This Halloween is going to be Mad . The classic humor magazine, which relaunched earlier this year under the auspices of new editor Bill Morrison, is celebrating the season with its next issue, promising "Haunted Humor" behind a cover inspired by Stanley Kubrick's iconic horror movie The Shining - and The Hollywood Reporter has an exclusive preview.
In what seems like a counterintuitive move, Netflix will be pulling the surrealistic flick starring Jake Gyllenhaal this month a couple of weeks before Halloween - the holiday season in which it is set. Ditto for "The Lost Boys," the stylish vampire flick featuring a young Kiefer Sutherland, Corey Feldman and Corey Haim.
In the final trailer for David Gordon-Green's upcoming sequel to this film, the voice of Jamie Lee Curtis dramatically intones through whispery reverb that "40 years ago, on Halloween night, Michael Myers murdered three people." The statement comes off as oddly comical now, after four decades under the Shape's hulking shadow, with thousands of bodies strewn across the sordid history of a genre he elevated to prominence-three seems like child's play.
Paul W.S. Anderson, the writer and director behind the 'Resident Evil' movie franchise - which was also adapted from the popular games, and also starred Milla, who is his wife - is once again both writing and directing the movie. Whilst plot details are not yet known, the 'Monster Hunter' game franchise sees players taking on characters who track and kill monsters, levelling up with weapons and gear.
This year's "Hereditary" may have blown critics away - it has an 89% critic score on review-aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes - but it was polarizing among audiences. The A24 movie received a D+ CinemaScore , which conducts exit polls of audience opinion on opening nights.
Netflix already has an impressive catalog of horror titles that genre enthusiasts can explore this Halloween season, from Netflix original films like "Gerald's Game" and "The Ritual," to modern hits like "It Follows" and "The Conjuring." But the streaming giant is adding even more spooky movies and TV shows in October for users to choose from.
But here's the thing: the magic of The House with a Clock in its Walls is by no means the most interesting thing about this film. Because look: if a film centers around an old spooky house with old spooky secrets - Jack Black fireballs and magical rigamarole be damned, this is a haunted house film, baby.
"...portrays Joseph's disappearance as a complete mystery, but anyone who really knew him should have been ready for something like it ..." The trailers for The House with a Clock in Its Wall advertise a generic kid's comedy involving a wacky wizard played by Jack Black and a stuffy British clichA© played by Cate Blanchet. Instead, I was treated to a refreshingly dark and terrifying horror film that serves as a clever throwback to the Amblin Entertainment children-centric classics from the 80's.
Then Hotel Clermont opened in the old building this summer, and it became something glamorous, pulsing with life and the opposite of off-putting. The hotel has designed a package intended to satisfy that weird desire everyone gets in October to purposefully freak themselves the heck out.