We’ll be back with the awesome updates that you know and love very shortly! Just gotta get ALL the A+s at school first! ;)

-Scott

“There’s Blood in them there Hills!”

Wowee! Toronto based film maker Josh Heise recently sent us some stuff regarding his new Western themed Horror movie - “The Prospector’s Curse” set to be released in April. It’s still early days, but so far it looks like it could be a really fun movie!

Anyway, without further ado, here’s some info about the film from the official press release…

A western-themed horror film entitled “The Prospector’s Curse” has wrapped production near the remote town of Ponty Pool, Ontario. Set during the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890’s, the darkly comedic short is Written and Directed by Josh Heisie (‘Mail Order Bride’), Produced by Bruno Marino (‘Anything Goes’) and is currently in Post Production in Toronto, Canada.

The talent lineup for “The Prospector’s Curse” includes David Roberts (‘Curious and Unusual Deaths’), Johnny Quinn (‘Mind’s Eye: The Series’), Amanda Ives (‘I Hate Toronto: A Love Story’) and Robert Nolan (‘Worm’).

Rounding out the creative team are Director of Photography Michael Jari Davidson (‘SICK’), and Special Effects Makeup Artist Carlos Henriques (‘Red: Werewolf Hunter’) of The Butcher Shop. 

Synopsis
Theodore “Tubby” Ellsworth and Jack smith are two criminals on the run, lost in the untamed wilderness. When they stumble across a mutilated Prospector, dying on Indian ground, they promise to give him a Christian burial. The fugitives break their oath and steal the old man’s gold…but that night, the Prospector’s corpse returns to make them pay!

For more info on the movie check out the Official Facebook Fan Page:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Prospectors-Curse/141337662650150
And Josh Heisie’s official site: www.joshheisie.com 

Well guys it’s been a while, but I thought it about time that we reemerge from the dark depths of obscurity. So, here’s a little news that will hopefully tide you over… until next time!

Scarlet Johansson is checking into the Bates Motel.

According to the Hollywood Reporter, the world’s most famous shower scene is about to be re-staged, with Johansson stepping into the tub as Janet Leigh in the upcoming biopic “Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho.”

The NY Daily writes that the movie, based on a nonfiction book by Stephen Rebello, will follow Hitchcock’s struggle to produce the iconic work.

Studios showed little interest in the horror flick, largely due to its unprecedented depiction of sexuality and violence during an era accustomed to the modesty regulated by the industry’s production codes.

After studios balked, Hitchcock independently pulled together a budget of $800,000 to produce what is now one of the most influential and widely known thrillers of all time.

Besides Scar-Jo, Anthony Hopkins is attached to play Hitchcock and Helen Mirren will play the filmmaker’s wife, Alma Reville. James D’Arcy will appear as Anthony Perkins, who of course played Norman Bates, whose unhealthy obsession with Leigh’s character ended in a bloody mess.

Filming is expected to begin this year with Sacha Gervasi (“Anvil! The Story of Anvil”) directing a script from John McLaughlin, who penned Natalie Portman’s psychological thriller Black Swan.

BWAHAHAHA!

More news about the Goosebumps movie… if it’s ever actually made

It’s not the usual sort of movie that I would attend, but my sister wanted to see this… Reluctantly, I accompanied her… I mean it has Matt Damon… and Scarlett Johansson… it can’t be too bad right?

I was actually pleasantly surprised with this flick. It’s very formulaic and ‘Hollywood’, but it’s not bad. Not bad at all. The story follows Benjamin Mee (Damon) as he and his kids buy a (you guessed it!) zoo and try to fix it up, along with the help of various animal carers and a head zoo keeper (Johansson). Although the movie is very predictable, the thing that won me over was the cast and acting. As expected, Damon and Johansson play their parts well, as do most others.

The film is primarily for kids (although they do utter ‘shit’ a good number of times) and is a fairly good one. People of any age can still enjoy the film for its fun nature, jokes and cast, but ultimately it’s a movie not everyone will be into and is probably best seen with kids.

- Scott Sanderson

G’day guys! It’s been ages since I last saw you.

Today I want to tell you a bit about one of the worst installments of the (ridiculous) Friday the 13th franchise. It’s Friday The 13th Part III, in eye-popping, mind-bending 3D.

I recently picked up this film on DVD, along with the part 1, 2 and 4. But the initial thing that set this film apart from the others was the fact that yes, it is in 3D. But this is no fancy ‘Real D’ technology that we’ve been seeing in recent years, this is the old-school cardboard glasses with blue and red cellophane lenses. ‘Guaranteed to cause a headache within the first 15 minutes!’.

“Groovy!”

Since this movie is really poorly made, it was the 3D that really got people going to see this 3rd installment in the theaters at the time of it’s release. But this 3D was already ancient technology. It debuted in the 50’s, and this film was released in the early 80’s. But hey, people were interested, so people went to see it.

“Don’t hit me with that unnecessary pole!”

Now I’ll be honest with you; I turned the 3D off halfway through the film. It was doing my head in! Not only does the blue and red make the already pretty shit image quality look like vomit, it gives you a migraine, and you lose track of the storyline because your eyes keep bleeding.

“They just couldn’t resist, could they?”

Now, if you can think of a gimmicky 3D shot, this film has it. It’s got yoyos flying in your face, baseball bats swinging at you, everything. They really were making the most of the whole 3D thing. But if you have the chance to watch this film, I recommend seeing it first without 3D, and then trying again with it. If you can stand it.

“A psycho rip-off?”

Well! Enough about the 3D, what about the actual film? Well, it’s crap. The amount of times I said “What the fuck?” out loud are too many to count. The most memorable scene is when one of the characters is at a shop buying some groceries, when he is robbed um.. sort of robbed (?) by America’s most pathetic excuse for bikie gang. Seriously guys, I didn’t know what I was watching (or what the script writer was smoking). This scene should have been thrown in the incinerator along with half the movie.

“Are you guys for real?”

“Man, we so tough we wear chains for clothing! BAD-ASS!”

I won’t point out any more of the bad stuff because there is too much. You gotta see it your self. There are some positives however. When all of the lame 3D is over, and the script writer decided to stop doing crystal meth, the last 30mins I felt was actually a pretty decent (but simple) slasher-style sequence. But most of the film is full of gimicks, cliches, and PLENTY of ‘WTF” moments.

I could go into more detail, but I won’t. It’s not worth it. You get the general idea.

“That’s right, now I got a hockey mask!”

Much like our friend Eli Roth’s ‘Cabin Fever’, this film really should be labeled a ‘horror-comedy’, in order to save a little of the production team’s credibility. Hell, this movie is a good laugh, and quite entertaining at that! But yeah, this is one of the weaker links in the Friday The 13th franchise. But that’s not to say I don’t recommend seeing it. It’s great, as long as you’re up for a laugh, and not a scare.

“So shit it’s good!”

Aussie

A new top ten countdown music show for the new year!

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On today’s episode:

10. Ginger Snaps Theme

9. Russian Unicorn (BadLipReading)

8. Living Dead Girl (Rob Zombie)

7. Hips Don’t Lie (Shakira)

6. Sexy Boy (Air)

5. Icehouse (Icehouse)

4. Pumped Up Kicks (Foster The People)

3. Earth Died Screaming (Tom Waits)

2. Somebody That I Used To Know (Gotye)

1. Cry Little Sister (Gerard McMann)

TRAILER TRASH BIN - House of 1000 Corpses

 Click above to go to the RT page on the movie!

Everywhere I look, I see negative feedback for Rob Zombie’s horror film debut and honestly, I can’t understand why! I can see why it may not receive ‘masterpiece’ status and why the general public may not care for it, but I really did enjoy this film. To say the least, this is a dark horror comedy which follows a group of kids driving to a parent’s house, but who get into some “unfortunate” circumstances and so need to ask help of a group of… very strange locals. Ultimately, though the plot is very similar to the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, but has enough differences and its own charm to make up for it.

 The thing with this film is that the first hour is really amazing… The final 20 minutes or so, however, are not as great. If the whole movie continued on as the first three quarters did, the movie would rank much higher in my eyes and may have even received the impressive SAAA GOOD ranking. The final quarter is not terrible, by any means, but is definitely much more generic and completely different in style to the first part.

The film is probably one of the most artistic horror films that I’ve seen and makes use of various filters, contains multiple camera angles or perspectives of the same scene on screen at once and includes seemingly random snippets of footage with the characters.

 It also makes use of brooding, intense and tension filled music just adding to the uneasy feel.

As mentioned earlier, there is a big difference in the first and second part of the film. The first is filled with the delicious dark humour that I loved, the brooding music and the artistic effects. The second part, however, became an all-out generic exploitation horror flick that no longer had the powerful tunes, nor did it have as many effects, other than a few filters. Frankly, I found this last part somewhat boring.

Of course, I can’t mention this movie without bringing up the best character in the whole film: Captain Spalding (played by Sid Haig), a deranged looking clown who runs a small horror museum and fried chicken joint. The parts with Spalding are the best this movie has to offer and it’s really a shame that he wasn’t in it more.

The rest of the cast also did a pretty good job, shout outs going to Sheri Moon (the real wife of Rob Zombie) and Bill Mosely who did a great job at making the Firefly family seem disturbing.

Gee this family screams a lot! 

House of 1000 Corpses is one of the most artistic horror movies around and really shows Zombie’s skill for movie making… If only the whole film could be as good as the first hour.

- Scott Sanderson