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The publicity surrounding Paranormal Activity has concentrated on the paucity of its budget – a mere $15,000 – and the terror it will inspire in you...The Blair Witch Project, the plainest precedent for this film, was supposed to have cost $20,000; but...
Tags: paranormal activity, New York City, films, The Blair Witch Project, Entertainment Culture, Paranormal, M. R. James, Witchcraft, Ghosts, Lions Gate films, Parapsychology, Windows games, Horror film
A Russian composer has specially written a symphonic piece to go along with the landmark silent movie focusing on the Godfather of vampires, “Nosferatu”. Inspired by Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the adapted-from-novel horror movie “Nosferatu: A Symphony of...
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Bong Joon-ho's recent monster movie The Host was greeted with plaudits normally reserved for a master of the French New Wave, with an average Metacritic score of 85. It had a budget of $11,000,000, quite high for a non-American film, and special effects...
Tags: New Zealand, Auckland, Monster, Bong Joon-ho, Horror film, B movie, Genre, Film genres, The Host, Monster movie, Entertainment Culture
No disrespect intended to suitcases, which, arguably, if they could see, would bear witness to all sorts of details – not all of them savory – about lives in transit. Then there’s the mother, who was a good mother by most definitions, and probably still...
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VH1 has ordered a second season of its horror-themed reality series, Scream Queens, with the winner landing a role in the next Saw film. On Scream Queens 2 , 10 aspiring actresses will compete for a role in Saw 3D , the next movie in Lionsgate’s annual...
Tags: Scream Queens, Los Angeles, Film genres, Halloween, Horror film, Scream, Slasher films, Independent films, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest, Lions Gate Entertainment, VH1
When they return to their automobile, they find it will not start. Mick Taylor (Jarratt), a roughneck stranger, appears in the cold of night to offer assistance. The young adults accept Taylor’s aid and follow him back to his habitat. When Liz, Kristy...
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40pm UK, Tuesday November 17, 2009 Elizabeth Scott, Sky News Online A low budget horror film, hailed as the new Blair Witch Project, looks set to become the most profitable in US movie history. Costing just £6,500 to make, Paranormal Activity has terrified...
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We had a really good recipe for fake blood, which is incredibly cheap. Golden syrup and red food colouring, and coffee to make it grittier...Then there were some very cheap biscuits, and I think the director Marc (Price) bought a crowbar as well, for...
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Oren Peli's ghost story, filmed on a video camera in his own house for just $15,000 (£9,000), has become one of the most profitable movies of all time. "I'm pleased and overwhelmed and a bit shocked," Peli told BBC News on Friday. "The whole thing has...
Tags: Paramount Pictures, Oren Peli, box office, Paranormal Activity, United Kingdom, London, films, Horror film, Entertainment Culture
The opening of The House of the Devil mimics the look and tone of late-model drive-in schlock so fondly, for a moment I could've sworn I was back at the old Marbro Drive-In in Murfreesboro —picking rancid popcorn out of my floormat, ignoring muffled cries...
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