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FamousMonsters.com is pleased and honored to re-present Steve Vertlieb’s touching tribute to our dear departed Forrest J Ackerman. We’re also very happy to report that Steve’s story is a finalist in this year’s Rondo Awards! Please visit the official Rondo Awards site for the chance to cast your ballot for this and many other outstanding… [Continue Reading]
Fox unveiled its official site for the upcoming summer release Predators earlier today, bringing the sneak peek that was shown at SXSW last night online. Produced by Robert Rodriguez and Elizabeth Avellan, and directed by Nimród Antal (Armored, Vacancy), the story has its roots in a treatment that Rodriguez developed years before the Aliens Vs…. [Continue Reading]
Another February opening, another horror remake. However, unlike Universal’s The Wolf Man, which is justly regarded as a classic of horror cinema, George Romero’s original take on The Crazies is, well…
There’s been a lot of talk about this being director Martin Scorsese’s first “horror” film, but it’s certainly no more so than, say, his Cape Fear remake…
Let’s face it: if you frequent a website called Famous Monsters of Filmland, you probably aren’t waiting to read a review before deciding whether or not to see Universal’s remake of their own classic The Wolfman. It’s more a question of when, not if, and even if the werewolf effects in this film amounted to a… [Continue Reading]
The film genres of horror and science fiction lost one of their most well-respected practitioners when Dan O’Bannon died last week at the age of 63. O’Bannon first broke into filmmaking as the co-writer of the SF/comedy Dark Star (1974), which was also the feature debut of his USC classmate John Carpenter, who shared screenplay… [Continue Reading]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FAMOUS MONSTERS THE MAGAZINE – HUH?! Los Angeles, CA, November 9, 2009 – Since the very first day that famousmonsters.com went online, the question we’ve been asked most often is “when is the magazine relaunching?” Not if, mind you, but when. There seems to have been no doubt whatsoever that a new… [Continue Reading]
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