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Boy Eats Girl is a 2005 horror film directed by Stephen Bradley and starring Samantha Mumba. The plot tells of a teenage boy who comes back to life as a zombie, similar to the plot of My Boyfriend’s Back.
Notably, the movie was the first non-pornographic movie for some years to be banned by the Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO), due to a depiction of suicide. While the scene was not cut from the movie, the IFCO appeals board overturned the ban, issuing a 15A rating.
Cast
- Samantha Mumba – Jessica
- David Leon – Nathan
- Laurence Kinlan – Henry
- Tadhg Murphy – Diggs
- Sara James – Cheryl
- Mark Huberman – Samson
- Paul Reid – Shane
March 8th, 2009
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Beyond Re-Animator (2003) is a horror movie, directed by Brian Yuzna. It is the second sequel to Re-Animator. The film premiered on the Sci-Fi Channel (though it was produced independently and acquired by the channel only as a distributor). This showing was cut to a TV-PG rating. The subsequently released DVD was rated R, but there is a slightly longer unrated cut available in some countries, including the Netherlands. It also received a limited theatrical run in the U.S.
Cast
- Jeffrey Combs - Dr. Herbert West
- Jason Barry - Dr. Howard Phillips
- Simón Andreu - Warden Brando
- Santiago Segura - Speedball
- Elsa Pataky - Laura Olney
- Lolo Herrero - Sergeant Moncho
- Enrique – Arce Cabrera
- Bárbara Elorrieta - Emily Phillips
March 8th, 2009
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The Beyond (also known as E tu vivrai nel terrore – L’aldilà or Seven Doors of Death) is a 1981 Italian horror movie directed by Lucio Fulci. It is considered by some horror film fans to be one of the best movies made by the Italian director. The second film in Fulci’s unofficial Gates of Hell trilogy (along with City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery), The Beyond has gained a cult following over the decades — in part because of the film’s gore-filled murder sequences, which had been heavily censored when the film was originally released in the United States in 1983.
Background
Following the release of City of the Living Dead, Fulci decided to continue that film’s exploration of metaphysical concepts — in particular, the ways in which the realms of both the living and the dead might bleed into each other. Fulci also wanted to do a film that would pay homage to his idol, the French playwright Antonin Artaud. Artaud, a sometime member of the early 20th Century Surrealist movement, envisioned theatre being less about linear plot and more about “cruel” imagery and symbolism that could shock its audience into action.
Thus, Fulci’s original outline for The Beyond was of a non-linear haunted house story with the only solid plot element being that of a woman moving into a hotel built on one of the seven gates of hell (another such gate is depicted in City of the Living Dead). This original story focused on the dead leaving hell and entering the hotel with little outside of the ensuing carnage to link the scenes together.
However, the German distribution company that owned the release rights to Fulci’s films at the time were not interested in a haunted house story. Zombie movies were still popular at the time in Europe and Fulci’s backers wanted something similar to his previous zombie films. Fulci agreed to rewrite his film, adding zombies and completely rewriting the film’s final act to include a shoot-out between the main characters and a zombie horde at a local hospital. Despite these revisions, the final product is considered by many fans to be one of Fulci’s best films and has even been praised for its oneiric incoherence.
Trivia
- The theme of “The Beyond” was used in the song “Seven Doors Hotel” by the band Europe on their debut album, released in 1983.
- This film was #60 on Bravo‘s 100 Scariest Movie Moments.
- During the final scene in the Beyond’s abyss, the sand covered bodies lying on the ground were actually stark naked street derelicts who were coerced with, and paid in, alcohol.
- In the scene near the end, where David Warbeck and Catriona MacColl enter the elevator with the little girl, David can clearly be seen reloading his revolver by dropping the rounds into the barrel. Catriona notices and begins to smile as the elevator doors close.
- There is an alternate take of the opening sequence. Normally shown in sepia-tone, some German prints feature this sequence in color. It can be found on Anchor Bay’s DVD release.
- Several different cuts of the movie exist on video and DVD. The most heavily edited is known as “The Seven Doors of Death” and is the version first distributed in the US. The uncut version of “The Beyond” on the DVD made by Anchor Bay is 89 minutes. There are other DVD editions made in Korea and Australia that range in length from 83 minutes, 84 minutes, and 87 minutes.
- “The Beyond” served as inspiration for Candlemass’s bassist and main-songwriter Leif Edling when he wrote the song Demons Gate, which is on Candlemass’s debut album Epicus Doomicus Metallicus .
March 8th, 2009
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Automaton Transfusion is an indie horror film written and directed by Steven C Miller.
Automaton Transfusion was shot on location in Orlando, Florida on a very low budget. It is intended to be the first of a trilogy of horror movies, and emulates classic examples of the genre. The film was purchased and released by Dimension Extreme, the straight-to-DVD genre arm of The Weinstein Company.
The film was one of Fangoria’s top 10 Horror films of 2006. Miller, the film’s writer/director, is currently prepping a Werewolf Action film called “Bad Moon Rising.”
Plot
In the early 1970s when everyone in America was worrying about what was going on in Vietnam, the United States Army was secretly developing a way to reanimate the dead. Their intention was to have the dead fight instead of the living, but the experiments were shut down when the reanimated corpses were unable to control their hunger for human flesh.
Thirty years later the army decides to reopen the project. Grover City, because of its remote location, would be the home of their main testing facilities. Without warning, the Grover City experiments go horribly wrong and the reanimated corpses go on a rampage, eating everyone in sight.
With the town overtaken by zombies, a group of High School seniors take it upon themselves to fight back and find a cure for the disease.
March 8th, 2009
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The Astro-Zombies, aka Space Zombies aka The Space Vampires, is a 1969 science fiction horror film starring John Carradine, Wendell Corey and Tura Satana. It was written, directed, and produced by Ted V. Mikels. The plot follows a disgruntled scientist who, having been fired by the space agency, decides to create superhuman monsters from the body parts of innocent murder victims. The creatures eventually escape and go on a killing spree, attracting the attention of both an international spy ring and the CIA.
The low budget movie has gained cult status along with many of Ted V. Mikels other works, inspiring him to write and direct a sequel. Mark of the Astro-Zombies was released direct-to-video in 2002 with Tura Satana reprising her role of Satana from the original film.
American horror punk band The Misfits recorded a song entitled “Astro Zombies“, which was written by then-vocalist Glenn Danzig and released on their first full-length album, 1982′s “Walk Among Us”.
Cast
- Wendell Corey - Holman
- John Carradine - Dr. DeMarco
- Tom Pace - Eric Porter
- Joan Patrick - Janine Norwalk
- Tura Satana - Satana
- Rafael Campos - Juan
- Joe Hoover - Chuck Edwards
- Victor Izay - Dr. Petrovich
- William Bagdad - Franchot
March 8th, 2009
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Army of Darkness (also known as Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness) is an American horror-comedy / adventure film, released in 1993. This movie is rated R and is a sequel to The Evil Dead and Evil Dead II. Army of Darkness was directed by Sam Raimi, written by Raimi and his brother Ivan, produced by Rob Tapert, and starring Bruce Campbell once again as protagonist Ash Williams. Despite being a sequel to the two Evil Dead films, it is not as violent or gory, relying more on slapstick.
The movie had a considerably higher budget than the prior two Evil Dead films. The budget was estimated to be around $11 million; Evil Dead II had a budget of $3.5 million and The Evil Dead a budget of $350,000. At the box office, Army of Darkness was not a big success, barely making back its budget with a gross of $11.5 million domestically. After its video release, however, it has obtained an ever-growing cult following, along with the other two films in the trilogy.
Production
Plans to make a third Evil Dead film had been circulating for a number of years, even prior to the production of Darkman. Evil Dead II made enough money internationally that Dino De Laurentiis was willing to finance a sequel. Director and script writer Sam Raimi drew from a variety of sources, including literature with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and The Three Stooges. Evil Dead II, according to Bruce Campbell, “was originally designed to go back into the past to 1300, but we couldn’t muster it at the time, so we decided to make an interim version, not knowing if the 1300 story would ever get made”. Promotional drawings were created and published in Variety during the casting process before the budget was deemed too little for the plot. The working title for the project was Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness. The title “Army of Darkness” came from an idea by Irvin Shapiro, during the production of Evil Dead II. This was used after Sam Raimi was unable to use his original title “The Medieval Dead.”
March 8th, 2009
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All Souls Day, or All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos, is a 2005 zombie film written by Mark A. Altman and directed by Jeremy Kasten. It premiered 11 June 2005 on Sci Fi Channel.
Plot
Years ago in a small Mexican town, Vargas (Danny Trejo) uncovered a hidden Aztec temple deep in the nearby mine. Luring the townspeople in, he blew up the entrance, trapping those inside forever. In exchange for their sacrifice, Vargas received eternal life.
A college couple vacationing in Mexico comes across a small town, empty of people. After accidentally running into what appears to be a funeral precession, they uncover the deadly truth of the town’s past. Every year on the Day of the Dead a human sacrifice is presented at the local church to appease the spirits of the town’s original inhabitants. However, this year the couple interferes with their sacrifice. With nothing to appease the dead, they return to kill the transgressors.
Calling two of their friends for help, the four are left to fight off the growing hordes of the undead besieging their hotel, while trying to uncover the secrets hiding within the hotel’s rooms.
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