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Filmmaker Marcus Dunstan, who is the screenwriter and director of both movies of The Collector franchise, confirmed that a third movie The Collector 3, also known as The Collected on IMDb, is finally coming after a 12-year wait.

The series follows a serial killer with a penchant for traps named The Collector, who tends always to keep a victim alive to add to his collection–before gruesomely killing them anyway. The first film was released in 2009, and its sequel was released three years later in 2012.

In 2021, Dunstan revealed to The Thing With Two Heads podcast that The Collector 3 actually filmed for eight days before the Covid-19 pandemic shut down production. Things never picked back up from there.

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Jamie Kennedy has opened up on one franchise star returning to Scream after another's controversial exit.

After starring in two Scream movies as Sam Carpenter, Melissa Barrera was fired from the upcoming sequel, Scream 7, because of remarks she made on social media about the Gaza war. It was later revealed that Neve Campbell had signed on to return for Scream 7 with original Scream writer Kevin Williamson directing. Courteney Cox is now in talks to return as well. In an interview for The Thing With Two Heads podcast, Scream star Jamie Kennedy addressed the situation with co-hosts Sean Clark and Christopher Nelson, and he put his support behind both Campbell and Barrera.

Related 'A Lot of Things Would Have to Happen': Fired Scream 7 Star Addresses Possible Return Former Scream film series star Melissa Barrera admits her firing makes her "sad" and reveals what it would take for a return as Sam Carpenter.

The year’s shortest month gets the biggest bang as Severin Films today announced their February 27th releases featuring uncensored 4K restorations of the infamous 1960’s western ‘roughies’ from the depraved minds of exploitation legends Bob Cresse and Lee Frost, Hot Spur and Scavengers.

‘“The Kings of esoteric boutique companies” (Video WatchBlog) are also proud to release – because Severin co-founder/president David Gregory considers it one of the best films he saw as a jury member at the FrightFest and Sitges Film Festivals – the North American disc premiere of director/co-writer Andrew Legge’s time-travel mind-bender, Lola.

Previous limited edition title Spider Labyrinth also enters wide release.

Here’s everything you need to know about Severin’s February 2024 lineup…

Hot Spur

Having struck gold with shockumentaries like Ecco and Mondo Bizarro, producer Bob Cresse and writer/director Lee Frost applied their distinctive sleaze aesthetic to a revenge western they advertised as “91 minutes of Freudian fury!

The comedian and former The Daily Show correspondent talks about his favorite Blaxploitation movies with hosts Josh Olson and Joe Dante.

Show Notes: Movies Referenced In This Episode

Casablanca (1942) – John Landis’s trailer commentary

The Castle (1997)

The Spook Who Sat By The Door (1973) – Bill Duke’s trailer commentary

Pressure (1976)

Robinson Crusoe On Mars (1964) – Mick Garris’s trailer commentary

Boss (1975)

Django Unchained (2012) – Brian Trenchard-Smith’s trailer commentary

The Thing With Two Heads (1972) – Stuart Gordon’s trailer commentary

The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (1971)

The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970)

Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970)

Black Samurai (1977)

Truck Turner (1974)

Schindler’s List (1993)

Black Caesar (1973) – Larry Cohen’s trailer commentary

Hell Up In Harlem (1973) – Larry Cohen’s trailer commentary

Judas And The Black Messiah (2021)

Friday Foster (1975)

That Man Bolt (1973)

Blacula (1972)

Foxy Brown (1974) – Jack Hill’s trailer commentary

Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde (1976)

Willie Dynamite (1973) – Glenn Erickson’s Blu-ray review

Billy Jack (1971)

John Wick (2014)

The Matrix (1999)

Cleopatra Jones...

Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton have set the record straight on The Collected (aka The Collector 3), revealing that the anticipated horror sequel has gotten stuck in development hell. Previously, there have been reports of The Collector and The Collection getting another installment of the franchise with director Dunstan and co-writer Melton back on board. Randy Havens, Dot-marie Jones, and Navi Rawat were reportedly part of the cast with images from the set hitting the internet earlier this year.

Unfortunately for horror fans imagining that all of this meant that The Collector 3 would be coming out soon, Dunstan and Melton now say that this is not at all the case. Speaking about the status of the sequel on Sean Clark's https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjea_nEVXslT-AboX7HZ3Xg|The Thing With Two Heads podcast, Dunstan explains that the team had only shot for just over a week before the production was shut down.

Sean Clark is kicking off the new year with a brand new Horror's Hallowed Grounds episode, this time visiting the filming locations from the horror movie Re-Animator. Directed by Stuart Gordon and based on a story by H. P. Lovecraft, Re-Animator starred Jeffrey Combs as Herbert West, a med student who creates a reagent that can "re-animate" dead bodies. A cult classic, the movie is one of the more beloved titles of the 80s horror era.

Part of the tour includes host Sean Clark visiting the filming locations used to represent the University of Zurich Institute of Medicine in Switzerland. In actuality, the building seen in the exterior shots is Loyola High School in Los Angeles, and it really hasn't changed much after all these years. The interior shots were filmed at the Kerckhoff Laboratory building at CalTech University, and while the pandemic prevents Clark from taking a look inside,...

1980 ghost story The Fog might not be remembered as the finest hour of horror master John Carpenter, but it still has its fans, including its star Adrienne Barbeau, who’s expressed interest in appearing in a belated sequel.

The story sees the centenary of a Californian coastal town become marred by the revelation that its founders intentionally sank a ship approaching its shores to prevent a leper colony from being established nearby, and then used gold plundered from the wreck to fund their settlement’s construction. In the present, an eldritch bank of fog rolls in from the Pacific, from which emerge the glowing-eyed revenants of the drowned, with six descendants of the town’s founders marked for death in retribution for that same number of sailors killed in fear and greed a hundred years previously.

Barbeau’s Stevie Wayne is one of the central characters, her husky, sultry voice...

2018’s Halloween was a real love letter to the 1978 original. Not only did it bring back Jamie Lee Curtis as Laurie Strode and John Carpenter as composer, but original Michael Myers actor Nick Castle was invited to return for the movie, too. Both Curtis and Carpenter are, of course, involved with the sequel Halloween Kills, and as has been previously confirmed, so is Castle. Now, the horror legend has teased a little bit about his cameo in the upcoming film.

While speaking on The Thing With Two Heads podcast, Castle didn’t want to spoil anything so neglected to go into specific details, but worried that his appearance this time may be cut from the finished version of David Gordon Green’s movie.

“I actually did the scene … there was only one scene, I can’t tell what it is, I won’t say what it is, but we’ll see,...

Mondo is one of the more fascinating tangents to come out of ‘60s cinema; one part anthropological study, sixteen parts exploitation, these “documentaries” purported to shed light on unusual rituals and practices from around the globe. The big fun with all of them is discerning which ones actually offer up the taboo they claim and which ones are yanking the audiences’ chain. This brings us to Severin Films’ spanking new Blu-ray of two of these “shockers," Mondo Freudo and Mondo Bizarro (1966), both hilarious time capsules of ‘60s exploitative wool-pulling.

Mondo Freudo was released in April, with Bizarro quickly following in August; the brainchildren of filmmakers Bob Cresse (Love Camp 7) and Lee Frost (The Thing with Two Heads), the former had seen an advanced copy of Italy’s Mondo Cane (’62) and realized it was going to be a big hit. And he was right. The biggest difference between Italy’s output and Cresse’s however,...

Actor Roger Perry died on July 12 at his home in Indian Wells. California, after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 85.

Perry compiled dozens of feature, television, and stage credits during a long career that began when he was discovered by Lucille Ball, who put the young actor under contract to Desilu Studios. He co-starred with Pat O'Brien in the 1960 ABC series Harrigan and Son, and co-starred with Chuck Connors and Ben Gazzara in the 90-minute drama Arrest & Trial.

Perry was a guest star on the Star Trek TV series in a memorable first-season episode in 1967, “Tomorrow Is Yesterday,” playing Captain John Christopher. He appeared on Love, American Style, Ironside, The F.B.I., Hawaii Five-0, Barnaby Jones, The Bob Newhart Show, Quincy, CHiPs, The Fall Guy, and many more. He also recurred on programs such as The Facts of Life (as Charles Parker) and Falcon Crest (as John Costello from 1982-...

Roger Perry, an actor who has appeared in shows such as “Star Trek,” “The Facts of Life” and “Ironside,” has died at the age of 85.

Perry died Thursday following a battle with prostate cancer at his home in Indian Wells, California, the actors daughter told The Hollywood Reporter.

A frequent guest star on TV shows throughout the 1950s and ’60s, Perry’s credits include “The Andy Griffith Show,” “Ironside,” “The F.B.I.,” “The Munsters,” “The Facts of Life” and “Falcon Crest.” He also co-starred in the shortlived series “Harrigan and Son” alongside Georgine Darcy and Pat O’Brien.

Also Read: Tab Hunter Appreciation: A Star Who Survived Both the Studio System and Hollywood Homophobia

His film credits include “Follow The Boys,” “Rollerboogie,” “The Thing With Two Heads,” “Cat” and “Count Yorga.”

Perry also guest starred on the original “Star Trek” as Captain John Christopher, an Air Force pilot who comes aboard...

Actor Roger Perry died Thursday at his home in Indian Wells. Calif., after a battle with prostate cancer. He was 85.

Perry compiled dozens of feature, television, and stage credits during a long career that began when he was discovered by Lucille Ball, who put the young actor under contract to Desilu Studios. He co-starred with Pat O’Brien in the 1960 ABC series “Harrigan and Son,” and co-starred with Chuck Connors and Ben Gazzara in the 90-minute drama “Arrest & Trial” (1963-64).

Perry was a guest star on the “Star Trek” TV series in a memorable first-season episode in 1967, “Tomorrow Is Yesterday,” playing Captain John Christopher. He appeared on “Love, American Style,” “Ironside,” “The F.B.I.,” “Hawaii Five-0,” “Barnaby Jones,” “The Bob Newhart Show,” “Quincy,” “CHiPs,” “The Fall Guy,” and many more before becoming a regular on programs such as “The Facts of Life” and “Falcon Crest.”

His movie credits included “Follow the Boys” (1963) with Connie Francis,...

I love wordplay, and portmanteaus are my favourite. Come on over and I’ll tell you about The Manster (1959), part man, part monster, all good B movie madness. Two-headed Americans abroad in Japan is a very specific sub-genre, and underappreciated at that.

Originally released in Japan in July but not released stateside until March of ’62, United Artist Japan’s production was filmed there, and they spared every expense by using the same cardboard sets, flimsy, sparse labs and restaged hotel rooms as their American counterparts. (Papier mache volcano included.) But the mix of Japanese, British, and American actors gives The Manster (Aka The Split) a distinct flavor beyond the two pronged noggin. Oh, and the eyeball in the shoulder. Have I mentioned the caged sister with the melting face?

Our film opens on that mountainside by that gurgling volcano at the secret lab of Dr. Robert Suzuki (Tetsu Nakamura – The Last Dinosaur...

In “The Assignment,” director and co-writer Walter Hill handles the medical and psychological complexities of transgender surgery with all the subtlety and anatomical understanding of Ray Milland’s head being sewn onto Rosey Grier’s body in “The Thing with Two Heads.” Never mind that the transgender community in this country (and in much of the world) has become a target for hate, with trans individuals more likely to face discrimination, violence and homicide than almost any other segment of the population because of the fear and ignorance promulgated by conservative pundits and politicians: For Hill and co-writer Denis Hamill...

“Eat lead, Froggies!”

Hell Comes To Frogtown screens October 7th at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood

Remember that movie you saw in the late ‘80s where the giant frog is chasing Roddy Piper with a chainsaw, trying to cut his chastity belt so it will explode and destroy his testicles? It’s showing at the ‘Strange Brew’ film series this week!

Danger Diabolik, Tarantula, The Thing With Two Heads – You never know what’s brewing at Webster University’s Award-Winning Cult Film Series (Riverfront Times Best Film Series 2015) Strange Brew. It’s always the first Wednesday evening of every month, and they always come up with some cult classic to show while enjoying some good food and great suds. The fun happens at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, Mo 63143).

In the low budget 1988 spoof Hell Comes To Frogtown, the late...

If you’re going to race with the Devil, you’ve got to be fast as hell!

Pull on up to the ’70s, when Satanic Panic fueled the nightmares of a horror-fed generation. Started by Rosemary’s Baby (1968), exploding with The Exorcist (1973), and culminating with The Omen (1976), hoofin’ with the Horned One was a popular dance at the box office. Race with the Devil (1975) is a much less grandiose ride than its esteemed colleagues, but remains a fun and interesting mesh of hot rods and Hell.

Released in June, Rwtd came off the assembly line for $1.7 million Us and returned $12 million, a sizable success for a modest B-flick. Car chase movies always turned a tidy profit on the circuit, exploitation filled with wheels and women perfectly suited for drive-ins across North America. By the time Rwtd was released, satanic horror had saturated the market. But by crossbreeding it with a...

This week on Off The Shelf, Ryan is joined by Brian Saur to take a look at the new DVD and Blu-ray releases for the week of June 23rd, 2015, and chat about some follow-up and home video news.

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Episode Links & Notes Follow-up Den of Geek article News Arrow Video Sale Disney Movie Club Blu-rays: More Herbie on Blu-ray (Herbie Goes Bananas & Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo) Warner Archive – Showdown in Little Tokyo in July on Blu-ray Kl Studio Classics – Pitfall (1948) Warner Archive’s July Slate – Sam Fuller’s Run of the Arrow, The Snorks Season 2, Centurions Part One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbYbvaLNsKY

(They also tease Atom Ant coming to DVD – to be discussed at Comic Con, along with their upcoming release of Twice Upon a Time) Severin: Three Cult Horror Films heading to Blu-ray in August New Releases 3-D Rarities Bank Shot...

Welcome to episode 4 of Hobo with a Laptop, this week we discuss the 70s blaxploitation/science fiction film, The Thing with Two Heads. It’s a proper dressing down, as this film is abysmal, but it can be viewed for free on YouTube, in case you’re looking for a silly film to make fun of with your friends over a few drinks. My guest host this week is Mitch Stewart, a fellow Sound on Sight alum, and author of the newly minted “Rollercoaster Anthology”, a novel that can be purchased here. You can also check out his website, Lumpy Productions, featured here. Hobo with a Laptop is now available on Stitcher. Both the podcast player, and the YouTube link to the film can be found below:

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If there are two things ol’ Xiii digs, it’s a good ol’ fashioned creature feature and a film with a ton o’ heart made by some folks that actually give a damn about our beloved horror biz! Well creeps, it looks like I have found an upcomin’ flick entitled The Last Frankenstein that promises to contain a heapin’ helpin’ of both o’ those ingredients, and wouldn’t ya know it, the film’s die-rector David Weaver has just strolled on in to the Crypt o’ Xiii!

Famous Monsters. As we dive into the deep end and begin discussin’ your upcomin’ fright flick The Last Frankenstein, let’s hop in the Delorean and chat about how ya got started and how the seeds of Tlf were planted.

David Weaver. I started at [upstate New York college] Fulton Montgomery Community College, and when I left there I studied at the New York Film Academy and did some short films there.

Whether you consider it a bona fide piece of 70’s schlock or a subversive work of b-cinema with sly subtext about race relations at the time, there’s no denying The Thing with Two Heads is a true cult classic long… Continue Reading →

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“One’s brain needs to dream in order to reboot.”

Mars Et Avril screens March 4th at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood

Danger Diabolik, Tarantula, The Thing With Two Heads – You never know what’s brewing at Webster University’s Strange Brew cult film series. It’s always the first Wednesday evening of every month, and they always come up with some cult classic to show while enjoying some good food and great suds. The fun happens at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, Mo 63143).

This month (Wednesday March 4th) Strange Brew is offering up something I’ve never heard of….but it sure looks interesting! It’s the 2012 French-Canadian sci-fi mindbender Mars Et Avril

Plot synopsis for Mars Et Avril: As the first human prepares to touch down on Mars, a charismatic Montreal musician enters into a tempestuous love...

“Look, it’s been swell, but the swelling’s gone down!”

The Thing With Two Heads, Danger Diabolik, Gator Bait, and The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T are a few of the movies they’ve screened in the past at Webster University’s Strange Brew cult film series. Always the first Wednesday evening of every month, the fun happens at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, Mo 63143). This week, on Wednesday April 2nd at 8pm, they’re venturing it’s sheer ’90s insanity with the amazing Tank Girl!

Admission is only $4!

Tank Girl (1995) is the story of a futuristic feminist superhero and her fight to preserve the environment against an evil government bureaucracy. The action is set in the year 2033, after an ecological disaster of drought and pollution has ravaged the countryside, and water is scarce. Tank Girl (Lori Petty) is a sassy punker...

Let me see your fingers, lad! Are they limber? Are they happy?

The Thing With Two Heads, Danger Diabolik, Gator Bait, and Tarantula are a few of the movies they’ve screened in the past at Webster University’s Strange Brew cult film series. Always the first Wednesday evening of every month, the fun happens at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, Mo 63143). This week, on Wednesday February 5th at 8pm, they’re venturing it’s sheer ’50s madness with the amazing The 5,000 Fingers Of Dr. T.

Admission is only $4!

Dr. Suess once said: “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.” I wish Dr. Suess had been involved in more movies, but for most of his career, Theodore Geisel was reluctant to have his characters marketed in contexts outside of his own books. The one exception (aside from a few...

Zombies, vampires and werewolves, oh my! Classic monsters are always a good way for horror filmmakers to go, but sometimes we see more... unique... beasties on the screen. And when they go well (and even when they don't), they're some of the most memorable characters in the genre.

In celebration of the Irish sci-fi comedy film Grabbers, which hit VOD and other digital outlets on July 19 and contains some pretty wild monsters of its own, we've compiled a list of Horror's Top 13 Craziest Monsters!

As always, we'd like to start out with some honorable mentions. Slither and its old school relative Night of the Creeps both gave us a swarm of memorable leech-like monsters. The Host dropped us into an unexpected nightmare on a typical South Korean afternoon with a very unique movie monster. And even though he ended up going mainstream and had his own Saturday morning cartoon, The...

On Mondays and Wednesdays starting today (July 22) through August 5, Austin Public Library's Carver Branch invites you to watch some wonderfully terrible movies. The library is calling it the Return of the Revenge of the Son of the Bad Film Festival. These screenings are free and open to the public, showing in the Carver library's meeting rooms [map] at 6:30 pm. Do you dare to partake?

Here's the lineup:

Monday, July 22, Attack of the Crab Monsters (1957) -- Directed by Roger Corman, this film has folks stuck on an island under the control of giant crabs who happen to eat brains.Wednesday, July 24, The Thing with Two Heads (1972) -- Ray Milland plays a bigot who has to share a body with convict Rosie Grier.  Here's the trailer:

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Last week we went back in time to the era of Universal Monsters and this week we’re moving forward in time to the era of blaxploitation! Blaxploitation was a genre of film made specifically for an urban black audience and throughout the 70′s it crossed over into every genre imaginable. There were blaxploitation crime films, blaxploitation comedy films, blaxploitation musicals, and of course…blaxploitation horror. The film that kicked off the blaxploitation horror fad was a little movie called…Blacula.

So click onwards to see if Blacula is one of the posters I picked this week. It…it isn’t. I’m sorry. Way to build suspense Kevin.

First up we have Black Frankenstein, also known as Blackenstein. This poster is pretty simple stuff but there’s just something great about it. Even with just that one image you know you’re in for something outrageous. Also…you have...

Race with the Devil

Directed by Jack Starrett

Written by Lee Frost and Wes Bishop

1975, USA

A follow up to the 20th Century Fox surprise success of Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (released a year earlier), this Peter Fonda-Warren Oates cult classic is a strange hybrid of genres. One might assume the film offers a car chase with Satan himself. This isn’ t that movie; that would instead be the Nicolas Cage 2011 vehicle, Drive Angry. The result here rests somewhere between Rosemary’s Baby and Vanishing Point, featuring requisite road chases and a Satanic cult. With the mash-up of what was then, two popular fads, it is no surprise Race with the Devil was a box office hit in 1975. Action filmmaker Jack Starrett (Nowhere to Hide, The Gravy Train, Cleopatra Jones) hits his career high directing this slickly executed genre-hopping cult favourite. Race with the Devil is an entertaining,...

If you live anywhere near Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, come out tonight and join us for 80′s horror movies on a big drive-in screen! One of our favorite horror events of the year is Drive-In Super Monster-Rama, which takes place every September and shows eight classic horror movies over two nights. The event has grown so popular that a second event is taking place on April 5 and 6th.

Named the “April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama,” the marathon will focus on 70′s and 80′s horror titles, with a killer Friday line-up that includes Friday the 13th, The Burning, The Return of the Living Dead, and Day of the Dead. We’re sponsoring the screening of The Return of the Living Dead, so make sure to stick around for that screening, as we’ll be giving away Blu-ray/DVD prize packs.

Saturday night’s line-up includes Scream Blacula, Scream, Sugar Hill, Blood and Lace, and The Thing with Two Heads.

One of our favorite horror events of the year is Drive-In Super Monster-Rama, which takes place every September and shows eight classic horror movies over two nights on a huge drive-in screen. The event has grown so popular that a second event has been announced and is taking place on April 5 and 6th.

Named the “April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama”, the marathon will focus on 70′s and 80′s horror titles, with a killer Friday line-up that includes Friday the 13th, The Burning, Day of the Dead, and The Return of the Living Dead.

Saturday night’s line-up includes Scream Blacula, Scream, Sugar Hill, Blood and Lace, and The Thing with Two Heads. For those that have attended the previous events, the pricing and setup is about the same. Admission is $10 per person each night, admission for children is free, and overnight camping is available.

The event is taking place once again...

“We transplanted my head onto your body……now shut up!”

The Twilight Zone Movie, Head, Gator Bait, and Tarantula are a few of the movies they’ve screened in the past at Webster University’s Strange Brew film series. Always the first Wednesday evening of every month, the fun happens at Schlafly Bottleworks Restaurant and Bar in Maplewood (7260 Southwest Ave.- at Manchester – Maplewood, Mo 63143). This week, on Wednesday January 2nd at 8pm, they’re venturing it’s sheer ’70s madness with the amazing The Thing With Two Heads. Admission is only $4!

If you thought The Defiant Ones was the last word in forced race relations, check out the 1972 classic The Thing With Two Heads. Ray Milland stars as transplant surgeon Max Kirshner, a mean old bigot suffering from terminal cancer, masterminding an experimental technique for transplanting heads, the goal being to save his own life. His assistant, Dr. Philip...

Jack The Giant Killer

Stars: Kerwin Mathews, Judi Meredith, Torin Thatcher, Walter Burke, Don Beddoe, Barry Kelley, Dayton Lummis | Written by Nathan Juran, Orville H. Hampton | Directed by Nathan Juran

Every now and then you get a film with a title so cool you just know it’ll never live up to all of the spectacular scenes your mind has just concocted upon seeing the painted DVD cover. It’s largely the fate of ’70s B-movies like Blacula and The Thing With Two Heads which relied on exploitative posters and gimmicky concepts to reel their audiences in, but occasionally you’ll get a couple from the mainstream.

Jack The Giant Killer, alas, is one such movie. A slight and inoffensive 1962 fantasy adventure produced in the heyday of the classic Ray Harryhausen claymation monster movies like Jason and the Argonauts, the film has an interesting set-up (boy saves princess from giant,...

Blu-ray 3D Release Date: Oct. 9, 2012

Price: Blu-ray 3D $35.99

Studio: Warner

Anthony Dawson makes his move against Grace Kelly in Dial M for Murder.

Alfred Hitchcock’s (Psycho) classic 1954 suspense thriller film Dial M for Murder was one of the first films that helped Warner Bros. introduce 3D in U.S. theatres in the early 1950s.

That said, audiences will now be able to see the film in their homes as it was originally meant to be seen in theaters nearly 60 years ago.

Starring Grace Kelly (To Catch a Thief), Robert Cummings (My Geisha) and Ray Milland (The Thing with Two Heads), the film focuses a love affair between American writer Mark Halliday (Cummings) the married Margo Wendice Wendice (Kelly) in London. After sensing Margot’s affections for Halliday, her husband, Tony Wendice (Milland), fearing divorce and disinheritance, plots his wife’s death. Tony blackmails his nefarioius former school chum Captain...

For fans of cult movies, Internet treasure troves don’t get much more treasure-y — or, I guess, trove-y — than Trailers From Hell!, the site where Gremlins director Joe Dante and his fellow “grindhouse gurus” talk viewers through vintage film promo clips.

Where else could you hear Hellboy auteur Guillermo del Toro recall wearing a fake moustache to sneak into 1981 horror flick Dead and Buried? Or Re-Animator director Stuart Gordon ruminate on the racially-charged ridiculousness of 1972′s The Thing with Two Heads? Or Animal House filmmaker John Landis entertainingly babble on about his days playing Roddy McDowall’s human slave in...

A few years back, film director Stuart Gordon had the thought that his gore-filled 1985 horror movie Re-Animator might be improved with the addition of some songs. It was an odd idea — but an ultimately successful one. In the spring of 2011, Re-Animator: The Musical opened at Hollywood’s Steve Allen Theater to great reviews (Variety hailed it as “an entertainment of rich rewards and high accomplishment”) and tonight the play officially starts a second run at the Hayworth Theatre, prior to engagements at the New York Musical Theatre Festival and the Edinburgh Festival. The H.P. Lovecraft-inspired tale stars Graham Skipper...

9 Great Posters for 9 Not-So-Great Movies (that I Haven't Seen) If you missed it, yesterday I explored 11 great posters from 11 not-so-great movies, and I promised today I would take a slightly different angle at the same idea. Yesterday's 11 posters were for films I had seen, today's collection come from nine films I have never seen and I can't take full credit for this list. After I had compiled a list of my own I reached out to a few friends and one of them provided me a Ton of suggestions, several of which I had never seen. David Frank, who used to provide content on a regular basis for me, is a big poster buff and of the nine posters here, he suggested seven of them. As for the other two, well, I'll explain below and perhaps in too much detail on one of them. This list also differs from my...

In ‘celebration’ of the release of Adam Sandler’s latest comedy Jack & Jill (which is already out in the Us, alas UK readers will have to wait until February 3rd, but at least then you can take your loved ones to it on Valentine’s Day!), I thought I’d take a look at 10 other films I am baffled ever got the green light. I mean, watching the trailer for Jack & Jill one might think it was a deleted scene from the film Funny People in which Sandler mocked the kind of ridiculous high concept comedies that he is so often guilty of making. We thought after pushing them to extremes with spoof clips in that movie which included Sandler’s head magicked onto a baby’s body, it seemed like Sandler was both affectionately lampooning some of his early career decisions and also putting to rest that kind of...

The Skin I Live In

Written by Pedro Almodóvar

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Spain, 2011

The hallowed caverns of cinema history are littered with the skeletal remains of mad scientists, those power-crazed maniacs whose unholy experiments are frequently an affront to god and to the more tangible realm of medical ethics. These sneering antagonists are driven by all-consuming desire to avenge a wrong, or save a loved one, or to play the immortal and be damned with the consequences to their perverted souls. From the translocation of limbs and organs in the likes of The Hands of Orlac and The Eye, from the shrieking transmutations in The Island of Dr. Moreau, from the perverted humor of The Thing With Two Heads, or the automaton prophecy of Metropolis, the cinema has reveled in the possibilities of man breaching the bounds of pathological and righteous decency, scorning the absurd moral framework of his...

The Skin I Live In

Written by Pedro Almodóvar

Directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Spain, 2011

The hallowed caverns of cinema history are littered with the skeletal remains of mad scientists, those power-crazed maniacs whose unholy experiments are frequently an affront to god and to the more tangible realm of medical ethics. These sneering antagonists are driven by all-consuming desire to avenge a wrong, or save a loved one, or to play the immortal and be damned with the consequences to their perverted souls. From the translocation of limbs and organs in the likes of The Hands of Orlac and The Eye, from the shrieking transmutations in The Island of Dr. Moreau, from the perverted humor of The Thing With Two Heads, or the automaton prophecy of Metropolis, the cinema has reveled in the possibilities of man breaching the bounds of pathological and righteous decency, scorning the absurd moral framework of his...

Rick Baker. Friend of apes. Maker of monsters. Seven time Oscar winner. And that lucky number seven was for The Wolfman, shared with fellow Efx maestro Dave Elsey. Their on-stage speech was great, but the extended Thank You Cam was even better. Both Baker and Elsey thanked Jack Pierce and Dick Smith for inspiring them. Though there were grumblings online that the Academy clip showed the CG transformation rather then the make-up. It is always a treat to see our own getting the gold.

In the best original music category, Trent Reznor won for The Social Network. But who could forget his rivethead contributions to Class of 1999, Se7en, and Tetsuo: The Bullet Man? And Danny Boyle’s nominated 127 Hours didn’t win for Best Picture, but we will always love him “best” for his bloody crazies in the 28 Days series.

Rounding out the highlights in horror cred are nods to Jason X,...

Director William Girdler.s 1974 film Abby was a clone of The Exorcist with an all-black cast starring William Marshall, fresh off his triumph as Blacula, in the Max Von Sydow role. Shot for a meager $200k, Abby was an urban hit, grossing four million dollars in its first month of release. Apparently the powers-that-be at Warner Brothers, who had produced The Exorcist, thought Abby.s plot was too similar to that of their cash cow so successfully sued Girdler and the films distributor, American International. Aip was ordered to destroy all of their theatrical prints, and the film has never officially been licensed for home viewing. The Exorcist was the top grossing film of 1973 and spawned a virtual cottage industry of knock-off imitators, mostly from Europe, that flourished for the rest of the decade, so it seems an odd fate that Abby was singled out for legal punishment and remains...

The big-screen terrors just keep comin’ for Halloween and beyond as more revivals and special screenings have been announced. You can track back through our previous coverage starting here, and mark your calendars for the following recent announcements:

• New York City’s Maysles Institute (343 Malcolm X Boulevard/Lenox Avenue between 127th and 128th Streets) is in the midst of a series simply called The Horror!, focusing on documentaries pertaining to fright filmmaking, with all shows starting at 7:30 p.m. Tonight, Roy Frumkes will present Document Of The Dead, his chronicle of the making of George A. Romero’s classic Dawn Of The Dead (which will be shown after Frumkes’ post-document Q&A). Tomorrow, Wednesday, Oct. 28, there’ll be a rare chance to catch Joel DeMott’s Demon Lover Diary, the saga of the highly contentious production of the Michigan-lensed ’70s cheapie Demon Lover, starring Gunnar Hansen. Chris Smith’s American Movie,...