Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horror. Show all posts
7/16/17
GEORGE ROMERO- RIP
Legendary filmmaker George A. Romero, father of the modern movie zombie and creator of the groundbreaking “Night of the Living Dead” franchise, has died at 77, his family said.
Romero died Sunday in his sleep following a “brief but aggressive battle with lung cancer,” according to a statement to The Times provided by his longtime producing partner, Peter Grunwald. Romero died while listening to the score of one his favorite films, 1952’s
“The Quiet Man,” with his wife, Suzanne Desrocher Romero, and daughter, Tina Romero,
at his side, the family said.
Romero jump-started the zombie genre as the co-writer (with John A. Russo) and director of the 1968 movie “Night of the Living Dead,” which went to show future generations of filmmakers such as Tobe Hooper and John Carpenter that generating big scares didn’t require big budgets. “Living Dead” spawned an entire school of zombie knockoffs, and Romero’s sequels included 1978’s “Dawn of the Dead,” 1985’s “Day of the Dead,” 1990’s “Land of the Dead,” 2007’s “Diary of the Dead” and 2009’s “George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead.”
The original film, since colorized, has become a Halloween TV staple. It also has earned socio-political points for the casting of a black actor in the lead role.
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WILLIAM PETER BLATTY- RIP
GEORGE NAPOLITANO VIA GETTY IMAGES
William Peter Blatty, who wrote The Exorcist and won an Oscar for the screenplay adaptation of the horror story, has died. He was 89.
William Friedkin, who directed the film version of “The Exorcist” in 1973, announced the author’s death on Twitter Friday.
Blatty’s chilling story of a Catholic priest attempting to rid a young girl of a demonic spirit was a best-seller after his earlier novels, mostly comedic, had failed to reach a wide audience, according to The Guardian.
Set in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, “The Exorcist” captivated readers with the increasingly strange and unsettling occurrences happening around the main character, Regan MacNeil, and her family.
In an interview with The Huffington Post in 2011 after releasing a revised version of his breakthrough work, Blatty discussed the novel’s appeal.
“Obviously, of course, a popular novel has to be a page-turning read. Second, everyone likes a good scare, so long as we know we’re not really threatened,” Blatty said via email.”And third - and most importantly, I think - because this novel is an affirmation that there is a final justice in the universe; that man is something more than a neuron net; that there is a high degree of probability - let’s not beat around the bush – that there is an intelligence, a creator whom C.S. Lewis famously alluded to as “the love that made the worlds.”
The misperception that the events in the book, like scenes where Regan’s head spun around, were based on a true story possibly also increased sales, Blatty said to HuffPost.
The film, starring Linda Blair as Regan, was also a smash hit and cultural phenomenon when it was released in 1973. It was so popular that fans waited in lines stretching for blocks to get tickets, and some even went to the extreme method of using battering rams to get into theaters.
The movie netted an Oscar for Blatty in 1974 his screenplay, and it became the first horror film nominated in the best picture category, according to Variety.
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10/14/15
THE DEVIL BAT
PRESENTS
16MM MOVIE NITE
ANTEBELLUM
is obsessed with B&W sci-fi and monster films from the 1950s.
please join us for our screening of
THE DEVIL BAT
ORIGINAL 16MM FILM projected on a screen!
THE DEVIL BAT
(1940)
OCTOBER 30TH
7:30PM
$10
NO~HOST BAR
KINKY ART
LIVELY CHAT
WEAR A COSTUME!
BEAUTIFUL PATIO FOR PRE & POST SCREENING RELAXATION
ANTEBELLUM
1643 N LAS PALMAS AVE
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028
323 856~0667
The Devil Bat (1940)
is a black-and-white comedy-horror movie
produced by Producers Releasing Corporation,
and directed byJean Yarbrough.
The film stars horror actor Bela Lugosi, along with Suzanne Kaaren, Guy Usher, Yolande Mallott, and the comic team of Dave O'Brien and Donald Kerr as the protagonists.
The story involves a small town cosmetic company chemist (Lugosi) who is upset at his wealthy employers, because he feels they have denied him his due share of company success. To get revenge, he breeds giant bats. He then conditions them to kill those wearing a special after-shave lotion he has concocted. He cleverly distributes the lotion to his enemies as a "test" product.
STARRING~
- Béla Lugosi as Dr. Paul Carruthers
- Suzanne Kaaren as Mary Heath
- Dave O'Brien as Johnny Layden
- Guy Usher as Henry Morton
- Yolande Donlan (credited as Yolande Mallott) as Maxine
- Donald Kerr as "One-Shot" McGuire
- Edward Mortimer as Martin Heath
- Gene O'Donnell as Don Morton
- Alan Baldwin as Tommy Heath
- John Ellis as Roy Heath
- Arthur Q. Bryan as Joe McGinty
- Hal Price as Police Chief Wilkins
- John Davidson as Prof. Percival Garland Raines
- Wally Rairdon as Walter King
8/6/15
16MM MOVIE NIGHT~ WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?
PRESENTS
16MM MOVIE NITE
ANTEBELLUM
is obsessed with B&W horror films from the 1950/60s.
please join us for our screening of
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?
ORIGINAL 16MM FILM projected on a screen!
AUGUST 14TH
7:30PM
$10
CASH BAR
KINKY ART
LIVELY CHAT
BEAUTIFUL PATIO FOR PRE & POST SCREENING RELAXATION
ANTEBELLUM
1643 N LAS PALMAS AVE
HOLLYWOOD, CA 90028
323 856~0667
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? 1962,
produced and directed by Robert Aldrich, starring Bette Davis and Joan Crawford
about an actress who holds her crippled sister captive in an old Hollywood mansion.
The screenplay by Lukas Heller is based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Henry Farrell.
Upon the film's release, it was met with widespread critical and box office acclaim,
and was later nominated for five Academy Awards, winning one for Best Costume Design,
The notoriously bitter Hollywood rivalry between the film's two stars was heavily important to the film's immense popularity at the time. This in part led to the revitalization of the then-waning careers of former Hollywood acting legends, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.
Critics continued to acclaim the film for its psychologically driven black comedy,camp,
Because of the film's then unheard of and controversial plot (it originally received an X rating in the UK), and the appeal of the film's stars, it has become a cult film. In 2003, the character of Baby Jane Hudson was ranked #44 on the American Film Institute's list of the 50 Best Villains of American Cinema.
- Joan Crawford as Blanche Hudson
- Victor Buono as Edwin Flagg
- Maidie Norman as Elvira Stitt
- Anna Lee as Mrs. Bates
- B.D. Merrill as Liza Bates
- Marjorie Bennett as Dehlia Flagg
- Dave Willock as Ray Hudson
- Julie Allred as young Jane
- Gina Gillespie as young Blanche
- Debbie Burton as young Jane's singing voice
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5/8/14
THREE FACES OF PSYCHO
the original~ ed gein~ 1957
anthony perkins as norman bates~ 1960
freddie highmore as nornan bates~ 2014
who do you like best?
anthony perkins as norman bates~ 1960
freddie highmore as nornan bates~ 2014
who do you like best?
3/26/14
FREDDIE HIGHMORE~ BATES MOTEL
"Freddie" Highmore[(born 14 February 1992) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Finding Neverland, (2004), Five Children and It (2004), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Arthur and the Invisibles (2006), August Rush (2007), The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008), and The Art of Getting By (2011).
He currently stars as Norman Bates in the A&E series Bates Motel (2013–present).
12/4/13
11/27/13
THE GHOSTLY NIGHTCLUBS OF LA BELLE EPOQUE
Enter, the Cabaret du Néant. Translation: the Cabaret of Nothingness, but originally known as the ‘Cabaret of Death‘ before horrified authorities objected to the name. Just a stone’s throw from the Moulin Rouge in Montmartre, guests of the Cabaret du Néant would rest their drinks served in imitation human skulls on coffins, which conveniently doubled as tables.
11/2/13
THE SHINING~ LOBBY OF BLOOD
i remember seeing this trailer in the theater and thinking it was one of the best, more effective trailers i'd ever seen.
10/27/13
10/5/13
PSYCHO HOUSE THROUGHOUT THE YEARS
Alfred Hitchock's 1960 cinematic masterpiece Psycho, although originally distributed by Paramount, was financed by Hitchcock himself, and filmed at Universal Studios using the Revue Studios television crew from Alfred Hitchcock Presents. It was filmed on a tight budget, and accordingly, the exterior sets built for the film...the Bates Motel and home...were partly constructed from studio "stock units," including in the case of the Bates home, a tower and front wall portion borrowed from an existing house set on the backlot's Colonial Street. The Bates home, or "Psycho House" as it has come be known, was built as a two-walled exterior facade, as it would be filmed only from a vantage point within a 90 degree span.
The "Psycho House" became an iconic symbol of eerieness, and has appeared in countless films (including two Psycho sequels), television shows and advertisements. The set still stands on the Universal backlot fifty years later, although modified and twice relocated over the years. The original Bates Motel set no longer exists, but a reconstructed version of the motel has accompanied the home on the backlot and as a part of the studio tour for decades.
The Bates home from Psycho
The Bates home as seen in the film.
The set for Psycho's Bates home in the early 1960's
Psycho's Bates home set is seen here as originally constructed, with no right-side or rear wall.
courtesy Bison Archives
The "Harvey" House on Universal's "Colonial Street"
The tower section of the Harvey/Allison House on the backlot's "Colonial Street" was
removed in 1959 and used in the construction of the Bates home set for Psycho.
courtesy Bison Archives
| More images from the original Psycho | |
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 Bates Motel and home |  Bates home (with "Mother" in window) |
 Alfred Hitchcock and Bates home set - from the film's trailer |  Alfred Hitchcock and Bates Motel - from the film's trailer |
Psycho House Set and Laramie Street mid-1960's
The Psycho house is seen here in the mid-1960's, now with a right-side wall which was
constructed specifically for the set's appearance in the 1964 film Invitation to a Gunfighter.
courtesy Bison Archives
(thanks to Dennis Dickens for Invitation to a Gunfighter details)
The Psycho House in the 1965-66 television series Laredo
scan courtesy Francesco Nigro
Rear view of Psycho House in 1971
This photograph of the rear of the Psycho house set was shot in 1971
courtesy of and Copyright © Nguyen Ngoc Chinh from his Flickr photostream- used with permission
The Psycho House in the early 1970's
courtesy Francesco Nigro
Psycho House Set in the Night Gallery installment "A Question of Fear" (1971)
The Psycho house, including a bat added by animation, is seen here in 1971 in the
TV series Night Gallery.
(this image has been heavily brightened from its original appearance, which was essentially a silhouette...hence its grainy appearance)
Psycho House Set in Emergency! episode "Brushfire" (1972)
The Psycho house, including the road which ran between the Bates Motel and the house,
is seen here in 1972 in the TV series Emergency!.
Psycho House Set in the mid-1970's
The Psycho house is seen here in the mid-1970's, still in its original location on
the backlot, above Laramie Street.
courtesy Bison Archives
A restored Psycho House in the 1976 mini-series Captains and the Kings
The Psycho house is seen here after a restoration and the addition of a larger,
wrap-around porch, both for the 1976 mini-series "Captains and the Kings"
scan courtesy Francesco Nigro
Psycho House in May, 1979
This photograph of the Psycho house set in its original location was shot on May 26, 1979
courtesy of and Copyright © Piet Schreuders from his Flickr photostream - used with permission
(see a similar photo on Flickr shot by Joseph Butindari two years later)
Psycho House in 1980
courtesy Bison Archives
Psycho House being dismantled in December, 1980
After occupying the ridge above "Laramie Street" for over twenty years, the Psycho House
was dismantled in December of 1980, and later reassembled elsewhere on the lot for
the filming of Pyscho II (1983).
courtesy of and Copyright © Mark Brindle - used with permission
| Psycho House Replica in Modern Problems (1981) | |
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| For the 1981 Chevy Chase comedy Modern Problems, a somewhat convincing replica of the Pyscho House was constructed along a beach. Many, including the author of this web site, have initially believed this to be the original set transported to a beach and reassembled for the film, but detailed comparison of house features and proportions reveals that this is in fact a replica. (thanks to John Trimble and Francesco Nigro for their observations on this subject) | |
Psycho House during repairs in July, 1982
This photograph of the Psycho house was shot on July 9, 1982 while the set was partially assembled outside the backlot's carpentry shop for repairs.
courtesy of and Copyright © Douglas Hill - www.douglashillphotography.com - used with permission
Universal Studios Florida Bates Mansion set for Psycho IV (1990) - July, 1993
This photograph of a duplicate Bates Mansion set at Universal Studios Florida was shot on July 12, 1993. The set was demolished in 1998.
courtesy of and Copyright © John Burke from his Flickr photostream - used with permission
| More Photos of the Psycho House and Bates Motel (scans courtesy Bison Archives) (after clicking on a thumbnail, you may use the left & right arrow keys to navigate from one enlarged image to another) | ||
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 Psycho House set circa 1960 |  Psycho House in 1980 |  1983 publicity photo for Psycho II |
 Actress Vera Miles in 1983 photo from Psycho II |  Psycho House in 1985 - Psycho III production |  Psycho House in 1985 |
 Psycho House in 1987 |  Psycho House in 1992 |  Psycho House in 1994 |
 Psycho House and Bates Motel in 1994 | ||
July 1966 Inventory Proof Photos (photos circa 1964)
Psycho House and Bates Motel
courtesy Bison Archives
(click any image for an enlargement)
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The Psycho House on November 7, 1983
The Psycho House is seen here as photographed by Gregory Melle on November 7, 1983.
Click here to view this photo in CanadaGood's Flickr photostream.
courtesy of and Copyright © Gregory Melle - used with permission
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