Surprising to some, Batman and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have some commonalities. After all, the half-shell heroes were initially created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird as a parody of Frank Miller’s work on Daredevil, before coming to DC and turning his talents to The Dark Knight. Both properties work best in the shadows and had the producers of this animated adventure leaned into that, this could have been a cut above an obvious cash grab.
The participants have met before, in three miniseries from DC Comics and Idw in addition to one strictly set in their “Adventures” incarnations, aimed more at all-ages readers. Now, we have Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a briskly paced story. It’s not bad, but boy, it could have been so much more had anyone made an effort.
The versus portion of the story is the most obvious bit of fan...
The participants have met before, in three miniseries from DC Comics and Idw in addition to one strictly set in their “Adventures” incarnations, aimed more at all-ages readers. Now, we have Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a briskly paced story. It’s not bad, but boy, it could have been so much more had anyone made an effort.
The versus portion of the story is the most obvious bit of fan...
- 6/10/2019
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last several years, you’ve most likely heard of Game of Thrones, the HBO-developed adaptation of George R. R. Martin’s long-running ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ series of novels. With the show’s seventh season set to premiere next summer, Game of Thrones shows no signs of slowing down in terms of popularity, even with HBO planning to end it after the eight season.
There’s plenty to love when it comes to Game of Thrones; it’s a wonderfully cast show with an interesting and diverse set of characters, and the attention to detail on display is nothing short of spectacular. It’s also hard to ignore the show’s original music, especially its iconic theme song, which is composed by veteran musician Ramin Djawadi. You’ve probably heard Djawadi’s work before; his music can be...
There’s plenty to love when it comes to Game of Thrones; it’s a wonderfully cast show with an interesting and diverse set of characters, and the attention to detail on display is nothing short of spectacular. It’s also hard to ignore the show’s original music, especially its iconic theme song, which is composed by veteran musician Ramin Djawadi. You’ve probably heard Djawadi’s work before; his music can be...
- 8/26/2016
- by Shaan Joshi
- We Got This Covered
Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever was something of a breath of fresh air when it came out back in 2002, his debut feature displaying an obvious love of the genre while playing it just serious enough to provide an alternative to the slew of self-aware clones of Wes Craven’s Scream trilogy that had concluded two years previously.
It wasn’t a perfect film, but it was enjoyable and sufficiently gory to appeal to the horror crowd, and holds up to the day as a great Saturday night fright flick to watch with a pizza and a few beers. Quite why Roth, who is a producer on the film (one of seventeen!), decided that it needed a remake, then, is puzzling. The original came out only fourteen years ago, which is a short time frame to be remaking or rebooting a franchise (unless it’s Spider-man, of course, which has been...
It wasn’t a perfect film, but it was enjoyable and sufficiently gory to appeal to the horror crowd, and holds up to the day as a great Saturday night fright flick to watch with a pizza and a few beers. Quite why Roth, who is a producer on the film (one of seventeen!), decided that it needed a remake, then, is puzzling. The original came out only fourteen years ago, which is a short time frame to be remaking or rebooting a franchise (unless it’s Spider-man, of course, which has been...
- 5/4/2016
- Shadowlocked
“Babe, you made the best choice ever! You won’t regret this, I promise.” Created by Mezco Toyz, this Tiffany doll—based on her look from Bride of Chucky—speaks six phrases and is available to pre-order now. Also in this round-up: a Q&A with Kevin Riepl, the composer of the Cabin Fever reboot, and the Blu-ray details for the 1993 horror thriller The Crush!
Bride of Chucky Doll: From Mezco Toyz: “First introduced in the film Bride Of Chucky, Tiffany was the devoted girlfriend of killer Charles Lee Ray before his soul transferred into the ‘Good Guy’ doll that would come to be known as Chucky. After Chucky ended up in a police evidence vault, Tiffany used her feminine wiles to rescue him. When Chucky electrocutes her in a bathtub, he transfers her soul into a bridal doll. Now trapped in a doll body, Tiffany joins Chucky on his...
Bride of Chucky Doll: From Mezco Toyz: “First introduced in the film Bride Of Chucky, Tiffany was the devoted girlfriend of killer Charles Lee Ray before his soul transferred into the ‘Good Guy’ doll that would come to be known as Chucky. After Chucky ended up in a police evidence vault, Tiffany used her feminine wiles to rescue him. When Chucky electrocutes her in a bathtub, he transfers her soul into a bridal doll. Now trapped in a doll body, Tiffany joins Chucky on his...
- 2/27/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
The International Animated Film Society, Asifa-Hollywood, has announced the nominations for the 43rd Annual Annie Awards and "Inside Out" and "The Good Dinosaur," both Pixar movies, led the pack! "Inside Out" received fourteen nominations while "The Good Dinosaur" got nine.
My pick of the year for best animated feature is "Inside Out" but I love Charlie Kaufman's "Anomalisa" as well which picked five noms.
We'll find out the winners of the Annie Awards on February 6th!
Here is the full list of nominees in all categories of the 43rd Annie Awards:
Best Animated Feature
Anomalisa
Paramount Pictures
Inside Out
Pixar Animation Studios
Shaun the Sheep The Movie
Aardman Animations
The Good Dinosaur
Pixar Animation Studios
The Peanuts Movie
Blue Sky Studios, Twentieth Century Fox Animation
Best Animated Special Production
Elf: Buddy.s Musical Christmas
Warner Bros. Animation
He Named Me Malala
Parkes-MacDonald / Little Door
I Am A Witness
Moonbot...
My pick of the year for best animated feature is "Inside Out" but I love Charlie Kaufman's "Anomalisa" as well which picked five noms.
We'll find out the winners of the Annie Awards on February 6th!
Here is the full list of nominees in all categories of the 43rd Annie Awards:
Best Animated Feature
Anomalisa
Paramount Pictures
Inside Out
Pixar Animation Studios
Shaun the Sheep The Movie
Aardman Animations
The Good Dinosaur
Pixar Animation Studios
The Peanuts Movie
Blue Sky Studios, Twentieth Century Fox Animation
Best Animated Special Production
Elf: Buddy.s Musical Christmas
Warner Bros. Animation
He Named Me Malala
Parkes-MacDonald / Little Door
I Am A Witness
Moonbot...
- 12/2/2015
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Eli Roth gave us something special to share with you cats who are eagerly awaiting the upcoming remake of Cabin Fever… your first ever sample of the film’s score! In the video below you’ll find composer Kevin Riepl bringing on… Continue Reading →
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- 3/16/2015
- by Steve Barton
- DreadCentral.com
Composer Kevin Riepl’s resume includes a wide variety of video games, movies, and television. His movie credits include last year’s highly-disturbing Contracted and 2012′s Silent Night. He’s composed music for the Gears of War series, Borderlands 2 and Twisted Metal: Black. Recently, he scored the Square Enix-published Nosgoth, and last week he sat down with Bloody-Disgusting to talk about working with ABCs of Death contributing director Kaare Andrews on Cabin Fever: […]...
- 8/11/2014
- by T. Blake Braddy
- bloody-disgusting.com
Chicago – We’ve all seen the girl at the party. You know the one who catches your eye as she walks by. She’s beautiful but alone, looks a little lost, and, sadly, almost always winds up with some other guy. Eric England introduces us to such a girl at the beginning of his film “Contracted” and then spends the rest of the movie’s runtime punishing the hell out of her as a mysterious and fast moving Std eats away at all the things that had us looking in the first place.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The genius of England is he’s able to keep us looking as that pretty face disintegrates because the real problem is something else. Sam is subject to a perfect storm of rape culture, personal insecurities and friends and family determined to bring her into line with their own agendas. Where it all ends up is not entirely unpredictable.
Rating: 3.5/5.0
The genius of England is he’s able to keep us looking as that pretty face disintegrates because the real problem is something else. Sam is subject to a perfect storm of rape culture, personal insecurities and friends and family determined to bring her into line with their own agendas. Where it all ends up is not entirely unpredictable.
- 3/31/2014
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Let's just get it out of the way from the beginning: it'd be really hard to make a worse Cabin Fever (2002) sequel than Cabin Fever 2 (2009). Arguably the only weak movie in Ti West's filmography (and he's not a big fan of it himself), Cabin Fever 2 was the victim of endless studio tinkering, release delays, and really sloppy post-production decisions. The sequel has gone on to earn a small but vocal fanbase, however, and Eli Roth's original squirm-fest continues to bring in new horror geeks all the time. So surely there's some gas left in this franchise's tank, right?
Shockingly... yes! That's not to say that the slow-starting, frequently predictable Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero is some sort of miniature classic, but if you liked Part 1 and you struggled through Part 2, you'll certainly find a few meaty morsels of splatter-laden lunacy in Part 3. Plus it has some of those...
Shockingly... yes! That's not to say that the slow-starting, frequently predictable Cabin Fever 3: Patient Zero is some sort of miniature classic, but if you liked Part 1 and you struggled through Part 2, you'll certainly find a few meaty morsels of splatter-laden lunacy in Part 3. Plus it has some of those...
- 2/28/2014
- by Scott Weinberg
- FEARnet
Gamers have been singing the praises of the Gears of War series since the first epic installment broke out to major acclaim. That first entry featured a tough, muscular score by the talented Kevin Riepl (Aliens: Colonial Marines) which helped set the gritty, ultra-violent tone of the series and remains one of my personal favorite game scores. Since then, the following two Gow editions went for a more sweeping, grandiose landscape, accompanied by uplifting themes by another celebrated composer, Steve Jablonsky – whose primary credits began in feature films (including the 2003 Texas Chainsaw Massacre remake and its prequel), and whose work in those games took on an appropriately cinematic quality. Jablonsky is joined by Jacob Shea (a frequent collaborator with Hans Zimmer, including The Dark Knight) to accompany the latest chapter in the hit saga, which fuses the heavy, adrenaline-pumping elements of part 1 with the broader canvas of 2 and 3. Much like...
- 4/4/2013
- by Gregory Burkart
- FEARnet
One of the most eagerly anticipated films of the season is about to be released on Blu-ray/DVD, and if you live in or around Burbank, California, you can meet members of the cast and crew of Silent Night at Dark Delicacies on December 4th to celebrate the mayhem.
A very loose remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night, the new film’s stellar cast includes Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, Rob Zombie’s Halloween, Easy A), Jaime King (Sin City, My Bloody Valentine 3D), Donal Logue (Shark Night 3D, Blade), Lisa Marie (Sleepy Hollow), Brendan Fehr (Final Destination, X-Men First Class) and Ellen Wong (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World).
McDowell and King star as a small-town sheriff and deputy on the hunt for a murderous Santa Claus terrorizing their community on Christmas Eve. But with the streets full of Santas for the annual Christmas parade, the killer is hiding in plain sight.
A very loose remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night, the new film’s stellar cast includes Malcolm McDowell (A Clockwork Orange, Rob Zombie’s Halloween, Easy A), Jaime King (Sin City, My Bloody Valentine 3D), Donal Logue (Shark Night 3D, Blade), Lisa Marie (Sleepy Hollow), Brendan Fehr (Final Destination, X-Men First Class) and Ellen Wong (Scott Pilgrim vs. The World).
McDowell and King star as a small-town sheriff and deputy on the hunt for a murderous Santa Claus terrorizing their community on Christmas Eve. But with the streets full of Santas for the annual Christmas parade, the killer is hiding in plain sight.
- 12/2/2012
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Silent Night‘s limited theatrical release starts today and the movie will be released to Blu-ray/DVD next week. If you’re interested in meeting some of the cast and crew, including director Steven C. Miller, there will be a signing event taking place at Dark Delicacies next week:
What: On Tuesday evening December 4th, fans of a certain homicidal holiday figure can rejoice when cast and crew of Silent Night will be at Burbank’s legendary Dark Delicacies bookstore to sign Blu-rays and DVDs of the remake of the 80s cult horror classic.
When: Tuesday, December 4th, 7:00pm
Where: Dark Delicacies Bookstore
3512 W. Magnolia Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91505
(818) 556-6660
Who: Director Steven C. Miller;
Co-star Cortney Palm;
Director of Photography Joseph White;
Composer Kevin Riepl;
Editor Seth Flaum
Details: Santa Claus is coming to town. Heaven help the naughty! On December 4th, Anchor Bay Films unwraps Silent Night on Blu-ray™/DVD combo and DVD.
What: On Tuesday evening December 4th, fans of a certain homicidal holiday figure can rejoice when cast and crew of Silent Night will be at Burbank’s legendary Dark Delicacies bookstore to sign Blu-rays and DVDs of the remake of the 80s cult horror classic.
When: Tuesday, December 4th, 7:00pm
Where: Dark Delicacies Bookstore
3512 W. Magnolia Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91505
(818) 556-6660
Who: Director Steven C. Miller;
Co-star Cortney Palm;
Director of Photography Joseph White;
Composer Kevin Riepl;
Editor Seth Flaum
Details: Santa Claus is coming to town. Heaven help the naughty! On December 4th, Anchor Bay Films unwraps Silent Night on Blu-ray™/DVD combo and DVD.
- 11/30/2012
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
The holidays are not complete without viewing a few horror classics, and fans will be able to watch Steven C. Miller's Silent Night in limited theaters on November 30th and pick up the Blu-ray/DVD on December 4th. We sat down with soundtrack composer Kevin Riepl to get some terrifyingly bloody details on the upcoming film!
The soundtrack hit iTunes (click here to order) yesterday; to learn more about Kevin, visit KevinRiepl.com.
Related Story: Silent Night Theatrical Plans Unveiled
Amanda Dyar: For the new film Silent Night, you composed a chilling soundtrack for a horror film set during the holidays. How were you able to incorporate or take the festive sounds of Christmas that normally bring happy thoughts to people's minds and make them frightening for Silent Night?
Kevin Riepl: To be honest, I initially started off thinking that I didn't want to incorporate the 'usual' sounds of the holidays,...
The soundtrack hit iTunes (click here to order) yesterday; to learn more about Kevin, visit KevinRiepl.com.
Related Story: Silent Night Theatrical Plans Unveiled
Amanda Dyar: For the new film Silent Night, you composed a chilling soundtrack for a horror film set during the holidays. How were you able to incorporate or take the festive sounds of Christmas that normally bring happy thoughts to people's minds and make them frightening for Silent Night?
Kevin Riepl: To be honest, I initially started off thinking that I didn't want to incorporate the 'usual' sounds of the holidays,...
- 11/27/2012
- by Amanda Dyar
- DreadCentral.com
With Steven C. Miller's Silent Night set to hit limited theaters on November 30th and Blu-ray/DVD on December 4th, we have an early holiday gift in the form of the film's soundtrack, which is available on iTunes Now!
From the Press Release:
Award-winning composer Kevin Riepl (Aliens: Colonial Marines, The ABCs of Death, The Aggression Scale) has created a dramatic and suitably festive original music score for Anchor Bay Film's upcoming Silent Night, directed by Steven C. Miller (Automaton Transfusion, The Aggression Scale). Featuring dark ambient chills, orchestral thrills, and holiday sleigh bells, Riepl's seasonal horror score for Silent Night is released today, November 26, by Pale Blue Soundtracks on iTunes (click here). On November 30, Anchor Bay Films presents Silent Night on screen in ten major U.S. metropolitan areas. The Blu-ray/DVD combo and DVD will be available to unwrap nationwide on December 4.
Commenting on Riepl's music for Silent Night,...
From the Press Release:
Award-winning composer Kevin Riepl (Aliens: Colonial Marines, The ABCs of Death, The Aggression Scale) has created a dramatic and suitably festive original music score for Anchor Bay Film's upcoming Silent Night, directed by Steven C. Miller (Automaton Transfusion, The Aggression Scale). Featuring dark ambient chills, orchestral thrills, and holiday sleigh bells, Riepl's seasonal horror score for Silent Night is released today, November 26, by Pale Blue Soundtracks on iTunes (click here). On November 30, Anchor Bay Films presents Silent Night on screen in ten major U.S. metropolitan areas. The Blu-ray/DVD combo and DVD will be available to unwrap nationwide on December 4.
Commenting on Riepl's music for Silent Night,...
- 11/26/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
We have more New York Comic Con 2012 news to share, this time in the form of the Maestros of Horror and Sci-Fi Music Panel taking place on Friday, October 12th, which is home to seven composers and soundtrack producers from some of your favorite video games.
From the Press Release:
Award-winning composers Jason Graves (Dead Space series), Kevin Riepl (Aliens: Colonial Marines, Gears Of War), Sam Hulick (Mass Effect trilogy), Cris Velasco (Mass Effect 3, Clive Barker's Jericho), Sascha Dikiciyan (Mass Effect 3, Tron: Evolution), Tom Salta (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary), plus very special guest Grammy® award-winning artist/producer Nile Rodgers, founder of Sumthing Else Music Works--the premier label for video game soundtracks including Halo 2: Volume One, the best-selling video game soundtrack of all time--will discuss the art form of writing and producing music for video games, with specific focus on the horror and sci-fi genres.
The panel will be...
From the Press Release:
Award-winning composers Jason Graves (Dead Space series), Kevin Riepl (Aliens: Colonial Marines, Gears Of War), Sam Hulick (Mass Effect trilogy), Cris Velasco (Mass Effect 3, Clive Barker's Jericho), Sascha Dikiciyan (Mass Effect 3, Tron: Evolution), Tom Salta (Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary), plus very special guest Grammy® award-winning artist/producer Nile Rodgers, founder of Sumthing Else Music Works--the premier label for video game soundtracks including Halo 2: Volume One, the best-selling video game soundtrack of all time--will discuss the art form of writing and producing music for video games, with specific focus on the horror and sci-fi genres.
The panel will be...
- 9/21/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Press Release:
Celebrated Genre Composers Score Resistance: Burning Skies™
(Los Angeles, CA) – Award-winning composers Jason Graves (Dead Space) and Kevin Riepl (Gears of War) have created an original score for Resistance: Burning Skies™, the first fully portable, true first person shooter experience only available on Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (Scea)’s PlayStation®Vita (Ps Vita) handheld entertainment system. Developed by Nihilistic Software, Resistance: Burning Skies is the Ps Vita debut of the popular PlayStation®3 (PS3™) computer entertainment system’s first person shooter franchise,Resistance®. Graves and Riepl each wrote forty minutes of emotional, suspenseful and epic action orchestral music, delivering the most dynamic and thrilling score in the series yet. Resistance: Burning Skies is scheduled for release on May 29.
Set in an alternate universe, Resistance: Burning Skies stays true to the franchise with unique 1950′s Americana locations and hordes of returning and never-before-seen Chimera. Taking place in the Resistance...
Celebrated Genre Composers Score Resistance: Burning Skies™
(Los Angeles, CA) – Award-winning composers Jason Graves (Dead Space) and Kevin Riepl (Gears of War) have created an original score for Resistance: Burning Skies™, the first fully portable, true first person shooter experience only available on Sony Computer Entertainment America LLC (Scea)’s PlayStation®Vita (Ps Vita) handheld entertainment system. Developed by Nihilistic Software, Resistance: Burning Skies is the Ps Vita debut of the popular PlayStation®3 (PS3™) computer entertainment system’s first person shooter franchise,Resistance®. Graves and Riepl each wrote forty minutes of emotional, suspenseful and epic action orchestral music, delivering the most dynamic and thrilling score in the series yet. Resistance: Burning Skies is scheduled for release on May 29.
Set in an alternate universe, Resistance: Burning Skies stays true to the franchise with unique 1950′s Americana locations and hordes of returning and never-before-seen Chimera. Taking place in the Resistance...
- 5/30/2012
- by Erin Willard
- ScifiMafia
Resistance: Burning Skies is coming on May 29th for the PlayStation Vita, and with the highly anticipated release of Aliens: Colonial Marines later this year, we decided to bring you a special treat: the inside scoop from the composer of both releases, Kevin Riepl.
Kevin Riepl is an award-winning film composer and recording artist (aka Damage Vault) writing for multiple entertainment genres. His engaging and atmospheric scores have enhanced numerous indie films such as ABCs of Death, Clemency, The Aggression Scale and Henri. In video games Riepl is best known for composing the rousing signature score for Gears of War.
Dread Central: Every famous composer has a unique story to tell about how they eventually arrived in the music industry. How were you able to turn your passion for musical composition into a highly successful career?
Kevin Riepl: Not sure how unique mine is, but I guess everyone's...
Kevin Riepl is an award-winning film composer and recording artist (aka Damage Vault) writing for multiple entertainment genres. His engaging and atmospheric scores have enhanced numerous indie films such as ABCs of Death, Clemency, The Aggression Scale and Henri. In video games Riepl is best known for composing the rousing signature score for Gears of War.
Dread Central: Every famous composer has a unique story to tell about how they eventually arrived in the music industry. How were you able to turn your passion for musical composition into a highly successful career?
Kevin Riepl: Not sure how unique mine is, but I guess everyone's...
- 5/9/2012
- by Amanda Dyar
- DreadCentral.com
With the first episode of "The Walking Dead" almost finished shooting, several reports have identified additional actors involved in the project.
According to I Am Entertainment Magazine, Robert "IronE" Singleton (pictured) has signed on to portray one of the survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse. Dread Central also indicates that Singleton will portray a new character called T-Dog. Singleton has previously appeared in "The Blind Side" and the upcoming feature “The Hungry Rabbit Jumps” opposite Nicolas Cage and Guy Pearce.
Variety is reporting that Emma Bell ("Frozen") has also joined the cast as a college student among the survivors. Thus far, speculation on her role has centered on her resemblance to Amy, the sister of Laurie Holden's character, Andrea.
The Walking Dead Podcast noted two additional names that were added to the cast: Keith Allen Hayes and Steve Warren. While Warren is listed on "The Walking Dead" IMDb page as...
According to I Am Entertainment Magazine, Robert "IronE" Singleton (pictured) has signed on to portray one of the survivors of the Zombie Apocalypse. Dread Central also indicates that Singleton will portray a new character called T-Dog. Singleton has previously appeared in "The Blind Side" and the upcoming feature “The Hungry Rabbit Jumps” opposite Nicolas Cage and Guy Pearce.
Variety is reporting that Emma Bell ("Frozen") has also joined the cast as a college student among the survivors. Thus far, speculation on her role has centered on her resemblance to Amy, the sister of Laurie Holden's character, Andrea.
The Walking Dead Podcast noted two additional names that were added to the cast: Keith Allen Hayes and Steve Warren. While Warren is listed on "The Walking Dead" IMDb page as...
- 6/22/2010
- by Blair Marnell
- MTV Splash Page
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