January 24th, 2012
One of the TV shows in my rotation is Top Chef. Normally I have no occasion to mention it here, but last week’s episode has luckily opened the door. In a strange, yet neat, turn of cross promotion, Charlize Theron was the episode’s guest judge, in anticipation for her role as the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Huntsman. (Which doesn’t open til, like, June, but that’s neither here nor there.) This led to a challenge where each chef had to create an “evil” course fit for a queen to serve Charlize and the judges. It was easily the best episode so far of Top Chef Texas, and the dishes were pretty gnarly. Gallery of creepy food after the jump! Read more »
Tags: Snow White and the Huntsman, Top Chef Texas
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January 23rd, 2012
You know when you hear about the theme of a movie and you get all excited for it? Then the director is announced for the project and it makes it that much better, then the actors begin to attach to it and it becomes one of your “must see” movies of the coming season?
That was “The Divide” for me. Read more »
Tags: The Divide
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January 21st, 2012
Picture Justin Bieber here.
Apparently an ANONYMOUS SOURCE who has been working close to Justin Bieber slipped this to Movieweb: Justin Bieber would like to model his career after Mark Wahlberg’s. And he thinks the best way to do this would be to star in a remake of 1996’s Fear. Like most people, Fear is one of my favorite guilty pleasures of all time, so the idea of a remake to me is abhorrent. But then the article said this. Read more »
Tags: Fear remake, Justin Bieber, Mark Wahlberg
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January 20th, 2012
If you’re like me, you have a DVD collection that sits around collecting dust (I literally have killed spiders the last two times I’ve unzipped my DVD binders), because you’re too busy streaming movies or Redboxing to be bothered with what you already own. If you’re also like me, you’re in a region that’s in the process of — or soon will be — getting snow dumped on it. Avoid cabin fever by hitting the Redbox before you get home today or getting your Netflix queue ready with some of these titles. Read more »
Tags: horror movies, Netflix, Redbox
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January 16th, 2012
Today marks the 64th birthday of one master of horror, John Carpenter! As we reflect on all that John has given us over the years, here are three scenes that represent a look at Carpenter at his most iconic (Halloween), one of his most underrated (In the Mouth of Madness), and his recent return to the genre (2010’s The Ward).
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Tags: John Carpenter
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January 13th, 2012
Happy Friday the 13th! The hockey mask of Jason Voorhees is one of those few symbols that I think you can show most people in America — kinda like KISS makeup, or Darth Vadar — and they would recognize what they were looking at. In celebration of his birthday, here are some of my favorite pieces of absurd art and merchandise that have came out of the F13 craze. Make sure to click on the images to get the full size crazy behind some of these thumbnails. Read more »
Tags: collectables, Friday the 13th, Jason Voorhees
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January 13th, 2012
The Divide, in theaters January 13, 2011
New year, new contests! To celebrate the opening of Anchor Bay Entertainment’s The Divide, starring Michael Biehn, Lauren German, Milo Ventimiglia, and Rosanna Arquette, and directed by the formidably twisted Xavier Gens (Frontier(s)), we’re giving you an opportunity to win a DVD prize pack of horror DVDs from the Anchor Bay catalog featuring the stars of The Divide (titles including the likes of Hatchet, I Spit On Your Grave, and Cyrus: Mind of a Serial Killer).
The Divide is out in select theaters Friday, January 13 (see showtimes), and if you’re a local SCARS reader, you’ll have your chance to see the claustrophobic story of survivors trapped in an apartment building after a nuclear blast at one of our favorite theaters, Coolidge Corner, uncut and unrated. (See more information about the Coolidge screenings after the jump.)
Not lucky enough to live in one of the theatrical regions screening The Divide? Then now’s the perfect time to win a pack of horror movies to tide you over. CLICK HERE to enter!
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Tags: Anchor Bay, Coolidge Corner, Michael Biehn, The Divide
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January 10th, 2012
Right now CNN is livestreaming an update from the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) on the state of the Doomsday Clock. The clock has been in effect since 1947. Last year the BAS rolled the clock back a minute, to six minutes til midnight. Today, January 10, it got pushed forward to five minutes from the destruction of humanity.
The gist of the announcement was about how last year they felt hopeful that, after we reached favorable nuclear agreements between the U.S. and Russia, that we were closer to going in a positive direction that didn’t end in the end of days. Today, we’re being chastised for “not thinking.” Read more »
Tags: doomsday
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One of the TV shows in my rotation is Top Chef. Normally I have no occasion to mention it here, but last week’s episode has luckily opened the door. In a strange, yet neat, turn of cross promotion, Charlize Theron was the episode’s guest judge, in anticipation for her role as the Evil Queen in Snow White and the Huntsman. (Which doesn’t open til, like, June, but that’s neither here nor there.) This led to a challenge where each chef had to create an “evil” course fit for a queen to serve Charlize and the judges. It was easily the best episode so far of Top Chef Texas, and the dishes were pretty gnarly. Gallery of creepy food after the jump! Read more »
