Tobe Hooper, 1943-2017: Tobe Hooper, the horror-movie pioneer whose low-budget sensation "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" took a buzz saw to audiences with its brutally frightful vision, died Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017, in the Sherman Oaks area of Los Angeles. It was reported as a natural death.
A new poster for Stranger Things Season 2 featuring Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven pays homage to 1984 horror film Firestarter. The poster, released Thursday on Twitter, features Brown's hair rising up similar to how a young Drew Barrymore's hair is seen in the poster to Firestarter.
It's impossible to ignore James Wan 's impact on the horror genre over the last decade and change. Saw put both Wan and "torture porn" on the map, Insidious revamped haunted house architectures, The Conjuring scared up record-breaking box office numbers - and that's to start.
Actors Amanda Seyfried, left, and Ethan Hawke pose for photographers upon arrival for the press conference of the film 'First Reformed' during the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. less Actors Amanda Seyfried, left, and Ethan Hawke pose for photographers upon arrival for the press conference of the film 'First Reformed' during the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, ... more Actors Amanda Seyfried, left, and Ethan Hawke pose for photographers upon arrival for the press conference of the film 'First Reformed' during the 74th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017.
Two crises unfold in Paul Schrader's "First Reformed," which has its world premiere Thursday at the Venice Film Festival - one spiritual, the other environmental. It's one of several films exploring the effects of climate change and environmental degradation at a festival that's taking place while, across the Atlantic, storm Harvey is tragically demonstrating the devastating power of nature.
Two crises unfold in Paul Schrader's "First Reformed," which has its world premiere Thursday at the Venice Film Festival - one spiritual, the other environmental. It's one of several films exploring the effects of climate change and environmental degradation at a festival that's taking place while, across the Atlantic, storm Harvey is tragically demonstrating the devastating power of nature.
The French director FranA ois Truffaut once said that "when a film achieves a certain success, it becomes a sociological event." Such was the case with Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," a movie in which Truffaut himself appeared as a scientist exploring the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and which was initially greeted with something like religious awe.
The French director FranA ois Truffaut once said that "when a film achieves a certain success, it becomes a sociological event." Such was the case with Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," a movie in which Truffaut himself appeared as a scientist exploring the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and which was initially greeted with something like religious awe.
The Hollywood stars will team up for a third time after appearing alongside one another in 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' and 'A Scanner Darkly', and production has already wrapped on their latest project. Producer Robert Jones said: "When comedy is seated in character and truth it's both funny and moving, and on that basis Vic's screenplay is one of the best I've read in a long time.