose job it to sell the product – no matter how sub-par (or downright awful) that product may be. (more…) READ MORE
We were among the lucky few to catch the very first screenings of Darren ‘s Black Swan back in September. Described as a psychological thriller with “ghosts”, I expected it to be more of a horror movie than it was. With that said, it’s a pretty intense movie that’s both unsettling and skin crawling — but in the end it’s hard to call it “horror”. Still, it’s a sublime movie that deserves the recognition, therefore I’m sharing with you Yahoo’s latest clip that features star Natalie Portman showing off her “dark side”. In theaters Friday, Swan centers on a veteran ballerina (Portman) who finds herself locked in a competitive situation with a rival dancer, with the stakes and twists increasing as the dancers approach a big performance. But it’s unclear whether the rival is a supernatural apparition or if the protagonist is simply having delusions. (more…) READ MORE
Last week Warner Bros. Pictures provided Bloody Disgusting with the first ever images from The Apparition, the Todd Lincoln-directed ghost story that stars Ashley Greene (Twilight), Sebastian Stan (Black Swan, The Covenent), Luke Pasqualino, Julianna Guill (Friday the 13th, Altitude), and Harry Potter villain Tom Felton. In theaters September 9, the pic is a sci-fi thriller in which a dangerous campus experiment leads to contact with the afterlife – horrific contact, no surprise. The LA Times caught up with Felton who described it as in the tradition of Flatliners. (more…) READ MORE
Before arriving in theaters on December 1 from Fox Searchlight, Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan has already premiered at both the TIFF and in Venice. It’s mother effin’ awesome. Starring Natalie Portman, Mila Kunis, Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder, Barbara Hershey, Sebastian Stan, Kristina Anapau, we were supplied with a revised one sheet along with a few stills from the flick that centers on a veteran ballerina (Portman) who finds herself locked in a competitive situation with a rival dancer, with the stakes and twists increasing as the dancers approach a big performance. But it’s unclear whether the rival is a supernatural apparition or if the protagonist is simply having delusions. (more…) READ MORE
Playing TIFF and Venice before arriving in theaters is Darren Aronofsky’s highly anticipated Black Swan, which centers on a veteran ballerina (Portman) who finds herself locked in a competitive situation with a rival dancer, with the stakes and twists increasing as the dancers approach a big performance. But it’s unclear whether the rival is a supernatural apparition or if the protagonist is simply having delusions. The trailer, now below alongside the poster, is pretty effin’ creepy — although I’m pretty sure there’s a quick glance at Natalie Portman having sex with a pillow. Don’t believe me? You should. (more…) READ MORE
Every single time we write about Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan I get a little nervous. I’m terrified that the thriller will play more like a drama and we’ll end up with an egg in our face. Thanks to a new interview with star Natalie Portman over at MTV, I have a reason to relax. “It’s very unique in tone,” Portman told MTV News, adding “I think of it more as a psychological thriller, like Rosemary’s Baby in [terms of] genre, if I had to pick a genre.” Opening Venice and then traveling to the Toronto Film Festival in September, Swan centers on a veteran ballerina (Portman) who finds herself locked in a competitive situation with a rival dancer, with the stakes and twists increasing as the dancers approach a big performance. But it’s unclear whether the rival is a supernatural apparition or if the protagonist is simply having delusions. You’ll all be able to see it come December 1 when it opens Nationally. (more…) READ MORE
Those of you hoping to see RoboCop upgraded with software from the future might be in for some major disappointment. The Financial Times is reporting that Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler, Black Swan) has officially turned in his secret access card as the studio sits on the brink of bankruptcy. With the studio sitting on a massive $3.7bn of debt, and struggling to make interest repayments, it looks like RoboCop is just the first of many projects that’ll hit the bin. It’s hard to be a hardcore movie fan and not feel a little pain in watching MGM suffer as it’s been around since Goldwyn Pictures Corporation back in 1917. (more…) READ MORE
Bloody Disgusting learned that Rose Byrne (Knowing, 28 Weeks Later, The Dead Girl, Sunshine), Patrick Wilson (Hard Candy, Watchmen, The Ledge) and Barbara Hershey (Black Swan, Riding the Bullet) have all been cast in James Wan’s latest horror entry, Insidious, which is currently lensing under the title “The Astral” here in Los Angeles. Re-teaming Wan with Saw co-writer Leigh Whannell, the pic follows a young family makes the terrifying discovery that the body of their comatose boy has become a magnet for malevolent entities, while his consciousness lies trapped in the dark and insidious realm known as The Further. Wan also directed Dead Silence and Death Sentence. (more…) READ MORE
Sebastian Stan (The Covenant) and Luke Pasqualino have both joined the previously announced Ashley Greene (Twilight) in Dark Castle’s forthcoming haunt flick The Apparition, reports the IMDB. The film is set to be helmed by commercial director Todd Lincoln from his own screenplay. In the film a couple are haunted by a supernatural presence that is unleashed during a college experiment. It’s said to be based on true events. Stan’s portraying a post grad trying to figure out his life. Start date for production is February 1 in Berlin, followed by Los Angeles in March. Stan was recently in New York shooting Black Swan for director Darren Aronofsky, and can be seen in Hot Tub Time Machine later this year. (more…) READ MORE
Sebastian Stan (Spread, The Covenant) has joined the cast of Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, which centers on a ballet dancer, played by Natalie Portman and her rivalry with a fellow dancer. With the stakes and twists increasing as the dancers approach a big performance – it’s unclear whether the rival is a supernatural apparition or if the protagonist is simply having delusions. The stunning Mila Kunis also stars alongside Vincent Cassel, Winona Ryder and Barbara Hershey. (more…) READ MORE
Vincent Cassel (Eastern Promises, Irréversible), Winona Ryder (Beetle Juice, Dracula, Edward Scissorhands, Alien: Resurrection), and Barbara Hershey (The Entity) will join Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis in Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan, reports /Film. Swan centers on a veteran ballerina (Portman) who finds herself locked in a competitive situation with a rival dancer, with the stakes and twists increasing as the dancers approach a big performance. But it’s unclear whether the rival is a supernatural apparition or if the protagonist is simply having delusions. (more…) READ MORE
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