 As the dust settles after the release of what looks to be the most contentious remake of the year, it seems like a good time to ask, "What's wrong with the new FRIDAY THE 13TH?"
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In the spirit of the recent Academy Awards, Brian Solomon from The Vault of Horror blog put together The 2008 Cyber Horror Awards ballot, which was sent out to the usual group of horror bloggers as detailed here.
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The Vault of Horror's Brian Solomon has struck again! This time, he's compiled various horror bloggers' top 10 foreign horror films into a list that he calls The Top 20 Foreign Horror Films of All Time!
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I recently read something that I believe will resonate with more than a few people, based upon what appears to be the prevailing opinion regarding Hollywood's output during the last decade (or two).
"The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think that the movies aren’t drawing an audience — they’re inheriting an audience. People just want to go to a movie. They’re stung repeatedly, yet their desire for a good movie — for any movie — is so strong that all over the country they keep lining up...
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Here's my year-end Top 10 list. Sorry it's late, but if I'm not late for my own funeral, no one who knows me will believe I'm really dead. With that, here are the top 10 reasons why I feel that it's hard being a fan of horror films.
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It's that time of the year when everyone's putting out their "best of the previous year" lists. Looking over a number of lists, there's a lot of love for horror films made outside of the U.S., and little more than backhanded compliments for most of America's output
Frankly, I'm a little confused.
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In an earlier blog entry, I responded to "The Cyber-Horror Elite's Top 50 Horror Films of All Time," posted to Brian Solomon's Vault of Horror blog, which was compiled from the Top 10 lists of "32 cyber-horror notables."
A conversation ensued (via blogs, email, private messages, etc), and ultimately I was invited to contribute a Top 10 list towards "The "Cyber-Horror Elite's Top 25 Horror Films of the Modern Era (from 1990 through the present).
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Q: When is a horror movie not a horror movie?
A: When it was never intended to be a horror movie in the first place.
In the short story anthology Prime Evil, Douglas E. Winter states, "Horror is not a genre, like the mystery or science fiction or the western. It is not a kind of fiction, meant to be confined to the ghetto of a special shelf in libraries or bookstores. Horror is an emotion."
Having been released in the '80s, I think it's time this idea gets a "re-imagining."
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The Vault of Horror blog recently posted The "Cyber-Horror Elite's" Top 50 Horror Films of All Time. This list was generated from the Top 10 lists of "32 cyber-horror notables," as detailed HERE.
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As the dust settles after the release of what looks to be the most contentious remake of the year, it seems like a good time to ask, "What's wrong with the new FRIDAY THE 13TH?"
