The Walking Dead 4x03 "Isolation" - A group leaves the prison to search for supplies; the remaining members of the group deal with recent losses.
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Monday, 21 October 2013
(Spoilers) Making Of The Walking Dead 4x02 "Infected"
The cast and crew take you behind the scenes of the massacre within the prison in this making of The Walking Dead 4x02 "Infected".
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Friday, 18 October 2013
Interview With Joseph Fiennes (‘Monsignor Timothy Howard’) - American Horror Story: Asylum
A: He's a fun character as are all the characters in American Horror Story. The monsignor, just the name itself has this sort of regality to it. He's been brought in probably by the diocese to run this new asylum and sister Jude in charge. So the man is wonderfully versed in theology and church and I imagine is very well educated, possibly University. Ultimately he's very ambitious. He studies a lot. I also think that he is a moderate voice of the church. Around that time in the 60s it may even have been a movement called the Vatican II, which was the whole idea of challenging the Vatican and really getting it to modernize itself with its attitudes towards the people of that time in the modern age. That still continues today. He's a man that both is intelligent but also manages to think outside of the dogma and the theological box of the Catholic Church.
Q: Why is it an interesting juxtaposition to see a show that's set in the 60s because we have this fuzzy nostalgic view of that decade? Does it apply to we are today?
A: It depends who you ask, those who were born in the 30s, 40s, that lived through the 60s and their sort of adolescence and adulthood, would obviously have a very different point of view. Of course from the 50s to the 60s a huge explosion with music, the Beatles, the Stones and a great escape from the repression. Those characters that are of a particular age within American Horror Story in the 60s would've been children of the 30s and 40s and would have been brought up with a pretty strict regime certainly in Europe.
And certainly in North America. What's brilliantly creepy about the show is the fact that this wasn't so far away. This wasn't so many years ago that people have such a particular rule and answer to the crimes that someone committed, whether it was just stealing or something worse or just someone who was not mental but possibly just a bit passionate or outspoken. Then of course someone who was gay and how that was viewed at that time.
We've come a long way but maybe that's just in North America. I'm sure there are other pockets of the world we live in a culture deeply repressed. The great thing about the Internet is that people can at least log on and hold hands with like-minded people or democratically minded people. But I don't think we should forget that, I think those horrors, in their own way, in a modern world, may still continue. We all know that and I think we all know that somehow the greater powers -- we're so close. Whether we're liberal we might believe we are in a police state or something.
Very quickly you can be on the wrong side of the law or very quickly you can hit a moment of madness and so I guess it's all about perception. It's very different today than then but I don't think it was so far away and I do think there are pockets in which have characters like that that have authority figures that are in charge. What's wonderful about Jessica Lange's portrayal is that she is someone who is on a righteous course and is doing it for the sanctity of others but in a very brutal way. That goes on today in all walks of sort of authority.
Q: This is a show that lives in a very grave moral zone. The show pushes the boundaries of what mainstream television should talk about. Do you find that it has a very interesting morality as a result?
A: First and foremost, this is great exhilarating entertainment. It plays with all those wonderful themes of horrors and it takes all the great sort of juicy films in our repertoire with the Shining, Psycho, Hannibal Lecter. There's all sort of borrowed components and references so it's wonderfully exciting for that genre. It is creepy and because there is a connection to these characters that are fallible. That is the main draw over and above the horror.
The great connectedness is that they contradict themselves. They're full of contradictions as we discussed earlier. No one is who they seem to be in that kind of who we are and we're always trying to find our real selves and we wear masks and we pull it off. And I think there's, to the greater extreme, that's what's taking place here whether it's people within authority or within the mental institution itself you know. What I love about this show is its meditation on sanity and those who are locked up are probably more sane than those running the asylum.
That's a lovely kind of juxtaposition. But ultimately within the extreme these people are real. The only person for me who really is an out and out monster is Dr. Arden. I find him really very scary, a child of a brutal regime and his sort of brainwashed and I kind of can't really see if he's got any moral center at all. I find that particularly scary. But really what I find scary is those who do have moral centers and veer off to their great cost.
Q: You're bloody face, aren't you?
A: This is now terminated.
American Horror Story - Season 2 (Asylum) on DVD on October 21st
Thursday, 17 October 2013
Film News ( UK ): Horror Channel celebrates British horror classics with a Brit-cult season
Plus UK TV premiere for Dominic Brunt’s zombie love story BEFORE DAWN
November on Horror Channel sees network premieres for a memorable collection of strange cult oddities and forgotten British horror classics, kicking off with the network premiere of Nicolas Roeg’s THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH, starring David Bowie. Joining Bowie in the realm of the weird and wonderful is Roy Boulting’s psychological ground-breaker TWISTED NERVE, Michael Powell’s controversial PEEPING TOM, Robert Fuest’s Hitchcockian AND SOON THE DARKNESS and Jimmy Sangster’s Hammer classic FEAR IN THE NIGHT.
Also, there are UK TV premieres for Emmerdale actor Dominic Brunt’s directorial feature film debut BEFORE DAWN, Lulu Jarmen’s disturbing BAD MEAT and Padraig Reynold’s festival favourite RITES OF SPRING.
Line up:
Fri 1 Nov @ 22:55 – THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (1976)
Based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Walter Tevis, this cult classic stars David Bowies (in his debut film role), as an extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet, which is suffering from a severe drought. It also stars Candy Clark, and Hollywood veteran Rip Torn and is produced by Michael Deeley and Barry Spikings, who reunited for work on another epic, The Deer Hunter.
Fri 7 Nov @ 22:55 – AND SOON THE DARKNESS (1970)
Starring Pamela Franklin and Michele Dotrice this on the edge of your seat thriller, tells the story of two young English women on a cycling holiday in the French countryside. Cathy, distracted by a local man, parts company with Jane. When her friend fails to rejoin her, Jane returns to the last place she saw her. Cathy has vanished. Alone and with a limited knowledge of French, Jane frantically searches for her missing friend.
Fri 15 Nov @ 22: 55 – TWISTED NERVE (1968)
Director Roy Boulting brings out the best in actor Hywel Bennett, who plays Martin, a disturbed young man with a dysfunctional mother and a cold-hearted step-father. Martin, pretends, under the name of Georgie, to be mentally retarded to be near Susan (played by Hayley Mills), a girl he has become infatuated with, killing those who get in his way. But when Susan rejects him, she becomes the next target.
Fri 22 Nov @ 22:55 – PEEPING TOM (1960)
Peeping Tom stars Carl Boehm as Mark Lewis a part-time photographer who is a serial killer, murdering women while using a portable movie camera to record their dying expressions of terror. The film's controversial subject and the harsh reception by critics effectively destroyed Michael Powell's career as a director in the UK . However, it attracts a cult following and is now considered a masterpiece.
Fri 29 Nov @ 22:55 – FEAR IN THE NIGHT (1972)
This psychological horror thriller follows a young woman (Judy Geeson), recovering from a nervous breakdown, who takes up a new position working in a boys' boarding school. She soon begins to believe she is losing her mind when she starts being terrorised by a one-armed man. Directed by Jimmy Sangster and produced by Hammer Film Productions, it also stars Joan Collins, Ralph Bates and Peter Cushing.
Wed 6 Nov @ 22:55 – RITES OF SPRING (2011) * UK TV premiere
After kidnapping the nine-year-old daughter of a wealthy socialite and hiding out in an abandoned school, a group of kidnappers falls prey to a recurring terror, a bloodlust that comes every first day of spring. Part kidnap heist, part slasher movie, this is director Padraig Reynolds’s feature film debut, which scored highly on the festival circuit. It stars AJ Bowen, Anessa Ramsey, Sonny Marinelli and Katherine Randolf.
Wed 20 Nov @ 22:55 – BAD MEAT (2011) ** UK TV premiere**
In Canadian director Lulu Jarmen’s splatter sensation, a boot camp for troubled teens becomes a nightmarish charnel house when spoiled meat transforms the staff from sadistic fascists into something much, worse. Get ready for spilt blood, vomit, faeces and bile – in the strangest, weirdest destined-for-cult-dom in ages. Stars Elizabeth Harnois, Dave Franco, Mark Pellegrino, & Jessica Parker Kennedy
Sat 23 Nov @ 22:55 – BEFORE DAWN (2012) * UK TV premiere
Dominic Brunt, better known as veterinarian Paddy Kirk in ‘Emmerdale’, has written and directed a terrific zom-rom horror. Alex (Dominic Brunt) and Meg (Joanne Mitchell) go for a weekend in the Yorkshire countryside in an effort to save their relationship. Unfortunately the picturesque holiday area chosen comes under attack from the walking dead and Meg is soon going to find out the depth of Alex’s love.
Plus there are network premiers for Brian Yuzna’s RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD 3 (1993), Sat 2 Nov, 22:40; David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001), Sat 9 Nov, 22:55; Jonathan Levine’s ALL THE BOYS LOVE MANDY LANE (2006), Sat 16 Nov, 22:55 and Greg McClean’s WOLF CREEK (2005), Sat 30 Nov, 22:50.
TV: Sky 319 / Virgin 149 / Freesat 138
Tuesday, 15 October 2013
Interview With Franka Potente - (‘Charlotte Brown’ / ‘Anne Frank’) - American Horror Story: Asylum
A: I come in there because I am a housewife and I beat up two men in a bar. I claim to be Anne Frank, which millions and millions of schoolchildren have read the book, we all assume is dead but do we really know. I seem to have proof that what I say is true. So at first nobody believes me but the more proof I bring the more people are investigating if what I say is true. Not only that, there's somebody in there who works in this time that I seem to recognize from Auschwitz concentration camp. So I'm pointing fingers at people too.
Q: How will this affect the characters running the asylum?
A: You definitely will but that is already set in motion isn't it? Like you know, there's not going to be the moment where you're like oh my God, I thought this person was good. I don't know if, after seeing two episodes, I don't know if you can say that about any character. I'm just shedding light on certain people that will be under a lot of pressure and do horrible things because of. And then I kind of vanish again into the fog.
Q: What a treat for an actor. What was the appeal of being on a show like this?
A: What I like about season one was the texture of it. I like that I was creeped out by that title sequence and still am. When I watch the title sequence I hear this mind-boggling music. You know immediately that this is created by someone who knows the psychology of nightmares, who knows the texture, who knows the feel, and for an actor, anyone involved you need to physically place yourself in that and you become easily part of something. That already has its tone set. It's a very luxurious situation, the sets, everything it makes you so uncomfortable. It's already a creation. You just step on there and say your lines and it's helping the performance incredibly.
Q: There's a line in the second episode where one of the characters says “times may have changed but the nature of evil happened”. We are living in a time of great chaos. Is that what you think fuels people's fascination with watching shows like this?
A: The human mind is so twisted. I sometimes think that the pure, like us watching the show and being intrigued by what's going on by bloody face or this person or that person being tortured, even in the safe environment of our home, just the fact that we can't wait to see this again and again and again the next week and the following almost proves the point how twisted and sick we are.
Q: It takes a certain actor to be able to stand up to the formidable challenge of people like James Cromwell and Jessica Lange. You will be in the midst of these two powerhouses. What was it like being up against these two people?
A: I was scared. My first day of shooting was with Jessica Lange and I had 14 pages of text. I couldn't sleep. I was really nervous. I admire her work. She's obviously an amazing actress that has sustained and is just there and has just won an Emmy. I wanted her respect. I wanted to be good with her. I really wanted us to achieve something good together but I was like how am I going to do this? She has a very focused presence. She made me part of her energy. She is really responsible. She looks out for you and she wants you to be good. She was totally there for me and it was an awesome day. I forgot my lines maybe twice, which is a good ratio. It was great and it was definitely because of her honestly, yeah.
Q: It's interesting that they took on a real-life figure to put into this asylum. Does the show do anything to disturb her legacy?
A: I can only say that I never had those concerns because my character had postpartum depression and basically overcompensates and identifies with the second world war and Jewish victims of the Holocaust. At some point she took over the persona of Anne Frank because it's part of schizophrenia. She really becomes Anne Frank. She's fighting and she is very proud and she's fighting for justice. Anne Frank is not really, if she were alive to be honest with you, she might be like that. That was always my way of thinking. I was like well, if she had survived she would be my age in the 60s and what would she be like? That's kind of an interesting mind game. It's more a tribute I think to the magic of moviemaking. We can make Anne Frank come alive.
American Horror Story - Season 2 (Asylum) on DVD on October 21st
Monday, 14 October 2013
The Walking Dead 4x02 Sneak Peek "Infected" & Promo "Infected"
The Walking Dead 4x02 "Infected" - The group faces a new enemy; Rick and the others fight to protect their hard-won livelihood.
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Inside The Walking Dead 4x01 "30 Days Without an Accident"
The Walking Dead 4x01 "30 Days Without an Accident" - The members of the group finally begin to adjust to their new lives and roles at the prison, but soon find their peace disrupted.
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SHARNI VINSON TO ATTEND UK PREMIERE OF HER NEW FILM PATRICK AT FILM4 FRIGHTFEST HALLOWEEN ALL-NIGHTER
Alan Jones, co-director, said today: "Ever since she became Australia 's Scream Queen, we've always wanted to have Sharni attend a FrightFest because our fans know and love her work. Having worked with her on YOU'RE NEXT!, I knew from that experience our audience would fall in love with her as I did. She is fantastic in Mark Hartley's PATRICK remake and we are thrilled she can join us for this Ozploitation celebration".Other guests confirmed are Neil Marshall and Anna Walton (producer, lead actress of Axelle Carolyn’s SOULMATE), Renaund Gautheir (director of DISCOPATH) and Michael Armstrong (director of MARK OF THE DEVIL)
London line-up:
18:30 SOULMATE ( UK Premiere)
21:15 PATRICK ( UK Premiere)
23:25 DISCOPATH (Preview)
01:45 MARK OF THE DEVIL (Retro Premiere)
03:55 THE STATION ( UK Premiere)
05:45 NOTHING LEFT TO FEAR ( UK Premiere)
Passes for the London event cost £55 and are currently on To book call 08712 240 240 or go online http://www.myvue.com/latest-movies/info/film/frightfest-all-nighter Tickets can also be bought at the cinema
Horror fans around the country can join in the fearsome fun on Saturday 2 November, when the event travels to the GFT Glasgow and the Empires in Sunderland, Newcastle and Poole . On Sat November 16 the event hits the Watershed Bristol
For details of regional screenings please visit www.frightfest.co.uk. Note that the regional venues may not be playing all of the titles screening at the London event so please check local listings
Saturday, 12 October 2013
The Walking Dead Season 4 "Prey for the Dead" Promo (HD)
The carnage continues with The Walking Dead Season 4 premiere, Sunday October 13th on AMC.
Monday, 7 October 2013
The Haunting in Connecticut 2 - Trailer and News
The Haunting In Connecticut 2 is the only horror released this Halloween season and tells the "true" story of the Wyrick family - Lisa, Andy and their young daughter Heidi - who moved to Pine Mountain, Georgia, in 1993. Upon moving into their new home, the Wyrick women begin experiencing disturbing visions. Do the visions hint at the onset of a shared family madness, or are they clues to a real-life nightmare that once took place on the property?
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