Eric Walkuski

Film Critic

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Favorite Movies: Jaws, Star Wars Trilogy, Aliens, Citizen Kane, The Third Man, Dawn read more of the Dead ('78), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre ('74), Fargo, Miller's Crossing, Reservoir Dogs, The Manchurian Candidate ('62), Taxi Driver, Back to the Future, Stand by Me, Shaun of the Dead, Boogie Nights, La Dolce Vita, 12 Angry Men, The Birds, Touch of Evil

Likes: Film, Beer (who the hell DOESN'T around here?!), writing, NY Mets, read more The Jets, Girls who love film AND beer (at the same time), Jazz, Deadwood, The Wire, The Office, The Twilight Zone, Cormac McCarthy, Graham Greene, Stephen King, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Scorsese, Spielberg, Halloween season, Marvel movies, Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Ash vs Evil Dead, Game of Thrones, Edgar Allen Poe, Mother Nature

Cool Horror Gear: Horror legos, including Freddy, Norman Bates and Ghostface!

Posted 13 years ago

These sure are delightful: UK toy company Minifigs has made a custom series of Legos based on classic horror movie villains to help promote the release of YOU’RE NEXT. You’ve got Freddy Krueger, Ghostface, Norman Bates, Jack Torrance, Michael Myers...

Showtime releases second Penny Dreadful teaser: Not Human

Posted 13 years ago

Showtime has unveiled the second teaser for its forthcoming horror series “Penny Dreadful”. (You can watch the first one HERE.) It’s titled “Not Human”, and there’s a nice little shout-out to the “Twilight Zone” in the voice-over. See if you...

Adrien Brody and Sam Neill join Australian horror film Backtrack

Posted 13 years ago

According to Screen Daily, principal photography has commenced in Australia on writer-director Michael Petroni’s BACKTRACK, starring Adrien Brody and Sam Neill. They’ve just premiered the first still from the thriller; you can see it above. The film follows a psychologist...

BBC’s Intruders sets Eduardo Sanchez and Daniel Stamm to direct; John Simm will star

Posted 13 years ago

Back in October we let you know that the BBC was planning an eight-episode TV series adaptation of Michael Marshall’s crime-horror book THE INTRUDERS, with Glen Morgan (“The X-Files”) acting as writer and executive producer. Now the network has set...

First look at the Gecko brothers in From Dusk Till Dawn: The TV show

Posted 13 years ago

Safe to say, this ain’t George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino. Buzzfeed has provided the first look at Robert Rodriguez’s “From Dusk Till Dawn” TV show. This is D.J. Cotrona and Zane Holtz as Seth and Richie Gecko, sporting much different...

Universal acquires Robert McCammon’s WWII werewolf tale The Wolf’s Hour

Posted 13 years ago

Universal Pictures is getting into the historical horror business with THE WOLF’S HOUR, based on Robert McCammon’s 1989 novel. The studio has set FAST & FURIOUS screenwriter Chris Morgan to produce, while brothers Bradley and Kevin Marcus write the script....

Here is a list of actors testing for Kyle Reese in Terminator 5

Posted 13 years ago

Variety has put out a list of five actors who all are reportedly about to test for the Kyle Reese role in TERMINATOR: GENESIS (or TERMINATOR 5, if you prefer). Sources tell Variety that Boyd Holbrook, Tom Cocquerel, Wilson Bethel,...

I, Frankenstein clip talks possessing the dead

Posted 13 years ago

Lionsgate has released the first official clip from I, FRANKENSTEIN, which can be seen below. In it, Frankenstein’s Monster – a.k.a. Adam – played by Aaron Eckhart, talks about a plot to summon demonic spirits into corpses. Or something like...

Indie horror film Weep tackles the legend of the Weeping Woman

Posted 13 years ago

The production company behind last year’s icky horror number CONTRACTED are gearing up for their follow-up, a film called WEEP, which T.J. Cimfel and David White are writing. WEEP will focus on a character from Spanish folklore called “La Llorona”...

Cool Horror Gear: Fright Rags’ awesome Day of the Dead box set and t-shirts!

Posted 13 years ago

Fans of George Romero’s zombie franchise – and its nasty third entry in particular, DAY OF THE DEAD – are going to want to gobble up this limited edition box set that the horror hounds are Fright Rags are putting...

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