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ZombielAnd - The first horror movie to invade theaters this month brings a mix
of thrills, chills and comedy to audiences. It stars Woody Harrelson as an AK-totin,’
zombie-slayin’ badass whose single determination in a world overrun by the
undead is to get the last Twinkie on earth. Along the way, he meets and ultimately
joins forces with a group of other yacky, offbeat characters who have also found
unique ways to survive the zombie mayhem. Opens in theaters October 2.
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the stepFAther - Terror again will return to the big screen in this remake of the
1987 classic thriller. Gossip Girl heartthrob Penn Badgley stars in the latest version,
as a son who shortly after returning home from military school discovers his soon
to be stepfather isn’t all that he appears and may be hiding a dark side. The films
are based on the real life story of John Emil List, who in 1971 murdered his entire
family then fled and took up a new life along with a new identity. Thanks to a tele-
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cast of America’s Most Wanted, List was finally caught in1998. These latest series of
events has been incorporated in the 2009 version. Opens in theaters October 16.
Antichrist - Willem Defoe and Charlotte Gainsbourg play the only two charac-
ters in this supernatural thriller from one of the most celebrated European direc-
tors of our time, Lars Von Trier. The stars play a distraught couple that attempt to
grieve for their dead child and work on their troubled marriage by retreating to a
cabin the middle of a forest to live in seclusion. But their problems do not end and
only go from bad to worse when they encounter strange and terrifying occur-
rences along with a pure evil, which could only come from Satan himself. The film,
which has not come without its share of controversy for its “explicit sexual gore,”
was the talk of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, where Gainsbourg took home the
award for Best Actress. Opens in theaters October 23.
sAw Vi - Due to the somewhat baffling fact that the Saw movies keep making
money at the box office, it’s no surprise they just keep producing more and more
of them. In fact, the first five combined have brought in over $650 million at the
box office. And for a horror franchise, those are impressive numbers. So the king
of the “torture porn” genre is back on the big screen and this time around, Detec-
tive Hoffman has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsaw’s legacy.
However, when the FBI draws in closer to discovering him, he is forced to set a
new “game” into motion. Jigsaw’s grand scheme is said to finally be revealed in
the film. However, don’t let that fool you into thinking this is the end of the road
for the series. It was recently confirmed that Saw VII has been given the green
light and is on its way in 2010. Opens in theaters October 23.
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the VAmpire’s AssistAnt - Bloodsuckers have been getting a lot of screen
time as of late with the likes of the Twilight Saga as well as HBO’s True Blood and
new CW series, The Vampire Diaries. We can add one more to the list this month
when the new film based on the popular Vampire book trilogy by Darren Shan
hits theatres. The Vampire’s Assistant is a fantasy-adventure about a young man
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who, after meeting a mysterious stranger at a traveling freak show, gets an offer
he can’t bear to resist—becoming a vampire. Little does he know, however, that
in doing so, he’ll break a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of
vampires forcing him to leave his normal life and go on the road with the circus
show. Opens in theaters October 23.
october 2009 | RAGE monthly 19
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