From the webmaster:

I'm just wanting to let everyone know that I am not affiliated with Amicus Productions. I'm not a relative of Subotsky or Rosenberg. I am just a guy who believes that these films have their historical place in cinema history and should not be forgotten. Why do I say it's the ONLY Amicus website? I say that because it is the only website that is 100% dedicated to the legacy of Amicus Productions and it's creators. Of course it's not an official website, because the original company has been defunct now for over 30 years. It has just recently been revived as Amicus Entertainment.

Thursday, September 17, 2009

New Hi-Res Photo Gallery For It's Alive

Bloody Disgusting has gotten their hands on a bunch of high resolution pics from the upcoming It's Alive remake. You can check them all out here.

Here's a synopsis straight from Bloody Disgusting:

"The film is a modern remake of the classic 1970s horror film and follows Lenore (Bijou Phillips, Choke, Hostel: Part 2), a young mother who’s newborn is suspiciously connected to a string of incredibly violent and inexplicable murders.

When a Lenore learns that she is pregnant, she leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend in the country. The fate of the happy new family takes a gruesome turn when animals and people end up brutally dead – all with a strange connection to their newborn. Could their new child be the monster responsible for the gruesome murders?"

New Trailer For It's Alive Remake

A red band trailer has hit the net for the upcoming It's Alive remake, which will finally see the light of day on DVD October 6th in both rated and unrated editions. The film is being put out through First Look Pictures and was produced by the new Amicus production company.

Here's a synopsis straight from Bloody Disgusting:

"The film is a modern remake of the classic 1970s horror film and follows Lenore (Bijou Phillips, Choke, Hostel: Part 2), a young mother who’s newborn is suspiciously connected to a string of incredibly violent and inexplicable murders.

When a Lenore learns that she is pregnant, she leaves graduate school to set up a home with her boyfriend in the country. The fate of the happy new family takes a gruesome turn when animals and people end up brutally dead – all with a strange connection to their newborn. Could their new child be the monster responsible for the gruesome murders?"

Saturday, August 29, 2009

The Land That Time Forgot Remake Review

Here's the review I wrote of The Land That Time Forgot remake for my movie news website. Thought some of you might enjoy it or be interested. Here you go:

It is very hard for me to write this review of the remake / revision / new version / whatever of The Land That Time Forgot. I go into a viewing of a straight-to-DVD movie with certain expectations. This one did not meet them almost at all. How dare they? How dare a reliably cheesy company like The Asylum put something out that is actually pretty decent. There was barely any of the cheese I have come to expect from Asylum films. Nowhere near the amount of bad acting that is necessary for one of these flicks. And the special effects? While not Oscar-worthy or even close to ILM or WETA standards, they actually were tolerable. And there was a story. An actual story that actually made sense. Now don't get me wrong. You still had to stretch your suspension of belief, but there was a story. All of this is absolutely inexcusable.

As stated earlier, the special effects were not flawless by any means. They still looked pretty animated. But they were no worse than what you see in those Journey to the Center of the Earth or Lost World movies you see on the SyFy Channel on Saturday nights. I guess that's good, though, since that's where these movies are going to end up after their DVD run. There were a couple good scenes of people being eaten. There's one scene of a guy getting bitten in half and it actually doesn't look too bad. There are also scenes of a German submarine that was washed up onshore that look very believable.

The acting was pretty good, too. The actors actually looked like they cared about the material and gave pretty good performances. You had Pony Boy C. Thomas Howell himself playing the lead role in a film he also directed. Then, of course there was the veteran supporting actor and relatively well-known Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show, Texasville, Land of the Lost, That's My Bush!) that they always stick in these movies to drum up their viewership and "legitimacy." Mr. Bottoms did play his role at times like a drunken hippie, but it suited him just fine. Even the actors who played the Germans were relatively convincing.

Was it better than the original Amicus produced film from 1975? I would say no. That one just has a classic and epic feeling to it that I don't think this one ever will. That one also has more elements to it's story. This one, while not in a bad way, really just focuses on the characters trying to get off the island. I do have to say that Howell really did a good job directing this. You can tell he really did care about the film and did his best with what he was given budgetwise and such. If you're looking for a good time-waster on a Saturday night and you actually don't hate the SyFy original movies, you should give some thought into picking this up at the video store. Or you can wait until it's actually on SyFy. You decide. (Review by Eric Shirey)

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

It's Alive Hitting DVD On October 6th!

The remake of It's Alive is finally hitting DVD in the United States on October 6th. The film had already been released in several other countries, but for some reason never got a solid date until now in the States.

In the remake of It's Alive, a baby born to a human couple turns out to be a mutant monster with an appetite to kill when scared. It was originally supposed to be released over a year ago, but for some reason got held up. The movie is based on the cult classic of the same name from 1974 that was directed by genre director Larry Cohen (Q, A Return to Salem's Lot, It Lives Again, It's Alive III: Island of the Alive, Masters of Horror).

The DVD is listed as being the Unrated version and stars Bijou Phillips, Skye Bennett, Raphaƫl Coleman, Sigal Diamant, and Arkie Reece. It's directed by Josef Rusnak (The Thirteenth Floor, The Art of War II: Betrayal).

To order it through Amazon, just go here.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

King's Buick 8 still looking for more financing

Fangoria Radio's Tony Timpone reported this among his scoops:

"While co-writer Johnathon Schaech’s FROM A BUICK 8 Stephen King adaptation still looks for financing, he and co-writer Richard Chizmar are continuing to tweak the script for the Tobe Hooper film. 'We’ve done 15 rewrites,' Schaech said of the project, 'and Stephen King loves it. He says it’s a great screenplay, which is sort of THE GREEN MILE meets STAND BY ME meets FRIDAY THE 13TH.'”
You can also go to the Fangoria Podcast page on iTunes and download an interview with Johnathon Schaech, whre he discusses the screenplay.

Land That Time Forgot being remade

It was bound to happen sooner or later with all the rumors of remakes and such. We knew Amicus would eventually be touched in some way or another. A new version (or remake, as it's being touted) of Edgar Rice Burroughs' The Land That Time Forgot is heading into production this week with actor C. Thomas Howell (The Outsiders, E.T., Red Dawn, War of the Worlds) behind the camera working from a script by Darren Dalton (The Day the Earth Stopped, Scanner Cop). The book was famously adapted for the screen in 1975 for Amicus Productions and spawned a sequel, which was also produced by one half of the original Amicus partnership - Max Rosenburg. It was also historically significant as the last film that original Amicus co-founders Milton Subotsky and Max Rosenberg worked on together, ending a partnership that was over 20 years old at the time. The new version will star Howell, Christopher Showerman (Frankenbabe, George of the Jungle 2) and Timothy Bottoms (Land of the Lost, Vampire Bats, The Man in the Iron Mask). More additions to the cast are to be made soon. The film is expected to premiere on DVD and is said to be following the original film's plot pretty closely. In the original Amicus version, "a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they find dinosaurs and Neanderthal."

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

We thought that it was only appropriate to report on this, being that Mr. Prowse appeared in The People That Time Forgot as The Executioner. He also donated some autographed 8x10's for my Hammer Horror Holiday I did as a charity event for a local food bank. May we all pray for his health and well-being. This was taken from SciFi Wire:

"David Prowse, who wore Darth Vader's black armor in the original Star Wars movies, revealed that he is battling prostate cancer but is responding well to radiotherapy treatment for his illness, according to a report in the British Daily Mail newspaper. The 73-year-old-actor, who appeared as Luke Skywalker's nemesis, has been undergoing radiotherapy for the last couple of months, the newspaper reported. Speaking on a British radio show, Prowse added that he was feeling fine. Prowse is being treated at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London. Originally a bodybuilder, Prowse played the Dark Lord in all three original films. Producers decided not to use his West Country English accent for the role, instead giving Lord Vader's lines to deep-voiced American actor James Earl Jones."