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On the set of the Viva Films project Ikaw Pa Rin, Wenn Deramas took a break to give PEP (Philippine Entertainment Portal) an update about the upcoming horror serye Maligno. The director is slated to helm the TV remake of the 1977 horror movie starring Susan Roces.
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Producer/director Roger Corman, known for his low-budget, 'exploitation' films, helped to keep the horror genre alive when the larger Hollywood studios turned away. He created the low-budget, horror lampoon Bucket of Blood (1959), a pre-Little Shop of Horrors. In the next year, his quickly-made cheapie cult film The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) about a meat-eating house-plant named Audrey inspired an off-Broadway stage musical with the same title and another film in 1986 directed by Frank Oz.
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One of the most critically acclaimed horror films of the 2000s was the British horror film The Descent (2005). Its all-female cast was a departure from "tough-guy" male-dominated stereotypes or other archetypal dispositions common in horror films. Its director, Neil Marshall, directed Dog Soldiers (2002), a film that became a favorite of fans of the genre and a box office hit in Great Britain.
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By no means are social messages part and parcel of all horror films. "You won't find them in average horror films, which are gratuitous by their very nature," says Williams. "Sometimes the director is just feeding the audience's demand for gore."
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An omnibus-style film made up of three medium-length horror films by directors from Korea, Hong Kong, and Thailand. Disc one contains Kim Jee-woon's Memories and Peter Ho-sun Chan's Going Home, while disc two contains Nonzee Nimibutr's The Wheel.
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Director Victor Halperin's independent, low-budget horror film White Zombie (1932) , was the first 'true' zombie film. It starred Bela Lugosi as hypnotic and sinister Haitian sugar mill owner "Murder" Legendre with zombie slaves, was deliberately made with minimal dialogue, and filmed to be visually atmospheric and expressionistic.
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