Netflix’s upcoming Poe picture gets a huge cast boost with several formidable talents on the big screen. The Gothic horror film “The Pale Blue Eye” is directed by Scott Cooper (he of the taut 2021 Wendigo horror “Antlers“), who also adapted the screenplay from Louis Bayard’s novel of the same title. It stars Christian Bale […]
Continue readingHalloween happened over the weekend, and given that the holiday all but didn’t happen in 2020, there was much pent-up desire to enjoy the spooky season properly this year. While that was surely rewarding in its own way for those who observe the holiday, it wasn’t great for the box office as the weekend’s new […]
Continue readingAs Halloween beckons, summon up favourite child-friendly frighteners such as The Witches, Beetlejuice and CoralineHowever much adults latch on to it as an excuse for partying and dressing up, Halloween remains, in its present-day incarnation, an occasion chiefly for the benefit of children: try trick-or-treating without one in tow and see how far you get. […]
Continue readingYou might be under the belief that Christian Bale has never and will never appear in a romantic comedy, probably since that’s pretty much exactly what he came out and said a few years back when he basically said “American Psycho” is the closest he’ll ever get to one. The Oscar-winning actor saying “I was asked […]
Continue readingIt’s a rite of passage for any horror filmmaker. If you’re making a scary movie, you could do far worse than to borrow liberally from the undisputed classics. When it came to making “Antlers,” the moody and atmospheric horror film with high ambitions of being even more than that (read Chris Evangelista’s review here), co-writer/director Scott […]
Continue readingScott Cooper, the director of the bleak western Hostiles and the upcoming horror film Antlers, is making his television debut with Angels & Demons, a true crime limited series based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning article by Thomas French. As reported by Deadline, the show – which is wholly unrelated to the Dan Brown novel and […]
Continue readingScott Cooper, director of Hostiles, the upcoming Antlers, and more, is set to make his TV debut with Angles and Demons. The limited series – which is not an adaptation of the Dan Brown novel, just in case you were wondering – is based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning article by Thomas French published in the […]
Continue readingWhat are you willing to do to keep a secret? Would you kill to have it all to yourself? The answers reach an uncomfortable crescendo in the new horror film “Antlers.” Searchlight Pictures’ creature feature brings together a boy and a monster with an insatiable appetite. Instead of games with friends, this child’s activities seemingly […]
Continue readingFor his first horror film, “Antlers,” which centers around a boy’s relationship with a supernatural creature, director Scott Cooper said he wasn’t willing to get behind the camera without creature master Guillermo del Toro as producer. During a Comic-Con@Home panel on Saturday, the pair discussed how they created the part-digital, part real-life creature.Based on the […]
Continue readingDirector Scott Cooper and producer Guillermo del Toro got together (virtually) at Comic-Con 2020 to discuss their creepy-looking, and delayed, horror flick Antlers. It’s Cooper’s first foray into the genre, although the director is no stranger to dark movies, having helmed the bleak anti-Western Hostiles. During the panel, Cooper and del Toro discussed how they […]
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