4 Movies That Gave America Its Stranger Danger Panic
Posted by Horror Movies News on January 24, 2017A mother is puttering in the kitchen, waiting for her daughter to come home from school. We see the clock on the wall.
A mother is puttering in the kitchen, waiting for her daughter to come home from school. We see the clock on the wall.
An electron micrograph image, taken in 2006, of E. coli bacteria; the semi-synthetic bacteria are not pictured. For billions of years, life has danced that same old DNA jig.
But the dread is palpable, and it's what you'll remember after watching "Split," the filmmaker's latest attempt to scare us silly. Whether Shyamalan can ever match the intense emotions raised by "The Sixth Sense" is still in question, but after a decade of wondering whether it was safe to see another of his films, the man's brand is back to its disturbing beginnings.
An entire cabaret show made up on the spot. Who does that? Television and Broadway veteran Jason Kravits pulls off the improbable in OFF the TOP!, one of the most hilariously spontaneous evenings of cabaret you're likely to see.
"District 9" and "Elysium" director Neill Blomkamp got "Aliens" fans in a tizzy when he talked about his plans for a direct follow-up to James Cameron's 1986 sci-fi starrer. Asked for an update on the project this week on Twitter though, the director now says that the odds of his film actually going into production are "slim".
Spike's Lip Sync Battle this Thursday features a matchup of the international kick-butt queens: Aussie actor, DJ and Orange in the New Black star Ruby Rose versus Milla Jovovich, the Ukraine-born former model, actor and her co-star in Resident Evil: The Final Chapter . In a teaser doing the rounds, Jovovich goes full punk as she tackles Billy Idol's iconic "White Wedding," completing her fierce look with a spiky peroxide blonde barnet and that famous sneer.
Performing decently critically and so amazing commercially that it was the second highest-grossing movie of 2015 worldwide, it's a no-brainer that a sequel was ordered. Jurassic World 2 has slowly been gathering the new folks who will be accompanying Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, and one of the more integral individuals in the story will be played by The Detour star Daniella Pineda.
Coming off a surprisingly strong $40 million opening of its horror thriller Split , Jason Blum and his Blumhouse Production are moving quickly with its next project, Stem . The production has brought on board Betty Gabriel as the female lead opposite Logan Marshall-Green in the sci-fi thriller from writer-director Leigh Whannell, the co-creator of the Saw and Insidious horror franchises.
There is a bizarre irony in the fact that filmmakers have more tools at their disposal to be creative than ever before, yet the movies that look and feel most inspired come from a time when ingenuity and a scrap-and-build ethos were all creatives had to use. This is an argument I have made before - as have plenty of old-school film aficionados - and it all comes down to tangibility.