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MAY 15 |
INVISIBLE INVADERS is 66
Everybody has their scary monsters. What the monsters can do outweighs what the monster is or looks like. CHILD'S PLAY Chucky is just a Good Guy until he goes full blown homicidal.
For many people, the scariest monster is the killer you can't see, because there's no way to know when its there: When It Is Near! That's the secret sauce of some of cinema's scariest Horror movies from THE INVISIBLE MAN to FORBIDDEN PLANET to FINAL DESTINATION.
But it also worked in INVISIBLE INVADERS.
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THE MATRIX RELOADED is 22
In 2003, the excitement for the first THE MATRIX sequel felt like a rescue. George Lucas let fans down with his Phantom Menace, but the (then) Warchowski Bros. would set the blockbuster year off right!
They won't let us down!
Genre movies are going to be fun again!
Hell, by 2003 it seemed as if nearly every MATRIX fan on earth was chattering about the many directions the first MATRIX sequel could go and all the new coolness we'll probably see!
Then we packed the theaters for a massive opening weekend, the lights went down, and this is what we saw, watching THE MATRIX RELOADED.
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MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Turns 10
George Miller was back behind the wheel of his most famous and awesome franchise. He brought along Hugh Keyes-Byrne, as Toe-Cutter in the promos but as Immortan Joe in the movie. But there was a new actor playing Max and, unlike the plethora of actors playing James Bond through the many decades, actor Tom Hardy was justifiably concerned. He didn't want his career to wind up scorched as the George Lazenby of Max.
That was just one of the problems George Miller had to contend with while going through the Herculean effort of making MAD MAX: FURY ROAD.
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HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
By E.C. McMullen Jr.
Director/Producer Rob Bowman (WEREWOLF [TV - 1987], DARK SHADOWS [TV - 1991], THE X-FILES [TV], REIGN OF FIRE, ELEKTRA, NIGHT STALKER [TV-2005], NIGHTMARES AND DREAMSCAPES: From The Stories of Stephen King [2006], CASTLE) is 65.
Actor Alexandra Breckenridge (VAMPIRE CLAN, MURDER BOOK, TRUE BLOOD [TV], THE WALKING DEAD, AMERICAN HORROR STORY [TV], ZIPPER, ALWAYS WATCHING: A MARBLE HORNETS STORY, DARK, BROKEN VOWS) is 43.
Alexandra shares a May 15 birthday with her TRUE BLOOD alumni, Sam Trammell.
Look for Alexandra in the 2023, 2024 Thriller, IN LIMBO.
Actor Tatsuya Fujiwara (BATTLE ROYALE, KAMEN GAKUEN, BATTLE ROYALE II, FURUHATA NINZABURO FINAL, DEATH NOTE, DEATH NOTE: THE LAST NAME, DEATH NOTE: L CHANGE THE WORLD, SNAKES AND EARRINGS, THE INCITE MILL, BRUTUS HEART, ST: KEISHICHÔ KAGAKU SÔSAHAN, SHIELD OF STRAW, MONSTERZ, ST: AKA TO SHIRO NO SÔSA FILE [TV], ST: AKA TO SHIRO NO SÔSA FILE The Movie, ERASED, SOSHITE: DAREMO INAKUNATTA, DEATH NOTE: LIGHT UP THE WORLD, NINGEN NO SHÔMEI, MEMOIRS OF A MURDERER, REVERSE [TV], YONIMO KIMYÔ NA MONOGATARI: AUTUMN 2017 SPECIAL, THE SUN DOES NOT MOVE, THE METHOD OF REPULSING THE DOVE, and more) is 43.
Actor / Producer Amy Rene LaFavers (CLOSET SPACE, SWEATSHOP, HAUNTED TRAILER, PSYCHIC EXPERIMENT, IMAGO, DARK RITUAL) is 53.
Writer Mark Tarrant (THE BLOOD RIDER, TALES OF THE DEAD WALKER, TALES OF JUSTICE BLACKBURN: VAMPIRE REGULATOR) is like, 64 or something.
Actor Sam Trammell (UNDERMIND, ALIEN VS PREDATOR: REQUIEM, TRUE BLOOD [TV], THE PRIVILEGED, ALL MISTAKES BURIED, THE ORDER [TV], I SEE YOU, RECKONING [TV], AMERICAN REFUGEE, ORGAN TRAIL) is 54.
Look for Sam's upcoming 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 Thriller, PURSUED - Written, Produced, and Directed by Jeffrey Obrow (THE KINDRED). Also expected in 2024, ReENTRY.
Actor Ashlynn Yennie (THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE [FIRST SEQUENCE], AMERICAN MANIACS, THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE II [FULL SEQUENCE], AMERICAN MANIACS, FRACTURED, THE SCRIBBLER, FEAR INC., THE GHOST AND THE WHALE, THE WRONG NEIGHBOR, HIDDEN INTENTIONS, THE WRONG MOMMY, VARIANT, KILLER CHEERLEADER, BURNING LITTLE LIES, ANTIDOTE, DEADLY DUE DATE, BOUND BY BLACKMAIL) is 40.
Look for Ashlynn in the upcoming 2022, 2023, 2024 Horror Thriller, THEY WATCH.
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MAY 14 |
This May 27th is a HARD PLACE
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CONAN THE BARBARIAN Turns 43
Italian movie Producer, Dino De Laurentiis was already impressed with Arnold Schwarzenegger as someone who could fill the sandals of Robert E. Howard's heroic anti-hero, Conan. But musclebound weightlifters grafted into movies and TV shows where they couldn't act had many box office bombings and few box office flights. Arnold stood apart because he was taking acting lessons and wanted to be good at it.
Arnold was so serious about it, that he impressed fellow actors Max von Sydow and James Earl Jones, who both gave him lessons on the set during downtime while shooting CONAN THE BARBARIAN.
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HAPPY HORROR THRILLER BIRTHDAYS TO -
By E.C. McMullen Jr.
Actor, Director Danny Huston (THE HUMAN FACTOR, MISTER CORBETT'S GHOST, THE MADDENING, SUSAN'S PLAN, 21 GRAMS, SILVER CITY, BIRTH, THE CONSTANT GARDENER, CHILDREN OF MEN, FADE TO BLACK, THE NUMBER 23, THE KINGDOM, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE, EDGE OF DARKNESS, CLASH OF THE TITANS, THE WARRIOR'S WAY, A MONSTER IN PARIS, WRATH OF THE TITANS, MAGIC CITY [TV], HITCHCOCK, TIGERS, JUSTICE LEAGUE: THE FLASHPOINT PARADOX, AMERICAN HORROR STORY [TV], PRESSURE, FRANKENSTEIN [2015], PARANOID [TV], IO, ANGEL HAS FALLEN, MARLOWE, CONSECRATION, RED BIRD LANE, THE CROW [2024]) is 63.
Actor Tim Roth (TO KILL A PRIEST, RESERVOIR DOGS, BACKSLIDING, HEART OF DARKNESS, PULP FICTION, PLANET OF THE APES [2001], SILVER CITY, THE LAST SIGN, DARK WATER [2005], YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH, FUNNY GAMES, THE INCREDIBLE HULK, LIE TO ME [TV], ARBITRAGE, LIABILITY, MÖBIUS, HARDCORE HENRY, THE HATEFUL EIGHT, TWIN PEAKS [TV - 2017], THE SONG OF NAMES, RESURRECTION, SHE-HULK [TV], CLASSIFIED) is 64.
Look for Tim in the 2025 Thriller, TORNADO, to be released this month.
Writer, Producer, Director Robert Zemeckis (ROMANCING THE STONE, WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT, DEATH BECOMES HER, TALES FROM THE CRYPT [TV], HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL [1999], TH13RTEEN GHOSTS, RITUAL, GHOST SHIP, GOTHIKA, HOUSE OF WAX [2005], WHAT LIES BENEATH, TALES FROM THE CRYPT: BORDELLO OF BLOOD, MONSTER HOUSE, THE REAPING, BEOWULF, MANIFEST [TV], PROJECT BLUE BOOK [TV], WHAT/IF?, MANIFEST [TV], THE WITCHES, FINCH, MANIFEST [TV]) is 74.
Robert's severely troubled movie funded by China's Alibaba Pictures that's been in Production through 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024, is the Thriller STEEL SOLDIERS. As of 2025 it has moved back from Production to Development and may never be released at least, not with Robert involved. Wikipedia has now listed STEEL SOLDIERS under the page, Robert Zemeckis' unproduced projects.
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