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Christopher Lee death of cause

Christopher Lee died last Sunday after being hospitalized for respiratory problems and heart failure, reports the Guardian. The paper said Lee#39;s wife Birgit – a Danish former model who married Lee in 1961 – waited to release the news so she could inform family members first. Lee became famous through the horror genre, starring as Dracula in a number of films beginning in the late 1950s. He considered his best work to have been in the 1998 biopic Jinnah, in which he played the title role as

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Christopher Lee death of cause

Saw 3D Trailer: Can 3D Revive a Dying Genre?

The horror genre often likes to segue between bloody kill-em-offs and creepy ghost stories, and it looks like we’re in the middle of that transition once again. Just as the slashers inspired by Scream eventually gave way to the J-horror of The Ring , now it seems like the torture porn genre famously led by the Saw series has ceded ground to low-budget haunted house movies like Paranormal Activity. Can Saw 3D stem the tide?

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Saw 3D Trailer: Can 3D Revive a Dying Genre?