Before the Blood Wars Part 1: An Underworld of Blue
Posted by Horror Movies News on January 2, 2017Underworld is fully formed urban fantasy. Subject matter found rarely on movie screens, reserved instead for book pages.
Underworld is fully formed urban fantasy. Subject matter found rarely on movie screens, reserved instead for book pages.
Florida, predictably, did not have a white Christmas. But one part of the coast did have a great white holiday.
Although it's not entirely a surprise given the end-credits sequence of his own recent solo film, Benedict Cumberbatch's Doctor Strange is now confirmed to play a part in Marvel Studios ' upcoming Thor: Ragnarok . In a preview of what the company has to offer in 2017, Disney 's official fan club D23 highlights the Taika Waititi film with the following description: "Thor: Ragnarok in November brings together Thor, the Hulk, and Doctor Strange to face off against intergalactic baddies both familiar and new."
As for me, well, a driver drives. Today's appetizer is Kate Beckinsale, perhaps best known as the star of the Underworld movies, which appear to be about a war between vampires and werewolves, but as Daddy Warpig says, "If you're watching Underworld for the plot, YOU'RE WATCHING IT WRONG."
Cari Beauchamp is the author of "Without Lying Down: Frances Marion and the Powerful Women of Early Hollywood" and five other books of film history. She first met Debbie Reynolds while interviewing the actress for her books and then went through her costume auction with her.
Actress Carrie Fisher is joined by her mother, actress Debbie Reynolds, after she opened in New York in "Censored Scenes From King Kong," March 7, 1980. Debbie Reynolds seemed unstoppable -- and yes, unsinkable -- in the 1964 film, "The Unsinkable Molly Brown."
Clad in a demure nightgown, in 1958 classic Dracula, starring Christopher Lee , she famously pleads with the naive Jonathan Harker to save her from the evil clutches of the count. In doing so she became Hammer's first screen vampire to bare fangs - it was a few moments before Lee - providing a template for what later became known as Hammer glamour.
The "Insidious" franchise, about demonologists plunging into the supernatural world, has been one of the hottest in horror since the first film came out in 2010. The fourth movie hits screens in October and is written by series co-creator Leigh Whannell.
For film buffs, this was one Elsa Lanchester's last movie roles, one of Sondra Locke's first and one of Ernest Borgnine's most delicious, om nom nom nom. The director was Daniel Mann, who also made such classics as Come Back, Little Sheba , The Teahouse of the August Moon , Butterfield 8 , and Our Man Flint .