Tag: Horror Movies

Tara Reid Reveals She Kissed Tom Brady

Tara Reid, actress of American Pie and Sharknado, revealed she has indeed kissed football player Tom Brady. According to the Daily Mail, Kyle And Jackie O were interviewing her on their Australian breakfast radio show segment, “60 Seconds Of Kiss”, when she revealed the kiss.

“He’s pretty good looking,” she said of Brady. She revealed she also kissed Koby Abberton, who is a member of the Australian surfing gang, the Bra Boys.

When asked about Jason Biggs, her co-star of American Pie, the actress said, “no way!”

There is no mention of the Tom Brady fling on Reid’s Twitter profile. However, she did show off her bikini body from a day off of filming:

Beach day! pic.twitter.com/zofmKFTVGt

— Tara Reid (@TaraReid) March 22, 2014

And her new engagement ring:

I'm so in love! pic.twitter.com/iFua1vJvqV

— Tara Reid (@TaraReid) March 23, 2014

Which turned out just to be a prop from her new movie:

I'm not engaged its costume from my new movie @CharliesFarm1 LOL

— Tara Reid (@TaraReid) March 24, 2014

Her current project, Charlie’s Farm by director Chris Sun is currently being filmed in Queensland, Australia on a tiny budget of 1.5 million. According to the Courier-Mail, she has hope that “there’s going to be a couple of them. This could be a huge franchise. Having someone who’s done so many films like myself heightens the interest in it. That’s the beauty about what you do and being famous is that you can help a lot of people.”

The Daily Mail reported that Reid has been enjoying her time in Australia making the film. “‘I’m not really missing the internet at all. I don’t have to read anything about myself I can just focus on the film and have a good time. I did an interview the other day and they were mentioning the gossip that’s happening right now around the world and I had no idea what they were even talking about. I kind of like that, it was refreshing,” she said “It’s amazing here, we’re in the middle of nowhere and there’s no paparazzi. It’s not like being home when they’re outside your house and they watch every little move you make. Here it’s very comforting for me.”

Image via Wikimedia Commons

March 28, 2014
Bing Has An Amazing Halloween Homepage

For major holidays, the Google Doodle usually outshines whatever Bing does it for its homepage. For Halloween this year, Google certainly impressed with a witchy doodle, but Bing is the definitive winner this year.

For this year, Bing outfitted its home page with an interactive haunted house full of odes to classic horror movies. Here’s what it looks like normally:

Now here’s an example of what happens when you find one of the interactive elements:

There are six interactive elements in all with references to The Shining, Poltergeist, Psycho, Friday the 13th, Halloween and The Amityville Horror. Upon finding each of these elements, you are directed to click through the search page for the film in question.

Now this is where things get awesome.

Bing has created a custom search page for each film complete with an animated banner and trivia. Check ’em out below:

Poltergeist

The Shining

Psycho

Friday the 13th

Halloween

The Amityville Horror

It’s safe to say that Bing wins the homepage war for Halloween this year. If Bing can keep this kind of stuff up for other holidays, it may just have something special on its hands.

As a personal aside, Bing should make a Christmas homepage like this featuring Santa Claus Conquers The Martians – just a suggestion.

[Image: Bing]

October 31, 2013
‘Friday The 13th’ Creator Is Working On A Series Called ‘Crystal Lake Chronicles,’ Thinks It Would Be Perfect For Netflix

First off, let’s get this clear right up front. As far as we know, Netflix has no plans to put out a Friday the 13th series. However, Sean Cunningham, the creator of the franchise (he directed the first film, and has held producer credits on each of the four latest installments), has apparently expressed interest.

FearNet posted a new interview with Cunningham today, which sees him talking about a new film, which is expected to go into production next year, and the development of a series called Crystal Lake Chronicles.

Cunningham is quoted as saying, “I think there will also be Friday the 13th: Crystal Lake Chronicles, which is sort of a Smallville. We’ve been on-again off-again with that for years and there are a bunch of great stories to be told, but I think the way that it’s finally going to get delivered is not through a conventional television network, but through the Internet. I can’t tell you who the delivery people will be, but it won’t be the traditional route. There’s also the possibility of webisodes, and I think we even have an idea for a terrific Friday the 13th video game.”

FearNet interviewer Scott Neumyer suggested that the series “sounds like something tailor-made for someone like Netflix.”

Cunningham’s response to that was, “Yeah, it does. It’s also more than just me saying, ‘You know, Friday the 13th would be a great series!’ We’ve got a couple of really good writers that have been working and writing. It can’t be just Jason killing someone new every week. That’s not going to make it.”

First of all, I don’t know. That concept doesn’t sound too bad. These films usually go south once they try too hard to implement a bigger story. The classic formula from the early entries in the film series work. They don’t try to be anything they’re not.

As far as the prospect of this series coming to Netflix goes, it doesn’t seem like something that would be outside of the realm of possibility.

For one, Netflix’s chief content officer just said that the company intends to double its budget for original content, and it’s hard to imagine a Friday the 13th series taking too big a chunk out of that. Such a series would also fit nicely within the strategy Netflix has laid out so far. Not only does it already have a Horror-themed series in Hemlock Grove, but Netflix takes shots on things that have built-in audiences (Arrested Development, Mako Mermaids). If anything has a built-in audience, it’s the Friday the 13th franchise. Netflix doesn’t need every one of its shows to have critical acclaim. It just needs them to have audiences.

Until recently, you could stream a number of the Friday the 13th films on Netflix, so it could also use the viewer data from that to factor into such a decision. I’m not sure what the fact that they’re not on there anymore says about popularity, but on the other hand, we’re just getting to the real time of year when they should be peaking in user interest.

Crystal Lake Chronicles wouldn’t be the first series to come with the Friday the 13th name, but it would presumably be the first one that is directly related to Crystal Lake and iconic slasher Jason Voorhees.

Come on, Netflix. You know you want in on some of that action. Just don’t pull a Freddy’s Nightmares.

Image: Netflix

September 13, 2013
Friday The 13th: This Is What The NES Game Should Have Been

If you’ve ever played the Friday the 13th NES game, there is a good chance you were disappointed. That goes especially for fans of the film franchise. Dr. Terror’s Hacktivision has imagined what a truly legit Friday the 13th NES game could have entailed (of course, you have to take into account that some of what is depicted comes from films that were not yet around during the Nintendo Entertainment System’s heyday).

As Dr. Terror explains:

Hacktivision is a project that creates fake video game trailers from the 8-Bit graphic imagery of Frank Browning, the soundscape and glitch renditions of Sean O’Connor and the gameplay and editing stylings of Dr. TERROR.

What they’ve come up with for this Friday the 13th is truly something special for fans of the movies. It imagines an 8-bit game in which you can play through each installment in the franchise, complete with a real film-inspired soundtrack. Better yet, it incorporates elements of Zelda, Castlevania and Duck Hunt, among other classic titles.

Somebody really needs to make this exist.

Dr. Terror has even one so far as to create a thorough playing manual for the game, which you can see here.

Images: Dr. Jimmy Terror (YouTube)

[via fridaythe13thfranchise.com]

September 13, 2013
Curse of Chucky Red Band Trailer Released

Just like most of their antagonists, horror franchises never die. It’s an unwritten rule of some sort. So, the fact that a movie titled Curse of Chucky is on the way should come as now surprise to movie-goers.

Though the Child’s Play series has certainly gotten silly enough for a “gritty” reboot, Curse of Chucky isn’t quite that. Instead, the movie is set in a time shortly after Child’s Play 3, cutting out Bride of Chucky and Seed of Chucky entirely. Brad Dourif is back as the voice of Chucky, and Don Mancini (the writer of all the Child’s Play movies and the director of Seed of Chucky) is back as the movie’s writer/director.

The movie also seems to be trying to capture more of the creepy horror elements from the first two Child’s Play flicks. The story involves a woman visiting family after the death of her mother, and a young niece who loves a red-haired doll that mysteriously showed up in a package. As seen in the new red band trailer below, people begin dying in horrible ways:

Curse of Chucky won’t be hitting theaters this Halloween. In a series first, the movie will be straight-to-DVD, with a release date of October 8.

August 1, 2013
Check Out This Shining-Inspired Film Ink Ad

Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece The Shining continues to influence pop culture on a regular basis, and an ad from Australian film magazine Film Ink is the latest example.

The hype around the documentary Room 237 has no doubt played a role in much of the recent interest in the film, but The Shining will continue to inspire countless pieces of Internet fun for years to come, without a doubt.

With the new Film Ink ad, we can’t help but be reminded of this Channel 4 ad for The Stanley Kubrick Season from a few years back:

[via The Overlook Hotel]

April 29, 2013
Clive Barker Shares Rare Set Pics From Nightbreed On Facebook

Author/artist/director Clive Barker, who wrote and directed the cult classic Nightbreed (based on his own book, Cabal), has been sharing some rare behind-the-scenes photos from the set of the film on his Facebook Page. Others have posted them, and he (or whoever updates his page, at least) has shared them with his fan base.

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(Nicole Leopoldine Staudigl)

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Recently we looked at some rare behind-the-scenes photos from Hellraiser, which Barker also shared on Facebook.

April 9, 2013
Clive Barker Posts Rare Set Pics From Original Hellraiser To Facebook

Author/artist/director Clive Barker, who directed the original Hellraiser film (based on his own book, The Hellbound Heart), posted a couple of rare behind-the-scenes photos from the set of the film on his Facebook Page. These seemed worth sharing, as the film has a huge cult following.

Barker (or whoever updates his page, at least) posted this one, saying, “On the set of Hellraiser with a resurrected Frank.”

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On this one, Barker simply says, “Directing on the set of Hellraiser.”

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Earlier this year, news came out that Amazon had tapped Clive Barker to develop Zombies Vs. Gladiators. We’re still waiting to see what becomes of that.

November 8, 2012
Amazon Is Making A Horror Movie Called Seed

Amazon’s original content arm, Amazon Studios, announced today that it has optioned its first novel – the horror novel Seed, written by Ania Ahlborn. The book was published by 47North, a Sci-Fi, fantasy and horror imprint of Amazon Publishing.

“Our primary objective at Amazon Studios is to develop great, commercial projects that our customers love,” said Amazon Studios Director Roy Price. “Ania Ahlborn’s SEED has been a top seller for Amazon Publishing’s 47North so we already have a sense of the mainstream attraction of the story and are excited to keep the project in-house for movie development.”

The book was released last year, and it reached the #1 spot on Amazon’s bestselling horror list (Amazon says this is due to word of mouth). It was re-released this year after Ahlborn restructured the story and added over six thousand words.

Here’s the book description (via Amazon):

With nothing but the clothes on his back—and something horrific snapping at his heels—Jack Winter fled his rural Georgia home when he was still just a boy. Watching the world he knew vanish in a trucker’s rearview mirror, he thought he was leaving an unspeakable nightmare behind forever. But years later, the bright new future he’s built suddenly turns pitch black, as something fiendishly familiar looms dead ahead.

When Jack, his wife Aimee, and their two small children survive a violent car crash, it seems like a miracle. But Jack knows what he saw on the road that night, and it wasn’t divine intervention. The profound evil from his past won’t let them die…at least not quickly. It’s back, and it’s hungry; ready to make Jack pay for running, to work its malignant magic on his angelic youngest daughter, and to whisper a chilling promise: I’ve always been here, and I’ll never leave.

Country comfort is no match for spine-tingling Southern gothic suspense in Ania Ahlborn’s tale of an ordinary man with a demon on his back. Seed plants its page-turning terror deep in your soul, and lets it grow wild.

Here’s the book trailer from Ahlborn’s YouTube channel:

Here’s a book trailer contest entry for it:

Amazon will begin testing various big screen adaptations of the book. Up until now, Amazon Studios has only optioned scripts and episodic series projects. Earlier this year, the company announced that it was in the process of putting together some sitcoms and children’s programs. Still, Seed won’t be Amazon’s only horror-themed project. Horror icon Clive Barker also signed on to assist Amazon Studios with a project called Zombies vs. Gladiators.

October 3, 2012
The Horror Film Alphabet Is Awfully Handy

While it’s not exactly an infographic, Stephen Wildish has provided something similar, and it’s a pretty effective teaching tool, especially if you’re a fan of horror movies. The question is, how many can you name? If you’re going by Wildish’s creation, you only have to know 26 of them, but a very specific 26.

I’m pretty sure on most of them, but there are a few that escape me. For instance, the representations for G, K, Q, U, and V leave me uncertain, but the rest aren’t too bad. See for yourself:

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The use of Driller Killer for the letter D is a touch of genius, as far as I’m concerned.

How many can you get?

March 2, 2012