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

Par fights zombies

Posted 20 years ago

Author Max Brooks’ novel WORLD WAR Z: AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE ZOMBIE WAR became the subject of a high stakes bidding war between Paramount with Brad Pitt’s Plan B production house vs. Warner Bros. with Leonardo DeCaprio’s Appian Way....

MOH Italian style

Posted 20 years ago

Looks like Italy is going to get its own brand of the MASTERS OF HORROR. Announced in Rome, the project will feature four episodes directed by Lamberto Bava, Umberto Lenzi, Sergio Martino and Nicola Rondolino. Ironically the financing will be...

Excl: Survival pics

Posted 20 years ago

The indie production SURVIVAL caught our eye awhile back and we’ve given you some fairly regular updates on the sick bastard over the previous months. We’ve heard from the filmmakers that filming has now wrapped, and they’ve sent us some...

Host Int’l trailer

Posted 20 years ago

We’ve told you about THE HOST for awhile now, and finally a trailer has hit that shows the actual Host of the title. I have to say it’s pretty awesome looking. It sorta looks like an armadillo mixed with a...

Suspiria the ‘toon?

Posted 20 years ago

Well here’s an interesting possibility. Over at Anime Nation last week they noted the following: [Japanese animation studio] Gonzo is … reportedly developing an anime re-make of Dario Argento’s classic suspense/horror film Suspiria. Now this is far from confirmed, and...

Uni’s Waiting For

Posted 20 years ago

For all the remakes and watered down crap that we have to slog through as fans of the genre, the studios do have to be given credit for occassionally picking up a truly interesting and orignal sounding project. Today it’s...

Burton, Depp sing?

Posted 20 years ago

Interesting news in Variety today for the subset of genre fans that also love musicals. I usually just refer to that small group as me. Anyway, it looks like Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are set to pair up again...

Trigger Man pics

Posted 20 years ago

The sick bastards over at Fangoria got some more info and pics from Ti West about TRIGGER MAN, his follow up project after THE ROOST. West also shares a bit about the challenges of the shoot: “It was a brutal...

Walken a Zombie??

Posted 20 years ago

Well this shouldn’t take too long to make happen, and if it does, magic! In an interview with Christopher Walken this weekend the Chicago Sun-Times asked a suspect question, but then got a dynamite answer: You have a reputation of...

B.O. bad Omen

Posted 20 years ago

After capitalizing on the gimmick of opening on 6/6/06 (just ignore the 2 and the 0 in 2006 if you want it to be scary), THE OMEN showed a complete lack of strength over the weekend box office. Sure it...

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