In Hollywood, Alex Kurtzman is known for many things. He helped pen the first two movies of Michael Bay's "Transformers" franchise, is a producer on the "Star Trek" franchise, and is the executive producer on numerous TV shows like "Scorpion" and "Hawaii Five-O."
Editor's note: Every week we pick our coworkers' brains to get a sense of what they're all about and get advice along the way. This week we asked their favorite horror movies of all time.
Earlier this year, I wrote about The Rise of the Synths , a documentary about the rising popularity of the synthwave genre that has been ushered by artists such as Perturbator, Carpenter Brut, Gunship, Miami Nights 1984, Lazerhawk, and similar. Their music is steeped in the synth sounds of the 70's and 80's, inspired by films like Suspiria, The Terminator, The Hitcher, Prince of Darkness , and so on and so forth.
Samantha Geimer's testimony marked the first time she has appeared in court in the drawn-out case involving the 83-year-old Oscar-winning filmmaker An American woman raped by filmmaker Roman Polanski as a teenager four decades ago pleaded with a California judge on Friday to end the case so she could move on with her life. Samantha Geimer, who was 13 at the time of the assault in 1977, said she has been serving a 40-year sentence that has kept a cloud over her and her family.
In Universal's classic horror films of the 1930s and '40s, you often sensed when a monster was about to appear on the screen. There was foreshadowing in the form of a full moon, or a flapping bat, or the crackle of electricity ... and then fanfare in a musical cue by Franz Waxman or Hans J. Salter ... and then, BAM, the monster.
AICN HORROR looks at IT COMES AT NIGHT! CAMERA OBSCURA! DEAD WITHIN! BESETMENT! DON'T KNOCK TWICE! COOKERS! DOLLS! Plus Advance Review of DEVIL'S WHISPER! Welcome to the darker side of AICN! M. L. Miller aka Ambush Bug here with another AICN HORROR: ZOMBIES & SHARKS column. So I took a small vacation this week and while that always sets me back on my movie watching, I ended up having a fun time basically enjoying nature and some peace and quiet out of the city.
"The Mummy" is a mess, a movie in such a hurry to introduce more monsters under Universal's "Dark Universe" banner that it comes awkwardly wrapped in impenetrable layers of exposition. Tom Cruise occupies center stage in this not-quite-a-reboot, which features Sofia Boutella as the Mummy, an Egyptian princess named Ahmanet who committed patricide, made a pact to unleash the god of death and was cursed by being buried alive for her troubles.
Dax Shepard, left, portrays a confidant to Luke Wilson's secretary of the Interior as he seeks to escape the future in "Idiocracy." Dax Shepard, left, portrays a confidant to Luke Wilson's secretary of the Interior as he seeks to escape the future in "Idiocracy."
Boris Karloff's wife Dorothy helped him take a tea break while he was in costume for the 'Mummy.' Director Karl Freund's original hit "really was a profound inspiration," says producer Sean Daniel, whose reboot starring Tom Cruise hits theaters June 9. In 1932, THR was certain Carl Laemmle Jr.'s Universal Pictures was going to have a hit with The Mummy .