Gawker: Horror

One More Thing: The Most Horrifyingly Horrific Moments in Horror

ian spiegelman — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:38:00 EDT

All this talk about sleepaway camp and the Cropsy Horror has me thinking about scary, scary movies. So, what scenes scared the everloving crap out of you? Here's one that totally did me damage as a youngin. Now show us yours!

You Fools, You'll Kill Us All!

Pareene — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:31:56 EDT

This can't possibly end well. [HuffPo]

It's Alive!

ian spiegelman — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:40:25 EDT

A remake of the 1974 splatter classic It's Alive—in which a cuddly widdle baby eats everyone!—is coming soon. The trailer was just released at Cannes, so now it's on YouTube, so now it's here. Yay!

Boo!

Richard — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:23:00 EDT

OK, so is anyone as creeped out by this trailer for The Strangers as I was? It looks a bit like that Luke Wilson/Kate Beckinsale movie Vacancy, which was actually pretty darn scurrry.

Buffy Reunion! Buffy Reunion! Buffy!

ian spiegelman — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 14:17:55 EDT

I don't know why it took LA Weekly so long to get around to filing the definitive coverage of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer reunion/panel discussion at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, and I don't care. Know why? Cause it's Buffy, mofos! What was shooting "Once More Feeling"—you know, "The Musical Episode"—like? "'I’m gonna go with fun,' says series creator Joss Whedon." He talks just like Xander! “'You guys are remembering this differently,' says James Marsters, who played Spike, the tormented vampire in love with Buffy. 'It was total terror from the cast.'” Love it! But what are their favorite things?

Marsters' favorite movie: Apocalypse Now; Sarah Michelle Gellar’s is South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Emma (Anya) Caulfield’s is The Silence of the Lambs, and Seth (Oz) Green likes Raising Arizona. OMG! I freaking love Lambs! I could totally date her. Next, Seth hits on Amber Benson!

“'How about you?' he asks Benson, 'what do you like? Do you like movies? I like that dress. Wanna get out of here?'"

On-set hijinks? Hell yeah. "Green says he misses arriving at his trailer every morning to find that David Boreanaz had pooped in it. 'Left something in there for you, buddy,' Boreanaz would say." Then it gets sappy: "Whedon misses directing Gellar. Gellar misses the family, the cast and the crew. Being there when a crew member’s child won a karate contest, for instance."

Then it gets hot and fetishy! "[Michelle] Trachtenberg misses sneaking into Gellar’s trailer to pet her shoes."

I'm gonna pass out.

Eat This at Your Peril!

ian spiegelman — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:21:16 EDT

Just what is Cthulhu? Is horror writer H.P. Lovecraft's creation a scary monster from deep space? From the distance past? Another dimension? For former Star Trek: The Next Generation star and top-notch nerd blogger Wil Wheaton, it's cake.

A friend of Wil's wife concocted the macabre treat, explaining: "Here is Cthulhu rising from the oceans, using a convenient little island with a tower on it to climb up. The base was cherry-chip cake, the island and tower a mix of cherry chip and yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Also used small chocolate 'pearls' as rocks. Cthulhu himself is all fondant, with two chocolate pearls that I seeped in red dye for eyes." But be warned: Overindulgence can lead to high cholesterol and a greater risk of cardiac disease! [BoingBoing]

Let Sleeping Zombies Lie

Richard — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:11:32 EST

George Romero, master of the zombie genre, made some really good movies in the second half of the last century, in particular the classic Night of the Living Dead and the satirical but still fucking scary "zombies in a Pittsburgh shopping mall" Dawn of the Dead. So it is with great sadness that we watch him trundle off into irrelevance via the "keepin' up with the kids!" route. His newest walking dead movie is called Diary of the Dead, and like Cloverfield and Brian DePalma's Redacted before it, employs that irksomely popular (and rarely successful) motif of faux "found footage." An enterprising young man has decided to document the zombie apocalypse because, I guess, he figures that YouTube will be the only thing left once all our brains have been eaten. I suppose it can be a nifty technique when used properly, but if his super clunky 2005 effort Land of the Dead is any indication, old Romero just isn't at the top of his game anymore. Though, I guess we can't blame him for not wanting to hole up in his house forever, the ghastly moans of the past rattling the doors and windows. [AV Club] After the jump, a trailer for Diary of the Dead.