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CARRIE TRAILER & TEASER: A tell-all campaign for a high-profile remake

Posted on October 15, 2013 by Frederick Greene

Though I love the Brian DePalma original (with the extraordinary Sissy Spacek), I’m looking forward to Kimberly Fierce‘s adaptation of Steven King‘s classic tale of shame, sexuality, puberty and power. Julianne Moore is an inspired choice to follow the inimitable … Continue reading →

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YOU’RE NEXT TRAILER: Irony, Mystery, Interpellation

Posted on August 22, 2013 by Frederick Greene

Made in 2011 and screened for festival audiences that year, You’re Next, directed by Adam Wingard from a script by Simon Barrett, is that rare, lucky horror film, plucked from obscurity and given a big-budget, full-press campaign by major studio, … Continue reading →

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POULTRYGEIST UNCENSORED TRAILER: Code Brown, or Don’t Question Troma’s Commitment to Marketing its Films

Posted on September 18, 2012 by Frederick Greene

A co-worker showed me this preview for “Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead,” which features an orgy of violence perpetrated by the eponymous villains against the unwitting but presumably deserving employees of a Chicken Restaurant unhappily located on a desecrated … Continue reading →

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