MetaFilter posts tagged with horror

Making A Bad Movie

Artw — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 18:26:25 -0800

It was the 80's. We were younger then, and anything seemed possible. So it all seemed part of Destiny when my very first screenplay was bought and produced; fame and fortune was surely just around the corner. HA! Fat chance.- The making of Forever Evil.

Horror for the casual insomniac

[NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:26:36 -0800

Doomed Moviethon exists as an excuse for Richard Schmidt to go on insane, caffeine-fueled horror movie benders and record his impressions as sanity erodes... Could you do 28 Giallos in 60 hours? Also: 12 Werewolf flicks in 30 hours 13 Argentos in 34 hours 13 films from '76 in 42 hours

Let's Talk About Killing Zombies

fearfulsymmetry — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 09:08:49 -0800

Before even writing The Zombie Survival Guide never mind World War Z, Max Brooks was lecturing on how to survive an uprising by the living dead. Whole lecture - poor sound quality (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) . Max Brooks at Comic-Con '08 (1, 2, Q&A 1, 2, 3, 4). Max Brooks and George A. Romero at Comic-Con '07 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)

Sweetness and Shadows

Kronos_to_Earth — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 22:59:34 -0800

My Little Cthulhu. Artist Mari Kasurinen reinterprets My Little Pony.... (via)

While I lay dreaming of you...

KokuRyu — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:36:08 -0800

The Earth Dies Screaming [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6] [Part 7] (IMDB listing) As the film opens, people all over Britain are mysteriously collapsing, apparently dead: Trains careen off their rails; cars crash into walls; commuters drop to the ground where they stand. One blogger's opinion... Directed by Terence Fisher Score by Elisabeth Lutyens UB40 Tom Waits/28 Weeks Later mashup

Antpocalypse!!!

kittens for breakfast — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:18:46 -0800

Today's date? Why, it's...July 11, 2052, and man has been cowering in terror, self-sealed in his own living-tombs since that day of horror in...1952. Remember? 100 years ago, the sky above America turned black...with the dread flight of millions of ferocious, gigantic ants! Despite the reality that the events depicted in "World War III with the Ants" are completely impossible (or so scientists would have you believe), this kind of thing would, just two years later, happen again. And twenty years after that, further proof that ants have it in for us. Mock them if you will!!!

Hell hath no fury like Clive Barker scorned

[NOT HERMITOSIS-IST] — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:54:27 -0800

Clive Barker's new film The Midnight Meat Train has become a famous casualty of the recent regime change at Lionsgate, which relegated the feature to limited release (and to hit DVD shortly after). Fans (and Barker himself) tried to force Lionsgate to reconsider, whick ultimately backfired. Despite plenty of non-terrible reviews, the company's "limited release" eschewed major cities, shoving MMT into out-of-the-way $1 cheapie cinemas. Horror fans are furious-- but they've found a way to get their point across.

Comics Artist Jack Kamen Dies at 88

kittens for breakfast — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:26:45 -0800

EC Comics great Jack Kamen (probably best known today as the father of inventor Dean Kamen) has died at 88. (Partial) interview from The Comics Journal #240 Kamen's poster for George Romero's film Creepshow A small cover gallery LOTS of story samples An EC Comics retrospective by Richard Corliss

Calling King

fearfulsymmetry — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:55:35 -0800

Director Mathieu Ratthe has created in a scene from Stephen King's The Talisman in the hope of convincing those holding the rights to let him make a full film version. See also his short film Lovefield. More King: 25 episode 'graphic video' adaptation of his short story N.

Vamp

Artw — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:26:20 -0800

Curt Purcell of The Groovy Age of Horror (previously) on Vampirella and the art of José González, who modeled his version of the character after Sophia Loren (NSFW, mild boobies) (Previous Vampirella)