NEWS OF THE WEIRD: The Amazing Kreskin Talks About Justin Bieber’s Monkey Troubles!
The world of FANGORIA is a weird place.
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Columns,News,News of the WeirdChris Alexander
Movies/TV,NewsSamuel ZimmermanNew poster to “CARRIE” you through the weekend
Sure, there’s a new motion poster for Kimberly Peirce’s CARRIE redo, but more than anything, I just want to know why this Keep Calm… trend endures. As you probably know, the original Keep Calm and Carry On posters were one of a series of designs from the British Government’s Ministry of Information and produced by [...]
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Books/Art/Culture,Features/Interviews,NewsSamuel ZimmermanNew York haunter Tim Haskell looks forward to this summer’s all-night “CAMP NIGHTMARE”
It’s the beginning of Memorial Day weekend and summer, however unofficially, is here. A season with special ties to horror, it is where the youthful inclination of exploration and reckless abandon meets undeserved punishment, and when you close your eyes it’s envisioned as converging in one place: Camp. Endlessly revisited through FRIDAY THE 13TH sequels, [...]
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Home,Movies/TV,News,ReviewsKier-La JanisseCannes 2013: “NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN” (Movie Review)
It may seem somewhat off-character to feature German arthouse drama NOTHING BAD CAN HAPPEN in the (virtual) pages of FANGO, but despite the film’s title, something bad can happen, and boy, does it ever.
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Movies/TV,News,ReviewsTrevor Parker“EVIL DEAD (2013)” (Original Soundtrack Review)
Now that the flurry of passionate yeas and nays flung over director Fede Alvarez’s EVIL DEAD remake has subsided, it’s a good time to take a deeper look at one of the more heralded changes Alvarez made with his DEAD interpretation: the score by composer Roque Baños (THE MACHINIST, SEXY BEAST), just released on compact [...]
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Fearful Features,Movies/TV,NewsAlondra RogersFilmmaker Patrick Rea talks Horror, the Midwest and his new film “NAILBITER”
In Kansas, there are few things scarier than a tornado or a basement. Midwestern filmmaker Patrick Rea’s new horror film has plenty of both, and a little something extra too. It’s that last bit that a mother and her daughters find themselves facing during a killer storm in NAILBITER. Rea’s new feature is just the [...]
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Buttgereit, Marschall & Kosakowski crowdfund “GERMAN ANGST”
The proposed anthology that would bring underground filmmakers and purveyors of shock imagery Jörg Buttgereit, Andreas Marschall and Michal Kosakowski together is, as so many indie projects are now, seeking aid via crowdfunding.
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NewsadminL.A.! Win tickets to “AMERICAN MARY” with directors and star in attendance!
The Soska Sisters’ acclaimed body(-mod) horror/character study AMERICAN MARY is hitting limited theatrical release next Friday, May 31, and Fango’s got two pairs of tickets for lucky readers to catch this piercing film.
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- Movies/TV,NewsChris Alexander
EXCL: Charles Band addresses “Wizard” Big Box VHS accusations
Today, a video went viral via vhscollector.com that accused iconic genre film maverick Charles Band of fraud. Recently Band had claimed he discovered a wealth of collectible big box VHS boxes from his landmark, now defunct Wizard Video label. For $50, the Full Moon Pictures maven has been selling these pristine boxes with a duplicated [...]
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Movies/TV,News,ReviewsChris Alexander“EVIL DEAD” (Chris’ Review)
Leonard Maltin’s 2.5 star review of Sam Raimi’s original THE EVIL DEAD in his pre-IMDB/Rotten Tomatoes printed reference book summed up the picture’s plot like this: “Five kids at mountain cabin chop each other to pieces when demons possess everything.”
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Fearful Features,Movies/TV,NewsChris AlexanderRest in Peace, Jesus “Jess” Franco (1930-2013)
I’m writing this quickly, as I have to get this out now, while the news is still stinging, but Jesús “Jess” Franco died yesterday. To me, Franco was and remains the most important figure in cinema, a fascinating individual who ate, slept and breathed moviemaking, who lived to point his lens at anything that caught [...]
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Columns,Movies/TV,Newborn Dead,NewsMarla NewbornNewborn Dead: “REMOTE” access
Back in 2009, I was coordinating a short film screening at the FANGORIA Weekend of Horrors in Los Angeles. It was my baby and naturally, I wanted only the best films to be showcased. During my search I came across the short REMOTE. I was riveted. However, I knew no details about the making of [...]
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