The following contains spoilers from Night 3 aka the finale of The Continental: From the World of John Wick, now streaming on Peacock.
The Continental itself barely survived the finale of its eponymous Peacock miniseries.
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As the 3-“Night” John Wick prequel series came to a close, Winston (played by Colin Woodell) & Co. launched their attack...
The Continental itself barely survived the finale of its eponymous Peacock miniseries.
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As the 3-“Night” John Wick prequel series came to a close, Winston (played by Colin Woodell) & Co. launched their attack...
- 10/7/2023
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
The stars of 1997 film Excess Baggage, Benicio Del Toro and Alicia Silverstone are joining forces over 20 years later for Netflix thriller Reptile, which has received its official trailer today.
Justin Timberlake also stars in the upcoming Netflix Original, debuting October 6.
Reptile will first be unleashed in select theaters on September 29.
In the film…
“Following the brutal murder of a young real estate agent, a hardened detective attempts to uncover the truth in a case where nothing is as it seems, and by doing so dismantles the illusions in his own life.”
Eric Bogosian, Domenick Lombardozzi, Frances Fisher, Ato Essandoh, Michael Carmen Pitt, Karl Glusman, and Matilda Lutz also star.
Grant Singer directed the film, written by Grant Singer & Benjamin Brewer and Benicio Del Toro, with a story by Grant Singer & Benjamin Brewer.
The post ‘Reptile’ Trailer – Netflix’s Murder Thriller Is the ‘Excess Baggage’ Reunion You’ve Been Waiting For appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!
Justin Timberlake also stars in the upcoming Netflix Original, debuting October 6.
Reptile will first be unleashed in select theaters on September 29.
In the film…
“Following the brutal murder of a young real estate agent, a hardened detective attempts to uncover the truth in a case where nothing is as it seems, and by doing so dismantles the illusions in his own life.”
Eric Bogosian, Domenick Lombardozzi, Frances Fisher, Ato Essandoh, Michael Carmen Pitt, Karl Glusman, and Matilda Lutz also star.
Grant Singer directed the film, written by Grant Singer & Benjamin Brewer and Benicio Del Toro, with a story by Grant Singer & Benjamin Brewer.
The post ‘Reptile’ Trailer – Netflix’s Murder Thriller Is the ‘Excess Baggage’ Reunion You’ve Been Waiting For appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!
- 8/21/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
UK-French sales agent, distribution and production company Alief has announced that the Ted Raimi led psychological thriller, Failure!, will have its World Premiere at FrightFest on August 28th 2023. Alief picked up worldwide rights at the Cannes Film Festival in May after Failure! made its debut at the Fantastic Pavillion. To mark the occasion, a teaser trailer and poster has been released. Failure! follows James who has a big debt with the bank and is given one hour to choose between financial ruin or murder in order to protect his family. As the hour progresses he finds his home and phone invaded by multiple characters pulling him in different directions, gradually adding to his distress and his unravelling. But who is real and who isn’t? As well as Raimi, the film also stars Merrick McCartha (Senior Year), Melissa Diaz (Ruthless), John Paul Medrano (Seven Days) and Daniel Kuhlman (Voodoo MacBeth) and Noel Douglas Orput.
- 8/1/2023
- by Peter 'Witchfinder' Hopkins
- Horror Asylum
In the fifth season episode of "The Twilight Zone," called "The Masks", an elderly millionaire named Jason Foster (Robert Keith) has gathered his daughter, her husband, and their two adult children for a Mardi Gras gathering. Jason, attended by his doctor (Willis Bouchey), is dying. He expects he'll be dead by morning. Jason also hates his daughter and her family. He sees Emily (Virginia Gregg) as spineless, her husband Wilfred (Milton Seltzer) as greedy, her son Wilfred, Jr. (Alan Sues) as dumb and oafish, and her daughter Paula (Brooke Hayward) as vain and shallow.
At dinner, the family members all feign politeness, but the audience trusts Jason when he says they are all terrible people who are only interested in inheriting his fortune. After dinner, Jason calls the quartet into the drawing room for a Mardi Gras game. The patriarch has commissioned five expressive, full-face masks that he and his family are to wear.
At dinner, the family members all feign politeness, but the audience trusts Jason when he says they are all terrible people who are only interested in inheriting his fortune. After dinner, Jason calls the quartet into the drawing room for a Mardi Gras game. The patriarch has commissioned five expressive, full-face masks that he and his family are to wear.
- 8/1/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
You’d think an artist as influential and groundbreaking as Prince would have been showered in Grammys, but that’s far from the truth. Throughout his career, Prince was only awarded seven times. Indeed, while the Grammys certainly weren’t dismissive of him, you would probably expect him to have won more than that, or at least to have won in a major category. Throughout his career, the eclectic musician only got three general field nominations: Album of the Year for “Purple Rain” and “Sign O’ the Times,” both of which he infamously lost, and Song of the Year for penning Sinéad O’Connor’s smash hit “Nothing Compares 2 U.” Still, there’s a lot to unpack from Prince’s wild Grammy history, including wins that you might not expect and losses that leave us wondering what exactly voters were on.
SEEGrammys flashback: How did Bruno Mars beat Justin Timberlake and...
SEEGrammys flashback: How did Bruno Mars beat Justin Timberlake and...
- 7/30/2023
- by Jaime Rodriguez
- Gold Derby
The stars of James Gunn’s 2006 horror-comedy Slither, Elizabeth Banks and Nathan Fillion have been set to star in Skincare, a mysterious “vanity thriller” announced by Deadline.
Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick), Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (Pose), and Luis Gerardo Méndez (The Resort) will also star, with Elizabeth Banks leading the cast.
Directed by Austin Peters, Deadline notes in their report that “Skincare is described as a vanity thriller set in Hollywood, though specifics as to its plot are under wraps.”
Peters wrote the script with Deering Regan and Sam Freilich.
Skincare comes from Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment.
“We are delighted to announce another international production involving such world-class actresses and actors,” said Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment CEO Andrea Iervolino. “‘Skincare’ is a film with a strong visual impact that, because of the cast and the workers it involves, has enormous potential. It is a film that we at Ilbe believe in very much.
Lewis Pullman (Top Gun: Maverick), Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (Pose), and Luis Gerardo Méndez (The Resort) will also star, with Elizabeth Banks leading the cast.
Directed by Austin Peters, Deadline notes in their report that “Skincare is described as a vanity thriller set in Hollywood, though specifics as to its plot are under wraps.”
Peters wrote the script with Deering Regan and Sam Freilich.
Skincare comes from Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment.
“We are delighted to announce another international production involving such world-class actresses and actors,” said Iervolino & Lady Bacardi Entertainment CEO Andrea Iervolino. “‘Skincare’ is a film with a strong visual impact that, because of the cast and the workers it involves, has enormous potential. It is a film that we at Ilbe believe in very much.
- 6/26/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
In honor of Halloween, YouTube Music has culled the 31 most popular music videos that earned more daily views last Oct. 31 in the U.S. than on any other day of the year in 2018.
The list is topped by unsurprising standards like Ray Parker Jr.’s "Ghostbusters" (the theme song for the cult 1984 film), Michael Jackson’s "Thriller," and Bobby Pickett’s "Monster Mash" -- though it also includes more contemporary hits by artists like Fifth Harmony (whose "I’m In Love With a Monster" placed fifth) and Rihanna’s "Disturbia," which landed at No. 7. Jackson technically has two songs in the top five, given that he provided guest vocals on Rockwell’s "Somebody’s Watching Me," which came in at No. 4.
Not a whole lot has changed since last Halloween -- when "Thriller" took the top spot and "Ghostbusters" was at No. 2. "Monster Mash" has remained steady at No. 3, with...
The list is topped by unsurprising standards like Ray Parker Jr.’s "Ghostbusters" (the theme song for the cult 1984 film), Michael Jackson’s "Thriller," and Bobby Pickett’s "Monster Mash" -- though it also includes more contemporary hits by artists like Fifth Harmony (whose "I’m In Love With a Monster" placed fifth) and Rihanna’s "Disturbia," which landed at No. 7. Jackson technically has two songs in the top five, given that he provided guest vocals on Rockwell’s "Somebody’s Watching Me," which came in at No. 4.
Not a whole lot has changed since last Halloween -- when "Thriller" took the top spot and "Ghostbusters" was at No. 2. "Monster Mash" has remained steady at No. 3, with...
- 10/31/2019
- by Geoff Weiss
- Tubefilter.com
It’s almost time, dear readers! Halloween is less than two weeks away, and I don’t know about you, but the one thing that always got me primed for October 31st were all the Halloween-themed TV specials that would come out every year. And if you’re someone who enjoys all the seasonal offerings on the small screen as well, here’s a look at a ton of different specials and classic horror series that are perfect to binge for the rest of October.
Enjoy!!
Classic TV Series:
Tales From the Cryptkeeper (Multiple Seasons)
You can stream all three seasons currently on Tubi TV.
Chillers (Season 1)
You can currently stream season 1 on Amazon Prime.
Masters of Horror (Multiple Seasons)
Every episode from season 1 and season 2 is currently available on Tubi TV.
Dark Shadows (Multiple Seasons)
You can stream multiple seasons currently on Hulu & Amazon Prime.
Bump in the Night...
Enjoy!!
Classic TV Series:
Tales From the Cryptkeeper (Multiple Seasons)
You can stream all three seasons currently on Tubi TV.
Chillers (Season 1)
You can currently stream season 1 on Amazon Prime.
Masters of Horror (Multiple Seasons)
Every episode from season 1 and season 2 is currently available on Tubi TV.
Dark Shadows (Multiple Seasons)
You can stream multiple seasons currently on Hulu & Amazon Prime.
Bump in the Night...
- 10/18/2019
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Tony Sokol Sep 15, 2019
The Cars' Ric Ocasek merged punk, pop and avant garde music to help launch new wave.
Ric Ocasek, co-founder and main singer of the band the Cars, was found dead in his Gramercy Park home in New York City, police confirmed, according to Variety. The songwriter and painter was discovered unconscious and unresponsive by his estranged wife, Paulina Porizkova. Few details have been released, including a cause of death. The NYPD announced Ocasek's age as 75, but NPR says he was 70, according to public records.
Rhythm guitarist Ocasek formed the Cars in Boston in 1976 with bassist and singer Benjamin Orr, who died from pancreatic cancer in 2000. The pair met in Cleveland in 1965 after Ocasek caught a performance of Orr's band the Grasshoppers on a local musical variety program called The Big 5 Show. In 1968, the pair formed a band called ID Nirvana, playing regularly at Ohio State University and area clubs.
The Cars' Ric Ocasek merged punk, pop and avant garde music to help launch new wave.
Ric Ocasek, co-founder and main singer of the band the Cars, was found dead in his Gramercy Park home in New York City, police confirmed, according to Variety. The songwriter and painter was discovered unconscious and unresponsive by his estranged wife, Paulina Porizkova. Few details have been released, including a cause of death. The NYPD announced Ocasek's age as 75, but NPR says he was 70, according to public records.
Rhythm guitarist Ocasek formed the Cars in Boston in 1976 with bassist and singer Benjamin Orr, who died from pancreatic cancer in 2000. The pair met in Cleveland in 1965 after Ocasek caught a performance of Orr's band the Grasshoppers on a local musical variety program called The Big 5 Show. In 1968, the pair formed a band called ID Nirvana, playing regularly at Ohio State University and area clubs.
- 9/16/2019
- Den of Geek
[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from Season 1 of “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.”]
A love of horror runs in series creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s blood, and it comes out in “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” his dark take on the classic Archie Comics title “Sabrina the Teenage Witch.” In adapting his comic book for Netflix, he discussed some of those horror influences with Lee Toland Krieger, who would be setting the tone of the series by directing the first two episodes.
“He arranged a screening of clips from some of our favorite movies,” Aguirre-Sacasa said. “The three great witch movies are ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ Dario Argento’s ‘Suspiria,’ and Robert Eggers’ movie ‘The Witch,’ that came out a few years ago. And then even more recently, Ti West’s movie, ‘House of the Devil,’ and Oz Perkins’ ‘The Blackcoat’s Daughter,’ starring Kiernan [Shipka] actually. In terms of devil movies, we talked about ‘The Omen,’ we talked about ‘The Exorcist,’ the...
A love of horror runs in series creator Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s blood, and it comes out in “Chilling Adventures of Sabrina,” his dark take on the classic Archie Comics title “Sabrina the Teenage Witch.” In adapting his comic book for Netflix, he discussed some of those horror influences with Lee Toland Krieger, who would be setting the tone of the series by directing the first two episodes.
“He arranged a screening of clips from some of our favorite movies,” Aguirre-Sacasa said. “The three great witch movies are ‘Rosemary’s Baby,’ Dario Argento’s ‘Suspiria,’ and Robert Eggers’ movie ‘The Witch,’ that came out a few years ago. And then even more recently, Ti West’s movie, ‘House of the Devil,’ and Oz Perkins’ ‘The Blackcoat’s Daughter,’ starring Kiernan [Shipka] actually. In terms of devil movies, we talked about ‘The Omen,’ we talked about ‘The Exorcist,’ the...
- 11/3/2018
- by Hanh Nguyen and Jamie Righetti
- Indiewire
Oct 31, 2018
Kepler Space Telescope, Eurostar, Bandi Namco, and more in today's daily Link Tank!
This futuristic, zero-emission Air Taxi could hit the market as soon as 2020.
"Fulfilling the dreams of sci-fi fans everywhere, a Russian startup called Bartini unveiled a prototype of a flying taxi yesterday, alongside some shockingly early predictions about when these puppies will be able to take to the skies for actual commercial use. Assembled last March at Nust Misis Kinetica High Complexity Protoyping Center in Moscow, the vehicle features Back To the Future Gull-wing doors and drone-esque horizontal propellers that make it look as though it just warped in from the future. The startup, a member of McFly.aero’s air taxi incubator, expects to reach the commercial market by 2020. This puts them ahead of Uber, whose similarly audacious vision set a timeline closer to 2023."
Read more at Inverse.
Bandai Namco cracking down on explicit custom characters.
Kepler Space Telescope, Eurostar, Bandi Namco, and more in today's daily Link Tank!
This futuristic, zero-emission Air Taxi could hit the market as soon as 2020.
"Fulfilling the dreams of sci-fi fans everywhere, a Russian startup called Bartini unveiled a prototype of a flying taxi yesterday, alongside some shockingly early predictions about when these puppies will be able to take to the skies for actual commercial use. Assembled last March at Nust Misis Kinetica High Complexity Protoyping Center in Moscow, the vehicle features Back To the Future Gull-wing doors and drone-esque horizontal propellers that make it look as though it just warped in from the future. The startup, a member of McFly.aero’s air taxi incubator, expects to reach the commercial market by 2020. This puts them ahead of Uber, whose similarly audacious vision set a timeline closer to 2023."
Read more at Inverse.
Bandai Namco cracking down on explicit custom characters.
- 10/31/2018
- Den of Geek
Nothing sums up 2018 like the fact that Toto’s “Africa” has become our unofficial anthem. It’s a song that’s ridiculous by definition — an Eighties ode to Africa by a bunch of L.A. rock dudes who’d never set foot in the place. But something about this song speaks to our moment. It’s the new “Don’t Stop Believin’” — a mega-cheese classic of Eighties sentiment that’s gotten bizarrely popular in recent years, beloved by hipsters and moms and tone-deaf karaoke singers screaming “I bless the rains down in Africa!
- 10/31/2018
- by Rob Sheffield
- Rollingstone.com
Kim Petras has made a solid case that we should put a ban on Christmas/holiday albums and reshift our pop focus to the undervalued Halloween season. Earlier this month, she dropped the surprise mixtape Turn Off the Light, filled with spooky pop hooks and clubby Edm interludes. The title track, which features Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, is the perfect example of what the mixtape does best: being effectively creepy while not hitting you over the head with the theme.
Like the rest of the non-instrumental tracks on the tape,...
Like the rest of the non-instrumental tracks on the tape,...
- 10/30/2018
- by Brittany Spanos
- Rollingstone.com
“The things inside your head, they’re only as real as you want them to be. If you want, you can just decide they’re not real.” Early on in “The Strange Ones,” Nick (Alex Pettyfer) tells this to his younger travel buddy Sam (James Freedson-Jackson), before seemingly making a coffee mug disappear. On its surface, the film is about two brothers heading out on a camping trip, but it quickly becomes apparent that not everything is as it seems, from the pair’s names to their endgame (to the existence of their coffee mugs). The film’s co-directors, Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein, may be relatively new to audiences (“The Strange Ones” is their feature-length debut; in fact, it’s an expansion upon their own 2011 short, based on real-life true-crime stories), but movie buffs will recognize flashes of their cinematic inspirations throughout. The film may be intentionally vague, but...
- 12/13/2017
- by Indiewire Staff
- Indiewire
William Frye, a man about town in Hollywood who produced General Electric Theater and Boris Karloff's Thriller for television as well as films including The Trouble With Angels and Airport 1975, has died. He was 96.
Frye died Nov. 3 of natural causes at his home in Palm Desert, Calif., according to an obituary placed in the Los Angeles Times.
Frye worked with and became dear friends with the likes of Cary Grant, Ronald Colman, Ronald Reagan, Irene Dunne, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Loretta Young, Rosalind Russell, Bob Hope and Jimmy Stewart.
The producer also was close...
Frye died Nov. 3 of natural causes at his home in Palm Desert, Calif., according to an obituary placed in the Los Angeles Times.
Frye worked with and became dear friends with the likes of Cary Grant, Ronald Colman, Ronald Reagan, Irene Dunne, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Loretta Young, Rosalind Russell, Bob Hope and Jimmy Stewart.
The producer also was close...
- 11/11/2017
- by Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Sideshow Collectibles has added another imposing (and beautifully crafted) character to the ranks of their Court of the Dead with the new Mortighull Premium Format Figure that's featured in today's Horror Highlights, which also includes an update on Space Goat Productions' Evil Dead 2 Kickstarter campaign, a teaser trailer for Lilith (starring Jessica Cameron), a new clip from the anthology series By Night: Origins, details on the world premiere of The Redeeming, the first short film from the new anthology series Ao-Terror-Oa, The Gatehouse release info, the cast for Killer Kate!, and UK and Ireland release details for Whispers.
Sideshow Reveals New Reaper Premium Format Figure: From Sideshow: "Sideshow is proud to present Mortighull: The Risen Reaper General Premium Format™Figure, a terrifying new addition to our original Court of the Dead collection…
The Reaper General Mortighull is far from a mirror image of his mentor, the resolute Demithyle. Mortighull...
Sideshow Reveals New Reaper Premium Format Figure: From Sideshow: "Sideshow is proud to present Mortighull: The Risen Reaper General Premium Format™Figure, a terrifying new addition to our original Court of the Dead collection…
The Reaper General Mortighull is far from a mirror image of his mentor, the resolute Demithyle. Mortighull...
- 11/3/2017
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Get your scream on with these new frightful stories from today's Horror Highlights! Screambox's "13 Screams of Halloween" kicked off this past Friday the 13th and will continue until the big day. Also: Netflix's Slasher Season 2 details, Scream Factory's latest Blu-ray releases, a trailer for Sightings, details for the immersive experience Apartment 213, Grimmwood, and Party Bus From Hell.
Details on "13 Screams of Halloween" from Screambox: Press Release: "Los Angeles, Calif. (October 12, 2017) Screambox, the leading streaming service for hardcore horror fans, is celebrating the Halloween season with a fun treat: 13 new fan-favorite films will be released completely free for streaming on any device from Friday the 13th of October through Halloween, October 31st. Even more thrilling, these top-rated, terrifying titles are exclusive to Screambox -- true horror lovers won’t find these films on any other major streaming service, including Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime.
“It’s been a great year for Screambox,...
Details on "13 Screams of Halloween" from Screambox: Press Release: "Los Angeles, Calif. (October 12, 2017) Screambox, the leading streaming service for hardcore horror fans, is celebrating the Halloween season with a fun treat: 13 new fan-favorite films will be released completely free for streaming on any device from Friday the 13th of October through Halloween, October 31st. Even more thrilling, these top-rated, terrifying titles are exclusive to Screambox -- true horror lovers won’t find these films on any other major streaming service, including Netflix, Hulu, or Amazon Prime.
“It’s been a great year for Screambox,...
- 10/18/2017
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
Playing a public figure is always a big gamble, and a Kennedy — with those faces, those jaws, that peculiar accent that’s so easy to exaggerate — has long been a waystation for actors looking to prove their chops. In John Curran’s “Chappaquiddick,” Jason Clarke opts for a more low-key approach to Teddy Kennedy, eschewing a big accent or showy mannerisms, and fully disappears into the role. It’s his finest work yet, and proof of his ability to excel given the right material.
And what material he’s got, thanks to a tight script from Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan that dramatizes the events surrounding the fatal 1969 event that took place on the Martha Vineyard’s peninsula from which the film derives its title. Compellingly directed by Curran, “Chappaquiddick” takes place over the course of a single week, following a young Senator Kennedy before, during, and after the car...
And what material he’s got, thanks to a tight script from Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan that dramatizes the events surrounding the fatal 1969 event that took place on the Martha Vineyard’s peninsula from which the film derives its title. Compellingly directed by Curran, “Chappaquiddick” takes place over the course of a single week, following a young Senator Kennedy before, during, and after the car...
- 9/13/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
As words like film, negative, celluloid, unspool, and reel become increasingly archaic, even the venerable Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences realizes that it needs to evolve. At the Telluride Film Festival, I sat down with new Academy president John Bailey to discuss what he has in mind. Here’s what we can expect from the 75-year-old cinematographer of “The Big Chill” and “Groundhog Day,” who is proud to be the rare filmmaker representing the Academy board.
(Re)Define the motion picture
Bailey is a realist as much as a cineaste. At Telluride, he appreciated Paul Schrader’s well-reviewed “First Reformed” — but fully supported the possibility that the film would go to Netflix. “It’s very unlikely the studios would pick it up,” said Bailey. “In reality, Netflix and Amazon have now become the studios that have the courage to make the film nobody else would make.”
Similarly, while...
(Re)Define the motion picture
Bailey is a realist as much as a cineaste. At Telluride, he appreciated Paul Schrader’s well-reviewed “First Reformed” — but fully supported the possibility that the film would go to Netflix. “It’s very unlikely the studios would pick it up,” said Bailey. “In reality, Netflix and Amazon have now become the studios that have the courage to make the film nobody else would make.”
Similarly, while...
- 9/6/2017
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Stars: Brian Robbins, Bill Calvert, Tricia Leigh Fisher, Gerrit Graham, Robert Vaughn | Written by M. Kane Jeeves | Directed by David K. Irving
A wave of pure VHS-era nostalgia – with all the associated benefits and drawbacks – awaits in this 1989 sequel to the 1984 B-movie, which was itself a solidly silly monster movie with a great cast (John Heard, Daniel Stern, Kim Greist et al) and charmingly lousy special effects.
This time, the inner city setting is gone in favour of a typical Midwest small town, and the Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers are about to run amok at the teenagers’ Halloween Dance. Not that the CHUDs spend any time underground this time around. As the flimsy franchise leans hard into farce, any semblance of the original film’s social satire is forgotten in favour of smart-ass quips and fish-out-of-water comedy.
The amusingly implausible plot sees buddies Steve (Brian Robbins) and Kevin (Bill Calvert...
A wave of pure VHS-era nostalgia – with all the associated benefits and drawbacks – awaits in this 1989 sequel to the 1984 B-movie, which was itself a solidly silly monster movie with a great cast (John Heard, Daniel Stern, Kim Greist et al) and charmingly lousy special effects.
This time, the inner city setting is gone in favour of a typical Midwest small town, and the Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers are about to run amok at the teenagers’ Halloween Dance. Not that the CHUDs spend any time underground this time around. As the flimsy franchise leans hard into farce, any semblance of the original film’s social satire is forgotten in favour of smart-ass quips and fish-out-of-water comedy.
The amusingly implausible plot sees buddies Steve (Brian Robbins) and Kevin (Bill Calvert...
- 8/28/2017
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
See if you can survive five whole nights at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria while playing the Five Nights at Freddy's board game from Moose Games. Also in today's Horror Highlights: a Lifetime Scary Movie DVD set and the lineup for the 2017 Twin Cities Horror Festival.
Five Nights at Freddy's Board Game Release Details: "Five Nights at Freddy's Board Game: "(Moose Games; Ages 8+; August 2017; $24.99) Five Nights at Freddy’s from Moose Games is the first licensed, non-digital game to bring the popular entertainment property from Scottgames to life. The jump/scare-style game tests players’ nerves and adrenaline levels as they try to collect the most pizza game pieces without waking Freddy Fazbear.
Game play is as simple as it is scary! Each player takes a chance spinning the spinner board and collecting the required number of colored pizza pieces from Freddy’s pizza tray. The player that awakens the included animatronic Freddy,...
Five Nights at Freddy's Board Game Release Details: "Five Nights at Freddy's Board Game: "(Moose Games; Ages 8+; August 2017; $24.99) Five Nights at Freddy’s from Moose Games is the first licensed, non-digital game to bring the popular entertainment property from Scottgames to life. The jump/scare-style game tests players’ nerves and adrenaline levels as they try to collect the most pizza game pieces without waking Freddy Fazbear.
Game play is as simple as it is scary! Each player takes a chance spinning the spinner board and collecting the required number of colored pizza pieces from Freddy’s pizza tray. The player that awakens the included animatronic Freddy,...
- 7/27/2017
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
After recently celebrating the world premiere of her thought-provoking thriller Never Here at the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival, Daily Dead had the opportunity to catch up with writer/director Camille Thoman to discuss her approach to the project and the inspiration behind her debut narrative feature, working with her talented ensemble, which includes Mireille Enos (World War Z, The Killing), Sam Shepard (Blackhawk Down, The Right Stuff), Vincent Piazza (Rescue Me, Boardwalk Empire), and Goran Visnjic (ER, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), and much more.
Never Here is currently making its way on the film festival circuit, and for those you who are into David Lynch-esque descents into madness, I’d highly recommend checking this one out when you can.
You did a really amazing job with the story, so congrats to you. I wanted to go back a little bit before working on this film, because I...
Never Here is currently making its way on the film festival circuit, and for those you who are into David Lynch-esque descents into madness, I’d highly recommend checking this one out when you can.
You did a really amazing job with the story, so congrats to you. I wanted to go back a little bit before working on this film, because I...
- 7/7/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
There are days when it seems that “Game of Thrones” could sustain its own separate internet.
Scour the one we do have and you can find behind-the-scenes photos of characters in different shooting locales, plenty of confirmed and unconfirmed fan theories, and enough character history to populate more than just the four spinoffs that HBO announced back in early May.
With all that information to sift through, we thought it might be helpful to pick out some vital tidbits that we need to know before heading into Season 7. Given that this series is facing a level of scrutiny unprecedented in TV history, we’re not counting out the idea that some of those set photo leaks might be fiendish misdirection. Therefore, we’re going off of verifiable reports and the words of the creators and stars themselves. They might not be giving us a ton of information, but at least...
Scour the one we do have and you can find behind-the-scenes photos of characters in different shooting locales, plenty of confirmed and unconfirmed fan theories, and enough character history to populate more than just the four spinoffs that HBO announced back in early May.
With all that information to sift through, we thought it might be helpful to pick out some vital tidbits that we need to know before heading into Season 7. Given that this series is facing a level of scrutiny unprecedented in TV history, we’re not counting out the idea that some of those set photo leaks might be fiendish misdirection. Therefore, we’re going off of verifiable reports and the words of the creators and stars themselves. They might not be giving us a ton of information, but at least...
- 7/7/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Premiering tonight as part of the 2017 Los Angeles Film Festival is Sam Patton’s Desolation, which follows a grieving mom named Abby (Jaimi Paige), her teenage son, Sam (Toby Nichols), and their friend Jen (Alyshia Ochse), who head out to the woods in an effort to honor Abby’s deceased husband’s wishes and spread his ashes, only to come across a mysterious loner who begins following their every move. The trio must find a way to elude their woodland stalker before he can make them his next victims in a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Daily Dead recently had the chance to speak with Patton about his first time at the helm of a feature film, and he discussed how his time working at Blumhouse helped prepare him to take the directorial reins on Desolation, working with his cast, and more.
Great to speak with you, Sam. I noticed on your résumé on IMDb that you've been working in different facets of the film industry for a while, and I noticed specifically that a lot of those happen to be with Blumhouse Productions. Because I know Jason Blum and their mantra in terms of making films on a smaller scale, do you feel like being in that environment and being involved with projects on that level helped prepare you for when it was time for you to go out and make your first feature?
Sam Patton: Oh, one hundred percent. A thousand percent, even. I got my start in Hollywood as an intern at Blumhouse, and within a few months was getting paid to work on their movies and I love all the folks over there. I've got a couple of mentors in that organization and it was just a great crash course. I started working with them when they were still in little offices on the Paramount lot, right after Insidious, which was really their first home-grown movie, because Paranormal Activity was an acquisition.
So, I watched them go from being a little company to a really big company making tons and tons of films, and I got to be part of a lot of them. So, it was a crash course in learning how to make a movie for a small amount of money in a contained environment with a small cast, and still tell great stories that deserve an audience. I could talk for an hour just about all the lessons I learned there.
And it was actually after a few years there when the opportunity came to make this movie, and I wanted to go for it. I don't think I would have been nearly as confident that it could be done for so little, for a modest budget, if I hadn't been coming straight from doing so many movies there.
Was there something in particular about this script, because I know this was co-written by Matt Anderson and Michael Larson-Kangas, that made you go, "Yes, this is absolutely the project I want to be out there making for my debut,"?
Sam Patton: Well, it was two things. It was the characters, which I fell in love with. The son is named Sam, which was the case when I read the first draft of the script, but it's made for plenty of jokes about what a traumatic childhood I must have had, and how this movie is autobiographical.
I was going to ask [laughs].
Sam Patton: No, no, that was in the first draft I read [laughs]. But it was the characters that jumped off the page immediately to me. I felt for them. I felt for their situations. The closest comparison to their situation in my life that I have experience with was when my grandmother passed away when I was nine. She was only 60, which is young, right? And all of her children and my grandfather all had really strong relationships with her and not that they had bad relationships with each other, but they all related through her. And so when she was gone, they had to sort of figure it out. She was the one that brought them all together for family things.
And so now, Abby and Sam, it's not that they don't love each other, they just don't get each other at all. But now they're all they have, and so they need to come together. And that character struggle was what drew me in. When I went looking for a contained environment horror film to make, the producer in me was looking for something small and doable on a small budget, but this was one of the first scripts I read. I fell in love with it, but I thought, "No, you can't make the first script you read." And I read more scripts, but came back to this one because it was so great.
And then the second part of it that made this script so important to me, it has this mirror element where it’s not quite an allegory—it's not like Metamorphosis with Kafka, where it's straight allegory—but there are parallels in the external story to the internal story, and I just thought that was really good storytelling and I wanted to bring it to the screen. And I thought we could do it.
For me, though, I have to find a point when it has to be made. It has to be now that we make a movie, and then we do it. So, that personal urgency is something I always try to find in every project, or else, how are you going to put two, three years into a movie, if you're not passionate every day about it?
Because you were working with basically four actors in this movie, was it conscientious on your part that you were trying to really keep this intimate and contained in terms of both the story and these characters?
Sam Patton: Definitely. There was at least one draft that had flashbacks to Michael in the hospital and we definitely discussed other scenes where there were park rangers finding a dead body, too, and an action opener. There were a lot of things discussed and I kept coming back to this idea that the movie should start and end in the woods, and it should be about these four people, and we should believe in the world they talk about, but you don't have to see it. Because to me, that's almost more real.
One example I give to people when I try and explain the right way to do it is, in the first Star Wars film, they blow up Alderaan. They blow an entire planet out of the sky. And we don't see anybody on Alderaan, but we see an old Jedi clutch his heart and sit down, and then we know something really terrible happened. You don't need to see the Marvel-level movie destruction of Alderaan to get it. You need to see a quiet moment, you know what I mean? So, yes, to answer your question, definitely for me it was important to keep it small and intimate.
And also—this is something I definitely discussed a lot with my cinematographer—we tried to challenge ourselves to do everything with less. If we thought a scene needed four setups, could we do it with two? Could we do it with one? Could we do a scene with one setup? If so, we're doing it with one setup, so how do we keep it interesting? And so that was sort of a challenge all the way through. It's like, "We don't need that. What's the fewest number of characters we need? What's the fewest number of locations?"
So, I like to think of working in a box as a really creatively liberating thing. Limitations, I like them a lot, because it gives you somewhere to start, it gives you a frame of reference. Some people don't always embrace that as a creative tool, and I think people should when they're making movies, small movies especially, that don't have the benefit of big budgets or stars to carry them.
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Daily Dead recently had the chance to speak with Patton about his first time at the helm of a feature film, and he discussed how his time working at Blumhouse helped prepare him to take the directorial reins on Desolation, working with his cast, and more.
Great to speak with you, Sam. I noticed on your résumé on IMDb that you've been working in different facets of the film industry for a while, and I noticed specifically that a lot of those happen to be with Blumhouse Productions. Because I know Jason Blum and their mantra in terms of making films on a smaller scale, do you feel like being in that environment and being involved with projects on that level helped prepare you for when it was time for you to go out and make your first feature?
Sam Patton: Oh, one hundred percent. A thousand percent, even. I got my start in Hollywood as an intern at Blumhouse, and within a few months was getting paid to work on their movies and I love all the folks over there. I've got a couple of mentors in that organization and it was just a great crash course. I started working with them when they were still in little offices on the Paramount lot, right after Insidious, which was really their first home-grown movie, because Paranormal Activity was an acquisition.
So, I watched them go from being a little company to a really big company making tons and tons of films, and I got to be part of a lot of them. So, it was a crash course in learning how to make a movie for a small amount of money in a contained environment with a small cast, and still tell great stories that deserve an audience. I could talk for an hour just about all the lessons I learned there.
And it was actually after a few years there when the opportunity came to make this movie, and I wanted to go for it. I don't think I would have been nearly as confident that it could be done for so little, for a modest budget, if I hadn't been coming straight from doing so many movies there.
Was there something in particular about this script, because I know this was co-written by Matt Anderson and Michael Larson-Kangas, that made you go, "Yes, this is absolutely the project I want to be out there making for my debut,"?
Sam Patton: Well, it was two things. It was the characters, which I fell in love with. The son is named Sam, which was the case when I read the first draft of the script, but it's made for plenty of jokes about what a traumatic childhood I must have had, and how this movie is autobiographical.
I was going to ask [laughs].
Sam Patton: No, no, that was in the first draft I read [laughs]. But it was the characters that jumped off the page immediately to me. I felt for them. I felt for their situations. The closest comparison to their situation in my life that I have experience with was when my grandmother passed away when I was nine. She was only 60, which is young, right? And all of her children and my grandfather all had really strong relationships with her and not that they had bad relationships with each other, but they all related through her. And so when she was gone, they had to sort of figure it out. She was the one that brought them all together for family things.
And so now, Abby and Sam, it's not that they don't love each other, they just don't get each other at all. But now they're all they have, and so they need to come together. And that character struggle was what drew me in. When I went looking for a contained environment horror film to make, the producer in me was looking for something small and doable on a small budget, but this was one of the first scripts I read. I fell in love with it, but I thought, "No, you can't make the first script you read." And I read more scripts, but came back to this one because it was so great.
And then the second part of it that made this script so important to me, it has this mirror element where it’s not quite an allegory—it's not like Metamorphosis with Kafka, where it's straight allegory—but there are parallels in the external story to the internal story, and I just thought that was really good storytelling and I wanted to bring it to the screen. And I thought we could do it.
For me, though, I have to find a point when it has to be made. It has to be now that we make a movie, and then we do it. So, that personal urgency is something I always try to find in every project, or else, how are you going to put two, three years into a movie, if you're not passionate every day about it?
Because you were working with basically four actors in this movie, was it conscientious on your part that you were trying to really keep this intimate and contained in terms of both the story and these characters?
Sam Patton: Definitely. There was at least one draft that had flashbacks to Michael in the hospital and we definitely discussed other scenes where there were park rangers finding a dead body, too, and an action opener. There were a lot of things discussed and I kept coming back to this idea that the movie should start and end in the woods, and it should be about these four people, and we should believe in the world they talk about, but you don't have to see it. Because to me, that's almost more real.
One example I give to people when I try and explain the right way to do it is, in the first Star Wars film, they blow up Alderaan. They blow an entire planet out of the sky. And we don't see anybody on Alderaan, but we see an old Jedi clutch his heart and sit down, and then we know something really terrible happened. You don't need to see the Marvel-level movie destruction of Alderaan to get it. You need to see a quiet moment, you know what I mean? So, yes, to answer your question, definitely for me it was important to keep it small and intimate.
And also—this is something I definitely discussed a lot with my cinematographer—we tried to challenge ourselves to do everything with less. If we thought a scene needed four setups, could we do it with two? Could we do it with one? Could we do a scene with one setup? If so, we're doing it with one setup, so how do we keep it interesting? And so that was sort of a challenge all the way through. It's like, "We don't need that. What's the fewest number of characters we need? What's the fewest number of locations?"
So, I like to think of working in a box as a really creatively liberating thing. Limitations, I like them a lot, because it gives you somewhere to start, it gives you a frame of reference. Some people don't always embrace that as a creative tool, and I think people should when they're making movies, small movies especially, that don't have the benefit of big budgets or stars to carry them.
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- 6/21/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
As the summer continues to roll on, that means we have another great week of horror and sci-fi home entertainment releases to look forward to. The folks at Scream Factory are keeping themselves plenty busy this Tuesday, as they’re resurrecting both The Lawnmower Man and Island of Terror on Blu-ray, as well as their high-def The Paul Naschy Collection, and Arrow Video has put together an incredible two-disc limited Blu-ray set of Dario Argento’s directorial debut, The Bird With The Crystal Plumage, that any fan of the Master of Horror will want to add to their collections. And, if you missed it in theaters, the horror/sci-fi thriller Life will be available on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, and DVD formats, too.
Other notable releases for June 20th include the Hack-o-Lantern limited edition Blu-ray, Patchwork, Under the Dome: The Complete Series, Ten Little Indians,...
Other notable releases for June 20th include the Hack-o-Lantern limited edition Blu-ray, Patchwork, Under the Dome: The Complete Series, Ten Little Indians,...
- 6/20/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
For a while, we wondered if Chris Pine would ever be able to escape the shadow of Captain Kirk. Before he starred in J.J. Abrams’ first “Star Trek” film, Pine was mostly known for tween fare like Lindsay Lohan vehicle “Just My Luck” or “The Princess Diaries 2.” Pine proved to be perfect casting in the role that was created by William Shatner, but subsequent starring vehicles didn’t often work: for every “Unstoppable,” there was a “This Means War,” or a “Rise Of The Guardians,” or a “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” or a “Horrible Bosses 2.”
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But Pine’s been having a better run of it recently.
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But Pine’s been having a better run of it recently.
Continue reading Chris Pine & Michelle Williams To Star In Spy Thriller From ‘Theory Of Everything’ Director at The Playlist.
- 5/5/2017
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
The Parker family’s dysfunctional antics will continue, now that TBS has given a green light to Season 3 of The Detour.
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The Detour closes out its sophomore run with a new episode tonight at 10/9c, followed by a super-sized season finale, which will be presented with limited commercial interruption at 10:30.
“Season 2 has been so smart, hilarious and wrong,” TBS Svp Thom Hinkle said in a statement. “And from the early nuggets I’ve gotten from [creators] Jason [Jones, who also stars] and Sam [Bee], Season 3 is going to be even more effed up.”
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The Detour closes out its sophomore run with a new episode tonight at 10/9c, followed by a super-sized season finale, which will be presented with limited commercial interruption at 10:30.
“Season 2 has been so smart, hilarious and wrong,” TBS Svp Thom Hinkle said in a statement. “And from the early nuggets I’ve gotten from [creators] Jason [Jones, who also stars] and Sam [Bee], Season 3 is going to be even more effed up.”
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- 4/25/2017
- TVLine.com
Armory Films, Union Entertainment Group and Pegasus Pictures announced today that Mads Mikkelsen (Dr. Strange, Star Wars, The Hunt) is starring in the survival thriller Arctic, directed by Joe Penna. Co-written by Penna and Ryan Morrison, the film is being produced by Chris Lemole and Tim Zajaros of Armory Films and Noah C Haeussner of Union, and is being executive produced by Martha De Laurentiis, Einar Thorsteinsson and Cassian Elwes. The film also marks the first re-teaming of Mikkelsen and De Laurentiis since NBC’s “Hannibal.” Production is currently underway, with Xyz Films handling international sales.
The story surrounds a man (Mikkelsen) stranded in the Arctic, who is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost and he must then decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek through the unknown for potential salvation.
The story surrounds a man (Mikkelsen) stranded in the Arctic, who is finally about to receive his long awaited rescue. However, after a tragic accident, his opportunity is lost and he must then decide whether to remain in the relative safety of his camp or embark on a deadly trek through the unknown for potential salvation.
- 4/19/2017
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
April's Blu-ray and DVD releases are kicking off in a big way, as we have a lot of great genre releases to get excited for this week. Mike Mendez’s Don’t Kill It arrives on both formats April 4th as well as the cult classic Invasion of the Bee Girls, which makes its HD bow courtesy of Scream Factory. Mill Creek has put together a triple dose of terror with their Psycho Circus Triple Feature Blu-ray set, and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is keeping busy with their releases of Ghost of New Orleans, A Room to Die For, and We Go On this Tuesday.
Other notable home entertainment titles arriving this Tuesday include The Evil Within, Tank 432, Don’t Hang Up and the DVD set for Medium: The Complete Series.
Don’t Kill It (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Blu-ray & DVD)
When an ancient demon is accidentally unleashed in a...
Other notable home entertainment titles arriving this Tuesday include The Evil Within, Tank 432, Don’t Hang Up and the DVD set for Medium: The Complete Series.
Don’t Kill It (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Blu-ray & DVD)
When an ancient demon is accidentally unleashed in a...
- 4/4/2017
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Mark Ramsey knows that it’s sometimes best to hide the star of the show until the moment is absolutely right. It’s why, in the first episode of “Inside Psycho,” a new six-part series about the birth, production and aftermath of the 1960 horror classic, you won’t hear the words “shower” or “Leigh” or “Hitchcock” or “Universal.”
It’s a particularly striking debut, not just because of the delayed introduction of the expected cast of characters. In opening this “Psycho” origin story with a 25-minute overview of the life and crimes of Plainfield, Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein, Ramsey makes an early case that the best path to understanding the film is via a circuitous route, one with an ever-changing narrative perspective. And plenty of “Mother.”
This trail, particularly in its opening salvo, is unapologetically soaked in goo and gore. (“The following contains mature content,” Ramsey explains at the top of the premiere.
It’s a particularly striking debut, not just because of the delayed introduction of the expected cast of characters. In opening this “Psycho” origin story with a 25-minute overview of the life and crimes of Plainfield, Wisconsin serial killer Ed Gein, Ramsey makes an early case that the best path to understanding the film is via a circuitous route, one with an ever-changing narrative perspective. And plenty of “Mother.”
This trail, particularly in its opening salvo, is unapologetically soaked in goo and gore. (“The following contains mature content,” Ramsey explains at the top of the premiere.
- 3/28/2017
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Aside from the guaranteed global behemoth F8 of the Furious, a.k.a. Furious 8, a.k.a. All in the Fambly, this April is conspicuously blockbuster-lite. (Unless you count Smurfs: The Lost Village, and we do not.) No better time, then, to do a bit of exploring around the indie fringes. Offbeat genre pictures are abound this month, from a sleazy revenge picture to a slippery character study/kaiju movie combo to a virtuosic opera of gunfire. Elsewhere, Tom Hanks tackles a technothriller, Charlie Hunnam and Robert Pattinson venture into...
- 3/28/2017
- Rollingstone.com
Welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly look at the new movies hitting theaters this weekend, as well as other cool events and things to check out. And if you're into box office and how movies might do, come play some of the box office games at EZ1 Productions including their new Pick 5 game!
This Past Weekend:
As expected, Legendary Pictures’ Kong: Skull Island won the weekend, and honestly, the Weekend Warrior’s original prediction of $61.6 million was pretty darn close to the movie’s opening weekend which ended up at $61 million. (Unfortunately, I chickened out on Thursday because my prediction was so much higher than all others and lowered it to $58 million, which was Still closer to than every other prediction last weekend.) Also, as expected (at least by me), Hugh Jackman’s Logan took a 2nd weekend tumble as has been the case with most X-Men movies,...
This Past Weekend:
As expected, Legendary Pictures’ Kong: Skull Island won the weekend, and honestly, the Weekend Warrior’s original prediction of $61.6 million was pretty darn close to the movie’s opening weekend which ended up at $61 million. (Unfortunately, I chickened out on Thursday because my prediction was so much higher than all others and lowered it to $58 million, which was Still closer to than every other prediction last weekend.) Also, as expected (at least by me), Hugh Jackman’s Logan took a 2nd weekend tumble as has been the case with most X-Men movies,...
- 3/15/2017
- by Edward Douglas
- LRMonline.com
The beauty of being a high school senior in your second semester is that it can seem like nothing matters for a minute. Friendships have been sealed, college applications have been submitted, and everyone is fully aware that the end of summer is going to shake things up like an etch-a-sketch, forcing them to start over from (what feels like) scratch. For a lot of teens — particularly the privileged ones — that brief period of time is a perfect storm of personal agency and emotional recklessness. Never again will they have so little responsibility, either to themselves or to each other.
It’s enough to make someone feel invincible, enough to make them feel like things are going to be this way forever.
Ry Russo-Young’s smart and sensitively told “Before I Fall” takes that idea as literally as possible, but it’s for that reason that her film is ultimately...
It’s enough to make someone feel invincible, enough to make them feel like things are going to be this way forever.
Ry Russo-Young’s smart and sensitively told “Before I Fall” takes that idea as literally as possible, but it’s for that reason that her film is ultimately...
- 2/27/2017
- by David Ehrlich
- Indiewire
The title of Thursday’s How to Get Away With Murder asserts that, “Not Everything’s About Annalise.”
Except, of course, it absolutely is.
As the hour unfolds, it becomes clear that even if the disgraced professor didn’t kill Wes herself, her very existence played a key role in the grisly crime. (Not to mention, ever since she got to jail, Annalise has unwillingly been the object of her cellmates’ fascination.)
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But Thursday’s installment is also very much about Frank, who spends...
Except, of course, it absolutely is.
As the hour unfolds, it becomes clear that even if the disgraced professor didn’t kill Wes herself, her very existence played a key role in the grisly crime. (Not to mention, ever since she got to jail, Annalise has unwillingly been the object of her cellmates’ fascination.)
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- 2/3/2017
- TVLine.com
Nicolas Cage fans in Austin, Texas got what can only be described as a gift from the movie gods over the weekend when Cage made a surprise appearance to C4GED, the fourth annual marathon of Nicolas Cage movies screened in celebration of the month of his birth.
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While a packed theater was singing the happy birthday song, Cage walked out on stage and immediately launched into a reading of “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe. The next 12 hours were spent watching Cage films that the actor personally programmed. Cage also presided over an in-theater marriage proposal.
C4GED was first programmed by the Alamo Drafthouse’s Greg MacLennan four years ago, and the annual marathon has become one of the most popular events at the Alamo Drafthouse. This year’s marathon...
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While a packed theater was singing the happy birthday song, Cage walked out on stage and immediately launched into a reading of “The Tell-Tale Heart” by Edgar Allen Poe. The next 12 hours were spent watching Cage films that the actor personally programmed. Cage also presided over an in-theater marriage proposal.
C4GED was first programmed by the Alamo Drafthouse’s Greg MacLennan four years ago, and the annual marathon has become one of the most popular events at the Alamo Drafthouse. This year’s marathon...
- 1/30/2017
- by Graham Winfrey
- Indiewire
Paula Patton (Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol) will be spending her summer on ABC as the star of the supernatural-esque thriller Somewhere Between, our sister site Deadline reports.
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Based on a Korean format, the 10-episode summer series — from writer Stephen Tolkin (Legend of the Seeker) — follows a news producer (Patton) who knows exactly when, where and how her daughter Serena will be murdered. The catch? She’s clueless about why and who the killer is, and nothing she does seems to change Serena’s unmovable fate.
Somewhere Between reunites Patton with ABC,...
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Based on a Korean format, the 10-episode summer series — from writer Stephen Tolkin (Legend of the Seeker) — follows a news producer (Patton) who knows exactly when, where and how her daughter Serena will be murdered. The catch? She’s clueless about why and who the killer is, and nothing she does seems to change Serena’s unmovable fate.
Somewhere Between reunites Patton with ABC,...
- 1/26/2017
- TVLine.com
As the looming specter of a Trump presidency casts its long shadow over the new year, thrillers that hinge on secret government conspiracies are more apt than ever, and “Homecoming,” the first scripted podcast from Gimlet Media, is just the tonic for those who wish to bask in unpatriotic feelings (without doing anything drastic like moving to Canada.)
Scripted podcasts, while not the medium’s bread and butter, represent a significant sub-set of the trend that saved radio. The most prominent of which is “Welcome to Night Vale,” a bi-monthly cult hit that traverses all sorts of conspiracy theories and heightened realities. While one might wish the reality in “Homecoming” were heightened, the shocks in this tense mystery are far too plausible for comfort, especially in the brave new world of 2017.
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Boasting a roster of A-list talent that includes Catherine Keener,...
Scripted podcasts, while not the medium’s bread and butter, represent a significant sub-set of the trend that saved radio. The most prominent of which is “Welcome to Night Vale,” a bi-monthly cult hit that traverses all sorts of conspiracy theories and heightened realities. While one might wish the reality in “Homecoming” were heightened, the shocks in this tense mystery are far too plausible for comfort, especially in the brave new world of 2017.
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Boasting a roster of A-list talent that includes Catherine Keener,...
- 1/4/2017
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Back in July a “Fan-o-Rama: A Futurama Fan Film” trailer made its way online which teased a live-action version of the cult cartoon.
Now after months of waiting, Cinema Relics has released the full film for fans to enjoy. Directed by Dan Lanigan, the unofficial movie was written by Lanigan, Andy Klimczak and Kody Frederick and features all the beloved characters from “Futurama.”
The story deals with the Planet Express crew’s doomsday device delivery and stars Frederick, Katie Lanigan and Klimczak, among others. The story runs about 18 minutes, with great bonus features after the credits.
Read More: ‘Fan-o-Rama — A Futurama Fan Film’ Trailer: Watch the Heartfelt Tribute to the Cult Cartoon
The special effects were done mostly with prosthetics, puppetry, and miniatures.
“I wanted it to have a real feel to it, because CGI is great, but I feel like there is a quality of life that you...
Now after months of waiting, Cinema Relics has released the full film for fans to enjoy. Directed by Dan Lanigan, the unofficial movie was written by Lanigan, Andy Klimczak and Kody Frederick and features all the beloved characters from “Futurama.”
The story deals with the Planet Express crew’s doomsday device delivery and stars Frederick, Katie Lanigan and Klimczak, among others. The story runs about 18 minutes, with great bonus features after the credits.
Read More: ‘Fan-o-Rama — A Futurama Fan Film’ Trailer: Watch the Heartfelt Tribute to the Cult Cartoon
The special effects were done mostly with prosthetics, puppetry, and miniatures.
“I wanted it to have a real feel to it, because CGI is great, but I feel like there is a quality of life that you...
- 12/28/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
Wil Jones Jan 3, 2017
From Ryan Gosling's jacket in Drive, through to Homer Simpson's Mr Plow: we salute pop culture jackets, and find out how much they cost...
Clothes are important. How you choose to dress your characters, or indeed yourself, can convey so much to the audience. You can explain entire parts of their background or their motivations wordlessly, with just a well chosen garment. Or sometimes, you can just give them a giant scorpion on their back because it looks awesome. Here then, is a list of the coolest jackets in movies, TV, games and comics (Note: Marty McFly wears a gilet, not a jacket, hence his non-appearance).
Kaneda in Akira
Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 sci-fi epic, based on his own manga, is almost definitely the most important anime of all time. Amongst all the action and destruction though, one element that is sometimes overlooked is Otomo’s depiction...
From Ryan Gosling's jacket in Drive, through to Homer Simpson's Mr Plow: we salute pop culture jackets, and find out how much they cost...
Clothes are important. How you choose to dress your characters, or indeed yourself, can convey so much to the audience. You can explain entire parts of their background or their motivations wordlessly, with just a well chosen garment. Or sometimes, you can just give them a giant scorpion on their back because it looks awesome. Here then, is a list of the coolest jackets in movies, TV, games and comics (Note: Marty McFly wears a gilet, not a jacket, hence his non-appearance).
Kaneda in Akira
Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1988 sci-fi epic, based on his own manga, is almost definitely the most important anime of all time. Amongst all the action and destruction though, one element that is sometimes overlooked is Otomo’s depiction...
- 11/12/2016
- Den of Geek
Reunited and it feels so…?
CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles welcomes back Bar Paly this Sunday at 8:30/7:30c, as Russian-born Chicago cop-turned-security specialist Anna Kolcheck. Of course, during Anna’s appearance last February, things got a bit (ahem) overheated as she and Callen went undercover.
PhotosNCIS Casts Mary Stuart Masterson in Recurring Role
“With Kensi out of commission for a bit, we bring in somebody else to help the team — Anna Kolcheck,” showrunner R. Scott Gemmill previously told TVLine. And with Arkady’s not-unattractive daughter back in the mix, “We’re sort of pushing that relationship [with Callen] forward as well,...
CBS’ NCIS: Los Angeles welcomes back Bar Paly this Sunday at 8:30/7:30c, as Russian-born Chicago cop-turned-security specialist Anna Kolcheck. Of course, during Anna’s appearance last February, things got a bit (ahem) overheated as she and Callen went undercover.
PhotosNCIS Casts Mary Stuart Masterson in Recurring Role
“With Kensi out of commission for a bit, we bring in somebody else to help the team — Anna Kolcheck,” showrunner R. Scott Gemmill previously told TVLine. And with Arkady’s not-unattractive daughter back in the mix, “We’re sort of pushing that relationship [with Callen] forward as well,...
- 10/21/2016
- TVLine.com
In “Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders” Batman and Robin have their hands full when Penguin, The Joker, Riddler and Catwoman raise hell in Gotham City. The animated DC film is directed by Rick Morales and features the original 1966 “Batman” series cast: Adam West voicing Batman, Burt Ward voicing Robin, and Julie Newmar voicing Catwoman.
The movie is now available in Digital HD, and so far critics are loving this new Batman adventure.
Scott Mendelson of Forbes called “Return of the Caped Crusader” the “best Batman movie of the year.”
“‘Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders’ is a celebration of one of the most critical interpretations of the original character, one that offers a full-throated defense of everything it was regardless of how it is viewed in hindsight…It could use some tightening, but it’s totally entertaining while celebrating the legacy of its televised predecessor. It understands that the...
The movie is now available in Digital HD, and so far critics are loving this new Batman adventure.
Scott Mendelson of Forbes called “Return of the Caped Crusader” the “best Batman movie of the year.”
“‘Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders’ is a celebration of one of the most critical interpretations of the original character, one that offers a full-throated defense of everything it was regardless of how it is viewed in hindsight…It could use some tightening, but it’s totally entertaining while celebrating the legacy of its televised predecessor. It understands that the...
- 10/12/2016
- by Liz Calvario
- Indiewire
You can tell Halloween is right around the corner, as September 27th has over 20 different horror and sci-fi home entertainment releases looking to put a dent in your wallet. As far as new movies go, The Shallows, The Neon Demon, and Warcraft are all coming home on Tuesday, and for all you classic horror fans, there are new releases of An American Werewolf in London, Blood Diner, Chopping Mall, Lady in White, Slugs, and the 30th anniversary Blu-ray for Highlander.
Other notable releases for September 27th include Stephen King’s Cell, Count Dracula’s Great Love, The Mangler, Grimm: Season Five, and The Shape of Things to Come.
An American Werewolf in London: Restored Edition (Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Blu-ray)
Re-discover one of the most gripping horror films of all time with the cult classic An American Werewolf in London Restored Edition. Blending the macabre with a wicked sense of humor,...
Other notable releases for September 27th include Stephen King’s Cell, Count Dracula’s Great Love, The Mangler, Grimm: Season Five, and The Shape of Things to Come.
An American Werewolf in London: Restored Edition (Universal Studios Home Entertainment, Blu-ray)
Re-discover one of the most gripping horror films of all time with the cult classic An American Werewolf in London Restored Edition. Blending the macabre with a wicked sense of humor,...
- 9/27/2016
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
There’s the usual stockpile when we mention horror anthology TV series. Twilight Zone sits firmly on top for most, and then follows Outer Limits, Thriller, Tales from the Crypt, Masters of Horror, Night Gallery, and on and on. (The rankings are up to you.) And sometimes, way down in the pile of yellowed TV Guides lays one that time forgot (and Nielsen killed). Witness NBC’s Ghost Story/Circle of Fear (1972), a one season and done series that provided solid stories well told over 23 episodes.
If the title seems confusing, it’s because it was known as Ghost Story for the first 13 episodes (plus pilot), and then Circle of Fear for the last 9. Low ratings prompted the name change, which proceeded when the show returned from the Christmas break. Rotund host Sebastian Cabot also didn’t survive the retooling.
So what sank the show? ABC aired Room 222/The Odd Couple opposite it,...
If the title seems confusing, it’s because it was known as Ghost Story for the first 13 episodes (plus pilot), and then Circle of Fear for the last 9. Low ratings prompted the name change, which proceeded when the show returned from the Christmas break. Rotund host Sebastian Cabot also didn’t survive the retooling.
So what sank the show? ABC aired Room 222/The Odd Couple opposite it,...
- 9/11/2016
- by Scott Drebit
- DailyDead
Here’s your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress — at the end of the week, you’ll have the chance to vote for your favorite.
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Rachel Unraveled
Logline: A musical satire following a young actress trying to make it big in the Big Apple.
Elevator Pitch:
“Rachel Unraveled” is a new musical comedy web series created by best friends Rachel Ravel and Austin Spero. A satire of the young-actress-moves-to-nyc trope, the show follows actress/singer/dog whisperer Rachel Ravel as she tries to make it big in the Big Apple. With the help of her best friend, 15-year-old arch nemesis, telepathic dog, and the homeless man who composes her audition songs, Rachel learns the true meaning of friendship, success, and what it takes to “Shine.”
Production...
In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments.
Rachel Unraveled
Logline: A musical satire following a young actress trying to make it big in the Big Apple.
Elevator Pitch:
“Rachel Unraveled” is a new musical comedy web series created by best friends Rachel Ravel and Austin Spero. A satire of the young-actress-moves-to-nyc trope, the show follows actress/singer/dog whisperer Rachel Ravel as she tries to make it big in the Big Apple. With the help of her best friend, 15-year-old arch nemesis, telepathic dog, and the homeless man who composes her audition songs, Rachel learns the true meaning of friendship, success, and what it takes to “Shine.”
Production...
- 8/29/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
As reported by Variety, filmmaker Arthur Hiller—the director behind the 1970 romantic drama Love Story—has died. He was 92.
Hiller was born in Canada in 1923, and though his parents weren’t really part of the entertainment industry, they would put on a play every year or so for the fellow members of their local Jewish community. After serving in Canada’s Air Force during World War II, he went to college and got a job directing local productions for Canadian radio. He moved onto TV by the time it started taking off and eventually attracted the attention of NBC, which led to him getting directing gigs on shows like Gunsmoke, Thriller, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
In 1957, Hiller directed his first film, The Careless Years, but he primarily remained in the TV world for the next decade. By the late-’60s, though, he switched over to directing ...
Hiller was born in Canada in 1923, and though his parents weren’t really part of the entertainment industry, they would put on a play every year or so for the fellow members of their local Jewish community. After serving in Canada’s Air Force during World War II, he went to college and got a job directing local productions for Canadian radio. He moved onto TV by the time it started taking off and eventually attracted the attention of NBC, which led to him getting directing gigs on shows like Gunsmoke, Thriller, and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.
In 1957, Hiller directed his first film, The Careless Years, but he primarily remained in the TV world for the next decade. By the late-’60s, though, he switched over to directing ...
- 8/17/2016
- by Sam Barsanti
- avclub.com
David Crow Oct 13, 2019
An American Werewolf in London remains the most modern take on grisly gothic horror and one of the best werewolf movies ever.
This article contains spoilers for a movie released in 1981.
There is a pub in Manhattan's West Village that at first glance is just another one of the many dive bars NYU students frequent. But this one is particularly tailored for the film school set with its low lighting, its faux-fire, and, of course, a giant life-sized werewolf devouring a peasant girl in the back. Like its namesake from An American Werewolf in London, the Slaughtered Lamb is a pub touched by the occult and supernatural—it is also proof that over 35 years later horror fans can't shake the Mark of Beast left by John Landis’ lycanthrope classic.
Welcomed by a rather mixed critical reception upon its release (Roger Ebert called it “weird” and “unfinished” while...
An American Werewolf in London remains the most modern take on grisly gothic horror and one of the best werewolf movies ever.
This article contains spoilers for a movie released in 1981.
There is a pub in Manhattan's West Village that at first glance is just another one of the many dive bars NYU students frequent. But this one is particularly tailored for the film school set with its low lighting, its faux-fire, and, of course, a giant life-sized werewolf devouring a peasant girl in the back. Like its namesake from An American Werewolf in London, the Slaughtered Lamb is a pub touched by the occult and supernatural—it is also proof that over 35 years later horror fans can't shake the Mark of Beast left by John Landis’ lycanthrope classic.
Welcomed by a rather mixed critical reception upon its release (Roger Ebert called it “weird” and “unfinished” while...
- 8/17/2016
- Den of Geek
After finding blockbuster success for the first time as Poe Dameron in “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” Oscar Isaac is getting back into the drama game. According to Variety, the indie favorite is set to join the cast of Steven Spielberg’s “The Kidnapping of Edgardo Montara.” Isaac will star opposite the previously announced Mark Rylance, who continues his blossoming career with Spielberg after “Bridge of Spies” and “The Bfg.”
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Adapted by Tony Kusher from the novel by David Kertzer (the screenwriter last teamed with Spielberg for “Lincoln”), “The Kidnapping of Edgardo Montara” has been on the director’s radar for quite some time. The story, set in 1858, centers around a Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy who is taken from his family and raised Christian. His family takes it upon themselves to bring their son back, though the...
Read More: Oscar Isaac Joins Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s Political Thriller ‘A Foreigner’
Adapted by Tony Kusher from the novel by David Kertzer (the screenwriter last teamed with Spielberg for “Lincoln”), “The Kidnapping of Edgardo Montara” has been on the director’s radar for quite some time. The story, set in 1858, centers around a Jewish boy in Bologna, Italy who is taken from his family and raised Christian. His family takes it upon themselves to bring their son back, though the...
- 7/15/2016
- by Zack Sharf
- Indiewire
By Lee Pfeiffer
By the early 1970s there had been a revival of interest in the format of anthology suspense/horror stories. This genre had been all the rage in the late 1950s and early 1960s with shows like "The Twilight Zone", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "Thriller!" (hosted by Boris Karloff) attracting loyal audiences. "Twilight Zone" creator and host Rod Serling had two bites at the apple when he introduced "Night Gallery" as a TV movie in 1969 (giving young Steven Spielberg his first major directing gig) and then spun it off into a moderately successful weekly TV series. The early to mid-1970s also saw a major resurgence in horror-themed anthology feature films. The concept was hardly a new one for the big screen as the first major film of this type was "Dead of Night", released in 1945. Roger Corman oversaw some similarly-themed big screen anthologies in the early to mid-1960s,...
By the early 1970s there had been a revival of interest in the format of anthology suspense/horror stories. This genre had been all the rage in the late 1950s and early 1960s with shows like "The Twilight Zone", "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "Thriller!" (hosted by Boris Karloff) attracting loyal audiences. "Twilight Zone" creator and host Rod Serling had two bites at the apple when he introduced "Night Gallery" as a TV movie in 1969 (giving young Steven Spielberg his first major directing gig) and then spun it off into a moderately successful weekly TV series. The early to mid-1970s also saw a major resurgence in horror-themed anthology feature films. The concept was hardly a new one for the big screen as the first major film of this type was "Dead of Night", released in 1945. Roger Corman oversaw some similarly-themed big screen anthologies in the early to mid-1960s,...
- 7/10/2016
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Including bonus features such as interviews with the cast and crew and a tour of the film's locations, the Blu-ray of Brad Anderson's Session 9 will debut on August 16th courtesy of Scream Factory. Also: a trailer and poster for Romeo's Distress and a look at Scream Queen Stream's parody of the iconic shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.
Session 9 Blu-ray Release Details: Press Release: "Fear is a place… A “deft exercise in atmospheric horror” (L.A. Weekly) that takes place in an abandoned mental hospital, Session 9 makes its Blu-ray debut courtesy Scream Factory on August 16th, 2016. This release comes packed with new bonus features, including interviews with cast and crew, and Horror’s Hallowed Grounds, a new revisiting of the locations of the film.
It looms up out of the woods like a dormant beast. Grand, imposing... abandoned and deteriorating, the Danvers State Mental Hospital,...
Session 9 Blu-ray Release Details: Press Release: "Fear is a place… A “deft exercise in atmospheric horror” (L.A. Weekly) that takes place in an abandoned mental hospital, Session 9 makes its Blu-ray debut courtesy Scream Factory on August 16th, 2016. This release comes packed with new bonus features, including interviews with cast and crew, and Horror’s Hallowed Grounds, a new revisiting of the locations of the film.
It looms up out of the woods like a dormant beast. Grand, imposing... abandoned and deteriorating, the Danvers State Mental Hospital,...
- 7/1/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
With distribution by IFC Midnight, Travis Zariwny’s Intruder will have a theatrical rollout in New York and a nationwide release on VOD on June 24th. Also: Double Take’s free access to one of their #3 issues for 24 hours only, details on the upcoming appearance of the Cleanin’ Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters documentarians at Wizard World Philadelphia, the new video for American Murder Song, the trailer and release information for Ghosthunters, starring Stephen Manley, and details on the new action-thriller slate from XLrator Media and IndustryWorks Studios.
Intruder Release Details: “A young woman’s quiet night in becomes a free-fall into fear in this disturbing home invasion thriller. After she lands her dream job, a young cellist (Louise Linton) settles in for a relaxing few days holed up in her apartment but as a violent storm rages outside, she can’t shake the feeling that someone is watching her every move.
Intruder Release Details: “A young woman’s quiet night in becomes a free-fall into fear in this disturbing home invasion thriller. After she lands her dream job, a young cellist (Louise Linton) settles in for a relaxing few days holed up in her apartment but as a violent storm rages outside, she can’t shake the feeling that someone is watching her every move.
- 6/1/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
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