There are but a handful of individuals currently residing on the planet Earth who can accurately be referred to as “living legends”—people whose perspectives and creative output have helped alter the course of their respective fields, and in turn have inspired generations of disciples both aware and sometimes, sadly, unaware of their influence.
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You hear that RED RIDING HOOD (opening March 11 from Warner Bros.) updates the classic fairy tale in part by making its heroine a beautiful young woman involved in a love triangle with a couple of hunky suitors. You also hear it’s from the director of TWILIGHT, and visions of sparkly werewolves and romance taming the beast start dancing in your head.
“My films, back in the day, were something dangerous to watch. There was a military dictatorship back then. And simply stating that you liked one of my movies could be your passport to jail.”
The plague is spreading across movie screens again, and Nicolas Cage and CG demons are nowhere in sight. BLACK DEATH, the fourth feature by British director Christopher Smith, is a more thoughtful, powerful and frightening examination of the fear engendered by the titular disease, and the evil it leads men (and women) to do. The medieval horror/adventure is available on VOD this month and opens theatrically March 11 from Magnolia Pictures’ Magnet Releasing division after winning acclaim at fests like Montreal’s Fantasia, where Fango spoke to Smith and one of his producers, Phil Robertson.
Back when FANGORIA visited the set of Darren Aronofsky’s drug drama REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, the director happily stated that he considered it a horror film, in which “addiction is the monster.” So if his latest feature BLACK SWAN is a genre movie (and it most certainly is), what’s the monster this time?