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

Dreamworks hears J. Michael Straczynski’s Voices From The Dead

Posted 16 years ago

According to Deadline.com, Dreamworks has bought scribe J. Michael Straczynski’s original spec script VOICES FROM THE DEAD. The film is a fictional account of Harry Houdini and “Sherlock Holmes” author Arthur Conan Doyle and their teaming up with a psychic...

Devil’s Backbone co-writer walking down a Blind Alley next week

Posted 16 years ago

The European Film Market (EFM) is just about to heat up in Berlin, so much like when AFM is going on, you can expect lots of minor updates and newsbites as pictures get financing/distribution/sales deals. One such picture is BLIND...

Frankenstein’s Army gets funding; feature film now in the works

Posted 16 years ago

Yesterday we brought along the promo teaser for FRANKENSTEIN’S ARMY, a project from Richard Raaphorst that has been a long time in the making. Evidently, it caught the attention of some very important people – other than us – because...

Wrath of the Titans moves up a week, squares off with Hunger Games

Posted 16 years ago

In a most curious move, Warner Bros. has decided to move WRATH OF THE TITANS (aka CLASH OF THE TITANS 2) from its comfy MARCH 30, 2012 release date, pulling it up one week into the MARCH 23rd slot. Curious,...

Are the Coen Bros. about to delve into full blown horror?

Posted 16 years ago

If you’re familiar with the work of Joel and Ethan Coen, you know the boys can get pretty dark when they want to. BLOOD SIMPLE, their first feature, is in its heart a film noir, but the movie plays out...

The full-length Wicker Tree trailer has finally arrived!

Posted 16 years ago

Here’s the full-length trailer for Robin Hardy’s THE WICKER TREE, the follow-up to his immortal classic THE WICKER MAN. (And please, if you’ve only ever seen the laughable Nicolas Cage version, remedy that pronto.) It’s not a great trailer, but...

Fanke Janssen will tag along with Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

Posted 16 years ago

I don’t know what the hell to make of this HANSEL AND GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS flick, although it sure is working itself up quite a cool cast. The film, from DEAD SNOW director Tommy Wirkola (inspired choice right there), is...

New clip from Mother’s Day shows mommy serving up a mindf*ck

Posted 16 years ago

Well this is a nasty piece of business! The boys over at Bloody Disgusting got their hands on a clip from Darren Lynn Bousman’s upcoming MOTHER’S DAY remake, and if it’s indicative of the overall tone of the film, then...

Jon Favreau says Cowboys and Aliens will verge on horror

Posted 16 years ago

I’m somewhere between skeptical and cautiously optimistic when it comes to Jon Favreau’s COWBOYS AND ALIENS. I’ve dug elements from the teaser and the recent Superbowl commercial, but I’m definitely not completely sold. The movie aims to strike a balance...

New bloody good clips from the Chinese slasher Dream Home!

Posted 16 years ago

Alright, this movie looks like one sick f*cking puppy. And I’m loving it! Last week I brought along, exclusively, the new trailer for the Chinese slasher flick DREAM HOME, which is being unleashed here in the states courtesy of IFC...

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