‘Dark Shadows’ Review: Freak Family Reunion
With four decades between it and its inspiration, can Tim Burton and Johnny Depp draw fresh blood from Dark Shadows? Read our take to find out.
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Henry Selick to direct Gaiman’s ‘The Graveyard Book’ for Disney
Henry Selick’s stop-motion adaptation of Neil Gamain’s deliciously spooky Coraline was one of the best films of 2009. So, it’s great news to hear that Selick will be stepping back into the world of stop-motion with a second Gamian work, the children’s adventure The Graveyard Book. Drawing correlations to Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book, Gaiman’s [...]
‘The Moth Diaries’ Review: Vamp in a girl’s boarding school
Rating: The gothic flourishes of Charlotte Bronte and her Victorian contemporaries often get lost in the ether of modern horror, chopped up, diced and repackaged as a thick murky paste. Consider it the Stephanie Meyering of chic lit; balogna everywhere and no stakes in sight, even when your main characters are that most hoary gothic [...]
A new trailer for ‘Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’ flies in
Fox, on a roll after that impressive ‘Pandora’ trailer, has also released a longer previewfor another big summer pic, ”Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter’. The first teaser had Johnny Cash reciting Revelations and Benjamin Walker slicing through trees with a single blow of his ax. This longer look only confirms that tone, which is more addled superhero antics [...]
Behind the Scenes with ‘Abraham Lincoln Vampire Killer’
Seth Grahame-Smith’s ‘Abraham Lincoln Vampire Killer’ is a reasonably funny and charming tale in book form. It’s an unusually compelling portrait of the 16th president if you can set aside the wacky bits about him being a killer of the undead. Oh wait, that’s the hook of the entire thing, isn’t it? No matter, [...]
Top Ten Horror Films of 2011
Like many other genres, when horror movies are bad, they can be very bad. However, when they are good they can sometimes be great. The horror films of 2011 seemed to fall mostly along this divide; there was either mainstream junk not even worth a Redbox rental or vile, pretentious drivel disguised as indie [...]
‘Twilight Saga-Breaking Dawn: Part 1′ Review: Marriage, Monsters and Mommy
I’ve come to accept the fact that I’m never going to like the Twilight films. So, instead of subjecting myself to another torturous go-round of 40 yr old women catcalling young men on the screen and dippy teens jostling popcorn on my head every time Ed said something ‘perfect and sweet’, I sent our guest [...]
‘The Howling Reborn’ continues the legacy of B-movie crap
Ahh, the return of ‘The Howling’ series. It was only a matter of time. This trailer looks like what one would expect to see after the success of the ‘Twilight’ franchise. More ‘Scream’ than ‘The Howling’, this entry has the gall to trash the Meyer’s series at the same time it’s slavishly referencing it in [...]
‘Stakeland’ Review: Where the vamps have bite
PCN RATING: The world has been torn apart and over-run by vampires, leaving the survivors inert, dead-eyed refuges in a burned-out America. No, I’m not talking about the aftermath of the Twilight phenomenon, but rather Jim Mickle and Nick Damici’s new horror drama, Stakeland. As hard as it may be to believe, the duo finally [...]
Second teaser for new anime based of Marvel’s ‘Blade’!
Didn’t quite get enough of Marvel’s badass vampire hunter from the Wesley Snipes films or the short-lived tv series? If not, then you might be interested in what Japanese studio Madhouse is doing with the iconic character. Following in the footsteps of Iron Man, the X-Men and Wolverine, everyone’s favorite Daywalker will get the anime [...]
‘Priest’ Review: Vamp hunter in Forbidden Zone
Filled with slick special effects, over-produced mega sets and a story hammered out of nothing but genre recyclables, Priest would have been right at home amidst the genre schlock ofthe late 1980’s and early to mid 90’s.
PCN’s 10 Thrillers for A Long Winter
It’s shaping up to be another cold, cold winter. Snow has beenfalling here in Baltimore since late December andwhite flakes have been raining down indiscriminately from the heavens all around us. Although we have yet to hit the height of last year’s winter madness, the troubling threat of chill precipitation looms large. 2010′s blizzard still has many of us [...]
Top 10 Horror Films of 2010
Written by: Nathan Bartlebaugh When discussions of the year’s best films and awards come round, horror movies often get slighted. And yet, every year, there are at least a handful of films and performances in the genre which stand out and above the rest. This year was slower in terms of horror, but there was enough product on [...]
‘Twilight: Breaking Dawn’ gets a huge casting update!
Well, it’s that time again. There’s been a slight reprieve between the summer’s release of Twilight: Eclipse and anything of substance to report regarding the next installment of Meyer’s vamp saga, Breaking Dawn. So, obviously it was time for Summit to light a fire under fans and casual observes alike in regards to this upcoming [...]
AMAD October 4th: Suck (2010)
PCN Rating: In all of the ways vampirism has manifested itself, I’m a bit surprised that it took this long to get a full blown metaphor linking it to the career of the rock musician. Sure, Anne Rice gave Lestat a brief stint as a rock god, and those Lost Boys of the 80s were [...]
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