GoreMaster’s Top Picks for fun and popular Halloween Costumes 2009. Click on the photo for more details. As always we wish you a safe and happy Halloween!!
Pirate Man Costume
Men’s Pirate Adult Halloween Costumes includes: headband, vest, shirt, waist sash and pants. one size.
Spanish Dancer Costume
Women’s Spanish Dancer Costume Includes dress and headpiece. Shoes not included.
Hairy Speedo Costume
Our hilarious Hairy Speedo Costume features a bodysuit with hair, blue speedo and Hawaiian style beach shirt.
Pirate Queen Costume
Full Cut Hooded Dress
Sexy Greek Goddess Costume
Blue and cream ombre mini dress
Headpiece
*Shoes Not included*
70s Hairy Chest Costume
70s Hairy Chest Shirt Costume features a one-piece shirt with built-in hairy chest.
Twilight Vampiress Costume
Score your own Edward Cullen in this sexy vampire number. A shiny, strapless mini dress. The red and black cape is detachable from loops along the neckline and features a stiff collar that stays up. A pleather belt with a Velcro closure in back features a pentagram on front with a large faux stone and several silver stars. A double row of chain hangs on both sides. Fangs complete the outfit. INCLUDES: Dress, Cape, Belt, Choker and Fangs.
Classic Star Trek Costume
Whether the exciting new Star Trek movie has made you a fan or you’ve been watching Classic Star Trek, Next Generation, Voyager, DS9, or Enterprise for years – you’ll want to beam up to your next costume party in this officially licensed Star Trek costume! Shirt has long sleeves and an embroidered Star Fleet emblem.
Men’s Super Deluxe Zombie
Our super deluxe “Adult Zombie” is sure to scare away the ghouls and goblins. This complete ensemble features a tattered shirt with a pvc chest exposing the bones and other organs, tattered pants with pvc bones exposed, and a pvc mask with hair and Gloves.
Skeleton Bride Zombie
4 piece costume includes tattered gown with lace up bodice and tulle trim cuffs headband with attached veil choker with gem and fingerless gloves.
Night of the Living Dead is a horror film released in 1990. It is a remake of George A. Romero’s 1968 film of the same name and was directed by Tom Savini. Romero rewrote the original 1968 screenplay that he had co-authored with John A. Russo.
Tagline: There IS a fate worse than death.
Trivia:
The nameplate on the house indicates an “M. Celeste.” According to Tom Savini’s commentary on the DVD, that’s a direct reference to the “Mary Celeste”, a ship that was discovered adrift at sea with the passengers and crew missing.
Bill ‘Chilly Billy’ Cardille appears as a reporter in both the 1968 version and the remake.
The scene where Barbara shoots a zombie in the chest and then finally in the head was not originally going to be in the film. We were supposed to see a hideous female zombie that Barbara saw as her mother. Everyone was supposed to tell her to shoot it. The mother would have looked at Barbara and asked “Where’s Johnny, Barbara?”, then turned back into the hideous female zombie, at which point Barbara would finally shoot.
The Macgruder zombie was a man that director Tom Savini saw in a diner and told him that he would make a great zombie, the man agreed. He showed up to all of the premieres.
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The autopsy zombie at the beginning of the film was not in the original script, something that was added by Tom Savini.
The man who comes through the door after they throw Macgruder out was a cab driver who Tom Savini took a ride from.
Contains numerous references to Dawn of the Dead (1978).
The car driven by Johnny at the beginning of the film was owned by Tom Savini. According to the director it was the first car he bought after meeting with success and it broke his heart to wreck it during filming.
Tom Savini’s directorial debut.
Acting debut for Katie Finneran and Heather Mazur.
Tom Savini’s originally wanted to start the film in black-and-white, then slowly adding color.
The film was banned in Germany when it was released.
Some of the footage that was cut by the MPAA can be seen on the documentary on the DVD.
Tom is wearing a shirt that says “Iron City” on it. This is the brand of beer the hunters are drinking in the original Dawn of the Dead (1978).
When Sarah bites her mother Helen on the neck, blood splatters on a garden trowel hanging on the wall. This is a reference to the original Night of the Living Dead (1968), in which the daughter kills the mother with a garden trowel.
Laurence Fishburne and Eriq La Salle both auditioned for the role of Ben.
The scene at the end of the film, where several zombies are lynched from a tree and shot at was in fact scripted in the original 1968 film, but was cut because of the racial tensions gripping the country at the time. The scene pays homage to the cut.
Director Tom Savini has known Patricia Tallman since they went to college together. He chose to cast her because of her strong-willed demeanor.
As is tradition with most zombie films, the word ‘zombie’ is never once used in this movie to describe the Living Dead.
Ving Rhames was considered for Ben.
Peter Hyams was asked to direct, but turned it done to work on Narrow Margin (1990).
According to the director’s commentary someone sent a copy of the footage of the car rolling down the hill into the tree to the car maker, showing the air bag not deploying. They were apparently rewarded with a new car.
The characters take refuge in an isolated farmhouse early in the film. Next to one of the doors, visible in shots of the exterior of the house, is the name of the owner – “M Celeste”, in nail-on letters in a script font. This seems to be homage to the sailing ship “Marie Celeste”, which was discovered in the Atlantic Ocean unmanned and under sail heading towards the Strait of Gibraltar in 1872. Her crew was not on board and the only lifeboat gone, but the ship had no damage and was sea worthy. Like the ship, the house was (relatively) undamaged by it’s ordeal and could have been immediately occupied.
At one point in the film, a female zombie can be seen walking through a field with the house in the background. This zombie hears the banging from the humans in the house trying to board up the windows and is attracted to the noise, so she turns and begins staggering to the house. This woman actually owned the house in real life. The producers wanted to use the house in the film and agreed to give the woman a small acting part in exchange.
Dèmoni 2 (Demons 2) is a 1986 Italian horror film directed by Lamberto Bava and co-written and produced by Dario Argento. It is a sequel to Bava’s 1985 film Dèmoni and stars David Edwin Knight, Nancy Brilli, Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni, as well as Argento’s youngest daughter Asia Argento in her debut film performance at age ten. In this sequel, Bava opted to use British New Wave bands such as the Smiths, the Cult, Dead Can Dance, and the Art of Noise on the soundtrack as opposed to heavy metal bands in the original Dèmoni.
Tagline: The Nightmare Returns
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A group of tenants and visitors are trapped in a 10-story high-rise apartment building infested with demons who proceed to hunt the dwindling humans down.
Trivia:
Bobby Rhodes, who played Tony the pimp in Dèmoni (1985), returns as a completely different character in this sequel. Lino Salemme also reappears, this time as a security guard.
The scene where Hannah (Nancy Brilli) has a baby was not part of the original script. Originally, Hannah’s baby would become a demon inside her and claw its way out of her. This scene was taken out when Lamberto Bava and Dario Argento decided they wanted a happier ending.
Night of the Living Dead, directed by George Romero, is a 1968 independent black-and-white zombie film. Ben (Duane Jones) and Barbra (Judith O’Dea) are the protagonists of a story about the mysterious reanimation of the recently dead, and their efforts, along with five other people, to survive the night while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse.
George Romero completed the film on a $114,000 budget, and after a decade of cinematic re-releases, it grossed some $12 million domestically and $30 million internationally. On its release in 1968, Night of the Living Dead was strongly criticized for its explicit content, but in 1999, the Library of Congress placed it on the National Film Registry as a film deemed “historically, culturally or aesthetically important”.
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was cited by many as being a groundbreaking film, given its release during the Vietnam-era, due to perceived critiques of late-1960s U.S. society; a historian described it as “subversive on many levels”. Although it is not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary ‘zombie apocalypse’ sub-genre of horror film, and it influenced the modern pop-culture zombie archetype.Night of the Living Dead (1968), is the first of six Dead films directed by George Romero, and twice has been remade, as a film of the same name in 1990, directed by Tom Savini, and as Night of the Living Dead 3D in 2006.
Trivia:
Bosco chocolate syrup was used to simulate the blood in the film.
The zombie hand that Tom (Keith Wayne) hacks up with a kitchen knife was made of clay and filled with chocolate syrup.
When the zombies are eating the bodies in the burnt-out truck they were actually eating roast ham covered in chocolate sauce. The filmmakers joked that it was so nausea inducing that it was almost a waste of time putting the makeup on the zombies, as they ended up looking pale and sick anyway.
The gas pump was not bolted to the ground when the actress who played Barbra, Judith O’Dea, runs into it at the start of the film. She did it with so much force she almost tipped it over on the cameraman.
One of the working titles for this film was “Night of Anubis”. Anubis is the god of embalming/mummifying in the ancient Egyptian (Kemetan) religion.
One of the working titles for this film was “Night of the Flesh Eaters”. Originally, the beings attacking the characters were extraterrestrial in origin, either aliens or humans possessed by an alien pathogen, presumably covering a NASA satellite returning from Venus. Eventually, it was decided that the dead would rise and devour the living, presumably due to radiation that was carried by a NASA satellite returning from Venus.
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Though the radiation of a detonated satellite returning from Venus is theorized to be the cause of the dead rising and attacking the living, according to the filmmakers, the actual cause is never determined.
Columbia Pictures was the only major Hollywood studio interested in distributing this film, but eventually passed because it was in black-and-white at a time when movies had to compete with new color televisions. Ironically, Columbia did distribute the 1990 color remake. American International Pictures (AIP) considered releasing the film, but wanted George A. Romero to shoot an upbeat ending and add more of a love story subplot.
During the filming of the cemetery sequence, shot on two separate days, an unexpected accident caused a fast change of script. The car driven by Barbara and Johnny into the cemetery was actually owned by the mother of Russell Streiner. Unfortunately, sometime between the two filming sequences, someone ran into the car and put a dent in it that would easily be visible on camera. George A. Romero rewrote the scene so the car would come to a stop by crashing into a tree.
In the scene where Ben is nailing wooden boards to the door, small numbers can be seen on them. These were written on the backs of the boards so they could be removed and replaced in between shots, preserving continuity. Some numbers are visible because some of the boards were nailed on backwards.
Tom Savini was originally hired by George A. Romero to do the makeup effects for this film. The two were first introduced to each other when Savini auditioned for an acting role in an earlier film that never got off the ground. Romero, remembering that Savini was also a makeup artist (he had brought his makeup portfolio to show to Romero at the audition), called Savini to the set of his horror movie. However, Savini was unable to do the effects because he was called to duty by the US Army to serve as a combat photographer in Vietnam.
The film’s first scene, the initial cemetery attack on Barbara and Johnny, was the last filmed, in November 1967. The actors had to hold their breath to avoid visible condensation in the frosty autumn air.
According to George A. Romero, the film was originally ten minutes longer but the distributor pressured him to cut it down.
The word “zombie” is never used. The most common euphemism used to describe the living dead is “those things,” mostly by Cooper.
Bill ‘Chilly Billy’ Cardille, who played the television reporter, was indeed a local Pittsburgh TV celebrity. Known as “Chilly Billy” Cardille, he hosted a horror movie program on Channel 11 and occasionally reported the news.
S. William Hinzman and Karl Hardman, two of the original $300 investors had small roles due to a shortage of available talent. Another investor was a butcher, who provided some blood and guts.
Actor/co-producer Karl Hardman (Harry Cooper, the father in the basement), also served as makeup artist, electronic sound effects engineer, and took the still photos used for the closing credits.
When the writers decided to base the film on zombies, they brainstormed about what would be the most shocking thing for the zombies to do to people and decided on cannibalism.
During production, the film’s title was still being chosen. The working title was simply “Monster Flick”.
The character of Ben was originally supposed to be a crude but resourceful truck driver. After ‘Duane Jones (I)’ auditioned for the part, director and co-writer George A. Romero re-wrote the part to fit his performance.
George A. Romero has readily admitted that Herk Harvey’s Carnival of Souls (1962) was a big influence in his making of this film.
The main house did not have a true basement but a dirt potter’s cellar, and thus had no long staircase leading down to it. Because of this, the basement scenes were filmed in the editing studio’s cellar.
In the 30th Anniversary Edition, the car that drops off Debbie Rochon at the medical center is driven by Marilyn Eastman (Helen Cooper) and owned by Karl Hardman (Harry Cooper).
The music used in the film was from a Capitol/EMI Records Hi-Q stock music library, on which the copyright was in the public domain, and cost the filmmakers $1500. It was originally used in Teenagers from Outer Space (1959).
When the movie was in its scripting stage, John A. Russo had developed an idea that was basically described as “teenagers from outer space”. This version was not filmed, but the version that was filmed uses stock music from the movie Teenagers from Outer Space (1959).
One of the Walter Reade Organization’s publicity stunts was a $50,000 insurance policy against anyone dying from a heart attack while watching the film.
The film’s world premiere was at the Fulton Theatre in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 1 October 1968 (At 8PM, admission by invitation only). The film was met with a standing ovation.
The only real mishap to happen during filming involved producer and actor Russell Streiner’s (Johnny’s) brother, Gary Streiner. After the scene where ‘Duane Jones (I)’ sets the chair on fire, it was Gary’s responsibility to extinguish the flames and set the chair ablaze again to preserve continuity, ensuring that smoke would be seen emanating from it near the end of the film. At one point Gary’s sleeve caught on fire and, as he ran in terror, S. William Hinzman (in full zombie makeup) tackled him to the ground and helped extinguish the flames, saving him from major injury.
George A. Romero was the one operating the camera when S. William Hinzman (the cemetery zombie) attacks Barbara in her car by smashing the window with a rock. When Hinzman shattered the window, the rock barely missed Romero.
Some of the groans made by S. William Hinzman when he’s wrestling with Russell Streiner in the cemetery are authentic. During the struggle, Streiner accidentally kneed Hinzman in the groin.
The Evans City Cemetery was the cemetery used in the original version of the film, but it could not be used for the 30th anniversary edition. Before filming the new footage, a tornado had torn through the Evans City Cemetery, and ironically, it unearthed several graves.
The Chevy truck seen in the new footage is not the same one seen in the original footage. The filmmakers for the new footage were fortunate enough to find a truck owned by a local resident that bore a near-perfect resemblance to the original truck. The owner was kind enough to let them borrow his truck for the film.
During the filming of the new footage for the 30th anniversary edition, actor/composer Scott Vladimir Licina (Reverend John Hicks) suffered a heat stroke in the cemetery and was hospitalized for a few days.
The house used for this film was loaned to the filmmakers by the owner, who planned to demolish it anyway, thereby ensuring that they could do whatever they wanted to the house.
There were two trucks used in the film. The first one used in the beginning of the film would not start for the trek-to-the-gas-pump scenes and had to be replaced. Unfortunately, they forgot to break the headlights.
While writing the script, George A. Romero and John A. Russo were trying to think of a manner in which to destroy the zombies. Marilyn Eastman joked that they could throw pies in their faces. This is obviously an inspiration for the pie fight scene in this film’s sequel, Dawn of the Dead (1978).
Judith Ridley worked as a receptionist for Karl Hardman and Marilyn Eastman, which led to her getting the part in the movie.
Assuming the movie takes place on the spring time change (according to the dialog at the beginning) after the date (December 1966) on the calendar in the house (a reasonable assumption from the condition of the body in the house), the movie begins on the night of 30 April 1967 and ends the next morning, which is May Day. However, for the sequels, Romero has treated the timeline of the Dead saga with a bit of malleability; in the movie novelization of Dawn of the Dead he notes “The stock market had plummeted way below the lowest point of the Carter administration” and refers to an upcoming election. Day of the Dead features a copy of the novel Salem’s Lot, published in 1975, after Night of the Living Dead came out; it seems peculiar that this publish still saw publication in a world where “ghouls” actually exist. Diary of the Dead takes place isochronally with Night of the Living Dead yet features modern computers. Of course, even Night of the Living Dead references technology far advanced than that available at the time of the film’s release (i.e. the Venus probe).
The body upstairs in the house was made by director George A. Romero, who used ping-pong balls for the eyes.
S. William Hinzman based his characteristic saunter (and, subsequently, that of each other zombie) on a film with Boris Karloff, the title of which he could not remember. In that film, Karloff played a man risen from the dead, and walks with a characteristic ungainly saunter.
According to the George A. Romero commentary track on the Elite laserdisc and DVD version of the film, the original working print and working elements and materials for the film no longer exist – they were destroyed as a result of a flood that filled the basement where the materials were stored (which was the same basement used in the movie).
At between 51 and 52 minutes into the film, going by the Elite laserdisc/DVD release, there is a very visible jump cut. The distributors wanted some of the “talky” bits trimmed down, so, about 6 minutes was cut from a basement scene involving the Coopers. The jump is quite clearly visible because at one point Harry is facing one direction and then immediately in the next frame, he is facing another.
At the time of the film’s release, any work that did not include a copyright notice was assumed to be public domain. Since the film makers forgot to include this notice, the film slipped into the public domain. In was not until 1 March 1989 that a copyright notice was no longer required.
Screenwriter John A. Russo appears as the ghoul who gets his forehead smashed by Ben with a tire iron. He also allowed himself to be set on fire for real when nobody else wanted to do the stunt.
The Cooper family are played by a real family. Karl Hardman (husband Harry Cooper) and Marilyn Eastman (wife Helen Cooper) are real-life husband and wife. Kyra Schon (daughter Karen Cooper) is Karl’s daughter, as well as Marilyn’s step-daughter.
This was one of the first films added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress because of naïve business practices that allowed the copyright of the film to slip into the public domain.
The filmmakers were accused of being “Satanically-inspired” by Christian fundamentalist groups for their portrayal of the undead feeding on flesh and of the Coopers’ zombie child (Kyra Schon) attacking her mother (Marilyn Eastman).
One of the original ideas for the script before its many revisions called for Barbara to be a very strong, charismatic character. Instead, George A. Romero and the producers loved Judith O’Dea’s portrayal as a catatonic and terrified young girl much better, and edited the script to accommodate the part. Eventually, the idea of Barbara being a strong, central character would be revisited in Tom Savini’s 1990 remake.
The stock music that accompanies Barbara’s initial flight from the cemetery zombie had been used a year earlier, in the final episode of television’s “The Fugitive” (1963).
As George A. Romero explains it on “The Directors: The Films of George A. Romero”, the day the final editing and voice-over dubbing was complete (4/4/1968), he and John A. Russo literally “threw” the film into the trunk of their car and drove to New York to see if anyone wanted to show it. While driving through New York on the night of April 4th, 1968, Romero and Russo heard news on the radio that Martin Luther King had been assassinated.
The role of Ben was originally meant for Rudy Ricci. After ‘Duane Jones (I)’ had read the part, however, it was given to him, and Ricci played one of the zombies.
In the scene where Ben moves the body upstairs to another room, we can see that its face is intact. This was in fact Kyra Schon who doubled as the upstairs body as it was felt that a mannequin would look unrealistic.
This film is ranked at #9 on Bravo’s _”100 Scariest Movie Moments, The” (2004) (mini)_ special.
Romero revolutionized the horror film genre with Night of the Living Dead; per Almar Haflidason, of the BBC, the film represented “a new dawn in horror film-making”. The film has also effectively redefined the use of the term Zombie. Early zombie films like Victor Halperin’s White Zombie (1932) and Jacques Tourneur’s I Walked with a Zombie (1943) concerned living people enslaved by a Voodoo witch doctor; many were set in the Caribbean.
The film and its successors spawned countless imitators that borrowed elements instituted by Romero: Tombs of the Blind Dead, Zombie, Hell of the Living Dead, The Evil Dead, Night of the Comet, Return of the Living Dead, Night of the Creeps, Braindead, Children of the Living Dead, and the video game series Resident Evil (later adapted as films in 2002, 2004, and 2007), Dead Rising, and House of the Dead. Night of the Living Dead is parodied in films such as Night of the Living Bread and Shaun of the Dead, and in episodes of The Simpsons (“Treehouse of Horror III”, 1992), South Park (“Pink Eye”, 1997; “Night of the Living Homeless”, 2007) and Invader Zim (Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom, 2001;) The word zombie is never used, but Romero’s film introduced the theme of zombies as reanimated, flesh-eating cannibals.
Night of the Living Dead ushered in the splatter film sub-genre. As one film historian points out, horror prior to Romero’s film had mostly involved rubber masks and costumes, cardboard sets, or mysterious figures lurking in the shadows. They were set in locations far removed from rural and suburban America. Romero revealed the power behind exploitation and setting horror in ordinary, unexceptional locations and offered a template for making an “effective and lucrative” film on a “minuscule budget”. Slasher films of the 1970s and 80s such as John Carpenter’s Halloween (1978), Sean S. Cunningham’s Friday the 13th (1980), and Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), for example, “owe much to the original Night of the Living Dead“.
The Ghost Galleon (El Buque maldito) (1974) is a Spanish horror film written and directed by Amando de Ossorio and stars Jack Taylor. It is also known as Horror of the Zombies.
The film is the third in Ossorio’s Blind Dead series and, being set aboard a ship, is the only film in the series to not feature the Templars’ trademark undead horses.
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In what many fans consider the most surprising of the four films in the series, Maria Perschy (CASTLE OF FU MANCHU) and Jack Taylor (EUGENIE) star in writer/director Amando de Ossorio’s chilling tale about a boatload of stranded swimsuit models who discover a mysterious ghost ship. But this phantom galleon carries the coffins of the satanic Templar, eyeless zombies who hunt humans by sound. Even if these frightened lovelies can survive their own forbidden desires, will they escape the insatiable hunger of the BLIND DEAD?
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Rose Arianna McGowan (born September 5, 1973) is an American actress best known for her role as Paige Matthews in WB Network supernatural drama series Charmed. She has also appeared in several major Hollywood films including The Doom Generation, Scream, Jawbreaker, and Grindhouse. She was until recently the co-host of TCM’s film-series program, The Essentials; in the most recent season, Alec Baldwin has replaced her as co-host. She played Ann Margaret alongside Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Elvis Presley in the CBS mini-series Elvis.
Trivia:
Auditioned for the role of Lisa in Girl, Interrupted (1999). The part eventually went to Angelina Jolie
She won the role of Amy Blue in The Doom Generation (1995), after Jordan Ladd backed out.
Was engaged to Marilyn Manson. [1998-2001]
Modeled as a child.
Second oldest of six children.
She and Marilyn Manson announced that they were splitting up. [18 January 2001]
Told Howard Stern that she broke up with Marilyn Manson because she tired of the rock and roll lifestyle he engaged in. When pressed further, she admitted that drug use was a big part of that lifestyle. [October 2001]
A tattoo of a woman on her right shoulder has been surgically removed.
She knits, gardens, and collects shoes and Marlene Dietrich memorabilia.
The WB network announced that she would be playing Paige Matthews, the long-lost, baby half-sister of Prue, Piper and Phoebe on the hit series “Charmed” (1998). She was cast after Shannen Doherty, who played eldest sister Prue Halliwell, was fired when she refused to sign a two-year contract extension. [June 2001]
She won the role of Tatum Riley in Scream (1996/I) after Melinda Clarke turned it down. Coincidentally, the two would later work together when Clarke guest starred on “Charmed” (1998) in October 2002.
She attended high school with Nicole Berger
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Ranked #39 in Stuff magazine’s “102 Sexiest Women in the World” (2002).
She ran away at age 9 to escape the Children of God cult that her parents were a part of. River Phoenix, Liberty Phoenix, Summer Phoenix, Rain Phoenix and Joaquin Phoenix were also child members of Children of God.
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Absolutely hates fish
Has agoraphobia and OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).
Has two Boston terriers named Bug and Fester.
Watched Viva Las Vegas (1964) many times in order to prepare for her role of Ann-Margret in the mini-series Elvis (2005) (TV)
She is of French and Irish descent.
Is the favorite actress of both Brian De Palma and Quentin Tarantino.
Legally emancipated herself from her parents at the age of 15.
Collaborated with musician BT on the song “Superfabulous”, found on his 2003 CD, “Emotional Technology”.
Her first language is Italian.
Ranked #44 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
Met boyfriend Robert Rodriguez when he directed her in Planet Terror (2007).
Grindhouse Rose McGowan
Ranked #14 on Wizard magazine’s ‘Sexiest Women of TV’ list (March 2008).
Broke her left foot after running into the edge of a doorway made of stone. [April 2008]
Engaged to Robert Rodriguez. [2008]
Robert Rodriguez and Rose McGowan
In the movie Rats (2003), the character Rose is based on the writer’s experience with the actress Rose McGowan, and played by character actress Eileen Grubba.
Played the character Tatum Riley in Scream (1996/I), best friend of Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell), her character Paige Matthews lives at 1329 Prescott Street, the address of Halliwell Manor on “Charmed” (1998).
Asked to have the stripper pole sanitized before doing her go-go dance routine in Planet Terror (2007).
Planet Terror Rose McGowan
While filming Scream (1996/I) she discovered that she could actually fit through a pet flap.
Zombi 2 (also known as Zombie, Island of the Living Dead, Zombie Island, Zombie Flesh Eaters and Woodoo) is a 1979 zombie horror film directed by Lucio Fulci. It is the best-known of Fulci’s films. It made Fulci a horror icon. Despite the fact that the title alludes to the film being a sequel to Zombi (the Italian title of George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead), the films are unrelated. When the film was released in 1979, it was scorned for its extremely bloody content notably by the at the time Conservative British Parliament.
Tagline: When the earth spits out the dead, they will rise to suck the blood of the living!
Strangers looking for a woman’s father arrive at a tropical island where a doctor desperately searches for the cause and cure of a recent epidemic of the undead.
Memorable scenes :
The film became infamous for two scenes in particular, aided by special effects. One features a zombie (Ramon Bravo) fighting an actual tiger shark underwater. The actor scheduled to fight the shark was unable to perform the day the sequence was to be shot, so the shark’s trainer was used instead.
The other infamous scene is where a character has her eye gouged out on a splintered piece of wood very slowly and painfully. This scene in particular was edited from many previous releases, but is intact on all three current DVD versions.
The film is also remembered among fans for its creepy, synthesized opening theme, composed by Fabio Frizzi.
Reception in Europe:
Zombi 2′s incredible success in Europe re-ignited Fulci’s sagging career and reinvented the director as a horror maven. Fulci would go on to direct several more horror films, and Zombi 2 introduced several of his trademarks: zombies, hyper-realistic gore and blood, and the infamous “eyeball gag” (a character is impaled or otherwise stabbed through the eyeball). Contrary to what some web sites have said about Zombi 2 being written before Dawn of the Dead this is not true. In fact at least some of the dialogue is a variation of a line written for Dawn of the Dead.
Despite the massive popularity of the film, Zombi 2 was banned in several countries, including Great Britain, due to the massive gore content. It was released by Vipco but with a lot of violence edited out. It was finally released uncut in 2005. Lead actor Ian McCulloch, who is British, never actually had the opportunity to watch the full film until he recorded a commentary for the Roan Group’s laserdisc release of Zombi 2 in 1998, and was shocked at the gore level.
Zombi 2′s massive European box office take also paved the way for three more sequels, which, like their predecessor, have no relation to any of the other films in the series — they all have self-contained plots. While the Zombi series proved to be incredibly lucrative, Zombi 2 is by far the most recognizable of the European zombie films.
The film was written before Dawn of the Dead was released in Italy, as an action/adventure thriller with no link to George A. Romero’s films. The opening and closing scenes (which take place in New York) were added to the script later when the producers wanted to cash-in on the success of Dawn.
The infamous shark vs. zombie scene was filmed in a large salt water tank and the shark was fed horse meat and sedatives before filming.
Reception in United States:
Zombi 2 was released merely as Zombie in America and was considered a stand-alone film with no connection to Romero’s zombie canon. The theatrical trailers for Zombie provided the memorable tagline of “We Are Going to Eat You!” and showcased some of the make-up effects, but did nothing to indicate the plot of the picture (although the audience was indeed warned about the graphic content of the film: a humorous crawl at the end of the preview promises “barf bags” to whoever requested them upon viewing the film).
Make Up Department Giannetto De Rossi … makeup artist
Mirella Sforza … hair stylist
Maurizio Trani … makeup artist
Rosario Prestopino … makeup artist (uncredited)
Special Effects Department Giovanni Corridori … special effects
Gino De Rossi … special effects
Roberto Pace … special effects
The Return of the Living Dead is an American zombie comedy horror film that was released in 1985 and was followed by several sequels. The film was written and directed by Dan O’Bannon and starred Clu Gulager, James Karen, Don Calfa, Thom Mathews, Beverly Randolph and Linnea Quigley. The film tells the story of how a man and a group of teenage punks deal with the accidental release of a horde of brain hungry zombies onto an unsuspecting town.
The film is also known for its soundtrack, which features several noted deathrock and punk rock bands of the era.
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Production:
The film has its roots in a novel by John Russo also called Return of the Living Dead. When Russo and George A. Romero parted ways after their 1968 film Night of the Living Dead, Russo retained the rights to any titles featuring Living Dead while Romero was free to create his own series of sequels, beginning with Dawn of the Dead. Russo and producer Tom Fox planned to bring Return of the Living Dead to the screen in 3D and directed by Tobe Hooper. Dan O’Bannon was brought in to give the script a polish and after Hooper backed out to make Lifeforce (also from a script by Dan O’Bannon), O’Bannon was offered the director’s seat. He accepted on the condition he could rewrite the film radically so as to differentiate it from Romero’s films. Russo retains a story writer credit on the film for developing the project, but the final film bears little to no resemblance to his original novel. He later wrote a novelization of the film which was fairly faithful to the shooting script, though without the character names as in the final film and the addition of a KGB sublot as an explanation for the plot. (Russo would, eventually, make his own ‘canon’ series with a 1999 revised edition of Night of the Living Dead, subtitled the 30th Anniversary Edition, and its sequel, Children of the Living Dead.)
O’Bannon’s script also differed from the Romero series in that it is markedly more comedy based than Romero’s films, employing “splatstick” style morbid humor and eccentric dialogue. The films also boasted significant nudity, in marked contrast to Romero’s work. Russo and O’Bannon were only directly involved with the first film in the series, the rest of the films, to varying degrees, stick to their outline and “rules” established in the first film.
Although the movie is set in Louisville, Kentucky, it was filmed in California. The Louisville police uniforms and patrol cars were all period correct which means the studio had to obtain permission from the Louisville city government to use the Louisville police department emblem. Neither the Louisville police nor the city of Louisville received any acknowledgement in the end credits.
The Tarman is performed by puppeteer Allan Trautman, who is best known for his work with Jim Henson and The Muppets.
The Zombies:
The zombies in this movie differ from those in Night of the Living Dead. Return’s interpretation of zombies has influenced cultural interpretations of zombies, particularly with regard to their hunger for brains and their constant vocalization of this hunger.
They are fast and can run.
They are almost as intelligent and somewhat stronger then they were in their previous life, and they can also speak sometimes.
Instead of hunting humans for their flesh, they hunt for the humans’ brains, stating that only their consumption eases the pain of being dead.
It appears that injuries to their brains do not have any effect and the only way to fully destroy them is to cremate their bodies, although the ensuing smoke spreads the contagious gas. However, in the sequel, it is revealed the other way to destroy the zombies without spreading the gas is by electrical charge.
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Make Up Department Allan A. Apone … special makeup effects
Yvette Bliss … punk makeup artist
Craig Caton … additional special makeup artist
Tony Gardner … makeup artist: half-corpse effects
Wendy Hogan … assistant makeup artist
Wendy Hogan … hair stylist
William Munns … special makeup effects artist
Kenny Myers … additional special effects makeup
Robin L. Neal … key makeup artist
Larry Odien … additional special makeup artist
Tony Rupprecht … additional special makeup artist
Douglas J. White … additional special makeup artist
Special Effects Department Kevin F. McCarthy … special effects foreman
Robert E. McCarthy … special effects supervisor
Visual Effects Department
John Huneck … visual effects camera operator: Fantasy II
Leslie Huntley … visual effects supervisor: Fantasy II Film Effects
Michael Joyce … model shop supervisor
Paul Kassler … model maker: Fantasy II Film Effects
Peter Kleinow … visual effects supervisor
Ken Marschall … matte painting: Fantasy II Film Effects
Bret Mixon … rotoscoping
Gary Rhodaback … model maker: Fantasy II Film Effects
Joseph Viskocil … nuclear explosion
Gene Warren Jr. … visual effects supervisor
Total Film’s Top 50 of villains
1 The Joker (Batman: The Movie)
2 Darth Vader (Star Wars)
3 Hannibal Lecter (Silence of the Lambs)
4 Leatherface (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre)
5 Freddy Krueger (A Nightmare on Elm Street)
6 Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)
7 Anton Chigurh (No Country for Old Men)
8 Michael Myers (The Halloween series)
9 Frank Booth (Blue Velvet)
10 Norman Bates (Psycho)
11 Bridget Gregory/Wendy Kroy (The Last Seduction)
12 Jason Vorhees (Friday the 13th series)
13 Saruman the White (The Lord of the Rings)
14 John Doe (Se7en)
15 Baby Jane Hudson (Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?)
16 Peyton Flanders (The Hand That Rocks the Cradle)
17 Gordon Gekko (Wall Street)
18 Alex Forrest (Fatal Attraction)
19 The White Witch (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the witch and the
wardrobe)
20 Captain Videl (Pan’s Labyrinth)
21 Annie Wilkes (Misery)
22 Tony Montana (Scarface)
23 Catherine Tramell (Basic Instinct)
24 Michael Corleone (The Godfather)
25 Dr Christian Sezell (Marathon Man)
26 Reverend Harry Powell (The Night of the Hunter)
27 Ray (Nil by Mouth)
28 The Wicked Witch of the West (The Wizard of Oz)
29 John Ryder (The Hitcher)
30 Suzanna Stone Maretto (To Die For)
31 Combo (This is England)
32 General Zod (Superman)
33 Hans Gruber (Die Hard)
34 Patrick Bateman (American Psycho)
35 Ivan Drago (Rocky IV)
36 Daniel Cleaver (Bridget Jones’ Diary)
37 Verbal Klint/Keyser Soze (The Usual Suspects)
38 Lex Luthor (Superman)
39 Don (Sexy Beast)
40 Begbie (Trainspotting)
41 Phyllis Dietrichsonn (Double Indemnity)
42 Mr Blonde (Reservoir Dogs)
43 Dr Elsa Schneider (Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade)
44 Frank (Once Upon a Time in the West)
45 Max Cady (Cape Fear)
46 The Child Catcher (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang)
47 The Truck (Duel)
48 Hans Beckert (M)
49 Mrs John Iselin (The Manchurian Candidate)
50 Mr Potter (It’s a Wonderful Life)
White Zombie (1932) is an American horror film, first released on August 4, 1932. It was the first film to feature zombies.
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Plot: Madeleine (Madge Bellamy) arrives at midnight to witness a mysterious burial before coming face to face with the satanic looking Murder Legendre (Lugosi with goatee and searing eyes) a hypnotist and voodoo master who has been supplying the local mills with an army of zombie laborers. Madeleine’s nightmare is just beginning. Having landed in a world of almost perpetual night where hollow-eyed zombies lumber through the sugar mill and the ghostly town is eerily bereft of living souls she becomes the object of desire for Legendre whose plan to possess her involves her initiation to the world of the undead.
The film was produced independently by minor silent film makers Edward Halperin and Victor Halperin, from a script by Garnett Weston. Victor Halperin directed, and the film was distributed by United Artists.
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Sherman S. Krellberg financed most of the production of the film through his Amusement Securities Corporation, using the film rights as collateral. When the Halperins were unable to repay the loan in a timely manner, Krellberg took over the rights and, after its initial run was finished, periodically reissued the film through minor distributors, the last time being in 1972.
White Zombie
White Zombie
is among the most-renowned horror films of the early sound era. Its legacy includes a namesake rock band, an extensive published critical analysis by Gary Don Rhodes, many VHS and DVD versions owing to its public-domain status, and considerable debate among film historians regarding its degree of virtue.
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Many factors contribute to White Zombie’s enduring cult film status:
It is the first film dealing with zombies, a popular horror film subject of the last forty years.
It was independently-produced and not a product of a major studio like Universal, which made most of the best-known early horror films.
The director quit midway in filming and Lugosi got the chance to direct some scenes of the film. This according to his son as he commented in the documentary 100 Years of Horror. Lugosi had wished he could have done much more.
Its use of sophisticated camera, lighting, and sound techniques was pioneering for the genre.
It features a full musical score, albeit composed of secondary source material; contemporary horrors Dracula and Frankenstein did not.
Its elaborate sets, rented from Universal, and striking painted background images belie its independent status and help make it more comparable to a studio film than subsequent independent horror films would be.
It stars Béla Lugosi in one of his top performances, in a unique and visually-striking makeup.
Jack Pierce, Universal’s resident makeup genius who created the landmark face designs for the Frankenstein Monster, the Mummy, and later the Wolf Man, was the makeup artist for the film.
It marks the first of many independent-film choices for Lugosi following his success in Universal’s Dracula, a tendency that is generally cited for diminishing his status in the industry and is a popular Lugosi-discussion topic.
The quality of its performances is the subject of much debate, with some horror-film historians blaming the romantic leads in part for their overall ambivalence toward the film, but others crediting the disparate acting styles as contributing to the film’s strange, dream-like quality.
Unlike most other popular horror films, White Zombie’s cast is made up almost entirely of actors who today are not popularly-known for other performances; this feature helps to spotlight Lugosi, the most notable exception, and add to the film’s other-worldliness.
It contains a multitude of singularly-memorable moments, including:
A frightful scene showing zombies working in the sugar mill owned by Lugosi’s character.
The foot-to-head introductory pan of the zombie played by Frederick Peters, one of the genre’s scariest-looking characters.
The famous “flub” of horror-favorite Brandon Hurst holding his nose as he’s being thrown to a watery death.
Actor-musician Clarence Muse’s description of zombies, a rare instance in early films, especially horror films, in which an African-American was provided an opportunity to deliver lines in a non-stereotypical manner.
The early close-up of Lugosi’s eyes that travels across a wide shot and settles on the head of the actor.
Make Up Department Carl Axcelle … makeup artist
Jack Pierce … makeup artist
Special Effects Department Harold Anderson … special effects
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Despite the massive popularity of the film, Zombi 2 was banned in several countries, including Great Britain, due to the massive gore content. It was released by Vipco but with a lot of violence edited out. It was finally released uncut in 2005. Lead actor Ian McCulloch, who is British, never actually had the opportunity to watch the full film until he recorded a commentary for the Roan Group’s laserdisc release of Zombi 2 in 1998, and was shocked at the gore level.
Night of the Living Dead released October 19, 1990
Posted by GoreMaster Special Effects on October 19, 2009
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Night of the Living Dead is a horror film released in 1990. It is a remake of George A. Romero’s 1968 film of the same name and was directed by Tom Savini. Romero rewrote the original 1968 screenplay that he had co-authored with John A. Russo.
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