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Impressive Teaser Trailer for Michael Chuah’s Fist of Dragon
Well-executed promotional trailers for intense martial arts movies are not unlike a hit of crack: as soon as you you get that initial buzz, you instantly want more. The clip for Michael Chuah’s upcoming...
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New Feature Trailer for Rick Jacobson’s Bitch Slap Offers More of the Same
Various clips and images for Rick Jacobson’s cleavage-heavy B-movie homage “Bitch Slap” have been circulating for over a year now, a number of which have appeared on this very site. However, yesterday several trailer-centric...
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New Daybreakers PSA is Surprisingly Awesome
Indie filmmaking duo Michael and Peter Spierig’s upcoming vampire saga “Daybreakers” looks to be a nice departure from the romantic bloodsucker angle we’ve forced to endure as of late. I, for one, don’t mind...
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50 Cent and Val Kilmer Reteam for Jesse Terro’s The Gun
Did anyone besides myself watch the Eugene Hess scripted, Charles Winkler directed 50 Cent/Val Kilmer cop thriller “Streets of Blood?” Anyone? I didn’t think so. Although it wasn’t unbearable, it certainly wasn’t a memorable...
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Six Badass French Posters for Scott Sanders’ Black Dynamite
As you may already know, I want to see “Black Dynamite” in the worst way, though I seriously doubt this jive-talking, tongue-in-cheek homage to the beloved blaxploitation genre will find its way into a...
Read More »Korean Trailer for Anthony DiBlasi’s Clive Barker Adaptation Dread
As a long-time Clive Baker fan, I’ve been anxiously awaiting for Anthony DiBlasi’s upcoming horror outing “Dread” to make an appearance in my neck of the woods. However, recent adaptations of Barker’s work have...
Read More »Simple Yet Effective Poster for Matt Reeves’ Let the Right One In Remake
Am I excited that the guy responsible for “Cloverfield” is helming the remake of Tomas Alfredson’s “Let the Right One In?” Not really. I suppose, if you’re illiterate or have something against Swedish cinema,...
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Tommy Wirkola’s Hansel and Gretel Gets a Writer
As a fan of director Tommy Wirkola’s Nazi zombie opus “Dead Snow,” I’m super jazzed about the filmmaker’s upcoming Stateside project “Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters,” a film that’s being produced for Will Ferrell’s...
Read More »Because You Need It: The New Puppet Master Teaser Has Arrived!
Back in the day, I was a Full Moon Entertainment fanatic. The creepy, strange-smelling video store near my childhood home always carried the latest FM flicks, and I was always one of the first...
Read More »Director Chris Bowman Offers Up a Slice of Humble Pie
Comedies with heart are a weakness of mine. For instance, “World’s Greatest Dad,” while extremely crude and unusual, is impossibly sweet and heartfelt, as is Hal Haberman and Jeremy Passmore’s grossly underrated 2006 superhero...
Read More »Walken, Freeman, and Macy Team Up For The Maiden Heist
It’s hard to a fault a movie that features Christopher Walken, Morgan Freeman, and William H. Macy in key roles, even if it does look like yet another wacky heist movie featuring actors who...
Read More »The Marine 2 Proves That Any Movie Can Have a Sequel
Who knew that the John Cena action extravaganza “The Marine” was popular enough to warrant a sequel? Not this guy, apparently. Cena, however, has moved on to greener pastures, allowing another WWE star to...
Read More »Far Cry (2008) Movie Review
The unadulterated anger directed towards German filmmaker Uwe Boll is, for the most part, warranted. Simply put: The man doesn’t make good movies, and people tend to hate him for it. However, despite Boll’s...
Read More »Behind-the-Scenes Featurette for Daniel Zirilli’s Circle of Pain
Anyone who’s a fan of mixed martial arts shouldn’t have a hard time finding a movie on the subject these days. Even if you blow through your local video store’s entire selection, there’s plenty...
Read More »Several Stills From Brian Yuzna’s Upcoming Creature Feature Amphibious
I’m always up for a good Brian Yuzna movie. Although I’m not the biggest supporter of his recent output, I’m still a hardcore fan of his bizarre 1989 horror flick “Society,” as well as...
Read More »Jason Stutter’s Diagnosis: Death Finally Arriving On Region 1
Although it wasn’t nearly as funny as I was hoping it would be, “Tongan Ninja” director Jason Stutter’s amusing horror/comedy “Diagnosis: Death” is finally making its way to the States later this year. The...
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Nevermind the Turmoil: Here’s the Hellraiser Remake Synopsis
Truth be told, I will be very, very surprised if this “Hellraiser” remake ever gets off the ground. Every other day I’m hearing war stories from deep within the production, ranging from a host...
Read More »Hard Revenge, Milly: Bloody Battle Trailer is Quite Cool
Crazy, over-the-top Japanese action movies seem scientifically designed to appeal to someone with my warped cinematic sensibilities. “Tokyo Gore Police,” “Meatball Machine,” and “The Machine Girl” are all responsible for my current obsession with...
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Uwe Boll Claims Bloodrayne 3 is Happening. What Did We Do Wrong?
Did you, your friends and family, or anyone else on this God-forsaken planet really enjoy Uwe Boll’s adaptation of the strangely popular 2002 videogame “Bloodrayne?” More importantly, did anyone even watch the direct-to-video sequel?...
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