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Hidden Gem: ‘The Silence Of The Hams’

While cruising around on YouTube to find some B-movies to watch for a future article, I stumbled, more like tripped over, a film I can’t believe I never heard of and after watching it I watched it again, The Silence of the Hams. The Silence of the Hams is a satirical film released in 1994 that spoofs The Silence of the Lambs and Psycho. The film is directed, written, and stars Italian comedian Ezio Greggio. The film features an impressive cast along with a list of cameos that includes John Carpenter, Mel Brooks, Joe Dante, John Landis, and Ray De Luca. The film follows FBI Agent Joe Dee Fostar (Billy Zane) who needs the help of Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza (Dom DeLuise) to locate and stop a serial killer. Meanwhile, Fostar’s girlfriend Jane Wine (Charlene Tilton) steals money entrusted to her by her boss (Rip Taylor) and his investor (Bubba Smith) and ends up fleeing to a motel owned by

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Capt McNeely
Mar 12, 2020
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Movie Review: Nightmare Cinema (2018)

Five strangers end up in an abandoned theater where a strange projectionist (the one and only Mickey mother fuckin’ Rourke) shows them some fright flicks that contain each of their deepest fears. Thus begins Nightmare Cinema; the latest arcane anthology that weaves five terror tales balls deep in the ol’ horror biz! The first story is titled The Thing in the Woods (directed by Alejandro Brugués) and it begins with us thrown directly into the third act of a slasher picture already in progress. Our spunky final girl is on the run from the wicked Welder (and his implements of bodily harm) who has managed to kill nearly all her friends. Unfortunately for that masked maniac, our heroine is more than capable of putting up quite the fight…and then something turns this already pitch-perfect stalk n’ slay pastiche into a real thing of beastly beauty. Full of great grizzly gore, excellent shifting of paradigms, and an ability to bring some

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DanXIII
Jun 24, 2019
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Take A Trip To A Sinister Theater In The ‘Nightmare Cinema’ Trailer

Ahead of its world premiere the Friday at the Fantasia Film Festival, Nightmare Cinema, from Cinelou Films, has released its first teaser trailer. Featuring five tales from five brilliant Masters of Horrors, this film includes segments from directors Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling), Mick Garris (The Shining series, Sleepwalkers), David Slade (30 Days of Night), Ryuhei Kitamura (Downrange, Versus), and Alejandro Brugues (Juan of the Dead). In this anthology, “A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings. By the time our patrons realize the truth, escape is no longer an option. For once the ticket is torn, their fate is sealed at Nightmare Cinema.” The cast includes Patrick Wilson, Eric Nelson, Mickey Rourke, Richard Chamberlin, Adam Godley, Orson Chaplin, Kevin Fonteyne, Maurice

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 13, 2018
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Move Review: The ‘Burbs is a Perfect Dark Satire of Suburbia!

Poor Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks), all he wants is a nice relaxing staycation but that just isn’t to be as a reclusive family named the Klopeks have moved into the dilapidated abode next door. This of course arouses the suspicions of his neighbors; mooching busy body Art Weingartner (Rick Ducommun), paramilitary nut Mark Rumsfield (Bruce Dern), and teenage smart ass Ricky Butler (Corey Feldman), whom all become convinced the Klopeks are members of a Satanic murder cult. Much to the chagrin of Ray’s long suffering wife Carol (Carrie Fisher), the gang of goofs (with reluctant Ray in tow) actually begin to turn up evidence (nocturnal digging of what appears to be graves, skeletal remains) that the new neighbors may indeed be up to something sinister, and after a visit to their abode Ray becomes convinced as well. Before long all hell breaks loose as Ray and company go completely off the rails trying to prove their crackpot theories! Filled with

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DanXIII
Mar 11, 2018
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Chad Michael Murray And Danielle Harris Join ‘Camp Cold Brook’

Camp Cold Brook, from producer Joe Dante, has just added two stars to its cast, House of Wax’s Chad Michael Murray and Halloween actress Danielle Harris. In the film, written by Alex Carl, a paranormal reality show host, his producers and a camera man head to Camp Cold Brook, where campers tragically died 20 years-ago, in a last ditch effort to save the show. From the Press Release: Chad Michael Murray (House of Wax, TV’s Sun Records) and Danielle Harris (Halloween, Hatchet III) will headline Andy Palmer’s Camp Cold Brook. Produced by Warner Davis of Petri Entertainment, Gremlins alum Joe Dante and Mark Alan of Renfield Productions, and Jason Van Eman and Ross Marroso of Weathervane Productions, pic tells of a reality TV crew that get more than they bargained for when they decide to film the next episode in the legendary Camp Cold Brook. Reality TV producer and host, JACK WILSON (Chad Michael Murray), finds himself in a tough

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 1, 2017
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Movie Review – Unspeakable Horrors:The Plan 9 Conspiracy Is A Zany And Campy Mockumentary

In 1956, Edward D. Wood Jr. began production on a film called Grave Robbers from Space. And even though it had been screened privately at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles in March 0f 1957, it wouldn’t be released until July of 1959 under it’s new title, Plan 9 from Outer Space. Over the years it has clawed its way to becoming a cult classic while still being saddled with the dubious honor(?) of being the worst film ever made. Of course over the years it has faced tough competition from films that threaten to overthrow the film from its throne of utter mediocrity. Such films vying for the lowest rung are Ishtar, Gigli, From Justin to Kelly, Grease 2, Glitter and Troll 2. The list could seriously go on and on, but these are these movies are knocking hard at the doors and windows trying to grab that crown. Now what was it that made Plan 9 so bad?

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Capt McNeely
May 5, 2017
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Masters Of Horror To Direct New Anthology Horror Film ‘Nightmare Cinema’

Director Joe Dante (Gremlins, Burying the Ex) and director Mick Garris (Sleepwalkers, Hocus Pocus) will be directing segments of ‘Nightmare Cinema’, a new horror anthology film. The five stories that make the film will be directed by five masters of horror. The other three segments will be from directors Ryuhei Kitamura (Midnight Meat Train), David Slade (Hannibal), Alejandro Brugues (Jaun of the Dead). The international team of directors will be working off of scripts written by Richard Christian Matheson, Sandra Becerril, David Slade, and Garris. ‘Nightmare Cinema’ is expected to begin filming in early 2016. In an interview with Shock Till You Drop, Garris had this to say about the project: “This is a feature-film collection of unique horror stories linked only by a desire to reach in and grab you by the terror gland, made by a group of directors from around the world, each with a vision unlike any other,” Garris told the site. “It’s the same philosophy

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 7, 2015
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Joe Dante’s Next Movie To Be Filmed In The Catacombs Of Buda Castle

Joe Dante (The Howling) will serve as director for ‘Labrintus’. The film is set in the dark, winding, catacombs beneath the Buda Castle of Hungary. The film will be produced by Fabrice Lambot of Metalun Productions along with Lucy Mukerjee-Brown, Elizabeth Stanley of Elizabeth Stanley Pictures and Forecast Pictures’ Jean-Charles Levy. Goldcrest’s Pascal Degove will be the film’s executive producer. ‘Labrintus’ follows a paranormal investigator, who has teamed up with a psychiatric researcher to explore an abandoned Soviet research facility hidden away in the labyrinth of tunnels. Supernatural forces drive the team to the brink of sanity. To survive they must locate and destroy the heart of the of the force, deep within the maze of tunnels. ‘Labrintus’ is expected to begin production early in the Spring of 2016, according to Bloody-Disgusting. The Buda Castle was built in the 14th century on top of caves carved out by hot springs and were once used by prehistoric man. When the castle

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 21, 2015
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Help Bring The Hollywood Horror Museum To Life

There is currently a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the first educational nonprofit museum of it’s kind, The Hollywood Horror Museum. The museum would educate the public on the legacy of horror films, TV, makeup, art, and literature. The museum’s board includes a list of who’s who in horror, Clive Barker, Joe Dante, Tom Holland, Sean S. Cunningham, Victoria Price, Mick Garris, Jennifer Lynch, Tim Lucas, Jen and Sylvia Soska and Sara Karioff. “In March of 2015, when our Hollywood Science Fiction Museum was preparing for it’s 2016 exhibit, many Sci-Fi/Horror film props were offered to us including Alien and John Carpenter’s The Thing. It became apparent these gory props had no place in a science fiction museum that taught NASA space and real science through sci-fi, but since there is no nonprofit educational Horror Museum anywhere in the world that teaches filmmaking, special effects, makeup and the history of horror in films, TV, art and literature, we decided to

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 17, 2015
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Movie Review: ‘Burying The Ex’ (2015)

Last night I watched Joe Dante’s new zombie flick ‘Burying the Ex’. It was exactly what I was expecting, funny, slightly gory and great. ‘Burying the Ex’ stars Anton Yelchin as Max. Max wants out of his relationship with Evelyn (Ashley Greene) who is over barring, bossy, jealous, high maintenance and condescending about Max’s dream of owning his own horror shop and Travis, his half brother. After she moves in and destroys Max’s mint condition horror poster collection during a surprise redecorating of the apartment, he realizes that it’s not going to work out, and who could blame him. He tells Evelyn to meet him at the park so he can end things, but when she arrives she is struck by a truck and killed. You would think that would be the end of it, but you would be wrong. Time passes and he’s falling for Olivia (Alexandra Daddario), but things get complicated when Evelyn returns from the dead, as

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Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 11, 2015

More from Joe Dante

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Hidden Gem: ‘The Silence Of The Hams’

While cruising around on YouTube to find some B-movies to watch for a future article, I stumbled, more like tripped over, a film I can’t believe I never heard of and after watching it I watched it again, The Silence of the Hams. The Silence of the Hams is a satirical film released in 1994 that spoofs The Silence of the Lambs and Psycho. The film is directed, written, and stars Italian comedian Ezio Greggio. The film features an impressive cast along with a list of cameos that includes John Carpenter, Mel Brooks, Joe Dante, John Landis, and Ray De Luca. The film follows FBI Agent Joe Dee Fostar (Billy Zane) who needs the help of Dr. Animal Cannibal Pizza (Dom DeLuise) to locate and stop a serial killer. Meanwhile, Fostar’s girlfriend Jane Wine (Charlene Tilton) steals money entrusted to her by her boss (Rip Taylor) and his investor (Bubba Smith) and ends up fleeing to a motel owned by

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
Mar 12, 2020
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: Nightmare Cinema (2018)

Five strangers end up in an abandoned theater where a strange projectionist (the one and only Mickey mother fuckin’ Rourke) shows them some fright flicks that contain each of their deepest fears. Thus begins Nightmare Cinema; the latest arcane anthology that weaves five terror tales balls deep in the ol’ horror biz! The first story is titled The Thing in the Woods (directed by Alejandro Brugués) and it begins with us thrown directly into the third act of a slasher picture already in progress. Our spunky final girl is on the run from the wicked Welder (and his implements of bodily harm) who has managed to kill nearly all her friends. Unfortunately for that masked maniac, our heroine is more than capable of putting up quite the fight…and then something turns this already pitch-perfect stalk n’ slay pastiche into a real thing of beastly beauty. Full of great grizzly gore, excellent shifting of paradigms, and an ability to bring some

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Jun 24, 2019
Horror Fuel

Take A Trip To A Sinister Theater In The ‘Nightmare Cinema’ Trailer

Ahead of its world premiere the Friday at the Fantasia Film Festival, Nightmare Cinema, from Cinelou Films, has released its first teaser trailer. Featuring five tales from five brilliant Masters of Horrors, this film includes segments from directors Joe Dante (Gremlins, The Howling), Mick Garris (The Shining series, Sleepwalkers), David Slade (30 Days of Night), Ryuhei Kitamura (Downrange, Versus), and Alejandro Brugues (Juan of the Dead). In this anthology, “A series of down-on-their-luck individuals enter the decrepit and spine-chilling Rialto theater, only to have their deepest and darkest fears brought to life on the silver screen by The Projectionist – a mysterious, ghostly figure who holds the nightmarish futures of all who attend his screenings. By the time our patrons realize the truth, escape is no longer an option. For once the ticket is torn, their fate is sealed at Nightmare Cinema.” The cast includes Patrick Wilson, Eric Nelson, Mickey Rourke, Richard Chamberlin, Adam Godley, Orson Chaplin, Kevin Fonteyne, Maurice

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Jul 13, 2018
Horror Fuel

Move Review: The ‘Burbs is a Perfect Dark Satire of Suburbia!

Poor Ray Peterson (Tom Hanks), all he wants is a nice relaxing staycation but that just isn’t to be as a reclusive family named the Klopeks have moved into the dilapidated abode next door. This of course arouses the suspicions of his neighbors; mooching busy body Art Weingartner (Rick Ducommun), paramilitary nut Mark Rumsfield (Bruce Dern), and teenage smart ass Ricky Butler (Corey Feldman), whom all become convinced the Klopeks are members of a Satanic murder cult. Much to the chagrin of Ray’s long suffering wife Carol (Carrie Fisher), the gang of goofs (with reluctant Ray in tow) actually begin to turn up evidence (nocturnal digging of what appears to be graves, skeletal remains) that the new neighbors may indeed be up to something sinister, and after a visit to their abode Ray becomes convinced as well. Before long all hell breaks loose as Ray and company go completely off the rails trying to prove their crackpot theories! Filled with

Continue reading →
DanXIII
Mar 11, 2018
Horror Fuel

Chad Michael Murray And Danielle Harris Join ‘Camp Cold Brook’

Camp Cold Brook, from producer Joe Dante, has just added two stars to its cast, House of Wax’s Chad Michael Murray and Halloween actress Danielle Harris. In the film, written by Alex Carl, a paranormal reality show host, his producers and a camera man head to Camp Cold Brook, where campers tragically died 20 years-ago, in a last ditch effort to save the show. From the Press Release: Chad Michael Murray (House of Wax, TV’s Sun Records) and Danielle Harris (Halloween, Hatchet III) will headline Andy Palmer’s Camp Cold Brook. Produced by Warner Davis of Petri Entertainment, Gremlins alum Joe Dante and Mark Alan of Renfield Productions, and Jason Van Eman and Ross Marroso of Weathervane Productions, pic tells of a reality TV crew that get more than they bargained for when they decide to film the next episode in the legendary Camp Cold Brook. Reality TV producer and host, JACK WILSON (Chad Michael Murray), finds himself in a tough

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Aug 1, 2017
Horror Fuel

Movie Review – Unspeakable Horrors:The Plan 9 Conspiracy Is A Zany And Campy Mockumentary

In 1956, Edward D. Wood Jr. began production on a film called Grave Robbers from Space. And even though it had been screened privately at the Carlton Theatre in Los Angeles in March 0f 1957, it wouldn’t be released until July of 1959 under it’s new title, Plan 9 from Outer Space. Over the years it has clawed its way to becoming a cult classic while still being saddled with the dubious honor(?) of being the worst film ever made. Of course over the years it has faced tough competition from films that threaten to overthrow the film from its throne of utter mediocrity. Such films vying for the lowest rung are Ishtar, Gigli, From Justin to Kelly, Grease 2, Glitter and Troll 2. The list could seriously go on and on, but these are these movies are knocking hard at the doors and windows trying to grab that crown. Now what was it that made Plan 9 so bad?

Continue reading →
Capt McNeely
May 5, 2017
Horror Fuel

Masters Of Horror To Direct New Anthology Horror Film ‘Nightmare Cinema’

Director Joe Dante (Gremlins, Burying the Ex) and director Mick Garris (Sleepwalkers, Hocus Pocus) will be directing segments of ‘Nightmare Cinema’, a new horror anthology film. The five stories that make the film will be directed by five masters of horror. The other three segments will be from directors Ryuhei Kitamura (Midnight Meat Train), David Slade (Hannibal), Alejandro Brugues (Jaun of the Dead). The international team of directors will be working off of scripts written by Richard Christian Matheson, Sandra Becerril, David Slade, and Garris. ‘Nightmare Cinema’ is expected to begin filming in early 2016. In an interview with Shock Till You Drop, Garris had this to say about the project: “This is a feature-film collection of unique horror stories linked only by a desire to reach in and grab you by the terror gland, made by a group of directors from around the world, each with a vision unlike any other,” Garris told the site. “It’s the same philosophy

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Nov 7, 2015
Horror Fuel

Joe Dante’s Next Movie To Be Filmed In The Catacombs Of Buda Castle

Joe Dante (The Howling) will serve as director for ‘Labrintus’. The film is set in the dark, winding, catacombs beneath the Buda Castle of Hungary. The film will be produced by Fabrice Lambot of Metalun Productions along with Lucy Mukerjee-Brown, Elizabeth Stanley of Elizabeth Stanley Pictures and Forecast Pictures’ Jean-Charles Levy. Goldcrest’s Pascal Degove will be the film’s executive producer. ‘Labrintus’ follows a paranormal investigator, who has teamed up with a psychiatric researcher to explore an abandoned Soviet research facility hidden away in the labyrinth of tunnels. Supernatural forces drive the team to the brink of sanity. To survive they must locate and destroy the heart of the of the force, deep within the maze of tunnels. ‘Labrintus’ is expected to begin production early in the Spring of 2016, according to Bloody-Disgusting. The Buda Castle was built in the 14th century on top of caves carved out by hot springs and were once used by prehistoric man. When the castle

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Oct 21, 2015
Horror Fuel

Help Bring The Hollywood Horror Museum To Life

There is currently a Kickstarter campaign to help fund the first educational nonprofit museum of it’s kind, The Hollywood Horror Museum. The museum would educate the public on the legacy of horror films, TV, makeup, art, and literature. The museum’s board includes a list of who’s who in horror, Clive Barker, Joe Dante, Tom Holland, Sean S. Cunningham, Victoria Price, Mick Garris, Jennifer Lynch, Tim Lucas, Jen and Sylvia Soska and Sara Karioff. “In March of 2015, when our Hollywood Science Fiction Museum was preparing for it’s 2016 exhibit, many Sci-Fi/Horror film props were offered to us including Alien and John Carpenter’s The Thing. It became apparent these gory props had no place in a science fiction museum that taught NASA space and real science through sci-fi, but since there is no nonprofit educational Horror Museum anywhere in the world that teaches filmmaking, special effects, makeup and the history of horror in films, TV, art and literature, we decided to

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 17, 2015
Horror Fuel

Movie Review: ‘Burying The Ex’ (2015)

Last night I watched Joe Dante’s new zombie flick ‘Burying the Ex’. It was exactly what I was expecting, funny, slightly gory and great. ‘Burying the Ex’ stars Anton Yelchin as Max. Max wants out of his relationship with Evelyn (Ashley Greene) who is over barring, bossy, jealous, high maintenance and condescending about Max’s dream of owning his own horror shop and Travis, his half brother. After she moves in and destroys Max’s mint condition horror poster collection during a surprise redecorating of the apartment, he realizes that it’s not going to work out, and who could blame him. He tells Evelyn to meet him at the park so he can end things, but when she arrives she is struck by a truck and killed. You would think that would be the end of it, but you would be wrong. Time passes and he’s falling for Olivia (Alexandra Daddario), but things get complicated when Evelyn returns from the dead, as

Continue reading →
Kelli Marchman McNeely
Sep 11, 2015
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