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Random Sample wrote:I just thought that he never made anything original. All of his movies were just recycled ideas. Is this Salem one an original story?

drizzle wrote:well let's be honest here... at this point the majority of horror movies, or any genre movies for that matter, are rehashing old ideas from elsewhere. the best ones re-invent them into something new or put original twist on them. very rarely does something really really original and completely new actually appear.

the thing i dug about Devil's Rejects is how he unabashedly embraced the killer rednecks are protagonists, even giving them a heroic coda with the Freebird scene at the end (that outro really made the movie for me I think). obviously the idea of an anti-hero or a villain as a protagonists isn't new either, but it's rarely done with that much gusto. even in the 70s it was rarely taken to that gleeful extent.

There was barely time for a slash 'n' fag before the high-point of Friday’s proceedings, not content with raping our childhoods with his abysmal Halloween xerox and subjecting viewers to endless shots of his wife’s scrawny arse disguised as entertainment, Robert 'Rob' Zombie (not his real name) has returned to our screens with his attempt to do a Rosemary's Baby with his much anticipated (it says in the PR handout) Lords of Salem.

Before the screening ringmaster Paul McEvoy promised us that the film would 'divide the audience'.

Which frankly was a polite way of saying it's shite and only wanking obsessed wee boys and fat neck bearded virgins in man-tit revealing White Zombie t-shirts would enjoy it.

And then only because they don't know any better.

Lords of Salem: Fucking shameful.

Allegedly a tale of witches wickedly wreaking revenge on the town of Salem via the medium of a shit doom rock 12 inch single and forcing a ball-headed chicken man to impregnate Sheri Moon Zombie, the movie proves once again why Zombie needs to have both his hands and his testicles removed before he forces another 2 and a half hour excuse to wank over his wife's frankly average arse on the unsuspecting movie-going public.

The mind boggles as to how the man could get a cast of such high calibre (and his wife) to appear in such unmitigated arse biscuit.

I mean it boasts such talent as Bruce Davison, Ken Foree, Patricia Quinn, Dee Wallace, Meg Foster, Michael Berryman and Judy Geeson, what did he do? threaten to fuck their kids?

Less a bad movie, more the cinematic equivalent of being brutally (and forcibly) taken up the shitter by a crab infested, middle aged Croatian transsexual whilst your parents drunkenly raise a glass shouting "happy 18th birthday son!" and laugh maniacally.

Apologies tho' to the wee boy I shouted at outside for enjoying it.

I really should have stabbed you in the face putting us all out of our misery instead.

Starring the great Lili Taylor alongside the equally smashing Vera Farmiga (soon to be best known to geeks as Mrs. Bates on the new Bates Motel show) and Insidious star Patrick Wilson, The Conjuring is a period ghost story set in the ’70s and inspired by the ‘true’ case files of the infamous husband and wife ‘demonologist’ team of Ed and Lorraine Warren. If you’ve ever seen a ghost or ghost hunter ‘documentary’ special on TV, chances are you’ve seen or heard mention of the Warrens at some point. They were the ‘expert’ point team on the “Amityville Horror,” which they swore by as legitimate, as well as the famed Smurl family demon haunting of Pennsylvania, which, totally coincidentally, was also made into a successful and well-remembered TV movie for FOX in the network’s early glory.

Though the Warrens have long since been dismissed by most (myself included) as publicity-hungry hucksters, their legend and several of their more memorable cases live on in our cultural memory. There’s something about the idea of a little old husband and wife team going from house to house hunting demons that intrigues us. I think that’s what James Wan is after, and this teaser looks great.

(soon to be best known to geeks as Mrs. Bates on the new Bates Motel show)

Sam Raimi is planning to make Evil Dead 4

Lauren Davis

Just because Fede Alvarez is directing a remake of Evil Dead doesn't mean that Sam Raimi is done with the franchise. At a press event for Oz the Great and Powerful, Raimi announced that he plans to return to his horror series with Evil Dead 4.

During a Meet the Filmmakers event in London, Raimi gave a rather surprising answer to a question about Evil Dead:

I would love to make Evil Dead 4. My brother and I plan to work on the script this summer.

Hopefully, Bruce Campbell is in this equation as well. It'll be interesting to see if Raimi has Campbell on board at this point—and what they have in store for an older Ash.

Sam Raimi Plans To Write Evil Dead 4 This Summer [Bleeding Cool]

The Sacrament (2013)

This story follows two Vice Media correspondents as they set out to document their friend's journey to find his missing sister. They travel outside of the United States to an undisclosed location where they are welcomed into the world of "Eden Parish," a self-sustained rural utopia, comprised of nearly two hundred members. At the center of this small, religious, socialist community is a mysterious leader known only as "Father." As their friend reunites with his sister, it becomes apparent to the newcomers that this paradise may not be as it seems. What started as just another documentary shoot soon becomes a race to escape with their lives.