Christopher Fowler takes a journey into the back catalogues of 99 authors who, once hugely popular, have all but disappeared from our shelves. Whether male or female, domestic or international, no author, it seems, can ever be fully immune from the fate of being forgotten.
In "Follies in Titus," Italy's Dario D'Ambrosi, originator of the theatrical movement called Teatro Patologico , re-imagines Shakespeare's "Titus Andronicus," retelling the bard's bloodiest and most violent work through the voices of the patients of a psychiatric hospital. The play is devised and directed by D'Ambrosi and is performed by actors from the Integrated Theater of the Emotions, an Italian university program in performing arts that he founded for people with physical, intellectual and developmental disabilities.
It's Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1828 and the city's world-renowned anatomy schools are suffering from a cadaver shortage. Enter two immoral and highly industrious men--William Burke and William Hare--who pick up the slack by murdering disenfranchised citizens and selling their corpses to one of these schools, Dr. Knox's Academy.
I just got some delightfully horrific news from our undying phoenix, Madame Revenant! Read on Boils and Ghouls for deadly goodies! Jen and Sylvia Soska, the identical queens of macabre, the masters of American Mary, have announced that they plan to direct a reboot of David Cronenberg's RABID. They plan to begin shooting sometime 2018.
Today I received a press release and production photo from Roger Avary's new thrilling neo-noir film "Lucky Day" that he is writing and directing! Mr. Avary is probably best known for his writing on "Pulp Fiction" and dual talent of writing and directing the films "Killing Zoe" and "The Rules of Attraction". "Lucky Day" has Avary re-teaming up with producer Samuel Hadida, who collaborated on "Killing Zoe", "The Rules of Attraction", and "Silent Hill" also joining the production team is Don Carmody .
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" Hocus Pocus " fans have been longing for a sequel for years, and Disney recently announced a reboot . Skeptics are upset the original cast of Sanderson sisters won't return.
"Little Shop of Horrors" exists in that sweet spot where even if one has not watched either the off-Broadway show, the Broadway show or the iconic film, it has a distinct signature style and tone that everyone is familiar with. The campy horror science-fiction comedy inspired by two pulpy sci-fi novels has brought signature villains, songs and iconography into our musical canon.
While there's several influences on filmmaker Guillermo del Toro's potential awards contender "The Shape of Water," none is more obvious than the 1954 Universal monster classic "Creature from the Black Lagoon". That film followed a group of scientists on an expedition in the Amazonian jungle who encounter a prehistoric Gillman, and it boasted some incredible underwater photography for the time.