We are extremely excited to announce the addition of Dean Cameron to the line-up of this November's HorrorHound Weekend: Cincinnati!

Dean is most well known to most horror fans - and '80s cinema fans in general - for his portrayal as "Chainsaw" Francis Gremp in the 1987 comedy, Summer School. In the film, Dean's character, Chainsaw, epitomizes the 1980s horror fan with his love of gore, special FX, foreign exchange student Anna-Maria (Fabiana Udenio) and the film, Texas Chainsaw Massacre - not to mention creating one of the coolest "massacre" scenes of the time - all in good gory fun. ...

Just one year later, in 1988, Dean co-starred with Bruce Abbott in Bad Dreams. In 1990 he starred in Ski School as well as the vampire-comedy Rockula. Dean has appeared in a number of additional films and TV roles - including the short-lived 1986 comedy series "Fast Times" as Jeff Spicoli, 1990's Men at Work, Malcolm McDowell's Disturbed (1990), Grey Knight, Charlie's Ghost Story, "They Came from Outer Space," and so many more. ...

Dean joins many of his former cast-members this November at HorrorHound Weekend, including Summer School's Fabiana Udenio, Bad Dream's Bruce Abbott and Disturbed's Malcolm McDowell. Not to mention the likes of Linda Blair, Jeffrey Combs, Julian Sands, Danielle Harris, Jonathan Breck, Meg Foster and SOOOOO many others!!!!

Tickets for this show are now available for pre-sale. The special pre-sale price of $17.50 (day) and $30 (weekend) will disappear soon - so make sure you get your tickets today - CLICK HERE!!!!

 On November 6th 2010, The Hudson Horror Show Inc., in association with Grindhouse Releasing, proudly presents the Hudson Horror Show II, a horror film festival of gargantuan proportions! From cannibals to demons, this blood soaked extravaganza will be presented the way these movies were meant to be seen, projected on the big screen from rare 35mm film prints!

  The first fest was such a great success, we worked tirelessly to put together an even better lineup of films this time around! Sam Raimi's roller coaster of horror, Evil Dead 2, Lamberto Bava's splatter-fest, Demons, Lucio Fulci's zombie masterpiece, Gates of Hell, Umberto Lenzi's unflinchingly brutal Cannibal Ferox and we let YOU vote to choose the 5th feature!! Seating is limited and we sold out the last event. So we strongly suggest buying tickets in advance. We will also be screening a truckload of amazing, vintage horror 35mm trailers as well.

For Tickets & more info go to www.hudsonhorror.com

  From hopes to rumors to fan demand, Machete comes to the big screen at long last on Sept 9, 2010. It has been over three years since Robert Rodriguez's Mexican blade swinging Bad Ass played by Danny Trejo was first seen in his (at the time) faux movie trailer that ran as part of the Grindhouse feature film. There is no question that Machete featured one of the best movie posters since the heyday of grindhouse cinema, and now is your cance to create your own machete poster and letter bomb a friend with it! It is easy and fun simply go to: http://www.machetephotobomb.com/ and get to work and show your support by posting your picture among the legion of other fans of the film in the Machete picture gallery and on your own Facebook page also.

By: Aaron Crowell











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HorrorHound Issue #25 Sept/Oct 2010 has arrived and will begin shipping to subscribers on Monday.  Issue #25 includes interview with crew from the upcoming AMC Series "The Walking Dead" along with Stephen King retrospective and HorrorHound's In-Person Comic-Con coverage.  Buy Online

We are excited to announce the addition of a first-time convention guest - Douglas Tait!

Doug, for most people who don't know, had the pleasure of portraying Jason Voorhees in 2003's Freddy vs. Jason as a stunt double to Ken Kirzinger. As part of his work - donning the hockey mask and machete, Doug filmed one of the most iconic scenes in Jason's history - exiting Crystal Lake with the severed head of Freddy Krueger. (!!!) ... On top of this, Doug had the opportunity to play the "Long Face Bar Alien" (as it was so cleverly named) in 2009's Star Trek. This character's masterful design/FX helped win "Trek" an Oscar for Best Achievement in Makeup. That same year, Doug portrayed the Sleestak in Will Ferrell's Land of the Lost.

On top of these popular titles, Doug has worked on such films (as an actor and/or stuntman) as: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Bloodlines, Dead and Deader and The Hunchback. ... Doug's next film project is Joe (Wrong Turn 2) Lynch's Knights of Badassdom, where he plays a nasty character known as "Abominog." As stated above - this will be Douglas' first convention appearance - at the Crowne Plaza Cincinnati North in Sharonville, Ohio over the weekend of November 12-14th! Order your tickets today by CLICKING HERE!!!!!




Edited:8/25/2010 11:07:38 PM (sheep4)

What can be said about Sam Raimi's classic horror romp - The Evil Dead - that hasn't already been stated? It's one of the scariest films of all time. It holds up as one of the greatest horror titles of the past 50 years. It launched the sparkling careers of Raimi (Spider-Man) and star, Bruce Campbell. And it has been released to home video more times than I can count. I think I own this film on three of four different VHS releases - and half a dozen DVDs (more than a dozen exist). ... DVDs that boast such tag lines as the "Book of the Dead Edition" and "Special Collector's Edition" ... or the best of the bunch, the "Ultimate Edition" released in 2007 via Anchor Bay. Evil Dead and its sequels are the films that made Anchor Bay synonymous with horror - so it's no surprise that Anchor Bay has given fans, time and time again, every opportunity imaginable to purchase this classic. And on August 31st, for the first time ever, Evil Dead comes to Blu-ray!

PICTURE:
There is some definite give and take when considering the High-def picture quality of The Evil Dead on Blu. ... The plus? The picture features definite improvements on picture, especially when it comes to definition of objects (when Ash ventures into the basement, you can make out shapes and old junk with ease, compared to its DVD-counterpart). Darks are darker, but shadows are more defined. The DVD seems to feature no middle ground. (Dark is dark and that's it.) ... Colors also benefit from this new release. When comparing a scene such as the opening drive, the car appears to have a bit more color and comes off less murky - or washed out. The DVD looks like you are watching the movie through a yellowed-foggy lens. Most likely true to the film's original screening presentation - but not high in definition (for us nerds) .... Now the bad. As with any film like this - the BD boasts a large amount of grain. It's amusing to compare the DVD to the BD back-to-back, because you will notice a lessened-level of grain on the DVD. Impacting the picture quality to push those details forces all that grain out of obscurity and right onto the forefront of the print. And it's not a significant improvement - just a noticeable one. Leading one to balance the importance of grain when viewing the movie. There are scenes (such as the iconic tree-rape) where the grain actually disappears. I don't know enough about the transfer process to understand this, but I assume the darker, more harshly-lit scene needed less "push" to bring out details in HD. ... This may result in the grain going back and forth throughout the film (darker scenes = less grain).

EXTRAS:
As for extra features? I have a copy of Anchor Bay's hard-to-beat "Ultimate Edition" sitting on my desk. This 3-disc set comes packed in an impressive cardboard foldout "book" with a replica poster and two versions of the film over two discs (widescreen and full frame) ... this is compacted onto the BD into one disc (luckily). An all-new commentary is included on the BD featuring Sam Raimi, Robert Tapert and Bruce Campbell - which is absolutely cool. Unfortunately this means the former commentary tracks (one featuring Raimi/Tapert and one w/Campbell alone) from the "Ultimate Edition" is missing in action.
The BD comes with a bonus DVD featuring tons of extras (since none were re-filmed or transferred for HD, it doesn't actually matter to this reviewer that Anchor Bay opted to include them on a separate DVD). These features include documentary/featurettes: "One by One We Will Take You: The Untold Saga of The Evil Dead," "From the Cutting Room Floor," "Discovering Evil Dead," "Unconventional," "At the Drive-In," a reunion panel, make-up tests, "The Ladies of Evil Dead Meet Bruce Campbell," "Book of the Dead: The Other Pages," a still gallery, trailer and TV spots. ... Missing from the "Ultimate Edition?" not much at all. ... aside from the commentary tracks listed above, it looks like everything is accounted for. Definite kudos for that one.

FINAL WORD:
Will this be the beat-all, end-all Blu-ray release for The Evil Dead? Hell no. Is it a worthy first venture into the market? Hell yes. While it doesn't hold up as an overly-impressive upgrade in picture quality - the fact that Anchor Bay took effort to include all previously-released bonus features says a lot. The company is known for releasing Evil Dead (and let's not forget Halloween) ad nauseum. It just feels good to see their freshman-release onto BD is at least on par with their senior-released-DVD.

Hey Hounds,

Jessica Dwyer here and I come bearing some rotten fruit.  Oh yes...

 

Awesome?  Hell yes.  Discuss just how awesome this is and what sort of zombiefest you'll be having this Halloween.

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  The next big budget horror remake is here! and in 3D as this is of course the new Hollywood trend. French director and all around genre fan Alexandre Aja delivers his re-imagining of Joe Dante's classic Jaws rip-off Piranha. The screenplay is penned by Peter Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg the team behind the script for the 2009 Sorority Row remake.

  The new film takes place in the isolated town of Lake Victoria a popular stomping ground for horny and rude spring breaking college kids, who descend upon the lake every year like clockwork. Only this year another group of party animals with ferocious appetites will be emerging for a little fun in the sun. Seems a earth quake has exposed a large underwater subterranean pocket releasing hundreds of long starving prehistoric piranha.
Complete with a star studded cast that includes: Elisabeth Shue as the towns sheriff, Ving Rhames as her deputy, Steven R. McQueen as Shue's Son, Jerry O'Connell as a Girls Gone Wild producer style douchebag (his best role and performance possibly ever!), Paul Scheer as O'Connell's camera man, Christopher Lloyd has a bit part as Mr. Goodman the local expert on Marine wildlife, the heroic Adam Scott who many will recognize from his role in Step Brothers as Will Ferrell's asshole brother Derek, Richard Dreyfuss makes a quick cameo that hints at his Matt Hooper role from Jaws, just for kicks, Hostel director Eli Roth makes a fun cameo and splat as a wet t-shirt host double fisting super soakers and a host of hotties far to long to list here.

  At first I was not very impressed with the film but found as it progressed it became more and more enjoyable. The acting from all involved was very convincing and the story worked well. In the end to put to much thought into this film is like analizing the ingrediants of fruit snacks. Fun is the name of the game here and it is that and then some. As any fan of the original film knows the story is a slow build to the epic finally that is sure to be a blood bath of epic proportions, and boy oh boy does it deliver! Truly a GoreHounds wet dream come true! The last time I witnessed this much gore was in Peter Jackson's gorefest Braindead or as it is known here in the US Dead Alive. While I can not say in my option it has dethroned Dead Alive as the goriest horror film ever made, I can say it does feature the goreiest massacre since the taking of Omaha beach sequence from the WW2 masterpiece Saving Private Ryan or Stallone's surprisingly grue drenched 2008 Rambo. The film might win out for the most nudity seen in a single horror movie, can you say female eye candy!!!

  Sadly for me the 3D was not as good as I had hoped with My Bloody Valentine 3D setting the standard high, it could be the theater I was at or maybe I was in the wrong seat, but I felt this film would have been better with out the novelty. My only other complaint if any was that the under water attacks seemed murky and jerky making it hard to see the feeding as it occurred. All this is fairly moot as the filmmakers, cast and crews heart and soul was evident with some laugh out loud scenes of gore that only a true HorrorHound can revel in. The gore was handled top-notch and it was very hard to spy any CG at work with mostly practical effects handled perfectly by Nicotero and crew, who never fail to impress and deliver. I do not want to spoil a single moment, so get off your ass and go see Piranha 3D and have some fun as summer winds down, you will not regret it,
I promise!









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