Horror's Hallowed Grounds: The Lost Boys "In 1986 director Joel Schumacher was approached to direct a children’s film called The Lost Boys. The title taken from the children’s classic Peter Pan was about a group of Cub Scouts who encounter vampires living in their little town." By: Sean Clark
Trick 'r Treat: Slice Visits the Set in Vancouver! "Maybe you’ve heard of Christmas in July, but something tells me Halloween in January isn’t so common. That’s just what I got to experience when I visited the set of “Trick ‘R Treat” in Vancouver in January 2007 on their 30th day of shooting." By: Slice
Horror's Hallowed Grounds: Session 9 "In 2000 after the release of his second romantic comedy writer/director Brad Anderson decided he wanted to explore the darker side of cinema and teamed up with his college buddy Stephen Gevedon to write the horror film Session 9." By: Sean Clark
Horror's Hallowed Grounds: Prince of Darkness "After a four year absence from the horror genre, John Carpenter came back strong in 1987 with the film Prince of Darkness. Shot entirely in Southern California in just over thirty days with a budget of three million dollars, the film was a moderate success but found a wide audience later on video that has given the film cult status today. The film used very few locations, which worked well within the small budget."
By: Sean Clark
Horror's Hallowed Grounds: Poltergeist "Poltergeist is a film that has spawned a lot of controversy over the years. To this day people still talk about how much director Tobe Hooper actually directed and how much may have been producer Steven Spielberg. There is the supposed curse of the Poltergeist series that has seen several cast members die around or during the making of the three films in the series." By: Sean Clark
Horror's Hallowed Grounds: Phantasm "During a screening of his second film Kenny & Company writer/director Don Coscarelli got the inspiration to make a horror film. The inspiration came from the audience’s reaction to a scene where two young boys are inside a makeshift haunted house in a neighbor’s garage." By: Sean Clark
Horror's Hallowed Grounds: Texas Chain Saw Massacre "The original idea for Chainsaw came from a combination of Tobe Hooper's experiences and ideas. First was Tobe's idea about solar flares and sunspots affecting people's behaviors. This is the reason the film begins with a shot of the sun, still playing with the idea that this could contribute to making people go mad and do inhuman acts." By: Sean Clark
Horror's Hallowed Grounds: Halloween 1 &2 Part 2 "Our first stop today is the gates of Smiths Grove Sanitarium. Located right next to Universal Studios this is actually the entrance to the Hollywood Reservoir. The gate is located on Lake Hollywood Drive in Hollywood." By: Sean Clark
Horror's Hallowed Grounds: Halloween 1 &2 Part 1 "In 1978 John Carpenter directed what has become his definitive film, Halloween. The film was written by Carpenter and his then girlfriend Debra Hill, who also produced the film. For two decades it stood as the highest grossing independent film ever made having taken in over 200 times its original budget of $300,000."" By: Sean Clark
Horror's Hallowed Grounds: Friday the 13th "When a low budget horror film called Halloween started raking in the big bucks at the box office, Sean realized if done right there could be a lot of money in the horror genre. He studied Halloween very closely but didn’t want to make just another cheap carbon copy..." By: Sean Clark
Horror's Hallowed Grounds: The Fog "In 1980 Avco Embassy Pictures released The Fog. This would be the sixth film and fourth feature by director John Carpenter. Expectations were high after the success of his prior film Halloween that had just become the highest grossing independent film of all time." By: Sean Clark
Horror's Hallowed Grounds: The Amityville Horror "In 1979 MGM Pictures released a film version of Jay Anson’s book The Amityville Horror. The book was said to be a true account of the Lutz family’s twenty-eight day stay in the home at 112 Ocean Avenue in Amityville, New York. What George and Kathy Lutz claim to have happened in that house is a topic that has been debated for years. However on November 13th 1974, Ronald DeFeo did murder his mother, father, two brothers and sister inside the home." By: Sean Clark
The Eye: On Set With Jessica Alba and More! "The challenge anytime you’re making a movie and trying to test the genre is to bring something that feels different. I think, from what I can tell, they’ve set out to make a movie that has some kind of feeling of reality." By: BC
Hostel: Part II: Wake Up Call, Where Are You? (vol. 6) "The set up is gorgeous and Eli’s placement of the camera is the work of someone who truly cares about each and every frame. The scene involved a torturer, who after talking to someone at the door, walks over to Rick and hammers another nail into his flesh." By: Mr. Disgusting
Mundane Horror and Its Master: Stephen King "King’s marvelous talent for injecting the macabre into the realm of the real and the natural, without always having to invoke the aid of extra-dimensional beings and alien abominations, is what makes him unique among other horror lords." By: Dan Asad
The Power of Cthulhu: Feature on H.P. Lovecraft "If there ever was a true genius when it comes to the horror genre, the ball would undoubtedly be in Lovecraft’s court. Here was a man who toiled in the genre we all know and love in virtual obscurity, yet managed to produce some of the most inventive and original (not to mention bizarre) tales of terror the world of dark film/fiction has ever seen." By: Dan Asad
Hostel: Part II: A Preview of Hell is Sexy (vol. 5) "Now here’s where I really, really started to appreciate HOSTEL – as we were walking into the new joint one of the employees says to us, “tonight’s special, f-ck a midget and then kick her through a window,” he was completely 100% serious." By: Mr.Disgusting
Mr. Brooks' Top 10 Serial Killers of All Time! "Let me introduce you to MR. BROOKS. A successful businessman. A generous philanthropist. A loving father and devoted husband. Seemingly, he's perfect. But Mr. Brooks has a secret -- he is an insatiable serial killer, so lethally clever that no one has ever suspected him -- until now. Maybe he should have learned from other's mistakes, don't you think?" By: Mr. Brooks
28 Weeks Later: Visit to the Set in London "It was quite amazing to see the kind of detail that actually went into putting blood patterns and wearing down clothing for the infected to look sick and smelly. We even found out that the “infected” in this film moved differently that from the first film." By: MrXiro
Hostel: Part II: Only Getting Better (vol. 4) "Walking into the set was one of the coolest parts of the visit as it was like entering another world. The main stage was a giant hallway (the sub-basement), similar to the one from the first film and yet different. Eli explained to me that this is the level below where the first HOSTEL took place." By: Mr. Disgusting
Hostel: Part II: Losing TONS of Blood (vol. 3) " I was given my outfit to put on, which was one of the “torturer suits” and then headed to set, which was one of the various “play” rooms. Without giving anything away let’s just say I left the shoot with fake blood filling my boots halfway- I was walking down the hallway like I had just sh-t my pants." By: Mr Disgusting
Hostel: Part II: Arrival (vol. 2) "They call me directly to set, so my ride takes me up some hill 20 minutes from the airport. I’m half asleep, dirty and in a complete daze. When I arrive on set I’m introduced to random people on set and then finally go say hi to Eli. He’s finishing up a scene with Roger f’n Bart!" By: Mr Disgusting
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever: On Set in Wilmington, NC "“Homage” seems to be an appropriate word as I walk the set and talk to the cast and crew. While not shooting, you can find Director Ti West talking about movies like Dead Alive and Evil Dead 2 as inspirations, as well as the works of filmmakers like Todd Solondz." By: Anghus H.
Halloween: Report From the Set in Los Angeles "While I was checking out Michael’s home for nearly 20 years, Rob Zombie was hard at work attempting to shoot a scene with Lindsey Wallace (Jenny Gregg Stewart), Laurie Strode (Scout Taylor-Compton) and Tommy Doyle (Skyler Gisondo), who are under attack in the Wallace house by Michael." By: Mr. Disgusting
Wind Chill: On Set In Vancouver, Canada "Just how cold was it? Bunt tells us that 'It was about 25 below and it's crippling... our jaws would like lock up where you couldn't say your lines… it was that inescapable cold,' she continues, 'It was psychologically hard.'..." By: Mr.Disgusting
SXSW: T.W. Anderson Reports From Austin, Texas "I think about sitting through no-doze inspired marathons of eight films a day. I recall a screening where the subtitles were in 3 different languages, which made simultaneously watching the film and reading the correct translation virtually impossible. I remember falling asleep in a screening and smacking my head against the back of a very hard black plastic seat..." By: T.W. Anderson
The Reaping: On Set In Baton Rouge "On this set I felt like a Hardy boy or Sherlock Holmes as we were given little pieces of info here and there and had to try and discover the big secret ourselves. I’d say it was about as frustrating as watching ‘Lost’ on a weekly basis." By: Mr. Disgusting
Halloween (Rob Zombie's): On Set In Pasadena, CA "I’ve been on plenty of movie sets in my time, but never have I actually felt like I was IN the movie. Feeling like you’re in Haddonfield, on Michael Myers’ street and witnessing one of the largest and most talked about crimes in the history of mankind made me so giddy I couldn’t sleep." By: Mr Disgusting
