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четверг, 3 марта 2011 г.

Horror at the Oscars 2011 - Part Two

Rick Baker. Friend of apes. Maker of monsters. Seven time Oscar winner. And that lucky number seven was forThe Wolfman, shared with fellow EFX maestro Dave Elsey. Their on-stage speech was great, but the extended Thank You Cam was even better. Both Baker and Elsey thanked Jack Pierce and Dick Smith for inspiring them. Though there were grumblings online that the Academy clip showed the CG transformation rather then the make-up. It is always a treat to see our own getting the gold.

Horror at the Oscars In the best original music category, Trent Reznor won forThe Social Network. But who could forget his rivethead contributions toClass of 1999, Se7en, andTetsuo: The Bullet Man? And Danny Boyle’s nominated127 Hoursdidn’t win for Best Picture, but we will always love him “best” for his bloody crazies in the 28 Days series.

Rounding out the highlights in horror cred are nods toJason X, Wishmaster, Brainscan, The DeepandA Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child. But a special silver skull goes out toThe Kids Are All Right’s Jeffrey Levy-Hinte who produced one of the greatest horror films of the past decade, Larry Fessenden’sWendigo. I hope one day to see Larry grace the stage of the Oscars to get one of his own. I know he can do it, and I hope it is for a genre film.

And now for Part 2 of Horror at the Oscars ... enjoy the show and remember: you don’t have to go to Texas for a chainsaw massacre.

Please Note:This isNOTgoing to be an all-inclusive list of every genre project these stars have worked on. Just some highlights. Feel free to add your own highlights for them in our comments section below.

Best Make-up FX

WINNER:
Rick BakerThe Wolfman
Horror cred:An American Werewolf in London, Cursed, Hellboy, The Haunted Mansion, The Ring, Ghosts, The Frighteners, Wolf, Body Bags, Ratboy, Thriller, Videodrome, The Funhouse, The Howling, It Lives Again, The Fury, King Kong, Squirm, Schlock, Modern Vampires, The Food of the Gods, The Exorcist, The Thing with Two Heads, The Devil's Advocate, It’s Alive,“Werewolf"

Dave ElseyThe Wolfman
Horror cred:Death Machine, Waxworks, Hellraiser, Little Shop of Horrors (1986), Living Doll, Alien³, Candyman

NOMINATED:
Adrien Morot,Barney's Version

Horror cred:A Flesh Offering, Carny, Humans, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, Decoys 2: Alien Seduction, The Woods, The Covenant, Decoys, Evil Breed: The Legend of Samhain, Relative Fear, Brainscan, Stalked, Slashers, Species II, Breeders, Screamers,“The Hunger”

Edouard F. Henriques,The Way Back
Horror cred:The Cell, The Vanishing, Cat People, Dead& Buried, Prophecy, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Deep

Gregory Funk
Horror cred:Blade II, Trauma, Heartstopper, Night of the Living Dead (1990), Wishmaster, Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh, Phantoms,“ X-Files”

Yolanda Toussieng
Horror cred:Flatliners, Beetlejuice

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score

WINNER:The Social Network, Trent Reznor
Horror cred:Tetsuo: The Bullet Man, Dr. Psycho - Die Bösen, die Bullen, meine Frau und ich, The Hitcher, Doom, Constantine, Resident Evil, se7en, Class of 1999

Atticus Ross
(If you can call it that) Horror cred:Twilight

NOMINATED:

Inception, Hans Zimmer
Horror cred:The Ring, Paperhouse, Jason X, Scream 2

Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song

WINNER: We Belong Together fromToy Story 3, Randy Newman
Horror cred:April Fool's Day

NOMINATED:

I See the Light fromTangled, Alan Menken
Horror cred:Little Shop of Horrors

Best Motion Picture of the Year

WINNER:The King's Speech, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Gareth Unwin

NOMINATED:

Black Swan
Mike Medavoy
Horror cred:Black Swan, Shutter Island

Brian Oliver
Horror cred:Black Swan

Scott Franklin
Horror cred:Black Swan

The Kids Are All Right, Jeffrey Levy-Hinte
Horror cred:Wendigo

127 Hours, Christian Colson
Horror cred:The Descent, The Descent: Part 2

Danny Boyle
Horror cred:Sunshine, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later

The Social Network, Scott Rudin
Horror cred:The Village, Addams Family Values, The Addams Family, Flatliners

Michael De Luca
Horror cred:Drive Angry 3D, Blade 2, Lost Souls, Blade, Dark City, In the Mouth of Maddness, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare, A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Dream Child, The Lawnmower Man (short),“Freddy's Nightmares”

True Grit, Scott Rudin
Horror cred:The Village, Addams Family Values, The Addams Family, Flatliners

Joel Coen
Horror cred:The Evil Dead

Winter's Bone, Anne Rosellini
Horror cred:Cthulhu

Alix Madigan-Yorkin
Horror cred:Case 39

Best Short Film, Live Action

WINNER:God of Love, Luke Matheny

NOMINATED:

The Confession, Tanel Toom
Horror cred:The Second Coming

Na Wewe, Ivan Goldschmidt
Horror cred:Mascara

Wish 143, Samantha Waite
Horror cred:Hello Darkness

Look for Part Three soon!

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среда, 2 марта 2011 г.

Insanity Lives Beyond The Corridor

There's no greater pain than the loss of a loved one. Though sometimes, speaking as a guy, getting into a car too fast and accidentally sitting on your own nuts is a close second sting-wise. In any event, yet another tale of a getaway gone awry has come our way and we've got artwork, and trailer, and more.

Below you'll find the first word on Evan Kelly's Canadian horror flickThe Corridorwhich stars Stephen Chambers, James Gilbert, David Patrick Flemming, Matthew Amyotte, and Glen Matthews. Dig on all the goods we've assembled for you and for more dig on the officialThe CorridorwebsiteandThe CorridorFacebook page.

Synopsis
Tyler Crawley needs his friends, now more than ever. Recovering from mental stress in the wake of his mom's death, Tyler has been counting on a weekend with the guys to bring him back to normal. For Tyler's sake his old buddies rally themselves, though the"glue"which keeps them together has weakened with the passing of recent years -- a natural enough occurrence.

But with the introduction of a single unnatural occurance -- the corridor itself -- the knots in these male bonds will come loose with a terrifying speed. Both a fantastical passageway to somewhere and a passageway into the mind of the male animal, the corridor will lead Tyler and his friends to the very edge of sanity and beyond...

Insanity Lives Beyond The Corridor

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вторник, 1 марта 2011 г.

Exclusive: Stuart Gordon Talks Re-Animator– The Musical, The Men, and More at Screamfest LA Mixer

While co-hosting (with festival head Rachel Belofsky and Jonna Jackson) last week’s Screamfest LA mixer at Te’Kila and 504 on Hollywood Boulevard (in attendance were horror movers and shakers John Skipp, F. Javier Gutiérrez, Zoran Popovic, Stephen Goldmann, John Michael Elfers, Drina Durazo and more), I caught up with Re-animator filmmaker Stuart Gordon in order to discusshis current projects, as well as the currently previewing playRe-animator– The Musical.

Stuart Gordon Opening on March 5th at the Steve Allen Theatre in Hollywood, CA, the stage musical incarnation of Gordon’s 1985 filmic hit (both which center around Dr. Herbert West, a medical student obsessed with reanimating the dead) runs Friday through Saturday nights through March 27, and Gordon told us of the play over a cocktail amid the boisterous din, “Audiences seem to really like it, which is great! We’re previewing all weekend, and those nights are already sold out, which is a wonderful thing.”

In regards to the cast ofRe-animator– The Musical, “George Wendt is playing Dean Halsey,” said Gordon, “and Chris McKenna is playing Dan Cain, and we have this wonderful guy, sort of a discovery, Graham Skipper who is playing Herbert West, and he’s amazing.” The cast is rounded out by Jesse Merlin, Rachel Avery, Mark Beltzman, Cynthia Carle, Brian Gillespie and Liesel Hanson.
While the musical aspect is certainly a departure from the source material, the production does remain loyal not only to the black humor evident in the Re-animator film, but also the gratuitous gore, and audiences can expect just that, with the first three rows of the theatre designated a‘splash zone.’

“There’s a lot of liquid flying through the air,” said Gordon of the play’s copious gore. “It’s the original group from the film providing the effects. Tony Doublin, John Naulin and John Beuchler all came back to do there thing, and I think it’s even better than it was in the film.”

Reflecting on the longevity ofRe-Animatora quarter century after its release and its current sonorous metamorphosis,“It’s amazing that people are still enjoying the film,” said Gordon, “and I think doing it as a musical kind of puts a whole new spin on it, and the guy who wrote the songs, a fellow named Mark Nutter, is inspired. I mean his stuff is kind of twisted and cheerful at the same time. He sort of reminds me of Tom Lehrer(writers note:an American songwriter known for his lyrical black humor, evidenced in his song‘Poisoning Pigeons in the Park’, among others),who was this guy who wrote all of these weird songs in the 1950’s, and he kind of inspired me and gave me that thought that one could do a horror musical, and I think Nutter was the guy to write the songs.”

Regarding the filmmaker’s future hopes forRe-Animator - The Musical,“Our hope is to ultimately take it to New York,” he effused. “I don’t know if it’s a Broadway show, but it’s certainly an Off-Broadway show. We haven’t got any reviews yet, since it hasn’t officially opened, but it has been blogged about, and one of the blogs said that they thought the play was better than the movie, which I thought was kind of cool. Imean, there’s nothing like it. The play happens right in front of you. People are excited about 3-D, but this is 4-D! This is reality, and you are breathing the same air, you are right there, and having Re-animator happening right in your face, is quite an experience. I do have to say our castis amazing. They make you believe that all sorts of carnage is taking place.”

As for what cinematically is exciting the director at present (who previously helmedDagon, Castle Freakand episodes of the series"Masters of Horror", among others ),“I’m working on a couple of projects,” revealed Gordon. “One of them is with Brian Yuzna, who produced Re-animator. It’s from a Dan O’Bannon script, the guy who wrote Alien and Total Recall, and who unfortunately passed away last year. This is a script of his though that Brian and I have been wanting to do for a long time, called The Men. The basic idea of it is that Earth was taken over by aliens about a half million years ago, and I can’t give too much away, but we are in early pre-production on it, and are just starting to cast it. We are working with Robbie Little and The Little Film Company, and they are bringing in the financing.”

“The other project I’m working on is with Ed Pressman that I’ll be directing, and it’s called Mud Duck, and was written by John Strysik, the guy who wrote Stuck, the last film I directed. Like Stuck, it’s based on a true story, and is about a massacre that took place in Wisconsin about five years ago. I wouldn’t call it a horror film, although it is horrifying, but I guess it’s like an action movie, really, because it’s about a shoot-out that took place in a morgue.”

The conversation turned briefly then to the challenges which face filmmakers in funding projects given the standing economic downturn, and Gordon waxed,“These are rough times. People call it a‘recession’ but I really think it’s a depression, much like the 1930’s. It’s one of the reasons though that I like doing theatre, because you don’t need a million dollars to do it. You can kind of make it happen with very little money. A couple of years ago I did a project with Jeffrey Combs called Nevermore where he played Edgar Alan Poe, and that show is now touring all over the country, and I’ve had a great time with it.”

To purchase tickets to Re-animator– The Musical, visit the Steve Allen Theatre onlinehere, and stay up to date on all things Screamfest LA (the film fest runs this year at Hollywood and Highland from October 14 through the 23rd)here.