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This is showing at the Curzon in Soho, this friday: 22/01/2010. House (1977) Dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi Japan, 87 mins, Japanese with English subtitles Curzon Midnight Movies and the Masters of Cinema bring you this rarely seen kaleidoscopic, supernatural, Japanese curio on the big screen – best described as ‘Scooby Doo on acid’ and compared to The Shining and The Yellow Submarine! When Angel takes her friends to her aunt’s isolated mansion, dormant secrets are set to terrify and test the girls to their limits.  

Pandorum Trailer From the producers of the Resident Evil film franchise comes Pandorum, a terrifying thriller in which two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they’ve been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they’re actually not alone- and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined. Really looking forward to this (despite some questionable early promo material of a Photoshopped woman – looking like Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler). It opens in the UK tonight, and FYH would be at the cinema this very eve, if we weren’t coming down with flu. Sniffle.  

A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) Watch a trailer for the new Michael Bay-produced reboot starring Jackie Earle Haley as Freddy Krueger. Directed by Samuel Bayer. With Jackie Earle Haley, Rooney Mara, Kyle Gallner. A re-imagining of the horror icon Freddy Krueger, a serial-killer who wields a glove with four blades embedded in the fingers and kills people in their dreams, resulting in their real death in reality TRIVIA: Wes Craven was inspired by several articles printed in the LA Times regarding a group of Cambodian refugees and their children, fleeing from Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge regime. After settling in America, the kids were suffering horrific nightmares, after which they refused to sleep. Acting on medical advice, their parents...

Cinema audiences in 1988 were treated to the bizarre sight of Angus Scrimm sullying the good name of The Tall Man by hawking Fangoria … “Oh, let the dead bodies wait!” Brilliant.  

Nurse poster photoshoot – Behind the scenes The Saw blood drive (an initiative every year that calls for fans to donate blood) has saved has saved over 358,000 lives to date. A phenomenal effort and achievement on the part of Lionsgate and the Saw franchise. Above, take a peek at how the poster, with Katherine MacDonald as the nurse, and Tim Palen behind the lens, was created.

There really is still something exhilarating about Tobin Bell’s voice as John Kramer/Jigsaw. Shame he died at the end of Part 3 really.

I can’t believe that the carousel scene is being touted as the main teaser for Saw VI. I’ve seen the full clip and it is completely devoid of any suspense. It’s also deeply worrying that this odd CGI trailer says nothing about the film at all, apart from reiterating the “6” motif. Well whoopie shit. The only synopsis released by Lionsgate is this: Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy. However, when the FBI draws closer to Hoffman, he is forced to set a game into motion, and Jigsaw’s grand scheme is finally understood. It doesn’t bode well for the sixth instalment of a series that could and should...

This is absolute genius – someone has taken the trouble to cut a music video of Evil Dead III: Army of Darkness to Coldplay. Someone pitch this to Chris Martin. An MTV hit re-release beckons.

Jennifer’s Body – Official Trailer Starring: Megan Fox, Amanda Seyfried, Johnny Simmons, J.K. Simmons, Amy Sedaris, Adam Brody When Jennifer (Megan Fox) is possessed by a hungry demon, she goes from being high-school evil (gorgeous, stuck up and arrogant) to real-evil evil. Meanwhile, Jennifers best friend, Needy (Amanda Seyfried), long relegated to living in Jennifers shadow, must step-up to protect the towns young men, including her nerdy boyfriend Chip (Johnny Simmons). Writer/executive producer Diablo Cody (Juno) and director Karyn Kusana venture into darker territory, using horror laced with comedy to mine the precipitous terrain of adolescence. Whether Cody’s flair for dialogue (or tendency for cliche, depending on your point of view) transfers well to the horror genre remains to...