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Nov 5 2012 05:59 PM ET

Santa Claus plus flamethrower equals 'Silent Night' trailer -- VIDEO

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Christmas may be the most wonderful time of the year but, according to the trailer for the new horror film Silent Night, it’s also the time of the year when you are most likely to get electrocuted, axed, or burned to a crisp by an industrious, flamethrower-wielding Father Christmas. “We’re just going to have to take this maniac down ourselves!” declares Malcolm McDowell towards the end of the clip, which only seems fair, given that he’s actually playing a cop (was the A Clockwork Orange star hoping the Salvation Army might blast the guy to smithereens first?).

This loose remake of 1984′s Silent Night, Deadly Night yo-ho-argggh!’s its way into select cinemas on November 30 — and is available on DVD and Blu-ray from December 4 — but you can check out the trailer below.

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Nov 5 2012 05:29 PM ET

'Skyfall' star Naomie Harris on joining the world of (and shaving) James Bond

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Actress Naomie Harris battled rage virus-infected psychos in 28 Days Later and faced off against scurvy-aceous seafaring rascals in the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise. So tackling mere spy-types in the new James Bond adventure Skyfall must have been a walk in the park, right? Au contraire! “Actually, I think it was the hardest of anything I’ve ever done,” says Harris who plays a field agent named Eve in the film. “Although I’ve done action stuff before I’ve never been called upon to do it for such a long period of time. I really got my butt kicked.”

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Nov 1 2012 02:51 PM ET

'V/H/S': Horror anthology sequel to feature segments directed by the makers of 'The Raid,' 'Hobo with a Shotgun,' and 'The Blair Witch Project'

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The horror anthology revival continues. It was announced today that the multi-tale-featuring found footage terror flick V/H/S is set to spawn a sequel, V/H/S/2. The film will feature segments directed by Gareth Evans (The Raid), Jason Eisener (Hobo with a Shotgun), Adam Wingard (You’re Next), Timo Tjahjanto (Macabre), V/H/S cowriter Simon Barrett, Eduardo Sanchez (The Blair Witch Project), and Sanchez’s long-time producing partner Gregg Hale. According to the official announcement, the sequel “will be similar in structure to the original, living within the mythology established by the first film and following the same basic tenants, with each director taking on a specific sub-genre of horror.”

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Nov 1 2012 02:50 PM ET

'Cockneys vs. Zombies' will lurch into U.S. cinemas next year

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Rejoice, fans of cockneys, zombies, and British sitcom legend Richard Briers. Shout Factory! announced today that it has acquired distribution rights to the U.K. horror-comedy Cockneys vs. Zombies. The company plans a multi-platform roll out which will include making the film available through video-on-demand, DVD and Blu-ray releases, and distributing the movie to select cinemas. In addition to Briers, Cockneys vs. Zombies stars Honor Blackman (British TV show The Avengers), Alan Ford (Snatch), and onetime Bionic Woman Michelle Ryan.

Shout Factory! is also set to distribute the action-thriller Tower Block, which like Cockneys vs. Zombies was penned by James Moran, whose other credits include Doctor Who, Torchwood, and the 2006 horror film Severance.

You can check out the extremely foul-mouthed red-band trailer for Cockneys vs. Zombies below. READ FULL STORY »

Oct 24 2012 12:36 PM ET

'Big Trouble In Little China' gets the 'Gangnam Style' treatment in parody clip -- VIDEO

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For much of the 1986 martial arts action-comedy Big Trouble In Little China, Kurt Russell’s truck-driving hero Jack Burton exists in a state of complete, and hilarious, confusion (“Where are we, Wang?” “What’s happening, Wang?” “Jesus Christ, where are we?”). So heaven knows what Burton would have to say about the new, jaw-droppingly elaborate parody clip “Lo Pan Style” which melds director John Carpenter’s way-ahead-of-its-time movie with Psy’s globe-conquering horsey-hit “Gangnam Style.” But the video does feature James Hong, who actually played the villainous Lo Pan in the original film, and has also apparently been given the thumbs up by Carpenter himself – which is good enough for us.

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Oct 16 2012 08:42 PM ET

Is Javier Bardem playing the first gay Bond villain in 'Skyfall'? Bardem and director Sam Mendes weigh in

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Bond villains have always flirted with homoeroticism. You could say it’s as much a part of of the franchise’s 50-year-old formula as all of the girls, gadgets, and glamor. Whether it’s Goldfinger aiming his laser at 007′s royal jewels, the coy cat-in-his-lap quips of Blofeld, or even Lotte Lenya’s butch villainess Rosa Klebb in From Russia With Love, the Bond films have subtly toyed with a sexual subtext. But in the latest Bond installment, Skyfall, Javier Bardem pushes the gay envelope farther than it’s ever been pushed before.

The Spanish actor dons a blonde wig as the latest 007 nemesis, Silva — a cyberterrorist who has a complicated history with Bond’s boss at MI6, M (Judi Dench). And his first encounter with Daniel Craig’s license-to-kill agent is sure to get fans squirming in their seats. Which, according to Bardem, was exactly the point.

Asked if his character has an interest in Bond beyond just world domination, Bardem admits, “You could read it that way. That option was there in the script. The word that [director Sam Mendes] kept using was ‘uncomfortableness’. Beyond the sexuality, he wanted it to feel like you don’t know if Silva’s joking or not.”

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Oct 4 2012 01:18 PM ET

Documentarian hopes to make film about failed movie that inspired fake movie in Affleck's 'Argo.' Got that?

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Ben Affleck’s Argo tells the true-life tale of a CIA agent who posed as the producer of a science fiction epic to rescue six Americans trapped in Iran in 1979. Now, another filmmaker wants to tell you a different part the story — but he needs your help to finish it.

For six years, Judd Ehrlich has been working on a documentary called Science Fiction Land, and the Emmy-nominated filmmaker just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $50,000 to complete the project. The non-fiction flick takes its title from a proposed theme park that would have been spun out of the success of a would-be sci-fi blockbuster, and profiles the unrealized ambitions of an idealistic Hollywood dreamer named Barry Ira Geller. Says Ehrlich:  ”My documentary explores the real life sci-fi story that’s truly stranger than fiction.”

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Oct 2 2012 02:45 PM ET

'Argo': Check out scenes from Ben Affleck's Iran-hostage Oscar hopeful -- VIDEO

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You’re about to start hearing a lot about Ben Affleck and Argo. With summer’s sugar-shock tentpoles and men-in-tights-apaloozas officially on hiatus until next Memorial Day, theaters are beginning to fill up with movies aimed at grown-ups (and Oscar voters). One of the best of the bunch is Affleck’s directorial follow-up to The Town. It’s one of the craziest true stories you’ll ever see. Argo, which comes out on Oct. 12, tells the long-classified saga of how CIA agent Tony Mendez hatched and carried out a top-secret operation that rescued six American diplomats stranded in Tehran during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.

Affleck didn’t just direct the film, he also stars (underneath some decidedly ’70s facial hair) as Mendez — a maverick exfiltration expert who enlists the help of a Hollywood producer (Alan Arkin) and a Tinseltown makeup artist (John Goodman) to whisk the Americans out of Iran by having them pretend to be a film crew for a phony sc-fi epic called.. .Argo. The film also stars Breaking Bad‘s Bryan Cranston.

In these extended clips from Argo, you’ll get a taste of not only the absurdity of Mendez & Co.’s  real-life mission — as Cranston’s CIA handler says in one scene, “This is the best bad idea we have” — but also the welcome touches of  Ocean’s 11-style caper absurdity that Arkin and Goodman lend to an otherwise nail-biting thriller as they plan their ridiculous Star Wars rip-off. “My biggest fear was the competing tones,” says Affleck. “Part of the movie is a comedy/satire on Hollywood and part of it is more serious — people were hostages in Iran and my fear was if it was too silly, the audience would just think, Oh, I see, we don’t need to care about any of them and we know it will all work out. It was a tough balance to pull off.”

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Oct 1 2012 11:14 AM ET

'Wake In Fright': Check out a clip from the long lost Australian classic -- EXCLUSIVE

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Wake In Fright is not the easiest movie to sum up in a couple of sentences, but the fact that goth overlord and Proposition screenwriter Nick Cave has described this 1971 thriller as “the best and most terrifying film about Australia in existence” gives the potential viewer some hint of what is in store.

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Sep 27 2012 01:46 PM ET

'Paranormal Activity 4': Check out the new trailer

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The first two Paranormal Activity movies left a lot of questions unanswered with regard to Katie Featherston’s possessed Katie and her character’s infant nephew Hunter with whom she absconded at the end of PA2. Questions like, “So, uh, what happened next to Katie Featherston’s possessed Katie and her character’s infant nephew Hunter with whom she absconded at the end of PA2?”.

That particular query went unanswered by the last year’s prequel Paranormal Activity 3 and when EW recently spoke with PA3 and Paranormal Activity 4 directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman they were predictably tight-lipped about the plot of the franchise’s forthcoming fourth entry and whether Featherston even appears in the movie (“We’re not allowed to say but she definitely haunts our dreams,” is all Joost would admit).

The new PA4 trailer, on the other hand, strongly hints that the film will clear up the situation: In fact, that’s the promise it makes right at the start. Also featured? A creepy kid (is that Hunter? Maybe) a shadowy female figure (is that Katie? Could be) and a fridge full of food (is it time for me to grab some lunch? For sure).

Check out the trailer for the film — which arrives in cinemas October 19 — and tell us what you think.

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