There has been a resurgence of interest in horror recently, with zombies and vampires in particular colonizing our cinema screens in ever greater numbers.
Halloween audiences picked beats over blood this weekend, pushing "Michael Jackson's This Is It" to the top spot, while horror phenomenon "Paranormal Activity" scored a strong second-place finish.
Film producer Peter Katz doesn't just want his horror movies to scare you. He wants to pinpoint how frightened you are down to an exact moment in a scene.
If the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho scared you, here's another reason to scream: A new study says that potentially disease-causing germs can get trapped in showerheads and grow into biofilm, or coats of slime that deliver a bacteria blast along with your hot water.
There has been a resurgence of interest in horror recently, with zombies and vampires in particular colonizing our cinema screens in ever greater numbers.
Halloween audiences picked beats over blood this weekend, pushing "Michael Jackson's This Is It" to the top spot, while horror phenomenon "Paranormal Activity" scored a strong second-place finish.
Film producer Peter Katz doesn't just want his horror movies to scare you. He wants to pinpoint how frightened you are down to an exact moment in a scene.
If the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho scared you, here's another reason to scream: A new study says that potentially disease-causing germs can get trapped in showerheads and grow into biofilm, or coats of slime that deliver a bacteria blast along with your hot water.
The Disney family film update, "Race to Witch Mountain," won the weekend box office in fine fashion, grossing $25 million according to Sunday's estimates from Media by Numbers.
With $42.2 million, the biggest opening gross thus far in 2009, "Friday the 13th" easily won the record-breaking Presidents Day weekend box office race, beating out Valentine's Day favorites "Confessions of a Shopaholic" and "He's Just Not That Into You," as well as solid holdovers "Taken" and "Coraline." (All totals listed here are according to early three-day estimates from Media by Numbers; rough figures for the four-day holiday weekend will be out tomorrow.)
The same week an African-American family moves into the White House, a movie about a Mississippi high school's first integrated dance debuts at the Sundance Film Festival.
Cannibalism, Tasmanian tigers and a good dose of Australian humor: These are the ingredients of the latest film from down under, the intriguingly titled "Dying Breed."
Scary Movie actress Anna Faris finalized her divorce Tuesday, agreeing to pay her ex-husband $900,000 and split property and acting royalties, according to court papers.
Actress Neve Campbell, best known for her roles on the 1990s Fox TV series "Party of Five" and the "Scream" horror movies, has married British actor John Light, People magazine reported Monday.
When filmmakers talk about how great the movies were back in the 1970s, they're usually thinking about "The Godfather," "Chinatown," or "Dog Day Afternoon."
In "Barnyard," an animated-animals movie from Nickelodeon, Otis (voiced by Kevin James) is the goofy cow, round and shiny and tricolor like a walking Neapolitan ice cream bar.
State of play in the Middle East: Lebanon, extensively damaged plus a half-million refugees; Syria, tired of being dissed; Israel, disproportionate. Are you kidding? Did it work last time they occupied Lebanon? Condi Rice, undercut by neocons at home? Iraq, completely fallen apart. Iran, only winner? Everybody else, mad at Bush. Most under-covered story, collapse of Iraq.
THIS SUMMER THE SCARIEST MOVIE at the multiplex isn't your garden-variety horror flick, and it doesn't star anyone named Tom. It's an indie film called An Inconvenient Truth, and it's...a documenta...
If the "Scary" franchise continues beyond "Scary Movie 4" -- and there's no reason to think it won't, so long as the universe keeps providing such spoof-ready pop-cultural phenomena as "Saw," "The Grudge," and Tom Cruise's lovestruck gymnastics on Oprah's couch -- then here's a modest proposal: Enforce a one-term limit on whichever auteur de junque is entrusted with "Scary" 5, 6, 7, or 13.
A few months ago, "Saturday Night Live's" Andy Samberg and Chris Parnell created a short film, "Lazy Sunday." The contrast of two white guys talking about cupcakes, Red Vines licorice (enjoyed with a Mr. Pibb) and "The Chronicles of Narnia" -- set to a hardcore rap beat -- was clever, funny and became an instant hit.
I can't count how many times since Christmas I have been informed of the imminent arrival of "Failure to Launch," by movie trailers and TV spots as well as by eye-catching full-page newspaper and magazine ads that feature a breezy Sarah Jessica Parker propping up a loungey Matthew McConaughey.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - There's been a lot of talk about the box-office slump in Hollywood. But if you're looking at the results of independent film studio Lionsgate, you'd think Tinseltown was on a roll.
If you're a certain kind of moviegoer -- my kind -- then the announcement that Paul Schrader's prequel to "The Exorcist," was being shelved after it had been fully shot and edited only stoked your desire to see it.
People in the first blush of romance can get a little satisfied with themselves (they develop an "I'm worth it!" glow). That attitude reaches a painful state of insularity in "A Lot Like Love."
So you think "The Exorcist" is about demonic possession, "Alien" is about a hungry beast and "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" is about people turning into mindless pods?
Bob Shaye and Michael Lynne, co-chairmen and CEOs of New Line Cinema, are huddled together at a conference table in their New York City offices, trying to work out exactly how to spend $130 million...
Unlike Hollywood horror movies that often get worse with each new sequel ("Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan," for example), Konami's scary "Silent Hill" series gets better -- and creepier -- with age.
There's an old Monty Python sketch, "Sam Peckinpah's 'Salad Days,' " in which a gathering of 1920s English country swells is interrupted by a man asking, "Tennis, anyone?"
In the 1988 Wes Craven horror movie The Serpent and the Rainbow, Bill Pullman plays a chemist who goes to Haiti to check out a drug that turns people into zombies. Pretty lame plot, as I recall, bu...
In the Internet's brief history, three-dimensional imagery has attained roughly the same status--a gimmick that never quite catches on--as it has in movies. The sole attempt several years ago to cr...
This year was a big one for the Weinstein brothers, co-founders of Miramax. Harvey Weinstein saw the Best Picture Oscar go to the studio's sand epic The English Patient and reaped praise as the new...
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