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[2012 HORROR MOVIE PREVIEW] DIMENSION FILMS
Dimension Films is struggling to get their feet under ’em and have full intentions of running full steam ahead. Last year they got Scream 4 in theaters, along with Apollo 18. But they didn’t hit the jackpot with either, and have changed the faces behind the curtain multiple times. The decision-making is looking more and more like a game of pin the tail on the donkey (only with scripts) with the future remaining fuzzy.
When I prepped this article, Dimension had slated a few horror films for 2012, now, everything is labeled TBD (to be determined). There’s a ton of great stuff in the pipeline, but who knows if any of it will come into fruition.
[DIMENSION FILMS] 2012 HORROR MOVIE PREVIEW
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Billed as a “dark romantic fairy tale,” “Livid” turns on three young men who decide to rob an elderly woman’s house in the Irish heathlands…. It’s young Lucy’s first day as a trainee in-house caregiver. She visits Mrs Jessel, an old woman who lies in cerebral coma, by herself, in her large desolate house. Learning by accident that Mrs Jessel, a former dance teacher of repute, supposedly possesses a treasure somewhere in the house, Lucy and friends William and Ben decide to search the house in the hope of finding it. At night, they get into the house, which reveals itself to be increasingly peculiar. Their hunt for Mrs Jessel’s treasure leads them into a horrifying supernatural series of events that will change Lucy forever…
There’s something in the water… again. And this time no one is safe from the flesh eating fish as they sink their razor sharp teeth into the visitors of the best summer attraction, The Big Wet Water Park.
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My Bloody Valentine and Drive Angry directing and writing duo, Patrick Lussier and Todd Farmer, reunite to bring us Michael Myers in 3-D. The movie has yet to go behind cameras, so odds are this will shift to a 2013 date.
‘The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes’ showcases the events after the time of the original ‘The Amityville Horror’ book and movie through found footage dating back to 1976. An ambitious female television news intern, on the verge of breaking the most famous haunted house case in the world, leads a team of journalists, clergymen and paranormal researchers into an investigation of the bizarre events that will come to be known as The Amityville Horror … only to unwittingly open a door to the unreal that she may never be able to close.
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When Jason Voorhees and Arsenio Hall Delivered the Best Horror Movie Marketing of All Time [TV Terrors]
For this month’s installment of “TV Terrors” we revisit one of the most iconic bits of horror movie marketing of all time: when Jason Voorhees took “The Arsenio Hall Show“!
The first time I ever saw the teaser for Jason Takes Manhattan was on the weekend of July 5, 1989. My dad had taken my little brother and I to see Weekend at Bernie’s, and while we were sitting through the trailers, Jason Voorhees suddenly popped up. It was that famed teaser that everyone remembers with Jason looking out onto the cityscape, promising a Friday the 13th sequel wherein Jason would quite literally slice and dice his way through New York City.
Although my parents strictly forbade us from watching Friday the 13th films at the time, I was utterly enamored with Jason Voorhees at just six years old. The teaser didn’t scare me, but it excited me, and ended up being the most entertaining moment of the night. I honestly don’t remember much about Weekend at Bernie’s. Go figure.
When Paramount began promoting the big move from Crystal Lake to the streets of New York City back in 1989, it was a massive event that amounted to a whole lot of hype. And along with the hype, some really entertaining promotional opportunities. Among them was probably one of the most famous and iconic crossovers of all time as Jason Voorhees appeared, in the rotten flesh, on Arsenio Hall’s late night talk show. “The Arsenio Hall Show” was a huge show in its heyday that dared to try to take the late night mantle from the likes of Carson and Letterman, The show was unique, edgy, often controversial, and sometimes bizarre. Among the guests on that night’s episode on July 28, there was Bo Derek and Ursula Andress–and a promised interview with Jason Voorhees. Needless to say, the show delivered on that wild promise.
Actor/stuntman Kane Hodder came out onto the stage in full Jason Voorhees costume, holding an axe in his hand. What made the appearance even better was that Hodder stuck to character from beginning to end, never once reducing Jason to a comedic prop or goofy novelty. Despite the fact that Jason had considerably lost a lot of his mystique by this point in time, Hodder, a classic showman, never once broke character. He silently deadpanned his way through the entire appearance, with Hall doing his best to try and get Hodder to crack. He never did.
According to Kane Hodder in his interview with YouTube channel Astronomicon, Arsenio Hall was very much afraid of Jason Voorhees, and so much of the anxiety he presented on camera was genuine. Hodder even confessed to grabbing him by the neck backstage at the end of the show, remaining in character even when the cameras weren’t rolling.
My parents broke their rule and allowed us to stay up a little later that night to see Jason on television, and we were bouncing off the walls from sheer excitement and went to bed with big grins on our faces. It was a spot that only Arsenio Hall was capable of, inadvertently lending even bigger credibility to not only Kane Hodder’s often underrated acting prowess, but the sheer skill that it took to scare an audience without saying a single word.
In hindsight, Arsenio Hall was so far ahead of his time. He just seemed to know how to have fun and not take his show too seriously, allowing for a moment that became forever captured as one of the most iconic, and memorable, moments in horror movie history.
Where Can I Watch It? The interview is thankfully not hard to find at all. You can watch it on most video streaming websites including (and especially) on YouTube. It has also been featured on numerous horror documentaries and retrospectives for decades. Watch below!
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