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Doc Rottens Halls of Horror: Second-Tier Draculas

• Oct 10, 2010 from horrornews(Horrornews.net) in Entertainment
  In 1897, Archibald Constible & Co. first published Bram Stokers epistolary horror novel, Dracula, and introduced the literary world to the vampire Count: a legend was born. When the motion picture business matured, the story became fodder for film adaptation, first with F.W. Murnaus Nosferatu (1922), where the names were changed to avoid copyright, and then with Todd Brownings Dracula (1931). The following decades would see many adaptations of the terror classic. Some of the more successful include Hammer Films Horror of Dracula (1958), John Badhams Dracula (1979) and Francis Ford Coppelas Bram Stokers Dracula (1992). These films gave birth to horror icons and popular incarnations of the toothy count: Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Frank Langella and Gary Oldman. Not every attempt to film Count Dracula met with the same success; there have been many pretenders to the throne.
  
  The same year Hammer Films introduced Christopher Lee as Count Dracula in Horror of Dracula (1958), United Artists released The Return of Dracula (1958) with Francis Lederer in the title role. In the film, Dracula comes to California and invades a small-town family, posing as their long estranged cousin, Bellac Gordal. Lederers Dracula is one of the first contemporary attempts as vampire folklore. It is also the first time the vampire is able to turn into a wolf. Shot in black and white, The Return of Dracula also has the surprise insert of color as blood runs red from the wound of an impaled vampire bride, a trick William Castle would perform more famously a few years later in The Tingler (1959) staring Vincent Price.
  
  
  John Carradine would portray Count Dracula, or similar vampires, numerous times and for numerous studios. He started playing the Count for Universal in the House of Frankenstein (1944). Two decades later, he would take an infamous turn at the myth with William Beaudines Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966). In the old west, Carradines Count Dracula makes a play for Billy the Kids fiance, Elizabeth Bently. In this weird west tale, Billy the Kid turns hero and saves his girl from the clutches of the vampire king. Billy the Kids vs. Dracula is a bizarre mess of a movie and sinks Dracula to a sad low. The film was often double-billed with Jesse James Meets Frankensteins Daughter.
  
  Japan takes a stab at the count with Lake of Dracula (1971) casting Mori Kishida as Dracula, or at least some confusing descendent of the vampire legend. This Count is suitably more feral given the decade it was created, but the European lore mixed with modern Japan doesnt always work. This film is the second in Director Michiro Yamaotos vampire trilogy, the other two being Vampire Doll (1970) and Evil of Dracula (1974).
  
  That same year, in Al Adamsons camp-fest Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971), Zandor Vorkov takes a silly and lazy turn as Count Dracula. In modern California, Dracula arrives at the home of Doctor Frankenstein and offers to revive the infamous Monster in exchange for a serum that will grant him immortality. His plans to achieve immortality fail miserably when he must battle the revived Frankenstein Monster and survive the rising sun. Adamsons and Vorkovs Dracula is a cheap, cartoonish knock-off of the popular incarnations of Dracula from the corner drug store and Halloween marketing. His costume is fake and unrealistic and his face is garishly painted white with purple eye-shadow and bright red lips. His voice is given an echoed makeover throughout the entire picture. Somehow, it remains entertaining none-the-less, if for all the wrong reasons.
  
  Blackploitation introduces Blacula to the vampire mythos a year later with Blacula (1972). In the prologue to the main story, William Marshalls Prince Mamuwalde encounters Count Dracula under rather diplomatic settings, requesting his assistance in battling rampant the slave trade troubling his people; however, the vampire refuses his requests and reveals his true intentions and allegiances. Charles Macaulays enraged Dracula curses the Prince, turning him into a vampire, and imprisons him in a coffin for over 200 years. The Count Dracula in Blacula is not the suave supernatural hunter of the night as in many other films, but a regal diplomat, apparently known (although not as a vampire) throughout the world.
  
  Richard Matheson adapts the classic tale for the television film Dan Curtis Dracula (1973) with Jack Palance cast as Count Dracula. Curtis and Matheson infuse a lot of Dark Shadows nonsense into the standard plotline, bringing in a resurrection subplot, having Lucy be a spiritual descendent of his long lost love, and upping the romantic elements. Even so, Palance strikes a strong and menacing king of the vampires, imposing and domineering. And, perhaps because of the typical Curtis additions to the script, Palance is also able to bring a larger range of emotions to Count Dracula. Falling short of becoming anything close to classic, Dan Curtis Dracula is still an excellent addition to the...

Fantastic 5: Interview w/ Adam Green, Danielle Harris & Kane Hodder of HATCHET 2

• Sep 26, 2010 from fantasticfest(Fantastic Fest) in Entertainment
  Hatchet 2 premieres Sunday, Sept. 25th at the Alamo South Lamar and shows again on Monday, Sept. 26th at 11:59 p.m.You wont want to miss it. Do so and Kane Hodder will hunt you down and kill you with his bare hands.
  Some film critics argue that originality in the horror genre is dying. Enter writer and director Adam Green to give an adrenaline shot right to the heart of it. Greens HATCHET franchise, which chronicles the legend of iconic killer Victor Crowley, has brought thrills and fun to a genre that is being smothered by lazy remakes.
  Fantastic Fest is proud to premiere HATCHET 2, a return to Victor Crowleys killing grounds in the Louisiana swamps. Danielle Harris, who first dazzled us with her work in HALLOWEEN 4: THE RETURN OF MICHAEL MYERS, plays Marybeth, a victim of Crowleys who lost her brother and father in the first film. Kane Hodder (Jason Voorhees of the FRIDAY THE 13TH franchise) returns as Victor Crowley to wreak havoc on those foolish enough to enter the swamps. He also plays Victors father, Thomas, adding to the mythology of the Crowley family.
  The three horror legends sat down with us and were happy to chop up the Fantastic 5 questions we had for them. In sequel fashion, we added a little bit extra for your reading pleasure.
  Fantastic Fest: Kane, can you talk a little bit about what the mythology of Victor Crowley means to you. You get to kind of go both ways in playing both the father
  Danielle Harris: Youre going both ways, Kane! (Laughs.)
  Kane Hodder: Whoa.
  FF: You get to play two different roles! (Laughs.) Yes, at the end of this interview magazines will say, This just in! Kane Hodder goes both ways, and youre like, I am going to strangle Adam Sweeney. (They laugh.) You play the father, Thomas Crowley, as well as Victor. What does that mean to you?
  KH: Well, its incredible to play a character people love after just one outing. To come back and play it again, it was a difficult shoot but I couldnt wait to do it. Adam expanded the Mr. Crowley stuff so I got to do more of that, which is nice. He keeps having me do new things, things Ive never done before. Theres a new one that we did in which I do something Ive never done, but we cant talk about that.
  Adam Green: We can talk about it. Its been announced.
  KH: Yeah?
  AG: I had him dance.
  DH: Nice!
  KH: Can we talk about the character?
  AG: We showed it, so yeah, thats okay.
  DH: I didnt see it!
  AG: We showed it at Frightfest. Its called The Diary of Anne Frankenstein.
  FF: Did you say The Diary of Anne Frankenstein? Awesome.
  AG: Its set in the 1940s, black and white, and its all spoken in German and subtitled. Joel David Moore plays Dr. Frankenstein and Kane plays Mashugina, the Frankenstein monster, so to speak. Its very funny and like Mel Brooks. The best part is its all in German, everyone I cast is German but Joel David Moore does not know German. I didnt let him learn any German so he is trying his best through the whole thing. (They laugh.)
  KH: Hes speaking gibberish and it sounds great because hes convincing. The subtitles read whatever Adam wanted them to.
  AG: People at the screening came up and said, The guy playing The Fuhrer is good but his German is not so great. But he was saying things like Osh Kosh BGosh. (They laugh.) It took a while for people to understand what he was saying. He was yelling, Boba Fett! at the top of his lungs.
  KH: And at the end of it I dance. I have never been asked to dance in a film.
  DH: How did you do it?
  KH: Not very well! (Laughs.) I do it after I do something violent at the end.
  FF: Adam, youve had this character brewing inside for so long. We saw some of the back story in the first film. At what point did you say, Okay, thats enough. Its tough to find a balance between kills and having a character who is sympathetic.
  AG: I took a bit of a gamble with the first one because I knew I wanted it to be a story carried out with sequels. To have a good killer you need someone with a somewhat sympathetic back story but also filled with holes on purpose. We had a character with Marybeth who knew the urban legend of Victor. He didnt know his whole story, how he was born, who his mother was,where he came from or what he actually is. That way the sequel was actually more of an opportunity to deliver more. So we go back and see not only the moment Victor Crowley is born, but we see the moment he is conceived. That, I think, is what makes it better than the original. It adds so much to the story and even starts at the same frame we end on. Its almost like putting down a book and then you pick it up to see a hard cut of Victor Crowley screaming and has Marybeth by the neck. The fans so far, the ones who have seen it, really appreciate that because its not like the first one. You get questions answered and Victor Crowley really comes into his own.
  People always want to compare you to other films. Because you have an unstoppable killer, trees are in the film and there is Kane Hodder people say, Oh, its just like Jason....

The Big Switch to Internet TV & How Clicker Aims to be Your TV Guide

• Sep 30, 2010 from readwriteweb(ReadWriteWeb) in Technology
  Television is one of the biggest markets in entertainment, but it is at the early stages of a huge shift online. While most people still watch TV through cable and via traditional linear programming, increasingly TV will be delivered over the Internet and with the user in charge of their own programming. The big TV networks are already making moves to prepare for this shift, of course, with efforts like Hulu.
  Just as interesting to watch is how new startups will design for the changing usage patterns of TV consumers. Clicker is one such company. Co-founded by ex-Ask.com CEO Jim Lanzone, Clicker aims to be the TV Guide of Internet TV. I spoke with Lanzone to find out how the idea came about and to hear his thoughts on how Internet TV is evolving.
  
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  How Clicker Was Conceived
  RWW: How did you come up with the idea for Clicker and what was the inspiration for it?
  "The goal is to build the ultimate programming guide for the next generation of TV, which is about navigation and discovery."
  Jim Lanzone: Every Monday, Dave Goldberg [at the time an entrepreneur-in-residence at Benchmark] and I would go to Starbucks on Sand Hill Road and brainstorm together. He pointed out to me that in the 70s, TV Guide was worth more than the big three networks combined. We agreed that television was going to be online and when that happened, finding what to watch or figuring out what you want to watch was a lot more like a search and navigation problem than a schedule grid - you know, a calendar - which was what TV Guide has been over the last 50 years.
  So we just started brainstorming [on that] for about a month. And then, I got very, very serious about it. Bill Gurley at Benchmark and I then started talking more seriously about it. Dave was not ready to jump in at that point, maybe that early. And so the more I talked about it with them, the more serious I got about wanting to start a company around it. I was looking at all kinds of other things to do, other public companies to go to or take over somebody else's start-up. This [Clicker] was definitely the riskiest, but it was the one that I felt the most passionate about. Also I loved the idea of being able to get some of the members of my old product and technology teams back together to tackle a new problem.
  
  Building the Product
  RWW: Tell us about how you started the company and the beginnings of the product.
  Jim Lanzone: I raised money from Bill at Benchmark and then from Jeff Yang at Redpoint. Bill found a small little company in Los Angeles that had been putting together a very early-stage version of what I wanted to build. But mostly doing it manually, you know - not with technology. The company was called 'Modern Feed.' And so we actually acquired them as part of the funding. We subsumed them into our company.
  I started hiring some of the main people from the Ask.com technology team [which Lanzone used to lead]. That was the foundation of the Clicker team. It really all came together in January of '09, and then we launched into beta at TechCrunch 50 in September of '09, and then out of beta just two months later at Bill Mallow's Conference at UTV in November.
  The first year was spent building the kernel of the company; the real asset that we have that we can deploy in many different ways, which is the database of shows, episodes, movies, music videos, and live events on the web. And the technologies that maintain and update that on automated basis [and] organized in a structured data fashion.
  The goal is [to build] the ultimate programming guide for the next generation of TV, which is about navigation and discovery. So it's not just finding TV shows, it's also how you decide what to watch.
  Next Page: Who's Watching Internet TV? Plus the Second Screen vs Set-Top Boxes debate...
  
  Who's Using Internet TV?
  RWW: How many users do you have now and where are they coming from?
  Jim Lanzone: Clicker has 1.5 million users, with over 90% coming from the United States.
  "The core audience of Internet TV is much younger than I originally thought."
  We're experiencing 25-30% monthly growth. It's almost all organic, but they're not coming through SEO. It has been word of mouth in Twitter and Facebook and articles and things like that.
  RWW: Internet TV is a huge potential market, but it's still early stages. Who are your current users and when will Internet TV go mainstream?
  Jim Lanzone: The core audience of this thing [Internet TV], it's much younger than I originally thought. I'm an entertainment junkie, but when we started even I did not understand the generational divide that we're seeing with online television versus traditional television. The way I kind of break it down is under 30 and over 30. If you can remember a television that has a knob, then you're not the target audience for internet television. I mean early adopters will, but the average person won't.
  The incredible opportunity for internet television is a world of infinite video on demand. It's no...

In Case You Missed It: Sep. 19 - Sep. 25

• Sep 26, 2010 from MacLifeMag(Mac|Life) in Technology
  Well, Autumn is officially here, gang, the beginning of the long indoor season if you live in a cold and rainy part of the country (hello, Seattle!). While the Mac|Life staff will be kicking back with 80 degree weather this week, some of the rest of you might be cuddled up indoors, listening to the rain, reading on your iPads, watching a movie or two, or at least fighting with some Angry Birds. Here's a full dose of our best of the week to help you make the most of your rainy days. Features:- How To Make the Most Out of VLC for iPad - Okay, this one was one of those dream apps we've been craving since the day the iPad came out. It wasn't everything we'd hoped (get on the format stick, guys!), but hopefully that'll improve. Until then, here's the skinny on your movie consumption.- Four Augmented Reality Apps You Actually Want on Your iPhone - Smartphones get smarter and smarter every go-around, but we're not quite to Minority Report just yet (luckily). But for when you want information while out and about, here's four (plus a few more) apps that give you the goods.How-Tos:- How To Extract Audio from FLV Files - Sometimes the only place to find a song is on YouTube, which is unfortunate if you want to groove while you're on the move. But that's why we were all born with audio extraction software clutched in our grubby little fists. Of course you don't know how to use it yet, but that's what Mac|Lifers are for, getting those YouTube tunes into iTunes. You're welcome.- iPhone and iPad Tips of the Week - Folders and High Contrast Mode - We bring you this feature every week, but every so often we go that extra mile and really give you the good stuff, not just the basics. Well, you asked for it, and we've got a few tips and tricks that go even beyond your phone this week.Reviews:Between the two reviews below, we're basically helping you figure out if you can ditch your cable in these perilous economic times, so dig in.- Elgato EyeTV One Review - Now here's a handy device. If you've got a new-fangled digital antenna to pick up your local stations, plug this baby into your Mac and it becomes a TV, but here's where it gets good. EyeTV will let you schedule recordings of shows (one at a time) and there's even an app to make it happen. How about that for a solution?- Hulu Plus Review - When you pair free local TV with Hulu, you're not missing out on much anymore, but how does their Plus service stack up? Well, on the desktop you get a lot more (still not everything for the completists), but there's troubling gaps in the mobile versions episode lists which are held up by licensing which is (hopefully) being negotiated successfully. Throw in a basic Netflix and your cable bill's topping out around 20 bucks. Now there's some real cash savings.News:Well, there's news, and there's NEWS, and this story falls into the latter category. Apparently someone took the stick out of the butt of the App Store because -- hello! -- Google Voice apps are showing up for the iPhone, so grab 'em now!...speaking of the once forbidden now arriving for your iPhone pleasures, may we recommend Napster? Sure, it's a shell of its former glory as illegal file sharing service, but it's a legend after all. Respect...things that once were not but now are seems to be a trending topic here, as the iPhone 4 plus two new Apple Stores are showing up in China...because the iPhone is HUGE in South Korea, HUGE!...but what's apparently not showing up, despite the rumor bandied about in this article, is a Facebook smartphone. Or is it?....but if they were, maybe they'd use something like Droidthing which helps choose the correct Android phone...but since you're not buying one of those gizmos, maybe you'd be interested in using your iPhone in a Mercedes or BMW prototype...we're sure plenty of those Android people would switch if it wasn't for AT&T, and guess what? The carrier's not all that worried about a Verizon version, so what's the hold up, kids?...I mean, apparently Apple's ready to start cranking out the CDMA models, sooooo? What's going on?...oh, it's like that is it, Verizon CEO? Really? Really, really? Man, you people know how to crush dreams....As long as we have our iPads to keep us warm while we await the hopefully inevitable Verizon iPhone, it's nice to know Apple's adding retailers, like Target to the mix...because Munster's predicting big sales in 2011. How big? Well, how does 21 million sound? Pretty big...and with improvements like exporting and MobileMe integration into the iWork for iPad suite, these babies are going to get even more attractive to the enterprise market...plus apps like Fuze Meeting that lets you host a meeting, not just join in one, actually be the host of one and manage it straight from your iPad...of course, many businesses are still pretty tied to their Blackberry action, so maybe this new tablet from RIM might be more their speed, not that we'd be all that interested ourselves...oh, the MobileMe, what can't it do? Well,...

Movie Review Endhiran [The Robot]: Rajnikant at his best

• Oct 01, 2010 from headlinerwatch(Headliner Watch) in Entertainment
  Robot
  There are two main highlights of this ROBOT: it is very demanding to bring on screen a concept like this and secondly, yeah you guessed it right, Rajinikanth. He is totally an unparalleled actor in our industry. You can get an idea of his worth when his name comes rolling in the credits. The overwhelming response in the theatre confirms the true star quality of this artist.
  ROBOT, directed by Shankar, is an authentic Rajinikanth movie that leads you to a journey towards a world far away from your expectations. Rajinikanths list of achievements is endless but ROBOT takes this king to a yet another level. This Robot not only carries out the instructions of his creator but also does some meager tasks like cooking, fighting, romancing and other unbelievable tasks like conversing with a mosquito and scanning heaps of books/magazines or telephone directory in as less a time as a second.
  This Robot is the amalgamation of all the super-heroes combined together, be it Superman or Spiderman or Terminator or even Godzilla. This Robot can do almost anything from facing a brutal battle to replicating himself into an Anaconda or taking the form of a monster ball to make an entire army disappear. ROBOT is the most expensive movie done by Shankar and he could not have chosen anyone better than Rajinikanth to portray its larger than life image.
  ROBOT is set in Chennai with the most important mission of creating a robot Chitti that can help the society. A human being is created who can sing, dance and fight like normal creatures but is at the same time fire and water resistant. He can do everything that a human being can and a lot more. He lives on electricity. He carries out the instructions literally. He is yet to learn to lie like humans to save him self.
  Although he has a razor sharp memory and can store the entire telephone directory in his memory by just swiftly scanning the pages, he cannot decipher human emotions. Dr. Vasi updates Chittis processor to stimulate human emotions without being aware of its dire consequences. Chitti is completely changed. He begins to feel and encounters with his first emotion of LOVE. But will this prove to be a deterrent for Dr. Vasis original purpose? Or will he prove to be a Frankenstein for its own creator?
  ROBOT is definitely more than just visual effects. It has a definite plot and an inherent soul to it. In the beginning ROBOT appears to be a conflict between the righteous (Rajinikant) and the cruel (Danny Dengzonpa). But after the interval it mainly focuses on the creator (Rajinikanth) and his invention (Rajinikanth).ROBOT showcases the entire trademark Rajinikanth stints if not more. He is seen gliding through the railway tracks, transforming himself into an Anaconda, swallowing helicopters and even taking a shot at people using his fingers sans a pistol.
  The screenplay of this movie is really engrossing. The entire journey is appealing but the last 25 minutes keep you glued to your chairs. The climax is just out of the world and will surely give you something to take back home.
  The songs may seem as a hindrance to the smooth flowing plot of the movie even if they are shot at exotic locations.
  Shankar has justified the subject totally and has reestablished his identity as a successful director in the industry. A.R. Rahman music may prove as a speed breaker at times but they have been shot with a good taste. The stunt coordinator, Yuen Woo Ping (of Matrix and Kill Bill sequels fame) has generously shown off his expertise. The outdoor locations of Austria, U.S.A and Brazil add an exotic appeal to ROBOT.
  ROBOT is a Rajinikanth movie through and through. Aishwarya Rai Bachchan looks classy and Danny Denzongpa is really convincing.
  In short, ROBOT will leave you asking for more because you can never have enough of Rajinikanth. So, if you miss ROBOT its entirely your loss!