by Britt Hayes
Wake (2010)
Paramount Theater
March 13, 2010

by Britt Hayes
SXSW is hectic, to say the least, so I won’t get around to full reviews right off the bat. Instead, I’ll be throwing you some short initial thoughts, and posting the reviews when I get the chance. Look for reviews sometime this week or next week, and until then, enjoy my Shorthand thoughts:

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil: Fantastic horror comedy from Canadian writer/director Eli Craig. The film has a great cast, including Alan Tudyk – who you may know as Pirate Steve from Dodgeball – as Tucker, Tyler …

by Britt Hayes
I regret to inform you that I missed the Predators footage Friday night. Robert Rodriguez presented two trailers and one scene from the upcoming film, directed by Nimrod Antal and produced by Rodriguez. Below are two concept images from the film from our friends at FEARnet, and you can now visit http://www.predators-movie.com/ to see some footage from the film, and another awesome picture of our dreadlocked friend.

The first image is obviously a Predator wearing what appears to be armor, and the second looks like a native creature from …

by Britt Hayes
I love Christina Ricci. Greatest actress ever? Not in a million years, but she’s just so damn cute and likable that it’s hard to not like her. I’d put Drew Barrymore on that same list until her incredible turn as Little Edie Beale in HBO’s Grey Gardens. (What’s that you say? You don’t know about Grey Gardens? Rectify that situation now and rent the astounding Maysles brothers documentary. It will change your life. You’re welcome.)
After.Life sounds like a pretentious Bright Eyes song title from Digital Ash in A …

by Britt Hayes
Steven Soderbergh is the Brett Favre of filmmaking. He’s retiring, he’s not retiring, okay just one more movie, nevermind. Look, I’m not complaining. Soderbergh is a seriously talented man with some seriously fantastic films (I can really do without Traffic, though). And now he’s lending his talents to something more palatable for horror fans: Contagion.
Contagion is based on a script by Scott Z. Burns, who also wrote last year’s The Informant! for Soderbergh. The project is being described as an “action thriller” about a deadly virus let loose …

by Britt Hayes
The South by Southwest (SXSW) festival is held every March in Austin, Texas (aka The Greatest City Ever), showcasing the newest, bestest, and brightest of film, music, and more. This year’s SXSW film festival takes place March 12th-20th, and this week the official site posted the list of films we can look forward to. I’ve taken a look at the list and compiled films relevant to our readers’ interests below.
But before I get to that, I wanted to point out that Kick-Ass is playing the festival. I had …

by Britt Hayes
Bloody-Disgusting has an update on Guillermo Del Toro’s The Orphanage, a remake of the Spanish horror film, El Orfanato. Director Larry Fessenden (The Last Winter) has stepped off the Del Toro-produced project, and New Line Cinema has replaced him with director Mark Pellington (the excellent Arlington Road, and the beautiful but not-so-good Mothman Prophecies).
Pellington will still direct from the script penned by Del Toro and Fessenden, making this sound like more of a timing or scheduling issue than a difference of vision. The Orphanage has been in the …

by Britt Hayes

Three more guests  have been added to this year’s Texas Frightmare Weekend line up! All three leads from John Carpenter’s adaptation of Stephen King’s Christine will be at the fest April 30-May 2 at the Sheraton Grand in Dallas, Texas. Keith Gordon, Alexandra Paul, and the legendary 1958 Plymouth Fury known as Christine.
This Christine is only one of TWO known to remain of the original 20 used in the filming of the 1983 film. Christine’s owner is shipping her all the way from Florida, fully restored to …

by Marc Patterson
It’s been more than a couple of weeks since my first post where I rattled off a few of my favorite horror haunts around the world wide interweb, but I’m back. Not that I ever went away…
This week I’m looking at two sites in particular that I’ve been a fan of reading for quite some time.  I start with Tomb it May Concern by David Zuzelo.

One of the things I enjoy about most horror bloggers is that most aren’t interested in regurgitating news that’s been posted and re-posted …

by Britt Hayes
Coming right on the heels of my Frozen review, the official poster release, the website launch, and the confirmation of a February 5th, 2010 wide release date for Frozen, is news that director Adam Green will be gracing Texas Frightmare Weekend 2010 with his presence.
Green also directed the much-loved Hatchet, and will be discussing his plans for Hatchet 2 at the fest. Frozen is debuting at Sundance, followed by a February 5th release courtesy of Anchor Bay. My suggestion for those of you itching to watch the trailer: …