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JAN. 17 |
WOLF MAN Opens in Theaters Today
WOLF MAN opens in theaters worldwide today, January 17, which is also the Birthday of Executive Producer, Actor, Co-Writer, and Director, Leigh Whannell's Birthday!
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THE SUBSTANCE is Back in Theaters
This is what happens when the lead actor in a low budget Independent (Demi Moore: PARASITE, THE SEVENTH SIGN, GHOST, MORTAL THOUGHTS, HALF LIGHT, MR. BROOKS) movie wins the Best Actress Golden Globe and stars in streamer Paramount+ new hit TV show, Landman. Small boutique distributor, MUBI, spent the bucks to put the Fall 2024 release movie back into theaters and it re-opens today!
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HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
By E.C. McMullen Jr.
Actor Naveen Andrews (MIGHTY JOE YOUNG, FUTURE TENSE, GRINDHOUSE, PLANET TERROR, THE BRAVE ONE, ANIMALS, LOST [TV], SINBAD [TV], ONCE UPON A TIME IN WONDERLAND [TV], SENSE8 [TV], INSTINCT [TV]) is 55.
Screen Writer Brian Helgeland (FRIDAY THE 13th [TV], A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 4, 976-EVIL, HIGHWAY TO HELL, L.A. CONFIDENTIAL, CONSPIRACY THEORY, BLOOD WORK, MYSTIC RIVER, THE ORDER, CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT, THE GREEN ZONE, THE KILLER) who is 63.
Goth artist Dr. Mangor (Art & SFX for various movies, games, and other multimedia) is 47.
Writer & Artist Jason Thibault (OPTIMUM WOUND COMICS) is 53.
Actor, Writer, Producer, Director Leigh Whannell (STYGIAN, THE MATRIX RELOADED, SAW [all], DEATH SENTENCE, DEAD SILENCE, DYING BREED, INSIDEOUS [all], CRUSH, THE PARDON, COOTIES, RAZE, LAVANTULA, THE BYE BYE MAN, KEEP WATCHING, UPGRADE, THE INVISIBLE MAN, WOLF MAN) is 48.
Read my interview with Leigh Whannell and James Wan: THE LAST SAW INTERVIEW.
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JANUARY 16 |
CUBE Turns 27
It's nearly startling to watch this movie today, realize that it's nearly three decades old, and not only is this Science Fiction Horror Thriller not obsolete, it's a future that is so close it could be happening right now. No other movie is anything like it, and its sequels and remake never lived up to it. Still as relevant as it was 26 years ago, this is the icy hot tension wire of Vincenzo Natali's CUBE.
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DIE YOU ZOMBIE BASTARDS! Turns 18
There's nothing I have to say about Caleb Emerson's 2005 magnum opus that I didn't say in my review of DIE YOU ZOMBIE BASTARDS!
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MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D Turns 16
It's a remake of a 1980s (1981 to be exact) Horror movie that did ... O-ka-ay-ee...
So in 2009 they released a reboot that fixed all the gaps and crap that derailed the first one, right? Because after nearly 30 years, everyone had outlined exactly where the movie went wrong and what it could have done better and the folks remaking this paid attention to the audience they wanted to turn out for their movie, right?
Right?
Or maybe what they did was what we have with MY BLOODY VALENTINE 3D.
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HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
By E.C. McMullen Jr.
Director/ Producer/ Composer John Carpenter (ATTACK
ON PRECINCT 13 [1976], HALLOWEEN, THE FOG, ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK, HALLOWEEN II, THE THING, CHRISTINE, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA, PRINCE OF DARKNESS, THEY LIVE, IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS, GHOSTS OF MARS, VAMPIRES, Masters of Horror: CIGARETTE BURNS, Masters of Horror: PRO-LIFE, THE WARD, HALLOWEEN [2018], HALLOWEEN KILLS, HALLOWEEN ENDS) is 76.
Actor David Chokachi (THE UNSPEAKABLE [TV], PSYCHO BEACH PARTY, WITCHBLADE [TV], BATS: HUMAN HARVEST, THE DREAMLESS, MURDER.COM, THE ASCENT, BORN BAD, RAGE OF THE YETI, ARMY OF THE DAMNED, ROSEVILLE, PATIENT KILLER, CYBER CASE, SENSORY PERCEPTION, THE BONE BOX, BLOOD PAGEANT, DROWNING IN SECRETS) is 55.
Actor Josie Davis (BADGE OF FEAR, PSYCHIC MURDERS, THE ASCENT, THE CURSED, SEDUCED BY LIES, THE PERFECT STUDENT, DIRTY TEACHER, BACKSTABBED, SECRETS OF MY STEPDAUGHTER, LOCKED IN, BLACK BALSAM, GLOWZIES) is 51.
Josie's upcoming Horror Thriller for 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 WIZARDDREAM has been given an "official burial", meaning it will likely never be finished or released. WIZZARDDREAM is one of four movies directed simultaneously by John Carl Buechler, who died in 2019, leaving them unfinished. Short of drastic changes, this will be the last time WIZZARDDREAM will be part of the uninished credits of Josie Davis.
Comic Artist/Writer Garth Ennis (JUDGE DREDD, THE PUNISHER [VG], HELLBLAZER, CONSTANTINE, BLOODY MARY, THE DARKNESS [VG], SHADOWMAN, THE BOYS [TV], CONSTANTINE [TV], PREACHER [TV]) is 53.
Actor Richard T. Jones (THE TRIGGER EFFECT, EVENT HORIZON, KISS THE GIRLS, AUGGIE ROSE, PHONE BOOTH, TWISTED, COLLATERAL, CUTTING ROOM, TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES [TV], FORGIVENESS, SUPER 8, ATLAS SHRUGGED II: THE STRIKE, THE LAST LETTER, REVOLUTION [TV], GODZILLA [2014], EXTANT [TV], AMERICAN HORROR STORY [TV], SANTA CLARITA DIET [TV], STEELE JUSTICE, CURSED ANGEL [TV]) is 52.
Actor Caroline Munro (THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, DRACULA A.D. 1972, DR. PHIBES RISES AGAIN, CAPTAIN KRONOS: VAMPIRE HUNTER, SHARON'S BABY, AT THE EARTH'S CORE, STARCRASH, MANIAC [1980], THE LAST HORROR FILM, SLAUGHTER HIGH, EL AULLIDO DEL DIABLO, FACELESS, DEMONS 6: DE PROFUNDIS, FLESH FOR THE BEAST, THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT, HIGHWAY TO HELL [2012], VAMPYRES, CRYING WOLF, STELLAR QUASAR AND THE SCROLLS OF DADELIA, CUTE LITTLE BUGGERS, HOUSE OF THE GORGON THE HAUNTING OF MARGAM CASTLE, THE POCKET FILM OF SUPERSTITIONS) is 75.
Caroline shares a birthday month with her STARCRASH co-star, Marjoe Gortner.
Actor Mark Steger (SHADOW HOURS, MODERN PROMETHEUS LLC, I AM LEGEND, THE PACT [all], MR. JONES, AT THE DEVIL'S DOOR, INDIGENOUS, THE DIABOLICAL, THE LAST WITCH HUNTER, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE GHOST DIMENSION, 400 DAYS, HOLIDAYS, CALICO SKIES, INCARNATE, STRANGER THINGS [TV], THE MAN WHO KILLED HITLER AND THEN THE BIGFOOT, THE NUN, VELVET BUZZSAW, CRITTERS: A NEW BINGE [TV], SCARY STORIES TO TELL IN THE DARK, NINE, THE MANOR, BLACK FRIDAY, THE GIRL IN THE WOODS [TV], SATANIC HISPANICS, THE CURSE OF BRIDGE HOLLOW, REBEL MOON) is 63.
SFX Artist / Director / Producer Greg Strause (GLASS HOUSE, TERMINATOR 3, THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, CONSTANTINE, VENOM [2005], FLIGHTPLAN, THE FOG [2005], ÆON FLUX, X-MEN III: CRAPPED BY RATNER, 300, ALIENS VS PREDATOR: REQUIEM, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, 2012, AVATAR, IRON MAN 2, JONAH HEX, SKYLINE [all], BATTLE OF LOS ANGELES, PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES, THE AVENGERS, LOOPER, TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN Part 2, X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, HARDCORE HENRY, MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, THE CONJURING 2, DEATHNOTE [2017], STRANGER THINGS [TV], RAMPAGE, SKYLINES, DAYBREAK, THE KILLER, WICKED) is 49.
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