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Buckle up for the true story of writer, producer, director, creator and all-around maverick, Larry Cohen. Told through compelling live interviews, stills and film/TV clips, the people who helped fulfill his vision, and industry icons such as Martin Scorsese, John Landis, Michael Moriarty, Fred Williamson, Yaphet Kotto and many more, including Larry himself, bring one-of-a-kind insight into the work, process and legacy of a true American auteur…

I’m not going to lie, there’s no way I can talk about the documentary King Cohen without any bias. Larry Cohen is, to this day, one of my all-time favourite filmmakers. He has been since the first time I saw Q The Winged Serpent on TV. Seeing...

Brad Anderson's rollercoaster ride is a lean, taut, brilliant B-movie

The Call is a welcome little late summer treat, a juiced-up B-movie kidnap thriller from regular Fringe director Brad Anderson, admirably succinct at 87 minutes, constructed around the conversations between an abducted girl (Abigail Breslin) and the responder (Halle Berry), who picks up when the girl calls 911 from the trunk of the kidnapper's car. It's a machine designed to thrill, please and satisfy; a one-sentence pitch – 911 responder breaks rule No 1, and gets emotionally involved – deftly realised, manipulative and clever enough to be irresistible. Add an ending that's midnight-black, morally, yet somehow just right, and it's the kind of throwaway thriller that could only be improved by seeing it in a nighttime drive-in with a date, some reefer and a fifth of Old Harper. Pure guilty pleasure.

The set-up is simple. Six months earlier, Berry botches a 911 call – promises her first abductee she'll get her home,...

After a bit of a dry spell on the Netflix streaming service, they’ve released quite a few horror titles over the last few months. Here’s a list of newly released horror movies, which include Hammer’s Frankentein and the Monster From Hell, Creature, 11-11-11, and many more:

As a reminder to those who are new to Netflix, most of The Twilight Zone is currently available, along with season 1 of The Walking Dead, and seasons 1-6 of Supernatural.

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It’s been almost two months since we provided a new list of Netflix horror movies, because so little has been released. However, we wanted to update readers on a new batch of titles added to the Netflix streaming service, including the original I Spit on Your Grave, along with Battle Royale, Hostel Part III, Bereavement, and more.

As a reminder to those who are new to Netflix, most of The Twilight Zone is currently available, along with season 1 of The Walking Dead, and seasons 1-6 of Supernatural.

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Grave Encounters is a hand held video camera, documentary-style film that follows reality TV paranormal investigators shooting an episode at an abandoned psychiatric hospital. From the sounds of it the film is like Ghost Adventures gone wrong. The film was shown at the Tribeca Film Festival and has made its way to VOD and theaters August 2011. Grave Encounters is written and directed by The Vicious Brothers and stars Sean Rogerson (Underworld: Evolution), Juan Riedinger (Jennifer’s Body) and Ashleigh Gryzko (Messages Deleted). Check out the trailer after the synopsis. In the film Grave Encounters “Lance Preston and the crew of "Grave >>...

Screenwriter Larry Cohen is the writer of “Phone Booth” and “Cellular”, so right away you should expect a pretty nifty premise for a thriller that can be made on the cheap. Or a moderate budget that doesn’t involve hiring a superstar for $20 million. Cohen’s latest is “Messages Deleted”, about a screenwriter (played by a nearly unrecognizable Matthew Lillard) who becomes involved in a series of killings that seem to mirror one of his scripts way too closely. Predictably, the cops start to suspect that he might be responsible, and really, can you blame them? Especially when the about-to-be-dead victims start calling him and begging him for help. Luckily for our hero, one of the cops investigating him is Deborah Kara Unger, so there’s that. A couple of plotlines I’ve read on the net seems to give away the film’s twist ending, so be careful if...

Larry Cohen, the writer behind "Phone Booth" and "Cellular," is back with another phone-related thriller called "Messages Deleted," starring Matthew Lillard." We now have the trailer for it and you can check it out below. Plot: A quivering voice begs screenwriter, Joel Brandt, to pick up the phone on a message from his answering machine. Thinking its a prank, Joel deletes the message. The caller is found dead. Another caller leaves Joel a message; there is another murder... then another... then another. The killer has Joel's attention, and Joel now has the attention of the police. Now the prime suspect in a series of murders, Joel discovers this psychotic killer has targeted him for a reason found within his body of work. Will Joel be able to re-write his ending, or be forced to pay the ultimate price? "Messages Deleted" is the directorial debut of Rob Cowan, the producer of...

Matthew Lillard doesn’t have the chops to be a good dramatic actor. I learned this years ago with Thirteen Ghosts. However, you can’t blame the man for trying, because there aren’t any Scooby Doo sequels on the horizon. (There is a made for TV prequel coming, though, if that’s your thing. Lillard isn’t involved.)

Director Rob Cowan (The Crazies remake, Righteous Kill, The Net) has completed screenwriter Larry Cohen’s Messages Deleted, the third in a string of phone-centric films from the writer following Cellular and Phone Booth.

While the central concept of the film isn’t altogether bad, Lillard seems silly and Deborah Kara Unger doesn’t seem to help. The official plot synopsis is as follows:

A quivering voice begs screenwriter, Joel Brandt, to pick up the phone on a message from his answering machine. Thinking its a prank, Joel deletes the message.

  Matthew Lillard fans, and lovers of movies based on telephone premises, rejoice, because the two are finally joined together in the latest film from writer Larry Cohen, Messages Deleted. The plot follows Lillard's screenwriter Joel Brandt, who recieves a voicemail from a frightened young woman begging him to answer. Brandt deletes the message, dismissing it as a prank, and the young woman is found dead. As the messages continue, so do the killings, and with Brandt the prime suspect, he must look into his own body of work to...

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A quivering voice begs to screenwriter, Joel Brandt, to pick up the phone on a message from his answering machine. Thinking it a prank, Joel deletes the message. The caller is found dead. Another caller leaves Joel a message; there is another murder...then another...then another. The killer has Joel's attention, and Joel has the attention of the police. Now the prime suspect in a series of murders, Joel discovers this psychotic killer has targeted him for a reason found within his body of work. Will Joel be able to re-write his ending, or be forced to pay the ultimate price? (A. Voghell [1]) Larry Cohen is back with yet another story revolving around a telephone. Messages Deleted is his final movie to file in his unofficial telephone-focused trilogy which includes Phone Booth and Cellular. The films stars Matthew Lillard and Deborah Kara Unger and is the directorial debut from horror producer Rob Cowan.

That master juggler of the high concept and the low budget Larry Cohen has had a bit of a late surge of telecommunications-themed thrillers. The latest example is Messages Deleted, and you can check out the trailer here.Cohen of course, is the director of It's Alive, Return to Salem's Lot and Q The Winged Serpent, but he's as well known for his screenplays as his talent behind a camera. Phone Booth was directed by Batman villain Joel Schumacher, and Cellular by former stuntman David R Ellis, who went on to Snakes on a Plane and The Final Destination. Time will tell if such dizzy heights await Rob Cowan; lately a producer by trade, although he's credited as First Ad on Stakeout and Cocktail.Messages Deleted stars Deborah Unger, whose presence doesn't help this not feel a bit like The Game, and Matthew Lillard as the screenplay writer (and college lecturer,...

     Here's something I've been waiting for, nay Hoping for these last few years: Matthew Lillard being given a good serious role. The guy's been so deeply typecast in the stoner/slacker genre it was almost becoming painful. Those two Scooby-Doo films didn't help either. You're better than that Mat! Lillard stars in new thriller Messages Deleted as a screenwriting teacher who's forced to live out the plot details of a script he stole. Sounds a little...

If you didn't already know, the guy who wrote Phone Booth, also wrote the 2004 thriller Cellular. It looks like screenwriter Larry Cohen has one final movie to file in his unofficial telephone-focused trilogy, a C-rate thriller titled Messages Deleted starring Matthew Lillard and Deborah Kara Unger. Deleted is the feature debut of Rob Cowan, the producer of such films like The Net, Life as a House, Righteous Kill and the upcoming horror remake The Crazies. We have the trailer embedded after the jump. Please leave your snarky responses in the comments below. The official plot synopsis follows: A quivering voice begs screenwriter, Joel Brandt, to pick up the phone on a message from his answering machine. Thinking its a prank, Joel deletes the message. The caller is found dead. Another caller leaves Joel a message; there is another murder...then another...then another. The killer has Joel's attention, and Joel...

The first trailer has arrived for Phone Booth / Cellular writer, Larry Cohen's, new one Messages Deleted. It's got a kind of tightly-wound I Know What You did Last Summer meets 88 Minutes vibe to it so I think it definitely has the potential to be a decedent mid-budget thriller.

Synopsis:

A quivering voice begs screenwriter, Joel Brandt, to pick up the phone on a message from his answering machine. Thinking its a prank, Joel deletes the message. The caller is found dead. Another caller leaves Joel a message; there is another murder...then another...then another. The killer has Joel's attention, and Joel now has the attention of the police.

Now the prime suspect in a series of murders, Joel discovers this psychotic killer has targeted him for a reason found within his body of work. Will Joel be able to re-write his ending, or be forced to pay the ultimate price?...

Writer Larry Cohen certainly has a love/hate relationship with phones of all kinds. I mean, even before cell phones became our favorite and most hated form of communications, he was using the pay phone as a device for thrilling cinema. Then he made Cellular and now he's got a new phone themed thriller in the can called Messages Deleted about:

A screenwriting teacher who is forced to live out the plot of a screenplay idea he stole from a student, who now seeks revenge.

Messages Deleted stars Matthew Lillard (that's him with a gun to his head) and the beauteous Deborah Kara Unger. It's directed by producer Rob Cowan who is currently producing The Crazies. There's no word on the film's official release date but I know it's done because it screened at the European Film Market back in February.

We've got the first poster and stills for you after the break.