...ce of the HeadlessHorseman is completely believable. `I basically like the whole world,` he says of what the film achieved. `I think that was the thing I was most happy about: the opportunity to make a place in that complete fantasy. Also, it was a re...
Don’t bother looking up Leonard Kirtman in your Hollywood book of who’s who. Since releasing the Warhol-esque, or should I more accurately say Paul Morrisey-esque, CURSE OF THE HEADLESSHORSEMAN (1972), his cinematic offerings have taken a blue path with ...
Getting a lot of bang for what were reportedly limited bucks, HeadlessHorseman fuses together Washington Irving’s mysterious and lethal mounted ghost with a mythology that harks back to Brigadoon (or, if you prefer, 2000 Maniacs) and the Faust myth...
...d was the HeadlessHorseman in Tim Burton`s SLEEPY HOLLOW. The Paramount production took in $30.5-million according to the studio. The per screen average was $9,961 in 3,062 engagements.The rest of the Top Five films were also genre efforts. Last weeke...
There's a new DVD release hitting shelves tomorrow which is very close to Mania since it was created by a fellow Maniac. While you're at the store picking up Grand Theft Auto IV, you can also pick up the latest release of HeadlessHorseman. Here's Abbie's...
...ated by a HeadlessHorseman, Crane is a skeptic who insists he will uncover a human murderer, but of course the plot will force him to come to different conclusions. In effect, he starts out as Scully and turns into Mulder halfway through, and the plot...
...legendary HeadlessHorseman, roaming the countryside looking for his lost head. In the film version, constable Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) travels to the village to investigate the supposedly supernatural deeds, and finds his eccentric, scientific meth...
... with the HeadlessHorseman.Produced in 1949 under the awkward title of TWO FABULOUS CHARACTERS, this 68-minute feature paired THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW with a fast and loose adaptation of Kenneth Graham’s `THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS.` Later retitled ...
...le of the HeadlessHorseman. Some actors might have been afraid of going over-the-top in a project like this, but with Burton at the helm, they seemed more than comfortable filling their archetypal roles.Lisa Marie previously appeared in ED WOOD and MA...
...ce of the HeadlessHorseman is completely believable. The DVD presentation beautifully captures the visual and audio qualities that made the film a blockbuster hit, and adds some extras that help smooth over the weak points, emphasizing the film’s stre...
...922's THE HEADLESSHORSEMAN, though another feature with more of a science fiction tone might have been preferable. This third (known) film adaptation is carried by Will Rogers in the starring role of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane. It sets the tone for se...
...SE OF THE HEADLESSHORSEMAN, DEVIL BAT, DEVIL MONSTER, THE DEVIL'S DAUGHTER, THE DEVIL'S MESSENGER, THE DEVIL'S PARTNER, Starman in EVIL BRAIN FROM OUTER SPACE, THE GHOST WALKS, HANDS OF STEEL, THE HEAD, THE IRONBOUND VAMPIRE, THE ISLAND MONSTER, THE L...
... with the HeadlessHorseman. Elfman’s contrasting elements captured both the Horseman’s ghostly tragedy and his relentless fury.Ignore the rock and roll `soundtrack` for END OF DAYS and instead find John Debney’s score CD (Varese Sarabande 302 066 099...
...hs on the HeadlessHorseman, the ghost of a monstrous Hessian soldier (Christopher Walken at his feral best). Crane also discovers he's not much of a hero (he twitches and faints a lot), and begins to have troubling dreams, perhaps inspired by the beau...
...enge as a headlesshorseman challenges her place as the fastest rider on the roads. A pair of interfering vampires add some extra spice to the situation. Sherwood returns, and predictably enough tries to win Hiro's loyalty away from Hime. Against a bac...
...faces the HeadlessHorseman. Originally broadcast on ABC Family, this includes added footage to earn an R rating. (O) HOUSE OF VOICES (Universal) Haunted abandoned orphanage chiller staring Virginie Ledoyen. Goos scary stuff for Halloween and we're giv...
...se of the HeadlessHorseman, Death By Dialogue, Devil Bat, Devil Monster, The Devil's Daughter, The Devil's Messenger, The Devil's Partner, Don't Look in the Basement, Don't Open Till Christmas, Eegah, Evil Brain from Outer Space, The Ghost Walks, Hand...
...film, the HeadlessHorseman will now take his place beside Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy, and the Wolfman as one of the screen`s most memorably monsters.11. A stronger film dramatically than SLEEPY HOLLOW is THE GREEN MILE, Frank Darabont`s adaptati...
...s and The HeadlessHorseman from Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, Lowe and company were ready to tackle a new spacecraft model."A lot of science fiction subjects like the Jupiter 2, Robby the Robot, the Lost in Space Robot and the LIS Cyclops did pretty wel...
...e and the HeadlessHorseman,` `The Legend of Sleepy Hollow` or whatever, and there are people in this film that don`t even get billing. YES, LIKE MARTIN LANDAU.Exactly, that`s right. And of course Christopher Walken—he`s the headlesshorseman. But y...
... standing HeadlessHorseman (with severed heads). There is also a separate HeadlessHorseman with Horse box set that really looks good on a shelf at home or on your desk at work.THE ART OF SLEEPY HOLLOW: Continuing with our Tim Burton trend, here’s an ...
...ce of the HeadlessHorseman.CINEMATOGRAPHYAnother obvious choice for SLEEPY HOLLOW: The sets were great, but it certainly helps if the cinematographer knows how to light them. This film was filled with wonderful atmosphere; it was the most visually ric...
...aying the HeadlessHorseman [in Sleepy Horseman]. So I`m kind of used to them. It`s a lot of fun. I get to be Bruce Lee or Jackie Chan in my mind.` Like the rest of the actors, the bad guys hadn`t read many of the X-Men titles before getting the job. A...
... Hollow`s HeadlessHorseman, the actor says he perfected the Toad`s look and expressions by experimenting in front of a mirror. His goal was to develop the character instead of resorting to a clichéd Hunchback-of-Notre-Dame stereotype. `He has to be ha...
... like the HeadlessHorseman dolls the Toddster made last year. It was a humorous sight. The fans themselves, as it turned out around 400 of them, decided to take it all in with the local mix of panache and irritation. Just when the stores employees app...
Rogue & Intrepid Pictures are ready to bring the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse to the big screen in an action thriller called, THE FOURTH HORSEMAN. The film is getting a rewrite from F. Paul Benz and Steve Tomlin over at the studio before setting it...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Translated by:Adapted by:What They SayIs Tomie finally gone? Or does her wretched spirit live on in this macabre collection of spine-tingling tales. Enjoy Ito's mix of girls, gore, and social satire.The ReviewFalse advertisi...
Besides his numerous film scores, Elfman has also contributed bits and pieces for other films. He contributed songs to BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, GHOSTBUSTERS II, LEATHERFACE: TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE III, SCREAM 2, and wrote the theme for SHRUNKEN HEADS (...
At a lot of conventions, downtime between panels can feel like hanging around in a theatre lobby between acts of a play. The HIGHLANDER Reunion Convention, held Aug. 24-26 at the LAX Westin Hotel in Los Angeles, has an atmosphere much more like a party wi...
Horvath and fellow HIGHLANDER staffer Lettow both felt the impulse to write their own follow-ups to the B story in the episode "Timeless," which had the 5,000-year-old Methos courting dying mortal Alexa Bond. The results can be found in "Postcards From Al...
Though 1939 is considered by many to be the greatest year in American cinema, 1978 isn't too shabby either. That year brought us seminal films across many genres, including The Deer Hunter, one of the first films to deal with the Vietnam War; Grease, a gr...
...SE OF THE HEADLESSHORSEMAN and BLOOD THIRST / BLOOD SUCKERS, plus lots of great shorts, trailers and galleries, all courtesy of Something Weird Video.(O) CHEECH & CHONG’S NEXT MOVIE (Universal) Another dopey adventure.(O)&n...
Howdy all, welcome back to another action-packed week of obscure references and questionable wit. Got plenty of new show previews to cover this week, and I was finally able to get my hands on a copy of the SURFACE pilot (thanks NBC!), so we'd best get rig...
Perhaps no actor alive today is more suited for action figure treatment than cult star Bruce Campbell. With his lantern jaw, cleft chin and unhinged intensity, Campbell is kind of a human action figure, and never moreso than when he's going through the he...
The Prize Closet continues to dominate this territory. Well, dang it, we just love to give away fee DVDs! To win any of these prizes, you just have to send me an email to psycho@psychotronic.info and include a valid mailing address in the body. Once we ha...
What do 24, THE SHIELD, LOST and recently STARGATE: SG-1 have in common? I guess the question really should be--what don't they have in common? The answer is a classic television title sequence. Sure, a brief shot of the logo and credits superimposed o...
...SE OF THE HEADLESSHORSEMAN is a double feature DVD of two little known items from the early 1970s. Up first is CARNIVAL which features future ROCKY co-star Burt Young in a tale of a serial killer menacing a carnival. Fans of H.G. (BLOOD FEAST) Lewis m...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:I-HuanTranslated by:Yun ZhaoAdapted by:Ailen LujoWhat They SayThe end is here! On the run and torn between her love for two men, Zi Li has no clue what to do. It seems happiness with either suitor is lost to her. Not to mentio...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Mikimoto HaruhikoTranslated by:Ikoi HiroeAdapted by:What They SayÉcole du Ciel - where aspiring Gundam pilots train to become Top Gundam!
Year is 0085 of the Universal Century.
Daughter of a brilliant professor, Asuna is a b...
John Cleese has been talking, briefly, about his gig as one of the Hogwarts ghosts in the coming HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE.While talking to the New York Daily News, Cleese spoke of his participation in the film, saying, "It will take three day...
In BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF (LE PACTE DE LOUPS), veteran genre actor Mark Dacascos plays Mani a contemplative, physically adroit Native American far from his home. He is the spiritual brother of scientist Gregoire de Fronsac (Samuel Le Bihan), the man inv...
VIDEO NEWSHIGHLANDER was both a box office and critical dud when originally released in 1986. Since then, a fiercely loyal cult movement has turned the tale of sword swinging immortals into a success story surpassed only by that of the original STAR TREK....
As Dreamworks and Paramount gear up to resurrect a franchise this Independence Day, Random House Publishing Group is capitalizing on the hype by printing the official prequel novel to the live-action film.
Hello everyone and welcome to this Tues...
September 11th, Fox Home Entertainment will release “Bones” Season Two. The program is inspired by real-life anthropologist and author Kathy Reichs. The series exhumes forensic&...
In celebration of Halloween week the Book Buzz is leading off with the week’s new releases and horror and inviting you to share with Mania’s readers the scariest book you ever read! Just use the comments below to tell us the book ...
Director Guillermo del Toro understands the parameters and ramifications of his material.
"When you go see a movie called 'Hellboy,' already there is an implicit, assumed, certain sort of sense of goofiness that you have to then say, 'Look, we kno...
As mentioned last week, we have a slew of new releases in every category. There’s going to be some tough purchasing decisions that need to be made. We have two anthologies of the best fantasy literature of the year, one from St. Martin&rsq...
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You are the keeper of this copy of Crypt!
This is not an interruption of Hellboy month, but rather a guest appearance by his spooktacular comic predecessor: The Crypt Keeper!
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We hope you do wear the data bits off of these DVDs!
This is not an interruption of Hellboy month, but rather a guest appearance by his spooktacular comic predecessor: The Crypt Keeper!
It's that...
Updated August 3
Congratulations to Anastasia
You are the winner of the Crypt DVD!
This is not an interruption of Hellboy month, but rather a guest appearance by his spooktacular comic predecessor: The Crypt Keeper!
It's that time of fear ag...
Zaregoto is filled with fun characters and snappy dialog. Unfortunately, it also suffers under its uneven pacing and ridiculous plot twists.Creative TalentWriter/Artist:NisioisinTranslated by:Greg MooreAdapted by:Greg MooreWhat They SayIt\'s the vac...
Do you know this term, “rivet counting” when it refers to movies and TV? The gist of it is that rivet counters can’t enjoy the architecture because they are to busy counting the rivets. By definition of what I do, writing revie...
After five seasons of heart-wrenching, cathartic drama, THE WIRE has finally come to an end. “-30-,“ the 93-minute finale, rounded out the HBO original series last night in true Dickensian style and, for one last time, proved that a television...
What They SayThis trying to save the world business is hard work, especially when you’re not even in high school yet. And just when you thought things were getting back to normal, a wave of new devils has begun to show up. Throw in a headless demon ...
What They SayIt's the final semester for our intrepid grade school ghoul fighters. But will they live to see graduation? Doesn't seem likely when a vengeful snow spirit screws with their winter break, a decapitated biker tries to get some head, a demon d...
What They SayHakudoshi, the newly evolved incarnation of Naraku, has switched from hunting highly spiritual monks and priests to demons in his continuing attempts to see into the border between this life and the next.
Meanwhile, Inuyasha and friends come...
Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs) is a promising young medical student who has sort of gotten on the wrong track with his studies. You see, he’s invented a serum that can “re-animate” the dead, and upon arriving at his new school West begins to experiment on r...
While author J.K. Rowling was in Vancouver, Canada on October 25 for two appearances as part of the city`s annual Writers and Reader’s Festival, she sat down with reporters at a press conference prior to the event. Rowling spoke out about the Warner Broth...
Ray Park seems to be making a living out of playing villains cloaked in makeup. This is true of his latest role, that of Toad in X-Men, but the character allowed him to break the mold at least a little bit: although still covered in green greasepaint, his...
...se of the HeadlessHorseman Country Cuzzins / Midnight Plowboy Fiend of Dope Island / Pagan Island Fuego / The Female Hercules Against the Moon Men Lost Lonely and Vicious / Jacktown Mighty Gorga / One Million AC/DC Naked Venus / Diary of a Nudist The ...
The HIGHLANDER Reunion Convention was held Aug. 24-26 at the LAX Westin Hotel in Los Angeles, marking the 15th year of the existence of HIGHLANDER. CINESCAPE's extensive coverage of the event continues today with a look at the "Script to Screen" panel, th...
...W (as the HeadlessHorseman).FANDOM: IN `X-MEN` ARE WE GOING TO BE ABLE TO RECOGNIZE YOU?PARK: Oh yes.I`VE READ YOU WEAR LENSES IN YOUR EYES?Yes, but that`s all; you can tell it`s me.LOT OF EXCITEMENT BREWING OVER THE FILM.Yes, I just saw it yesterda...
The many effects shots in Jason and the Argonauts were refinements and elaborations on those Ray Harryhausen had created for previous films. As with the novelty of 7th Voyage of Sinbad, no one had ever paired the techniques of stop-motion animation to th...
At the start of the auction designed to raise funds for the workshop itself and future Highlander Worldwide events, emcee John Bierly warns, "If you thought the concert last night was silly, wait 'til you see this."Showrunner David Abramowitz, swordmaster...
The November 2nd episode of DARK ANGEL, titled "Boo", has Max looking to stop a headless body on a lethal mission.On Halloween night, Max finds her "normal" world turned upside down when the creatures she let out of Manticore are able to walk the streets ...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Hideshi HinoTranslated by:Screaming Mad George, Charles Schneider, Yoko UmezawaAdapted by:What They SayPanorama of Hell is a shocking, torturous journey into the depths of one man\'s postnuclear Hell. Through the confessions ...
How can I not mention horror movie action figures in my October toy column? I decided to list my Top 10 Horror figures in honor of All Hallow’s Eve. Everyone has their own opinion on what should be on the top 10. The following are my persona...
Peter Wingfield, carrying a glass of wine, joins Adrian Paul and Elizabeth Gracen on the stage. Paul notes his friend's choice in beverage: "We get water, he gets wine he's Jesus!" He also takes not of the situation: "Three Immortals with microphones it...
Special Investigations Unit Agent Tedashi Nagawa is being honored with the Macropolis "Man of the Year" award, much to the amusement and admiration of his fellow detectives. But the celebrations are short-lived as a mysterious package containing a severed...
It seems the part of Nearly Headless Nick in HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS won't be any bigger, if even as big, as it was in HARRY POTTER AND THE SORCERER'S STONE. According to an interview in the CALGARY SUN, John Cleese shot down speculation h...
Execution is everything in television. Neophyte writers are often obsessed with the idea of someone stealing their ideas without ever understanding that ideas are all well and good, but that execution of that idea is the key. Where ROME excels over ABC's ...
So our massive sci-fi TV giveaways from last week have left the ol' prize closet totally exhausted. The prize winners should've been notified by now, and there will never be another giveaway in this column again. Aaaah I should know that I can't fool you...
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HEADLESSHORSEMAN (SCIFI, 9PM EST)
This film tells the story of a small backwoods town where the citizens sacrifice teens to the titular monster. Probably won’t be great but the “backwoods” stereotypes should b...
You read the headline right, The Warner Brothers Television Group is bringing The WB back but in a much more hip and less expensive way. The network will be coming back exclusively to the internet. Warner plans to stream all of the Warner created sho...
What They SayThe Army assaults Ryo, transformed into Demon Lord Dante, with a severe napalm attack, but his immortal body is too strong to be defeated. Tormented by the guilt of becoming a demon, Ryo?s despair and anger manifests as a vortex to destroy t...
Swordfight choreographer/swordmaster F. Braun McAsh is late because he's been fighting ... traffic. He gets his panel started by making some sharp points (sorry) about the nature of his job: "There's no generalized system for using a sword ... very often,...
Ah, it must be fall. The air is cooling. The leaves are turning. Shows are swapping timeslots or being carved neatly from network lineups. And one of the early casualties is the man so badass, James Cameron tried to kill him in three separate films (but o...
While movie licenses are very hot commodities in the video game industry, what the companies do with them has been less than spectacular over the years. LucasArts has done an admirable job with most of the STAR WARS titles, but for the most part, video ga...
It's turkey time again. Chocolate turkeys! Fresh turkeys! Turkey soup. Leftover turkey sandwiches. Turkey casserole. Ugh. It's turkey time.Well, despite an overdose of poultry around Thanksgiving, toy fans actually have a lot to be thankful for this year....
Wow – seems like there’s more DVDs every week. Let’s get to ‘em. SPOTLIGHT OF THE WEEKThis week’s spotlight item has suffered for years due to unfair comparisons with previous entries in its series, and because it was released around the same time as the ...
George Lucas is one of the world's most controversial filmmakers. Oh, it's not that the subject matter of his films pushes the boundaries of social tastes or challenges our way of life the last time he did that was with his first film THX-1138 (released ...
What They SayWith mere moments to go before the tunnel between the Living World and the Demon World opens unleashing hordes of beast on an unsuspecting population, Yusuke\'s team push their way into Sensui\'s Lair. But what they find there shocks them bey...