Matt Withers

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Favorite Movies: In The Mouth of Madness, Tombstone, Zoolander, Out of Sight, Halloween, read more Contact, Hellraiser, Alien, Tron, American Beauty, Kill Bill Vol. 1, The Hangover, Inside, The Descent, Let The Right One In, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

Likes: My wife and kids, New Orleans Saints, Vegas, Hiking read more

More Lost in Genre

Posted 21 years ago

I must be chewin’ my Doublemint Gum. Or eating veggies from Chernobyl. Whatever is going on today, it’s weird. This is my second news item that is thematically identical to a story from earlier in the week. Maybe I’ve stumbled...

Stranger To West

Posted 21 years ago

So the genre remake craze is nothing new at this point, but having two pics with the word Stranger in the title is a little weird. Must be some sort of creatively bereft zeitgeist or something. Anyway, right on the...

Watch Day Watch!

Posted 21 years ago

Hot on the heels of the sweet new trailer for Russian epic NIGHT WATCH, a flick that Quentin Tarantino has called the new LORD OF THE RINGS, we can now give you a link to the supa-fly first look at...

LOTD Rises Sooner

Posted 21 years ago

Sometimes your fetishes…er, preferences…find a way to work together and it’s a beautiful thing. For instance, I love George Romero. I also make it a point to do whatever it takes to slap up a story with even the slightest...

Murro Gets Strange

Posted 21 years ago

OK, so you wanna make the big leap from TV commercials to the big screen. I can understand that. I can even understand that the project you take on may be less than ideal, but a remake of a remake...

Sony Loves Ghost

Posted 21 years ago

In news that should surprise no one after the box office success of THE GRUDGE and BOOGEYMAN, Sony has signed a two-picture distribution deal with Sam Raimi’s Ghost House Pictures. The deal covers the release of THE GRUDGE 2 (no...

Red Eye Look

Posted 21 years ago

Man I am happy to have some good news from the world of Wes Craven. I have loved the dude’s work forever, and think that despite a weak ending, NEW NIGHTMARE continues to be one of the best genre works...

Amity Set Revisited

Posted 21 years ago

Way back in the day, our evil stepfather site JoBlo.com got a chance to hit up a set visit for the remake of THE AMITYVILLE HORROR. Now love or hate the idea of it, I think we’ve all had plenty...

Anderson Goes Crazy

Posted 21 years ago

Good news folks! The twisted mind that brought us THE MACHINIST and SESSION 9 has been tapped by Paramount to helm the remake of George Romero’s THE CRAZIES. Even better is that he’ll re-team with writer Scott Kosar (THE MACHINIST)...

New Line Catches Meg

Posted 21 years ago

Hee, hee. Forget SPRING BREAK SHARK ATTACK mofo’s! A real killer shark movie is finally gearing up to happen. New Line Cinema has picked up the rights to Steve Alten’s prehistoric shark horror adventure tale MEG. The project has been...

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