Filmmakers have continued to push boundaries and find new innovative ways to elicit the emotions of fear, disgust and horror from viewers. Since Alfred Hitchcock directors strived to provoke viewer’s nightmares, hidden fears, revulsions and terror of the unknown. Although a good deal of it is about the supernatural, others have focused more on a …
Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark Directed by Troy Nixey Produced by Guillermo Del Toro Australia, 2011 FRIGHTFEST kicked off this year with alumni Guillermo Del Toro scribed and produced ‘remake’ – Don’t be Afraid of the Dark. Centring around a young girl called Sally who, shunned by her mothers lifestyle, moves in with her …
One of the more interesting strands to Empire’s Big Screen programming for film fans who are a little longer in the tooth was the ‘classics’ strand, where movies that have proved enduringly popular with the magazines readership over the past twenty years were awarded a rare big screen outing. Inevitably the main buzz of activity for …
Visit the official Fantasia Film Fest website Well we are officially through the third and final week of the Fantasia Film Festival, so I figured we should do a quick look back at all the reviews we have posted in the past seven days. In seven days our crew has managed to post over …
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark Directed by Troy Nixey Written by Guillermo del Toro & Matthew Robbins 2011, USA It’s been nearly 40 years since the 1973 ABC telepic Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark terrified youngsters across the globe – one of them being a 9-year-old Guillermo del Toro, who has since cited …
FRIGHTFEST 2011is almost upon us! This coming August Bank Holiday (25th – 29th) will see hundreds, if not thousands of cult movie fans siege Leicester Square in our annual fest of alternative celebrations. We at http://www.moviemurmurs.com will of course be covering as many of the films as possible (we will be attending all of them …
The Fantasia Film Festival is celebrating it’s 15h anniversary, and they are doing it in style. Launched in 1996 with little financial backing, the festival has grown into one of the world’s largest genre film fest, fresh off a record year of 100,000 spectators in 2010. Fantasia has without a doubt become one of …
Hebrew horror, killer santas, carrot-wielding maniacs, demented descents, a Werewolf musical, the end of the world and Troll Hunters – it can only be Film4 FrightFest, back for a terrifying twelfth year. Everyone’s favourite U.K. genre film festival is back to present a total of 37 spine-tinglers in two screens. This is Sound On Sight’s …