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Scariest Scary Movie #18 – Night of the Living Dead

October 15, 2008 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Night of the Living Dead (1968, Duane Jones, Judith O’Dea, Karl Hardman) They’re coming to get you, Barbara! Quick Plot: A group of strangers hole up in a rural farmhouse after the dead come alive and start attacking. Scariest Scene: Um, that would have to be when the little girl turns into a zombie and stabs her mother to death with a spade. Why it Rocks: Night of the Living Dead set the tone for all horror films to come. It was something no one had ever seen before and no one has been able to duplicate since. For more […]

The Legendary Hulkster And His Pals Turn Famous Faces Into Babyfaces

October 15, 2008 Lori Acken Comments Off

“All I know is I’m not done with this business yet,” says Hulk Hogan of the advent of his new CMT reality show Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Championship Wrestling, debuting on the net Oct. 18. The series — which pits Hulk’s two best pals, Brutus “The Barber” Beefcake and Brian “Nasty Boy” Knobbs, against each other to turn D-list celebs (Dennis Rodman! Danny Bonaduce! Trishelle Cannatella!) into top-tier wrestlers — is actually the brainchild of Hogan and his former boss Eric Bischoff in response to a sports-entertainment genre they think has gone soft. Lest you have any doubt, why yes, Hogan […]

“Fringe”: Power Hungry

October 15, 2008 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Posted by SH What if one of those geeks from an ’80s movie grew up to have superpowers? That’s how much of this episode plays, as we follow a painfully awkward delivery boy who pines away for a receptionist he sees on his routes. He also — unbeknownst to him — has the power to control electricity, which leads to him often inadvertently breaking company equipment and — after seeing his object of affection flirt with another man — bringing an elevator with her in it crashing to the ground. To drive the ’80s feeling home, we’re subjected to an […]

“Mad” About “Jeopardy!”

October 15, 2008 Jeff Pfeiffer Comments Off

Posted By RabbitEars Attention Mad Men fans! If you think you’re an expert on the show, then tune in to Jeopardy! this Friday, Oct. 17, when the long-running game show features an entire category devoted to AMC’s hit series set amid the world of 1960s ad agencies. Several Mad Men cast members will be delivering clues throughout the category. The Jeopardy! web site also features a special area where home viewers can test their knowledge of Mad Men-inspired trivia with 1960s categories and clues. Jeopardy! airs in syndication; check your local listings for air time and channel.

THE FEARFUL FIVE! #11

October 15, 2008 Jeff Pfeiffer Comments Off

Continuing our monthlong celebration of Halloween with various scary movie and TV-related lists. Check out our online movie database at channelguidemag.com to see if any of these or other scary titles are on this month. (Note: Videos contain graphic violence, disturbing images and language.) IT SLICES, IT DICES! TOP 5 MOST SADISTIC SLASHERS A large collection of violent deaths certainly isn’t strictly the domain of horror films — go watch Commando or Rambo II to see Arnie and Sly mow down bad guys by the dozens, if not hundreds. But the deaths found in “slasher films” tend to be so […]

“One Tree Hill”: The Slippery Slope NEVER ENDS 6

October 14, 2008 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Posted by: haro1d Last night’s OTH wasn’t the most explosively hilarious, but at least some stuff happened. We found out that Peyton’s dad is indeed the not-so-sober Mick (John Doe — still can’t believe he’s on that show). She’s not exactly as thrilled as she might have been, but she always has such dramatic expectations anyway, doesn’t she? In the end, they parted mutually agreeably at the paths their lives had taken. Mick was proud of his daughter, and she ultimately was appreciative for his having allowed her to have a different life than the one he would have given […]

How I Met Your Mother: Intervention

October 14, 2008 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Posted by Mike Synopsis: The episode begins with Barney testing an elaborate pick-up technique, in which he disguises himself as an old man from the future and tries to convince a hot girl at McLaren’s that she must sleep with the present-day Barney Stinson in order to save the world in the future. After watching the whole thing inexplicably play out according to plan, Ted, Marshall and Lily retreat upstairs with Robin to continue packing their stuff for their impending moves. In the process, Ted finds a brand-new “Intervention” banner (the old one had been burned up during the intervention […]

THE FEARFUL FIVE! #10

October 14, 2008 Jeff Pfeiffer Comments Off

Continuing our monthlong celebration of Halloween with various scary movie and TV-related lists. Check out our online movie database at channelguidemag.com to see if any of these or other scary titles are on this month. (Note: Videos may contain graphic violence, disturbing images and language.) SCARED SPEECHLESS: TOP 5 SILENT HORROR FILMS Don’t be scared off by the fact that these films are old, in black and white, and without sound. Instead, be very scared of their brilliantly horrific content: 5. The Golem (1920) An inspiration for the look and feel of Frankenstein about a decade later, this film tells […]

Scariest Scary Movie #19 – Aliens

October 13, 2008 Channel Guide Staff Comments Off

Aliens (1986, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen) They mostly come out at night… Mostly. Here’s what happens: A bunch of space Marines challenge Ripley’s (wo-)manhood and goad her into returning to the alien planet, which has been colonized. Some little girl, Newt, is found wandering. Paul Reiser wants to keep a face-hugging alien as a pet. Bill Paxton is awesome. Ripley falls in love with John Connor’s father. Ripley saves the day. Most Awesome Scene: The alien detector only measuring a 3-D world on a 2-D plane. Ripley with guns and a flamethrower. In the room with the face-huggers. […]

George A. Romero Discusses The Making And The Meaning Of The Living Dead

October 13, 2008 Channel Guide Staff 2

Oh, those pesky zombies! At a time when our country was rocked by Vietnam protests, they terrified us in the low-budget splatterfest Night of the Living Dead (1968), then dropped out of sight for a decade before returning to attack rampant American consumerism in Dawn of the Dead (1978) and to devour some scientists in Day of the Dead (1985). Recently, with our country again caught up in a divisive war, they came lumbering back to take on the ivory tower powers-that-be in Land of the Dead (2005) and add new meaning to the idea of terrorism in Diary of […]