Articles tagged with: drag me to hell
Exclusive: Tommy Wirkola From Dead Snow’s Top 5 Horror Movies
Tommy Wirkola is a new name for the horror genre but his audacious, hilarious and blood-splattered Norwegian Nazi zombie movie Dead Snow, shows that this is one director who has done his homework. If the film isn’t making you laugh, cutting something in half or having intestine pulled out of one of the characters, then its winking at the audience with some reference to some of the best-loved horror masterpieces. Tommy Wirkola has exclusively talked to us about his top five horror movies of all time, and as a list of definitive titles to watch, it's hard to argue with. Enjoy...
Tommy Wirkola is a new name for the horror genre but his audacious, hilarious and blood-splattered Norwegian Nazi zombie movie Dead Snow, shows that this is one director who has done his homework. If the film isn’t making you laugh, cutting something in half or having intestine pulled out of one of the characters, then its winking at the audience with some reference to some of the best-loved horror masterpieces. Tommy Wirkola has exclusively talked to us about his top five horror movies of all time, and as a list of definitive titles to watch, it's hard to argue with. Enjoy...
Movie Review: Drag Me To Hell
Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-Man) hasn’t made a horror movie in almost a decade (if you count The Gift), but it is the genre where he cut his teeth and created cult hero Ash, played by Bruce ‘This is my boomstick!’ Campbell. Drag Me To Hell is Raimi’s return to the genre, although he certainly hasn’t been idle in the horror: his production company, Ghost House Pictures, introduced Western audiences to The Grudge and 30 Days of Night. Drag Me To Hell takes as many cues from Raimi’s old work as some of his more recent Ghost House work. In the vein of the best 70s horror, it is at its heart a morality play, although one with a wicked sense of humour and slightly less gore than your average splatter-horror flick.
Sam Raimi (The Evil Dead, Spider-Man) hasn’t made a horror movie in almost a decade (if you count The Gift), but it is the genre where he cut his teeth and created cult hero Ash, played by Bruce ‘This is my boomstick!’ Campbell. Drag Me To Hell is Raimi’s return to the genre, although he certainly hasn’t been idle in the horror: his production company, Ghost House Pictures, introduced Western audiences to The Grudge and 30 Days of Night. Drag Me To Hell takes as many cues from Raimi’s old work as some of his more recent Ghost House work. In the vein of the best 70s horror, it is at its heart a morality play, although one with a wicked sense of humour and slightly less gore than your average splatter-horror flick.
Up Goes Up The Weekend Box Office (See What We Did There?)
It’s the summer. And that means that, as weekend box office law states, all films released now must be angry, loud and full of massive robots punching each other. But weekend box office law has another rule for the summer - that Pixar gets to release a new movie, and it’ll make all the other films look a bit silly in comparison. And this year that film is Up, the new US weekend box office number one. What made Up so popular? Was it the groundbreaking technological accomplishments? The mature storytelling? No, it was all the balloons. Balloons are fun. Wheeeee!
It’s the summer. And that means that, as weekend box office law states, all films released now must be angry, loud and full of massive robots punching each other. But weekend box office law has another rule for the summer - that Pixar gets to release a new movie, and it’ll make all the other films look a bit silly in comparison. And this year that film is Up, the new US weekend box office number one. What made Up so popular? Was it the groundbreaking technological accomplishments? The mature storytelling? No, it was all the balloons. Balloons are fun. Wheeeee!
Film Foam: Cannes, Tarantino, Drag Me To Hell
All eyes have been at Cannes this week and if the sight of the bikini clad sleaze wasn’t enough to draw attention to the town, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie swanned in to put the place on the front page. Who cares about films when you can have really, really, really good looking people around… Meanwhile Terminator Salvation has been seen and received the critical mauling of someone using a phased-plasma rifle in the forty watt range. Also everyone is talking about the new internet site that tells you when to piss in the middle of a movie. Seemingly people are overlooking that fact that it spoils major points in films and are hailing it as some sort of revelatory bladder-relieving miracle. Back to Cannes though for the big news of the week…
All eyes have been at Cannes this week and if the sight of the bikini clad sleaze wasn’t enough to draw attention to the town, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie swanned in to put the place on the front page. Who cares about films when you can have really, really, really good looking people around… Meanwhile Terminator Salvation has been seen and received the critical mauling of someone using a phased-plasma rifle in the forty watt range. Also everyone is talking about the new internet site that tells you when to piss in the middle of a movie. Seemingly people are overlooking that fact that it spoils major points in films and are hailing it as some sort of revelatory bladder-relieving miracle. Back to Cannes though for the big news of the week…
Win Drag Me To Hell Tickets! Meet Sam Raimi!
So it looks like hecklerspray's run of Actually Pretty Amazing competition prizes continues apace. This time we've got a stunning prize for one reader - a pair of tickets for an intimate London screening of new horror movie Drag Me To Hell, with a pre-screening drinks reception attended by director Sam Raimi, as well as stars Alison Lohman and Justin Long. It's all happening in London next Monday, and frankly we're considering entering it under an assumed name. But if you want a crack at winning this inexplicably good prize, details are after the jump...
So it looks like hecklerspray's run of Actually Pretty Amazing competition prizes continues apace. This time we've got a stunning prize for one reader - a pair of tickets for an intimate London screening of new horror movie Drag Me To Hell, with a pre-screening drinks reception attended by director Sam Raimi, as well as stars Alison Lohman and Justin Long. It's all happening in London next Monday, and frankly we're considering entering it under an assumed name. But if you want a crack at winning this inexplicably good prize, details are after the jump...
Watch Sam Raimi’s Drag Me To Hell Trailer
There was a time when you only had to mention the words ‘Sam Raimi’ and ‘horror movie’ to get Hecklerspray wetting its pants in anticipation. But after seeing the trailer for the Evil Dead director’s new film Drag Me To Hell, we are holding off on the incontinence nappies for ...
There was a time when you only had to mention the words ‘Sam Raimi’ and ‘horror movie’ to get Hecklerspray wetting its pants in anticipation. But after seeing the trailer for the Evil Dead director’s new film Drag Me To Hell, we are holding off on the incontinence nappies for ...
