Stars: Gaylen Ross, Tony Fish, Harriet Bass, Seth Jones, Jan Claire, Alexander Murphy Jr., Tom Candela, Frederick Neumann, Michael Sullivan, Paul Ehlers, Tom Veilleux, Stephen Clark, Vicki Kenneally, Shelley Mathes, Lori Mathes | Written and Directed by Joe Giannone
Urban Legends and camp-fires are the perfect way to start a horror film. Point to an old abandoned house and say that a crazy old man still lives there, you must not shout his name or he’ll come and get you. Perfect start to a slasher right? This is the basic plot for Madman, an early 80s genre flick which has had the Arrow Video Blu-ray treatment.
When a group of camp counsellors are telling scary stories around a campfire, they are warned not to say the name of Madman Marz, a crazy old farmer who is still said to haunt the woods around his abandoned home, conveniently close to the camp.
Urban Legends and camp-fires are the perfect way to start a horror film. Point to an old abandoned house and say that a crazy old man still lives there, you must not shout his name or he’ll come and get you. Perfect start to a slasher right? This is the basic plot for Madman, an early 80s genre flick which has had the Arrow Video Blu-ray treatment.
When a group of camp counsellors are telling scary stories around a campfire, they are warned not to say the name of Madman Marz, a crazy old farmer who is still said to haunt the woods around his abandoned home, conveniently close to the camp.
- 8/25/2015
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Stars: Gaylen Ross, Tony Fish, Harriet Bass, Seth Jones, Jan Claire, Alexander Murphy Jr., Tom Candela, Frederick Neumann, Michael Sullivan, Paul Ehlers, Tom Veilleux, Stephen Clark, Vicki Kenneally, Shelley Mathes, Lori Mathes | Written and Directed by Joe Giannone
Regular readers will know that I am not a big fan of the slasher genre. A lot of the times, I am just bored to tears. I would much rather watch a giallo when it’s at its most convoluted, than a ‘classic’ slasher. That being said, I’m a fair guy. I believe every film should be watched at least once before you offer your opinion. Thankfully, the lovely folks over at Vinegar Syndrome have been sending over many films that I have never heard of and films that I wouldn’t usually check out. Last year they released the slasher classic, Graduation Day. I was pleasantly surprised by the film...
Regular readers will know that I am not a big fan of the slasher genre. A lot of the times, I am just bored to tears. I would much rather watch a giallo when it’s at its most convoluted, than a ‘classic’ slasher. That being said, I’m a fair guy. I believe every film should be watched at least once before you offer your opinion. Thankfully, the lovely folks over at Vinegar Syndrome have been sending over many films that I have never heard of and films that I wouldn’t usually check out. Last year they released the slasher classic, Graduation Day. I was pleasantly surprised by the film...
- 7/15/2015
- by Mondo Squallido
- Nerdly
It’s a new year and film fans are looking forward to this year’s crop of movies. Some are more anticipated than others. Here is an alphabetical list of 14 of my most eagerly awaited films for 2014.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2: The first of several planned sequels to The Amazing Spider-Man ups the ante this time with three villains: Electro (Jamie Foxx), the Rhino (Paul Giamatti) and the Green Goblin (Chris Cooper). There is also a rumor that Felicity Jones may be playing the Black Cat. In the film, our arachnid hero learns more about the mystery of his parent’s deaths while the threat from Oscorp and its reclusive owner Norman Osborn begins to grow. Andrew Garfield reprises his role of the heroic Peter Parker/Spider-Man, and Emma Stone is back as his lovely love interest Gwen Stacy. Marc Webb directs. The film comes out on May 2 nd.
The Amazing Spider-Man 2: The first of several planned sequels to The Amazing Spider-Man ups the ante this time with three villains: Electro (Jamie Foxx), the Rhino (Paul Giamatti) and the Green Goblin (Chris Cooper). There is also a rumor that Felicity Jones may be playing the Black Cat. In the film, our arachnid hero learns more about the mystery of his parent’s deaths while the threat from Oscorp and its reclusive owner Norman Osborn begins to grow. Andrew Garfield reprises his role of the heroic Peter Parker/Spider-Man, and Emma Stone is back as his lovely love interest Gwen Stacy. Marc Webb directs. The film comes out on May 2 nd.
- 1/1/2014
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Rob Young)
- Cinelinx
Another year and another San Diego Comic Con has come and gone, one which will remain lodged in comic book fans’ minds for the foreseeable future, given how many thrilling – and in one case, shocking – announcements were made.
The event, which has transformed in recent years from a relatively niche geek fest to a 130,000-person strong multimedia event is the annual crunch time for movies, video games, TV and comics to announce their newest projects, and unveil those that we have been salivating to see.
This year certainly didn’t disappoint, festooning the attendees with footage hot off of the sets of several Marvel Cinematic Universe projects, while some chose to make announcements that none of us could ever have seen coming. Here are 10 awesome things we learned from this year’s Sdcc…
10. Robocop Doesn’t Look Awful
The Internet reception to the idea of a Robocop remake has so far been,...
The event, which has transformed in recent years from a relatively niche geek fest to a 130,000-person strong multimedia event is the annual crunch time for movies, video games, TV and comics to announce their newest projects, and unveil those that we have been salivating to see.
This year certainly didn’t disappoint, festooning the attendees with footage hot off of the sets of several Marvel Cinematic Universe projects, while some chose to make announcements that none of us could ever have seen coming. Here are 10 awesome things we learned from this year’s Sdcc…
10. Robocop Doesn’t Look Awful
The Internet reception to the idea of a Robocop remake has so far been,...
- 7/22/2013
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
This year's San Diego Comic-Con is quickly approaching and, as in years past, movie studios and game companies are flocking to the event to showcase their upcoming projects. With press releases overflowing in my inbox about which films will be showcase (and where), I've decided to mash them all together into one convenient article for you. Come inside to see which movies will be on hand from which studios.
Sdcc 2013 is happening next week! Hard to believe it's already here, but Cinelinx will be there and will be providing the all the latest for you to enjoy from the comfort (safety?) of your own home. It's easier to break this down by the press releases I've received so enjoy!
Summit Entertainment:
* Summit Entertainment will showcase the studio's highly anticipated film event Ender's Game at Comic-Con 2013, presenting never-before-seen new footage, appearances by cast members and filmmakers, and several massive, interactive fan events.
Sdcc 2013 is happening next week! Hard to believe it's already here, but Cinelinx will be there and will be providing the all the latest for you to enjoy from the comfort (safety?) of your own home. It's easier to break this down by the press releases I've received so enjoy!
Summit Entertainment:
* Summit Entertainment will showcase the studio's highly anticipated film event Ender's Game at Comic-Con 2013, presenting never-before-seen new footage, appearances by cast members and filmmakers, and several massive, interactive fan events.
- 7/5/2013
- by feeds@cinelinx.com (Jordan Maison)
- Cinelinx
Samuel L. Jackson has joined the cast of MGM’s upcoming “RoboCop” remake.
He will play Pat Novak, a powerful media mogul and character that was not in the original so little is known about him at this stage. The coup of Jackson though is a significant one, another impressive bit of casting after it was announced that Gary Oldman will play a scientist named ‘Norton’ in the film, who helps create RoboCop.
Joel Kinnaman who is leading as Alex Murphy/RoboCop recently made some comments directed at fans who are worried about the remake;
“I used to be like “Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?” But then, we do that all the time in the theater. If we weren’t doing remakes, nobody would know who Shakespeare was, I’m not saying that RoboCop is Shakespeare, but that’s what we do as human beings.
He will play Pat Novak, a powerful media mogul and character that was not in the original so little is known about him at this stage. The coup of Jackson though is a significant one, another impressive bit of casting after it was announced that Gary Oldman will play a scientist named ‘Norton’ in the film, who helps create RoboCop.
Joel Kinnaman who is leading as Alex Murphy/RoboCop recently made some comments directed at fans who are worried about the remake;
“I used to be like “Why are we doing a remake? What are remakes being done for?” But then, we do that all the time in the theater. If we weren’t doing remakes, nobody would know who Shakespeare was, I’m not saying that RoboCop is Shakespeare, but that’s what we do as human beings.
- 6/7/2012
- by Amarpal Biring
- Obsessed with Film
Would you buy this for a dollar?
The awesome series of Robocop is now out in Blu-ray, with all three of the original films in one set. The Robocop films have a style all their own; they are profoundly 80's in style, yet still retain their own character and soul.
I watched the first film the other day for the first time in well over a decade. The murder of Alex Murphy (played wonderfully by Peter Weller) in the first film is just surprisingly disturbing stuff, even by today's standards, and helped set the tone for all of the dark humor and action to follow. Another thing to enjoy is the good old-fashioned practical effects, which includes stop frame animation in the deployment of Robocop's main mechanical adversary, the Ed-209.
The extras on the collection lay on the lean side, or even rather non-existent. It is a bit curious...
The awesome series of Robocop is now out in Blu-ray, with all three of the original films in one set. The Robocop films have a style all their own; they are profoundly 80's in style, yet still retain their own character and soul.
I watched the first film the other day for the first time in well over a decade. The murder of Alex Murphy (played wonderfully by Peter Weller) in the first film is just surprisingly disturbing stuff, even by today's standards, and helped set the tone for all of the dark humor and action to follow. Another thing to enjoy is the good old-fashioned practical effects, which includes stop frame animation in the deployment of Robocop's main mechanical adversary, the Ed-209.
The extras on the collection lay on the lean side, or even rather non-existent. It is a bit curious...
- 12/15/2010
- by Tristan Sinns
- Planet Fury
Ray Wise, the familiar character actor who did terrible things to Alex Murphy in Robocop, and terrible things to Laura Palmer in Twin Peaks, is about to do terrible things to some mutants.
IGN got the scoop that Wise has joined the cast of Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class, which is frantically shooting right now to make its impending summer release.
Said Wise, "I'm playing the Secretary of State of the United States. I'll be going over there in the next couple of weeks."
Fun Fact! This will not be Wise's first foray into superheroics, as he played the doomed Doctor Alec Holland who becomes the title character in Wes Craven's 1982 Swamp Thing.
IGN got the scoop that Wise has joined the cast of Matthew Vaughn's X-Men: First Class, which is frantically shooting right now to make its impending summer release.
Said Wise, "I'm playing the Secretary of State of the United States. I'll be going over there in the next couple of weeks."
Fun Fact! This will not be Wise's first foray into superheroics, as he played the doomed Doctor Alec Holland who becomes the title character in Wes Craven's 1982 Swamp Thing.
- 12/1/2010
- UGO Movies
The three films making up the Robocop canon finally make their bow on blu-ray (with the Verhoeven's 1987 original arriving on the format a couple of years back, but who's keeping track), and it's interesting to revisit this franchise with ever-diminishing returns 20 years after the fact.
Robocop still stands as one of the great action films that still works as a brilliant piece of satire, thanks to the script by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner which plays off the anxiety over the collapse of the inner city and the increasing reach of big business. Corporate entities have no obligation to anyone but shareholders, and humans can easily be turned into commodities, given the right circumstances. 23 years on and surprising how relevant the movie remains: Detroit is still a terrible place to live and over the last decade we've seen corporations become less shy about effecting social change, be it ousting public...
Robocop still stands as one of the great action films that still works as a brilliant piece of satire, thanks to the script by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner which plays off the anxiety over the collapse of the inner city and the increasing reach of big business. Corporate entities have no obligation to anyone but shareholders, and humans can easily be turned into commodities, given the right circumstances. 23 years on and surprising how relevant the movie remains: Detroit is still a terrible place to live and over the last decade we've seen corporations become less shy about effecting social change, be it ousting public...
- 11/21/2010
- Screen Anarchy
.I.ll buy that for a dollar!. Well, two out of three ain.t bad. The sticker on the cover loudly proclaims .first time on Blu-ray. but it.s only partially true. The true part will only make you wish that more effort would.ve been put into the classic film and not on its lackluster sequels. Robocop (1987): In a future Detroit (well, maybe not.), out of control crime has made it a not so nice place to live. Officer Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) steps into a rundown police precinct after being transferred there and meets up with his new partner officer Lewis (Nancy Allen). The police force is run by Omni Consumer Products which is in turn run by the Old...
- 10/28/2010
- by Jeff Swindoll
- Monsters and Critics
You can’t keep a good cop down. Even after you’ve shot him all to pieces. Hey, it’s the future, and they have the money, so they’ve rebuilt him into the perfect cop — part human, part machine, and all badass cop! One ultra-violent original and two lackluster sequels later, Robocop finally arrives on Blu-ray in a “Robocop Trilogy” from 20th Century Fox. Robocop: In Robocop (1987), a terminally wounded cop in crime-ridden Detroit returns to the force as a powerful cyborg with submerged memories haunting him. In the not-too-distant future, bad guys rule the streets, the cops are helpless to stop them, and big corporations like Omni Consumer Products rule the roost. Our hero is Alex Murphy (Peter Weller), a good cop who comes face to face with some very bad guys led by Clarence J. Boddicker (“That 70s Show’s” Kurtwood Smith). After Murphy gets the...
- 10/15/2010
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
The stories surrounding Darren Aronofsky's involvement with Robocop are about as up and down as Officer Alex Murphy's vital stats. After months of serious news drought on the reboot, David Self - who's penning the remake - explained that the director is still attached. In an interview with Styd, Self explained; "I’m still involved with it and Darren Aronofsky’s still involved with it...We’re waiting for MGM to sort things out since they’re a large corporation and it’s a situation where we...
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- 2/11/2010
- by Total Film
- TotalFilm
80's robot is a promising movie theme to begin this column. Basically any movie with this combination could fit in the Best-Worst category but I've managed to narrow it down to the three most satisfying. Rocky 4 (1985) Directed Sylvester Stallone. Like the Godfather trilogy, the Rocky series seems to have poor connotations with anything made after the sequel. Upon revision, Rocky 4 does hold some merit and somehow was the highest grossing Rocky. Stallone's Orson Welles-like efforts in addition to one of the most unintentionally hilarious 80's-robot characters in any movie makes Rocky 4 a true gem. In this part of the series Rocky blames himself for his friend Apollo Creed's death and heads to the Soviet Union to settle it the only way he knows how: in the ring. Rocky is set to fight killing machine Ivan Drago, a killing machine with priceless cold-blooded one-liners. Apart from Drago, Rocky's innocent,...
- 10/22/2009
- by Melanie
- SoundOnSight
Usually we see animated cartoons as a separate entity from live-action movies, or else they spawn a major movie event or franchise. This would be the case with G.I. Joe, which opens this Friday, August 7 in theaters nationwide. However, there are a select number of memorable animated television series that were based on a live-action movie. Having broke the mold in that sense, we decided to come up with our list of the Top Ten Animated Series Based on a Movie. Each of these animated series garnered various levels of success and popularity from various eras on TV nostalgia.
10. Tales From the Cryptkeeper (1993)
This early 90’s cartoon of course was based on the HBO Series and two Movies (Demon Night and Bordello of Blood). Of course the content was completely watered down, taking out the violence and other questionable material.Instead the episodes were about machines that turned people into wax,...
10. Tales From the Cryptkeeper (1993)
This early 90’s cartoon of course was based on the HBO Series and two Movies (Demon Night and Bordello of Blood). Of course the content was completely watered down, taking out the violence and other questionable material.Instead the episodes were about machines that turned people into wax,...
- 8/4/2009
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
- Back in my college days I took a World Cinema course that focused exclusively on the works of Paul Verhoeven. My professor was obsessed with the guy, which if you were to ever meet him would make perfect sense. The man was convinced Showgirls was the greatest modern film ever made – I kid you not. Of course he was a bit of a letch so no surprises there. The class actually was surprisingly good as it opened me up to the filmmaker’s earlier works. I even wrote a shot analysis for his 1987 Sci-Fi classic Robocop and as a result I know the film inside out. So when news hit out of Comic-Con that Darren Aronofsky has been brought on to resurrect the franchise I couldn’t help but smile. For those of you not in the know, the original film was an equally brutal and satirical examination of
- 7/25/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
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