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Posted by Jason Stringer on Jul 1st, 2010 | View Comments

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 2′s studio-funded teaser trailer

The first Paranormal Activity gained notoriety by using a viral campaign to get audiences demanding the indie film in their cities, selling a whole bunch of tickets in the process. Similar viral techniques were first used by another successful horror film in back in 1999, The Blair Witch Project. Both were shot independently on next-to-nothing-budgets, and both were picked up by studios for widespread...
Posted by Jason Stringer on May 27th, 2010 | View Comments

THE LAST EXORCISM trailer is same-old horror style, no substance

At first glance the poster for the Eli Roth-produced The Last Exorcism looks like it could be yet another instalment to The Exorcist franchise. Thankfully it’s not, but if you’ve seen the 1973 classic you won’t be able to help drawing comparisons while viewing The Last Exorcism trailer (below). I’m personally rather familiar with The Exorcist. As owner and operator of The Exorcist...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Apr 9th, 2010 | View Comments

IRON MAN 2 viral advertising is lost on me

Not literally lost, of course. I get it– I understand how viral marketing works and there’s no doubting it certainly has a very fad place in movies right now. Of course, Hollywood has borrowed heavily from the music industry which has been successfully promoting underground/garage/indie bands for decades using similar viral ‘tactics’. Viral marketing has been a successful way for...
Posted by Robin Hare on Mar 1st, 2010 | View Comments

Summer review round-up: the good, the bad and the ugly

Way back in the beginning of December, in our first week of existence, I posted a list of the five most anticipated films of the summer. Now that it is officially autumn (even if the weather obstinately refuses to accept this incontravertible truth), it’s the perfect time to look back over the past three months and put the summer releases in perspective. There were a few surprises, some hits and some...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jan 20th, 2010 | View Comments

Paranormal Activity sequel aims for cheap and nasty with a budget

Part of the charm that made Paranormal Activity so affective on audiences late last year was the cheap and nasty quality of the production. Critics were quick to sight The Blair With Project as an obvious comparison, and the shoestring budget film-that-could met expectations by making a killing at the box office– thanks mostly to strong word or mouth backed by some neatly planned viral marketing...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Jan 2nd, 2010 | View Comments

Captain Howdy’s Top5 of 2009

Nothing beats the cinema. The often-uncomfortable seats, the smell of popcorn, the jumbo drinks, the excessive prices. The film they screen sometimes makes it all worthwhile. The whole experience is unmatched and keeps me coming back for more, more, more! 2009 wasn’t a stellar year compared to most, but it sure had its moments and even produced some classics that I think we’ll be referring to...
Posted by Robin Hare on Jan 1st, 2010 | View Comments

Froley’s Top 5 of 2009

Just kidding, New Moon is not only not in my top 5, it is one of the worst movies of all time. But now that I’ve got your attention, let’s look at 5 movies that were actually worthwhile in the otherwise weak cinematical year that was 2009. Bear in mind that up until December I wasn’t reviewing everything I saw, and I generally didn’t go out of my way to catch smaller or more obscure...
Posted by Robin Hare on Dec 15th, 2009 | View Comments

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY review: things go bump in the night for 90 minutes, nobody cares

Religion, astrology, UFOs, Nessie, homeopathy, supernatural events, paranormal activity, and something about black cats–these are things I like to pile into a single category called ‘bullshit’. They’ve been more generously described by various people as mythology, pseudoscience, actual science (ha!), and unequivocal truth (oh dear), but as far as I’m concerned, they’re all...
Posted by Money Talks on Dec 2nd, 2009 | View Comments

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: This time you CAN believe the hype

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY review by Money Talks It’s a shame what constitutes a ‘horror’ film nowadays. Movies like Saw, Hostel and (like it or not) Twilight, are what today’s teens are calling horror. So when a film comes out and knocks your socks off that has little-to-no special-fx, shot with one camera and has a budget far less than what it took to airbrush Megan Fox’s acne scars out of Transformers 2,...
Posted by Jason Stringer on Dec 2nd, 2009 | View Comments

NEW MOON was the only film to crack Google most-searched of 2009

Might as well face facts and accept that Twilight is as huge as it is and will be around for a few more years yet, especially with the third film being released in July and reports that the fourth book might be doing a Harry Potter and being split into two films. To further prove Twilight’s dominance as a pop-culture force to be reckoned with, Google have revealed as part of their annual Zeitgeist...
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