Keyword results: Horror
Dying Breed
WHAT
DYING BREED
WHERE
DENDY NEWTOWN, 261-263 KING ST, NEWTOWN
WHEN
THUR OCT 30, 7PM
HOW MUCH
$15/$12
Why aren't more horror films set in Australia? We've got a whole continent of eerie, isolated landscapes and our fair share of psychopaths too. Hell, a bunch of us are even descended from criminals - all compelling fodder for a film. Well, now we can breathe a sigh of relief, and then suck it straight back in with horror, as all of these elements are brought together.
Event: Film
Stimulus: W
The Orphanage
Is there anything better than nervous laughter spreading slowly through a cinema? Old-fashioned Spanish ghost story THE ORPHANAGE possesses the entire spectrum of scares: sudden shocks, creeping dread, and the frantic urge to shout "No! Don't! Gah!" at the screen.
Lately, horror sometimes seems like the kind of pornography that's all sex-scenes and no awkward pizza-boy set-up.
John Carpenter Movies
If you are ever wondering where Shepard Fairey got the inspiration for his Obey logo - look no further than the awesome movies of Mr. John Carpenter. In 1988 he made a sci-fi extravaganza called THEY LIVE!. It starred Rowdy Roddy Piper of old-school wrestling fame and involved him finding a pair of magic sunglasses.
Blogger Beware: The Goosebumps Blog
Between 1992 and 1997 R.L Stine made publishing history. His horror novels for children were listed as the fifteenth most challenged books of 1990-1999. But just like the blob who ate everyone, was he sorry about freaking out kids everywhere? Hell no. And thank the thing under the sink for that.
¨The golden era of GOOSEBUMPS has disappeared, but our memories of flawed plotlines, stupid taglines and cheap cliffhangers have not.
A Night of Horror
There's something special about a cumulative effect of the scares, gore, and slow-burning dread contained in a horror festival. April's ‘A Night of Horror' focuses on new horror flicks - in fact, some so new that their IMDB pages still read as being ‘in production'.
If zombie comedies, old-school slasher homages, or an ‘Undead Rockabilly Dance' sound appealing, you'll be in heaven.
Cloverfield
Blockbusters suffer from the tyranny of low expectations. How many times did you hear someone dismiss the gaping flaws of Transformers with "yeah, but it had giant robots fighting, so who cares?" We care, damn it. We want mass destruction with some thought behind it.
Thank Godzilla that CLOVERFIELD is everything TRANSFORMERS was not.
Black Sheep
New Zealand. Killer sheep. The genius of this kind of high-concept is that it lets the poster alone tell you everything you need to know about BLACK SHEEP. (Of course, it all falls apart if there’s only emptiness sitting behind the high concept. Last year, all we wanted were snakes. SNAKES ON A PLANE.
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