Kickass Trailers: "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark"

A young girl sent to live with her father and his new girlfriend discovers creatures in her new home who want to claim her as one of their own.

For more information, visit the official Web site here.

Source of synopsis

Kickass Trailers: "ThanksKilling"

"There's no such thing as an evil turkey..." Or is there?

For more info about this movie, visit their Web site.

Visit their MySpace page at myspace.com/thankskilling

Kickass Trailer: "The Whisper in Darkness" & Short Story

Based on H.P. Lovecraft's short story of the same name, "HPLHS Motion Picture release [this] classic tale of alien horror shot in genuine Mythoscope by the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society."

Kickass Trailers: "Let Me In"

Kickass Trailers: "The Morgue"

Six strangers who find themselves stranded overnight at a rural morgue.

Kickass Trailers: "Rabid Grannies"

Need I explain?

Afternoon Shorts: "Lullaby"

Midnight Movie: "Night of the Demons"

Kickass Trailer: "Chopping Mall"

Kickass Trailers: "I Spit on Your Grave"

A beautiful woman from the city, Jennifer Hills, rents an isolated cabin in the country to write her latest novel.

Soon, a group of local lowlifes subject Jennifer to a nightmare of degradation, rape and violence. Left for dead, she returns for vengeance. Trapping her male attackers one-by-one, she inflicts acts of physical torment upon them with a ferocity that surpasses her own ordeal. 

When the carnage clears, victim has become victor.

The synopsis is courtesy of the official Web site where you can learn more about this remake of the 1978 film of the same name:

Summer 2010 Issue Now Available

Featuring stories by Allen D. Reed, Theresa Nienaber, Donna Burgess and D.A. Hernandez; poetry by Adelaide Windsome; artwork by Simon Walsgrove, Lawrence Boos a.k.a. Undead Ed, Adelaide Windsome and J. Toogood; and features by Jim Kennedy and Tim Yockey.

The Summer 2010 Issue of Tainted Tea is available for download on Lulu.com with a free preview on our Web site.

For a taste of what's in the Summer 2010 Issue, read an excerpt of "The Host" by D. A. Hernandez here. Or grab a free cup of Tainted Tea here to celebrate one year.

You read about them in Tainted Tea, now watch the trailers of the films that Jim Kennedy Spotlights in the Summer 2010 Issue:

Devil

Buried

Kickass Trailers: "Paranormal Activity 2"

This trailer was pulled from some movie theaters as it was deemed too scary. What do you think?

Afternoon Shorts: "The Keys"

After thirty plus years in the equestrian industry as a Grand Prix Dressage trainer, instructor and competitor, I have hung up my spurs, sold my Swedish Stallion and went back to college to earn my MFA in Interdisciplinary Art at Goddard College. My focus and exploration is film making and my genre is experimental and documentary.

On a stormy night, a clap of thunder woke me up and the inspiration for a suspense story was created. I grabbed my trusty camcorder, turned my husband and his friend into actors and the start of the next Alfred Hitchcock is born.

~Suzin Daly

Monster Movies, Monster Deal!

I'm not sure how long this deal is going to last, but iTunes is selling the classic monster flicks like Creature from the Black Lagoon and The Wolf Man for $6.99 or you can rent them for $2.99! 

Kickass Trailers: "City of the Living Dead"

Italian director Lucio Fulci's 1980 zombie classic revives itself in a new DVD due May 25.

Kickass Trailers: "Creepsville"

Creepsville Full Trailer from Mycho on Vimeo.

Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!

www.conniejbennett.com

Kickass Trailers: "Emelia: The Five-Year-Old Goth Girl"

Purchase the short film on iTunes.

Here is a very short Edward Scissorhands fan-made, stop-motion video.

"Tim Burton" at MoMA

It's like his head exploded and all his imagination matter has splattered against black and green walls, I thought while walking through the exhibit "Tim Burton" at MoMA.

In fact, we weren't too far from being in a head as we had to walk through "Creature's Mouth" to gawk at the over 700 pieces of original artwork, movie props and conceptual art.

What makes Burton's art so compelling is his humor, surrealistic approach and simplicity. He never strays into technical elements of art. That could be why when Burton worked for Disney, he quit after four years because he couldn't stand the idea of redundantly drawing foxes in The Fox and The Hound. And when he was an illustrator for The Black Cauldron he was told that his creatures were too scary.   

Burton's unconventional doodles, paintings and photographs are striking and unforgettable. His art is like his movies, vibrant yet bleak, Gothic and fairy tale-esque. At times I wished that they were more dark, but Burton has never been entirely macabre. Just an inverted band geek that needed an outlet for his questioning emotions. And although he is making films, deep down that band geek still shines through his art. 

Click here to download a PDF of the Tim Burton Family Activity Guide.

Click here to download  a PDF of the Checklist. (It has a bunch of the artwork!)

“Tim Burton” continues through April 26 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Visit www.moma.org for more information.

"Never shoot a constipated poodle."

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For more things macabre, check out this blog.

Kickass Trailers: "The Batman VS Dracula"