Tag Archives: Wes Craven

What do you think of the trailer for Scream 4?

  By Darren Byrne | October 19, 2010 - 5:31 pm | Movies & TV, The Culch
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Well, I have no idea what I was expecting, but I was definitely expecting something better than this. Maybe I was being naive, but it’s from Wes Craven!!! I thought he could do it again - revive a stagnating genre. He was the Prince of Horror in the 70s, the King of Horror in the 90s, but if this trailer is anything to go by, the king has gone the way of George III - he’s lost the plot. Update: The Weinsteins have removed the trailer from YouTube, but pop over to the Den of Geek and you can still see it there. Thoughts?

Coach Potato - Movies out on DVD this week

  By Niall | October 20, 2009 - 3:47 pm | Movies & TV, The Culch, TV
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Tuesday is the traditional day for movie studios and distributors to line retail and rental outlets with the newest DVD and Bluray releases for you to pick up on your way home. It’s a rather peculiar day but it’s been going on for years now so there’s not much chance of it changing. This week sees the release of a disappointing summer blockbuster, a remake of a classic horror movie, a documentary featuring some Irish sporting icons and a whole host of American TV.

Two Sheets To The Wind: Top 5 Horrors

  By Darren & Lottie | July 1, 2009 - 5:49 pm | Featured Post, Movies & TV, The Culch
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Now this one I have really been looking forward to. I’ve banged on before about my great affinity for Horror Movies, the scary, gory, funny and kitsch alike. I expected to sit down to toil over one of the toughest lists so far but my Top 5 came forth with relative ease and I somehow managed to choose my top 5 each from a slightly different sub-genre of horror. So here goes: Lottie’s Top Five Horror Movies 5. Wolf Creek (2005) “See? Head on a stick!” I am a firm believer that brutal violence does not a true horror make. That is the reason that the Saw Franchise won’t make my list, despite Saw I being a spectacularly horrific and clever movie. I want however to consider the movies that have really affected me and Wolf Creek certainly meets that criteria. I watched 70% of the film from behind the … There’s more →