In all honesty, I haven’t been to a haunted house since — well, lets just say since my mode of transportation was my mummy. While I love Halloween (it just so happens to be my favorite holiday of the year) I stopped hanging out at haunts back in high school…
It’s debatable but there may not be another Horror film to embed itself so deeply in pop culture urban legends than Tobe Hooper’s 1974 classic, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. It is safe to say that at least one time in your adolescent life you had a friend that had…
In honor of Paranormal Activity 3’s release this Friday, I’d like to take a look back to 2007 for the film that started it all: Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity. It may be hard to separate the film from the phenomenon only four years later, but I actually believe the series…
It’s only fitting, with The Thing *prequel hitting theaters this weekend, that for today’s entry of our 31-day Horror Movie Countdown we take a look back at John Carpenter’s 1982 masterpiece The Thing – the director’s first major studio film and the third of four Carpenter films starring Kurt Russell…
We’re now 13 days into our 31 day Horror Movie Countdown at The Mixmaster, meaning of course that it’s the 13th! And in honor of this most superstitious of numbers, it is only fitting that we take a look back at Friday the 13th (nevermind that today is actually Thursday…
Thus far, we’ve featured films from Carpenter, Craven, Cronenberg, Hooper and other masters of Horror but no month-long celebration of all that is scare-tastic would be complete without one name synonymous with the genre: Raimi. The Evil Dead trilogy’s impact and influence is immeasurable (spoiler alert: so much so that…
While in town promoting another film, Gerard Butler gave us a little preview of his character in Movie 43 — a feature film comprised of various comedic shorts directed by Brett Ratner, Peter Farrelly, James Gunn, Elizabeth Banks, Bob Odenkirk and other Hollywood heavy hitters of comedy. The film features…
It may be a little too clot with blood now to see — given the less than killer fourth sequel this year and the countless copycat films in the years prior — but Scream was pretty groundbreaking for the horror genre upon its release in 1996. Heavily influenced by films…
Poltergeist is the first horror film I can recall seeing as a wee lad, and for that, it will always hold a special and terrifying place in my heart. I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a cool October night at grandma’s house. The whole family was crowded…
In Machine Gun Preacher (out in Dallas now), Gerard Butler plays real life ruffian biker turned gun-toating man of faith, Sam Childers. After a life of crime and drug/alcohol addiction, Childers and his wife (played by Michelle Monaghan) take up the cross in place of the bottle, the needle and…
Halloween (1978) Most lists about the best All Hallow’s Eve-themed movies, or just the greatest Horror flicks of all time in general, finish it off with John Carpenter’s 1978 masterpiece of macabre but we’re starting this killer list out in style and taking a stab at giving you 31 days…
Despite only gracing the screen for eight short years thus far, actress Anna Kendrick has starred alongside some of Hollywood’s leading men and made herself into quite the leading lady, not to mention earning a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination for her role in 2009’s Up in the Air while…
For his latest role in Moneyball — from director Bennett Miller (Capote), written by Aaron Sorkin (The Social Network) and Steven Zaillian (Schindler’s List), and based on author Michael Lewis’ 2003 non-fiction book by the same name — Jonah Hill is switch hitting the comedy for the drama. Hill first…
By now, a good number of you regular theater goers probably checked out Nicolas Winding Refn’s Drive, which sped into theaters last weekend. One of the elements of the film that cannot be ignored is Ryan Gosling’s white quilted sateen racing jacket, emblazoned with a giant scorpion patch on the…
Rush Week is upon us. Did you hear me? Rush Week. While some of you are responding with, “What the hell is Rush Week?” others are either cringing in fear or donning facial expressions of apathy and disinterest without even trying. No matter your response to fraternities (school-sanctioned or otherwise),…
I recently sat down with director Nicolas Winding Refn to talk about his new film Drive, starring Ryan Gosling as Hollywood stunt driver by day and a getaway driver by night. Refn is one of those filmmakers that, if you’re a cinephile, you’ve likely heard of by now, with such…
In honor of Warrior (out in theaters this past weekend — so go see it … no, seriously, it’s really good), lets take a look back at some of the most epic male sibling rivalries in film history. After the jump, it’s brother against brother. And brother against brother against…
Ah, the season is upon us. Wait, what season, you ask? Halloween of course! If you’ve taken a gander at the date today, then you probably noticed that we are now exactly two months away from All Hallow’s Eve. Some of you may be the type who rush to your…
A mysterious video sped onto the Internets over over the weekend, leaving nothing but flame trails and questions about its origins soon after it went viral. The video’s title: El DeLorean de Volver al Futuro en Cabildo y Juramento, which roughly translates to “This is heavy duty, Doc.” Seeing as…
Renaissance man Steve Martin will take the stage at the Meyerson Symphony Center tonight, but he won’t just be wielding a microphone. The funny man also happens to be an author, playwright, songwriter and Grammy-award winning banjo player, who has not one but two #1 bluegrass albums (The Crow and…
Above (and in full after the jump) is a (loosely) interpreted synopsis for a Chinese (bootleg) release of 2005’s Batman Begins found in an Asian dollar store. Apparently, how they get their bootleg movie synopses in China is by taking the American version, dropping it into AltaVista Babel Fish, translating…
With this week bringing the release of not one but two ’80s remakes — the bloody double bill of Conan the Barbarian and Fright Night — the proverbial final nail will be driven into the coffin as we lay yet another cinematic summer** season to rest. But was it so…
