Wilmington on DVD: My smile is just skin deep (Isthmus)
Four horrific silent features and one bizarre documentary take us back to the heyday of '20s silent Hollywood horror: a simpler, more elegantly scary time when the sets were darkly lit and nightmarish, the stories thrillingly Victorian or Gothic and the acting (especially by the great Lon Chaney and John Barrymore), blood-chillingly unrestrained....more...Movie Releases 10.17 (The News Journal)
Rated R for strong horror violence and language...more... Never enough Elvira? Thereâ?™s more to come (The Pantagraph)
Itâ?™s hard to say what they bode for the world, or even which is more startling, but here are two astounding facts: Elvira, the vampy, campy horror hostess with the enormous, um, following, envisions an America ruled by an army of her clones, one in every shopping mall and car wash. And when she held tryouts, 2,000 women (and men!) applied for the job....more... 'Gone Baby Gone' gritty and gripping, with shades of gray (San Francisco Chronicle)
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Gone Baby Gone: Drama. Starring Casey Affleck, Michelle Monaghan, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris and Amy Ryan. Directed by Ben Affleck. (R. 120 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. For complete movie listings and show times, and to buy tickets... ...more... Fright gallery (Rocky Mountain News)
You know a good haunted house when you've gone through it. Your screams hit some Christina Aguilera octaves. Your heartbeat sounds like the rhythm track to a Slayer song....more... What's really scary about '30 Days of Night' is the boredom (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
Vampires invade a northern Alaskan town once the sun sets for 30 days. With such a good idea for a vampire movie, it's hard to believe it turned out to be this boring....more... Pfeiffer's fears laid to rest in new movie (Taipei Times)
After a four-year hiatus, Michelle Pfeiffer returns to the screen as a youth-obsessed witch in 'Stardust.' In reality, the actress has come to terms with aging and recognizes more important things in life...more... 'Birds' redo calls Campbell as director (The Hollywood Reporter)
Martin Campbell is circling to direct the re-imagining of the Alfred Hitchcock classic "The Birds," which Platinum Dunes and Mandalay Pictures are producing for Universal....more... Frightfully good times (Chicago Sun-Times)
Halloween is creeping closer, and you can get your spook on at events all over town. Here are some of the haunted happenings this week, for true ghouls and lil' halloweenies (free and/or kid-friendly events are noted):...more... |