Fun for the whole family!
Whoever said video games are nothing more than murder simulators that teach our children to be rotten sociopaths obviously hasn't played The Torture Game below. My favorite is the chainsaw.
After Hostel: Part II, the sequel to Eli Roth's brutally violent 2005 horror film about an underground Slovakian hunting club where you can literally pay money to mutilate and torture humans, failed to meet the success of its predecessor, talk on Hostel: Part III ceased and the director eventually made it clear that he's not interested in doing a sequel. However, now reports are surfacing that the third movie in the Hostel series is indeed coming.
According to Bloody-Disgusting.com, they have "confirmed rumors" that Hostel III is in the works. The source also notes that Scott Spiegel (producer of Hostel, Hostel: Part II, and writer of Evil Dead II) is being considered to direct Hostel: Part III. While it might be a bit early to get excited about "confirmed rumors," any news on Hostel 3 is a pretty big deal considering the movie was not going to happen for so long.
It'll be interesting to see what the third film in the grisly series will be about (that is, if it does come to fruition), but we can't help but wonder if it'll tell the story of what happens to Beth after she castrates and beheads a couple of members of Elite Hunting at the end of the second movie.It would definitely be cool to see her get revenge by going after the remaining members of Elite Hunting, turning the torturers into the torturees. Or maybe it'll tell an entirely new story, perhaps a prequel chronicling the formation and beginnings of the Elite Hunting organization.What do you think Hostel: Part III should/could be about?
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After his latest cinematic debacle Mother of Tears, Italian splatter king Dario Argento turns to a cast of American talent for his newest foray into the macabre - a slasher flick entitled Giallo. Cut from the same cloth as Tenebre or Deep Red, Giallo revolves around an American stewardess in Milan, who must cooperate with an Italian detective to rescue her kidnapped sister from a homicidal madman known simply as 'yellow.' Aside from literally translating in Italian as 'yellow' the word 'giallo' has come to represent an entire film genre unto itself, one that incorporates elaborately gruesome fatalities with the punctuation of odd musical arrangements and ambient tones. Anyway, Argento's freshest effort stars Adrien Brody (replacing Vincent Gallo as the Italian detective) Emmanuelle Seigner (as the American), Elsa Pataky, Robert Milano and Byron Deidra in the titular role. Giallo will open some time in 2009.
The Frog's doing a rare bimonthly check in (a technicality, we assure you), this time shining my swollen eyes on Francis Teri's 1990 release of The Suckling - an utterly vile, low-grade, micro-budgeted piece of underground trash. In other words, a great fu*kin' picture! Also known as Sewage Baby (U.K.), Teri's flick centers on a young woman who goes to a back alley abortion clinic that not only doubles as a seedy brothel, but resembles the house of Leatherface, stranded, bucolic. High technology has the poor girl discharging a miscarried fetus into a toilet, it slides through the pipes and lands in a steaming pond of radioactive bilge. It mutates in some of the most jaw-dropping effects work we've seen (especially in a movie of this caliber). The fetus animates, developing an insatiable thirst for blood and rockets back up the toilet pipe to wreak unadulterated hell on the people who unceremoniously flushed him/her. Seriously, this is the most convincing pro-life film to ever be committed to celluloid!
The official poster has been released for the fifth installment in the Saw franchise, Saw V. The new film continues the franchise's tradition of featuring grisly yet vaguely artistic imagery on its advertisements for the films in the longstanding horror franchise--though, somehow the Saw V poster below doesn't gross us out as much as Saw III's which showed three bloodied teeth that were wrenched out of someone's head.This time around first time director David Hackl will be taking on the movie, Hackl having previously worked as Production Designer on Saw II, Saw III, and Saw IV.
Saw V hits theaters the day before Halloween (October 24, 2008).
Women have always been huge part of horror films and the horror universe in general, but sometimes female fans of the genre are not as well represented as the rest of us men. Don't be fooled though, there are swarms of girls who love horror just as much, if not more than, the next dude in a Dawn of the Dead t-shirt and we here at OMGHorror want to pay tribute to all the females out there who live for scary movies. Join us in the first edition of Girls Who Love Horror where we talk with certified horror fiend and actress Lissa Slasher.
According to JoBlo, Writer/Director Richard Kelly (of lauded Donnie Darko and lambasted Southland Tales fame), has been forced to sit back and watch his third feature, The Box open a year later than anticipated. The Warner Bros. film - starring Cameron Diaz, James Marsden and Frank Langella, is now slated for a September 11, 2009 release (nice memorial huh?)
Diaz and Marsden Ponder the Ramifications of Opening The Box!
The picture is based on the musings of famed author Richard Matheson's short story "Button, Button" which was first published in the June edition of Playboy Magazine in 1970. The story centers on a couple who mysteriously receive a wooden box on their doorstep. Opening the box instantly rewards the couple with a mass of wealth, yet unbeknown to them, opening the box also kills a random stranger. Of course they crack the seal and all horrifying hell busts out. With their own young child and only a 24 hour window to quell the madness, the couple is faced with a moral dilemma that will alter the course of their lives forever. Let's just hope there is more intentional fright in this picture than there was unintentional fright in Kelly's last effort Southland Tales.
"Button, Button" was also adapted into a 1986 Twilight Zone episode starring Basil Hoffman, under the title "Profile in Silver/Button, Button."
The first official poster artwork for Rob Zombie's highly-anticipated fourth upcoming feature film Tyrannosaurus Rex has been unveiled. While Zombie has been relatively silent about the details on his forthcoming project other that stating that the film will have "nothing to do with dinosaurs," there are several things one could gleam from looking at the movie's poster which was done by artist Alex Horley. Let's analyze, shall we?
- Based on the fact that Rob Zombie has casted his wife and actor Sheri Moon Zombie in all three of the three movies the rock musician turned filmmaker has directed (and due to the fact that the half-naked big breasted blonde woman wielding a revolver on the poster resembles Mrs. Zombie to a great degree) it's probably a safe to assume that Sheri Moon will star in Tyrannosaurus Rex.
- Tyrannosaurus Rex will hit theaters sometime in 2009 as printed on the poster.
- While it's unlikely that this will be a "horror film," Zombie always incorporates horror elements in all of his projects and is aware that much of his fanbase is from the horror community. You can be sure that this will be a movie that is created with the tastes of horror fans in mind.
- The poster reflects some of the imagery used in Rob's previous film "The Devil's Rejects." There's a revolver, a shotgun, and AK - 47, and a handgun in the painting, so you can expect to see lots of action and bloodshed caused by gunfire.
- Again, Zombie has said that there will be no Dinosaurs in his movie, but there is a clear image of what looks to be a mushroom cloud from an explosion in the shape of a T-Rex behind the film's three characters. It looks at though the character in center of the three who's dual-wielding firearms is the main character, and if that's the case, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the largest carnivorous dinosaur there ever was, possibly has something to do with the handle-bar mustached character's personality.
- In our book, there's only one actor who could play the angry long-haired dude and that's Danny Trejo. Thoughts?
With just a hop skip and a jump from our last destination in Italy, this month's edition of Foreign Fear Friday lands in France to celebrate the work of gothic horror artiste Jean Rollin. A polarizing figure no doubt, Rollin fosters a kind of love-him-or-hate-him following (or boycott) that only seems to compound his international celebrity. Born Jean Michel Rollin Le Gentil on November 3, 1938, the French auteur was welcomed and nurtured by a family of actors and performers who exposed him to such varying influences as German expressionist film, American horror serials, comic books, surrealist art, etc. A mosaic cultural result developed in his work, often referred to as the French cinematic genre known as Fantastique.
It's always a bit disappointing to see respected organizations such as the American Film Institute (AFI) routinely snub the horror genre by failing to acknowledge that it even exists. Now, don't get us wrong--since its inception, the AFI has provided movie lovers with a wonderful reference to some of the greatest films ever created (their list of the 100 greatest American movies in particular is worthy of checking out for a deeper appreciation of American cinema). That said, in the new AFI's 10 Top 10, they've honored the 10 greatest films from the 10 "greatest" genres of film. Horror is notably not present in their picks for the 10 quintessential genres of film.
"AFI Make MAD!"
Granted, the AFI celebrates only American films and is an organization comprised primarily of film elitists who tend pay tribute to more "classic" films, but it should also be noted that the horror genre is one of the oldest categories of film dating back to the silent era of cinema with important American movies like Edison's Frankenstein (1910) to The Phantom of the Opera (1925), both are great horror films made in the United States we might add. That's to say nothing of the profusion of other incredibly influential horror films that came out around this time from Universal including Dracula (1931), The Mummy (1932), Frankenstein (1931) and others worthy of mention. The horror genre is not new, nor is it something that hasn't had its share of remarkable films. Despite straight to DVD sausage factories that do their utmost to besmirch the reputation of the horror genre as a whole by pumping out celluloid trash like Ice Spiders and Mansquito, the horror genre does not deserve to be pissed on by the film world.
AFI's list of top 10 film genres includes: Animation, Western, Sports, Romantic Comedies, Mystery, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Gangster, Epic, and brace yourself for this one Courtroom-fucking-Drama, but no Horror.
