According to recent posts on the
Fangoria Web site: MTV.com is offering a pair of on-line counterparts to fright film news segments that aired recently on MTV, MTV2 and MTVU. "The first piece, titled
Hollywood Horror: Made (Originally) in Japan, looks at the Asian horror remake craze, focusing on
The Grudge,
The Ring and
Dark Water. The segment (produced and written by Vanessa White Wolf with Robert Mancini) featured interviews with
Grudge star Sarah Michelle Gellar, Rob Zombie,
Ringu director Hideo Nakata (currently helming the U.S. sequel
The Ring 2), redux producer Roy Lee and Fangoria editor Tony Timpone. 'It's all about Hollywood's new love of Asian horror,' says Mancini.
" 'Our second story explores the
social context of horror,' says Mancini, 'looking at the theory that bad news is good news for horror films.' Dubbed
It's Alive! Horror is Reborn (Again) and written and directed by Mancini, the segment boasted interviews with directors Wes Craven and George Romero, plus Zombie and Timpone once more."
In other horror-film-related news:
Media Blasters has acquired two new movies from celluloid terrorist Takashi Miike for U.S. release: the violent (of course) Yakuza thriller
Deadly Outlaw Rekka and his stunning
Ringu-style horror yarn
One Missed Call. The former, a 2002 tale of warring gangsters, stars Miike veterans Riki (
Dead or Alive trilogy) Takeuchi, Ryosuke (
Graveyard of Honor) Miki and Kenichi (
Happiness of the Katakuris) Endo, with a cameo by Asian action legend Sonny (
Kill Bill) Chiba.
Media Blasters is currently mulling over theatrical exposure for both titles, having scored earlier with
Ichi the Killer. Meanwhile, both
Deadly Outlaw Rekka and
One Missed Call will screen at Montreal's
Fantasia film festival, running July 8 to August 1.
Takashi Miike's surreal Lynchian/Cronenberg-like Yakuza/horror film odyssey
Gozu will open theatrically via
Pathfinder Pictures on July 16 at New York's Cinema Village, August 13 at the Landmark Kendall Square in Boston, August 28 at the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, TX, September 10 at the Landmark E. Street Cinema in Washington, D.C. and September 24 at the Landmark Varsity in Seattle. More summer dates will be announced soon.
# posted by Steve Gallagher @ 6/16/2004 12:54:00 PM
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