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Look, Miss PETA 2009, no animals were harmed in the making of this stole. I'll have you know Tor Johnson was in my last movie, and we got him drunk and shaved his back...

Emily Gault (Hazel Court) arrives at the Carrell mansion determined to rekindle an old relationship with Guy Carrell (Ray Milland), despite the disapproval of his sister, Kate. Guy overcomes his all-consuming fear of being buried alive long enough to marry Emily but soon becomes obsessed again, building a crypt designed to guarantee that he will not fall prey to his most dreaded nightmare. Trying to prove that he has been cured of his phobia, he opens his father's tomb and is shocked into a catatonic state. His worst fears are realized as he is lowered into a grave and covered over, apparently never to learn that the treachery of someone very dear to him was directly responsible for his predicament.

Going from possibly directing the resuscitation of one classic monster franchise to another, it looks like Ridley Scott's protégée Carl Erik Rinsch might create a new Creature From the Black Lagoon remake once he finishes filming Keanu Reeves in the historical samurai epic The 47 Ronin.

Before Scott, who brought us the first Alien 30 years ago, was tapped to direct the prequel to Alien currently in development at Fox, Rinsch had been groomed to make the prequel.

Now Variety reports that Universal, which has resurrected to varying degrees of success its "classic monster" legacy with the Mummy movies, Van Helsing and its upcoming The Wolfman, is courting Rinsch to make a new version of its 1954 classic about an amphibious, humanoid and sort of tragic monster who terrorizes a scientific expedition on the Amazon. Rinsch has been directing cutting-edge commercials for Ridley and Tony Scott's RSA company for years.

The original, filmed in 3-D with a lot of artistic grace by the late, great Jack Arnold, spawned two sequels back in the 1950s. A remake of Creature has been brewing at Universal for decades, with John Landis and John Carpenter rumored to direct at different points, and with SF giant and creator of the Quatermass serials Nigel Kneale writing one of the proposed screenplays.

So, what do you think? Given Universal's track record in how it treats its classic monsters, do you think the Creature will get a fair shake?
From SF Wire

This one is especially for Ponytail!

A murderer is running loose through the streets of London, hunting down men dressed as Santa and killing them all in different, and extremely violent, fashions. Inspector Harris has decided to take on the unenviable task of tracking down the psychopath, but he's going to have his work cut out for him. Only the suspicious reporter, Giles, seems to offer the Inspector any promising leads.
This movie is British made!

After years of unmasking fake ghosts, Scooby and the gang go searching for real ghosts. Their search takes them to Zombie Island, which gives them a lot more than they ever expected. The gang finds themselves caught between a sect of vicious cat creatures and a horde of zombies lead by the ghost of Moonscar the Pirate. Adrienne Barbeau is the voice of Simone.

December 14, 3:22 PM Horror Movies Examiner Ben Smith

Bangor Daily News recently reported that Maine natives, horror author legend Stephen King and his wife Tabitha, will pay the way home for 150 members of the U.S. military. Bangor Daily News states, "one from Camp Atterbury, Ind., to Portland, one from Camp Atterbury, Ind., to Bangor — for the soldiers of the Brewer-based 172nd, a division of the Maine Army National Guard."
Originally requested to donate $13,000, but too unlucky for King's standards, they decided to agree upon $12,999 and have their personal assistant pitch in the $1 to reach the requested amount.
Although known for his outrageous and wonderfully imaginative horror books and films, which are primarily set in Maine, Stephen King still shows that there is plenty of good-hearted and loving folk in the horror community by reaching out and lending help during the holiday season.
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Some 30 years before The Day After (1983) and Red Dawn (1984), which depicted the after-effects of a Soviet nuclear attack/invasion, the American public was treated to a similar "what if" scenario with this B movie gem.
In this lurid tale, which makes extensive use of WW II stock footage, 5 strangers in a bar, who all have differing opinions on defense, government, and war, fall under the spell of the mysterious Mr. Ohman. As he swirls his drink and drones out his warning, they are all given a "vision" of their possible futures when the inevitable, unprovoked, sneak attack comes.

This movie is to nuclear war what Reefer Madness is to marijuana: over-wrought, hysterical, and down-right funny when viewed from the perspective of time. But it carried the message of it's time: PARANOIA! Joe McCarthy couldn't have dreamed of a better set up...

This movie is also full of those familiar actor's faces whose names you don't quite remember:

Gerald Mohr
Dan O'Herlihy
Edward G. Robinson, Jr.
Tim Kennedy
William Schallert

And...

Noel Niell as the Second Airline Ticket Agent.

Did I mention the extensive use of US Army stock footage?
They use a lot of it.

I give it 2 bags of popcorn: a classic from the heart of the Cold War era. Schlocky good fun! And stock footage...



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You've got to see this. This is a howlingly funny little flick, more than worth the ten minutes you'll invest.

Here is the official plot synopsis, which is accurate but tongue in cheek:

Treevenge details the experiences and horrifying reality of the lives of Christmas trees. Clearly, for trees, Christmas isn’t the exciting “peace on earth” that is experienced by most. After being hacked down, and shipped away from their homes, they quickly become strung up, screwed into an upright position for all to see, exposed in a humiliation of garish decorations. But this Christmas will be different, this Christmas the trees have had enough, this Christmas the trees will fight back. Treevenge could be a short film about the end of days for Christmas trees, or perhaps, the end of humanity?

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Look, Cronenberg, I told you, we'll do full frontal shots AFTER I go through the transporter with the kielbasa.

From Black Christmas: remember all those label warnings about plastic Christmas gift packaging? They weren’t kidding…

We always have a list of Christmas-themed horror films, so here’s the one for this year. The scariest thing about it for me is that I’ve actually seen all of them. New Year’s resolution: get back into therapy…

By Mark H. Harris, About.com Guide

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