Tag: David Cronenberg

SDCC 2016: Scream Factory Announces 13 Titles At Comic-Con!

by Saintmort

There have been a lot of great of announcements that have come out of San Diego Comic Con this week, but if you’re a horror movie fan the one you’re most likely losing your collective shit over is the 13 movies that Scream Factory announced at their panel on Friday Night.

I’m going to attempt my best to break down these titles but some of them are films even I haven’t had a chance to look into. Let’s begin with the movies that are going to be getting official “COLLECTOR’S EDITION” treatment.

First up is the Don Coscarelli/Bruce Campbell masterpiece Bubba Ho-Tep. I remember when this movie was still a traveling title going from theater to theater. Over a two year period I saw it on three different occasions, and it has always been one of my all-time favorite horror-comedies. I know my mind is swimming with what type of amazing bonus features we will get on this release.

Next we can get excited for Black Christmas from 1974. This is to many people (myself included) the original Slasher movie and I’d argue one of the best. Without Black Christmas, there’s a good chance we’d have no Halloween. The original DVD’s had some pretty good special features so we can expect that not only will Scream Factory provide us with those features but I’m banking on some amazing new features as well.

In one of the more shocking announcements we’re getting individual collectors editions for Poltergeist II and III. Typically these films are most often found included in double feature releases with no bonus features so I’m excited to see what Scream Factory has been able to un-earth for us to justify these sequels with individual collector edition releases. If I’m placing bets I expect these two fan-favorite sequels to be the big sleeper hits of this list of releases.

Finally in the Collector’s Edition releases not one but TWO Cronenberg announcements, 1988’s Dead Ringers and 1977’s Rabid. I’ve heard good things about Dead Ringers but haven’t had the pleasure of seeing it yet but Rabid is a favorite of mine that has yet to find its way into my collection. I’m glad that Scream Factory is giving me an affordable collector’s edition to add to my wall.

Killer rat films Willard and Ben are going to be coming to DVD & Blu-Ray after years of being rare and hard to find. Ben is fantastic film that I was finally able to see after stumbling upon a used VHS years ago but I’m excited that I will finally have the opportunity to see the infamous 1971 Willard (as well as see how it compares to the Crispin Glover remake).

In the realm of double features Scream Factory is finally adding Slumber Party Massacre 2 and 3 to their roster. Not only should you make this a must-own (for the masterpiece that is Slumber Party Massacre 2 alone) but also get the stellar release of the original Slumber Party Massacre that was released a few years back by Scream Factory.

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The last two films that I’m not familiar with are 1987’s Dead of Winter (starring Mary Steenburgen and Roddy McDowell) and 1970’s The House That Screamed. While I’m not familiar with either of these titles, last year Scream Factory introduced Blood & Lace into my life and it is now one of my favorite early slasher films. Since Scream Factory rarely disappoints I’m excited to see how fun these two films end up being.

Between the recent release of Bad Moon and the upcoming releases of titles like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Session 9 and Psycho IV it’s safe to say that Scream Factory is horror’s gift that just keeps on giving.

Matt Kelly is the longest contributing writer of Geekscape, mostly because no other sites what him. However Geekscape throws him an olive branch and allows him to host two podcasts The Saint Mort Show and Horror Movie Night. He also is an active blogger and loves wrestling, shitty horror movies, and writing mini-bios about himself.

Horror Movie Night Episode 3: Videodrome

by Saintmort

Adam has gone to Pittsburg to audition for some weird late night snuff show, but while he was gone Matt and Scott watched Videodrome. Joining us this week is Alison who not only picked the film but is also Canadian so perhaps she can explain to us why Canadian horror movies are so fucking weird.

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Adam Berg Set To Helm A Remake Of Cronenberg’s ‘Videodrome’

by Shawn Madden

It appears that nothing is safe from the remake and reboot process these days. Deadline reports that Adam Berg, who had his name once attached to the Deadpool movie, is set to make his big debut as the director of an updated version of Videodrome for Universal Pictures. The remake is scripted by Ehren Kruger (Transformers: Dark Of The Moon) and will be produced by Daniel Bobker (Dream House).

The original film, which was released in 1983 and starring James Woods, was set in Toronto during the early 1980s, and follows the CEO of a small cable station who stumbles upon a broadcast signal featuring extreme violence and torture. The layers of deception and mind-control conspiracy unfold as he uncovers the signal’s source and loses touch with reality in a series of increasingly bizarre and violent organic hallucinations. The film has been described as “techno-surrealist”. This news probably won’t be very well received by many fans of the cult classic. This is especially due to Deadline reporting Universal’s plans to “modernize the concept, infusing it with the possibilities of nano-technology and blow it up into a large-scale sci-fi action thriller.” I’m curious what David Cronenberg thinks about it.

New Trailer For David Cronenberg’s ‘Cosmopolis’

by Scott Alminiana

David Cronenberg, the man who brought us such great movies as The Fly, Eastern Promises, and A History of Violence  is back with his latest movie Cosmopolis. It stars Robert Pattison (sorry ladies, he doesn’t sparkle in this one…but he does take his shirt off), Juliette Binoche, Jay Baruchel, and Paul Giamatti. It’s based on the Don DeLillo novel. It opens in theaters on August 17th. 

Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager’s day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.

 

Could We Be Getting Another David Cronenbeg Helmed ‘The Fly’ Movie?

by Shawn Madden

David Cronenberg’s ‘The Fly’ starring Jeff Goldblum was critically acclaimed. However the sequel that followed did not quite receive the same praise. Since then it’s had an aborted sequel and remake. In 2009 it was rumored that Cronenberg would be directing a second remake of the film. Addressing the rumors he stated that it wasn’t exactly a remake but more a “sort of” sequel.

In 2011 Cronenberg stated in an interview “I have written a script that is more of a strange lateral, let’s say oblique sequel than it is a true sequel, and it’s certainly not a remake of the original. It’s financed by Fox, and whether it will get made or not, I cannot say at the moment because there are a lot of up-in-the-air factors that deal with internal studio politics and a bunch of other things that I’m not in control of. But I would make it if they greenlight it, let’s put it that way.”

And in a recent interview with Empire he further elaborated:

“Well, I did talk to Fox, because my agent found out that they were approaching people to do a remake of my film. He sort of said, ‘Well, you know, what about David?’ And they said, ‘Well, we never thought of that!’ I think they’d been to Guillermo del Toro and Michael Bay. I said, ‘Long ago I proposed a sequel to Mel Brooks when he said he wanted to make a sequel.’ He didn’t like what I proposed because he said it wasn’t the same as the original movie. ‘A sequel,’ he said, ‘should be more of the same.’ And I said, ‘Well, Mel, then I’m not interested.’ And he went off and did his sequels and they had nothing to do with me and they weren’t very successful. But I still had this idea in mind – which no, I won’t tell you – and I said to Fox, ‘I’ll write that idea up because, as I think of it, it could be interesting.’ And they were excited about it enough to pay me to write a script. And then for various reasons it kind of got bogged down. I don’t know exactly why. It seems now that it’s not going to happen. But it’s a script that I like and would do. It’s not exactly a sequel, and it’s certainly not a remake. More a meditation … it involves teleportation.”

Source: Empire, Wikipedia