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Danny and Michael Philippou, the breakout directors of last year’s box office horror hit “Talk to Me,” are re-teaming with A24 on their next horror film, an individual with knowledge of the project told IndieWire. And this time they’re being paired with a two-time Oscar nominee.

Sally Hawkins will star in “Bring Her Back” from the Philippous, who are writing and directing the original movie for A24. Danny and Michael Philippou are also re-teaming with the producers on “Talk to Me,” Causeway Films’ Samantha Jennings and Kristina Ceyton (“The Babadook”).

Plot details are being kept under wraps for “Bring Her Back,” but the film will begin production later this summer.

This would not be the first time Hawkins has starred in a horror film. Way back in 2007 she appeared in “The Killing Gene” alongside Stellan Skarsgård, Tom Hardy, and Selma Blair. The closest she’s gotten to the...

Villains are an essential part of genre cinema. Though scores of filmmakers have attempted to create truly great villains throughout the history of film, only a few have succeeded in achieving this difficult goal.

This article will take a look at the great film villains of the 2000’s.

The criteria for this article is the same as my previous articles Cinema’s Greatest Villains: The 1970’s, Cinema’s Greatest Villains: The 1980’s and Cinema’s Greatest Villains: The 1990’s: the villains must be from live-action films only, and must pose some type of direct or indirect lethal threat. The villains can be either individuals or small groups that act as one unit. The villains must be human or human in appearance. Also, individuals who are the central protagonists/antiheroes of their respective films were excluded.

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Ben Kingsley as Don Logan in Sexy Beast (Jonathan Glazer, 2000): Kingsley rightfully received an...

It’s a great week for Benedict Cumberbatch. Moviegoers around the world (though not yet in the U.S.) are currently flocking to see Star Trek Into Darkness, in which he plays the villain. And another film he’s set to star in has already become a humongous success thanks to a quick crowdfunding drive at Indiegogo. The newer project is a short titled Little Favour and will feature the Sherlock Holmes star as a Ptsd-suffering man enlisted by an old friend (Harry Potter actor Nick Moran) to “help with a deal gone wrong.” With six days still remaining in the effort, Little Favour has already greatly surpassed its goal of £25,000 ($38,385) and looks to possibly triple that amount. This is a pretty remarkable achievement for a campaign that has nothing illustrating its potential, not a video nor storyboards nor any other sort of proof of concept. We don’t even know how long it’ll be. And...

This article is dedicated to Andrew Copp: filmmaker, film writer, artist and close friend who passed away on January 19, 2013. You are loved and missed, brother.

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Looking at the Best Actor Academy Award nominations for the film year 2012, the one miss that clearly cries out for more attention is Liam Neeson’s powerful performance in Joe Carnahan’s excellent survival film The Grey, easily one of the best roles of Neeson’s career.

In Neeson’s case, his lack of a nomination was a case of neglect similar to the Albert Brooks snub in the Best Supporting Actor category for the film year 2011 for Drive(Nicolas Winding Refn, USA).

Along with negligence, other factors commonly prevent outstanding lead acting performances from getting the kind of critical attention they deserve. Sometimes it’s that the performance is in a film not considered “Oscar material” or even worthy of any substantial critical attention.

Many film websites published “decade’s best horror films” lists in late 2009/early 2010. While these lists collectively provided a rough snapshot of the genre’s ups and downs during that time, with more time to reflect, it becomes increasingly clear what an important period the 2000’s were for the horror genre on a global scale.

Not only did this decade easily and obviously eclipse the comparatively arid 1990’s in both volume of production and overall quality, the 2000’s can also be looked at as a crucial one for horror cinema despite the justified outrage about the American film industry’s widespread strip-mining of classics and foreign films for remakes/re-boots and its saturation of the market with teen-friendly PG-13 rated horror films.

While by no means as groundbreaking as the 1970’s or as sentimentally regarded as the 1980’s, the 2000’s will be recalled as the decade that, despite well-founded criticisms...

There are a lot of articles running around the web today looking at Tom Hardy's pre-The Dark Knight Rises early days of acting.  Sure, news items like this are great for hits...and they're sort of amusing, too.  Predominantly, the focus of said articles is on Hardy's turn as a Picard clone in 2002's Star Trek: Nemesis (a movie I've erased from my memory).  

That's all awesome and good, however, let us not turn our attention away from a creature feature Hardy participated in called Minotaur from 2006, a post-Layer Cake and pre-The Killing Gene release (yes, Hardy was in that latter Dimension Extreme DVD release, too).

The actor shared the screen with the likes of Tony Todd and Rutger Hauer and he worked with director Jonathan English, who brought us Ironclad last year.

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With his latest company, A Bigger Boat, Peter Block is amassing quite the horror canon with films from both up-and-comers like Adam Green and even horror masters like John Carpenter. The next talent to set sail? Tom Shankland, director of The Children. There truly are some wonderfully dark days ahead, dearest reader!

From the Press Release:

UK director Tom Shankland has signed on to direct Dark Corners, a film being produced and financed by A Bigger Boat with producers Peter Block and Andy Gould, in association with GreeneStreet Films. Tim Williams and Amanda Essick will executive produce, while Jeremy Platt will serve as co-producer.

Tom Shankland’s most recent feature film, The Children, was produced in association with the BBC and released in the Us under Sam Raimi’s Ghost House banner. It was also an official selection of the Sitges Film Festival 2009, where it was nominated for Best Film.

Lionsgate Home Entertainment gave Fango an exclusive advance peek at a Ghost House Underground Microvideo from the DVD and Blu-ray of The Children, one of four new chillers it’s releasing on both formats under the Ghost House banner October 6. The clip is a montage from the movie set to the song “The Great Divide” by female-fronted hard rock band In This Moment; you can see it below.

The Children, directed by Waz/The Killing Gene’s Tom Shankland, is set in the British countryside at Christmastime, when two families’ celebration turns bloody as their young kids inexplicably turn murderous. The other Ghost House titles are Andrew van den Houten’s Offspring, Eduardo Sanchez’s Seventh Moon and Mark A. Lewis’ The Thaw, all with commentaries, featurettes and/or other special features. Check out our rave review of The Children here and pick up Fango #287, now on sale, for an...

Opening in the UK today is Bronson, director Nicolas Winding Refn’s violently surreal screen biography of notorious British thug Michael Petersen. Adopting the name Charles Bronson, after the Death Wish movie star, for his bare-knuckle fighting persona, Petersen has spent most of his adult life in prison solitary confinement.

Refn’s nihilistic tribute, with nods to Stanley Kubrick and Kenneth Anger, has provoked a huge controversy and much critical acclaim, with actor Tom Hardy (from Lethal Dose, Minotaur, The Killing Gene and Star Trek: Nemesis) attracting stunning reviews for his fearless, raw and powerful lead performance. At the London premiere, Refn (pictured) introduced Hardy on stage with the words “My Aleister Crowley.” Afterward, the director (whose credits also include Fear X and the Pusher trilogy) gave Fango the exclusive on what he meant.

“I’m a massive fan of filmmaker Kenneth Anger,” explains the Danish filmmaker, who’s currently...

Brit directors Tom Shankland (W Delta Z) and Paul Andrew Williams (The Cottage) worked together on the The Children and the reviews from England have been pretty solid. For anyone not living in jolly 'ol England though, we've had to patiently await the release of a DVD which, thanks to the fine people atContender Home Entertainment, is now imminent across the pond.

A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.

You can pre-oder a copy from Amazon here and watch the trailer after the break.

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The toughest thing about visiting the American Film Market is finding time to squeeze in as many movies as humanly possible before your head explodes from retinal abuse. At this year’s 29th annual Afm, held November 5-12 in Santa Monica, CA, I watched 25 movies in seven days, and I still couldn’t squeeze in everything I wanted to see.

I had to sacrifice the Brit gorefest Mum & Dad and Combat Shock director Buddy Giovinazzo’s Life Is Hot In Cracktown, sadly. And I’m withholding judgment on Jamie (Urban Legend) Blanks’ Long Weekend remake until I watch the original on DVD.

Ok, I covered the travelogue and business stuff already (see here). You’re more interested in the movies, right? Well, here are my capsule comments on some upcoming fright fare that I got an early gander at. For more information on the Afm, go here.

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I've been pretty impressed with our teams' Casting Bites pieces, so I thought I'd borrow the format and use it for genre-style news that might not be Huge information, but is interesting enough (to me) to bear repeating.

For example, I knew that director Jon Knautz was planning hoping to turn his scrappy little Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer into a franchise, but now we're getting some early details on where Mr. Brooks might be headed next. The filmmaker promises more action the next time around, plus they have a few unlikely partners for the angry hero to deal with. The screenplay isn't finished yet, but apparently the project is a go. (Check out this report at Filmstalker for more.)

Also, a very cool little horror flick called Splinter is opening this weekend in limited release, and if you're the sort who doesn't mind driving a few extra miles for your claustrophobic bio-terror monster movies,...

Johnny Butane, our favorite person named after a flammable substance, has posted a plethora of new stills and 6, yes not just one, but 6 teaser clips from Tom Shankland’s The Children. Sure, I know what you’re thinking, the creepy kid thing has been done to death, but if you remember correctly, Shankland’s last film The Killing Gene was actually pretty damn good, and bloody. So head right on over to our buddies at DreadCentral.com and check out the rest of what they have to offer on this creepy, and hopefully bloody horror that comes out on 12/5/2008 in the UK. USA release date, please come soon!

A while back we gave you guys the first word on The Day, Tom Shankland’s follow-up to Waz (released here by Dimension Extreme as The Killing Gene). Well, in the time since that announcement was made a lot has happened with the new film, so let's catch up, shall we?

First, the title has been changed from The Day to The Children, which is a far less obscure title, especially when you consider that the film is about a relaxing Christmas vacation that goes horribly bad when kids start turning on their parents. The Cottage penner Paul Andrew Williams scripted The Children, which is in post-production as you read this.

Second, Aith got their hands on the first trailer for the film, which you can dig upon below. Keep it here for more details as they come to light!

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DVD Links: Release Dates | New Dvds | Reviews | RSS Feed Not much at all to tell you about today. However, there is a pretty big deal going on right now for the first four seasons of HBO's "The Wire". You can buy them for the next couple of hours for just $95.49, which is $54.50 off the regular price. If you are interested click here, if not check out the small selection of new stuff coming out this week. South Park - The Complete Eleventh Season I finished watching this just a day ago and this article here may need to serve as my review since there isn't a ton to say. I think by now you either know you like "South Park" or you hate it. I am actually surprised, and happy, the show has stayed on the air this long and this eleventh season has some pretty good stuff in it,...

In light of the DVD rant about pushed back Canadian release dates I went on a couple of weeks ago I should probably say that, this week, I've been made to eat my words. See, like many of you 70s apocalyptic scifi buffs out there, I've been eagerly awaiting the release of Z.P.G (or Zero Population Growth). Except after doing some research on the title, I realized that it was actually released in Canada back in June! So there you go, we Canucks might not be as hard done by as I originally thought. Another scifi flick out this week is Stephen Chow's charming CJ7 which I haven't actually seen yet. On the horror front we've got Dimension Extreme's retitled The Killing Gene (originally known was Waz). Trailers, synopsis, and links after the break!

Z.P.G

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A very small selection of horror DVDs will be out this Tuesday, August 12th but as you should all know; it’s not the size but what you do with it!

3 Am (2008)

Directed by Sidney Mansa Winters

Remember The Number 23? How Jim Carey started to see the titular number everywhere he looked, which all led to a very weak ending? Well, this one’s a York release, meaning you’ll be lucky if only the ending is weak, and follows a man who goes to investigate a friend’s claim that a ghost drops by his apartment every night at 3Am. When he sees that it’s actually true, he starts seeing the number 3 all around him. How… terrifying? Buy it here!

Drive-In Cult Classics Volume 2

Directed by Various

Not a bad assortment of flicks for a night of cheap beers and cheap entertainment. Well, a few nights, actually,...

Genius Products has officially announced the DVD release of The Killing Gene (aka Waz), which stars Stellan Skårsgard, Melissa George, Ashley Walters, and Selma Blair. DVD Active reports that the Tom Shankland directed film will be available to own on August 12, and should retail at around $19.97. The film itself will be presented in anamorphic widescreen, along with an English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround track. According to the folks at Fangoria, the disc will include 3 deleted scenes, a Making of featurette, a Torture featurette, and an in-depth interview with the director, producer and screenwriter.