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| Kristin Stewart (Bella Swan in 'Twilight') on Catherine Hardiwcke |
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  Kristin Stewart, who plays Bella Swan in the upcoming Twilight movie (out Nov 21) told SciFi Wire what she really thinks of the director of her vampire movie, Catherine Hardwicke:
"Catherine's really a cuckoo bird. She's got an energy like no other person I've ever met before. She's very, very present. She doesn't leave you alone. You don't ever feel like you have to go through this by yourself. If anything, she does not lack enthusiasm. This is her life. She works 24-7. This was her life for like a year. So I've built quite a nice relationship with her. It was really good. It was very collaborative. We all had a lot of control. We didn't feel like we were being told what to do. We were all in it together."
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Posted by Superheidi on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 @ 02:00:00 CST
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| Paris Hilton Interview: 'Repo! The Genetic Opera' |
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 Paris Hilton. You know her for being rich, being blond, partying, getting a DUI, going to jail, coming out of jail reformed, and for having a Chihuahua named Tinkerbelle that mysteriously got replaced by a series of 15 or so other small dogs-as-accessories. But do you ever think about Paris the horror actress? You won’t forget that she was a highlight of the House of Wax remake (her death was so awesome!). You also shouldn’t forget that she now stars in Repo! The Genetic Opera, a Goth/rock opera by SAW veteran Darren Lynn Bousman as Amber Sweet, a vapid, vacant, and fairly evil young woman addicted to money and plastic surgery who desires a singing career. That might not have been such a stretch for Paris, actually. We talked to Paris about it and here’s what she had to say… |
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Posted by Superheidi on Monday, November 03, 2008 @ 00:00:00 CST
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| Tucky Williams of 'Dead Moon Rising' I & II |
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A tall, sexy, blonde with a sword in her hands leaps into the midst of a mass of zombies approaching a small group of survivors. The survivors watch open-mouthed as she proceeds to dispatch the creatures almost effortlessly with the weapon. When she seems to grow tired of that sport she simply drops a stick of dynamite into the horde blowing them to bits and ending the threat, for the moment. All in a days work for Vix, the bad-assed-beauty in Mark Poole’s indy-zombie-epic: Dead Moon Rising. However, as interesting as the character Vix may be, Tucky Williams, the actress behind the sword wielding heroine is even more intriguing...
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Posted by Superheidi on Friday, October 10, 2008 @ 04:00:00 CDT
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| An Interview with producer Elizabeth Stanley |
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 Trailers From Hell features various film “gurus” – mostly cult and horror film directors who get to comment on the trailers of schlocky, funny, campy, scary, or just plain weird film trailers from days of the grindhouse era and beyond. Film producer Elizabeth Stanley started Trailers From Hell with Joe Dante (director), web guy Jonas Hudson and graphic artist Charlie Largent. The series was born out of their mutual love of classic films of all types, but particularly horror and exploitation films.
Elizabeth Stanley was the executive for the Directors Guild-Producer Training Plan from 1987 to 1997, and then served seven years as Assistant Executive Director/Director of Organizing for the Directors Guild of America. She left the DGA in late 2004 to establish Elizabeth Stanley Pictures, her independent production company, and Next Stop Management, her literary management shingle. Elizabeth stopped by Pretty/Scary to share her love of exploitation and horror films, as well as some news about her recent producing projects (like the horror web series The Dark Path Chronicles, directed by Mary Lambert, for Fearnet)...
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Posted by Superheidi on Monday, September 22, 2008 @ 01:00:00 CDT
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| Christy Marx: Creator of 'Jem & The Holograms' |
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 Little girls in the 1980s all over the world wanted to be Jem. Jem had pink hair, her own band, a mansion, ran a charity for cool girls who had run away from home called The Starlight Foundation, and had friends with purple, blue, and red hair. Jem also had a double identity and a hot boyfriend named Rio who was not the center of her universe. When she wasn’t singing for charity, Jem was fighting the “bad” girls of the band The Misfits, who constantly wanted to create chaos and steal Jem’s glory. Jem was also a cartoon, and she was created and written by one Christy Marx, who managed to create the first truly outrageous character who wasn’t a superhero and who liked the things that real little girls did: shopping, glitter, music, pink, and being awesome. Christy joins us for an interview about the legacy of Jem and the Holograms…
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Posted by Superheidi on Tuesday, September 02, 2008 @ 02:00:00 CDT
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| Georgina Spelvin; The Devil Made Her Do It |
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 Georgina Spelvin made a name for herself in the adult film industry after years of acting in legitimate Broadway plays in the 1950’s and 60’s. It wasn’t until 1974 that she became a phenomenon when The Devil in Miss Jones, the adult movie about a woman who descends into a sort of sexual hell, was released to critical acclaim and shocked and aroused audiences. The Devil in Miss Jones came out at a time when pornography was still seen in theaters and other adult films, like Behind the Green Door, were considered masterpieces of art as well as subversively sexual entertainment. Now, at 72, the actress who made Miss Jones a woman everyone knows, even if they’re not into porn, bares all in an autobiography called The Devil Made Me Do It. If you ever had any questions for Georgina Spelvin about her career (which spanned cult classics in comedy, thriller, and porn genres), now is the time. Georgina stopped by Pretty/Scary to talk to us about her life, career, and why everyone should read her book…
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Posted by Superheidi on Monday, August 25, 2008 @ 02:00:00 CDT
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| Ann VanderMeer is frickin' weird... |
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by Gabby Goff
 If you are not familiar with the name Ann VanderMeer, then you should familiarize yourself immediately. She is only the second female editor that has ever graced the position for Weird Tales magazine in its entire eighty-five year life-span! She is the founder of BuzzCity Press—an award winning press that has put out notables such as Michael Cisco and her very own husband Jeff VanderMeer. And now she plans on taking over the world with piracy! Or, you could just read this splendorifious (yes, RIFious) interview and learn some cool things about her. Things like who she is voting for president, why she digs Jeff, what she thinks about self-proclaimed writers, and about how she lets those school kids talk her into buying anything.
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Posted by GabbyGoff on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 @ 00:36:28 CDT
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| Horror Author Sarah Langan ('The Keeper', 'The Missing') |
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 Sarah Langan is one of those young authors whose debut novel, The Keeper, soared to new heights on bestseller’s lists everywhere. It also won the 2007 Bram Stoker awards for Outstanding Novel. Her follow-up, The Missing, takes place in the same small town of Corpus Christi, Maine where people starts suffering from a mysterious illness that “changes” them internally as well as externally in ways no other sickness has ever affected human beings. This young outstanding horror author is also a Master’s candidate in Environmental Health and Toxicology, from which her novels derive much of their major underlying horrors. Her third novel, Audrey’s Door, is not related to The Keeper and The Missing but will still make your head explode from the horror.
“I’m not so sure I’m famous, but I love that people read my books. Meeting fans is a trip. I love it when they come out to conventions just to say hello, or have me sign a first edition. I feel very lucky to have that experience.” - Sarah Langan
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Posted by Superheidi on Monday, August 11, 2008 @ 03:00:00 CDT
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| Tricia Helfer's hair woes... |
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 Sexy Cylon Caprica Six, better known in reality as Tricia Helfer, on Battlestar Galactica, reveals that being a hot sexy Cylon in a tight slinky dress and destroying mankind has a downside. Oh, and she is definitely not having more fun as a blond. In a recent interview with TVSquad, she says,
"Yeah I [bleached my hair] for the mini-series, the first season and for half of the second season. When we started the second season, every episode my hair gets thinner and thinner and thinner, and shorter and shorter and shorter, and then finally it started falling out in chunks and they had to give me a wig."
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Posted by Superheidi on Friday, August 08, 2008 @ 16:06:16 CDT
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| The Lesbian Fiction Awards - I mean, ''Golden Crown' Awards |
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 The Golden Crown Literary Society—the premier organization for the support and nourishment of quality lesbian literature - presented the fourth annual "Goldies," Saturday evening, August 2, 2008, in a lavish awards ceremony attended by 180 people from the publishing, writing, editing, and reading worlds. In addition to Catherine Lundhoff's story collection Crave winning for Best Erotica, the genre winners of the 2008 Goldies were...
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Posted by Superheidi on Thursday, August 07, 2008 @ 01:00:00 CDT
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| Kelley Armstrong, 'Bitten' by the Horror Bug |
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 By Paula Haifley, werewolf fanatic
Kelley Armstrong looks incredibly normal for the woman who has written the best panicked-crowd-at-a-rave-stampedes-and-slips-in-blood-and-entrails-while-a-werewolf-plays-with-a-severed-head scene in American literature. Armstrong was one of the best cases of “horror authors look just like the rest of us, they’re just more interesting.”
"When asked, 'what do I call this genre?', I say 'paranormal suspense'." - Kelley Armstrong
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Posted by Superheidi on Monday, August 04, 2008 @ 03:00:00 CDT
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| The Geek Genius of 'Spaced' and Jessica Hynes |
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Spaced was a groundbreaking example of nerd culture. The BBC series, which started in 1999 and ran for only fourteen episodes, was about aspiring comic creator Tim and writer Daisy, two twenty-somethings posing as a couple so that they could rent a flat. The characters, played by co-creators and writers Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes (nee Stevenson), were soon surrounded by an urban family of friends and neighbors, and their shared apartment became the center of their wacky world. The show was a biography of modern self-referential geekdom, with references from Star Wars to Woody Allen, and a DVD of the entire series was finally released in the US on July 22nd. The show launched the careers of Hynes, Pegg, and director Edgar Wright, and showcased a whose-who of British comedic actors, like Ricky Gervais...
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Posted by Superheidi on Friday, August 01, 2008 @ 02:00:00 CDT
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| Jaime King on 'The Spirit' |
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 Intrepid reporter Fred Topel of SciFi Weekly reported that actress jaime King of the new comic book moivie The Spirit had a lot to say this past weekend at the San Diego Comic Con. She expressed that the film will be closer to what Eisner envisioned in his comic rather than what Miller did in 300. King plays Lorelei Rox, whom she described simply as "The Angel of Death."
"I have a feeling people are going to be like, 'Oh, it's so much like Sin City,' but what people don't understand is that [Miller's] films mimic exactly what's in his comic books. So it's very [much] like 300/Sin City in a way, but it's even more different than that. It's just different than anything you've ever seen. It's definitely Frank Miller."
Of the noir-ish feel and black and white imager? "It is pretty old style," King said. "Frank has a very romantic, old-style way of writing, so it's like that."
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Posted by Superheidi on Tuesday, July 29, 2008 @ 14:18:42 CDT
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| Valerie Castro of 'The Period' |
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 By Andrew Shearer - In a dimly lit bathroom, surrounded by candles, a pair of lovers sit naked lying against one another in a bathtub. Romantic? Not quite. The tub is filled with blood, blood that flows in a constant stream from between one of the lovers’ legs. In a matter of moments, a quarrel ensues, one woman is beating the other across the face with her breasts and choking her with them. The next, her partner fights back by standing up to deliver a violent burst of menses right into her face, shouting, “have a little sample from my VULVA-MATIC!”
This isn’t even close to being the most bizarre, funny or creative scene from The Period, an epic, art-meets-trash masterpiece for the no-budget camcorder filmmaking age. And like so many of the films you’ll read about here at Pretty-Scary, it could not have been made without the help of some extremely brave and talented women. After interviewing The Period cast/crew member Valerie Castro (wielder of the malicious mammaries), I couldn’t help but be completely enamored by her. She’s funny, colorful, witty, and full of the kind of microcinema war stories I never tire of hearing...
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Posted by Superheidi on Monday, July 28, 2008 @ 03:00:00 CDT
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| Rebekah Brandes of 'Midnight Movie' |
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 Rebekah Brandes is a talented young actress who started out doing really bad B-movies. With me. Rebecca has since moved on to bigger and better things, like the upcoming Midnight Movie, a really awesome haunted-theater-fright-fest in which she plays the lead. And she plays it well. Rebekah has always had talent and that’s why she’s left us all in the dust. We love her anyway. Midnight Movie features a midnight showing of an early 1970's horror movie that to chaos when the killer from the movie comes out of the film to attack those in the theater. Like Rebekah. Rebekah spills about this movie and how she got this incredibly fun role in a film… actually shot on film!
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Posted by Superheidi on Monday, July 21, 2008 @ 08:00:00 CDT
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