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Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
Trick ‘r Treat Action Figure from Trick or Treat Studios
Sam from Trick ‘r Treat is getting a deluxe 1:6 scale action figure from Trick or Treat Studios. Due out in March 2023, it stands 10″ tall and features over 30 points of articulation. Pre-orders are open for 199.99 with free shipping.
Sculpted by Alexander Ray, Sam comes with two interchangeable heads (masked an unmasked), six interchangeable hands, two lollipops (bitten and not), razor candy bar, trick or treat bag, light-up flaming jack o’lantern, and a sidewalk base that measures 7.5″ deep and 5.5″ wide. It’s packaged in a window box with opening flap.
Terrifier Shirt from Terror Threads
Celebrate Terrifier 2’s theatrical release with new Terrifier merchandise from Terror Threads.
Here are the coolest horror collectibles unveiled this week!
Trick ‘r Treat Action Figure from Trick or Treat Studios
Sam from Trick ‘r Treat is getting a deluxe 1:6 scale action figure from Trick or Treat Studios. Due out in March 2023, it stands 10″ tall and features over 30 points of articulation. Pre-orders are open for 199.99 with free shipping.
Sculpted by Alexander Ray, Sam comes with two interchangeable heads (masked an unmasked), six interchangeable hands, two lollipops (bitten and not), razor candy bar, trick or treat bag, light-up flaming jack o’lantern, and a sidewalk base that measures 7.5″ deep and 5.5″ wide. It’s packaged in a window box with opening flap.
Terrifier Shirt from Terror Threads
Celebrate Terrifier 2’s theatrical release with new Terrifier merchandise from Terror Threads.
- 10/7/2022
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Werner Herzog's Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin is exclusively showing in the United States starting February 7, 2021.When Werner Herzog met Bruce Chatwin, legend has it the two spent forty-eight hours telling stories to each other. “For every one I told him,” Herzog remembers, “he would tell me three. We would sleep for a couple of hours, then wake up and carry on.” The year was 1984, the place Melbourne. Hot on the heels of Fitzcarraldo (1982), Herzog had travelled to Australia to shoot Where the Green Ants Dream (1984), while Chatwin, by then already a literary icon, was working on his fourth book, The Songlines (1987). His first, In Patagonia (1977) had sent the Englishman on a journey to the ends of the world to uncover the mystery behind a piece of “brontosaurs skin.” It had changed travel writing forever, concocting...
- 2/8/2021
- MUBI
The 1968 antiwar uprising at Columbia University is well known. But as Paul Cronin’s new 15-hour film shows, while the white students focused on Vietnam, the black students’ concerns are still urgent today
‘Lockdown has done wonders for me,” says Paul Cronin with a laugh. An English film-maker who lives in New York, he had been working off and on for 14 years on A Time to Stir, a documentary about the 1968 student uprising at Columbia University. Then, after the killing of George Floyd in May, Cronin’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood was transformed. Protesters marched through its streets, statues were defaced, the windows of galleries and banks were smashed, police cars were torched, helicopters roared night and day. It was an extended moment of rebellion and release, terror and possibility.
“I’m watching what’s going on from my window and taking lots of late-night walks through Washington Square with all...
‘Lockdown has done wonders for me,” says Paul Cronin with a laugh. An English film-maker who lives in New York, he had been working off and on for 14 years on A Time to Stir, a documentary about the 1968 student uprising at Columbia University. Then, after the killing of George Floyd in May, Cronin’s Greenwich Village neighbourhood was transformed. Protesters marched through its streets, statues were defaced, the windows of galleries and banks were smashed, police cars were torched, helicopters roared night and day. It was an extended moment of rebellion and release, terror and possibility.
“I’m watching what’s going on from my window and taking lots of late-night walks through Washington Square with all...
- 9/25/2020
- by Sukhdev Sandhu
- The Guardian - Film News
6 More Filmmaking Tips From Werner Herzog
If there’s anyone who deserves a second Filmmaking Tips column, it’s Werner Herzog. It’s been almost four years since we posted the first list of his advice to fellow soldiers of cinema, and there’s just so much more to learn from the legend. He actually has his own Rogue Film School, where he directly imparts his wisdom to students during weekend seminars. He also leads a new online course at MasterClass, which began this week, where he talks about all facets of fiction and nonfiction filmmaking in a six-hour video course. He does many interviews (this week he participated in a Reddit Ama) and shares his philosophies and strategies often. Not even two of these columns properly sums it all up.
So, as is often the case, this is just an introduction to some essential tips from a unique artist and craftsman. Herzog...
If there’s anyone who deserves a second Filmmaking Tips column, it’s Werner Herzog. It’s been almost four years since we posted the first list of his advice to fellow soldiers of cinema, and there’s just so much more to learn from the legend. He actually has his own Rogue Film School, where he directly imparts his wisdom to students during weekend seminars. He also leads a new online course at MasterClass, which began this week, where he talks about all facets of fiction and nonfiction filmmaking in a six-hour video course. He does many interviews (this week he participated in a Reddit Ama) and shares his philosophies and strategies often. Not even two of these columns properly sums it all up.
So, as is often the case, this is just an introduction to some essential tips from a unique artist and craftsman. Herzog...
- 7/13/2016
- by Christopher Campbell
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Werner Herzog: Ecstatic Fictions, a retrospective dedicated to Werner Herzog's fiction filmmaking, will be running on Mubi in the United States from May 28 - July 29, 2016.My Best Fiend: A metaphor for...something "It’s a great metaphor,” Werner Herzog declares proudly towards the end of My Best Fiend, his autobiographical reflection on fifteen years of cinematic collaboration with actor Klaus Kinski. The metaphor in question is visual. Herzog and film set photographer Beat Presser are looking at a black and white photo hanging in Presser’s apartment. It’s a striking tableau and gripping enough that it would become the poster image for Herzog's 1982 collaboration with Kinski, Fitzcarraldo. The titular character stands in the foreground, yet with his back to the camera. His emotions are unavailable, but he is undoubtedly preoccupied with the 300 ton steamboat high above him at an impossible 90 degree angle, as it disappears up...
- 6/3/2016
- MUBI
Of the Big Three new wavers of German cinema—Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders-- who “came of age” as it were in the ‘70s, when I was in college and my own stake in the movies was budding into something more learned and substantial than what it was when I first discovered my love for them, Herzog has emerged as the director who most speaks to me now as an adult. I think that’s true at least in part because when his movies do speak to me it never feels like a one-sided conversation. I feel like I’m in there engaging in a push-pull with Herzog’s ability to seduce me (disarm me?) with his simplicity of approach, an ability which rarely seems satisfied to consider subjects from the less-perverse of two perspectives, and his tendency to rhapsodize and harangue and sidestep visual motifs...
- 12/19/2015
- by Dennis Cozzalio
- Trailers from Hell
Werner Herzog once said in Grizzly Man, “I believe the common denominator of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder.”
Always the optimistic sort, Herzog is not without his guiding philosophies that have helped him become one of the greatest living filmmakers of all time. He has taken filmmakers like Harmony Korine and Joshua Oppenheimer under his wing at his Rogue Film School. And for those aspiring filmmakers wondering what life lessons he offers there, Paul Cronin, author of the book of conversations Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed, shared on the back book jacket 24 of Herzog’s pieces of advice for aspiring filmmakers. Here they are in all their profound, German glory:
1. Always take the initiative.
2. There is nothing wrong with spending a night in jail if it means getting the shot you need.
3. Send out all your dogs and one might return with prey.
Always the optimistic sort, Herzog is not without his guiding philosophies that have helped him become one of the greatest living filmmakers of all time. He has taken filmmakers like Harmony Korine and Joshua Oppenheimer under his wing at his Rogue Film School. And for those aspiring filmmakers wondering what life lessons he offers there, Paul Cronin, author of the book of conversations Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed, shared on the back book jacket 24 of Herzog’s pieces of advice for aspiring filmmakers. Here they are in all their profound, German glory:
1. Always take the initiative.
2. There is nothing wrong with spending a night in jail if it means getting the shot you need.
3. Send out all your dogs and one might return with prey.
- 1/20/2015
- by Brian Welk
- SoundOnSight
It looks like we really need to pick up "Werner Herzog — A Guide for the Perplexed" by Paul Cronin. Even though it hit shelves last fall, some of the treasures to be found within are just now starting to surface. Last week came Herzog's twenty-four great pieces of advice that adorn the back cover of the book, and today you can check out the fantastic foreword, penned by Harmony Korine, that is perhaps the most perfect introduction his friend and filmmaker could ever receive. It's probably best you just skip ahead and read it in full, but it's not very often that you'll find a tribute to a director featuring the words "chickens," "maniac," and "icon." And yet, it's a flawless encapsulation of Herzog the man and moviemaker. So while you wait for Herzog's next film, "Queen Of The Desert" (check out the first look images here), perhaps track down 'A Guide for the Perplexed,...
- 1/19/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Werner Herzog is one quirky dude, but I love the German filmmaker. How many other Oscar-nominated directors have also starred in a Tom Cruise action flick (Jack Reacher), voiced characters on animated TV series (The Boondocks, Metalocalypse), and guest appeared on a hit sitcom (Parks and Recreation)? The back of the recent Paul Cronin book Werner Herzog - A Guide for the Perplexed (which you can purchase through Amazon here) has 24 fantastic proverbs from Mr. Werner. It's a good...
- 1/19/2015
- by Jesse Giroux
- JoBlo.com
There are directors, and there are artists, and then there is Werner Herzog. He stands alone, occupying his own Werner Herzog-ian place in the movie world, and even when he pops up as a villain in "Jack Reacher," or in a cameo role in "Parks And Recreation," he can't escape the distinct essence of being Werner Herzog. Nor would we want him to. But for those not familiar with the man or his work, describing those qualities that make Herzog, well, Herzog, can be difficult. But this should help. On the back cover of the recent book "Werner Herzog—A Guide for the Perplexed" by Paul Cronin, are 24 maxims by German director. Some apply to film, some apply to life, and all of them are worth reading. Revenge, bears, bolt cutters, jail...Herzog has you prepared for any and every situation, if only you follow these simple rules. If...
- 1/16/2015
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
Rachael Rakes and Leo Goldsmith have won a grant to complete a book on Peter Watkins. More film book news: Miranda July's debut novel, The First Bad Man, will be out on January 13. Iain Sinclair reviews Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin for the Tls. For Slate, Michelle Orange reviews a reissue of MacDonald Harris's 1982 novel Screenplay. In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Andrew Nette revisits the 1970 novel by Ted Lewis that became Get Carter. And in the New York Times, Janet Maslin reviews Scott Saul's Becoming Richard Pryor. » - David Hudson...
- 12/5/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
Rachael Rakes and Leo Goldsmith have won a grant to complete a book on Peter Watkins. More film book news: Miranda July's debut novel, The First Bad Man, will be out on January 13. Iain Sinclair reviews Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin for the Tls. For Slate, Michelle Orange reviews a reissue of MacDonald Harris's 1982 novel Screenplay. In the Los Angeles Review of Books, Andrew Nette revisits the 1970 novel by Ted Lewis that became Get Carter. And in the New York Times, Janet Maslin reviews Scott Saul's Becoming Richard Pryor. » - David Hudson...
- 12/5/2014
- Keyframe
In today's roundup of news and views, we point to Terence Nance's (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) discussion of Tim Sutton’s Memphis, an interview with Harry Dean Stanton, R. Emmet Sweeney on an overlooked film by Jean Renoir and an excerpt from Paul Cronin's new book of interviews with Werner Herzog. And currently working on new films are Ringo Lam, Todd Haynes, David Fincher, Martin Scorsese and Benedek Fliegauf. Plus: videos on the work of Wes Anderson and the late Robin Williams. » - David Hudson...
- 9/10/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
In today's roundup of news and views, we point to Terence Nance's (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) discussion of Tim Sutton’s Memphis, an interview with Harry Dean Stanton, R. Emmet Sweeney on an overlooked film by Jean Renoir and an excerpt from Paul Cronin's new book of interviews with Werner Herzog. And currently working on new films are Ringo Lam, Todd Haynes, David Fincher, Martin Scorsese and Benedek Fliegauf. Plus: videos on the work of Wes Anderson and the late Robin Williams. » - David Hudson...
- 9/10/2014
- Keyframe
In a roundup on new books, we point to an excerpt from Michael Koresky's Terence Davies, gather reviews of Paul Cronin's collection of interviews with Werner Herzog, cite Jonathan Rosenbaum's recommendation of Michael Witt’s book on Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma (no other book on late Godard "seems quite as durable, both as a beautiful object and as a user-friendly intellectual guide"), make note of strong reviews for a volume on Paul Thomas Anderson and consider the origins of British noir. » - David Hudson...
- 9/7/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
In a roundup on new books, we point to an excerpt from Michael Koresky's Terence Davies, gather reviews of Paul Cronin's collection of interviews with Werner Herzog, cite Jonathan Rosenbaum's recommendation of Michael Witt’s book on Jean-Luc Godard's Histoire(s) du cinéma (no other book on late Godard "seems quite as durable, both as a beautiful object and as a user-friendly intellectual guide"), make note of strong reviews for a volume on Paul Thomas Anderson and consider the origins of British noir. » - David Hudson...
- 9/7/2014
- Keyframe
"The oil is treacherous, because it reflects the sky." Herzog says in voice over as we look upon what could very easily be small ponds and streams of water in an otherwise barren wasteland. Herzog speaks to this very thought adding, "The oil is trying to disguise itself as water." It's a statement only Herzog could make and it's one of the few heard throughout the brisk 50 minutes that make up his 1992 documentary Lessons of Darkness, which I think is best described as a cousin to Ron Fricke's wonderful wordless documentaries Baraka and Samsara, though with this film Herzog has a much more specific topic he's exploring. Broken into thirteen separate sections, all with their own "chapter" heading, Herzog tells the story of the 1991 Kuwait oil fires through sparse voice over (much of which are words read from the Bible), aerial and on the ground images captured on 16mm...
- 6/11/2014
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Reviewed By: Chris Wright, Morehorror.com
Directed By: Bob Clark
Written By: Bob Clark & Alan Ormsby
Starring: Alan Ormsby (Alan), Valerie Mamches (Val), Jeff Gillen (Jeff), Anya Ormsby (Anya), Paul Cronin (Paul), Jane Daly (Terry), Roy Engleman (Roy), Robert Philip (Emerson), Bruce Solomon (Winns), Alecs Baird (Caretaker), Seth Sklarey (Orville)
Long before Bob Clark brought his name to fame in the horror community with “Black Christmas”, he put out a much lower budgeted flick in this third directorial debut with “Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things.” This movie was a pleasant little surprise to me as when I hear horror movies are “comedies” they are hits and misses. I am not the biggest fan of horror comedies thankfully this wasn’t what I thought it was at all. It was more morbid than anything else.
The movie is about a small group of unemployed actors lead by Alan (Alan Ormsby...
Directed By: Bob Clark
Written By: Bob Clark & Alan Ormsby
Starring: Alan Ormsby (Alan), Valerie Mamches (Val), Jeff Gillen (Jeff), Anya Ormsby (Anya), Paul Cronin (Paul), Jane Daly (Terry), Roy Engleman (Roy), Robert Philip (Emerson), Bruce Solomon (Winns), Alecs Baird (Caretaker), Seth Sklarey (Orville)
Long before Bob Clark brought his name to fame in the horror community with “Black Christmas”, he put out a much lower budgeted flick in this third directorial debut with “Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things.” This movie was a pleasant little surprise to me as when I hear horror movies are “comedies” they are hits and misses. I am not the biggest fan of horror comedies thankfully this wasn’t what I thought it was at all. It was more morbid than anything else.
The movie is about a small group of unemployed actors lead by Alan (Alan Ormsby...
- 3/7/2014
- by admin
- MoreHorror
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: May 21, 2013
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Verna Bloom and Robert Forster tries to figure things out in Medium Cool.
The 1969 film drama Medium Cool is the first narrative film directed by the famed documentarian/cinematographer Haskell Wexler, who shot One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Days of Heaven, among other greats.
In, with the U.S. in social upheaval, Wexler decided to make a film about what the hell was going on and plunge audiences straight into the moment. With its mix of scripted fiction and seat-of-the-pants documentary technique, the film’s story looks at the working world and romantic life of television cameraman John Cassellis (Robert Forster, Jackie Brown). Set in Chicago, Cassellis finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention, just as he’s forced to deal with a whole lot of romantic and lifestyle issues.
Price: DVD $29.95, Blu-ray $39.95
Studio: Criterion
Verna Bloom and Robert Forster tries to figure things out in Medium Cool.
The 1969 film drama Medium Cool is the first narrative film directed by the famed documentarian/cinematographer Haskell Wexler, who shot One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Days of Heaven, among other greats.
In, with the U.S. in social upheaval, Wexler decided to make a film about what the hell was going on and plunge audiences straight into the moment. With its mix of scripted fiction and seat-of-the-pants documentary technique, the film’s story looks at the working world and romantic life of television cameraman John Cassellis (Robert Forster, Jackie Brown). Set in Chicago, Cassellis finds himself becoming personally involved in the violence that erupts around the 1968 Democratic National Convention, just as he’s forced to deal with a whole lot of romantic and lifestyle issues.
- 2/15/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Nicole Brenez by Alexia Villard
Nicole Brenez is in New York and she's very, very busy. This evening, she's delivering a talk at Columbia University on Recent Developments in Political Cinema (with a response by Kent Jones), followed by another tomorrow afternoon, "An Incandescent Atmosphere": Internationalist Cinema for Today. Then it's off to Anthology Film Archives to launch the series Internationalist Cinema for Today, running through March 11. Off again to Microscope Gallery to introduce a screening of selected works by filmmaker, poet, musician Marc Hurtado (from the group Etant Donnés). And then on Saturday, she'll introduce two more programs in the Anthology series.
Cinespect's Ryan Wells has asked Nicole Brenez to explain the concept of Internationalist cinema and the ensuing interview's an engaging read, but for brevity's sake, I'm turning to her introduction to the Anthology series:
it is a way to move beyond the ego and think of others,...
Nicole Brenez is in New York and she's very, very busy. This evening, she's delivering a talk at Columbia University on Recent Developments in Political Cinema (with a response by Kent Jones), followed by another tomorrow afternoon, "An Incandescent Atmosphere": Internationalist Cinema for Today. Then it's off to Anthology Film Archives to launch the series Internationalist Cinema for Today, running through March 11. Off again to Microscope Gallery to introduce a screening of selected works by filmmaker, poet, musician Marc Hurtado (from the group Etant Donnés). And then on Saturday, she'll introduce two more programs in the Anthology series.
Cinespect's Ryan Wells has asked Nicole Brenez to explain the concept of Internationalist cinema and the ensuing interview's an engaging read, but for brevity's sake, I'm turning to her introduction to the Anthology series:
it is a way to move beyond the ego and think of others,...
- 3/1/2012
- MUBI
I'd seen Alexander Mackendrick's Sweet Smell of Success only once before receiving Criterion's immaculate Blu-ray release of the once ignored now revered late '50s film noir. This is a nasty story of two loathsome characters who deserve everything they get and then some. It's one of those films that makes you feel dirty while watching it as you bask in the deplorable behavior on screen and Criterion has delivered a beautiful achromatic picture for the drama to play out on.
Centering on the powerful New York gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker (played like a dictator by Burt Lancaster) and Sidney Falco, a weaselly press agent played by Tony Curtis, Sweet Smell of Success is remembered as much for its content and performances as it is for the fact it didn't earn a single Oscar nomination. This is a film long desired by cinephiles to come to the Criterion...
Centering on the powerful New York gossip columnist J.J. Hunsecker (played like a dictator by Burt Lancaster) and Sidney Falco, a weaselly press agent played by Tony Curtis, Sweet Smell of Success is remembered as much for its content and performances as it is for the fact it didn't earn a single Oscar nomination. This is a film long desired by cinephiles to come to the Criterion...
- 3/7/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Werner Herzog has forever been a maverick of modern cinema and certainly never one to work within the constraints of the so-called ‘normal cinema’. A man who would rather forge his own path straight up the middle of the rock face of filmmaking, ignoring the easier Sherpa led routes on either side of that particular furrow.
Werner Herzog, the director of many classics of the left leaning art house cinema scene, including Aguirre The Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kasper Hauser (1974) and Stroszek (1977). Not forgetting his most well known work Fitzcarraldo’ (1982) which emerged victorious from the epic struggles of which it was born, deep within the dark recesses of the Peruvian Jungle. It’s Herzog’s innate sense of persistence and drive which lends his films and Fitzcarraldo in particular a slight air of madness. You get the feeling that no matter what, Herzog’s projects will be finished...
Werner Herzog, the director of many classics of the left leaning art house cinema scene, including Aguirre The Wrath of God (1972), The Enigma of Kasper Hauser (1974) and Stroszek (1977). Not forgetting his most well known work Fitzcarraldo’ (1982) which emerged victorious from the epic struggles of which it was born, deep within the dark recesses of the Peruvian Jungle. It’s Herzog’s innate sense of persistence and drive which lends his films and Fitzcarraldo in particular a slight air of madness. You get the feeling that no matter what, Herzog’s projects will be finished...
- 1/7/2011
- by Kris Tebbs
- Obsessed with Film
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