More than ten years after it was published, Jose Saramago’s Nobel Prize-winning Blindness is about to hit the theaters (release is set for October 3rd by Miramax). In the story, people are suddenly stricken blind. Key words: epidemic, government, quarantine. I’m all for end-of-society stories, so I’m onboard for this flick. [...]

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Every great story gets retold by the next generation, right? Some even make it from stage to film, and back again. Well, my vote to redo 1975’s Rocky Horror Picture Show would probably be the same as my vote was on remaking Hitchcock’s Psycho.   No matter what the director, some movies are just [...]

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I’ll let this one speak for itself.  “American Psycho,” the chilling serial killer/yuppie satire by Bret Easton Ellis (back in ‘91 Simon and Schuster passed on the book, picked up by Vintage Books) is now heading for Broadway.  No director yet, but producers say they hope the musical will hit the stage by 2010.  No [...]

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For those who enjoy a good scare in their XBox 360, PS3 or PC game, there is light at the end of the corpse-strewn tunnel.  Three new horror games are about to hit the market.   Left 4 Dead, Silent Hill: Homecoming and Dead Space (the latter is the only game available for all three platforms).  [...]

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Some good news for fans of horror novels and George Lucas’ Star Wars universe as a Star Wars horror novel is in the works.  Novelist Joe Schreiber is posting on his blog that he has been commisioned to write the book for Lucasfilm, with a release date in late 2009.  Schreiber has released two books [...]

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Unless you live under a rock or your commute is just hell as well as iPod-less, you’re heard about Stephen King’s *cough* The Stand, a thirty issue joint graphic novel venture between the King of Horror and Marvel Comics.  If you “cough* haven’t picked issue #1 up yet (Captain Tripps released on September 12th) and [...]

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If anyone out there likes vampires, Louisiana, sex, Anna Paquin and watching TV (and who doesn’t?), here is the show for you.  True Blood. HBO’s new series debuted last Sunday,  adapted by Alan Ball (Six Feet Under) and taken from Charlaine Harris‘ (From Dead to Worse, Ice Cold Grave) Southern vampire novels.
The story is [...]

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