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Nearly 150 years after his assassination, Abraham Lincoln is getting his due from Hollywood. 2012 sees the release of three movies featuring the 16th President front-and-center. The biggest of these is Steven Spielberg's long-awaited bio-pic, due t...
U.S. Release Date: 2012-06-22
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Content)
Genre: HORROR/ACTION
Director: Timur Bekmambetov
Cast: Benjamin Walker, Dominic Cooper, Anthony Mackie, ...
Is it too much to ask that a narrative film have a beginning, a middle, and an end? Apparently in the case of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant, a loose adaptation of Darren Shan's Vampire Blood trilogy, the answer is "yes." Developed with...
U.S. Release Date: 2009-10-23
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: ADVENTURE/HORROR
Director: Paul Weitz
Cast: Chris Massoglia, Josh Hutcherson, John C. Reilly, ...
For nearly a century after the publication of Bram Stoker's classic novel, the term "vampire" was synonymous with the name "Dracula." The only vampires anyone remembers from the '20s (Schreck), '30s (Lugosi), and '50s (Lee) were Draculas (although, ...
Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula. Mike Nicols' Wolf. Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein. Suddenly, horror of the old genre (as opposed to the '80s slasher flicks) is back with a vengeance. The latest, and arguably the most ambitious, to enter this p...
U.S. Release Date: 1994-11-11
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Sexual Situations, Nudity)
Genre: HORROR
Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Kirsten Dunst, ...
It seems that movie makers have lost the art of creating a good, scary vampire flick. The last such film to grace the screen was probably Fright Night, and that was a decade ago. Since then, the "sensitive" vampire has come into vogue -- a creatu...
U.S. Release Date: 1995-10-27
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Violence, Sexual Situations)
Genre: HORROR/COMEDY
Director: Wes Craven
Cast: Eddie Murphy, Angela Bassett, Allen Payne, ...