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Chainsaw Maid!

Posted 18 years ago

Zombies. A family in peril. A feisty servant who’s handy with a chainsaw. All presented in gloriously gory home-made claymation. This stunning, twisted short was created by a Japanese amateur animator who goes by ‘takena’ — you can find more...

A new Prisoner

Posted 18 years ago

We don’t cover a lot of TV news, but this merits mention due to the talent involved, and because everyone should be exposed to the original. AMC and ITV are making a new version of the brilliant British late-60s TV...

Name is Bruce update

Posted 18 years ago

It’s been a while since we heard much about Bruce Campbell’s horror-comedy MY NAME IS BRUCE, but fear not, Chinfans! The flick is indeed on the way this October. STYD caught up with producer and Dark Horse Comics honcho Mike...

Wanted guys’ Creatures

Posted 18 years ago

With WANTED shooting up screens this weekend, what’s next for that movie’s screenwriters Michael Brandt and Derek Haas? How about… mutant animals? The hot scribe duo are making a new action-horror spectacle called ALL CREATURES GREAT AND SMALL, described as...

Battle of Batmans

Posted 18 years ago

Christian Bale’s revamped Batman has been getting plenty of attention as THE DARK KNIGHT prepares to swoop into theaters. But has anyone considered how the Batmans who have come before might feel about being lost in the new Bruce Wayne’s...

The Host 2 update

Posted 18 years ago

Bong Joon-ho’s monster masterpiece THE HOST (aka GWOEMUL) became a solid hit, and since then we’ve been hearing rumblings of a follow-up to the family drama/fright flick. Now comes the official word — a sequel is coming, and it’s a...

Quarantine poster

Posted 18 years ago

The Spanish-language “first-person” horror flick [REC] hasn’t even been officially released yet in the US, but the Hollywood remake QUARANTINE is already almost upon us. Screen Gems’ flick follows a news crew trapped in an LA apartment building when a...

Russia’s Commando

Posted 18 years ago

When astute JoBlo reader ‘exterminatrixx’ pointed the way to a trailer for a “Russian remake of COMMANDO”, I assumed it was simply a new action flick that was influenced by Mr. Schwarzenegger’s fine work. But nope — while it takes...

QT talks Inglorious

Posted 18 years ago

Quentin Tarantino recently accepted an award at the Provincetown Film Festival, and publicly proclaimed his relief that his script for the WWII action flick INGLORIOUS BASTARDS (not actually a remake of the junky 1978 flick) is finally done. I can’t...

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