Men of Horror #2: Christopher Lee

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Some films: If you don’t know, then you shouldn’t be here.

For the Dead Lantern peeps

I direct you to my latest post on the forum

Top 50 Dystopian Movies

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People never get tired of ranked lists. Here’s a fun one listing the Top 50 Dystopian Movies of All Time. There are several films listed that I’ve never even heard of. I’ll be tossing a bunch of these into my Netflix queue.

Dead Island

At the German video game show Leipzig they had a brief teaser trailer for a zombie based FPS called Dead Island. The teaser and the photo gallery don’t show a whole lot but so far the game looks beautiful. Hopefully this studio pulls it off and makes a fun game. I’ll be keeping an eye on this one.

Classic Horror Posters #8: The Wasp Woman

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The Wasp Woman (1960) 

Mick Garris: hypocrite?

Fangoria is reporting that Mick Garris and Lionsgate have started a new horror series called Fear Itself

As you know, Showtime ditched Masters of Horror and Garris got Lionsgate to pick it up. When ABC did the Masters of Sci-fi thing, Garris distanced himself from the poor quality of the show specifically because it was on network television and the self-censorship that that entails, which is completely opposite of what the whole point of Masters of Horror is to begin with.

Now comes word that Fear Itself may very well be Masters of Horror, but repackaged for network television, in this case, NBC.

Is this a case of Garris “selling out”? Look, I’ll be the first person to say that horror doesn’t need to be chock full of nudity and gore to be scary. There are plenty of G and PG horror films that are great. But in this case, Garris seems to be changing the entire point of the Masters of Horror series (artists free to do whatever they want) and in light of his comments on the sci-fi version of MoH, he looks a little cheap, in my opinion.  One thing’s for sure, Garris didn’t improve his standing in the horror community any (what little support there was to begin with).

Women of Horror #11: Britt Ekland

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Some films: Asylum (1972), Child of the Night (1972), The Wicker Man (1973), The Monster Club (1980), Satan’s Mistress (1982)

Women of Horror #10: Leila Hyams

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Leila Hyams is hotter than Fay Wray.

Some films: Freaks (1932), Island of Lost Souls (1932)