Tag: Happy Death Day
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The Totally Killer Trailer Puts Sabrina’s Kiernan Shipka In A Time Traveling Slasher Movie
It’s tough to imagine a more challenging job these days than to come up with an original, high-concept movie involving time travel. For one thing, the industry is pretty much drowning in scripts relying on this tried-and-true gimmick, making it that much more difficult to separate oneself from the rest of the pack. For another,…
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Here’s Why Scream Should Change Directors for Every Sequel
Last week, word came down that the Scream franchise will undergo a major shakeup behind the camera. Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the filmmaking team behind Scream (2022) and Scream VI are out. Writer/director Christopher Landon, the man who made Freaky and — more importantly — the excellent Happy Death Day, is in and will…
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Gravitas Ventures Picks Up Comedy Film ‘Halfway to Amarillo’ (Exclusive)
Gravitas Ventures has picked up “Halfway to Amarillo,” a neo-western kind of comedy which is set for distribution this November. Written and directed by Burt Binder, “Amarillo” follows an author who, in a bout of writer’s block, finds that his fictional characters have leapt straight off the pages of his novel and are running amok…
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The Happy Death Day Movies Are Getting A Loaded 4K Blu-Ray Set
2017’s “Happy Death Day” and its 2019 sequel “Happy Death Day 2U” are some of my favorite horror films. I’m an absolute scaredy cat, so having a smart film series with a great heroine that didn’t give me nightmares and kept me wildly entertained was pretty great. Now Shout Factory has a new 4K Blu-ray set…
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Blumhouse is Producing Eight Original Horror Movies Exclusively for Epix
Blumhouse is about to bring a lot more horror to cable. The production company behind movies like Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, Get Out, Happy Death Day and The Invisible Man announced a new partnership that will have them developing and producing eight original horror/genre-thriller movies exclusively for the cable network Epix. Blumhouse and Epix…
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‘The Map of Tiny Perfect Things’ Review: Yet Another Earnest ‘Groundhog Day’ Rip-Off
Another year, another “Groundhog Day” rip-off. Nearly three decades after Bill Murray got stuck in a time loop until he became a better man, the concept has spawned so many iterations that it basically exists as its own genre, mixed and mashed with other tropes to reanimate a familiar routine. Often, the deja vu of…
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‘Freaky’ Makes Its Horror-Comedy Work By Creating Engaging Characters [Nycc]
Freaky, the new horror-comedy from Happy Death Day director Christopher Landon, takes a body premise and throws in a slasher movie angle. I can’t speak for the quality of the film just yet – I still haven’t seen it – but as a far of the Happy Death Day films, I’m incredibly excited to check…
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‘Volition’: Film Review
Snarled loops of time travel have proved a surprisingly versatile and rewarding fantasy-cinema trope in recent years, from the big-budget likes of “Edge of Tomorrow” to such enterprising indies as “Predestination,” not to mention comedies (“Palm Springs”), horror (“Happy Death Day”), romance (“Before I Fall”) and more. “Volition” makes a worthy addition to that roster:…
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Nent Group Boards MGM’s ‘Valley Girl’ Reboot (Exclusive)
As it continues to focus on premium scripted content, Nordic Entertainment Group (Nent Group) has boarded MGM’s romantic comedy “Valley Girl,” a reboot of the 1983 classic starring Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman.“Valley Girl” marks Nent Group’s first foray into the U.S. feature landscape and will be labeled a Viaplay Original film. As such, the…