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JAWSFEST August 9-12 2012
Apr 22nd
Jaws Festival 2012
We’re excited to announce JAWSFEST: The Tribute, taking place August 9-12 on Martha’s Vineyard. This fan-centric event includes presentations by original cast and crew members, a museum-style exhibit of JAWS memorabilia, a shark conservation exhibit, and a tribute to Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, and Peter Benchley followed by a screening of JAWS on a big screen in Ocean Park, Oak Bluffs.
As JAWS fans know, the film was shot entirely on Martha’s Vineyard in the spring/summer of 1974. It was Steven Speilberg’s second film. It is a cult classic for many reasons, including John Williams’ music, Verna Fields’ editing, and the fact that the mechanical sharks brought from Hollywood malfunctioned during production on the first two film acts.
Confirmed VIP attendeesinclude Joe Alves (production director), Carl Gottlieb (screenwriter), Lee Fierro (Mrs. Kintner) and Susan Backlinie (Chrissie), and the families of Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider, and Peter Benchley. More VIP attendees will be announced in the coming months.
There is a also substantial shark conservation component to the event. The JAWSFEST team is working with Wendy Benchley, the Shark Savers organization, Discovery Channel, Featherstone Center for the Arts, shark expert Dr. Greg Skomal, and others to develop presentations, artwork, and exhibits to educate and inform the public about shark and raise funds for shark conservation.
More information is available at www.jawstribute.com
THE PARTY CONTINUES WITH THE THIRD FILM IN MTV’S HIT HORROR FRANCHISE “MY SUPER PSYCHO SWEET 16″
Apr 8th
Viewers Have Chance To Win Trip to The 2012 MTV Movie Awards
With the success of Parts 1 and 2, MTV announces the third and final chapter in the “Super Psycho” trilogy. Having survived the bloodbath at the Rollerdome, then confronting her serial killer father at The Boneyard and ending his reign of terror once and for all…SKYE ROTTER is heading to college to start a new life. But before she can escape her dark past, there’s one last party to attend. Her sister ALEX BELL is having her Sweet 16, and someone has made certain the Lord of the Rink’s bloody legacy lives on. There’s bad blood between these sisters and they’re going to have it out… The party ends here.
“Since the premiere of the first movie in 2009, the fan following for Skye’s epic story has continued to grow both in the US and internationally,” said Chris Linn, Executive Vice President of MTV Production. “We are thrilled to present the exciting final chapter of the trilogy with the original creative team intact.”
Original cast members Lauren Mcknight and Kirsten Prout return as Skye and Alex. They are joined by Jillian Rose Reed from MTV’s new hit comedy series “Awkward.” Reed plays Skye’s fellow college freshman who gets more than she bargained for when she gives Skye a ride to school and they wind up attending Alex’s party. Ryan Sypek, Niko Pepaj, Ben Winchell, Onira Tares and Autumn Dial also star as guests at the bloodiest Super Psycho Sweet 16 yet. Chris Zylka makes a special appearance in the movie as Skye’s longtime love, Brigg.
Jacob Gentry once again serves as director completing the story and screenwriters Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas began in 2009.
“Thanks to all the Super Psycho fans, we’ve now been able to turn the story of Skye Rotter into a trilogy. The last three years have been a blast, and I’m a little sad it has to end,” said Jacob Gentry, Director of ‘My Super Psycho Sweet 16.’ “But I think the saga concludes with the most exciting entry in the series.”
Executive Producers Maggie Malina and Alexander Motlagh also return with producer Chris White. Chris Linn serves as executive producer for MTV. Tammy Zohar and Christina Chou are the production executives for MTV. The movie is produced by Pop Films.
My Super Psycho Sweet 16 / MTV Movie Award Contest
Viewers who watch “My Super Psycho Sweet 16 Part 3″ will have a chance to enter to win two tickets to attend the MTV Movie Awards on June 3rd, 2012. After watching the movie, applicants can go to “The Super Psycho Sweet 16″ Facebook page to answer three questions about the movie to enter. A winner will be selected at random to travel to the MTV Movie Awards with a friend and to attend a meet and greet with “My Super Psycho Sweet 16″ stars Lauren McKnight and Kirsten Prout.
MTV.com is your only destination for assets from “My Super Psycho Sweet 16 Part 3″ including trailer, cast photos and bios, movie stills, behind-the-scenes footage and more!
To sound off on Twitter and Facebook, use our official hashtag #superpsycho3 and visit the “My Super Psycho Sweet 16″ Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/msps16.
Watch FREE monthly horror movies
Mar 4th
BloodbathTV.com is intended to be your horror movie fan’s monthly fix where you can watch our latest short film and vote to choose what will appear in the next one. Our first short, Bloodbath, is already online and ballots are opened to visitors to help us choose where our next short will take place. The results appear on our Facebook page at the end of each deadline and everyone can follow the creative process of our next short through production pics, videos,… well, you get the idea!
We created this site because we love horror in all its form and because we are blessed to work in the movie industry and can produce high quality stuff for very cheap. If things go well we would eventually like to help produce our fans’ ideas and scripts.
Watch their first movie below:
8 Horror Movies That Inspired Real-Life Crimes
Nov 12th
Horror movies are meant to entertain and excite audiences, but by no means are they intended to be taken off the screen and acted out in real life. In some rare cases, horror movies give mentally ill people creative, yet twisted ideas that they feel compelled to repeat. Here are eight horror movies that inspired real-life crimes:
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Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers has inspired some of the most gruesome copycat killings in history. The film has been associated with several serial killers, including the homicidal couple Sarah Edmonson and Benjamin Darras. In 1995, the murderous duo dropped LSD and watched Natural Born Killers repeatedly before going on a drug-fueled crime spree of robbing and shooting a convenience store clerk that left her a quadriplegic. During the crime spree, Darras shot and killed a Mississippi businessman. Edmonson was sentenced to 35 years in prison and Darras is doing life. -
Scream
Wes Craven’s slasher movie series Scream was the inspiration behind the murder of Gina Castillo by her 16-year-old son and his 15-year-old cousin, Samuel Ramirez. The two teenagers confessed to the gruesome murder of Castillo and admitted that they did it because they needed money to fund a murder spree that would reenact the story line of the first two Hollywood Scream movies. In order to follow the Scream story line, the teenage boys planned to buy the ghost-face mask and electronic voice boxes that are seen in the movie. -
A Clockwork Orange
Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange has been the inspiration for many twisted real-life crimes, specifically throughout Britain. The crimes have exhibited similarities with the film, but one of the most bizarre cases involved a man named John Ricketts who was dressed up as a droog from A Clockwork Orange and assaulted a woman dressed as Little Britain‘s Vicky Pollard at an office party. The violent movie was banned from UK cinemas because of the increase in violent crimes following its release. -
Queen of the Damned
In 2002, Allan Menzies murdered his longtime friend, Thomas McKendrick, because he claimed a character in the vampire movie, Queen of the Damned, told him to do it and promised to make him a vampire in the next life. After watching the film about 100 times and receiving a visit from the female vampire Akasha in the middle of the night, he decided to murder people. Menzies also believed that McKendrick and another friend were plotting to kill him, but he turned on McKendrick first. Menzies stabbed his friend to death, drank his blood, and ate part of his head before burying him in a shallow grave. The “vampire killer” was later found dead in his prison cell from an apparent suicide. -
Child’s Play 3
Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were 10 years old when they kidnapped and brutally murdered two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool. In 1993, Thompson and Venables snatched the toddler from a shopping mall and took him to a railway line where they beat and sexually assaulted the young boy. They left Bulger’s mutilated body on the railway tracks to die. Thompson and Venables were supposedly inspired by the horror film Child’s Play 3. The killer doll movies caused a great deal of controversy in the United Kingdom, as well as a public outcry for tightening “video nasties.” -
American Psycho
In 2004, Michael Hernandez, 14, stabbed his middle school classmate to death and admitted to modeling his behavior after the serial killers in American Psycho and The Silence of the Lambs. The South Florida teen said he identified with the horror movie murderers and wanted to act out their roles in his real-life plan to become a serial killer. Hernandez believed God gave him special powers and agreed with his decision to kill his classmate. The teen boy was found guilty of first-degree murder in 2008. -
Nightmare on Elm Street
The famous ’80s horror film, Nightmare on Elm Street, was the inspiration for Daniel Gonzalez’s killing spree. In 2004, the paranoid schizophrenic went on a drug-fueled rampage and murdered four random people, including a doctor and his wife. Gonzalez armed himself with several knives and acted out a Freddy Krueger-like spree. Official reports claimed that Gonzalez did not receive proper treatment for his mental condition. He was given six life sentences for the four murders, as well as two attempted murders throughout England. In 2007, Gonzalez committed suicide in his cell. -
Saw
The Saw horror movie series was the inspiration behind a cruel prank that turned into a serious matter for two teenage girls in Winchester, Tenn. The teenagers used the Saw plot of making victims play games to stay alive by leaving a gruesome message on 52-year-old Beverly Dickson’s phone. They told Dickson that one of her friends was hidden in her house and it would be filled with toxic gas shortly. They asked if she wanted to live or die. Dickson got the message while attending a funeral and suffered a stroke from the frightening incident. The two 13-year-olds responsible for the prank call were charged with phone harassment.
Tim Timebomb’s ROCKNROLL THEATER: Dante
Oct 30th
Created by Tim Armstrong (Rancid, Operation Ivy, The Transplants), it’s a scripted musical theater themed show debuted on VEVO last week It’s also the first scripted programming on VEVO, which is the world’s leading all-premium music video and entertainment platform. Tim Armstrong wrote all of the music for the series. Homage to the classic American Musicals, the show centers on Armstrong as today’s punk rock Rod Serling, narrating episodes with a variety of special guest actors and musicians. Each episode will feature hard-hitting songs and rousing dance numbers. The pilot episode features AFI frontman Davey Havok and Lars Frederiksen of Rancid. The debut episode entitled “Dante” brings the epic poem Dante’s Inferno roaring into the 21st Century with a timely new take on greed and corruption.
5 Ways Texting Could Have Changed Nightmare on Elm Street
Oct 22nd
Nightmare on Elm Street
By Selena Routh
Wes Craven, the father of “slasher” flics, started the Freddy Krueger Nightmare franchise in 1984 with the film Nightmare on Elm Street. The film was both a critical and a box-office hit, and launched a new generation of horror films. Craven made the movie for less than $2 million, and this was recouped during the first week of release.
The story is set in a small Ohio town (Springwood), where bad things start to happen to local teenagers. The connection is that all of the kids are children of the people who killed Freddy Krueger, and he has returned from the dead to exact revenge. He attacks people in their dreams, which segues into real life. Freddy has some great gloves to work with, with razor sharp blades sticking out of the fingers, but keeping his thumbs free.
In 1984, the internet was still in its infancy, and texting wasn’t even a tangible concept. If the original version (there was a 2010 remake) were made today, the movie might have been a bit different. Below are a few of the differences you might notice.
- Ready Freddy – The original Freddy was already prepared for a world with texting. He had eight-bladed gloves which kept his thumbs free for texting, something he would later do with Lon Chaney, Jason and Darth Vader.
- Warnings – There has been considerable and heated debate about whether-or-not the targeted teens would have been able to save themselves if they’d been able to text warnings to each other. The consensus is that, although text-capabilities would seem to be an advantage for the kids, Freddy Krueger was no slouch when it came to being tech savvy and he had been planning this revenge for quite some time. He would have had signals scrambled through his connections with the late Alexander Graham Bell.
- Jailhouse – The jailhouse where the character Rod was incarcerated when everybody thought he had killed his girlfriend was prone to electrical interference from the local power station, so it is unlikely that any of the youngsters would get enough bars to be able to text warnings. Freddy had thought of almost everything before he went off to haunt dreams.
- Johnny Depp – Freddy was always jealous of Johnny Depp. Not for his good looks (Freddy was convinced he was the better looking of the two), but for the pair of headphones that Depp had. When Freddy ended Depp’s big-screen debut in suitably bloody fashion, he kept the headphones as a souvenir.
- The Remake – True to Hollywood form, which dictates that if something is pretty good the first time around an inferior remake is the proper way to display admiration for the original. Looking at his prospects for 2010, Freddy didn’t like the idea of having to inhabit a different body; he had become quite comfortable in his Robert Englund suit. He also knew that texting technology would advance to the point where he would be tied up all day on Facebook and Twitter, and might not have the time to slash sleeping teenagers.
Freddy ended up having a good run as a scary dude, but now spends most of his time grooming cats at a pet salon that he and his cousin, Edward Scissorhands, own in the Hamptons.
Horror Movies on Your Satellite Television
Oct 17th
One of the main benefits that movie fans have been realizing about satellite television is that it can bring you access to entire libraries full of newly released films. For some of the specific details of such movie packages, take a quick visit to http://www.satellitetvfamily.com/. You will surely notice that premium movie channels offered by satellite packages bring fans movies more quickly than ever, so that new releases in the theaters can be streamed in your living room in no time. So, for example, you could soon be enjoying recent horror films like those mentioned below.
Apollo 18
Apollo 18 ‚Apollo 18 certainly wasn’t for everyone, and indeed did not receive very many good reviews ‚ however, for fans of a certain genre of horror films that has come to be known as ‚found footage, the film was enjoyable. Essentially, the plot of the movie follows a small, secret group of astronauts sent to the moon on a vague mission, only to discover that there are horrors there that threaten their lives. While the movie has no memorable acting performances, and leaves much to be desired in plot and exposition, it is presented as if it were edited footage from the astronauts‚ cameras. It is meant to appear as ‚found footage, rather than as an actual film. So, for people who enjoy movies like Paranormal Activity and Cloverfield, it may be exciting to have Apollo 18 available shortly.
Contagion ‚ Many would not classify Contagion so much as a horror film as a drama or even mystery. However, this film, which essentially shows a range of reactions to a deadly, worldwide epidemic in modern times, is without a doubt horrifying. The film shows us everything from crime to despair, from mob scenes to mass death, in depicting what exactly a worldwide epidemic would do to the human race in the 21st century. The tone is very real, and as such the movie’s content is as chilling as any popular horror film.
Of course, these are just a few examples out of the hundreds of films that have been released in the last year. However, these movies, just recently having hit theaters, will be available for people with certain satellite programming packages very soon. If you consider yourself particularly enthusiastic about films, and find that you can’t wait to see them after they leave the theaters, you may want to consider one of these packages. You will be able to enjoy films like the ones outlined above more quickly and more often than ever.
Kids Go To The Woods… Kids Get Dead
Oct 15th
The critically acclaimed feature film “Kids Go To The Woods… Kids Get Dead” will be streaming free online! For the month of October we invite you and your readers to enjoy a limited time free-view exclusively on www.KidsGetDead.com or below.
Written & Directed by Michael Hall
Kids Go To THe Woods... Kids Get Dead
Do you remember staying up late to watch your favorite horror host on local television? With VHS tape in hand to record all the action (and hopefully not tape over anything important – like your home movies) this nearly forgotten ritual was a mainstay of our youth.
“Kids Go To the Woods… Kids Get Dead” brings back the classic slasher flick with horny teenagers, worthless cops, a crazy war vet and a masked killer. Complete with VHS static, fake commercials and featuring vignettes with horror hostess Candy Adams.
It’s Casey’s (Leah Rudick) birthday and to celebrate her and her friends are headed to a cabin in the woods for a wild weekend of sex, drugs and partying. A crazed Killer (Joseph Campellone) has other plans for them and it’s up to Casey’s younger brother Scott (Andrew Waffenschmidt), aided by a mysterious novel that seems to spell out their fate, to find their only hope of survival.
Jack The Ripper & Butterfinger the 13th
Oct 9th
Jack the Ripper
This October, NCM Fathom will take you on an eerie journey back in time to the 1888 dimly lit nightscape of the cobbled stone streets of London where the infamous murderer dubbed Jack the Ripper terrorized the impoverished Whitechapel district.
NCM Fathom, SuperVision Media, and Butterfinger present Fathom Thriller Thursdays – a horrifying event bringing two nights of terror to movie theaters nationwide on October 13 and 27.
Starting at 7:30 pm (local time) fans will be treated to the first ever showing of Butterfinger the 13th, a special horror featurette. Butterfinger the 13th is the story of a troubled young camper that disappears in a bizarre fire, leaving nothing but questions and dark legends of the Masked Butterfinger Butcher behind.
Then at 8:15 pm (local time) Fathom Thriller Thursdays will feature the intriguing docu-drama, Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Story, which exposes the truth behind the legendary killer, including key evidence from Scotland Yard, as well as segments with forensic experts, criminologists and historians discussing why Britain’s favorite mass murder remains unsolved to this day. Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Story comes to select movie theaters on Thursday, October 13 and October 27.
We hope you’ll spread the word about this exciting contest and Halloween feature by sharing information about Fathom Thriller Thursdays with your readers through mediums such as blog posts, newsletters, Facebook and Twitter. For more details about Butterfinger the 13th and Jack the Ripper: The Definitive Story, including information on participating movie theaters and tickets, visit www.fathomevents.com.
9 Vampire Movies That Ruined the Genre
Sep 7th
Nosferatu
by Jennifer Lynch
The vampire film genre, starting with Nosferatu, began as a horror category with very specific rules for what vampires can and can’t do. No sunlight, stakes, or American citizenship. But as time has worn on, the genre has grown to encompass all types of movies from comedy to romance to thriller and everything in between, and vampires can come in forms Dracula himself wouldn’t recognize. Some of these films have gracefully and believably expanded the genre for fans while others have turned the category into a cinematic joke. Here are 9 vampire movies that effectively ruined the genre.
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Twilight series
This is an obvious choice for movies that ruined the genre for people who normally love it. Of course, for many teenage girls (and even some middle-age women), Twilight‘s sparkling vampires are the only ones who matter. Not only do these non-traditional immortals prance around in the daylight, they have supernatural strength, drink animal blood rather than that of humans (normally), and spend their free time playing family games of baseball. The author of the Twilight books even admits that she didn’t really consider normal vampires when creating her own. Besides the fact that the Cullens, Twilight‘s clan of vampires, don’t fit in with the normal undead, the movie itself is full of bad special effects and teenage angst, and its popularity stakes the death of vampires as we knew them.
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Vampire in Brooklyn
The vampire in this movie is played by Eddie Murphy. If that doesn’t convince you that this is an awful film, you should know that Murphy also plays an alcoholic preacher and dons white face to portray an Italian mobster. These alter egos are explained away by a kind of vampire voodoo Murphy’s (main) character uses to take over their bodies. Murphy falls in love with a half-vampire lady cop who is supposed to give the film some sex appeal. The movie’s tagline promotes it as “a comic tale of horror and seduction,” but really just shows how director Wes Craven was spreading himself too thin between genres. Falling in a weird gray area between comedy and horror flick, Vampire in Brooklyn is neither funny, sexy, nor scary and reminds us how overdone vampire movies are.
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Dracula 3000
Take the classic Dracula story, add Coolio, and set it in space, and you’ll have Dracula 3000. In general, when a rapper stars in a film and a classic genre is transported to the final frontier, you know the result is going to be disappointing. But the disaster of Dracula 3000 is even more spectacular than expected. Everything in this movie is terrible, including the writing, acting, and the plot in general. And while the script borrows from the original Dracula using several character names and noting that the vampires hail from the planet Transylvania, the alien vampires don’t do justice to the traditional bloodsuckers or the loyal fans of the genre.
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Once Bitten
Once Bitten is probably not Jim Carrey’s worst movie, but it definitely ranks among the worst vampire movies. Since it’s supposed to be a comedy, it accomplishes the purpose the director was going for, but it takes the role of vampire from creepy and mysterious to laughable. Carrey’s transformation from human to vampire is overacted, as you might expect, and the movie’s climactic scenes involve a dance-off in a high school gym and sex in a coffin. While you might smile occasionally during the film, the premise is slightly confusing, the timeline gets a bit muddled, and the genre here is more teen sex comedy than vampire flick.
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Underworld
Some people seem to really like Underworld but that probably has more to do with Kate Beckinsale’s hot bod than with their love of vampires. And most people would admit that the visuals in the film (besides the eye candy of Beckinsale herself) are striking, but the plot and acting of the film cancel out the positives. The conflict takes place between vampires and a species of werewolves, though it didn’t divide audiences nearly as much as the Team Edward or Team Jacob debate of Twilight. Most serious vampire fans and critics hate this movie for its poor character development and unnecessarily complicated back story, but teenage dudes and action lovers will probably enjoy it.
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Love at First Bite
Every time Love at First Bite is played, there’s a vampire somewhere rolling over in his grave. This film stars George Hamilton (pre-leathery tan) as Dracula who finds himself in New York City after being evicted from his Transylvania castle. Full of puns and slapstick, Love at First Bite is perfect for a goofy, girls’ sleepover but not for anyone with real respect for the vampire genre. As joke after joke are lobbed at the audience, you’ll probably chuckle but you won’t find anything new or noteworthy in the cast or plot. The most successful part of Love at First Bite is probably the fact that there hasn’t been a sequel made despite several attempts.
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Queen of the Damned
Of all the stupid things to bring a vampire out of hibernation, rock music has got to be the most ridiculous. Your parents warned you it was evil, and this movie tries to prove it. A vampire is awakened by the sound of a rock band and becomes its lead singer. Other vampires get angry (or maybe jealous) about his newfound fame and try to kill him, but are thwarted by a vampire queen. This sounds like it could be a good plot for a comedy, but Queen of the Damned is a completely serious attempt at a vampire movie. The most interesting thing about this movie is that the queen vampire was Aaliyah’s last role before her death, a sad tribute to her life.
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BloodRayne
BloodRayne simultaneously destroys the vampire movie genre and the video game film genre. Director Uwe Boll is mostly to blame since the movie actually has some decent actors, like Ben Kingsley, Michael Madsen, and Billy Zane. Though the film was shot in Romania, the legendary home of vampires, this fact doesn’t lend any authenticity to a movie full of tacky costumes, poorly choreographed fight scenes, and terrible writing. Boll tries to pack several different genres into the one film in order to find a fan base, but ends up alienating every potential audience. Critics, the public, and even some stars in the film let Boll know how much BloodRayne sucked.
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Near Dark
Another film that stretches the vampire genre a little too far, Near Dark attempts to put bloodsuckers in a Western sort of biker movie. It received positive feedback from critics and has gained a cult following, but for real vampire fans, it’s not enough. The plot follows a teenage love story, much like that of the Twilight movies. In fact, a lot of this film seems like a darker version of Twilight, though Near Dark came 20 years earlier and at least has gun fights and explosions. The film glosses over a lot of traditional vampire legend, but if you’re interested in a horror Western more than a pure vampire movie, this could be the type of film for you.
