Tag: horror

The New York Times: The Critique of Pure Horror

Read Jason Zinoman’s take on the heavier side of horror…

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What’s New on Netflix: November 2014

Snowpiercer, Wolf Blood, Helix, and more. . .

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#POCtober: If you want blood (you’ve got it): an interview with Koji Shiraishi

As an aside, this kind of thing is too much for the Dark Matter crew.

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#POCtober: “Noroi: The Curse” (2005)

Directed by Kôji Shiraishi
The Curse (ノロイ) is a “found footage” J horror film shot as a documentary about a paranormal investigative journalist named Masafumi Kobayashi (Jin Muraki). We follow Kobayashi through number of seemingly unrelated paranormal cases that son add up to the film’s over-arching mystery of the investigator’s disappearance.

Watch Full Movie Here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilHmpETJgZ0

#POCtober: “I Put a Spell On You”

One of Halloween’s Rare Seasonal Songs

Though, unlike a Christmas carol, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ signature song is at home any time of year, “I Put a Spell on You” is a fitting fixture during this season of magic, mystery and things going bump in the night. Covered by many (both George Clinton and Queen Latifah have given it a fling), it is decidedly Hawkins’ original frantic recording that made the song a standard. His over-the-top, theatrical “witch doctor” stage performances of it hail from a different era – but even in its day the record itself seemed anachronistic, like something hailing from the time of “race records” or Jazz back when it was “Jass.”

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#POCtober: An Interview with Tony Todd

Talks ‘Candyman’, Filming In the Projects, and His Legacy

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#POCtober: “Vampire’s Kiss” – First movie for Beals & Alonso – Nic Cage’s Craziest

Cage was only person involved who’d ever made a movie. Not kidding.

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Nicolas Cage in “Vampire’s Kiss” (1988)

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Jennifer Beals and Nicolas Cage in “Vampire’s Kiss” (1988)

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Maria Conchita Alonso and Nicolas Cage in “Vampire’s Kiss” (1988)

#POCtober: Vampire’s Kiss (1988)

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While tormented by vampire seductress Jennifer Beals each night, businessman Nicholas Cage torments his secretary Maria Conchita Alonso by day.

The first time I saw this I lay on the floor and laughed until everything hurt.

#POCtober: Sleepy Hollow’s Lyndie Greenwood on Jenny Mills’ mental state

Greenwood discusses Jenny’s muscular introduction

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#POCtober: [Trailer] First Look at Gigi Saul Guerrero’s “El Gigante”!

Based on Shane Mckenzie’s book “Muerte Con Carne.”